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e e e hello and welcome everybody to today's matchup on May 2nd here 20124 73° out and the hillers are here wearing green they're from hopkington if you didn't know DS is wearing white today and uh I got some Insider information that the hillers have somebody that's going to be going to D1 Saint Ben aventor and that would be number 88 out there Owen Champlin so Raider's going to have to try to figure him out Raiders having a lot of weapons of their own though pass story definitely being one along with a bunch of others like number three Sullivan and they have quite the team a lot of good young guys too Max neat one of the captains can always seem to put it in the back of the net and the Raiders have some strong Defenders too like Dylan Rogers back there number six Ronin Richards number 12 and yeah that's just a couple all right Raiders taking the field looks like they have Sullivan um is this Fowler and pastori on attack here and Hart is going to be taking the draw against number seven will Rockwell [Music] and Hiller is going to get this one due to some infraction and this is your guy right here not your guy but their guy number 88 it'll look out for him passes it off Hiller setting up here GNA bring it back this will be Matt lahy with it right now against Hart lahy coming in Hart doing a good job keeping him out all right this is their D1 star there got stopped well but Hiller still working the ball around pretty [Music] well having the corner trying to get around Rogers and does and that shot bounced and went a little too high that was number 77 he was also um really good oh he's actually the guy correction 88 is is somebody to watch but 77 is their guy and look at him yeah you can tell and that shot goes low and away yeah so number 77 on their team is Del ponti Logan Del Ponte he someone to look out for along with 88 but here we go Hiller is just still on the attack two of their shots not on target and he's going to go in passing it behind the net they're working it around and look at that number 77 gets on the board [Applause] early Logan Deonte would not be stopped so let's see if Raiders can answer here their defense are talking talking about what they're going to do Rockwell and Hart meet again at the center dot Rockwell getting it quick pass Hiller's just coming out coming here to play so far obrien with it now number nine passes up to 88 Champlain Champlain looking goes around gramar but gramar sticks with him well done by gramar Chaplin passes it up to number 10 sand sand getting pressured by O'Neal Hiller's doing a great job working the ball around oh what a pass in front and uh he couldn't quite handle it and now Raiders just fighting for possession here good oh hillers get it good work from both teams though right now on that one and what an absolute rocket from number 10 that would be John sand getting on the board also two nothing so Hopkinson hillers win two face offs and score two goals [Applause] yeah that was an absolute rocket beating geing high from a distance to that shot was and Rockwell winning another draw hillers passing it to Champlain Champlain casually walking towards the center of the field passing it off to to Ponte there's star Del Ponte in on Rogers Del Ponte absolutely Rockets one but it misses so Hiller is missing the net a bunch of times so far but still are up two nothing Del Ponte getting it again good contact by Rogers keeping him to the outside Ponte passes up to chaplain Champlain Champlain little move there Champlain coming in Quick Pass and wow Tic Tac Toe number 15 getting that one assisted by Champlain number 15 would be Goodman Cooper Goodman so time out mlin he's uh clearly not too happy happy about how this game has started off [Applause] here Raiders need to try to figure out this hillers team as they are deadly with the ball hillers must be feeling pretty good though right now ref's having a little talk here in the the middle everyone's in their little huddle yeah apparently too um Ben kin told me that this Hiller team has a good goalie so he has yet to be he has yet to be tested but that would be number 25 Nate [Applause] Burns and the diesel chant has been said along with Octane and both teams in the field now see will rock Rockwell the 11th grader doing a great job in the center dot here let's see if Hart can figure him out right now and Hart does good win there for the Raiders Hart brings it down passes to Fowler and oh my they're going to say he stepped out I believe it's going be the Hiller's ball not the start we wanted here oh good good inter [Applause] reception by pastor Pastor quickly passes to Fowler Fowler finds scannel Sean scannel with it now scan up the 40 he's going to pass it to neat neat to Sullivan Sullivan passes to neat neat dropped it but picked it up he goes back Atwood to Fowler up to scannel scan little turnaround move to Wyatt passor passor faking looking nice pass but gets away from Sullivan ah Atwood could not get to the sideline in time so this is going to be Hopkinson ball Nate burns with it quick pass off to preventure preventure clears it out good breakout there from the hillers Hiller's a little centering pass and nice save by gon but unfortunately a Hiller was right there to clean it up and get that goal that would be number 20 I believe 20 that would be Matt lah picking up the scraps in front of the net and the hillers four Raiders nothing right now Hart winning another draw though good on him Hart bringing it all the way Hart oh my goodness what a save by Burns I don't know how he saved that it's a great shot by Hart and now you got gramar coming down with it he's pretty quick under seven minutes to go here in the first quarter as Fowler getting it Fowler getting pressured but gets away from his man Fowler pass it off to scannel scannel to neat Atwood coming in for gramar scan trying to get in H's team means business solivan to pastori pastori good pass off neat with another save by Burns Burns is a big boy between the pipes and can move like a cat a long breakout uh Ronin Richards getting it but he could not reel it in so this is going to be Hiller ball Sam O'Brien number nine with it right now right around the 30 yd line he's bringing it in now he's going to pass it back to one of their goal scorers sand Sanda getting pressured good pressure by O'Neal but Sanda gets by him Santa quick shot and quick score by gizen and that's his second goal of the game yeah he just goes just low left side rocket of a shot there by Sandra Hopkinson hillers just leading the charge here five nothing hello his coach still coaching trying to correct some that his team did wrong even though they got the goal pastori now with it behind the net Pastor needs to get on the board here oh he falls but he still got it and nice pass off and oh Fowler just missing the net [Music] there good job by it though keeping it away and getting it by Fowler but that one gets by scan not the move here has obrien now with it O'Brien's going to try to pass it but new marker knocking it down and now neats with it and Hiller's run into each other and that looked like a foul to me and yes a flag went up neat with it though it's going to be a delayed penalty for the hillers neat passes to Atwood Atwood down to Fowler Fowler trying to do a little wrap around here Fowler oh gets taken taking out or takes himself out but yes this is going to be a penalty against the hillers I believe on oh a couple penalties here Anda and um number four jum in the Box this is a great opportunity for the Raiders Fowler has the ball the low low near Corner no that's Sullivan correction Sullivan passes off to Atwood Atwood up scannel scannel to need to Wyatt pastory pastory had a look but went with the pass to Sullivan they're really trying to set up something something nice here quick pass up to Wyatt and what a save by burns like kick save quality scoring Opportunity by the raiders' had a couple and burns has just made absolutely ridiculous saves here Raiders passing around oh and it bounces off the top of Sullivan stick and goes out for 49 left to go in this first quarter Raiders still scoreless hillers have five Hiller's going to break it out pass to their goalie Burns we know he can save it how is he yet handling pretty solid pass good break out there from the hillers as Champlin has it Champlin passes it off Hiller's working it around now below the goal line up and oh good opportunity there as dop Ponte just doesn't get that shot where he wants [Applause] to okay gizen going to run this one up geen uncontested right now just going to keep running all right now the hillers are going to go after him Garen coming at him hard and neat gets it passes it to pastori passor running it all the way on the 40 decide what to do pass it to [Applause] scannel scan running towards the middle of the field scannel looking going to make a run nice pass to Sullivan and it gets away from Sullivan again and Hiller is able to break it out as Garen has it Garing Quick Pass to number nine O'Brien O'Brien to sand who has two already Sanda with it gets it to Del Pony Pon is going to go behind the net Hinson working it around Del Ponte oh thought about it turned back good defense from Atwood who was just right there made him consider his shot reconsider his shot s it to Del ponti Atwood sticking with him Hiller's working it around Rogers on the attack now just trying to get this ball back O'Brien passes up to sand to Delonte and oh my goodness no it wasn't even Delonte that was number 20 with his second goal of the game absolute rocket by Matt lah was a good pass too [Applause] so with that the Raiders just having a tough first quarter as the hillers have six already 144 left to go and Rockwell wins this one passes it off and quick shot good save by gizen Sam O'Brien didn't get that one where he wanted to I don't think all right now Richard's with it passes to scannel scan to passor passor coming in and he was able to beat Burns we knew it was a matter of time before he was going to play a factor in this one great goal sometimes you got to rely on your heavy guns here has Wyatt pastori for sure has a rocket and he's quick so need him to get a few more of those Rockell all right Hart and Rockwell taking the draw again 118 left to go in this first quarter Rockwell winning another draw he's been doing a great job on the face offs Owen Champlin with it now number 88 [Music] champan everyone's looking for Del ponti and he's got it Del Ponte look like he had range from that side area Del Ponte gets it again Del Ponte oh my goodness gets his second of the game he you can definitely see why D1 schools would be interested in that kid rifles another one by geen so now we're s to one heart getting battling Hiller's winning another one O'Neal came in to help out but just good play by the hillers and there's a flag on the field so just looking down for a second to see with the ball yeah Rockwell going to the Box nope no never mind it was a Raider that would be Simon Hart going to the Box ref picking up his flag now and Sam O'Brien with the ball right above the near side 20 yd line O'Brien bringing in in passing it up [Applause] Champlin Hiller is just so aggressive on offense here and what a save by gizen ke just going to pass it back to gramar gramar going to try to run by Del Pony catches a hard whack there but runs out of time so at the end of one quarter Raiders one Hopkinson Hiller seven we will be back momentarily to this short break e e e all right Hopkinson taking the field and then along with the Raiders as we're about to start the second quarter see if Raiders can come back in this one if they have an answer for this tough hillers offense in goalie I guess we could just say the whole Hiller team because their defense is pretty good too scan with it now in the near side 40 yd line getting to go ahead from The Ref the whistle blows game time scano good move trying to get in good defense though Garen sticking with him scan is going to bring it back out bringing it out at the 35 yd line now he's going to try to go in couple hand switches here and he loses the ball Garen with a nice poke I believe and it is still white ball Atwood going to bring it in Atwood passing it up to scan scan to neat neat coming in neat trying to get a good scoring opportunity good defense though pass now you got Sullivan trying to bring it good pressure there from Hopkinson see what Pastor little spin move little quick shot and it hits the post nice try by Wyatt all right Fowler bringing it up now Fowler a little backhand pass over pass Dory pass to oh at wood could not find the net on that one Raiders looking better though so far Fowler going to bring it around behind the Net Quick Pass to pastori up to scannel to neat neat's going to slow it down for a second until he does a nice little spin move here trying to come in Hiller's doing a great job keeping him keeping him at Bay here scan now trying to go in passes to Wyatt Wyatt well defended but able to still hang on to it Wyatt good fake pass there gets challenged Wyatt with it behind the net still why trying to go in gets hit and they're gonna see oh Hiller ball not sure what that one was about a good Breakout by Hopkinson pass it [Music] off changing it up sand to Champlain Champlain going to pass it off to lah lah to s [Applause] lah with it again passes to Del Ponte dangerous number 77 he going to get through one get through two quick pass off oh my gosh Del Pony going through two and getting the pass over to 15 who is Cooper Goodman and he has his second goal and just what a move there by Del Ponte as you see there he's not scared to get physical Hopkinson now with a score of 8 to one and Hart's going to get this one Simon Hart passing it to Wyatt pastory pastory go behind the net Fowler Fowler trying to bring it around does and what a goal Fowler getting on the board good stuff there from Henry he's got that in his bag of tricks and maybe we'll see more of it here today so Raiders two hillers eight 911 left to go here in this second quarter Hart and Rockwell taking the draw Hart winning it if he can get it yes he does instantly pressured though passes back to Rogers who passes it to geing geing now see some daylight going to make a nice breakout pass to Hart ref Blows the Whistle and Pats his head and this is going to be Hiller ball off sides I'm guessing not really sure the call actually it looks like um the ERS have a penalty William O'Neal is in the Box I think maybe well he is in the box [Applause] but the heave down the field from Burns finds Del Ponte Del Ponte with Rogers on him right now Rogers trying to poke that ball loose Del Ponte Breaks Loose he's coming in passes Cross Field and what a save by geen there that was a quality shot nice pass by Del Ponte quality shot by Walky witz H is trying to go around good defense from um new marker keeping him out and scan almost picking that one off but didn't Hiller's now Del Ponte with it Del Ponte all right he's coming back slowing it down a little bit Hart doing a good job sticking with him though Hiller's coach is going wild coaching from the sideline here probably calling a play Del Pony now and wow just a quick rip good uh save by geen yeah Del Ponte just tried to surprise him real quick with a top shelfer G said nope I was paying attention hillers is now working the ball still wtz with [Applause] it wtz trying to come in here passing off Quick Pass Del Ponte and that was a little backhand shot saved by geen but great scoring opportunity and good shot by Goodman was behind his shoulder to make that one now here comes scannel quick pass up to Fowler Fowler undresses Burns there in front of the net Fowler gets his second of the game great pass too Fowler feeling it today feed the kid the ball 3 to eight right now 654 left to go in this first half Raiders finally getting a little traction here all right O'Neal is going to play it back to gizen G to new marker new marker now has some open field he's going to run it up it's getting closed in on quick though no he makes the play as gramar goes back and that pass goes over pastor and it's going to be Hiller ball unfortunate there passor really tried to climb the ladder and get to that one but just got by him the long heave all the way down the field finding a Hiller for a completed pass and now duponte oh that was just too easy Del Pony with another goal El assisted by Goodman and that long heave down the field so yeah with that Del Ponte gets his hat chck here that's his third coach Mack visibly upset [Applause] here good win by Hart passes off to Sullivan Sullivan goes to Fowler who goes to Wyatt pastor Pastor little spin move there trying to get by great defense and he's getting getting contested heavy and makes it out with the ball pass the scannel who passes it to neat neat little Juke there NE trying to go in quick pass to Atwood but it is not completed it's going to be Hiller ball coach Mack not too thrilled put that incompletion all right Hiller passing to their goalie Burns going to heave it down the field and look who it is D Pony making a move make our Defender miss it and now who is this O'Brien with it passing it up to Champlain Champlain passing it to lah lah to the Ponte H Ponte bring to the middle oh what a move oh my but that shot does not go on target [Applause] St Bon of veners picked up some Talent there by draft and Del Ponte good work here behind the net and that was just way too easy good pass as Goodman gets another goal here assisted by Sam [Applause] O'Brien it's going to be a timeout for the Raiders score of 10 to three right now 503 left to go in this half Raiders got to really dig deep right now and try to find some answers to this Hiller [Music] Onslaught forgot to mention Ella suo on camera here cam crle on Instagram follow us DS cable TV one word we follow follow you back we got a lot of highlights on our page if you're interested and you can get through to us any comments Corrections or whatever compliments [Applause] so this time yeah the Raiders got their whole Squad in the Huddle they're not separated like they usually are Hiller's having the offensive and defensive [Music] huddles all right Burns and geen going back to their resp ected positions front of the [Applause] net all right it's going to be a draw Hart and Rockwell meet again had some pretty good battles in the face off Circle so far Rockwell winning that one thought for a second he might have missed it but he had it in his net Del Pony now with it Richards covering him Del Pony passes up to Sandra Sandra passes to Champlain Champlain now push back quick passing here from the hillers P now with it Rogers covering Del Ponte going in and I think it was a nice save by gizen not mistaken didn't really see it too well Champlin up by the 40 yd line gramar on him chamblin gets by gets by two loses it and yeah so it's going to be Raider ball Gees and taking it up passing it to Rogers Rogers back to gizen gizen looking for a Target heaves it all the way down to Hart Hart has good opportunity here P story now Far Side around the 20 passes up to neat NE at the 40 yd line looking for something Raiders down by seven need to start piling some on me eat with an absolute rocket it's going to help him out now Raiders only down by [Music] [Applause] six good things usually happen when Max NE takes shots in sports 99% of the shots you don't take all right yeah that was fault there now it's going to be hillers bringing it in Hiller's Now Matt lah number 20 with it guarded by Hart he's just going to pass it up to Champlain Champlain goes by Champlain shot just misses ball rolls out but now Del Ponto has it near side corner Richards cover him Del Pony he going to bring it back a little bit up trying to get in passes far aside and it gets away from Champlain but he's able to retrieve it B Hill's really working it lah gets around Hart lah coming in and doesn't get a lot on the shot easy save by gizen but gon's getting chased down good break out for the Raiders oer passes it to Fowler Fowler and little swim move there he getting harassed by ion TSA number 19 now pastori passes up Hart he going to pass it to neat neat oh nope scannel not heart scan trying to bring it in scannel great defense from number two proventure keeping him away Fowler trying to do the wrap didn't work and there's a flag up I think it's going to be against the hillers it will be neat little couple of Jukes there I think he had him but he went back but now he has him again breaking ankles neat rips it just wide or just a quick save by Burns actually I think that was on nit and a cross checking call against the hillers one minute penalty [Applause] aan tasa in the box number 19 Atwood passes to scannel scannel going to pass the neat neat to pastori Pastor goes behind the Nets to Sullivan to Atwood Atwood to Fowler Fowler wrapping it what a Say by Burns fer still has it though shot second shot did not get through hit off a defender's leg Atwood picking it up heading towards the net hatwood goes up to scannel to neat neat to Pastor passor goes behind the net again Fowler oh Fowler's pass gets deflected and that's going to roll out but it's still going to be Raider ball at would going to retrieve it right now 106 left to go in this first half that would to neat neat up to Fowler Fowler's going to shoot it and was like an easy save probably wasn't going to hit the net 57.5 to go Atwood is going to bring it up Raiders would like to put some goals up here before the end of the half they have four the hillers have 10 Fowler oh I think he might have thought about it Fowler shoots and w what a goal kids feeling it that's his hattick Henry Fowler having a game so with that Raiders five hillers 10 46.4 left to go in this half game's not over folks five goals is very doable just got to try to keep the ball away from number 7 seven Logan Del Ponte oh Rockwell winning another draw he's been great today at that Brian passes back to Champlain time out hillers taking a timeout with 36.2 left to [Applause] go I think they're going to try to set up for something [Music] you just say to God no up all right Raiders taking the field same with Hopkinson so Hiller's going to have the ball they're going to give it to Del they're going to give it to I believe Del Ponte yes he's going to go get it that far side right above the 30 yd line 36.2 to go let's see Richard's on him NOP nope and yeah that one just I don't I could barely see it but it went past the net but hillers have it they're going to bring it up up yeah this is O'Brien he loses it good poke check from O'Neal I believe and another timeout from Hopkinson we haven't really seen this too much taking some time outs at the end of the first half in order to set up for a better scoring opportunity can't really blame them even though they're up five the Raiders goal scorers so far are pastory who had that first goal Fowler has had three so far and Max neat got on the board also Raiders hoping to add to that list for hopkington their scores are of course Del Ponte he got their first one then John Sanda has a couple Cooper Goodman Matt lah and yeah that's their goal [Music] scores all right both teams taking the field here 20.3 left to go in this first half see if the Raiders can stop the hillers from getting one more before it expires and maybe get one themselves all right Del Pony with it going behind the goal line here they're in the far corner now he's going to bring it behind the Net Rogers steps up to cover him he's going around Richard now and yeah his shot gets lessened by Some Ds Raiders but heler still it 7 Seconds quick shot there Champlain going to try to shoot it oh nope he tried to pass it and good defense from the Raiders there keeping them scoreless at the very end of the quarter but not scoreless in the half as they have a five-goal lead the score right now is Raiders five hillers 10 we will be back shortly e e e come all right we're back here with some second half action Raiders are all amped up right now that Wyatt was really in the center of the circle really amping the team up love to see it [Applause] all right Hart going to be taking the draw against Rockwell again Rockwell just a DOT Destroyer going to come down and nice save by geen could this change the tide of the game right here gyen bringing it up ging GNA pass it off to new marker back to geing real quick ging going to start running towards the middle passes the center line and passes it to Sullivan Sullivan Speedy player he is he going to run around trying to get a look beats his Defender breaks some ankles there but Hiller's doing a great job just kind of rotating Wyatt gets hit in the face there and Fowler couldn't get the shot off good defense but Raiders going to go on the power play as Cole Carney goes to the box as you saw there he hit Wyatt right in the face and that's why you wear the cage scan picking up the ball on the sideline right around the near side 10 he's going to bring it in passing it to pastory passor centers it Fowler passes off to neat neat back to Fowler up top passor back to Fowler neat they're just working the ball around really well trying to look for that opportunity on the power play [Music] here but eventually they're going to have to shoot Atwood passes to Sullivan Sullivan needs his Fowler has shot goes wide hits the goal post on the football field goal post and just hits the school think Sky rocking it up now Raiders bringing it in scan passes to pastor Pastor centers it to Fowler Fowler to Atwood Atwood the jumping rip there nice [Applause] shot that was a big goal Well Done by Atwood was a good pass too so they scored on the power play now the score is 6 to 10 1032 left to go in the third quarter Simon Hart hits the ball out and it goes by a couple Raiders there Raiders still working for it who's going to be able to pick it up it is a Hiller and that would be number two Penta penter bringing it all the way proventure passing it oh and it gets away from number nine Sam O'Brien but it was a great pass from the defender there now new marker going to bring it up pass it to Rogers Rogers crossing the center line passes to Pastor pass Dory it's been held to only one goal so far Fowler gets the ball poked away from number 19 by number 19 Wyatt iasa Burns passes it to iasa goes Cross Field to preventure preventure all the way down nice completion there to his teammate Goodman Goodman now bringing it see some daylight and just great play by [Applause] them Cooper Goodman with another one what a long pass well done from the defender [Applause] har uh winning the draw here takes a few poke checks but still has it stick checks some pass story now he's going to bring it up past the 40 yd line Quick Pass to neat neat running in now neat beats his guy knee coming in and hits the post good quality shot there and Raider trying to rush this sideline and do potentially from the diving effort of Wyatt pastori but could have been from Atwood also Pastor now bringing it in using neat as a pick pastor and just couldn't get in a lot on that shot I think it was a stick checked last minute but still got a little some but easy save by Burns under nine to go now in the third quarter Wyatt lay a check I don't think the the bench the green bench liked it that much and yeah not the right pass to make there preventure pretty upset with his teammate or himself not sure but seem frustrated about that new marker going to pick it up run towards the field on the near 30 going to pass it to gizen gizen now running up with it didn't go over the line because of midi wasn't there smart move by gizen and good awareness oh off sides pretty sure but no the ref didn't call [Applause] it it's the mid's job to really really see and be and cross that line if he thinks a Defender goal he's going to cross sometimes it can be tough good break out Hiller's doing a good job on that all game nice play there nice pass from number 10 s took a couple players off made a nice pass but luckily the Raiders caught up and but sand has it now passing off to Champlain Del uh no yeah now Delonte has it Mel Ponte goes to lah lah to Champlain Champlain to Sanda Sanda back to Champlain back to L back to Del Ponte he's going to go behind the net to obrien who gets it to Goodman and it just repeats they working it they want Del Ponte to have the ball it's the bread and butter on this team D1 bound Del Ponte bringing it up nice fake there he goes in and good save by gizen and he's running it down great effort absolutely great save and great effort from Felix G Felix now bringing it up [Music] it's going to heave it all the way down the field finding Olen who was in the game Olsen passes it to pastori 640 to go his third quarter Pastor to neat neat beats one knee coming in gets the fire and misses that one as it's going to roll all the way and hit the middle school and possibly break a window didn't break a window by the way but it did hit the school Olsen now passes up to scannel scannel to pasor pasori trying to come in great pass to neat neat missing the net again hitting that field goal post again also all right Fowler with it now behind the net going to try to go in Fowler doing a good job Fowler little turnaround move and good last minute stick check from a Hiller makes the ball loose and it's still loose but great defensive scoop up there by proventure and burns throws it all the way out for a really nice breakout pass who is this 22's going to pass it up that would be Carlos henle Champlain now near side around the 20 is going to center it up sand Sanda doing a little Shuffle there Sanda trying to get by o'briant I mean by olssen does and buries one good goal there by the hillers and they go up by another one 12 to six now 526 left to go in the third Raiders need to pull a rabbit out of the Hat here go s also my phone is saying that it might [Applause] rain might rain in seven minutes a light rain luckily but still not ideal I mean it's ideal for crops and stuff so you know depends I and good face off Wi by Hart passing it to Sullivan who gets it to Fowler Fowler is going to go back to pastory pestor behind the net with it looking for some options goes far side goes up to scan it was good job by scannel getting that pass that was a little low hit a ground ball it make a move on it and neat losing the ball great defensive play by number four Bron jok but potentially it was a foul not sure but under five to go and Raiders get it back down by six goals neat pass the Fowler Fowler trying to get in great defense oh Fowler a little move there oh good work still has it but good defense keeping him out now Atwood trying to do the same this Hopkins and team is really serious here they're good team NE it's unable to penetrate that Hiller defense now Pastor trying to go in Nice Shot and he misses too lot of missed um Shots by both teams [Music] really one team can afford it the other one maybe not oh and that's another missed shot NE tried to go with a bounce and just didn't go where he wanted it to Raiders still have it though pass story up to scannel right around the 35 coming in scannel fakes the shot scan trying to go in good defense and he's going to draw a penalty on that as Brandon jok number four hacked him or something and neat shot gets saved like I don't even know how he saved that one but Burns is [Music] quick number number four with the Slash and he's going to the Box yep that's Braden Yokum I think it's a one minute penalty NE to Fowler Fowler to pastori pastori goes back to scan back to Pastor back to Fowler back to neat Raiders just working the ball around they scored on their last Power Play Let's see if they can do it again nice fake there by Pastor fouler thought Atwood they're trying for that Atwood jump shot again potentially Fowler gets a rip and scores what a goal [Music] there doing it again is Henry Fowler and he gets his fourth goal of the game kid is really feeling it and I think coach mck knows that's why he has him up there in the center all right Hart going to take the draw against Rockwell again Rockwell is just been absolutely lights out basically from the center dot side Jinx him and he loses it to Rogers now geen with it Gan Go pass the new marker new marker now nice break out there as Richards gets hacked away from him but pastori now with it oh Pastor gets hit in the lower realm and he is definitely feeling that hopefully he's all right does not feel good and he drew the penalty with that one and let's hope that he can walk this one off oh yikes he was hit where every guy hates to be hit so hopefully he can get his win back and uh everything's all right down there okay so they go on the power play without their star player which is not ideal number two Jack proventa in the Box I don't think it was intentional scannel now with it he's going to throw it into Olen Olsen back to scannel scannel up to Fowler Fowler to ne ne on that high outside passing back to Fowler to scannel scannel centers it again foul it to knee they're just working it up top here then Olen has it Olsen back to scandel and they're going to work it again they're trying to find a shot Hiller's doing a great job not letting him in Burns seems to have eyes on everything oh awood getting hit out of the way but somehow gets it and what a catch by Fowler who literally climbed up a ladder and gets it to Sullivan and he scores Sullivan gets on the board there a great catch and pass by Henry Fowler he had to like on hand like Rob at the the wall type of catch that thing and it worked out for the Raiders and burns did not have eyes on that one so now it's 8 to2 just under two minutes to go 154 left in this third quarter Raiders very much to win the game gramar passing it to Olsen olssen to [Music] Fowler passor still not in the game yet wait no you uh yeah no not yet neat trying to Juke out a Hiller Defender yeah neat was looking for a call on that one his helmet definitely got jostled hillers got away with one there scannel now trying to get by a swarm of hillers and the ball is down and Sullivan able to pick it up Sullivan now and there's a flag on the play against the hillers it's a good break for the Raiders Sullivan trying to get by great defense from number 11 Cole Carney who was just sticking with him scan now trying to go in scan gets a shot off and it buries it what a [Music] shot Shan scan with an absolute rocket beating Burns making the score 9 to 12 pass Dory still trying to walk it off on the sideline hope he can come back in this one you know he wants to be in this game it's definitely helpful and it seems like his team has rallied a little bit with him out so far all right here's another draw Rockwell and Hart battling in the middle Hart Dives for that one few Raiders coming in to help out couple hillers and wow great defense has Pro Venture comes in and helps out with the face off D all right Hill's trying to set something up here John sand with it now he's going to go behind that goal line Sanda up to O'Brien O'Brien back to sand Sanda now looking for an option hold it hold it Hopkinson coach tells him to hold it he wants to just kill clock here and that's enough to end the quarter on that busted sounding fog horn but so at the end of three folks Raiders nine Hopkinson Hiller's 12 there is still hope in this Raider team and we will be back real shortly for the fourth quarter action e e all right both teams taking the field again seems like the rain has held off so far we have 12 minutes on the clock Raiders down by three can they do it Wyatt passor back on the field good news for Diaz Champlain now with it back behind the goal line running behind the goal Rogers sticking with him very well Rogers going to kind of push him oh yeah Rogers keeping him at bay back there he's going to pass it behind the net though to O'Brien Sam O'Brien covered by gramar now O'Brian trying to bring it up good defense by gramar he's going to center it up to lah lah now passes off to Champlain Edward o doing a great job covering Del Ponte right now just sticking with him like he's glue Champlain now didn't have much there so he's still on the outside he's going to go behind the net O'Brien now with it behind the net grar closing in on him see Hopkinson right now they just they are just playing so casual they're trying to kill time but let's see O'Brien Quick Pass in front great save by gazen and new marker picks it up and new marker running new marker getting chased too new Mar gets poked it he gets poke checked he gets poked It Anyways now green is getting it green gets it good defense by Green just chasing down new marker he couldn't get that pass off that's tough part about having a long [Applause] stick now you got Del Ponte just up at the 44 yd line just chilling with it he's looking at the clock looking at the team he's playing some chess here ad Del Pony now trying to bring it in decided to just bring it up and look at this hillers working it around obrien with it behind the net new marker covering him obrien quick pass it gets away from Miller though but 23 wck walowitz grabs it and passes it Del Del Pon Del Ponte Del Ponte now up by 30 is going to go in Del Ponte Quick Pass Champlain now with it trying to get a shot off and hits the post ball up Del Pon he's going to grab [Music] it all right he's just going to chill again here oh nope he's going to run it down Del Ponte looking for something goes left-handed and just Snipes the top left hand corner and that's a goal Del Ponte just showing why he's so dangerous switches hands and just absolutely Snipes that one coach comes over to say thank you to him so 912 to go 9 to13 right now is the score Raiders were against the ropes a little bit there um G in making a great save they just couldn't get it away let's see these faceoffs are huge Hart and Rockwell going at it again Hart plays it back good face off win by Hart Hart's going to bring it around Hart's using that speed he's getting pressured very well though and they're going to say he stepped out great pressure from number four um joke him just sticking with him the whole way hassling okay sand is going to play it now passing it to the defender he's going to heave it up and it gets lost in the Sun and now Wyatt is there Wyatt using his body gets hit from behind and he's going to get the ball here pass story go by preventure and the r Blows the Whistle all right yeah let's do it again pass th pass the Atwood to neat NE now right around the 35 passes to Atwood passes to scannel and whistle whistle blows again as the ref hits his hat and it's going to be green ball and he's running it up the sideline scan sticking with him he's breaking loose break oh good defense by new marker scan just keeping him out last minute now D Ponte with it Del Ponte just casually walking right around the near side 20 812 on the clock Raiders down by three he looks at the clock Del Ponte fakes the pass he's going to go for the pass on that one finds lahy lah up by the 35 yd line just they're just really milking clock now and do you blame him lah now bringing it down lah quick pass it gets by but Del Pont picks it up Ponte oh great save by geen as he uses his shins on that one green still has it though green pressing as Champlain has it 7:30 on the clock now Champlain trying to run it in passes it off another huge save by geing geing keeping him in this game right now Raiders need to help him out green sticks with it and still has it Del Pony now getting hassled by Richards who's going to just they're going to pass it up to Champlain now Rogers attacking him now walowitz with it up by the 30 five 36 yard line walowitz going to try to go in he does walowitz Quick Pass back to Champlain believe champlin's going to go behind the goal line to O'Brien obrien now just casually jogging scano starting to starting to run on him O'Brian getting a look and oh oh my goodness that is a bit of a dagger there obrian doing a great job he was getting hassled and opened just opened up just enough to get a shot nice bounce shot by gizen G visibly upset with himself on that one he knows he has saved much harder shots but it was a sneaky one sometimes you don't expect it especially from that angle getting harass like that from Scandal and just somehow gets that shot off and Hart's going to trip Rockwell just enough but no it's going to be U Raider ball so it was good play by Hart Simon Hart bringing it up now passing it to Wyatt who's only had one goal here today which is strange Fowler trying to do a wraparound good defense does and Fowler answers right back Henry Fowler absolute animal out here [Music] [Applause] today okay so Raiders down by four 6 minutes and 12 seconds left to go in this game Simon Hart and Rockwell at the center dot Rockwell gets by and picks it up Rockwell passes out to O'Brien O'Brien bringing it around separating himself a little bit pass it off now you got Garen with it Garren's going to roll pass it to Sanda Sant now right around the 40 ydd line with it it's real casual they're just going to try to milk so the Raiders need to be a little aggressive here make him do something even if it is playing keep away all right Champlain Breaks Loose coming in passing it back to O'Brien O'Brien back Champlain to Santa Santa getting poked good defense defense here from Ron and Richards hassling them sticking with them too he's going to go behind the net to O'Brien and yeah it's going to be Raider ball great pressure from the Raiders gon now running it up no time to waste here down by four just over 5 minutes left to go Rogers now with it Rogers looking for a Target finds Richards Richards gets his stick whacked out of his hands and it's going to be green ball great poke check there and Mack coach Mack is not too happy about that one oh but hey quick giveaway there for green so that's good for the Raiders but they need to work passor getting hassle pastori shot missing the net and that's been the story so far for the Raiders just a lot of missed scoring opportunities got to hit that net Fowler now passing it up to pastor Pastor goes to scannel who goes to Atwood Atwood trying to trying to get in great defense from the hillers all day F 422 left to go here let's see Fowler trying to bring bring it around and good poke check taken away from him Burns now with it trying to call for an outlet finds prenta prenta is going to quickly pass it to Champlain scannel covering him good and great speed by Champlain Champlain fakes the pass Champlain going in and somehow beats GE and gon makes that first save and just that ball had so much spin on it that it just kept rolling rolling and into the net that was a great play by Hopkinson and yeah bit of a dagger here his Raiders down by 5 355 left to go still enough time to do it folks but Raiders need to try to stop this Green Team and Hart wining a good one there Hart Speedy trying to bring timeout by mlin so let's see what the Raiders can come up with within this timeout I'm sure the hillers are going to try to come up with their own plan we'll be back real short as I take sip for some [Music] water e all right Raiders taking the field now and so is the hillers so are the hillers burns taking his net let's see what happens now folks scan is going to get the ball here right around the 30 yd Line near side he's walking it up now he's got it waiting for the ref all right scan now running towards the goal line passing it to Fowler Fowler getting in Fowler Oh missing the net on that one but scandel closest to it and it's still going to be Raider ball 336 left to go down by five rers would like to bury right here all right scan now running it in no he's walking and in correction pass the pastor little spin move there pastori wasn't left with much pass it neat neat now trying to break this barrier and hits the post brutal oh good defensive play I think by Fowler pokes that thing down whacks it out of the air all right neat up to Atwood three minutes folks three minutes down by five Raiders have no time to waste here Fowler oh F's pass gets deflected or something and now all of a sudden Garen running it up number five there far side right around the 30 yd line now stops knows he has time not not great for the Raiders here as lah now has it passes the champing Champlain now good defense by Richards keeping him Bay passes it to lah lah quickly passes it to Sanda sand now gets around Atwood but he knew Atwood was there so he just ran around didn't go for the net just still just wasting some time here rains held off so far hopefully oh good poke check by Richards and now new marker passes it back to Rogers yeah hopefully the rain holds off till after we leave now Rogers with it to Atwood 139 the time is wasted and oh Wyatt missing the net looking for some kind of call but still going to be Raiders ball scan now up in the down in the corner near side going to try to get it up pass it to NE one less than 130 to go 125 on the [Applause] clockwood scan back to Fowler Fowler trying to get on the board again he seems to be there offensive Firepower today yeah so not looking good for the Raiders just wasting too much time between goals Wyatt though couple spin moves and he loses it trying to get it back and Pastor fighting against three hillers Sullivan there for a little help good battle by Wyatt Pastor though 48 seconds to go down by five see if they can score right here right now Fowler trying to get in great defense though keeping them out [Applause] hey he just ran into a real tough team here today solivan on the board and I feel a few rain drops and just an excellent defensive play and Wyatt gets it back though Wyatt trying to get in gets pushed out Fowler now Quick Pass to scan scan's going to try to shoot it but didn't really have a lane oh and that pass goes by NE and that's going to be the end of the game folks we have 9 seconds left to go 8.9 to be exact and the Raiders just ran into a a real tough team here they were they were able to just keep the Raiders um at Bay you know some of the Raiders biggest goal scorers like Sullivan and pasor just held to basically nothing and that's the ball game folks a tough defeat against Hopkinson the final score is 10 to 15 um you know the Raiders did have did crawl their way back into the game and did make it a game at one point they were down by only three and they did their best so I think that they'll be better after this game and I don't know thanks for watching till next time this is Brad crle Elsa Su on camera cam crle doing Instagram DS cable TV thanks for watch watching bye

e okay good evening everybody and welcome to uh tonight's budget Workshop special meeting of the Board of Education uh for a special budget workshop and discussion uh tonight there's no votes going to be taken it is uh primarily um informational for the board members uh for us to have a conversation to begin to do what's what's prudent for a board is to plan uh plan for uh some of the things that we have in place today and see things in the future because things will move very quickly past past Tuesday so so um that's the purpose of this meeting for the board to have a conversation and a discussion uh as we go forward so the first thing I'd like to do is do the pledge of allegiance to flag I pledge aliance to the flag United States of America stands na indivis thank [Music] you we have a we have a budget referendum on May 7th which is on Tuesday at this particular uh point the uh hi Erica hi the um Board of Finance um gave us a cut originally of $150,000 uh for us to consider at their last meeting they added on an additional $50,000 of cuts for us to think about um I think it's also prudent to think in terms of um this budget is very difficult I I've said to people that we've hit this um the perfect stor where we have reval coming in at the same time we have budget needs and when they all come together uh it you know we we've I think we've all heard it uh from from many of our constituents that this is a tough time for everybody relative to uh to the budget and understanding how rebout works and then adding on um the normal budget process so what I'd like to do tonight is I'd like to talk talk about uh with budget members so that we can begin getting our thoughts down on where we think some of these costs are going to be coming from I don't know if I should have mentioned maybe bring your budget book but I thought we can have a little bit of conversation with our superintendent and there's some thank you Kim uh to talk about where some of these Cuts may be coming from uh as we go forward I think we have to think in terms of um of course I want to be positive and I want the budget to pass I think it's a good solid budget by both selectman and uh and Board of Education and finance for that matter but however if it doesn't cut if it doesn't uh pass uh my my sense is that the board of Finance is going to have to make a very deep cut um I've I've heard things from um you know we a 536 I think it is right now for for townwide tode yeah so i' I've heard getting us down to maybe a 3% is more um more reasonable I've heard um I've heard you know you can cut a million dollars out of this budget and not really harm the education system so I think we have to be prepared for a significant cut if if the budget doesn't pass and so as board members it's it's incumbent upon us to be having that that thought process because as I said things move very quickly so with that um I I think we'll take this in most in most general terms so I don't want to drill down into um you know pencils and erasers but clearly if we're going to have to make significant Cuts uh the places that we have to go tend to be people uh in programs um we're not we're not going to get there by U cutting a little bit here or a little bit there so um I wanted to I'll kick this off um unless maybe does a board member have a account before we get into this a little bit I don't know Erica no yes as far as where we where I think generally are you thinking um generally speaking what are you thinking well you thinking programs my only thought is it's it's makes more sense to cut if you want to say people or positions that have we haven't already we don't already have a person filling the position so if we're adding a position it makes more sense but that position than one that's already filled by a person and I think that's an excellent point because we heard that from the public it was like no new we don't want we don't want to see anybody new coming out so we we'll get cut someone's job that they currently are holding right whereas a position that hasn't been filled yet it just makes more sense to cut that first and and generally speaking Dr Gman we have um I think we have five ads I think in the in the U the budget so I just want to remind the the board in the community that this budget from General operation funds take away the grants the the new positions related that going into this budget are the the department chair for English for the middle school high school four campus monitors for one for Cher Brook Primary School one for Camp Intermediate School um actually three campus monitors and one for the after school evening supervision at the middle school high school campus and then the the the final one is a two to fourk Intermediate School based upon the the needs that we are having relative to increasing student achievement and closing closing the achievement Gap um between student population so the the the new positions in this budget action minimal the the the part that of makes our staffing look a little bit higher is if we do get the commissioner Network Grant relative to the the middle school being accepted we do have a few positions in with that and then we have a few positions in with our open choice now if there's a significant cut within the district some of the positions that we are using open Choice funds that's the money that we received from Harford that money will have to not be used on staff and we have to use something to offset something in our general operation budget and slide that over into our open Choice funds I I just want to remind the board that this budget we've been talking about this budget since October and November and I presented to you a forecast budget in December and then we really drill down within the the budget and then I presented you a final budget leave in the February time range so this is in the budget that we just came out with in February we've been talking the almost the entire school year and one of the things that would been very transparent with the the board of Finance this budget was this year's fiscal budget 2324 was actually Short change when I arrived as the superintendent of schools of $400,000 in non-certified staff and approximately $600,000 in tuition so this budget for special education so this budget is actually making up for that also on top of a four 4.85% increase in special ed so when you when you take all that this budget and and we can we could talk about like well do we really need this do we really need that but just to even roll out of the gate this budget is a higher number than what we are operating on this year so I I feel that the the administration proposed to you a really responsible budget and you as a board on several occasions really went through the budget and really didn't accept my budget as a first read because it's not the same number that I presented in February that I presented to you in December so I'd be more than happy to answer and I have Mrs mle here to answer any questions regarding special education and Mr Bishop certainly can answer or anything on the instructional core that I'd be more than happy to talk to you about what impact any line item would have within our budget if it is to be U reduced if you remember as Mr Daniel said the first reduction of $150,000 we we made public that a variety of that would come in the the form of um noncertified staff a variety of that would come into certified staff because we did hear what the board of Finance said relative to um looking at the new positions that we have so that that's why we put that out there that there is going to be a reduction in noncertified staff and certified staff and what I did not want to do and I think the board agreed with me is to create Panic within our teaching staff because we don't want our teaching staff to look into the next District over and when we start creating Panic within our teaching staff um you know that's why we didn't do that that's why pretty broad with this specific cut we got the other $50,000 reduction we looked at that that that's looking at pro at programs staff also how we calculated that out so when we start talking $200,000 then I start saying I needed to have a conversation with my teaching teacher and my non-certified union to let them know when you start getting into that number as Mr Daniels um said that if it's a high number I'm not finding um $200,000 more in supplies and $200,000 more in um you know fixing things in the district that the next place that we would have to take a serious look at Staffing programs and our team is here right now to answer any questions that you have so so why don't we start with this because I've heard this question and thank you for that that explanation and um it it would appear I agree I agree with Erica that I don't think ads are are going to fit even though I think we we badly need an English chair I mean we all talked about that from a curriculum standpoint um I had one question sure you know how the budgets we we complete them but then the state still working out stuff is there anything where this budget if it gets final aniz that there'll be money coming in that was not you know told to towns or more man uh you know unfunded mandates that now they're going to fund grant money that John's working on yeah summer we've accounted for all the grant money that we're going to see yeah the ECS the education cost share uh We've um accounted for that and I appreciate the the board of Finance uh letting us um really put in this the $258,000 we thought it was going to be $398,000 but as we've been told that the formula did not change regarding education cost share of what is provided to the town of Ken what changed is the how they judge the the town of Canton to the relative wealth within the town of Canton So within a Year's period of time we were at 398,000 of what the governor predicted in his budget well right when we were in the middle of our budget that number actually was reduced to $258,000 um line item that's not going to change that that's going to be our L correct based on the wealth of the town we didn't actually lose it based upon the formula that we have that the wealth in the town of Canon in the education and how they determine what can and could afford that was reduced the part that I think is still the area that we need to look at is the excess cost and and that is relative to the reimbursement that we received from the state of Connecticut for special education services as you know in the the governor's budget was supposed to receive 88% well each of the school districts in the state of Connecticut put in a a lot more requests for reimbursement so that 88% is not being fully funded that's what's leaving our budget right now in the red for this year because we budgeted for when we looked at our budget we budgeted at 88% next year we budgeted I believe around the 70% for uh excess cost so that is a moving um Target but that is nothing that we would maybe we'll know uh relatively soon when the the session is out and we would certainly make U any changes to to our budget and that 88% went down to 70% so equals about 140,000 well I think it's way more than that can't higher thaner so so we got so we're getting pressure on both sides um so one of the things that I hear uh you know fairly frequently is class sizes and and where we stand relative to class sizes and what if we were to take from K to six and we we tried to um to kind of shrink our classes and increase our class sizes so the the the Board of Education I don't know Mr Shel you were on that committee looked at looked at the the the class siiz guidelines I'm going to say five or six years ago and our class sides guidelines which are in the budget book are very comparative to surround districts and within the state and districts our size that currently our K one class size guideline is 16 to 18 our grades 2 through 4 are 18 to 20 grade 5 to 6 is 20 to 22 grade seven to 12 to 6 to 30 that's right within where we are as relative to districts of our size and our wealth and so I feel really good with what we proposed for kindergarten this year or for fiscal year 25 we proposed six sections at 16.2 if we took away a section that would bring us to 19.4 we'll say 19 kindergarteners which would put us one over our Board of Education policy and and for anybody that's been in a kindergarten classroom lately uh 194 five and sixy olds in in one classroom that that's a lot of children in in those classrooms our first grade uh we proposed um six sections at 17.5 which is right within our guideline if we took that down to five it would be 21 s year olds in in a classroom which from an instructional standpoint that the first grade year if I had to say a grade that's one of the most critical grades for children to learn how to read it is first grade and so you put 21 kids in in a a classroom that again is above our class size by three so that would not be with in the guidelines if you look at second grade and we've heard this within the board of Finance it was a question that they asked of we have right now 96 children for fiscal year 24 in in second grade that's the class size average of 16 which is below our class size average but I want to remind the board before my watch that kindergarten it's it's the kindergarten nurse from last year who had a very difficult year as kindergarteners and there was a lot of discussion around behaviors and student achievement with the kindergarteners they've had a much better first grade year we want to continue that but if we put in another section or took away a section for um for second rate it would be 19.2 that would be within our class siiz guideline but as I've mentioned to before that would be a class that I would recommend keeping the the same of where they're at third grade at six section at 17.7 which is um that is again below our class guideline but if you go take one section away you're above our class size guideline at at 21 and that's a critical year for student achievement because that's relative to the time that our students are taking their first state test that they need to take and we're measuring their success fourth grade is at 18 and that's right within our class size guideline if we go to Five sections it would bring us to 21.6 which is above our class siiz guideline if we go to fifth grade they're are 20 and six sections if we go to Five sections that would be 24.2 for those of you that know fifth grade there is a big jump between a fourth grade student and a fifth grade student from an instructional core especially in the area of mathematics so fourth grade to fifth grade from just from a mathematics standpoint alone 24 kids in a fifth grade classroom is a lot sixth grade six section right now we're that would be 20 that's right within our guidelines if we move that up to cut one section it would bring it to 24 class size of 24 that's a lot of sixth graders in one classroom were trying to find out who they are as individuals as a sixth grade and finding out their identity not only trying to achieve in school and and then our seventh and eth grade from 17 to 20 and then from 20 to 24 and that that would be a lot of eighth graders in a classroom transitioning to high school if you did that it would bring us from 54 if your recommendation was to uh cut um those sections that would be nine sections I believe that would be cutting nine sections 54 to 45 nine sections that would approximately be about a half a million dollars um that we would um so that that would be in Paris in that number it would be teachers in that number with benefits and we would also look at the the possibility of non certified staff also with but just teachers alone in we have to say around a half a million about a half a million on that Trend um I don't think any of us want this to occur if it had to occur what about the high school it's more complicated uh but is there what would happen if you cut four High School teachers yeah so if you cut four High School teachers it take the average high school teacher around 70,000 with with Benefits let's say and you take that that's about 350 about that um you would have to look at all the sections it could be English for example instead of having 23 in a classroom you could have in it it can be looking at art and say do we need this many art classes instead of having photo you don't have photography instead of having 3D you don't have 3D and then what does that mean it pushes our enrollment into other elected that that they go up you know we have um you know I see some of our teachers here today so I'm looking at some of what they teach you know we Anatomy physiology is an elective you know those are all the things that to answer your question Joe you have four we have music technology those are things that we would have to look at as an administrative team and I can tell you I met with our entire senior class um over the past three weeks in in small groups and had discussions with them on things that we do well within the camp Public Schools things that we don't do well and one of the highlights that they hit was twofold we like the elective classes that we have but other schools that are larger than us and similar size have more than we have and we miss I.E for example a business department and I know that this has been proposed with in the the budgets in the past they were saying we don't have a business department and we want to do a career in business and the first time we're going to take a business class it is in college and we don't feel prepared for that so they were talking about internships those are all the things that we don't even have now and if we start taking things away they're going to the next time I talk to seniors they're going to say well now you took my career pathway away for music I sat with three kids today that have this passion for music and one of them being a music teacher she's G to be a music teacher major as a senior going into study music and she looked me right in the eye and she said we need to have more music programs here so to answer your question Mr sh that's where it would be it would be in a variety of different places and I think um every area would possibly be hit depending upon the number well in the cohort of 78 going up to the high school students we've had concerns with them I hate like the sending you don't you have to put something in is so what there is is there's the finance course that will requir to do if you remember we put that within our economics but if you think about it from a pathway right now our kids don't have a pathway 18-year-old kid said to me today I just want to learn how to do my taxes it's an 18-year-old kid just want to take a class to so I can learn how to do my taxes so we would we would have to um that's meaningful um if we go to nine sections and we uh cut nine sections and we uh we pull 500,000 out of that and then if we uh red do some of the electives and move we have to move Personnel out of that um how about how about some of the answerr like CPAC [Music] are we up to the public yeah okay I'm sorry so cpath that's a really good question that's our can't parents as teachers right that that program's been around for years and bar do you want to explain that that program a little bit sure so um that program is our very first opportunity for parents to connect um with school staff it's also a critical pathway toward child find for students um with identified needs so this year we have H 47 students attending weekly in that program and we had an influx in January which actually poped us that a we list um and we were able to work out scheduling and add additional um weekly course time is that families could get in um it we have I'm aware nine students at the birth to three pipeline um already so they're coming in weekly for early intervention no that critical um and it's a place for families who are struggling to uh connect so I can tell you a story very briefly we had a parent going a pediatrician she found out her child was presenting thees she left a message for cat cpat invited her in she was able to meet with other families um and you know keeps coming regularly appreciates the fact that she doesn't feel so isolated very well hook her up with a referral for preschool program um and go through testing she's able to talk to other families who been through the process um it's really a critical way to make the something that can be very overwhelming for young families um feel accessible and it's what do you need for staff right now have for 47 some fames contributing to cost yes so right now our whole CPAP program with Benefits is about $90,000 so are we mandated to have a full CPAP program like that no we are not do we need to offer services to families at that age yes can we do it for less than $990,000 not recommendation but could we do it less yes could it's a legal obligation yes could you cap it at 30 instead of 47 and remove one one spot oh we certainly could change the whole you can do anything right it's services to Children an early intervention discuss L is key been remarkably I wouldn't be comfortable no I did that with my daughter in 1988 and uh I was a a mom with no family nearby and really no no friends that you know I kind of knew in the community and I ended up making you know friends with other women who were part of that program and being guided uh as to how to how to you know deal with a child you know didn't know what I was doing so it was really a wonderful service yeah so so the point of this exercise I guess is to um to to to have this kind of conversation and we're going to have to prioritize I mean cpat is important we we'll have to talk about where that fits in the pecking order if you have to find a million or more dollars you know if if you're going down to um I don't know and if you work this out but let's just say I think I think if we had to the town budget was dropped by 2.37% down to a flat three we for 2third of it is that is that about um in terms of a percentage Yeah well I know our percentage would go down to just roughly below 1% oh really below 2% would be our percentage below two you know nobody wants to make you know I know we're having this hard conversation no I know nobody on the board wants to make these Cuts but at some point we if we have to we are going to have to prioritize and make some hard decision security monitors not that I'm saying for against that what's that that was $68,000 was it three and we heard people truthfully within the $200,000 cut that we've already made that that may have to be with with what we have the board will have to um decide that would be one of the things that I will ask the board was the superintendent's recommendation that provide Safety and Security with um those schools I will not um have a within our security team and speaking with our safety officials I believe that we do need a supervision there and we could talk about what's the benefits what's the not benefits I I can tell you I feel really comfortable that if we have a security monitor they there that they're safety M that they're they're looking at things that a normal staff wouldn't be looking for so I I think it's valuable resource for our can intermediate school chair broke and our students after school cost but that could be something that is already embedded in the $200,000 that we have reduced already so I want to say with Barber for a minute on special ed C can you I know this is a little bit finger in the wing but what's our special ed population looking like how how is Thrive how is Thrive impacting what we're doing and and I know you you know marvelous job this year we weren't really counting on much we we got some wins but what do you think next year's going to look like so our Thrive program continues to we're we're pushing uh capacity with our limits in terms of wanting to class size as small uh we're at just at 20 students now across the district for students participating and Thrive um and I anticipate that staying consistent uh we Thrive having the program has has kept multiple High students in District who've been able to bring students back um because we have programming um we've been able to offset costs I think that's critical we have our percentage rate uh as of October 1 was 17.3% that continues to grow we've had over 95 special education referrals uh this year U which is not all those students qualified for that's testing supports and services um it just speaks to there are growing needs Beyond academic there's Health needs um we're seeing Rising rates in anxiety and depression their health impairment so Contin go up I think pride is one of those you know kind of hands off certainly but um do do you see more do any any thoughts on more out placements they couldn't cve couldn't uh keep in house you see that number going up because that's Transportation that's support that's we we will continue to have students that meet a level therapeutic need that require another District placement so it's not a it's not a cure all for that but we're able to keep many more students here than we would be otherwise and I can share this with the the board because I'll shared in my monthly financials our special education numbers are actually going to be different than the ones that in the superintendent proposed budget and the Board of Education adopted budget it's going to be higher um there have been changes that have happened um since we proposed the budget so not only will there be we'll report this to the board of Finance at the next meeting not only will there be um if there is a a reduction in the the the school budget um we're also going to possibly have to find maybe ride in the red and Report out that our special education cost that we have in this budget is not going to be enough um due to some um changes that have happened in the past couple months um that we just became awareness so right out of the gate I'm already sharing with you and I'm very transparent in our numbers uh as soon as we know it and this is something that is new that our our numbers for special education is actually we have right now it being a 4.85 it's going to be higher than that 4.85% it's going to be probably close to a five or six% five or six% oh yeah we have to figure out the numbers we'll know more when we present our financials I believe when we present our financials next week we may be able to show that um of what it may be projected for this year because it's going to have a effect this year can Canim do you have any thoughts on on um areas um I'm not support reducing class size I mean I don't know if there's we need all the staff that he presented but if there's Staffing that's not directly impacting direct classes that you know is in excess not for reality but for the situation we're in that's not directly impact everything impacts and learning we know that but if you have to go to bare minimum right I mean trying to maintain the core trying to stay with our number one goal which is academic achievement how do we preserve that as best we can so so one one thought might be you know thinking of some of the ancillary U programs that we have out there for example um my my granddaughter attended the summer program what's what's what does that mean so the the summer program right now is R like $40,000 that that is something that prior to co we didn't have $40,000 in the budget what's happening is as we all know and I've been very transparent with this that student achievement is not at the level that that it needs to be our our kids are behind it's very clear in the numbers and we need to work really hard there's there's definitely research that will support I can't cite it right now because I'm not prepared for it but we can get that that would support that we need to work with children in the summer especially children that have gaps but when you look at it that 10 months out of the year we need to invest our energy in in kids that are within the walls during the 180 two days or 181 days that we now have in school that the the summer program that is valuable may not be able to happen and that's a $40,000 item I know mentioned insar is like you got to look at interventionist and coaches that we have that are working with kids directly and providing kids extra support outside their their their classroom those are the certified staff that you also need to look at are written into plans and and and you you really have to say what's going to happen if those children aren't getting that extra support my next question what would happen if we yeah I let Mr Bishop handle that because he oversees an instructional coaches and introduction sure um if if that were to happen uh it's it's important to be able to note that the the work that our instruction coaches do excuse me it uh it's it's a review of the student performance data it's coaching of teachers and then it's it's directing the tutorial the tutorial program so they develop the prescribed program of tutorial support that our our skilled tutors really are are there to be able to implement uh without our our coaches in place to be able to to support that the tutorial um shifts and it's its ethicacy with it and the ability to coach and work with our our teachers and work with students shifts away as well um I think it's important to be able to know uh just as we think about student um student performance these are the folks who are working directly to really Define the academic programs to get to the areas we need to the best uh best of our ability um additionally I think it's important to be able to know too we' really um focused on literacy overall on our district trying to really make sure that we're uh focusing for the work for our youngest Learners and understanding that there is a requirement from the state uh Department of Education to shift our reading program going into next year that would have major major impact on us in our ability to effectively operate there um and what about Kon Academy yeah so question that would be one of those again that here we have children that struggle to function in the normal day and can't an academy provides them an opportunity to function in the learning environment that they function in but that is a program when you're talking about the the the number that you're looking at those are the programs that you got to kind of look at about 20 there's about it's about a 20,000 $25,000 program right now there could be seven to 10 it's fluid it's a fluid program students go in and out it supports students that are presenting School avoidance U is course J and special uh and it's it's another really critical resource and pathway that we have to make sure that we're hitting the continum need so that all children can access everything is you know everything we're talking about tonight is is critical but unfortunately we we have to you guys are going to have to begin to reconcile some of this that um if we need to we're going to have to prioritize and you're not going to get it out of cutting the coach here or an an program there it's it's got to come from from media areas so was the one who presented to US based on the principle you know they went through this and presented unfortunately you know everything is deemed essential so what do you see like do you have a if we if you have to cut where are you you're the one who would be cutting and presenting it to us and then we would be discussing it it's not like we can tell you what to cut oh no I I actually think it's I think it's a a board it's a board of education budget so what I will do is I will talk like how I'm talking right now and take the feedback that is provided to me and give you cost estimates of where things are relative to where we are programming as Mr Daniel says for me the most important thing is the core and keeping our core in solid place you know we I I've heard at several meetings and I attended every single meeting it is you know you but what about like painting an office or the small Capital items that are in there you know we have $63,000 in capital items ranging from desks to chairs I would tell you cut it it's going to look the buildings are going to look the way they look right now that the offices are going to look the way that they are um but we're we're keeping the core at its place you know this budget is not made up of um textbooks and workbooks and pencils and credit that that's not where the the M saw recent the meeting we had a book that was 20 something years old like we need to actually do better we need to like get ahead and we're our our teachers are doing a a tremendous job in the resources that we have and we have our resources and we're doing well a high school senior said today that for small schools that should we achieve really well and I'm sitting there say yes but in the back of my mind is and this is who I am we need T get back and you know I I'll work with the board I think if there is a a reduction I I think the finance committee is going to have to work collectively and and I will provide all the information and all the data but ultimately it's the Board of Education that that makes the the the cuts it's not the superintendent of schools that makes this cut it's my job to provide you information but it it's your budget it's it's not my budget anymore you'll recommend your top items that you I work with this board on um what we feel and what it would look like if we did do that it it's very clear that I I wouldn't recommend cutting six sections of something but if we're getting a million dollar cut that that that's that's a serious amount of money within our budget as Mr Robin said it it brings us under 2% just to roll over certain costs can you find or cut $100,000 worth of high school electives such as things that come out of Arts and Music do you find $100,000 in those an type programs well we we could find $100,000 at the expense of elected classes Well everybody's GNA have let me tell you if the budget doesn't pass everybody have not just his board everybody has to feel everybody has to know what what what a cup means so so you know we we have to find it in blocks and chunks we agree to that so now went through a similar situation and obviously towns are different Financial but they went through the reevaluation and they experienced the same thing what was the impact on the schools your experience they go through a similar situation but we're kind of going through what they went through just a delayed yeah I don't like to like compare town to town but I'll just speak in global terms from my experience um I've never had to cut um my my budgets in four years because there was a a guideline and we went through the guideline we hit the the guideline the board of ads budget hit the guidelin so never in my experience had to cut um a significant amount of money as we were going through the process we knew what the guideline was but they also did have their reeval and the budget pass it anything that I had to deal with so this is really based on the coming up if it passes then you have to have the people to vote it's really the town's decision right now yeah you mentioned several times about have to maintain the core I would put with you that virtually everything here is part of the core that what happens to the eight youngsters in the C Academy that what happens to the the whatever number of youngsters it is in the CP that program goes away what happens to the uh the youngster who really is questioning his for her value in school when the football team goes away uh what happens to the youngster who is is very much into music we don't have that part of the program anymore that's I think that's all part of the for and and and any any the T is significant but anything that goes well beyond that uh there's no ancillary stuff to cut there's there's no money in crays but there's money in in personel no I I agree with you when I Define core and I haven't defined core um I I look at core it depends upon who the student is and for a student their core as they get older could be I'm going to take every music class that I can take and then I'm going to take my requirements that I need to take but I'm going to take the music tag I'm going to take the AP music I'm going to take um concert band and then I'm going to take choir so my day is full with music but then I I take the the requirements that I have that's their core as a senior Junior in in in high school and if they know their pathway and we have plenty of kids then 9 through 12 know their pathway if we take that pathway away from them who took their core away from them and I I did receive an email from a a Community member that reminded me and I didn't even remind me because I knew that that is a core for certain children and kids there are certain kids that come to school just for the wood shop or come to school just for technology it's almost like our prevention program for them to make sure that they're coming to school we have kids that the only reason that they come to school is Mr Daniel said and you you said Mr shler is to play on an athletic team that is a core to them this budget represents the core as your new superintendent you didn't really see anything new out of my office and out of my administrative team to this budget that is really we're moving the district forward but we're not we don't have our strategic plan that to really push the distri for we have some of these Cuts they're not going to come back yeah what these Cuts do so the town has continually made investments in education and it's paid off I said it in my comments to meaning that part of the reason why reval has been so difficult is because housing prices have gone up and we're we're a function of that our school system we interviewed a uh person for a board of education actually was on and had to remove move but um she told us she came to this town they were looking they were coming from California they wanted to come to Connecticut they looked at other towns and they came to Canton because Canton was the town they wanted to be so you know when we start breaking when we start really breaking down the investment that's been made in all these years and I'll tell you when you do that it takes years to get it back years to get it back and and I I have some sense that um you know some parents are going to leave us because of that um so we'll have to see I I didn't want to ask you one thing about I I remember seeing East Grandy um does not provide a food service what's what's our food service like I mean what what can we is there anything we do there I think the PTO takes over yeah so and Mr Robins helped me out here from this it it's not required by state law to have the Food Service program just not required and we have a a food service program to provide children students the opportunity to have a healthy breakfast and a healthy lunch not required and you're not required to actually have a free and reduced program either if you don't have program so our children that are on free and reduced if we didn't have food service program they don't have it uh in the neighboring district and the reason that I know this speaking to uh gramby we actually during Co did the Food Service program for East grany because they didn't have a food service program and they went back to just what they do right now is their PTO or the PT um provide lunch to the students that they go in and they can sell pizza um for them they are on the milk program the free and reduced milk program so they provide that opportunity for kids to uh by milk and then that is free and reduced it it hypothetically if we reduce the the Food Services let's say at the middle school and the high school that it would be roughly around 60 or $70,000 by our calculations okay just one more we came up with the meeting someone suggest we don't necessarily have to provide transportation correct me if I'm understanding of state law is wrong we do have to provide yeah so that that did come up at the meeting and we did research that we do need to provide transportation we do have a board policy on how uh long a student could be on the bus in amount of time and if we chose to if a recommendation was for me to look at the the transportation possibly cut one uh bus route that that would be and we heard it the other day approxim be about 60 60 to $70,000 roughly the result to that would be his children will be on the bus longer that that that would be a result that okay what I'd like to do is go around one more time any board member also you can a little quiet and then I want to open up to a public public forum so Ken start with you right around any you have any further comments or no I'm just struggling with how we're going to cut it's all core stuff um I really think it's in the hands of the public right now you're right to decide what you know their vote pgy well it it sounds really difficult and the other thing is I feel like we might cut now but they'll pay for it later R yeah I me I feel the same way want to pay little taxes as anybody but I mean I've been involved in the budget with you guys with Jordan and everybody since the very beginning here feel like I'm a very fiscally concerned person and I think that it hasn't I don't think maybe we didn't it has not it hasn't been overly you know screamed from Hill this is not an increased budget this is a flat budget our fixed expenses went up if we cut anything we're going backwards how can we possibly go backwards with our kids and this is as F it's probably not the right word to say in public meeting but it is and like we're talking about school monitors and we're argu we're considering cutting something that's you know $440,000 or even if it was $200,000 what happens if we have one incident and that person could have saved one kit I mean who could even possibly put a price on that and it's it's just frustrating that and I don't think that the the actual Cuts we took a million dollars off our budget who do such permanent damage to the schools like we said for a long time had reiterated what is that millionar actually can translate to the individual taxpayer I don't think that it sounds like a big number when you divide it by you know all residents it's not it's not really that big I think it's going to hurt thank you Erica yeah I agree Russell I just I would ask ask the public not to punish the schools for the reval um and to consider for everyone who has kids in the schools do you want to send your kids to schools with all of these areas that we've been discussing having to cut them I know I don't thank you so tonight's discussion reinforced for me that any major cut would have major consequences um and and I would not have voted for the budget months ago if I thought there was I thought were me so I believe what's in the budget is reasonable well thought out would be well used and I I I hope we don't have to have this exercise for re this is just so we know and the public listening so they know good thank you okay uh with with that all said I think what we'll do is we'll go to public comment and we'll open it up to anybody in the room that would like to speak to the board of uh Board of Education when you come up please use the podium just give us your name and your address and um that's all you have to do and then if you can keep it to around three minutes we'd appreciate that so anybody yes Mr good evening richlo 321 chb Road class 63 uh from my observation at the level I looked at the budget this year and I said the other night at the budget Workshop uh I do support the the budget going forward um that being said because I'm best known with rolling H grenades and in rooms I've had ask ask a question that uh I've heard different different sides on and the hope I get answer here tonight that's with respect to the name Warrior it's my understanding that there's three uh Town districts in the state that they're not receiving the tribal money at the state level because they continue to have names that are considered to be offensive to uh to Native Americans and um I think that this time even though he made it look like uh uh thisal blackmail that if that money is is available at this time I think the education of our students is far more important than the the things came on on the uniform so first question I asked is the information I have correct and second how much money would be you left on the table probably if you decided change the name Warrior uh and made that public you'd probably get a budget with an increase and you s the passion that the local local resid have that name but I just think looking at the kinds of cuts you have to make any income Services you get so so dick I can't I can't answer that question tonight because it's not it's not on our agenda although you've tied it to money that we can possibly receive I don't know the answer to that so let me let me find it out for you and I won't leave you hanging I'll try to get you an answer okay I just I just think it's importantly you you show the people go to any exem you can even though it might be that question that there's not a lot of money that's available from the mo hean Grant uh especially to towns the further you go outside of um you know that area but I'll get you the answer I mean Mr Bush said $40,000 for monitors and cost if it's 20,000 that's that's have to cost a month or so I think I think it's something that sure you've got to show that you no Rock goes ont you got to go thank you thank you thank you for your comments anybody else like to speak public for drive I guess I'm a little perplexed by this meeting all my years in the town I don't think I've ever seen seen the Board of Ed meet on a special meeting within days of a referendum um I think this is an advocacy position and this board was warned at the last Board of Finance meeting to avoid doing that and there's a statute that governs this it's 9- 369 ba4 and I'll Rec it for it excepted specifically authorized in this section no expenditure of State Municipal funds shall made the influence any person to vote for approval or disapproval of any such proposal or question otherwise Aid the success or defeat of any such referendum ad can be direct express Hold sign or to be implied and and it's measured by an objective person reasonable person standard and for example mentioning class that's been considered by the state elections enforcement commission as adoc in terms of a referendum um so again I don't understand the purpose of this meeting the tone tener of it suggest it's nothing but advy relating to the budget and the referendum that's next Tuesday and that's all I have to say thank you anybody else so we'll go online John anybody online would like to make a comment if you're online and you're interested in making a public comment please use the raised hand button and will be promoted to speak not seeing any at this [Music] time okay I'm going to close Public public forum and um I I'll leave the board with this that um as individuals you can go out and say whatever you want about this budget you're free to do that we check the town attorney um we cannot use any board resources this was a sanctioned meeting checked with Town attorney who said that uh it's within board's pre purview we've gotten Cuts we've gotten $200,000 in Cuts uh for us to be able to discuss that so I'm comfortable with that we are not using any board uh we are not using any Town services and or uh resources so I would I would Advocate though for each one of you as as residents of this town as tax pay to go out and talk about it the way your heart tells you to talk about it and I think I I think we're all in unison on that um from what I heard tonight so uh we will meet again on the 14th referendum is on the 7th I'll take a motion for joury Erica second thank you Russell any discussion all those in favor I thank you Kim okay this meeting's thank you for coming ladies appreciate it thanks for very much

chesher High School showcase meeting to order I get to do that uh Mr jinsky can you uh take the roll call please thank you could we all stand for the pledge please I pledge leave States thank you I'm going to Pivot to uh Dr Solen for the student recognitions thank you Dr herrian good evening everybody thank you for that warm welcome um it's okay this evening we are excited to share a variety of things that are going on at chesher High School uh I'm momentarily I'll invite Dr G up because we have some special recognitions this evening before we roll into our overview of What's called the Alice protocol it's a new response system we have for um dealing with crisis situations and so without further Ado please welcome welcome CHS principal Dr Mary [Applause] G thank you Dr solone thank you so much for coming and for giving us this opportunity to present a few uh achievements with you and then to talk about Alice so I just wanted to share a few highlights for from the 2023 24 school year uh in November of 23 we were awarded the school of Distinction by the Connecticut State Department of Education for achievement uh we have some faculty recognitions Michelle KUSI who is our director of School counseling uh and also executive director for the Connecticut school counselor Association was appointed to the Bergen commission by the House Majority Leader Jason roas uh that Bergen means it's the be the building educational responsibility with greater Improvement networks commission um Gina curado you may remember her as teacher of the year in 2020 she was selected from over 1,800 teachers of Yukon in instructor award for excellence and course instruction in her ECE college experience Spanish class Julie Barker was similarly honored as a silver jubilee recipient so 25 years teaching uh ECE physics at the high school and Donna Carbone one of our English teachers published her second novel of lies and honey her first novel all that is sacred won the 2023 American fiction award for inspirational fiction the 2023 literary Global book award for women's fiction the 2023 Firebird book award first place for inspirational fiction and friendship fiction and her new book of lies and honey already won the 2024 Firebird book award first place for women's issues so Donna Carbone is actually teaching creative writing to our students so we have a sitting author award-winning author teaching our kids that's pretty amazing um just some academic highlights we have two National Merit Scholarship finalists seven students named National Merit scholar command ended for the class of 2024 39 AP Scholars 21 of whom have honor or distinction and you've heard from our national results of our national German exam before but three we had three gold Awards um and three Silver Six bronze so a few more highlights from our service clubs um our business department has sent students to uh FBLA and deca competitions and you can see behind me the the numerous awards that the students have won placing third first for startups business plans and accounting our music students went to cmea uh and and had fabulous experiences and just one last piece um each year we host leadership conferences we have had a high school leader student leadership conference for the past 12 years and actually Jeff really was responsible for that and supporting that process getting off the ground when it began um and we have we've been running a middle school and Elementary School Conference and this year we had over 500 students from 20 different schools from across Connecticut uh come to the high school and work through leadership challenges and hear from panelists and work with our students but most importantly it's all student Le 100% student Le they're amazing and finally last but not least some athletic achievements and you may notice a collection of young men over here uh we've had a three national Signing days 2 students committed to playing Collegiate Sports at the high school uh and there were eight division one programs that students accepted their placements uh so just two examples yell in the Coast Guard Academy our girls volleyball and cross country are 2023 SEC Champions indor girls track and boys ice hockey 2024 SEC Champions and even though I bar there it is I can't you know we have our boys ice hockey team 2024 state champions and I'd like to ask Mr John Paris to come up and say a few words about our amazing team thank you Dr dad um so I am very proud to uh present to our board tonight our boys ice hockey team uh it was obviously a very special season for the team they celebrated the 50th season uh in program history during their their run this this year they uh have accomplished quite a bit on the team was the southern Connecticut conference Player of the Year our team was coached by the southern Connecticut conference coach of the year um we also have the C State player of the year on our team so that was the number one player in the state um and then as a team uh this team accumulated the best record uh in most wins in program history with a record of 24 one and one and as the slide says they were Southern Connecticut Conference champions in division 2 state champions all the information that I shared with you about the team if you follow our Sports programs on Twitter or in the newspapers uh you would know and and we're very proud of those accomplishments but what I want to assure our board is that we can be very proud of this team for their accomplishments off the ice uh the first interaction I had with our hockey team began early in March this year as I walked in our East gymnasium and I saw the boys hand inand with our best buddies club and the boys ran a clinic with the best buddies and celebrated inclusion and students of all ability levels in athletics that's something they did on their own time the smiles on all the kids' faces uh was remarkable and it it is a day that I am as proud proud of as the day that I got to see them accept their trophy for their state championship throughout their season as well they continued the theme of inclusion celebrating a best Buddy's night uh so their parents were heavily involved in decorating around the arena with purple balloons and inviting our best buddies to come out to the ice and have a ceremonial puck drop and then also among the team five students were recognized as uh SEC scholar athletes meaning they had to carry over a 3.66 GPA and I think the rest of them fell just short with a 3.65 right boys so um quite an accomplished group on the ice but also off the ice we are very proud of them so gentlemen at this time I I would like you to uh come up and and get to be recognized by the board [Applause] pictur St there you [Applause] all right at this time I'd like to welcome back up Dr Gad for the remainder of our showcase thank you Mr Pary Applause to you they're amazing kids and I think what really stands out to me and what I was thinking about um as I was thinking through our presentation to share some heavy information with you about Alice um I really wanted you to know the the power of our school culture and we really are interdependent and connected and that is what drives everything that we think about when we think about our primary responsibility which is keeping our kids safe and it's in that context caring about these kids so much seeing them grow oh my God the growth they make from grade nine all the way to this this their senior year is remarkable and so that's that's the the the place from which we come and think about safety and it's this deep sense of caring and preserving this amazing community and we were just talking briefly uh when the kids came in about how supportive the community has been to them but to all of our teams to all of our students when they succeed when they fundraise it's powerful so to start talking about safety I want to give you a little bit of uh context about some things you may know and you may not know about this school although if you have come and walked the length of it you know how big it is so we have you know our roughly 1,200 students are actually formally assigned to at least eight teachers or staff members each semester and one advisor or one school counselor students move between at least four to six locations every day between four to six adults in a formal or even informal setting our kids engage in multiple extracurricular activities and that's critical because that further extends their adult network and we have over 200 adults employed at the high school including six Hall monitors and our school resource officer officer Mike Khan um there are three floors at the high school so navigation is interesting uh there are more than 130 separate classrooms offices spaces including this Auditorium and two gymnasiums but there's also a comprehensive camera system in all of our hallways throughout outside the school covering doors interior doors exterior doors parking lots and Fields So within that big picture uh we have routine daily and monthly security practices for safety and for social and emotional learning at the high school first and foremost we care about our kids and we get to know them and build trusting relationships and that's primary uh we've been teaching team mental health as you know first aid for the past two years to all of our grad 10 students uh teachers have also over 60% of our staff have been trained in youth Mental Health First Aid we monitor our entrances and exits physically and with cameras halls and grounds are we we do Hall and ground uh sweeps daily indoor and out uh Mike KH gets his steps in every day uh we take attendance every period to further accountability we monitor cameras throughout the day we have a course like everyone else does our routine monthly drill s district and school security teams visitor monitoring system but also that active School counseling support that is an incredible tool to make sure we know how are the kids doing who might be in trouble what's what's happening with our students um another critical feature behind our Safety and Security practices is of course adult training and that's not just here it's districtwide um there's required annual online training modules that support us in identifying and responding to Social and emotional concerns uh and also our modules include Alice training and every single adult in this building in every building has been trained in a very active training for Alice so learning about what all of that means and how you develop the skills to respond in a non-routine moment a non-routine threat and new new employees also are trained in this active response so what is Alice and you may know this acronym it stands for alert put it in this context if you hear something say something lock down stay where you are only if evacuation is not possible and Harden that location inform very critical when we talk about inform and this is something we'll highlight with the students you want to give the most specific information you can to emergency Personnel or to adults counter these are actions that you'll hear about in the video that we're going to show our students it's critical for us and for them to know that that is only and thought about as an absolute Last Resort it's not something we're going to train the kids in uh and evacuate obviously get to a safe location that is the most important one if you can go go so what do adults know and do in an emergency it's really about teaching awareness and active response in the face of an emergency so all of our training has been focused on how do you recognize a threat and then the the absolute limits of a traditional lockdown in the past students were taught get in a corner get out of sight huddle together now they're taught spread out in the room think about if you can't leave the room how do you lock the door how do you barricade it you know what can you do in that in that moment um and again evacuation is the most important is the most important step if you can get out so really this is about decision making and helping our students to understand how their teachers have been trained in making those decisions so that they know they can rely on the adult in the room in the event of an emergency so how are we going to inform our students about Alice and how did we develop the plan um we met with Jeff and I and um officer Khan uh Mike Woods officer Rivera met with two student separate student groups and shared with them script that had been previously vetted with um teachers of the year across every single grade level to make sure that the language in that in in that script was really pertinent for young people and then we brought it to our high schoolers and worked through it with them got their feedback about what they were hearing how it was delivered and talked through our plans to develop a video and how would we want to conduct inperson SE to inform our students about all this information so our kids were really clear they said we can we do small groups if you put us in an auditorium with 300 other people it's going to get lost so can we figure out a way to do it in smaller groups that's been logistically interesting but done um they also want to be able to have discussion but knowing that this can be complex we're when we send the letter to parents tomorrow uh we will offer them an opt out as well well so students don't have to do this if and we will also take into deep consideration any of our students who may be really upset or concerned by this kind of of information right now it's information uh what we'll do is we'll show the video that you will see shortly and then students will be able to ask questions and present in the room will be an administrator um a a a pup Personnel Services professional and also an officer so that they'll have support across Ross all of those domains and the kids the kids were really uh really vocal about can we please have a police officer it's really important we thank for everyone to see that our our cheser police are with us so we're doing that and three of our officers are here with us right now I'd just like to introduce them before we go into the video uh and these officers have also worked with us and helped to train uh we have if you want to stand we have officer Khan who is our high school school resource officer give wave officer Rivera he is our middle school resource officer and Officer Steve lespier and he is another person who is he's not a school resource officer but he's one of the trainers that we've worked with over the years so we're going to show you the slideshow of the video and then uh share a little bit more [Music] hi I'm superintendent of schools Dr Jeff Solen I'm joined today by chesher high school principal Dr Mary Gad and chesher chief of police Mr Neil D this video addresses a serious topic school safety throughout your time in Treasure Public Schools you have had many drills including fire drills evacuations lockdowns and storm emergencies today we're going to discuss a different way of thinking about safety drills this video is not necessarily intended to train students and what to do in every situation but to inform you about the changes we're making in how we respond to each emergency situation previous lockdown trainings have asked participants to gather in a corner away from the doors and windows law enforcement agencies are now recommending that we train in a different way today you will learn about the other options and actions your teachers have been trained to take to keep us safe at CHS over the past 5 years at chesher Public Schools staff have been trained in how to identify communicate about and respond to emergency events that training is called Alice Alice is an acronym that stands for alert lock down inform counter and evacuate think of this acronym as a menu of options that you your teacher or your classmates can choose from they're not presented in the order in which you should respond these options which you will hear more about shortly are skilled skills for all of us to use in school but could also be applied to any situation where there are concerns about safety these are not just School skills they are life skills while it is unfortunate that we're in the position to have to educate you all about this topic we know that you should be prepared to respond in schools commercial settings and workplace settings having multiple options helps us to protect ourselves and thus increases our safety these options help us to provide First Responders and our school Community with accurate information and they Empower us to respond in a manner that will keep us safer we must reiterate that we have trained teachers administrators instructional assistants secretaries custodians bus drivers nurses and Hall monitors every adult that works in the school system and in any emergency situation the adult in charge knows the variety of ways to respond of course there are situations in school and life where there isn't an adult available in those cases you will now have more information if you need to respond this information is designed to help all of us make the safest decision let's review the five options our own senses play a huge role in our response to emergency if we hear loud noises that are not the norm or we hear more familiar noises like broken glass that we would not typically hear at school we should take in what what is going on and act in a manner that will keep us safe if you hear loud noises or see things that are not typical in school you should move away from that sound or visual to get to a safe location and it is important to let an adult know it is important to stay alert to your surroundings we have all experienced lockdown drills since elementary school where the class would close the door and move to a corner out of sight regardless of what was happening the Alex strategy calls for a different set of actions if we have information that there was Danger on campus that is not near our location you should evacuate the building in a direction away from the crisis until you reach a safe location if we are aware of danger close to our classroom and evacuation through the door is not possible rather than lock down by hiding Alice teaches us to lock down our room by creating a barricade changing our action during a lockdown allows us to better prevent access to the room by utilizing furniture and other objects in the classroom to barricade the doors we will no longer Gather in one common area of the room but rather spread around the room we can also use objects to put between us and the source of danger it is vital that we inform others including our First Responders when it is safe to do so about what we hear and the direction we hear it coming from or what we see and details like where when what and who we inform if and when we have Vital Information if we have the ability to provide details in locations of where an incident noise or concern is occurring we should do so if you hear something or see something concerning tell your teacher or the nearest adult you also have permission to utilize your cell phone to call 911 to better inform police and crisis response teams the counter option is the only letter in the acronym that we should never consider unless it's an absolute necessity countering is intended to confuse distract and limit the progress of a threatening individual countering can involve throwing objects who yelling making loud noises and remaining in motion May distract the person who is a threat the option is not something you're prepared for or rather you respond to in the moment it is a lash Resort the safest response is to move away from the crisis as quickly as possible based upon your alert reaction or information provided by others we know there is a threat and we have determined that the crisis is a distance away it is recommended that we Evacuate the premises to find a safe place safe locations near CHS might might be bartand park or the stadium area even after we've evacuated we all should remain alert and listen for directions if you have important information such as injuries or knowledge of individuals involved you should also contact your family to make them aware of your status but please do not encourage vehicles to come to the school as they may only make it more difficult for First Responders as you can see from these options our response to crisis or emergency situations is very different from our previous training we will still have fire drills and practice evacuating the school in an orderly manner we will continue to listen to adults if they are given directions but now both students and staff will act together using Alice options in order to make our school safer in a crisis ask me anything I've been trained I've been trained in Alice I've been trained in Alice ask me anything I've been trained I've been trained ask me anything I've been trained in Alice I've been trained ask me anything I've been trained in Alice ask me anything I've been trained in Alice ask me anything I've been trained I've been trained in Alice I've been trained in Alice I've been trained ask me anything we've been trained in [Music] Alice thanks so our students will see that video and then we'll have time to talk with them about any questions um when we meet in small groups something that the student groups that we vetted all of this through and worked with wanted us to be sure that we talk through what a barricade could look like that teachers know that there are tools in the room that they can use to to make the door difficult to open uh we have new locking systems that prevent people from being able to open them from the outside we want to talk through what does it mean to inform what does that actually look like how how might that look and that's something that when we get into training um when we get into actually doing uh Alice drills we'll run through what we call a tabletop exercise where we take small groups and offer a scenario and then work through what the decisions are that the group would make and we'll do some of those small steps and then move to training the larger the larger population but it's important to talk through what would I do when I inform can I use my cell phone yes of course you can you know what don't don't not don't avoid sharing something because you think it might be wrong share it um and then again reiterating that countering is a last resort we are not going to be training our kids in counter measures um but letting them know that you can of course throw things at someone you you know but the biggest point is to get away so those are really our our next steps um and now if you have any questions I'm happy to answer them pardon me because I and because I've been trying to ask me anything that's a great question so um Adam asked would we be training the kids to go to either the field or to the park we're telling them where specific locations are but the nature of this is if there's an intruder in the back of the building you've got to make a decision we don't want you to go in the back because that's where the Intruder is so it's really not a specific everybody if there's a problem you're going to go here these are the areas where you can go if you end up there what do you do and that's some of the process that we're going to want to go through with our kids so the schol am yes they are we don't want to say to kids go through a window yes was going to say this might be a record they manually push it there's a button right there but we tell them all to keep their door typically what teachers do and it's a pain in the neck when you're trying to come in and visit but they typically keep their doors in a locked position all the time yeah yeah okay thank you very much thank you for that Dr G that concludes our CHS showcase this evening and um I am here to inform the board that we are going to um do I need a motion I'm looking for a motion to go into executive session uh to discuss the superintendent's evaluation it will include the board and the superintendent Mr White second Mr per J second thank you very much um all in favor then we will be moving into executive session and with no action to follow so have a good

e to the flag of United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you roll call Maria oara present Rick Ry here Gary Ary Amanda Buchanan here Dennis Bender um Kylie do we have any public comments pertaining to Clos session we do not thank you um we are going to go into close session to discuss the following conference on litigation government code section 54956.9 subsection a current litigation cases cvds 190 21183 and 20 22956 Civ SB 22186 76 22270 23 2304 865 231 4073 and 232 2171 government code section 5 49545 subsection C and 54956.9 subsection D subsection 2 and subsection e subsection one anticipated litigation 1 case 2020 2105 government code section 549 54.5 subsection D and 54956 95 anticipated litigation two cases clment Azor hotel and suit clment gon calib Abdel Amaya number two Public Employee dis discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave title certificated and classified employees number three Public Employee appointment resignation retirement reduction title certific certificated and classified employees number four conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Dustin Conrad employee organization Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association number five conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Dustin Conrad employee organization California School Employees Association conference with real property NE negotiator government code 54956 eight negotiating parties Matthew schenberg Apple Valley Unified School schools uh number seven security matters government code section 54957 consultation with Apple Valley Unified School District chief of police number eight superintendent evaluation I ask for a motion to go into close session all in favor any opposed thank you we'll be back in at about 7:00 e e e four we're calling the meeting to order roll call Maria okara I am here Rick Ry I'm here Gary Ary here Amanda Buchanan here Dennis Bender here um so happy Sophia will you please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance your your begin IED Al to the flag of the United States of America to the stand One Nation God indiv andice thank you so much thank you sopia good evening everyone and thank you for being here before we get started I would like to say that the board appreciates and supports our educational Partners input at our meetings engagement by members of the public and Civic matters is the Cornerstone of our democracy everyone should have a chance to express their opinions within their guidelines the board has established for it meetings so that we are able to conduct and the meeting effectively and efficiently during the meeting there will be time for the public to comment on matter not on the agenda in addition members of the public May comment on specific agenda items after I as your board president ask for public comment comments on an item until it is your turn to speak or if you are here just to observe the meeting please refrain from any behavior that prevents others from participating in the meeting or that disrupts the board's ability to conduct the business of the board once again thank you very much for taking your time to join us this evening and to be a participant in this duty of serving our students and our educational Community it is such a pleasure to see all of you here today um on our May board meeting uh student Representatives High Desert Premier Academy ishmail Solis [Applause] wait can can the mic hear me yeah yes okay okay I just wanted to make sure last time it was messed up when I came up but uh good evening president okara board members superintendent Nelson and executive cabinet I have a few announcements and then I would like to show you a video that our multimedia classes work on for staff Appreciation Week first spirit week was a hit the staff versus students kickball game ended with a tie 11 to 11 but everyone still had a fun time second last Thursday candidates for the state Civ of Civic engagement presented their portfolios of five judges to the district office among these judges were are Mayor Scott nassiff and council member karee Leon hdpa is thrilled to announce that one of our 11th GR graders Moses Aras I hope I said that right met the criteria and has earned the state seill it is the first time a student has ever achieved such a high honor from our school site we are so enor enormously proud of him and last I wanted to give a shout out to all of our teachers and teacher for teacher appreciation week this video is for you guys I hope you enjoy it [Music] maybe you miss penon I would say Mr baitman Mr baitman for sure miss Neo for sure probably uh Mr Smith uh Miss panon she's like a mom to me whenever I need somebody she's always there for me she she always asks me like you know how I'm doing you know just Mak me feel welcome me and him just have a you know good connection he's always making sure I'm caught up always pushing people to graduate uh me and him have a really good connection uh when ever I see him in class I always have to say what's up to him probably stay focused stay focus on what you want you know what I'm saying if you really want something you're going to get there which is graduating and I got there I've had some really good tools on how to keep my anger in check manage your time good you don't have a lot of time in school or to do things so just get get your school work done and enjoy yourself after to be more extroverted I feel like it will get me more far in life just keep pushing keep trying to stay focused and just put in 100% effort uh probably more like school activities like uh like that student staff game that we did today I think we should do those like you know every month that would be cool for even the people that come after I think they should have more eles here more bonding exercises like more uh gam with the St or just more games in class that we can do to get to know each other better and bond more elective classes um just in fields that kids are looking for like music engineering um nursing classes things like that uh I would say more activities with just students and staff kind of how we did today as well just everyone getting together just creates more of a bond I'm a kinesthetic learner I'm more of a visual learner when I'm comfortable around people I can be very outgoing and Loud I'm not a very good uh conversation starter so if I ever do need help I'm probably not going to be the one to go up and ask plan to go in the army that's something I work well when I'm like in person like really have to physically like you know you have to help me that I'm a very slow learner that it takes me a really long time to get stuff down so it may take me a really long time to understand what they're [Music] [Applause] teach that video was good right all right well I hope you guys enjoyed it but uh thank you everyone and I will see you in two weeks to introduce the new speaker have a great night everybody thank you so much that was wonderful rer Hills High School's Hannah for good evening executive cabinet board members and attendees my name is Hannah for and I'm the junior class president at Granite Hills I have a wonderful update for you all tonight first off theater held our production of Mean Girls the musical and I saw quite a few of you there supporting and I hope you enjoyed it we sold 704 tickets total between both weekends and had a record working 163 tickets sold in closing night the cast crew director and music director director and all the booster parents worked extremely hard to make this possible our choir programs participated in their annual tour which took place in Chicago both choirs competed in the world strides competition and incredible our Encore singers won bronze and our chamber singers won gold and we're invited to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York next year this is the second this is the first time in a decade that our choirs won Gold and only the second time in our school history we incredibly proud of their of the students as well as all of their directors and also last weekend our band won second place overall at the music in the parts competition and then got to spend the day at Six Flags last month the skills USAA competitions were held Granite had a total of 35 students compete Grace Davis took home with gold in customer service and will be competing at Nationals over summer we also have three silver lasers in the chapter display and five bronze Blazers Miss hunt one of the skills USA advisers from Granite was chosen as skills USA adviser of the year for California she'll be competing for skills USA adviser of the year at Nationals this summer mdcp awards were also held in April two of our students aan Conrad and Zia Stanford won the mdcp Student of the Year Awards Lan crew is currently getting ready for next school year and to welcome the incoming class of 28 yesterday we held our Mayday event for new leaders and current leaders to get to know each other we look forward to seeing our program continue to grow and change as for ASB last month we held our final and goodbye rally for the class of 2024 it was a tropical vacay and it was our best rally yet as for fors on May 11th at the market of Town's end we have some amazing activities like a character artist billiards table foodall tables air hockey tables and a karaoke station with a live DJ we have a taco track for dinner and mini pancakes for dessert we're planning our senior sunet activities which include a movie snacks and a senior sign out video we have gr night coming up very soon on May 23rd which the senior class is very excited for this year gr night is at Universal Studios and it includes 12 hours of fun the last thing we have for the year is graduation for our senior class ASB is working very hard to make this as memorable as possible for all of them ASB is also working very hard to get ready for next school year we currently have our officers chosen for the 24 25 school year and next school year will be Granite Hills 25th year anniversary this is our silver year we are currently working with our graphic design class to make a 25th anniversary Shield that we can incorporate into all designs logos Etc ASB has had an incredible year under leadership from our new teacher Mrs Kelly ASP would not be the same without her the amount that we have accomplished an increased in school spirit that we have seen throughout the year has been absolutely incredible as for athletics softball won DSL for the first time in school history going 10 to2 in League records they have their home CIF playoff game tonight and they're hoping for a very long CIF Run Baseball won eight games they're a young group and we're very excited to see how they will continue to grow in the next years swim was third in DSL with a few League championships Coming Out Boys golf tip for first and have League finals tonight so make sure that they get wish luck I think it already happened I don't know happen we'll find out our tack team had 10 students placed as DSL Champions and we have 18 going to CIF individuals in a few weeks boy tennis is second and have their playoff game next week Aaron po Eric poter won the league championship for the fourth year in a row undefeated in his school history at Granite our comp cheer team just closed out their season they took home two first place wins in the High School El Elite Advanced division at their last comp they placed first and stuns tumbling and jumps overall Athletics has had an incredible year with six League titles and 10 second place finishers out of 23 programs that's all for tonight but I look forward to the May 16th meeting we're I'll introduce next year speaker thank you for your continued support of Granite Hills and as always M and gray lead the way thank you Hannah Apple Val High School sopia [Applause] Brandt good evening members of the board and attendees my name is Sophia Brandt and I'm the Apple valy High School School Associated student body line president tonight I'll be sharing with you what our students and staff have been up to as well as some of our goals for the upcoming month the last month and the school year to start I'm extremely excited to report that our CTA students come back came back with a total of 61 skills USA medals 19 bronze 21 silver and 21 gold those gold medalists were number one in the state and 18 of them will be representing California at the National Conference this July in Atlanta Georgia two of our Sund doubles also plac top three for skills USA pin and t-shirt designs our students competed in a variety of disciplines like patient care arts media entertainment mechanics software and systems development construction Food Services and Hospitality Sports Med and more we are always so proud of our results at skills and this year was no different we're wishing all of those who advanced to Nationals the best of luck through the MK program some of our senior students were given the opportunity to participate in the vbc EMT training program at their training facility to earn course certification to accelerate their Journeys to becoming professional EMTs we also had a 79.3 pass rate for the students that took their medical assisting license test which allows them to attain a job in the medical field right after graduation if they so wish in terms of Athletics sels are excelling every single one of our spring Sports is advancing is advancing to the first round of CIF playoffs The Varsity softball team won their wild card game and one of our very own ASB sophomores Jolene cavero Advanced to the finals in the 200 IM for swim varsity baseball will be playing today and Golf and Tennis are also competing good luck to all of our senal athletes last weekend ASB held our prom at the LA Zoo and it was a great time we got to meet Billy the elephant eat a delicious dinner play Arcade games ride the carousel take pictures and of course dance to the great music from the DJ it's going to be a hard one to top next year for the class of 2024 we have a bunch of exciting events coming up such as one tomorrow which I don't think I'm supposed to tell you but it seems ditch day you didn't hear it from me we're all going to be sick tomorrow um and then we also have senior Awards senior Sunset graduation and grad night at Six Flags and as a senior myself I'm super excited for all of those events but most of all graduation today was our Renaissance field day to celebrate students who have excelled academically with a 3.75 GPA and above and had less than 10 merits we had food trucks Inflatables and music which served as a relaxing and fun day before AP testing starts for the next two weeks we've been working hard to study and review for the upcoming exams and I'm confident that we will pass and gain college credit while still in high school I'm looking forward to next uh no the next two weeks meeting where I get to introduce the next line president who will be speaking to you for the 2025 school year and as always there are so many amazing things happening at Apple Valley high school and I want to thank you all for your continued support we couldn't give our students any of these incredible opportunities without you thank you for your time thank you so much board comments Mr Bender first it's good to be back yeah first of all it's good to be back in 30 days all you seniors will be graduated and part of the American Workforce good luck Miss Amanda Buchanan uh thank you I don't have any comments Gary Ry I just want to uh congratulate all the students who participated at at Phoenix Academy in their talent show uh was again it was a a tremendous success this year the the students performed a wide variety of song and dances really kind of showcased their talent it was it was a pleasure to be there I was especially uh impressed by the talent of some of the staff members some of the teachers who also gave performances so so great job to everyone at Phoenix also want to compliment Mrs glissen and and the theatrical team at Granite Hills High School for uh their outstanding performance of Mean Girls all the students the performers like Hannah and the the backstage crew the technical true crew did a a tremendous job working together as a team and and really put on a tremendously entertaining performance so just want to congratulate them and then as both Sofia and Hannah mentioned also want to commend all the students and our staff members uh at our high schools for another incredibly successful year in Career and Technical instruction uh as Hannah and Sofia mentioned at the recent Mountain Desert career Pathways award ceremony many of our students were recognized for their outstanding achievement from Granite Hills High School Aiden Conrad um Zariah Sanford Chris Palmore were recognized at Apple Valley High School Jacob La ler was recognized and several of our students received $4,000 scholarships Arman deep Gil Autumn wear Cooper Moreno all of them were awarded $44,000 scholarship so congratulations to them and the CTE staff and their parents who who work so hard on that and at those same award ceremonies a number of our staff members were also recognize so I want to congratulate Cindy kungle who received the profound impact award as the Director of our fiscal Services I want to congratulate the food service and Hospitality Department Apple Valley High School they earn pathway of the year and joshh Reed at Apple Valley High School in the construction pathway got teacher of the year so our our district was was extremely well represented uh in in these competitions and I just want to congratulate all the the staff members and the students who work so hard and uh as always you you you always make us so proud and we're we're excited about what's going on and we can't see can't wait to see what happens uh next year thank you very much Mr Raley thank you I first like to uh welcome uh Dennis back um it's good to have everybody here healthy on track and I just I think we have one more meeting before graduation and I wanted just to thank the speakers that we see from granite and from um High Desert Premiere and from Apple Valley High every year uh you guys really all everybody that gets up here and speaks really stands out it's I'm interested to hear what your plans are so maybe by next meeting I think we're going to have a presentation so be prepared I want to hear you know I'm going to college or I'm gonna do this because uh you guys you guys really stand out so GNA appreciate that so be prepared let us know where you're going thank you that's all I well I'm going to make mine a little brief uh thank you so much for coming to uh see us today and especially especially for the retirees uh many of you have been long-standing friends and colleagues of mine uh Through The Years in this school district and to see you uh moving forward and retiring with such Grace I can't wait um to hang out with you uh after you uh finally get out of here and then we'll start to do other things and thank you so much to all the students and especially to all the teachers and administrators and the staff that helped you to get to where you are today thank you so much uh superintendent comment since our last meeting I had the privilege to attend several district county and state events um student events always a highlight is skills USA and I'm not GNA um spend a lot of time on that tonight but I loved standing out watching our construction trade group um compete and they took their first gold ever and that goes without um recognition of some support from the background of some of our um plumbers um trades within the district um Mr Reese asked them to come check out some things a few weeks before they went to skills the guys went over gave the kids some feedback and um I've heard that there was compliments about they couldn't believe how well these students did with the plumbing and how wonderful it was so um this takes Village I know that and so I'm real appreciative of um Matt's team over in um the maintenance and operations Department making sure that that happened and I hope there's more opportunities for our staff that doesn't necessarily interact directly with kids on a regular basis to get to go do that um I attended the California school boards Association and Association of California school administrators Coast to Coast event with three of our board members um we lobed our federal government elected officials to support California schools through funding for special education mental health nutrition services Broadband access and student data privacy and Cy cyber security these are um days where we get to get in with our actual representatives from our area and speak to them about um signing on to bills or to support or decline on bills um we spent a lot of time talking to people about trying to get the funding that is owed to school district that has not hit um even though the federal government has made promises over the years um likewise um we while we were advocating for our students we know that the Apple Valley high school and Granite Hills High School special ed Department held a prom for um their students their special education dance we did not get to attend that but I was so thankful that the teachers um took videos and sent them our way so that we could check out the fun that the students all had um this has um been an annual event and I know they'll continue doing it um High Desert Premiere um superintendent advisory students um main focus for their school year I've mentioned this at other meetings was about building bonds and relationships and you heard Ishmael talk about the Kickball event I got to go there for just a brief period of time while they were playing that event and all of the students were gathered outside um cheering people on and um doing exactly what their desire was is to have some um culture building on the campus and so I commend them for making that happen and I look forward to seeing the future events and then missar and I and cabinet members attended um something called the snack siiz state of the Town um at the sing Center for the Arts formerly known as the AMC theater they've spent some time in the theater um building a stage with some plans to um have our students have access to that stage um for expanding the Theater Arts within this community um that entire presentation for the most part was highlights of our students and what they do in the in the theater arts and so it was really impressive to be there in the audience um and watch that and we look forward to seeing how that relationship continues to Blossom and so be watching for that as community members um and and support it if you have the opportunity um I left there it must have been the week of the Arts because I left there and went over to Apple Valley High School's um Annual Arts Festival um covers all of the Arts it was lovely and then later that week I was able to attend Mean Girls as well and had just the best time I those kids really worked hard and it showed what a great musical it was um then we did have several County um convenience we had one of the Community Schools collaboration Mrs taures Mrs White and Mr Smith and I um received some information that will help us continue to move toward applying for that Grant and then um it's been all over the press but Isabella go go Guzman from Apple Valley High School when it's a gas to go to class um car she's a freshman not old enough to drive but um it was really cool to be there and to see that happen so um they will we're hoping they'll continue that um with a perfect attendance students being able to get a key and um try that out so um San berardino performing art showcase um our Granite chamber singers were there it was lovely um as well as some other amazing talent across our County um I also attended the mdcp gala I had to go up on stage to take Miss um kung's award even though I wasn't really thrilled about doing that because Miss kungle is the one that deserves the award um so I pulled all of our staff out to the quad the next day and made her receive her award in front of all of her peers and it was um wonderful that she was recognized the way she was um also attended the Multicultural recognition 37th annual County um recognition where they um highlight kids that are able to speak dual languages and um recognize that that's a a huge thing in our community and and in our country to be able to speak two languages and then on Friday we had International Day of the child there's a a sign at the back that the syamore Rocks team um has left for us which we absolutely love handprints of the students that were here in attendance and if you haven't been watch for it next year it's an a major event here at the district property it takes a lot of planning and Marana Tes and her team just knock it out of the park um and then this week um distinguished Service Awards on Monday night with missar at the county level and um it's always wonderful to recognize staff and I think they do that all around May because it's staff appreciation month and so um you'll be seeing things across our district about staff and and appreciating them especially our retirees tonight thank you thank you California School Employees Association CA Nicholas Garrett he's not here app Val unified Teachers Association Ava Karen Sabers good okay good evening superintendent Nelson esteemed board members cabinet members and audience Auda is thrilled to announce the successful completion of our first week of certificated appreciation luncheons it's been thoroughly enjoyable to connect with our certificated staff at the schools and engage in meaningful conversations these lunch will be ongoing for over the next two weeks ensuring that we reach out to everyone I must give a shout out Taha Taco for the delicious food and El po El poo Loco for the churos additionally I'm pleased to share that we are well over halfway through our listening tour this tour holds immense sign significance for our negotiating team and executive board as we strive to hear and understand the voices and needs of our members in preparation for our upcoming full contract negotiations next January notably this marks the first time in Auda history that our negotiating team and exec board have made it a priority to visit every school we will conclude the listening tour with a final meeting in the MPR on May 23rd for those who couldn't attend their School site meetings this past Tuesday we convened for ratification meeting for the memorandums of understanding and I'm proud to announce that they were unanimously passed the dedication and collaboration displayed by our negotiating team throughout the sessions were commendable notably we achieved a significant Milestone another first in Auda history by incorporating class-size language into our contract however it was disheartening to hear the proposal during Tuesday's board meeting suggesting an increase in k3d K through third grade to 31:1 potentially leading to sta staff reductions despite our efforts and negotiations nonetheless we are deeply engaged in the inter interest based bargaining process and find it rewarding Auda continued its tradition by participating in the district's International Children's Day by Distributing books to students of all ages reinforcing our commitment to both education and community service last week I had the privilege of attending the final Community Schools cohort training for our first year where our cohort showcased our progress to others and received valuable feedback on May 18th I also have the privilege of recognizing seven of our members for their exceptional dedication and involvement in Auda at the annual CTA Awards as we approach the end of the year the exec board will dedicate a week weekend to preparing for the upcoming year while I will be will advocate for Education alongside other presidents in Sacramento at the end of the month we have ambitious plans to support and Empower our members further in the coming year continuing our journey of growth and solidarity lastly Auda extends our heartful gradu congratulations to all retirees your dedication to education students and our association has made a lasting impact we wish you Abundant Blessings in this new chapter of your lives and look forward to expressing our gratitude with a special gift before the month's end thank you for your unwavering support and commitment have a great evening and solidarity Karen [Applause] thank you so much the clerk will read out any action taken in closed session all right bear with me we've got quite a bit here we were busy uh the first item up is a public appointment resignation release reassignment and the Board of Trustees on a five the vote with a motion by Bender second by RC is to appoint Don Bowman as K8 Elementary principal range 15 at Vanguard so [Applause] welcome item two was conference litigation on a motion by opara second by RC uh the board voted unanimously to accept a pay claim of azural hotel and sweets other items on a motion by opara second by Raleigh the board voted unanimously to deny the claim of calb Abdel Amaya ganton on aition by RC a second by Bender the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to terminate permanent certificated employee 6204 confidence with labor negotiator on motion by Raleigh second by RC Board of Trustees approved the following approved the memorandum and agreement with the alpab Val unified Teachers Association of vuda dated April 1124 regarding Article 13 hours and adjunct duties agreed to 59 2023 specifically Elementary Teachers Conference period and that was on a five vote on a motion by oakar a secondment by Raley the Board of Trustees approved the following unanimously approve the memorandum of understanding with California School Employees Association CA chapter 828 dated March 27 2024 regarding Article 13 professional growth stiens one-time submission window on a motion by oakar as second by RC the Board of Trustees approved the following approve the memorandum of agreement with the alabel unified Teachers Association of UDA dated April 5 to 24 24 regarding Article 13 hours of adjunct duties C Duty year that was on a vote the Board of Trustees approved the following on a motion by Gara second by Arc approved the memorandum of understanding with the alpha Valley Unified Teachers Association dated April 5th 2024 regarding classroom preparation time for 2024 2025 school year and that was on a 5 vote to approve on a motion by okar as second by Raley the Board of Trustees approved the following approved the memorandum of agreement with the alphab Valle unified Teachers Association of vuda dated April 11 2024 regarding article 20 extracurricular positions on a 50 vote to approve the Board of Trustees approved the following on a motion by Bender a second by Ry approved the memorandum of understanding with the alab Val unified Teachers Association dated April 5th 2024 regarding school year Health and Welfare cap that was on a 5 vote to approve approved the the Board of Trustees approved the following on a motion by wukar a second by RC approved the memorandum of agreement with the alpha valy unified Teachers Association of Buddha dated April 11th 2024 regarding article 17 class size and that was on a 5 vote to approve and finally on a motion by Ry a second by bu Canon the Board of Trustees approved the following approve the memorandum of understanding with the California School Employees Association CSEA Chapter 828 dated April 29 2024 regarding school year health and Weare cap and that was on a 50 vote and Madam president that is all that thank you so much as you can see we had a lot to approve right the board May approve the agenda as is or add an or pool items from the consent agenda for discussion and or action may I get a motion all in favor I any opposed okay going to reason we are here recognition and presentation recognize Nancy kinza long and James Cole of the avusd transportation team outstanding representation of District core values if I can have the boore join me in front of the Das and while they're doing that if Nancy and James would come up [Applause] Well everybody's getting lined up to shake hands after I um read this I just want everybody to know that um I think Mr um Conrad walked into my office a little while before the board meeting and caught me wiping my eyes and he's like you okay and I'm like yeah I'm practicing but every time I think of what I'm about to share with people um it's an emotional thing and so I just um it's it's heartfelt what I know happened so in the early morning of April 16th as our bus drivers began their daily routes driver Nancy kinzer long and James Cole wore more than their District transportation shirts you're modeling one right now but they had more that day they most certainly had on superhero capes as they drove West on be Valley Road approaching Navajo they observed a toddler walking in the road dressed in dark clothing Nancy retrieved the child while James blocked traffic with his bus they're big so it can block a lot of lanes Nancy brought the child onto the bus while swinging into action they also had radio contact with their transportation department and our transportation supervisor who's in the back Kim Calvin called 911 I received notification shortly after 6:00 a.m.

president from the Boe Commissioners was myself as chairperson Judith bassford commissioner uh Tanya Suarez commissioner and Anthony Santiago Administration was Janina kusevic assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction Med shahada assistant superintendent of business Heather Rolo director of of special services special education update and program growth by Heather Rolo Miss Rolo began by discussing the success of the recent project UniFi talent show at CHS many woodro Wilson Middle School self-contained students came to CHS to tour their future programs the building and some teachers there is an upcoming poac walk on 5324 come join us the next cpag meeting will be held on 52924 at school 16 at 6: p.m bounce out stigma student and teacher volunteers contact special education at Clifton schools.net if interested we've been attending job fairs looking for new staff for current and future openings the alternate alternate testing dlm started 48 24 and will run for several weeks for students not taking the njla as per their IEP update on Special Olympics increase in students and coaches at wwms upcoming Track event at pcti on 5424 Mr Rolo shared a presentation about state of SE and self-contained classes including class sizes increase in referrals need for staff and space m Rolo and Miss kusevic highlighted increases in complexity of needs since the pandemic referrals have increased from 355 to 669 last year with 401 CS referrals so far this year in 2021 we had 281 SE students with 654 that were in self-contained classes today we have 2,360 SE students with 887 SE self-contained classes nearly every class is completely full to maximums Allowed by idea action informational elll ml program update and growth by Miss kusevic Miss cevich shared more information about our programs for multilingual Learners with specific focus on the ever growing numbers she reviewed the continued growth and unprecedented increase in the number of Ells from 614 in June of 694 October of 2021 to 1,295 with 30 new arrivals in Q to be tested for ESL Services as of today in addition the district has to provide follow-up support to 209 recently exited students who still require support the complexity of student needs keeps growing ml students continue to register on a weekly basis more ml students are coming in needing not just ESL bilingual language support but also significant counseling and instructional needs due to disrupted education violence poverty and displacement action informational njsla by Miss kusal levich she presented information on njsla grades um 3 to1 all grade spans will start testing this the week of April 29 2024 Miss kusevic gave a description of testing format content areas and time allotted for each grade span for language arts math and science test she also shared the schedule modifications made for testing at CHS with a delayed opening for all non- testing students and half days at the middle schools action informational recess Miss kusevic reported the topic of reesus was addressed in the policy committee and is now being reviewed in this committee commissioner Suarez requested that we look at possible expansion of recess in addition to the 20 minute daily recess period students receive 150 minutes weekly of physical education 60 Minutes taught as 23 minute PE periods with the PE teacher and 90 minutes of pe/ movement Incorporated in the classroom transition time between subjects in grade K through 5 frequently allows for a brain break Go Noodle class yoga or other opportunity for movement with increases in Center time and developmentally appropriate play in primary grade students um have an increasing opportunities for independent Choice activities while there is a great deal of research supporting increasing recess time to at least 30 minutes or more there are many other njsls requirements that already overfill the elementary school day the curriculum develop department will explore possible ways to expand reesus while balancing all other mandates a pilot to coordinate longer recess with classroom teachers L PE minutes may be considered action informational adult evening School pilot program presented by Miss kusel levich commissioner bassford requested that we explore opportunities to expand offerings for families parents and the community discussion was held about previous learning opportunities in Clifton in the adult evening School the program had been discontinued prior to the pandemic due to cost overruns ideas to bring the program back in a cost effective manner were discussed courses scheduling participants and funding and the grant opportunities were proposed registration concerns and digital access to books and Technology were addressed the district will explore using existing grant funding for parents such as Title One and title three as well as reaching out to the cea to exploore Pride to explore Pride funds to bring back parent opportunities in-person and virtual sessions were considered as options given the types of funds available at no cost to the taxpayer a pilot adult ESL program will be reinstated in the coming school year action informational meeting ended at 8 15 this report is respectfully submitted by Janina kusich any questions okay thank you Dr Danny um superintendent's report um Mr Paris I will wave my report tonight due to the time uh just take a quick moment to thank Mr shahada assistant superintendent of business for all his hard work on the budget uh he's been Relentless and he's just a great asset to our district I know he's a great asset to all of you and um and thank you to the board regardless of your vote tonight I know that you care you worked uh very very hard I'm learning about budget stuff and and you know you represent the community and you have good reasons for voting the way you do so I I appreciate and I value each and every one of you thank you for asking the questions you asked and thank you to Amed for all of his hard work okay thank you Dr Robert toy um I will uh wait till make my comments along with the rest of my colleagues later um unfinished business I haven't seen any okay uh Dr Rober toi could you please read our expression of condolence sure Mr Paris thank you whereas on April 11th 2024 the community noted with sor the passing of lindita alushi and whereas Miss alushi had served the Clifton Board of Education and the children of Clifton faithfully and conscientiously for 13 years Mr alushi started in 2011 as a substitute power professional in the district and in 2015 she became a part-time paraprofessional in the elementary schools Lind loved working at School 14 and took pride in her students she was more than a coworker she was a friend and a role model to many now therefore be it resolved that let this resolution be forwarded to her bereaved family to serve as an expression of the great Regard in which Miss alushi was held by the Board of Education the Administration Employees and pupils of the Clifton public schools and be it further resolve that the contents of this resolution be noted in their entirety in the official minutes of the Clifton Board of Education for future generations to peruse dated May 2nd 2024 thank you Dr roberi Dr Danny um could you please read our res um resolution for Teacher Appreciation Week yes whereas whereas teachers mold future citizens through guidance and education and whereas teachers encounter students of widely differing backgrounds and whereas our country's future depends upon providing quality education to all students and whereas teachers spend countless hours preparing lessons evaluating progress counseling and coaching students and Performing community service and whereas our community recognizes and supports its teachers in educating the children of this community now therefore be it resolved that the Clifton Board of Education proclaims May 6 2024 to be the teacher appreciation week and be it further resolved that the Clifton Board of Education strongly encourages all members of our community to join with it in personally expressing appreciation to our teachers for their dedication and Devotion to their work thank you Dr Danny you're welcome uh commissioner Suarez could you please read the national uh school nurse day sorry thank you president Paris where our students are the oh yes where students are the future and by investing in them today we are ensuring our world for tomorrow and whereas families deserve to feel confident that their children will be cared for when they are at school and whereas all students have a right to have their physical and mental health needs safely met while in school setting and whereas students today face more complex and life threatening health problems requiring care in school and where as School nurses have served a critical role improving in improving health and ensuring students academic success for more than 120 years and whereas School School nurses address the Home and Community factors such as social determinant that impact students health and whereas School nurses are are professional nurses that Advance the well-being academic success and lifelong achievements of all students by serving on the front lines and providing a critical safety net for our nation's most fragile children and whereas School nurses act as a liaison to the school Community families and Healthcare Providers on behalf of Children's Health by providing well well Ness and improving Health outcomes for our nation's children and whereas School nurses support the health and educational successes of Children and Youth by providing access to care when children's cognitive development is at its peak and whereas School nurses are members of school-based teams whether it's school health services 504 IEP disaster emergency planning providing care coordination to address the school population and whereas School nurses understand the link between health and learning and are in a position to to make a positive difference for children every day therefore be it resolved that the National Association of School nurses celebrates and acknowledges the accomplishments of School nurses everywhere and their efforts to meet the needs of today's students by providing and advocating for Quality student centered care and offers gratitude for the notion excuse me nation's School nurses who contribute to our local communities by supporting students to stay healthy in school safe and ready to learn and keeping parents and Guardians at work work not just on this national school nurse day but in every opportunity throughout the year now therefore be it resolved that the clipton Board of Education encourages all district students and staff to observe Wednesday May 8th 2024 as school nurse day thank you commissioner Suarez uh commissioner bassford can you please read the special education week uh sure resolution thank you president Paris resolve that the Clinton Board of Education accepts the recommendation of the superintendent of schools to recognize special education week in New Jersey from May 12th to May 18th 2024 whereas the njsba theme for this week is diverse Learners Big Dreams whereas we would like to take this opportunity to recognize the achievement of our state's 232,000 students with special needs and the dedicated collaborative work of their teachers School personnel parents and other professional whereas our many teachers child study teams power professionals administrators School professionals Transportation staff and Board of Education provide ongoing support and assistance to our students resolved we in Clifton are the most fortunate to have such amazing staff to help our students with special needs reach their potential and become successful citizens thank you thank you commissioner bassford uh commissioner brunak could you please read our resolution for mental health awareness month thank you Mr President whereas May Mark's Mental Health Awareness Month a Time dedicated to addressing the struggles experienced by millions of Americans deal dealing with mental health conditions whereas since the establishment since its establishment in 1949 mental health awareness month has played a crucial role in combating stigma providing support spreading public public awareness and pushing for policies that prioritize the welfare of those affected by mental illness now there for be it resolved that the Clinton Board of Education recognizes the month of May as mental health awareness month thank you commissioner brunak commission yes forgot about Joe a we didn't bring Joe back in Joe said he wasn't going to Jo oh I apologize he's not want to come back in you couldn't okay uh commissioner siano please read um our resolution on asian-americans and Pacific Islanders month thank you president Paris whereas the people of the United States joined together each May to pay tribute to the contributions of generations of the asian-americans and Pacific Islanders who have enriched the history of this nation and whereas the Asian-American and Pacific Islander Community is an inherently diverse population composed of more than 45 distinct ethnicities and more than 100 language dialects and whereas it is imperative for the good of our nation that schools continue to build awareness and understanding of the contributions made by asian-americans and Pacific Islanders and whereas celebrating Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month provide the students and school Community an opportunity to recognize the achievements contributions and history of and to understand the challenges faced by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and whereas the Clifton Board of Education through its core values and implementation of culturally responsive practices demonstrate our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion within our school division now therefore be it resolve that the Clifton Board of Education officially recognizes the month of May as Asian-American and Pacific Islander heritage month thank you commissioner siano um commissioner Santiago could you please please read our Jewish American Heritage Month resolution yes thank you president Paris whereas May's Jewish American herit Heritage Month established by the United States Congress to recognize a more than three 360 year history of Jewish contributions to American culture and whereas Jewish Americans in the face of unspeakable discrimination and adversity have fought tirelessly to realize the promise of the nation's freedom and continue to teach us empathy and compassion inspired by their parents and grandparents and whereas Jewish Americans have helped bring about enduring progress in every aspect of society shaping our country's character and embodying the values we hold dear and whereas Jewish communities continue to confront hostility and bigotry and whereas determined to confront racism many Jewish Americans found a cause in the civil rights movement in a call for freedom and Justice and whereas we recognize the history of Jewish contributions to American culture which acknowledges the achievements of American Jews in the fields ranging from Sports arts and entertainment to medicine business science government and military service now therefore be resolved that the Clifton School District Board of Education affirms may as Jewish American heritage month thank you commissioner Santiago uh next be looking for a motion for Section B uh items one through 18 motion motion to approve by second by commissioner Santiago discussion Mr President yes like to make a motion to pull policy 2260 and 3211 from ea1 and bring it back to the policy board policy committee excuse me for further review I'll second that okay motion made by commissioner brunak seconded by uh commissioner bassford what numbers were those again please policy 2260 and policy 3211 thank you discussion okay the motion is to um remove 2260 3211 referring it back to policy committee uh Mr shot roll call please so so it's it's still the same number as we we said before it's uh one ea1 EA ea1 right he did just yet so we're vote we are voting on all the other uh items minus those two no no no no we have to vote on the motion to pull okay motion to pull first okay sorry uh Miss bassford yes Mr brunak yes Mr kova here Mr Mia number is again 2260 3211 EA 11 yep EA 11 sorry 11 okay yeah yes yes Mr Santiago yes Mr siano yes Suarez yes vice president Danny yes president Paris yes motion carries now you okay uh so now we'll be looking for a motion to approve uh B1 through 18us 18 minus the two uh policies we just by commissioner brunak second second by commissioner Santiago discussion Mr Shad roll call please miss bassford yes abstaining on 15 Mr brunak yes Mr Mia yes M Santiago yes Miss Jano yes Miss Suarez yes vice president Danny yes president Paris yes motion carries thank you um under section c person Personnel uh looking for a motion to approve items one through oh it's a long one one through 36 I'll move it by commissioner bassford second second by commission Mahia discussion roll call Mr sh M bassford yes subst standing on 32 name only say again I apologize 30 what 32 name only Mr brunc Yes except for p32 abstain on my name only Mr Mia yes abstaining to p32 my name only M Santiago yes abstaining on p29 and p32 my name only M siano yes abstaining on p32 my name only for the Board conference Miss Suarez yes abstaining on p32 my name only vice president Danny yes um abstaining on p32 my name only and president Paris yes obst standing my name only p32 motion carries okay under uh D finance and Facilities uh seeking a motion to approve items 1 through 14 motion motion by commissioner brunak did I miss second second by uh Dr Danny discussion can we have the discussion on eight that you mentioned before the the plaque discussion yes so um it when I asked earlier it seems like the reason we followed this was because past practice it sounds like right so um you know the referendum was 2021 I believe and um if we the you boards since then have approved changes to it um if there's uh something beginning early next year um from from the referendum then that means you know four years later right um so I just think that whether it be this board next year there'll be another board different board um there's work that is being done um again approving changes things like that I'm not saying remove the previous board I'm saying we could add the current board or whatever the board is in the future right I think that it should be that let's say it's next year it should be the current board whatever that is next year and that initial referendum pass board and the reason I say that is because it's done different you know different districts do it have it many different ways some do the original board only which is what this past practice is some do whatever the current board is at the time some do a mix so I'm just proposing that we also put the current board at the time also on the plaque so you have a are you constructing a motion here or motion to amend amend amend this this item eight I'll second it okay how are we amending it that's exactly what I was about to ask yeah I need to write that down motion to amend it to include the current board at the time or do we pull it and discuss it okay in committee this is the resolution okay um we can do either one of thoseo and I had a bit of a discussion on this and there was uh another policy that we had found on online um that that policy was uh the board that approved the referendum was responsible for the referendum passing and then any subsequent boards up to the date of the opening of the facility so in our case it would be like a ribbon cutting so um that would so that then includes in this in the case of uh the Fieldhouse I think that would be three two or three years worth of board members and because that was last year's ribbon cutting and this year's there's um the weight room so that would be up through this board so I don't know yes my question would be because we're doing both the the weight room and the stadium right so we would want to break these out completely or the the weight room and the the Fieldhouse at the at woodro excuse me so you would want two separate plaques or would you like them to be just uniform across the board well if because the ribbet cutting like you said was in what if there's a motion to follow what I just described as what we found from a online from a college U their policy then there would be two different plaques because um the Fieldhouse was dedicated a year ago right so that this current board wouldn't be on that one would be it would be the same other than um would not include this current board members but the weit room would because that was um completed in this this uh board's Year yes I just want to make sure that we don't that when you say policy is there a naming convention by policy no we not have as an aside I was going to say at the very least we need to think about putting in a building naming policy facility naming policy which again other districts have and we've seen other places so do do you want to just send this back at this point so we can craft the policy uh that's in compliance do you want to there's the other policy on the first reading tonight for naming facilities right that's different though right but maybe this could be incor to that so would you like to pull that and then send it back to um facilities or policy I guess that would be a policy and have that yes um I was going to say um similar to what you said when I used to go recruit across the country I used to see different schools that would have you know all the members who were involved for example like you said if it opened up in 2027 then it would be the people from 2020 or 2019 all the way up until 2027 you would list them and honor them saying thank you for these people for being a part of history and making um this happen for our community I think that would probably be the best way to do it that way you know nothing is left um in terms of people who keep approving you know bids or projects that go on you know after us you know well yes commissioner Bak so is there a motion to pull this or is there that's say right now there a motion to amend there a motion to amend it do you want to yeah for for so for specifically the referendum plaque second um oh yeah I'm sorry yeah I would amend this specifically to include our current board so there's two different things going on here there's the motion to amend this particular thing and then there's a a tangential discussion about sending the naming conventions my words only to a policy that Dr Robos indicated there is also a facility naming policy on for first reading that there may be appended to correct so there's two different things happening but the motion on the floor is a motion to amend yeah so why can't we motion to amend this yeah motion to amend this about what we're doing yes motion to amend this so there's a motion to amend to include the current board member correct okay that was that I could understand by you second that's correct okay any discussion on this motion forther discuss yes commissioner B I'm going to vote no because I don't need my name up in writing I think uh spending $155,000 on a plaque is uh we could put it towards a school sign out in front of electronic sign in front of a school uh most of our hsas can't afford them I don't need to see my name glorified for eons to come people know when we're on the board I just think it's I don't know well the the the $15,000 price of the plaque is this current plaque that we're looking at right now don't quote me on that price it's within that range um yes it would be for you know per plaque yeah so I'm just saying the price of the plaque is the price of the plaque and and just for clarification on the person who has to report this to the architect um we're going to add everybody's name so both plaques are going to be identical that's what we want to go with the old board and the new board so I'm going to can add all whoever is missing from this list onto the one that's going on the weight room and the one that's going on to the Fieldhouse amending this yes okay not a problem anyone no no there was already a second I do have a question can I ask you can do whatever you wish you're the board president I'm here over for the ride if we if we uh choose not to do these plaques are we able to get that credit somehow for what whatever's been in the contract I mean is it part of the is there something we can actually red divert to funding somewhere else absolutely but um we are fine with the money in the referendum right now so it this would be half a change order it wouldn't be any significant credit coming back to us in comparison to the grand scheme of the project uh my recommendation would be to go forward with it I think we're our reserves are fine but it's the board's call any other other question yes so so it's so it's one plaque it's two plaques so it's like previous board and then current board next to it it's one plaque with everything on it so one yeah one one for the Fieldhouse one for the because two plaques but one of everything on the thing okay okay I get it now yes okay any any other discussion okay roll call Mr sh on the motion to amend on the yes motion to amend the uh item eight to include the entire current repard Miss bassford no Mr bronc no Mr Mia yes Mr Santiago yes Mr seano yes Miss Warez can I do a neutral I don't want to do a neutral president not voting is about as neutral as you can get um I don't I don't have a strong opinion either either way to be quite if if I must be honest um so I I don't vote am I able to do that you may abstain yes okay I abstain technically the exstension goes with the carrying goes with yeah but okay uh vice president Danny no president Paris I'm going to abstain motion fails motion does not carry now m 3 three it's three yeah yeah but when now now part two of the separate issue was the policy regarding you know naming the facilities we should have a policy straight as opposed to just we're going to go with past PR right history or tradition we should have a policy on this which is what most boards have so to the extent that there's a policy on facility naming um and it's on for first reading tonight you could either and it may have already passed um so you can you can the board president can direct that the policy committee go back and review this and bring forward an amended policy to whatever facility policy that is I don't know the number um that's that's a choice another choice is to make a motion to to pull on first reading what you already approved approved which seems a little bit sloppy to me I think if you just go back and you make an amendment you'll it'll re-trigger a first reading um but that's probably the easiest thing that that you guys can do we fin TI yes you do the motion the motion to amend failed you still have 1 through 14 to vote on but the idea of the policy issue we still need to address item eight okay um so is there a motion to remove item 8 send it back to policy committee motion for review second I'm not making motion so who's making okay commission here and commission s motion to remove number eight any discussion okay uh roll call please Mr Shad Miss bassford is this on eight yes it's a motion to pull to pull to remove remove it to send it back to committee I no no Noe okay yes Mr Brak yes Mr Mahia yes Mr Santiago yes Mr siano yes Miss Suarez yes vice president Danny no president Paris yes I know I'm getting time motion eight is removed say thank you that the budget was not this controversial thank God it was so you're now back to one to 14 minus 8 okay so uh motion to approve 1 through 14 well you technically you had a motion you had Mr brunak and oh then we were in discussion right okay but it's so now you're back to 1 to 14 minus 8 yes okay okay uh Mr shahada roll call please miss bassford yes brunak yes Mr Mahia yes Mr Santiago yes Mr siano I got to stand on F 14 voucher 24501 0819 for the Board conference and Tomahawk promotions 24511 076 due to my business relationship Miss Suarez yes vice president Danny yes president Paris uh yes but abstaining on item thir uh number 13 uh specifically number 5145 motion carries thank you okay so that's what are we up to here okay we're up to we have the board member comments yes can I make a motion to to you know not do board member comments today late of like being late okay I'm my brain is just tired I think as the chair you can simply make that audible if you wish I don't think you necessarily need to deviate from the agenda you just simply not have board comments I have just at very least one little expression of condolence that would like to share so I so we'll go through and uh perhaps it will be be fast fast um so we will start with uh for board member comments let me look my notes Here briefly we are in what month are we in okay may so we start with uh oh commissioner Kenova who's not here so we start with commissioner Santiago oh okay so in the interest of time I just want to sincerely express my condolences to um the Laura family that's um mayor Laura of pic um but also Manny Laura his brother a friend and a very active member of the Clifton Community um they lost suddenly lost their nephew Brian who was actually a Clifton High School graduate and um also a paic police officer and I remember my older son Anthony and him in the talent show at Clifton High School and um we and their other friends and so now we look at that video we kind of cherish that even more so um there aren't words ever that are right I just want to sincerely send my love my prayers to um the entire Laura family and um their friends and um PA PD thank you thank you commissioner Santiago commissioner Mia um thank you president Paris um I first like to thank everyone who came out here to speak um especially um when they brought up one of our services that we recently approved a few months back um about the Kelly Services so I do want to bring that up in new business um also thank you to the board you know doing the right thing um I know it's hard to you know vote for a four % increase um no one wants to do that you know but it's something that we need drastically um all the students coming in all the buildings that are being built which are going to have students um inside our schools even if they don't go to our schools they might go to a charter school or maybe even a private school we still got to give you know something up for them um when it comes to you know the facilities uses about using the track I agree with um what Mr Santiago said we do end up already using that space for people to rent out and use um and there's always liability with it and you know having you know been in Rutherford before um I went to school over there over at Felician University and you know we did get to use the field there were people who used the track and field early in the mornings late at night um and there's other um districts who also do the same thing very similar um over in Bloomfield um I think there is another one up in Morris County it might be botin it might be Dover that also uses their track um but giving this opportunity for our community to actually use a track and field um especially you know I know before um Mr kova was saying that we could have them use the pond around you know it hurts on your shins you know as you get older you realize running on concrete isn't that far far well so you want to run on something a little bit softer even if it's you know the track or even the turf um I hope we could probably get that done um maybe if it's not this year maybe next year maybe the next couple of years um besides that congratulations to all the student athletes on their senior nights um congratulations to our students who performed at the talent show fashion show um you guys did an amazing job um I also do want to give a quick shout out to our give me one second it was our flag football team they did an amazing job um a few days ago over at the stadium and and I was you know I you guys probably know I'm a big football fan so they're playing and I was I couldn't be anything but half year especially because you know I know I think they did be pcti before um that's one of our biggest Rivals so I'm very happy for them and the things that they're doing um thank you to the track team I know you guys are doing amazing work as always um as well as the lacrosse teams the softball and baseball teams that we have and our tennis teams um but besides that thank you again very much um for having me here thank you president Paris that's thank you commission M here uh commissioner Brak thank you Mr President I want to give my deepest condolences to cord darl law and the his family on the loss of their child uh shout out to president Paris for chasing us down with this yard stick and getting us together to become a certified board uh these board Retreats I believe got us uh together and made us a little closer and I I my perception is that it'll help us make become a better board as a result lastly happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there uh I said something similar last last year and uh if it wasn't for my mom I'd probably be six feet under so happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there thank you for your time and God bless America have a good night everybody thank you commissioner brunia commissioner bass thank Mr brunc that was very nice I'm G to pass I'm G to save everything for the next meeting okay thank you uh commissioner Suarez uh thank you president Paris and thank you uh commissioner brzak for the Happy Mother's Day uh really quick I just wanted to give uh nurse Eva at school 8 a shout out and um this is just an example for what all of our nurses do uh my son bumped his knee a few a few weeks ago and she called me just to let me know about it and of course I appreciated the phone call he did get in fact an ice pack but it's so much more than an ice pack uh for seven year-olds and all little ones their bumps and bruises mean a lot and to be cared for and nurtured school when their parents or Guardians aren't around um is really a beautiful time and moment for our little ones so I just that's just one small example of what nurses do it's so much more than tending to AB bruise but you're also tending to their hearts so thank you to nurse Eva and thank you to all our nurses thank you commissioner Suarez commissioner siano I'm want to streamline this okay Dr Danny I streamline it I a lot of stuff but I'm going to go fast uh employees and the educate uh the children so now you're throwing me off um everybody who had their accomplishments received a recognition this month especially uh Mr enal who was my teacher congratulations to you deepest condolences to Cera law on the tragic loss of his daughter Serenity I couldn't imagine what you're going through uh this district is here for you uh topic close to my heart special education week it resonates deeply with me my personal journey through special education underlines the significance of those dedicated in this field one of them them being Mr analdi and obviously Mr frell who I speak of all the time with the utmost gratitude um because I don't know where I'd be today without him mental health aware uh health awareness month is very important even having a conversation with somebody can make a huge difference um I did have the pleasure of attending the educator and Par professional of the Year Awards for our district which was absolutely amazing seeing those people the surprise on their faces I was um I was really happy to be there congratulations Allison ditzig teacher of the year and our professional of the Year Iman moasis uh lastly I attended the film festival at CHS for the 25th um year they were doing it uh it was really amazing watching those films it was a really good experience also I was able to join Judy bassford as she received the friends of Education award last week and that was an honor Judy your recognition is truly welld deserved um wishing everyone a good few weeks ahead Mark you're welcome reminding you to tell everybody Happy Mother's Day you're welcome for that happy Mother's Day to everybody and everybody have a good week I'll see you on the 23rd president Paris can I just give a shout out certainly happy birthday Stanley Dr Danny uh just going to say happy Mother's Day to all the mothers I'll hold my comments um and I just have to say to my father because he's a big kick out of this um Stanley guik happy Birthday Dad and may God continue to bless you thank you Dr Danny um and thank you you mark for reminding us all about Mother's Day happy Mother's Day to all the moms and my mom uh happy birthday to my mom who's coming up on uh May 10th believe she'll be 94 God bless her and happy birthday to your dad Dr Danny um and to all of you um commissioner uh brunak mentioned it um just my heartfelt thanks and pride and appreciation for your time and your dedication to achieving New Jersey School Board Association certification for this board um we'll have a chance to celebrate at the Pake County School Board Association meeting at the end of May and uh just truly thank you very proud of of what we've accomplished and uh we're going to move forward I think there's still some more learning we could do um that's all I have um so we've come to a close motion to business oh new business okay I'm sorry I'm jumping ahead new business yeah I didn't want to bring up the Kelly Services that we're using um I know a few commun um community members came up saying they're spending $300 on trying to get recertified cuz I know you know trying to get your sub license from the county is like 150 or something like that but if that's true you know I want to take a look at that uh excuse me can I go back to personnel I can't really speak to that particular issue and I have the utmost respect for Miss papait love her um there was an issue that I can't really speak publicly about but I will tell you this that that's the only issue that has come to my level in regards to Kelly Services just to give you this the other side of it of of why it's been great for us give you this one statistic April 2023 our substitute fill rate was 49% that means half of the teachers who were out we couldn't get a sub for Kelly service has officially started for us right after our uh break this year which was April 8th for the month of April just in the last three weeks that they've been with us our sub rate was 80% our fill rate was 80% um I only expect that to go higher so it's been very very successful I'm sure there have been one off situations where employees might have had issues um anything like that we will do our best to rectify but overall it's been very successful anything else yes um yes I got a phone call um two phone calls um just about the wait room and I talked to Mr Shaha today about it um the weit room is for every sport correct because there was there was an announcement that went out that it was for the football team that and and uh so I got a couple phone calls from some of the other parents for soccer and so could you please speak to that thank you yeah so we discussed that the white room at the stadium is for all of our student athletes it is not specifically earmarked for the football team so I'll say it again unequivocally it is for all of our student athletes Mr shihada I'm sorry if I can um I believe at the ceremony uh there were students that were not just football players there were students of all different sports I'm sure I talked to kids from track and things like that all are welcome but must be accompanied by a coach so any sport that wants to use a facility more than welcome it's it's for our students so yeah I I was doing reps with a kid that does wrestling so um president Paris I actually have one thing for new business I'm sorry guys I know it's 11-11 make a wish um so during the when we were certified when we became a certified board we discussed the um option of pulling all of our Awards and presentations and doing them quarterly so I came up with a schedule here so if I could just run through really quick September October November uh we would begin this obviously September the meeting would be in November for all of the awards it's a standalone meeting just for awards and presentations December January February the meeting would take place in February March April May and June would take place in June so it' probably be two hours on a random day day throughout the month you know probably just the week following our board meeting and it'll streamline our board meetings and it'll streamline the presentation process as well so you're saying once a quarter per quarter once we're doing is it's like the Oscars for student and teacher Awards but it would be once a month or it would be once every three months once every three months months so we would do September October November all three of those months we would honor those uh recipients in November December January February everybody from those three months will be honored in February and the last four months March through June they will be honored in June and this does not Encompass that normal presentation like the buzz presentation Hib or things that Janina has to do for for the state I just want to clarify again so there's going to be Four Freshmen of the quarter let me give you this list three three so it'll be three or four that's all I want to know four three oh three I'm sorry we'll be going around and around around doing now I need to look right just three you said Thank You November February and June correct November February and Jun commissioner Santiago Mr if I may so it's the employee and the student awards and is this just a decision that you do do we have to vote on this do we have to we definitely wanted a consensus on it well you definitely need a consensus but I believe your your agend the format of your agenda includes that recog those two recognitions as a matter of course when when you do your organizational meeting you pass a resolutions adopting the format of your agenda so technically you should amend the format of your agenda to remove that technically I'll make a motion to agend the format of our to make I'll I'll make a motion to amend the format of our agenda to have Awards specific to student of the month employee of the month every quarter second that as a special meeting okay as a special meeting motion by commissioner bassford seconded by I didn't hear who it was oh commissioner siano uh question any yeah discussion any discussion I'm not I don't know we be here all night I'm not 100% on that myself if I have to vote I'm voting no okay let's uh take the roll call I know discussion here or no no I have no s no I'm I'm ready to go because we discussed it at the retreat um M bford yes because um we all discussed um about keeping the meetings just a business and it will work better for everybody's schedule yes Mr brunak yes Mr Mia abstain Mr Santiago no Mr siano yes Miss Suarez yes Vice president Danny yes president Paris yes motion carries okay motion to journ motion second have a nice weekend e for

that this had occurred and I have to tell you I remember looking outside when I got the text message it wasn't light out yet the Apple Valley sheriff's department quickly responded and our amazing bus driver superheroes picked right up where they left off and got on to their first student pickups for their route that morning so in honor of our values in this District I love when I get to represent um employees who take on things that are not within the scope of their daily job and work through community and service and dignity for that child and I just am so proud of [Applause] you I I want to thank the board members and everyone here tonight our transportation Department I want to accept this on behalf of all of our drivers we all have stories like this is just not always recognized like we are tonight thank [Applause] you I really think under their superhero um capes they had angel wings too proud that our drivers get our kids to and from school every single day with a lot of things going on is he close [Applause] all right uh I know you want to remain standing uh trade spots with TR here and uh well most you are here for tonight I'm excited to announce the retirees that are deciding to hang it up at end of this year and kind of move on to I don't know whatever your next life is we learned a lot Zoe I want to thank you for putting the slideshow together I always learn uh more about people and there's something Brave that happens to a retiree when they realize that they're a month away from the end of the career they like to share things that I think a I don't know non-permanent employee might not want to share but they're like what are you gonna do right so I mean you go through these slideshows and you recognize some things that it's like wow now we we have a number of people I think we have about 27 people retiring from our system we put out a request hey give us some of those funny stories give us some info some of them are just humble like uh you know you have to pull teachers to get their name on the slide and so some of you we might only have your name on the slide uh but others had no problem sharing some stories and and I'm excited to have a opportunity to share tonight um each of you are going to receive I love talking about this trophy I love we heard a lot of the comments today centered around the the success that our students have in our CTE program and the trophy that's put together is a homegrown trophy put uh together by a couple of our CTE programs uh and I want to pull one out just to bring a little attention to it and I know uh you know Jordan Wells are administrative assistant put these bags together I'm not good with tissue paper so the first person it's gonna be messy but this is a trophy and this is a trophy that's put together cut out in the plasma cutters in our uh welding program at Valley School coded the bases you heard Josh ree referenced earlier for his success in the construction Technology Program bases put together by his wood shop program and then we have an industry partner this year that has done the engraving for us uh for honoring the employees so it's a TR truly a one-of-a-kind trophy that really speaks to the the hard Works our students do and what you help shape and mold throughout your career so this is something to be cherished and and I I think you know I look forward to the day to be able to get one of these myself and hopefully Mr penfold Mr Reese and all their friends are still producing these things for us at that time so Pat keep that CTE money coming we need it these are great student student Pro projects that that Apple for those of you that are out and about it copies the if you at the yakala bridge a relatively new part of our infrastructure and you see the entrance to that you'll see the exact same Apple at the the entrance to that bridge so it's a it's a good little Community reminder that being said our first person ready to uh come up and and get her Trophy and shake the hand of the board is Michelle Thor 21 years at Vanguard press here okay I she said she was gonna be here I'm 0 for one uh she has an interesting plan though uh she is short I didn't even know that this was such a thing but she plans on going on a quilting cruise to Hawaii like I I never knew you could merge those two things but hey if you got a quilting business and it's a write off all the power to you it sounds like something you might want to do and demonstrating what it means to be a lifelong learner you'll notice her her future plans time to keep taking some college classes and learn to play that cello so uh congratulations to Michelle we appreciate you and enjoy that [Applause] cruise I might be over for two because I don't see Joel Lewis here and so he apparently lied saying he was gonna be here but that that uh that doesn't surprise me you know there there's things on this slide here that I'm argue about he mentions being in the District 31 years yeah many of you have done that retirees can do that um he says he claims he kept his sanity I'm gonna disagree with that because I have worked with him in a couple different environments um but the real Milestone uh for those of you that know and I know Mr Bender you can respect this the man survived teaching next door to Dennis Killian for 20 years those of you that know Dennis know that that's no easy accomplishment and so Joel that's worth it all the while he'll be moving on to Dana Point and do some more extensive of traveling so congratulations J Deborah McGee I think I see one here come on up I did not strike out true Milestone here 35 years all at one school Mariana Academy will never be the same congratulations she shares um what a blessing it's been that she's obviously got quite a little passion there for her corgis and like what seems to be a trend for some folks in our system just because she's retiring doesn't mean we're done seeing her because according to this let's see um watching my grandson and daughter-in-law does her student teaching at Mariana so I think this is just a passing of the Baton and we're gonna end up with uh your presence for quite some time congratulations all right uh Paula Absher one of the brave ones that's revealing a little bit here I think this one uh how many 29 years Rancho verie Elementary a a special um congratulations because I know 26 of those have been with my wife and so that's no Easy E easy thing to do uh but you're here admit to some um pranking that's been going on in your campus you're part of a uh notice this high schoolers I guess you don't grow out of it she's not snitching on who her partner in crime is it's a silent partner uh she's also strategic enough to misbehave when she knows the retaliation she's Untouchable because her birthday's in June so she can sabotage others on theirs during the school year and then she's home free for hers as well but she plans on going off reorganizing her house and traveling with her grandchildren in her RV congratulations Paula okay Lisa Belling now Lisa I read yours um yes you have some interesting admission that I'm just gonna um first of all the last original teacher from Rio Vista I didn't even realize that so you've been there since the opening and now we nobody else can say that on the staff congratulations but in a HR kind of hat when I look at this uh last comment early in your teaching career when you were single you had several parents set you up on blind dates you went out with a few of the guys but never married any of them so okay you well congratulations I it seems like you may have made the right decision and 34 years real V again I'm sorry I skipped a slide but enjoying her future grandchildren none yet uh but she's looking forward to those days next up 37 years cting bull Academy bar Barbra kasas colas the me off your name congratulations Barbara you know um impacts all around and and this is not uncommon for teachers I I like what I read about her where uh her funny memory was um an attempt to just have a good time and she made her own little sweatshirt which apparently has turned in to a brand new tradition category of the most obnoxious sweater category I don't know I appreciate you not sharing what that sweater was with the room but um congratulations well done we will be missed you will be missed next up Denise Gils ah Denise going out with Paula Rancho birdie won't be the same 30 years 30 years congratulations um this is an interesting fact and I'm curious to know who this is I'll put you on the spot but you're proud to know that one of your first year students is now a principal at one of our schools who who was that principal are they Denise who who is the principal that you had in your first year teaching oh Mr Turner oh no I mean I mean I'm sorry now who is the principal who was the student that became a principal so Pam Garrett principal was a principal desert nolles who is a student of yours yeah yes amazing amazing congratulations thank you very and you she's going to be going on some cruises I don't know if she's quilting but she'll visiting her sister in Florida all right Mary Gonzalez oh and her entourage is Mary here Mary Gonzalez I heard subscri oh W [Music] so yes so after retirement yeah you went to Mexico volunteered for three months is that you're already back you did some service that's amazing so it's a servant heart for our students and others and 16 years driving a bus um for those of teachers teachers you guys got to know this is a person paid to put 50 or more students behind her back and and and and not look at them it's a brave brave career and we appreciate all you do first face they see and the last one they see when they come to school and go to go home at the end of the day so congratulations well [Applause] done Greg pasal did you make it and TI Mr Pasqual social science Apple High um worked hit Apple Valley for rfr district 33 years looks like he's not here um he did mention I'm not sure if who science class the person came out of we do have an a program at Apple high so his funni or poignant memory was when a student asked him how do you grow spaghetti so I don't know I don't know if that grows on trees but uh he was asked it so Greg congratulations and then I'm G to get into the the shy retirees some that that didn't um which which the first one I'm kind of curious as to why she would have been shy because uh I've not known this about her but 23 years in our payroll and benefits Department uh L Bowers oh they they kept it behind your back you know what it is we asked Ken to fill it out and you know how that is yeah yeah so but 23 years I know you uh made sure people got their checks we all appreciate that and uh congratulations it just nerves all right a familiar face to the room because she's been up here once uh 12 years another person brave enough to turn her back on 50 or more kids every morning uh Miss Nancy come on up log time no see congratulations yeah what what what are you gonna do next oh get caught up on the housework yeah my wife wants me to retire if that's the case I'm sure congratulations okay as I scan the room I'm I'm going to go down the list to pay recognition these are all individuals that maybe you know would make it tonight or if you're hiding out in the audience and I overlooked it wouldn't be the first mistake I made today so throw something at me come on up you we have your trophy for you but Shelley Ames I know she retired earlier this year out of our information technology department I haven't seen her in here but congratulations to her 29 years Kim kagon I don't know if Kim is here I know she's one that uh the stories I've heard uh just such a a person full of compliments and joy and I know that I've had teachers my wife includ I say you're ever having a bad day go over to Kim she'll tell you something nice you wanted to hear about yourself and you get to wear that smile the rest of the day so uh Kim congratulations 24 years nutrition service worker uh Linda Corbin not here yakala nine years as a teacher and moving on so if you see Linda congratulate her Christian Dylan who after 23 years is no longer in the front office at vangar prep we have um wish her the best as she moves on into her retirement Randy Evans uh Ceramics teacher Apple Valley High School I know also has been a union refer of vuda for many years and uh carried a pretty impactful program I know constantly buying her sixth period back because so many kids enjoyed the Ceramics opportunities and all she gave to them uh Richard Fiero uh again um bus driver you know all all the respect in the world to y'all um again I look over at Doug and Kim and I think about just that that radio traffic and I don't know how you guys still have any hearing left but that is quite a quite a orchestrated mess so well done Oliver um he out of desert NOS after 23 years that he's retiring he told us he's retiring from the state of California so I don't know uh if he's retiring retiring retiring or if he's just moving on Diane Kennedy earlier this year retired uh again teacher at app valy High School been in a couple of our schools throughout her career um Robert mace per educator 26 years I know I got to work with him at Apple Valley high school and you talk about just a a quiet humble man that was there to serve students that's what stands out to me and my interactions with him over the years so congratulations Robert you will you'll you'll be missed and those kids with our greatest needs will definitely uh miss you as well Marth McHugh another parent educator 26 years out at yakoma elementary congratulations Martha Leanne Medina school office coordinator too at Sitting Bull um I know many of you have had the the privilege of working with her is she hiding back there do I see her no no she's camping okay okay she's camping so I get it camp or go here from Dustin I'd go camping too that make sense to me uh Esther mon has par educator five years with us but moving on uh par Educators we we couldn't do this without you so thank you an Mortenson another par educator 28 years yakala Elementary quite a quite an exodus uh over there Susan PA 28 years nutrition service worker is at Phoenix Academy so Stephanie give her a pat on the back next time you see her and MaryAnn shup 19 years most recently assigned to the credit recovery program at Granite Hills High School uh retired this just this last March and U with that I just want to offer up that's our final name I know some of some folks are still thinking about it still may turn into retirement but congratulations you will truly be missed our system won't be the same uh congratulations and we Envy you so well done all retirees [Applause] did I skip one wait what did I do um yes I invited the throwing uh there is one more special retiree that our superintendent would like to address [Laughter] Barbara you have a gift I do okay it's all I take back my Barbara I'm sorry I anybody else Barbara Barbara congratulations come on up give give me something great about what's up next for you's up next California get out in California more time with my grandson more more oh okay speech speech they're all saying speech she's excited more time with grandchildren is that what you said I appreciate you and I I make I've made mistakes all day asked the boss she's she's found me in a few of them so 20 years 20 20 years congratulations I I'm so sorry you are appreciated I I must have clicked past it or at least we had the TR I have a few more bags back there if anybody decides now that you want to retire might as well come on up lesle Karen anybody want to [Laughter] retire all right I am I am no and we wouldn't have had a gift bag I I am pretty sure we are done so thank you all thank you but we all have these [Music] sharing yeah I've been I have your number right okay what's where do you want me to put anywhere I just need to spend more time all right um thank you so much for um bearing with us uh at this time we are going to release the students so they can go have dinner and do their homework thank you for coming see you next R Hill Stadium on M oh you up over no bye yeah and we had the district the district uh African want I don't know but we had a good one [Music] yesterday which one or the one in I think I don't get that I know it's there but I didn't okay it's really good it's I've been once all right okay good Kylie do we have any any public comments as we do we have six tonight okay all right as provided on on our public comments card speakers are requested to limit comments to a maximum of three minutes if more than one person wishes to speak on the same topic subsequent speakers should limit their remarks to new information only public comments shall be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes per item the first person speaking is Mason Gonzalez on the stadium uh good evening everybody my name is maon Gonzalez I am an alumni at Granite Hills uh 2016 uh I've been coaching football at Granite Hills for the last five years but my my uh association with gr Hills Football goes far beyond that you know since I was barely able to walk and I know we've heard this a million times but Granite Hills has gone without a football stadium for 25 years years and which means we've gone without athletic facilities you know soccer field football field locker rooms proper restrooms in close proximity right let me pull out my speech real quick I'm sorry um so pretty much what I'm trying to say is we've been blessed with an opportunity of finally getting this project going and a good one at that but a couple of the concerns the community has is that um a phased approach to paying for the stadium feels like a it feels and sounds like a bunch of starts and stops so um with that being said it makes us feel like there's a a possibility that we might get to one phase and not finish out the rest is what that sounds like so what I'm here to say My overall argument here is that the students of Granite Hills deserve a full commitment and full funding to an athletic Stadium at Granite Hills High School full funding full commitment paying off the stadium for 30 years sounds a lot better than waiting for 25 years because that's how long we've been waiting and we know how that feels thank you thank you so [Applause] much Tracy mascara all right good evening board members we have met before for most of you actually um it's nice to see you all again and meet the new members um last time I was here was August 2021 uh it was the same night that a lot of other members were there for a different reason vaccines um but I still gave a speech about the ugly steps sister uh to Apple valy High School which was named granny Hills High School um it has been almost three years since that ball has been slowly rolling I know most of us are on the same page now we want to build this stadium for our kids for the community for the staff we've all been patient but it's time to reward them for their patience and to fully fund the project our very own Granite Hills Head Coach Co coach Gonzalez is going on his 10th season one of the most Year from what I've heard at least the most in the high desert um not just him but his entire family is is bleeds Granite Hills um our sports teams have continued to make progress in every way many even broke records this year for decades students would look for other Alternatives than granite because of their reputation they are just now beginning to see Granite as a competitor a stadium will encourage more students to enroll and encourage the community me community members to spectate it is not just a sports facility it represents an investment into our community's future and the well-being of our students as stewards of public funds we have a duty to explore all avenues of funding before resorting to bond measures I saw the presentation from Matt thank you very detailed uh and it seems like he's done a great job already but I think that we can do better many of your community members continue to struggle in this in these Economic Times and we want to be able to attend these events and stay in our community without adding more costs I propose we explore alternative funding such as sponsors and fundraising events to help support the build let those who can come together and support the community we love I thank you for your time in this matter and even though my senior is now graduating he was a sophomore when I spoke to you last um we will forever be a cougar family it's nice to see Granite with a happily ever after either way thank [Applause] you thank you Javier alcantar uh dear board members and esteemed cabinet and superintendent I stand before you today not merely as an advocate but as a voice for those sidelined in our community while I'm grateful for the past support I must address a persistent issue of disenfranchisement that has overshadowed our achievements this year as we approach what we should have been a landmark moment for funding the great Academy and other initiative suffered from a noticeable decline in District and sight level support specifically our CTE program received minim my specific CTE program received minimal funding and support during a critical year for the C creative careers leadership laboratory necessary funds were relocated to cover reallocated to cover past expenses undermining our goals in the grants implementations additionally despite historic opportunities presented by state initiatives like AMS our vapa department were excluded from critical discussions this neglect occurred even a state recommendations called for the establishment of a district Arts Council a suggestion that went unheeded leaving us without support these are not merely administrative oversights but signs of a broader disregard for the voices and needs of our community our students depend on us to Champion their education in future they deserve Advocates who are respected and heard not marginalized or dismissed this year my dedication to our educational Miss mission was recognized with a hipop education Equity award from the California Department of Ed a national best schools for music music education award from n and notable local achievements including first place in our local parade I also chaired the organizing committee for the high desert region of the San Bernardino music educators associ Association honor ban and led the CCL pilot as a model technical demonstration site for the state despite these accolades our ability to continue achieving is threatened by insufficient support and exclusion from Key funding initiatives to address this I propose a structured approach adhering to the California Arts Frameworks which recommends establishing a core District Arts team this team should be comprehensive including Arts educators from each discipline and level multiple subjects uh multiple subject teachers special education staff District personnel and even school board members this inclusive approach ensures diverse perspectives and ensures an effective decision-making Guided by a small Court core leadership group responsible for benchmarks and timelines we should also consider engaging an outside facilit with e facilitator with expertise and standards based Arts education to maintain impartiality and specialized Focus why then is our participation in the this historic funding initiative being overlooked why art contri contribution needs going unheard for the sake of everyone at Granite especially our students and their families I am advocating for Change and inclusion I urge you to support and act upon these critical matters thank you for your attention I look forward to to your support in making meaningful improvements that will resonate throughout our entire educational Community thank [Applause] you will Jefferson [Applause] first I want to say thank you guys for Le having this opportunity to come up here and speak I moved up here to Apple Valley about uh 26 years ago and uh when I first came up here I said I'm not coaching or training doing anything with football ever again well as it came to be was blessed to come help and Coach uh at granny Hills for uh seven years now about 2017 but what I want to say here is this I know what it's like to play at a school I played football at one of the top schools in the state of California back in the the 80s although we had a home stadium we never played at home so I know what it's like to get on the bus and go play somewhere that is not your home it's like you never have a home game so when I came to coach at Granite it was like we hopped on the bus it's my first year coaching we hop on a bus we go to to the stadium and when we go to the stadium I see some things like why are the benches turned over why are these things all happening here and so somebody came explained to me said well that's the way we get treated I was like Wow for real and then one year we go to play a game and we get there we had to have our own football players move the the uh soccer goals I was like why do we have to do this well we have to do this because this is not our Stadium but what I wanted to say here is this it's not about the stadium it is about the kids who are playing here when I came here I didn't want to coach but Mr par I know it's been a long time but our daughters used to cheer together and when I came here that really got me into coaching again and I started training kids from both Apple Valley and from Granite Hills but then when I saw the things like really disrespectful we didn't we weren't teaching these kids how to be Scholastic and and and to be athletes where you care about one another we were teaching them to separate each other it's a good thing to have competition but when you have children and kids to uh just treating each other wrong and being disrespectful just because of a stadium and where you play it I don't think that's right now the last thing I'm GNA say is this I played a w every time when I played at the school but about 10 years ago I was able to go back to my high school when they dedicated a new stadium now being alumni from that school it felt real good to go back to that school and to see a stadium new stadium dedicated to playing football and playing to the sports where they could actually play at home now and I believe over 26 years or 25 years since uh Grant is gone that you still have people in this community who are alumni who when they come back they can see the respect and the honor they have when they see that Stadium built so this is about people this is about energy this is about loving your community this is what this is about Community it's not about the stadium but it's about the community thank you for your time thank you thank you Glenn Carr good evening so I'm here tonight um I'm sorry I'm not going to be articulate this as well I wasn't prepared for this tonight I kind of got a phone call I landed at Ontario and drove up here and came straight here because this is where all the people that could I I think that well I'm sorry I'm saying that uh I apologize I'm probably not going to be able to articulate this as well I wasn't prepared to uh come here tonight to greet with you guys and and talk with you I just landay Ontario got some uh disturbing news about my son that happened today at his school so I thought I'd come here since this is the board and this committee that could help me with this instance so unfortunately I'm bringing to you um to you guys tonight the awareness of a seriousness a serious serious issue at Vanguard school with their safety and the protocols that are being done there so with the administration so what I'm asking today is is that uh to review the parent notification policies and District reporting policies with your Administration today my son was stabbed by a fellow student at the school and I did not receive nor his mother receive a phone call about that it was dismissed as a poke and by your Administration and that is very alarming to me so my his mother and myself were denied the opportunity to get care for my son and or file any kind of complaint due to the stabbing of my son so this is very alarming for me and so I think that at this particular time that the reporting policies from the district need to be reviewed with the administration there at Vanguard I don't believe that any kid should have to come home and tell his parents unknowingly that he was stabbed at school today he did not receive any Care at school it was left up to 11-year-old child to say are you okay yes do you need to go to the bathroom and look at it okay and he did he came back are you okay yes we should not leave that up to 11-year-old child to see if he's okay if he was stabbed by another student he should have been taken to the office and looked over by a professional that's why we have school nurses if not then at least the parent should have been notified so we could get medical treatment for him if we deem necessary that's our responsibility that was taken away from us today because it was deemed a poke anyone that anytime any incident has happened at the school we have been called if our son did anything wrong he said something inappropriate to another child or touch another child I was called immediately there were reports made accusations made even if they were deemed as not being accurate we were still called this was unfounded but it was still said that your son did this but the time that he was assaulted we were not notified when we asked we we brought up that our son was being bullied and that these unfounded accusations are a form of bullying we were told he would not be removed from the class we told the administrator that this is going to escalate we see that the bull this is bullying and this will escalate two days later he is stabbed we need to do something about this we need to identify this we need we need to look at the Sops that you guys have in place for your administrators we need to know when is it mandated that a parent be notified when is it mandated that the authorities be notified is it the parents responsibility I had to come here tonight and make the file the formal complaint with school campus because I knew they'd be here I had to come here tonight and file a formal complaint with you guys because I knew you would all be here I shouldn't have had to take the time out of today I should have been notified today when it happened so my wife could be there for my son during this tragic moment in his life thank you so much sir somebody is going to get in touch with you tomorrow for sure thank you thank you very [Applause] much Lisa Hill [Applause] thank you good evening I apologize to the car family I'm not downplaying the seriousness of that situation um my name is Lisa Healey I'm a math teacher at Grant Hills High School I'm also the head volleyball coach at Grant Hills High School and my favorite title I'm a mom to six um Grant Hills High School alumni [Applause] um with all due respect and appreciation to coach Gonzalez and the football program he has built while I have been at Grant Hills in the last 10 years and the success they've had there are 22 other athletic programs at Grant Hills High School that also deserve a stadium my six daughters who have graduated from Granite are multiport athletes they played volleyball um cross country track and field and soccer also sports that deserve the stadium also so when you think of funding you're not funding one team you are funding an entire Athletic program an entire Community I've watched for 10 years athletes win League titles on Silverado's track I've watched people break PRS and qualify for CIF on atlanto track I've watched CIF soccer games won on Victor's field it's time for those things to happen at Granite it's time for those things to happen at cougar Stadium for the past 10 years nine years sorry nine years except covid because I'm a rule follower I've taken the volleyball team to The District Stadium to run stadiums for conditioning I'd love to happen that have that happen at cougar Stadium all athletes at Grant Hills High School deserve the stadium so when you're thinking of funding we're funding a lot of students yes this awesome football program kudos to them do they deserve it yes I believe that 100% but so do these others athletes and I have great news for you there's one more Healey there's still a chance there's still a chance this Stadium could be built in time for number seven to walk across the stage and have six of her sisters and 500 of her closest friends walk across the stage at Granite Hills Stadium fun the stadium thank you thank you thank you so much uh board comments Mr vender you want my comment concerning the stadium is that what she wants short comments any any topic well you're preaching to the the choir when it comes to the stadium I taught at granted for 10 years and I know they were going to be solidified behind that so I don't have any other comment I'll save it for the real topic Mrs Buchanan no comment Mr Ry nothing further Mr Raley nothing right now thank you and I don't have any comment except s deay is coming and I am so excited so um superintendent's comment okay public hearing uh we don't have any discussion action session it is recommended that the Board of Trustees discuss and take action on the following items approve the certificated and classified Personnel actions with amendment to page three certificated extra Duty assignment removing the duplicate entry for Vanguard prep I need a motion I'll second the item any discussion all in favor any opposed consider the funding options for the transition kindergarten classroom project located at Desert nuls Elementary Sandia Academy and yakala Elementary and provide direction to staff I need a motion I'll move what are we what are we voting on which option this to provide direction to the staff missar based on the uh presentation that uh I provided on Tuesday we remember we did discuss some different options in terms of funding um if you would allow me I I I do have a recommendation pertaining specifically to transitional kindergarten on this particular item if go ahead uh my recommendation for the transitional kindergarten project would be would be to use some uh some funds in hand already if you recall I mentioned some elop and developer fee funds that we do have and to issue a cop um uh and an amount not to impact the unrestricted general fund to uh fund the completion of that trans transitional kindergarten project moving forward I believe that cop would uh not to exceed about not to exceed 10 million and of course before we do that borrowing that would come back to the board for your approval that's clear it's clear now right now I need a motion I'll second it any discussion all in favor I I any opposed consider the funding options for the Granite Hills High School Athletic Facility project and provide direction to staff I think when I looked in the audience I did see the um the consultant was on yeah yes part Mr uh Scott Griffith from SGH Architects was able to join us this evening as was Mike Woods from California Professional Management um just following up from Tuesday's presentation if there are any additional questions that I or Scott or Mike may be able to address this evening uh we're here to answer those and um I also do have a recommendation uh when the board at your pleasure I'd like to make a motion I have any discussion we we're gonna vote first and then we discusss so yeah you'll second it then we go to the discussion disc so if I may Madam president I have a question for probably Matt at this time and maybe the uh the develop or the consultant and the architect so we did hear some discussion from some people in the audience tonight uh reference that if we phase this project that it's going to slow things down and that we may just stall it out at what is currently built and so could you give us assurances not you know that if we and I understand the Dynamics of why we are phasing the funding because we don't want to dip into the general fund and then the next year we'll we go out for more cop bonds at that point is is that the the understanding of how this is going to work so it's really not delaying it's actually it's actually getting the ball rolling getting the work funded so that we can move forward on it well yes Mr Raley I appreciate the comment and the question um as we discussed on Tuesday um Mr Griffith of SGH he presented to you some options that were specific to phasing the construction of the stadium when we get to that point we do have some we do have quite a few things to do before we actually get to construction of the stadium uh we are currently in the the design um of that conceptual um conceptual design of the Athletic Facility there at Granite Hills High School um as we as we finish the conceptual design then we get into construction document drawing um DSA approval and that's a process uh that Mr Griffith with a schedule that he's put together at his estimates working with Mike and California Professional Management we're at least 12 to 15 months away from even obtaining DSA approval on this particular project um so if we can um speak of the phasing the project in its entirety maybe the phase right now we talk about is to get to DSA get it into DSA and get it approved and when we're closer to that point we do explore the additional funding options um available at that time um either a cop um and as Miss Nelson mentioned we have a survey out in the community for a general obligation Bond uh for November 2024 possibilities we'll have more information pertaining to that uh we'll also have received um additional RDA Revenue funds over the next several months that will all help fund a portion or all of that Stadium depending on what we have available um about a year from now when we start exploring those options so it's really not a delay in anything it's actually pushing the project that's correct at this point at this point my recommendation would be to continue work on this project to continue work in the design and drawing the construction documents and submitting those documents for DSA approval now that means we do have a lot of other Consultants to bring on board we'll have to do an environmental study on that property we'll have to do a soil study on that property believe it or not we'll probably have to do a Joshua Tre study on that property um so there's there's lots of components and pieces that will go into these documents and DSA CDE Department of toxic substance control all the state agencies that we have to involve to get the plans approved for construction and how are we funding the first part my proposal uh Mr Buchanan uh if I could State what my recommendation is at this point um we do have uh cop proceeds from a cop we issued in 2020 uh we have approximately $3 million um which is currently um shown in our fund 40 which is our Capital facilities fund um working with Mike Woods earlier today and talking conceptually about getting to that point of DSA approval we're estimating that's going to be between two and2 and A5 million dollar that includes design engineering soils state agency DSA fees um and CPM fees in terms of construction management I would propose funding that through funds we already have in hand uh cop proceeds from our previous cops issu it and then as the project proceeds we'll be seeking add additional funding sources oh yes as as it proceeds we'll always be looking for other funding sources I know I heard mention of sponsorship fundraising uh there's all sorts of things and I know the Granite Hills boosters will I assume be very supportive in any of those processes moving forward looking looking for funding for this project for the students at Granite Hills okay sounds good I mean if we don't move on it tonight well that's why I want to make a motion well we have we have another meeting in few weeks well yes it okay and what was the reason to us not doing the presentation t tonight if they could be here tonight um miss oara or the the board had asked back in March for a special board meeting for the presentation because of the length of the presentation um having it as a dedicated dedicated meeting if I recall because I thought first came out they were unavailable tonight the presentation took two hours that would put this board meeting up until 11 o'clock tonight for them to come out this evening uh it was a special request for them to see if they were available to come it just seems like it might have been better not to take one of the Union Tuesdays and then also to have done it when the community could have actually seen the presentation to have done it when all five board members could have been here because I know I was told just to go back and watch it online but it was kind of difficult when people did not turn on their microphones during the discussion so I'm just saying it would in the future if we're going to have important discussions it would be nice if things like that like presentations of this magnitude could occur during regularly scheduled meetings that we have like scheduled out years in like a year in advance unfortunately I was under the impression that they could not be here that was what was conveyed at one point so I was surprised to see that they were here tonight Mr Griffith was not sure he would be able to make it he made special accommodation to get up here so that if you had specific questions he would be here and he did make it have very many questions because it was difficult there was one point you were talking and you didn't have your microphone on there was another point that Matt was talking it was I I couldn't tell because it was there was just a slide on the screen um but there was quite a bit that Matt was talking and I don't know if he was just away from the podium while one of the gentlemen was speaking at the podium but there was quite a bit of conversation going back and forth there was questions and then I could tell Matt was answering but it's very difficult even with my computer turned all the way up um so it would just I don't know we need to work on some type of a audio issue if we're gonna be broadcasting I'm going to go back to this again um there's a a vote on the we have finished with the discussion do we have a vote oh are we're we're done with discussion thank you we're done with the discussion we going on to number three I need a vote we haven't I think there's a motion a second motion to vote I'd like to make the motion you can't have a motion we don't have a way of we haven't de said how we're funding I have a second any um any to vote all in favor any opposed we haven't said how we're funding it though correct Mr sh my recommendation at this point Miss Buchanan was to fund the design construction document and DSA approval process with the someone going to make a motion that says that we are moving that recommendation because we can't make a motion per policy our board policy unless someone wants to make that motion to support that Rec the motion is very clear Mrs Buchanan consider the funding options for the Granite Hills High School Athletic Facility project and provide direction to staff correct that is the motion and we are going to go forward and fund the the project unfortunately I have listened to you go back and forth this is a business I am sorry you have to say how you're going to fund it it just says consider speak Mrs buan you have not said am still speaking I don't think you understand the proper what the language says there you have to make the motion to support his recommendation for funding M for the for the record um since there's some confusion on the option that you're that we're voting on I mean I know which option it is it's the cop bonds yes cop proceeds that we currently are holding with the trustee and are reflected in fund 40 on our financials so I would make the motion that we follow Mr schoenberg's recommendation that we go ahead and use Mr Mr already made a motion no Dennis did no it hasn't he said he made the motion to get it done that's not we have to follow procedure Mr Bender was your intent to have your motion I my motion to go through this is where the rubber hits the road we have to make it legal no we went over that for two hours we got the funding all down we got it the whole thing is set up for a four-year deal it comes in phases but it has to be legal it is legal so for the record Mr Bender your motion on the table is in support of the recommendation that assistant superintendent Matthew schulenberg has presented regarding the cop that is already in um our possession that is within the prop 40 fund that is correct that's what I want to do I taught at Apple for 30 years we didn't have a football field till 1988 right went to Granite taught for 10 years we didn't have a football field had two kids graduate from there retired this is my 16th year on the board we need a dam Stadium at Granite and we're going to get one thank you we too is there a is there a second for Mr venders um and I'll second it what's that all in favor I any opposed thank you it is recommended that the Board of Trustees consider approving a number of agenda items as a consent list consent items are routine in nature and can be enacted in one motion without further discussion this procedure conserves meeting time for a full discussion of significant issues consent items to be approved in one motion are items 1 through 36 I need a motion so move does anybody have anything to pull all in favor I I any opposed so carara if I really fast I just want to confirm for the record um for discussion action item um number two um I do have a motion by Mr RC Mr RC I want to confirm that your uh motion was to take the recommendation that was presented by Mr schulenberg not to exceed the $10 million for the cop new ISS issuance and if I could add to that that's also to utilize the elop and developer fees that we currently have in hand so it will be multi multi funded multifunding sources for the transitional kindergarten project thank you thank you um we don't need to go to close session um can I get a motion for let's see future items is there is there any anybody that has any future item to add for next board meeting no so we move to adjourn and then wait for signatures thank you so much for coming oh I need it I need a motion to adjourn I make a motion we adjourn all in favor

check one check two check three Greensburg prom you want to mute e e e [Music] yes e for e for r e okay ladies and gentlemen we are getting ready to go live here students are coming in right now and we'll be interviewing them here I'm Mike Myers building principal I have Kyle sers with me who's in charge of GTV and we'll be talking to our students you also see cameos by all of our valet drivers as they're making their mad dashes back and forth that's the 20 24 Greensburg prom y yep good evening Preston and Stevie how are you guys doing tonight we're doing all right what about you not too bad dinner tonight or last night last night last night last night where did you guys go Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A over in Columbus no we got the Chick-fil-A truck oh even better even better and then we went bowling bowling yeah I wanted to switch it up okay what you what you score um my last yeah my last game I scored 107 all right get any uh turkeys no no no I did you did you let him win Stevie yeah okay okay yeah that's what she said guys ready to have a good time tonight yeah yeah I am awesome awesome I can't wait to see you I haven't seen it yet it looks great in there all right so you guys enjoy you guys look great thank Youk [Music] hey guys how are you doing pretty good introduce everybody Carri I'm carrian West this is zoie bird and that's William Browder awesome how we doing what dinner tonight last night tonight tonight where' we go Pacos in Westport nice nice what kind of car we drive tonight uh Dodge Hornet there you go there you go ready to have a good evening yep awesome will you guys look great enjoy the evening thank you hold on a second Wade make sure we talk into the microphone let all the people hear you got so Wade being a tennis boy what's with the flow we keeping it long for next season or no yeah oh I like it Mr Mars what do you think about the flow I don't know it's it's pretty floppy pretty floppy is floppy but it'll be something won't it it'll be something you guys all ready to have a good evening oh yeah liking the liking the Nikes there okay dress looks beautiful thank you so guys have a great evening enjoy yourselves hey Abigail Jasmine hi Lily all right everybody introduce yourselves uh hi I'm abig Sebastian I'm Lily Hanam I'm what kind of car do we drive tonight ladies um we don't know got dropped off dropped us off so we just walked up here awesome awesome you you guys ready to have a good evening yep dinner tonight or last night uh today today where'd you guys go Culver there you go chicken sandwiches love it Butter Burgers you got to get you get a get a cement mix or there you go yum ladies have a wonderful evening you look great okay guys hey stop here at the microphone Powers get over there we got to do it together we got to do it together all right make sure we're speaking in the mic get nice and close please all right introduce yourselves all right I'm Adam Powers best basketball player Weber jie Smith Austin Cruz Austin loving the suit coat there the very very very uh debonaire there all right hey where did uh where we do dinner we did it at Texas Road house last night or tonight last night okay what kind of vehicles did we arrive in tonight an F-150 F-150 a Thunderbird a thunder you had the yellow Thunderbird that was very sweet looking awesome you guys ready to have a good evening awesome awesome enjoy yourselves thank you the two dynamics of Greensburg a Thunderbird and an F-150 there you go that's a variety that's a decater county variety right there awesome enjoy guys thank you how how we doing ladies doing pretty good pretty good Miss Ally did you drive Lo the car you got locked in the car I get locked in the car it wouldn't open wouldn't open what we what were you driving blacked out car couldn't tell you blacked out card couldn't tell you come on through Mr Chris you're not seeing anything that's what's cool about it all right so uh okay I haven't asked this question yet favorite teacher you definitely he's admin now though yeah he's admin now I was I was alli's 10th grade English teacher remind you everybody Taylor Mrs Taylor piol there you go even though I'm not good at it all right all right it's okay ladies you look great have a wonderful evening we got a oh look at this look at these colors first on the mic star Faker get up there first on the mic yes come on through coach is that mandatory yes what we what we what we what are we wearing here what we got a blue jacket a flower print tie and pants there you go what's the wrist piece let me see it's my grandpa's I thought it was Rolex oh okay it's okay I'm just messing I'm teasing Pink Suit love that too yeah H yeah look at that oh yeah uh yeah know someone called me Ken so I had to go all in for it all right so you're gonna break out into the uh I am kin song tonight Poss possibly what's up man uh doing good doing good I'm like I'm digging that outfit as well like the flower tie yeah you see uh just had to go with like the gender reveal colors there you go that's awesome fellas hey you guys have a great evening thanks you guys dress to kill fellas introduce yourselves to everybody talk into the mic Trevor Kore there we go that's basically it yeah that's his name Owen Wheatley there we go y what's up I'm George slaven I like to shout out Jerry Mormon there we go our first shout out of the night I love it there we go there we go what kind of vehicle we arrive in fellas Mustang nice nice very good all right uh favorite teacher at the high school for each one of you McCoy okay Miss McCoy Mr minz Mr minz Mr Men or Mrs Adams there we go well done good variety Adams will appreciate that she's right inside yeah she's right inside fellas en enjoy your evening all right hello ladies hi introduce yourselves I'm Brook I'm Lily all right did we uh do dinner tonight last night this morning this morning where did we go to breakfast Cracker Barrel oh breakfast at Cracker Barrel sounds amazing that sounds it does sound wonderful what what what uh breakfast meal did you go with uh biscuits and gravy nice can't go wrong with B's and G's at all favorite teacher Mr Pratt Mr Pratt miss miss cmer two good ones right there ladies you look great enjoy your evening Texas Road yes going to college for nursing colus thank you thank you how are we y I'm doing very well just come here to support Leah here yes she does oh yeah yep we're all matching look at that all right thank you look at this cool cat over here yeah oh my God this is spectacular Jesse you look great beards off and everything sad day looks like a normal human now man it's crazy yes it did very well yeah yeah I am yeah I forgot about that yeah it'll be fun uh we had a 2024 Ram uh TRX it was nice yeah all righty thank thank you oh sorry thank you good uh I think I'm going list in either the Air Force or the Navy so yeah you guys keep talking there we go I'm back live so Dylan you keep talking going into the Navy next year yeah the Navy or the Air Force Navy or Air Force awesome those are great plans you guys ready to have a great evening yep yep all right guys enjoy yourselves thumbs up up for the crowd as he leaves okay big CP there he is and Miss Riley how are you guys good what we what we drive tonight Bronco Bronco Ford Bronco that's Mr Harris photo bombs you guys right there okay all right so dinner last night yeah okay where'd you go Morton Morton oh Morton oh my senior year nice good choice okay you're fine Morton steak out what get the biggest steak on the menu did nice well done well done where are we headed to uh school next year again I'm gonna go to IUI iuui Indie there you go Purdue boiler up yuck oh yeah all right enjoy guys have a great evening bye Cooper and he stepped on the dress clumsy Braden and Yan Marie how you guys doing doing good doing good you guys look great thank you awesome what what kind of vehicle did you guys arrive in tonight uh we took Jana's aunt's car awesome Jeep a Jeep very cool very cool what are the uh what's your plans Yan Marie after After High School probably to college awesome awesome bradden favorite teacher at school um I probably have to say Mr Simpson Mr Simpson well done guys look great enjoy your evening you too good evening step up to the mic introduce yourselves to the world here alexand K there we go Alex hi that's all I'm getting from you well done well done what we what we drive tonight guys sorry what what D what did you drive tonight my friend AJ took us here nice nothing wrong with that okay was dinner last night or tonight tonight tonight where we go uh chili chilies very good can't go wrong with that dig the Jays thank you that's very nice you guys ready have a great evening oh yeah awesome enjoy you guys look great good evening hi you guys want to introduce yourselves to everybody uh Savannah Wy and Damen Jackson awesome Savanah how's uh everything going this year good good favorite teacher at the school um uh probably Mr driver the welding teacher welding teacher yeah he came in at second semester for us that's your jam back there isn't it yeah is that you're going to be a future plan for you maybe uh yeah I got a pipe welding job lined up awesome awesome you guys look great enjoy your evening thank you Angelina how are you I'm good ready to have a great evening yes you look great thank you where' we get the dress um golden neet pawn shop love it awesome can't go wrong with that did you drive yourself you get dropped off I drive myself all right what'd you drive my mom's vehicle your mom's vehicle nothing wrong with that nothing wrong with that Angelina you have a wonderful evening tonight good evening Alexis how are you good how are you who's this guy with you Camden Lowden yeah you allow him to tag along don't you yeah yeah I don't have to ask you who your favorite teacher is because I know where you hang out 247 I live there yes in Mrs Al Brand's room she does live there she does live there I will say this though she made me an excellent birthday cake she she gave you a birthday cake yes she did yes I did she did cuz she likes me Mr sers no proud proud for you Mr Myers yeah no you guys look great uh what' you guys drive tonight uh a white Jeep Wrangler white Jeep Wrangler very good very goodp off no can't mess up hair can't mess up the hair can't mess up the hair okay but look at that Alexis did you dress him I did yeah I can tell I can tell hey you guys have a wonderful evening thank you hello guys introduce yourselves everybody I'm Mason s and she's Natalie Rogers Natalie Rogers and Mason s how are we at's Ste where dinner last night or tonight uh last night last night where'd you go Texas Roadhouse Texas Roadhouse what was what was the uh big part of the meal for you Mason nice nice baked potato the road house did you go load a baked potato with it no okay fries French French fries and rice wrong with that I love it going up on the starch okay well done favorite teacher at school teacher yeah I don't really got one don't have a don't have a favorite teacher that's okay didn't have to have one Mr Mr Men there you go men is if we had a leader board up right now Mr Men is on the leaderboard I would say I'm going to do that next year I'm going to post a piece of paper right here and just sounds you guys look great enjoy your evening thank you yep come on up Plymouth how are you sir good how are you not too bad what's is the Hat got anything going on on it or is it just all black hat all okay okay I'll like everything I like it it's How We Roll huh it's how he rolls it's how he rolls it is I do like his new hairstyle though I do great I like it like I like the color matches the purple pops off the black you guys look great favorite teachers for you Mr wild Mr Wilds Mrs Swank Mrs Swank awesome great choices on the board yep very good guys enjoy your evening look look at that that's Gibson he returned and Milana how are you guys good good what you drive tonight no for Ford Focus a Ford Focus nothing wrong with a Ford Focus it got you here right they got they asked us asked us okay let's see eco-friendly yeah what do I what do I let's see okay Milana tell everybody about your big Art Award that you won this year um my Scholastic art portfolio a gold key in regionals and I'm moving on to National there you go Milana is multi-talented in so many aspects where are you headed to uh school next year um IU Indianapolis the Haron School of Art very cool very cool she's going to do great things and you've got Gibson on your arm so that's not a that's not a bad thing life there you go there you go you guys have a great evening thank you hi Lionel hi Mr Myers guess what what I saw your mom at dinner tonight yeah she was telling me about it that was pretty awesome yeah so we made sure to to let her know some different things so Lionel tell everybody your plans for next year because you got some unique plans yeah so next year I plan on working uh for a few years and then I plan on going back to Germany and starting my own coffee shop and along with jazz there you go favorite teacher at the high school liel do you count I still do count as your favorite teacher that is exactly correct that's two for me Mr sers D so no it's great to see you Lionel enjoy your evening thank you look at look at Le Desma here he always knows how to he's bringing it is pulling off a heck of a mustache too yeah I know I know all right introduce yourself guys I am Damen this is Abigail all right favorite teacher Daman Mr Simpson Mr Simpson missal brand Miss brand good choices right there they're both on the board you guys look great you guys ready to have a great evening awesome enjoy your night hey guys how are you doing good introduce yourselves to everybody I'm s this is Kay wol nice good to see both of you uh dinner last night or tonight uh we had Manos and we went out for Sonic ice cream oh very good what kind of ice cream I got a well I got a peanut butter milk chick and she got a strawberry cheesecake strawberry oh good choices Sam did you pick the color tonight it was all her of course it's a good choice great yeah Kaye did a great job dressing them didn't she okay hey guys you do look great enjoy your evening thank you Miss kayin how are you good how are you this is the young man I had to make sure that got verified by uh Mr Allen down at down at Batesville I guess we'll allow some Batesville people here it's all good no it's all it's all good you guys look great dinner last night or tonight we went last night where' we go to hiachi and Columbus nice nice whatever yeah yeah they cook it right there in front of you and all that good good stuff yes awesome plans after school for you we going to college for Education what grade level I'm not sure yet that's okay it's all good it's all good you guys look great like the like the Nikes that you're supporting you supporting them too look at that doubles nice well done guys have a great evening how are you too good how are you Connor good to see you to wait got it just gonna need to fix your collar there a little bit there it's messed up all right Kiana you just can't you just can't keep him no all right what's the what's the future plans Kiana I know you just got yeah you got that coming and and uh right into the workforce for now nothing wrong with that okay looking great favorite teacher Kiana probably you I set that one up though I I I knew I knew that answer was coming Connor teer yeah double back back double Myers is riding a high here we go all right hey no you guys look great enjoy your evening good to see you stepping in real quick all right green light's still on okay make sure we talk into the mic I can barely hear you guys Alex and Claire how are you guys doing doing good doing good who who who picked the whole combo me that was all me yep and I like the red yes match the car there oh what kind of car 2019 Stingray Corvette that's that's the that's Stingray here we go I wanted to let her eat over there but I was afraid someone was going let her eat you should have or something yeah well you know we kind of frown upon those things but you know it's prom do no you're looking great all right future plans what are we doing on our next Journey I'm going to IU yep yep I'm going to be working with the ibw that's right we had big Signing Day for for you guys earlier this week so guys look great enjoy your evening thank you how we doing guys uce yourselves to everybody I'm Patrick yep I'm Sam Workman awesome not Samar nice horrific I love it who picked the outfit combo she chose a dress but I was like we need gold so little gold accent I like it dinner last night or tonight we went to bua deos last night oh bu Deo that's a great place Italian at us kind of weird we had a big PO on our table Yeah fre freak me out that's not terrifying at all yeah all right uh future plans for you guys I'm going to Ball State next year chirp chir Mr sers boy we little shout out cre writing and business awesome nice I'm a junior this year but I want to go to Ball State too awesome there you go Mr sers is all fired up there you go all right enjoy your evening Alex how are you sir doing wonderful today introduce everybody here this is my girlfriend Alissa there you go look look beautiful did did Alyssa pick the combination colors tonight okay and everything looks good the Boer and the all that like the jewelry as well okay what'd you drive tonight Alex oh just an F-150 F1 just an F-150 nothing there's nothing wrong with just an F-150 I suppose you're right okay did you did you lit it out a little bit did I what did you lit it out and see what it would do no good good for you didn't you want to get didn't want to get in trouble with an SRO tonight did you I can't afford it they can't afford a ticket either no nobody can for there you go you guys look great enjoy your evening good evening sir introduce yourself I'm Enrique MTO Enrique digging the Nikes look at those we got those on camera I think maybe nope nope that's okay throw a foot up there or something look at those there it is Enrique favorite teacher at the high school um probably Miss B Miss B good choice favorite all around yep well done uh ready to have a great evening sir yes enjoy it have fun look at these fellas oh my gosh you taking this one I I don't even know how to take this one I feel like I'm watching 21 Jump Street again wow got that a coup there we go this is amazing what was the decision behind this um just ready to rock and roll I love it dri too hard that's a fair statement cuz they are they're rocking it right now you guys got it you guys you look great you got to let everybody know who you are though we didn't I'm rder Walter this is my boyfriend there you go guys joking guys enjoy your evening you look great how are you guys doing good good good to see you in excuse me introduce yourselves trist H good to see you Tristan Garrett where did you uh take her to dinner uh Texas Road last night or tonight last night last night did you get the biggest steak on the menu yeah I got sirloin there you go two sirloin that's the second sirloin that's the second sirloin reference we had tonight about three baskets of rolls there nothing wrong with that take some home too that's right got to have got to have the road Rolls Road rolls okay hey you guys look great enjoy your evening thank you you too how are you ma'am I'm good how are you you brought this guy back with you huh yeah unfortunately yeah she said you me home no looking great Angela thank you love the colors and the sequence going on in the dress okay tell us about your future plans um I'm going to IU Columbus for nursing awesome Chandler is farming yes awesome well done Chandler there you go there you go well hey guys enjoy your evening you look great have a blast thank you there's Hannah and Miss Sammy we do have another teacher here Mr M is here where' we get the dresses yeah um this is from Denim and honey I think hers is online from a store I don't remember awesome Sam necklaces too are there any bugs are there any bugs on my are you going to get me team player look at that look at that Miss Sammy you look beautiful tonight so does Hannah Hannah future plans for you um to Ivy Tech for nursing awesome awesome you guys have a wonderful evening Sammy great to see you thank you Gwen how are you good how are you awesome guys all looking great did you pick all the Combos and colors I I don't think we're going to have a guy being like hey I got all the color I think you never know I bet Mr M picked I bet Mr M Pi there's no way M did right okay no uh dinner last night or tonight last night where'd you go Texas Roadhouse there's another Texas Roadhouse reference Mr sellers about four it is I think there's just a big table Yeah it had been steak and basket RS look at that more sir and rolls yeah that that is the choice okay favorite teachers um Mr Pratt M Mr Pratt I got don't have one yet first Pratt and our first I don't oh that's our second I don't that's our second I don't know yeah only Mr Pratt yeah none so no mes M disappoint hey you guys look great enjoy your evening hi ladies hello how are you good how are you not too bad you just you're just making me laugh Zoe that's I'm sorry I I know I know he's easily easy to laugh at right yeah he is so Zoe keeps asking me about a senior prank she wants to pull a senior prank you want to pull a senior prank that'll work I think it'll be fine right yeah you think it'll be funny yeah I don't know rolls I don't know what'd your drive tonight Zoe uh Kia K5 2024 nice nice dinner last night or tonight neither neither no no food for you can't risk that oh okay can't can't risk it okay favorite teacher Cody Dev there you go first of old my standing right here did you see that I got another one that's like Myers is four that's about four five now for me Mr M you guys have a wonderful evening you look great thank you they're going to try and sneak behind they're sneaking behind oh sneaking in okay no questions for those two all right all right they didn't want to be on camera they were on there they were on there very briefly introduce yourself guys I'm Z Isa Marissa Powers how are we doing tonight good good Marissa did you pick all the colors I did okay the dress is beautiful made him look good too so that's that's part of it right okay what you drive tonight Chevy Silverado nice what year thousand okay all right I'm looking at a Silverado that's why that's that's what I'm looking at okay favorite teacher uh coach Jackson say it again coach Jackson coach Jackson We an interview with him I think he's over there Mr devold another Mr devold on the table all right guys you look great enjoy your evening thank you come on up light's still green here hold on a second yeah we're good make sure we talk into it Tori introduce Miss Ella I Ella I was about get to call your dad and say like I don't know about this one I I don't know if I can approve this person sorry no it's all good Ella Ella's joining us this evening so it's great to have her here to be here where'd you guys go to dinner um a just did a dinner at home nothing wrong with that okay uh let's see future plans Ella for you I'm going to Huntington University for psychology degree that's awesome and Tori we got one more year right okay favorite teacher for you Tori oh hard to choose very hard to pick very hard to pick I'd probably say though you hang out Mrs million's office pretty much 24/7 so if she was a teacher that'd be your favorite teacher that's your favorite hangout spot all right you guys look great enjoy your evening thank you oh my goodness look at this Trio I mean this is going to be great I feel like this going to be a terrific interview danger is always always ready Tyler is great on the mic hey in thums up from introduce yourselves give a shout out if you need to Jacobs I'm Jason benil I'm Tyler dwinger awesome oh everybody's looking all sve and Debon okay yeah yeah can you spell that Hunter absolutely no shot you didn't want any part of it it's okay it's all right man I'm just messing with it we had big Signing Day for a couple of you guys this week right absolutely tell us about those future plans Marine Corp Marine Corps there you go enlisted in the Marine Corps enlisted in the Marine Corps I know Tyler's going to work for a while here and uh if you ever need somebody who's a great gamer though Tyler jinger's your man so that Super Smash Brothers right there fellas any shout outs you want to give or favorite teacher Mr mint like give a shout out to Min as well M Min a three for a hat trick for Mr mint right there fellas have a great evening men might have Eclipse double digits I think Min has Eclipse double digits for for for everything oh Lance about into the mic I can't hear anything these kids are saying you can't okay now we got you all rightful wait to get l it's very direct Taylor are you controlling him tonight no that was all her yeah did you did you did you pick the color scheme I did I did pick this colors yeah I had to match oh yeah do what you're told Lance yep that's that's Yes dear okay how may I help you dearer those are rules to live by okay okay what's the first dance move we're pulling out tonight Lance orange Justice orange Justice do you know what that is I don't fortnite Myers doesn't play fortnite that's crazy I I'll just watch for Lance okay go all right guys you look great enjoy your evening thank you my first tennis player I'm so excited oh wait sorry first girls tennis player sorry L yeah sounds exactly like Mary K po she had no idea who it was all right introduce yourselves I'm Mary hor yep say a little louder Aiden Lang there you go Aiden hey where'd you guys go to dinner uh har har and izes Harry and izes ooh Harry and izes did you guys get did you guys get the shrimp cocktail no oh okay I I'm the same way I won't get the shrimp cocktail unless I'm at uh St Elmo so uh you get a good steak good sandwich what'd you go for turkey burger turkey burger nice I got a pizza a pizza wow can't go wrong with that stuff there all right what we drive tonight truck don't know what kind of truck though Raptor Raptor nice nice you guys are looking great enjoy your evening I actually saw a hunter on my way here Hunter pull up that tie a little bit bud just little bit there you go a boy cuz Lily is my neighbor just down the street so okay how you guys doing good good where'd you go to dinner before prom or last night tya tya yeah yeah good stuff right there all right L you out the color scheme um yeah good I'm glad you did not Hunter cuz Hunter I'm just messing with you yeah favorite teacher at school oh that's tough I don't got a favorite I like them all like them all so we we've gotten I don't like I don't have any that's our first like them all Miss McCoy that's our third Miss McCoy McCoy all right you guys look great enjoy your evening thank you thank you m is just looking up at the stars right now just sitting here look look at at this that Shades yeah well done into the shrub right where uh what' you guys drive tonight Camaro Camaro Camaro what color Camaro uh silver and black silver and black okay all right let's see what else you got for him Mr sellers dresses where do we get them Denim and honey Denim and honey den and honey well done you can't go wrong with that that's about the fifth or sixth shout out for a Denim and honey dress tonight okay nothing wrong with that ladies you look great enjoy your evening right there got to represent represent your Denim and honey right there of course there we go introduce yourselves to everybody my name is Brooklyn Clark my name is Austin Co Austin I like the uh combination there of the uh the suit and the tie matches everything really well the the corsage is very pretty look at that and the nails that back up there get your matchy matchy look at that all matchy matchy matchy match call it matchy matchy all right favorite teachers Brooklyn and Austin I say Miss Taylor Miss Taylor there say mang Mr mangles first mangles a while he's quiz dodging he's quiz dodging quiz dodging qu dog qu dodging so are you got one ready for him Mr mice inside how electric would that be if he just pulled that out on Monday I was going to say we we could probably get a room here in the elementary for for a quick quiz hey guys you look great have a good evening thank you so much I'm stacking up the line I might need to talk faster but yeah I don't know I think everybody's having oh look who it is look who it is look at that all shiny and orange and everything introduce your date there miss Alexis rain talk up come up a little closer to the mic come closer there we this is rain this is rain okay rain what kind of vehicle would you drive tonight G nice he's got it down down he's probably going to tell us the motor and everything I bet okay he knows the numbers of his motor hey can't do anything wrong with that man Alexis what's the plan After High School uh Radiology Radiology well done favorite teacher um you or or Mr B I mean Mrs B Miss B okay there you go do you know fun fact Miss bat and I have the same birthday well maybe there you go it is there you go okay guys you look great enjoy the evening introduce yourselves there my name is Parker I'm Evie cler Evie and Parker looking great like the purple thank you I'm sure did you pick it yes I did actually I'm telling you there's not going to be a guy there's not going to be a guy tonight said well I pick the color schemes I don't well no maybe Wilson here next I don't know maybe he maybe he picked the color schemes tonight I don't know but no all right where didd you get the dress um Sherry Hill okay yeah I've heard of I've heard of Sherry Hill yep very good dinner where did we go Cheesecake Factory first Cheesecake Factory first did you go for the cheesecake at the end too honestly no we didn't get any cheesecake after we were too full too full but they they make tog go boxes oh I know we should have I love the chocolate cake there so you guys look great enjoy the evening thank you so much introduce yourselves there Wilson my name's Wilson yeah Ella Ella nice to meet you where we where' we go to dinner uh Montana mics ah good choice never been to Montana mics I hear great things no I got the messy Mike burer messy M oh go today or last night uh we went last night very good what's going on with the hat any anything anything on the hat no nothing really he does want to show the whole flow he doesn't want to show the flow surprise at least he doesn't have the man bun or something going there what's wrong with a man bun D I can't rock a man bun no you guys look great enjoy your evening like the matching kicks too you know who could pull off a man bun this next guy guy right there definitely could no man no man Bud for Tav huh all right how are we doing good you guys don't look too no no excitement talk who you me D where do we get where we get the whole outfit at I got mine at den den honey in Honey I got mine in New Orleans in New Orleans woo or New Orleans you can say no no no there we go there we go one word what should we ask Tav what his first dance Boo's gonna be tonight yeah I think he's got a good one for us that's that's what I was going to say he was gonna say I don't know I don't know all right uh what are we doing After High School guys um I'm I think I'm going be be a mechanic be a mechanic awesome going to college be element School teach there you go there you go you guys have a great evening bye guys hi guys introduce yourselves everybody my name is Jacob Adams I'm Brooklyn Pucket welcome welcome you guys look great Emerald there for that color where we get the dress I got mine from Windsor I got mine from Windsor Windsor okay am I running low okay Mr sers has to make sure that I'm not breaking microphones and so forth so just going to stand here watch the green oh you're watching the green light okay these kids are so quiet they're out of school now they're all quiet yeah they're well they're they're holding back they're going to have fun inside I guess okay what do we drive tonight uh 2022 Ford Bronco nice nice dinner last night or tonight uh last night okay roadh House Road Texas Roadhouse how many is that now about 10 five or six yeah sirloins or did you guys go with something different yeah sirloin I got chicken chicken nothing wrong with chicken okay baskets full of rolls I'm sure oh yeah all right guys you look great enjoy the evening going now here's somebody who might have picked the color who picked the color who who picked the uh wardrobe tonight Carson was oh Cadence did pick it Oh I thought I thought I might have finally I thought I might have had one where where uh Carson might have said no this is what we got to go with cadence I swear no good job Cadence you dressed him well okay where'd you guys go to dinner Stone Creek dining company Stone Stones Stone Creek Stone Creek I've never been there okay good stuff yes good fancy it's fancy real nice real nice oh yeah well yeah Carson's on his way to Rose Homan correct Cadence on her way to IU okay you guys ready to conquer the world absolutely awesome guys enjoy your evening you look great thank you Addison Barnes P it the first time we get one of these hunchbacks yeah he's he's got he's got to come down and talk into it interview style introduce your date there this is uh this is Lila this is Lila Murray nice well done great combo matching everything okay right I know that's what I was thinking what'd you drive today Addison uh we just drove my new Nissan truck my my new Nissan Titan Titan the Titan I saw it parked in the parking lot he's getting shots up before prom okay he's getting shots up before prom always always got to always got to work on the game yeah always AB we should ask him first dance first dance move tonight ask what we going with first dance move yeah might have to go whip I'm wh NE wh n NE I know I know what that the other one earlier I did not know but that's okay guys have a great evening you look great thank you come on through Kelo look at this clown Kelo and Avery o look at the shoes pull put put a foot up yeah we got to see those look at those shoes did we get it we got it yeah we got them we got the shoes love it Avery is a superstar office Helper and she's broken out of her shell this year she can actually sass back at me Bryson yeah yeah Bryson's always gonna be Bryson Bryson favorite teacher uh right Kyle first one sellers there we go he got one Avery favorite teacher don't ask you that question she doesn't want to pick favorites no favorites okay them you love them all equally well you guys look great enjoy your evening thank you hey guys how are you we're good I did not even recognize you there at first Elijah oh my gosh how are you I'm good how are you she turned around I'm like that's Elijah what's going on there Kaye how are you good loving the color there look great what's the plans I what are UK is that right awesome what are you going to study at UK computer engineering Computer Engineering I didn't even think about Kentucky I just heard UK and I was like oh England yeah pro wrestler now Mr M give him a shout out love it yeah very good guys you look great enjoy the evening thank you hi Zoe hi who do you have with you Alicia Vargas well nice to see you there where' you guys go to dinner we went to Ruth Chris that's where I just went for my birthday a few weeks ago yeah what'd you get steak steak I did too there good stuff pretty expensive it is expensive it's worth it's worth the uh money that you Pony up though it's probably one of the top five staks I've ever had in my life so top one for me all right where' we get our dresses uh I got mine at EXO Sophia's okay Windsor Windsor there's a second Windsor shout out very good ladies you look great enjoy your evening thank you don't step and ruin the dress that was close that was a close one wasn't it introduce yourselves to everybody I'm ly and Jones Li Diaz nice nice where do we get our dresses ladies I got mine at Denim and honey Denim and honey Denim and honey is kicking Crush Denon honey is like the number one there you go there you go I got mine at Windor at Winder all right dinner tonight or last night last night where' we go lre lre nice Super Donkey anything like that or what we go with a steak steak good I got a cheesec cheesec cadilla cheese quesadilla favorite teachers before you go m b Miss B Miss B Miss B couple Miss badas there you go enjoy your evening ladies thank you hi Caitlyn hi did you bring this guy again yes there he is did did uh did Stephanie do your hair no she couldn't today she couldn't oh no shout out for look at that whole flower UNR right there it's awesome look at that she's decked out man Connor stepped up his game this year didn't he crushing it he crushed it he's looking great too she dressed you didn't she and the kicks look at that the K the shoes it was all laid out get a foot up we got to get a foot up yeah get the foot up and show your kicks crd there you go there you go looking great Caitlyn what's what do you got going on after high school um I plan on going to college for nursing college for nursing Connor I'm going to school for diesel nice well done Connor's another one of these guys we allow from Batesville to show up that's okay interesting he's a good guy he's a keeper all right guys enjoy your evening thank you oh man he went for the dead leg there how we doing guys Wonder introduce yourselves to everybody althan hey Lexi what's the plan after high school college for biology college for biology Ethan how's everything going for you wonderful good could be better could be better but but wonderful for now right yeah there we go where do we go to dinner Texas Road Texas Roadhouse how many people did you see at Texas Roadhouse that you knew was was all of Greensburg at Texas Roadhouse I was going to say it almost sounds like it do you guys go sirloins or change it up from everybody else what was what was your what was your meal it's a piece of meat fet okay same thing same thing all right you guys look like you would like Mr Myers just shut up and let us move on no all right hey you guys look great enjoy your evening thank you Miss Vanessa how are you good how are you doing good y all ready there Elliot yeah I'm ready Elliot looks like he's part of the gemstone family for those that get that reference yeah they're looking great though aren't they they look SPAC they look spectacular they do they do all right Vanessa favorite teacher Jackson Jackson Jackson I'm go Mr min Mr minz Mr mint is crushing it this year Mr minz is absolutely crushing it he's he's doing a great job okay all right let's see what else can't think of too much else my brain's going a little dead here at the moment okay you guys look great enjoy your evening we'll catch you later all right Olivia and Bryson hello okay is Bryson is Bryson gonna mess up at anything thing tonight I don't think so why I don't know I just I just like to give Bryson a hard time he looks he looks fine Bryson looks good he does look great okay Olivia looks even better though doesn't she thank you okay all right where do we go to dinner uh Fogo toow o that's the first Fogo to Chow reference isn't it yeah it is it is good stuff it is good stuff what'd you drive tonight Bryson uh 03 DX nice nice okay you guys ready to have a great evening absolutely enjoy it you guys look great thank you Franchesca and Gavin how are you guys how are you looking great I can't hear you you got to talk in the mic I'm doing good how you doing you're in my class man Franchesca where'd you get your dress Denim and honey Denim and honey Denim and honey is they they are for the win here in town they are awesome they are awesome where do we go do dinner uh Olive Garden Olive Garden bread stick bottomless bottomless stuff bread sticks there you go there you go you guys ready to have a great evening enjoy she weren oh she's got I know I know I know okay wait I should say Franchesca favorite teacher not Mr M not he still shut out this is hilarious he's been staying here forever oh my gosh all right you guys have a great evening look at those shoes look at those shoes pretty drippy let's see there we go oh man keny did you pick those out for him I did those are those are awesome sick those are awesome all right I like the bow tie combination too apprciate it looks great all right what uh what we drive tonight uh we drove my truck okay 2011 Chevy Silverado okay good deal good deal did you get Denim and honey dress I'm I'm I'm almost that's that's pretty much automatic since Kinsey works there so and all everything guys you look great enjoy your evening appreciate it you too yep will watch the will do not step on Em's dress she will body slam you probably will what we gonna do with him dude uh I don't know yet figured out he's my dress where didd you get the dress um a place in like Cincy a place in Cincy I've heard of that one that's a good place did you did you make sure that will Matched he took care of it actually that was my mom's doing that was your mom's doing that our first guy took care of it but Mom yeah but Mom did it mom did it okay all right I love em is on her way to the University of Delaware to throw and she's going to keep keep breaking records got a big month ahead of you hopefully I hope so too I hope so who's your favorite teacher uh it's Mr Jackson Mr Jackson you can't vote for your dad I I think I can yeah I guess think Jackson had the longest odds there yeah I think so yeah that's all right all right guys enjoy your evening thank you Kaylee how are you doing whole crew oh we got a whole crew whole crew coming okay and Anna and everybody everybody introduce yourselves here Jade Jade all right where we go to dinner didn't no dinner last night or tonight okay Taco Bell later or something or there you go there you go all right what we drive my dad's truck your dad's truck your dad's got some pretty sweet cars so all right ladies you look beautiful enjoy your evening everybody just wave goodbye on the camera how we doing ladies good come in close to the mic come introduce yourselves I'm carrian Olivia beautiful dresses where' we get them Denim and honey and honey Denim and honey we there might just be a given and we probably just just put a sign behind here denam and honey Greensburg prom sponsored by den and honey basically no yeah it is uh where' we go to dinner 450 North 450 North nice nice go pizza or did you go something different uh pizza pizza good deal favorite teachers for everybody bada bada bada and and mints bada bada mint B bada mints bada bada mints and mint that's almost sounds like some you sell at softball game or something all right ladies have a great evening you too woo how we doing guys I love it introduce yourselves to everybody Conor Ray johy all right Connor the hat is kicking I love it thank you and the coat everything looks great what are the plans after graduation Connor uh Rodeo Rodeo keep Rod I guess nice it looks great looks great where do we do dinner sus here in town eight here in town nice well done all right guys enjoy your evening thank you how we doing introduce yourselves good I'm Chase Chase and sailor huh sailor sailor oh I didn't hear yeah I couldn't hear her she was sailor where'd you get your dress um Cincinnati at coats of Oats nice very pretty made sure Chase matched I'm sure good right it does match good spacular bher and everything looks great as well the cage favorite teachers Mrs cmer Mrs cmer good choice c yeah Mrs CER as well she's chill yeah chill she is Chill she is pretty chill okay guys enjoy your evening look great thank you oh God Miley and Klein how are you guys we might get our best sound by of the night from this kid over here yeah if you hear him yeah you got to talk into the mic though okay all right where we drive tonight uh black Dodge 3500 nice cab not hear it down the road that that was that was you guys okay where do we do dinner maos that's an Italian yeah I ate there a couple weeks ago at majanos good this if you go Italian got to do this what what what was the uh what was the plate that you chose um I got a margarita flatbread pizza nice yep yep I got pasta yep good choices good choices okay favorite teacher before you go definitely CER CER tby that's a guidance counselor that's guance T's On Top okay Sound by the night there you go enjoy amet and Bradley how are you guys great how are you I'm going to assume am picked the colors because she only wears pink I picked pink okay all right that's a lie Bradley don't lie I'm I'm lying I'm lying okay what' you drive Bradley a Lincoln Aviator o oh that's right that's right very nice very nice where did we get the dress we got it at Coos and Cincinnati there's there's another coat those very good very good favorite teacher before you go I'll say Mr sers there you go probably sellers or CER sellers or CER half point there we go there we go you guys look great enjoy your eting before you leave Drake or Kendrick who won I'm not goingon to lie Kendrick oh wow Drake rap battle's going on rap battle B how we doing ladies introduce yourselves step up to the mic I'm Tori get up Tor and Emma look great thank you you all ready to have some fun oh absolutely absolutely all right favorite teachers Miss kid Miss kid Miss kid okay Mr Pratt Mr Pratt there's another Pratt the first Miss Mrs kid that's great all right ladies have a wonderful evening you too thank you look at rank do not step on the dress no kidding as he kicks it just out of here he says yeah just just kick it why don't you hey you're supposed to reach down and move it very gently close enough can you not keep him in control I'm trying all right where'd you get the dress Hannah Co in Cincinnati there's another one of those that's like three in a row okay did you pick all the colors as well I did good good what' you drive Braden we drove a Tesla Model 3 Tesla I think it's our first Tesla we had 60 in 3.4 seconds I'm sure rank test weren't doing that though our SRO just walked by here I might have to find him in just a second okay favorite teachers before you go Mr mice Mr mice first one I'm gonna have to give it out to The One and Only Kyle sers oh there you go finally leaves there you go Mr M actually I have like five five to one on M five to one yeah that better help my calculus grade it won't guys have a wonderful evening you look great Lexi and Miles how are you guys good how are you good I love the whole bouquet there of flowers that is beautiful where'd you get the dress tooto in Cincinnati man they're they took a whole bus down there they must have we must have anybody that didn't get denam and honey they went to Cincinnati so there you go what we drive tonight uh Tesla Model 3 oh a Tesla as well they came to I don't even you're with you can't drive oh that's right miles can't drive yet that's okay he might have had someone show for him and that's what he did nothing wrong with that that's okay that's all right uh let's see dinner what'd you guys do dinner Top Golf Top Golf that's awesome that is great that's sick that is great that is awesome that's a good choice people should do that have fun do you have wings and play golf and that kind of stuff awesome awesome very good next season there you go there you go guys have a great evening you look great thank you blast from the past oh brought Mr Granger danger with okay had had first year at Ball State go Granger it was amazing it was amazing him all right he looks scared a boy there Claire how are you doing I'm pretty good look great this microphone here no Granger just thinks he can just concrete I think yeah there you go yeah good it's it's more it's all about you it's not about Granger yeah we just tried to make him feel good for a second I just need someone to walk by but you don't have to pay attention to him what did we do for prom dinner last night McDonald's McDonald's McDonald we went to a Red's game before that's true oh Red's game how fun is that did the Reds win no they got two hits last night shut out sorry you know you know why decided if the Reds lose so okay guys look great enjoy your evening thank you these boys don't step on dresses there we go look at Lance just knows this is a professional Lance yeah veteran Lance is also he has to be on his best Behavior because he knows if he messes up I have to make one phone call to Mr Kyle Nai yeah Big C that's that's that's enough to to scare you straight yes keep in Jana how are you good how are you good where'd you get the dress kavos in Cincinnati I think is how you pronounce it yeah that sounds right that's what we've been hearing beautiful bouquet that you got going on thank you tell us about your future plans okay I'm going to IU next year to study biology and then hopefully go to optometry school awesome I would assume if I asked you your favorite teacher you're probably going to say your mom yes that would be right there you go dang it we're gonna try to get another shout out favorite coach Kyle sers boom just get out man it doesn't matter second favorite teacher I guess will be Bryce M but there you gode for somebody else there you go you guys look great enjoy your evening thank you S Miller and Carly Adams who did the uh picking out of all the clothes that would be Carly there we go that would be Carly he say s knows how to answer that question doesn't he okay what are the future plans Carly um to go to Purdue I guess go to Purdue science Purdue animal science awesome any more barrel racing and on any of that kind of stuff yes for sure awesome awesome on the weekend there you go baseball season going well Sai oh yeah yeah we got some big games coming up big this week big softball games coming up for the ladies as well yeah we got a couple this week only two I think yeah good sectional draws Y no I it's all right it's all right mine was good yours is good get a but we can get them we can get them right all right you guys look great enjoy your evening thank you Miss Leah how are you I'm good how are you good introduce your this is Will Laris will larison nice to meet you will you look great where'd you get your dress um Sun Boutique in Martinville I've heard of sun Boutique in Marv martville terrific some Boutique in Martinsville it well they did a great job all right what we drive tonight my dad's truck your dad's truck awesome awesome where was dinner we went to Harry and izes last night nice great nice great stuff good Harry and izes good choice good choice you guys look great enjoy your evening thank you too my Camille how are you I'm good how are you good introduce your date uh this is Brody Terell Brody nice to meet you sir meet you where'd you get your dress Camille um I got it in a place called be loved and Seymour be loved and Seymour they did a great job it's a great bouquet that you got going on there as well all right what' you guys drive tonight uh we drove Bradley Davis Dar Max nice nice well done guys have a great evening thank you thank you how are you guys tonight good introduce yourselves to everybody I'm Jeter Edwards I'm Emily there you go because I knew if I said the wrong leap name I was gonna I was I was gonna I was gonna be like I'm an idiot it took you a while you it took you a while you got like last year last year we all did it together yeah you all went together I was just happy that you guys were in opposite classes because then that way I never screwed it up the day when you guys would come and work together I'd be like no okay all right there's Maggie introduce Nathan linky Nathan you guys all look great where we get the dresses ladies in Cincinnati in Cincinnati Jeter you just wore what they told you to wear right yes exactly I actually made this nice and Maggie look at that such talent where are you guys head at Maggie and Emma for college I'm cincinn in Cincinnati you guys going to be okay being away we're splitting up I guess so you have to be okay there you go have a great evening thank you Jack Jack how are you make hey scoot in a little bit scoot in a little bit get mic check the fans won't be a well don't tap it that's dumb all right all right so Jack what' you drive tonight uh Keegan mcam Jeep Keegan mcam Jeep wh which one uh his brand new one is brand new one what Jeep keeg the brand new one yeah yeah exactly CU Keegan we had fun in it yeah not too much fun right not too much fun okay all right all right where'd you go to dinner uh we went to Chipotle then went to Back N oh Chipotle and the the back nine the there you go there you go not bad all right guys look great enjoy your evening thank you big Mo my favorite Beaver it's reys Rees who's your date kayin hiners nice where'd you get your dress um I got it from a little Boutique in Madison a little Boutique in Madison good and you made sure Reese matched you right yeah good that was my number one priority that you have to okay you have to take care of him ree just got a photo of the tux just gave her a thumbs up and that probably he probably just didn't even know he just like showed up it just yeah it just showed up on his doorstep okay ree what'd you drive tonight I drove a nice Chevy truck nice Chevy truck nice Chevy truck okay all right you guys are going to have a nice time I'm sure it's going to be even better than a nice time time enjoy your evening thank you look at this guy look at the beard back says love it how are you guys doing tonight good how are you good Molly look beautiful as always okay make Kai look good come on now oh I made her look good oh no I'm just messing with you Kai how' first year of college go it was good it was good good all right Molly next plans for you um Cincinnati Cincinnati where are you studying Communications awesome you're going to be you're going to rock it I'm excited good deal you guys have a wonderful evening thank you bye Kai have a nice night oh no look at that guy double Blast from the Past double Blast from the pass I know back to back Justin introduce everybody haly deer yeah Haley had first year go it was good it was good yeah all right no regrets nope There You Go Justin what's your plans I'm going to go to lineman School in Tennessee lineman School in Tennessee that is awesome that is awesome how's baseball season going pretty good awesome got a tough week coming but yeah we'll get him you'll get them you'll get them all right did you uh did you get the uh flowers that were you in charge of that or was yeah I was yeah I think you did I did you way to step it up man look at that he is he's he's adulting right before graduation you guys have a great evening you too Mr Drew Buck how are you sir doing good who's your date uh Reagan hu Reagan nice to see you hi look great thank you did you pick out the whole color combo for Drew oh yeah good good Drew what'd you drive tonight a Ford Edge a Ford Edge yeah okay it tonight there you go there you go where was dinner uh Chipotle Chipotle back and you went to Back N okay he was part of that separate things though separate things separate things separ okay separate things separate things all right Drew you going to bust out any cool dance moves tonight uh we'll just have to see just have to see teaser I love it oh I like it I like it I'll be looking for you you guys have a great evening Owen and AA how are you guys good looking great thank you Ava where'd you get the dress den and honey denam and honey there we go there we go and you made sure that Owen matched right of course there you go where are we going to college and future plans and all that I'm going to the University of Cincinnati you see Cats I'm going to te and I'm going to work for construction compan awesome awesome great plans ahead all right favorite teachers for you before you go there it is I tried to set him up third one he's been he's happy he's happy for that probably he's just hanging out mangles good choice there's that's we've had a couple Mr mangles that's awesome guys look great enjoy your evening thank you oh my gosh look at this guy look at that suit that is awesome in the yeah looks like a bronze statue you were out in Oklahoma right how would it go good good just good yeah it was okay not great yeah who dressed you who who's your who's your dressa Cincinnati I love that the bouquet holding the bouquets I'm really liking that this year Kayla how's the tennis season going so far pretty good I'm winning most of them she's winning most of them she's got a pretty good coach I what I hear yeah I hear he's a great dude man I hear I hear is that probably your favorite coach there you go think it's the only sport she plays so I'll take it yeah that's matter all matter you guys look great enjoy your evening kayin hi Lily how are you good how are you Justin how are you pretty good all right Lily where'd you get your dress I got a honey I knew it there you go I knew it you guys you guys are rocking it though Denim and honey is is is way ahead of everybody else for dresses all right so what are our future plans I'm going to Purdue yep going to Purdue as well going to Purdue what are we studying uh Sales Management Sales Management Agronomy Agronomy nice no idea you it's soil right and stuff crops and soil crops and soil see I was kind of in the right ball there we go there we go okay you guys are going to have an awesome evening enjoy it thank you all right Mr Myers over under four words out of Parker Phillips under four under four Parker how you doing tonight doing great doing great there's two there's two doing great Parker what's the plans next year uh probably keep my job that I got now awesome awesome Eva what are you gonna be doing next year um I'm gonna go to IU Columbus and study Elementary education yes more teachers we need Educators we need them we need them you look great in that color combo way to make Parker matching there and everything all right Parker what'd you drive tonight Power Stroke there you go see I got the over four well you asked him questions where he had his I know I did it on purpose see I see Parker I got you okay hey you guys look great enjoy your evening thank you pum Frey Annie and Cameron how are you guys looking great who got your dress Annie where'd you get itos ininin Cincinnati fo there we go yep Cameron did you just say what am I supposed to wear yeah pretty much well done well done way to way to do that where you guys headed for school next year Purdue Purdue I nothing wrong with that there's it's awesome okay okay go from there uh let's see where did we go to dinner erles erles nice y what'd you get shrimp and rice shrimp and rice steak steak okay I was I was wondering if somebody went for the board plank salmon that's my favorite there so all right guys have a great evening thank you should I make fun of Chase no let him get in and get out don't harass the kid don't harass Chase Chase introduce your date this is Eliana faf all right nice to meet you Eliana I'm glad I'm glad you know you can make Chase look good so that's all right okay where uh Chase let's see where'd you take her to dinner we went to lles sellers you went to lles yep okay yeah what'd you get I got a $40 steak a$0 steak sure the folks not that your count did Dad give you the money or did you earn it uh it was mine actually there you go well done well done okay what' you drive tonight Chase I drove a Volkswagen convertible o nice nice you had did you have the top down though I did have the top down you allowed him to put the top down she did yeah okay all right you're you're brave just line okay just in line Y just in line well done good choice good choice all right hey you guys enjoy your evening yep how you doing guys good Caleb and Miss Kayla looking beautiful all right did you make sure that that cayb matched you and everything 100% you just said just tell me right just tell me what I need to wear there we go that's the easy way to do it the easy way it really is okay what'd you drive uh 2015 67 Power Stroke nice 2015 67 power stroke yep there you go zero to what and how fast no that that not that we're counting right yeah he knows he wasn't allowed to test that oh okay you weren't allowed to test that favorite teachers before you [Music] go um Mr mangles Mr mangles probably to go Mr mangles too Mr mangles a double shout out mangles is he's falling low on the leaderboard I've been surprised he's uh he's coming from the back right all right hey you guys have a great evening thank you you guys are looking great thank you introduce yourselves to everybody Johns I'm Tiffany and John John and Tiffany John I like the shoes man thank you okay those are those are nice the emerald pops okay where'd you get the dress um beloved in Seymour be loved that's another shout out to be loved where do we do dinner um Harry and Iz Harry and izes yes excellent choice I think that's the third Haring izes I've heard all right favorite teachers before you go probably Mrs Wilds Mrs Wilds probably Mr mangles Mr mangles there he is Mr mangles is coming on strong in the late you guys have a great evening how are we doing guys good introduce yourselves to everybody I'm Matthew and I'm you're looking beautiful with that I love the purple all right and make she made sure she that you matched she out thee for me there you go there you go where was dinner uh erles yep very good choice excellent choice uh let's see favorite teacher I'm G have to say Mr mangles Mr mangles Mrs wilds and Mrs Wilds here we go two good choices guys have a great evening thank you okay they're telling me I got to hustle all right introduce yourselves real here quick I'm Savannah Dan I'm Quin gby all right Savannah where'd you get your dress Denim and honey Denim and honey excellent okay uh let's see dinner where do we do uh Harry and izes and Indianopolis Harry and izes and Indianapolis okay I'm sorry in essence of time I got to move people along so you guys can enjoy prom how we doing guys good good introduce yourselves to everybody I'm Lance Davis and I'm Ariana Hamilton Ariana how are you good looking beautiful made sure that he matched you right yes okay what we drive tonight uh dur Duramax nice very nice dinner uh Olive Garden Olive Garden bottomless bread sticks all right you guys have a great evening you too how we doing gu ladies good introduce yourselves to everybody I'm Shel able Jaden OT you guys all ready to have a good evening oh yeah where'd you get your dresses I got mine up right David's Bridal David's brid like the honey I don't know it's something on the Square Denim and honey all right favorite teacher before you go favorite teacher um Au there you go enjoy how are you ma'am good looking good both of you in say hello to everybody hi say who you are I'm Destiny hes I'm Robert Rodriguez awesome Robert and Destiny uh let's see dinner we do dinner we went to Olive Garden last night Olive Garden last night good times yep awesome so good so good all right right uh you guys ready to have a fantastic time oh yeah awesome enjoy it thank you hey Mr Myers I got the promotion yes just for this one right here I got two I got two questions going keep it short and sweet one brand tell us about any raccoons you may or may not have hit yesterday last night I smacked one with my car all well done and then second question followup how did that make you play today at Batesville um really good I was 12 under so yeah it's a good round 12 under something like that 12 Under 12 under some number that's 1200 some number all right hey you guys have a wonderful evening thank you how we doing good Trenton looking great sir thank you awesome awesome loving the dress where did we get it oh thanks um online online yeah and it has pockets there you go so you got places the store things yep I'm still the store troller there you go there you go uh where did we do dinner nice yep it is a great place you guys have a wonderful evening will there you go oh it's my M it's my main man Hayden peace I love Hayden peace Hayden and peace is if I ever need help I got I got Hayden peace all right Hayden introduce your date this is Hannah Reynolds shees to North yep awesome you know you know my name so yeah there we go there we go heyen favorite teacher before you go a favorite teacher I have to say All Brands teacher awesome yeah you guys have a wonderful evening thank you thank you have a great night Mr Myers this guy was pretty upset that he's not your main man well that you know I never had Zion in class so that's probably why that's okay I do like I do like I do like the 1980s sunglasses though it's still sunny out there it is it is yeah all right favorite teacher um it can't be you I'm not your main man yeah um with Miss B Miss B she helped me pass okay minimum Taylor Taylor all right you guys ready to have a great evening yes of enjoy we'll see how are you ladies come up to the mic introduce yourselves beautiful dresses where' we get them uh Golden Nugget I don't remember from last year okay nothing wrong with that where we do dinner uh we went to Applebees nice nice hey enjoy your evening you guys look great have fun thank you Isaiah you got couple ladies here with you yes awesome everybody introduce yourself Kaitlyn Isaiah pton guys look great Caitlyn and Payton where'd you get your dresses I got it from the mall mall um my sister old pant dresses there you go are you looking great you all ready to have a good evening yeah sir awesome you guys enjoy have fun you right hey step into the mic right now these are probably my two best pre-cal trig students this year that is awesome they're going to be humble about it cuz they're humble about everything but they're going to introduce themselves right now introduce yourselves hi I'm Macy I'm Adriana and Adriana Macy how do we do at academic team state today we didn't win but it was all right we didn't win but it was all right but you guys have fun sure okay all right it was safe driving with Mr Marcato yes okay it's always a win that is always a win all right uh favorite teachers before you go I have a lot but i' have to say right now Swank Swank okay Swank double un Swank all right hey ladies you look great enjoy your evening oh how are we doing Brooklyn good how are you good introduce your date um this is Seth he's from all right nice to meet you Seth Brooklyn what's the plans here after graduation um just going to college at Purdue college at Purdue yes awesome purple I didn't notice that on your on your sh there very very pretty looking great hey you guys have a wonderful evening thank you so much hi Miss Lily how are you this evening I'm great how are you good did you do prom dinner I did we went to Texas Roadhouse Texas Roadhouse we haven't heard that in a while all right really sirloin everybody was there I think everybody's already in okay sirloin and dinner rolls is that what you did as well um I had a steak salad steak salad very nice good choice tell everybody where your headed in next year for school um I'm going to University of South Florida to study criminology to become a detective there you go University of South Florida Lily's gonna work on her tan all right no she's gonna she gonna do great have a wonderful evening Lily thank you Mr Myers hey guys introduce yourselves to everybody I'm Lany Laney Coulson and Coulson what we drive tonight Coulson uh F150 black nice nice Laney the dress is beautiful thank you where'd you get it Denim and honey Denim and honey that's that's been the Top Choice you guys have a wonderful evening thanks you too hiel how are you sir pretty good how are you looking great thank you how are you guys doing pretty good pretty good step up to the mic tell us who all right look at the JS look at the Jays and Zoe Williams and Zoe what are the plans after graduation for both of you uh keep working and making money there you go that's the that's the best plan in the world man hey you guys are GNA have a fun evening enjoy it thank you sir look at Mauricio here I've never seen Mauricio look so good yeah I'm always looking good I I bet you did not do any of the picking out of the cloth no my brother did I think it's the first time we've actually had a boy walk up and watch the dress and not step on it too he did you were a gentleman tonight you were a gentleman tonight Mauricio introduce your date here for us all jasine Holland jasine there we go loving the hair tonight looking great okay don't be nervous favorite teachers before you go Miss B Miss B I don't know I don't have one don't have one that's okay all right you guys enjoy your evening too look at Jordan I love it this this is awesome awesome step up to the mic Jordan okay introduce yourself in your date I'm Jordan and this is my girlfriend Lea hunt Lea hunt nice beautiful dress love the hats where did we do dinner no no dinner last night no not last night either we just snacked on stuff just snacked on stuff nothing wrong with that snacks hey you guys are GNA have a fun evening enjoy how are you guys how bad how are you doing well introduce yourselves to everybody well I'm Owen Stevens this is my dataa Elena Osborne and Owen Stevens did you pick the colors Elena yep yep good and I love the bouquet I was basically told what to wear so Owen that's the Sho you picked out the shoes okay that's the best thing to do where are we headed after uh High School what's the plans After High School uh ISU personally for me ISU um IU IU enjoy guys and gals have a great evening Mr myos I will take this one for question these two for questioning okay Morgan how's your evening tonight um my evening has been pretty great mil you doing okay so good thank you where did you guys get the dresses um I got mine in Greenwood Greenwood Windsor Indie Windsor Indie who's your guys' favorite teacher um it's kind of hard that's a hard one we'll go with sellers I guess I guess I'll have to choose sellers oh she said something else I said Bubba is my favorite Kane um maybe m is a second yeah there it is ladies you're looking beautiful enjoy your evening come on up fellas introduce yourselves let's talk into the mic I'm madx Hunter Maddox hunteran linger nean you guys are looking great hey uh what's going on here go that's your Goblin all right Yoda there for a second I thought it was baby Yoda for a moment but then I realized no that's not baby Yoda so okay you guys all ready to have a good evening oh yeah awesome enjoy it have fun introduce yourselves the M yep I'm Sierra cogin my name's J Sierra your dress is beautiful where'd you get it I got it from Von Von Mah nice good choice good choice where was uh your prom dinner it was at Texas Roadhouse that with everybody else in how many kids do you think were there from Greensburg uh when we were there probably like 14 14 14 okay I figured as much all right hey enjoy your evening you guys look great you sir how are you too good how are you doing well the purple is awesome look at those shoes I know look at those shoes SPID those are awesome those are awesome all right where do we get the dress Foy ones oh Windor Windor oh where you and the suit from Denim and honey I was going to say the suit has to be from Denim and honey yeah there's there's no way that's not going to be right you wouldn't be allowed home if if it wasn't right there you go you guys ready to have a good evening oh yeah awesome enjoy it thank you hello introduce yourselves everybody I'm Sophia berford I'm Brendan Spurgeon how are we doing this evening we're slaying fantastic you guys are slaying I like the John linen style glasses there going on everything there with the uh the pop of the the color as well off the black look at the shoes well done okay where was uh prom dinner Waffle House Waffle House oo Waffle House that is our first I like that choice that's original that is original I love it you guys have a wonderful evening thanks you how we doing ladies good thank you introduce yourselves to the world Amar Hughes Mac Murphy Mac and Amar looking beautiful as always all right where do we get our dresses David's Bridal David's Bridal both of them at David's Bridal well done okay uh you got any crazy dance moves that you're GNA display tonight not no absolutely all right well go enjoy it okay thank you all right introduce us all um Joseph reck Griffin Shimmer hord awesome Joseph where was a prom dinner WAFF Waffle House as well well done awesome that's a great choice I I really is that's that on the originality scale that that hits the top okay Joseph I know you're gonna pull out a crazy dance move tonight right the lawn mower the lawn mower there we go there we go there we go you guys have a wonderful evening hi Elliott hi do you want to say anything give shout outs to anybody I miss my mom you missed your mom all right Elliot enjoy prom what a walk-off I love it come on up how we doing tonight doing good introduce ourselves to everybody and your name Sean how are you doing man doing all right man good good beautiful dress okay you guys all ready to have a good time yes sir awesome enjoy prom thank you sir look at you too all right TJ I know you didn't pick out any of these colors did you nope too busy running man okay of course there was all mdty right Maddie looks great okay and uh you're just you're just here to say yes yes yeah all right do know do know that TJ was one of the lastes to arrive wait he's always late he's he's tonight he's fashionably late I'll have you know he he just prosed to me last night that's wow they she had the dress ready better late than never all right hey you guys have a fun evening all right Dylan there's my guy there we go Zach and Dylan say hello to everybody howdy howdy drop right there on it okay Zach what's the plans after school boil up there we go there we go boil up boiler up he got it he got it in there Bo got it up he got it there you go he got it all right Dylan how are you doing sir you got a all right you've got what another year to go correct there we go then still making plans all right hey you guys enjoy your evening thank you thank you oh no here he come you taking this one I don't want to do I have to Wyatt how are you sir great okay yeah introdu let everybody know who's here on your arm this is Shelby everybody know Shelby everybody knows Shelby I know I'm just making sure I'm just I'm just making sure that that that you knew who was next to you so I'm just no I'm just a stranger pick me off the streets nice okay it's a beautiful bouquet did Mrs Clifford get that I did H you did okay all right hey Wyatt how do you typically do in at formal events uh I do spectacularly okay do you have a do you have a dance move ready Wyatt I performed well any dance moves what huh any dance moves okay any sh shout outs for the folks out there okay love it Shelby make sure he behaves okay I don't know he's kind of crazy he won't all right you guys have a wonderful evening hadary in in give a shout out to anybody sir no no no shout outs tonight all right well hey you're gonna have a wonderful evening right hopefully awesome sir enjoy it hi ladies hello Madison tell us this person is that you brought back to prom I think you know this is Sage Hamilton I know that's Sage I just wanted to hear you shout it out okay dresses are beautiful where' you get them um EXO by Sophia okay did you also know that uh Madison's under investigation for what for tampering with a uh uh some offices what God Bless America she's am she she uh put some uh some ducks in my office but that's okay are you gonna recover quack okay all right hey you guys have a wonderful evening thank you Tam how are you I'm doing good how was that academic state today uh pretty good the questions were difficult questions were difficult well state right yeah it was a learning experience but you had fun and we heard that Mr Marcado drove well okay okay your dress is beautiful Tam enjoy your evening thank you hi ladies hi introduce yourselves to everybody Madison Curr Laur hi Madison and Lauren where'd you get your dresses um reseller site okay online online you guys ready to have a great evening yeah enjoy your evening ladies how we doing guys doing great say hello to everybody let us know who you are hi I'm Skyler and and Skyler and Nara beautiful dress thank you where did you get it Windsor Windsor any dance moves tonight guys uh just this one oh that one oh yeah that's your era right that is no it's it's a little older than me but we still used it yeah all right hey you guys have a fun evening hello sir McMillan y there he is give a big shout out you got are those Jordan kicks oh nice red and white I love yep I love them that that I had the red white and black way back in the early 80s so mhm but uh all right we got to ask you you got any dance moves you're breaking out tonight um no not on know of right now not on your know all right it's spur of the moment spur of the moment he's gonna let it he's going to let it come he's going to break out in the dance enjoy the evening how we doing we're good introduce yourselves everybody bradden bradden Alex and Alexis Alexis beautiful dress where'd you get it um I actually got it a shop in town shop in town shop in town okay where do we do prom dinner um we did not have one didn't have one that's okay nothing wrong with that all right you guys ready to have a great time enjoy thank you come on up ladies hop in everybody say hello and tell us who you are I'm L I'm Sam I'm Ally Ally LC and Sam uh are we all ready to have a wonderful evening so ready so ready where did we get our dresses um w all Windsor okay dinner Waffle House you were the waffle I was going to be my guest that you were with the Waffle House crew all right enjoy your evening hi Miss AA how are you hello look great step up to the mic guys introduce yourselves sh I'm AA Muller I'm Alia all right you guys ready to have a wonderful evening yeah where did we get our dresses a random place in Greenwood random place in Greenwood nice Denim and honey Denim and honey good shout out all right have a wonderful evening hi ladies hey give a shout out who shout out yeah yeah to anybody or give your names or she's my shout out give a shout out to the person right beside me there you go there we go where' we get our dresses EXO by Sophia columus Amazon Amazon all right pretty corsages there that we've got going on all right enjoy your evening thank you Mr bra Bray introduce your your wonderful lady there I'm Brady this is mallerie gray all right how you guys doing good good Brady that is a great jacket combo thank you okay made myself you made it yourself all right are you going are you doing some welding uh after school or what what's your plans here yeah that's what I'm doing I didn't get my certification but but you're gonna get it promoted at work okay that's awesome that's awesome you guys ready to have a great evening yep enjoy it thank you Carmen and Garrett are you guys the last two I believe so all right all right well nothing like nothing like the you know the best for the the end okay there you go so where'd you get your dress Carmen Den honey Denon honey Den same place Garrett did you just say dress me tell me what to wear yep there you go good choice enjoy your evening thank you very much you as well yep Mr sers are we still live hey let's get a few of the uh drivers at tell us tell us about the F best car that you drove tonight Alpha Romeo or SRT charger okay the race truck yeah what best car you drove tonight focus a Ford Focus there you go Mr ponor I told your daughter that she's under investigation oh boo all right hey I think that's about it so uh Mr sers thank you for putting this all together and thanks for having me we're going to go into the prom and enjoy so uh everybody thanks for watching

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provides a strong Educational Foundation that will Empower our students to achieve their unique potential Embrace self-directed lifelong learning develop the skills necessary for appropriate risk-taking and responsible decision- making respect themselves and others problem solve individually and collaboratively and become contributing members of a diverse Global Society thank you Miss Lee we'll now move to our public hearing on the 2425 budget I'll hand the floor over to Dr Smith for all right thank you Mr case so welcome everybody we are back to our budget conversation tonight is the final budget presentation uh about almost two two months ago we had our tenative budget that was on March 19th and um so the tonight's presentation I'm not going to go back over every single slide in as much detail as we did the first one uh because it is a repeat mainly we're going to focus on changes updates since our last budget presentation the mission statement which we read at the start tonight that drives everything with our budget um even through state aid reductions always keeping the mission in mind as much as possible that leads to some very difficult choices choices that we no District wants to make but which districts are forced to make from the last presentation I will direct our attention to the St a chart which shows that kind of a portrait in numbers of the Dire Straits that our district is in budgetarily how unfavorably we compare in terms of per pupil spending with the other 71 K8 districts across the state that are in the largest student population bracket which is 751 students or more we are the largest K8 in the county so we're definitely in that bracket um the main number here on on this chart which is budgetary cost per pupil um and you can see where you know from 2018 to 2019 to 2022 to 2023 which is this is the most recent extent data that the uh doe has our spending per pupil went up just over $300 whereas the average District spending per pupil went up over $2,000 per student so we're trying to keep doing what we've always been doing with only $300 more per student to spend other districts have $2,300 per student to spend what that means translated into to um aggregate terms is over a12 million deficit compared to where we should be if we had an average budget with average spending per pupil at $80,000 per teaching position that over $12 million missing from our budget represents over 150 teaching positions so if we had 150 teaching positions how tonight would be different talking about all the amazing things we would do lower class sizes more reading more support Mass support counselors replacing everything that this District this uh budget and past budgets have been cutting it would be incredible it would be fair we would be average then in terms of a budget but we're not so we have to talk about some really difficult choices tonight I'm going to pass it over to our business administrator Mr Yates for some further information good evening everybody thank you Dr Smith All right so if you were here in our March meeting you're going to hear me repeat some of the same stuff that we had talked about then School budgeting 101 uh in New Jersey we must produce the Balan budget so what that means for us is that our expenditures and revenues must balance or must equal for me as a business administrator that begins with estimating our expenditures so we take it from a high level we're going to take those liberally we want to kind of overestimate what our expenditures going to be and then we're going to project our revenues at a conservative level from there when our expenditures are greater than our revenues we're looking at a budgetary deficit this is the exact position that Eve sham was in this year and has been since the start of S2 or the school fund Reform Act and for many years before that our budget timeline is 12 months we're going to jump into the next slide and talk about timeline a little bit more but as we um constantly or as we move through the school year we are constantly evaluating our budget so we are never not taking a look at our costs and looking for efficiencies or comparing it to what we budgeted for in March and what we're actual spending on uh in the current year um preparing the new budget begins in the fall we look at that timeline and then it concludes tonight at the public Hearing in April so budget timeline again it's a 12-month budget we're constantly analyzing our budget budgets are approved preliminarily so the tentative budget is submitted to the county doe in March they'll review it they'll send back some inquiries to me as the business administrator um we have somewhat of a back and forth and then the budget from them gets approved and then we're here at the public hearing tonight at the public hearing the budget will be finalized so after tonight when it's adopted by the board there will be no further changes to the budget and this budget that we're approving tonight is for our school year July 1 to June 30th school districts or school years in New Jersey run July 1 to June 30th of every year we build the budget in the fall we work through it and narrow it down until we can finalize it in March or until we can balance it in March we finalize it in April and then we Implement for July 1 looking at our timeline you can see on the board there we begin building the next or the subsequent Year's budget in the fall in October and November that's when we release the worksheets or the budget books to our departments and our school buildings they'll develop their budget books and they'll turn them in for review at the business office in December preliminary estimates are developed so we're looking high level at our revenues and our expenditures and we're forecasting those coming back out of the break from January is really when we kind of get down the business business we're at that point projecting our salaries for next year and we're forecasting our health benefits our two largest costs so that happens in January we're also Consulting our vendors now it's important to note not every vendor that we work with can provide us an accurate quote for the following year so what vendors can provide us that quote we're going to seek those quotes and get those actual numbers from them most of our budget is forecasted though February is when major budget Works completed so that's when we're kind of making those final tweaks and then the state funding is released the governor gives his budget address every year usually the last week in February and then within 48 Hours State funding notices are released to schools in New Jersey that's when we'll know for for certain what our state funding is going to be prior to the governor's budget address we do not have any clue what our state funding is going to be from them we have a good estimate but we don't know our final numbers and then in March was when we uh balanced the budget so revenues and expenditures going to be finalized and then we present that board or that budget here at our March meeting which some of you were here for the board um approves the tentative budget we submit it to the county for review and then here we are tonight in April for the um final or the the budget hearing so let's take a look at our expenditures for next year this number in the top right corner is the general fund number so our general expense for next year is 87,3 $ 32,45 this does not include any federal grants state grants or local grants this is just what we're going to spend from our general fund you'll notice that salaries are 60% of our total budget that includes all of our staff so any other number that you see up there special education Transportation operations curriculum technology those are not salary costs all of our salaries including support staff our teachers our assistants our our custodial staff our operations staff all of our bus drivers and all of our administrators and anybody else who works for this district is included in that 60% there we are contractually obligated to provide a benefit package to our employees that includes health benefits dental insurance prescription Vision that's in our benefits number of 16% we also have to protect our district from risk and loss so we have liability insurances and then we'll move on to special education costs it is a pretty substantial number again that is not the cost of our special education teachers that's included in our salaries this is just the cost of educating students who are classified as special education most of that cost is to send our students out of District so that scenario would be we have a student who has special needs we do not have an appropriate placement for them or a program in District then we would be legally obligated to find a placement for them in an out of District placement that would be a like a a special services School District like Burlington County Special Services or it could be an approved private school for the disabled like Yale School would be one of those as an example when we do send a kid out of District Along Comes Transportation costs we are then legally obligated to transport that student to and from that placement and we are also legally obligated to provide transportation for our own resident students to and from their home schools or whatever school they attend in District our transportation costs are pretty sign ific that's for a couple reasons there's a nationwide driver shortage so we've had to find ways to attract new drivers and retain new drivers we also have had to Outsource many of our routes to third-party transportation services like Hilman transportation service I will also say this even if we were able to transport or we were able to run every single bus we have we would still rely on thirdparty Transportation Services to assist us and all the other miscellaneous routes that we have like our out of District placements our after school clubs and activities our late runs and our Sports runs so we would still use a third party in some capacity um operations that number is for us to maintain our school buildings and then curriculum and Technology of course we need to purchase curriculum and Technology all other costs that you see there is kind of a catchall for us that's how I've labeled it that is really a the the cost of doing business as a school district that is for all of our uh legal fees that would be for any registrations any of our association fees for our administrators or our teachers or our principles um that's also going to include our Pur obligation an annual Pur obligation for any of our employees who are in the public employees retirement system that's a couple million dollar number and it also includes another significant portion would be our waiver payments so any of our staff members who choose to opt out of health benefits receive a waiver payment from the district and that that's a substantial cost as well and those would all fall under all other costs this would also include uh our building so our school building costs and our our district Supply costs that wouldn't fall under one of those other categories revenues just going back in the top right you see 87 milon 132 458 same thing on the expenditure screen they match because again we must produce a balanced budget so when you look at our revenues 80% of our revenues come from local taxes so that means the residents of eam that's our tax levy again we don't tax our residents we don't submit a bill to our residents directly we uh come up with our total tax levy dollars and then we submit that to the municipality who then uh submits those bills to our our residents um we've got some re Reserve withdrawals up there we'll talk about that in a minute State funding comprises about 88.7% of our budget so that's our state aid our um extraordinary AR Aid and our semi Medicaid Aid and we'll we'll take a deep dive into State funding uh in a couple slides and then other sources is going to be all other revenues of this District the largest portion of the all other sources will be miscellaneous revenues for us so miscellaneous revenues is roughly uh $2.3 million and the the most significant portion of our miscellaneous revenues is going to be the lease or the rent that we receive from yel school and lenp Regional uh at at I just want to back up a minute to our total expenditures I always like to highlight if you take a look at our salaries and benefits we talked about it's 60% and 15.9% so 76% of our budget dollars go just to pay for our contractual obligations for our staff so before we've even begun talking about educating students in the classroom 76 of 76 cents of every dollar we spend goes towards the salaries and benefits of our staff what's left is what we use as our discretionary spend all right so taking a look at state aid for next year if you go to the bottom fiscal year 25 our state aid notice that was released after the governor's budget address told us we are to receive 6,754 617 in state aid the state is saying that's an $118,500 reduction from the prior year you can see it's crossed out there too it is an $188,500 or $1,513 reduction from the prior year however it's not accounting for us receiving one-time stabilization Aid that we received last year so last year we were slotted to receive 6.7 million also crossed out and we applied for one-time stabilization Aid we received $486,000 from the state so our total loss last year instead of being 738,000 came out to 251,000 so this year when you account for us not receiving that stabilization what we're actually feeling in our budget our actual loss is $5,300 or 7% of our budget now just to take you on a little trip uh uh in memory lane back in March of 2018 again so around this time in 2018 Eve sham Township was balancing their budget and they got their state aid notice from the governor's office and it said you were going to get 13, 93,6 197 Eve sham balanced their budget with that those revenues from the state of New Jersey they implemented their budget in July in July that same year so now they've already closed the prior budget year they opened up the next budget they were already cutting purchase orders and spending dollars the state notified them and said I know we told you we're going to get 13.9 million you're actually only going to get 13.1 million we need that $800,000 back so this is what the school funding re form acted to eam and many other districts who are considered S2 losers and they said oh by the way not only do you need to give us that $800,000 back but you need to hold an emergency meeting in July and you need to tell us what you're cutting and where you're taking it from and we're not just going to take it in fiscal year 19 but we're going to take it in each of the next seven fiscal Years and we're now in year seven of S2 these are our total Cuts you can see Eve Shams total reduction is 7,141 180 or 68% of our original number in March of 2019 March 2018 excuse me all right so what does this mean for us it means that the state is Shifting the burden the burden is Shifting to the taxpaying residents of eam you can see the blue bars represent our total tax levy from 2017 18 and the red line represents state aid as a percentage of that Levy you can see that the Gap is getting wider there under ideal conditions the Red Bar would follow the same trajectory or the red line would follow the same trajectory as the blue bars it doesn't under normal conditions prs2 that red line would have remained just neutral or static or constant right now it's widening state aid for or state aid used to represent roughly 24% of our tax levy in fiscal year 25 it represents about 10% or a little less than 10% of our total tax levy the bir burden is shifting from the state to the taxpaying residents of eam Let's Take a Look further on what that actually means for us I told you in 201819 fiscal year 19 the state said we need our $815,000 back from you in year two of S2 so the 1920 school year they took an additional $925,000 from us but they didn't provide us back the $815,000 so every year the state does doesn't provide us back that $815,000 and every year they don't provide us back the subsequent Year's Cuts we continue to absorb those losses for the taxpaying residents of eam and for this District those losses total over $31 million as of next F next fiscal year and every year that the state does not give us back our or restore us to the original allotment we will continue to absorb $7.6 million so what does the tax levy for next year look like for the residents of eam in the uh top right corner there where it says 2425 school year our total tax levy next year is 69 m960 $963,000 on the bar the scale on the left there where the yellow bar is the average assessed home in Eve sham is valued at $63 and that tax levy represents an increase of $928 on the average assessed home you might say my home is not valued at $272,000 so if you look at the top there on the sliding scale for every $100,000 of assessed value your increase will be $345 all of this information was pulled from the uh Burlington County Abstract of ratables from 2022 and 2023 obviously 24 is not available yet and the New Jersey Division attack ation 2023 average residential assessment report and that's it for me I'll turn it back over to Dr Smith thank you Mr Yates this slide um just shows you know back to that um data point earlier of our district being over $12 million less than the average budget for a district our size Mr just explained where over $7 million of that difference came from right so we've lost over 7 million in the state aid uh we also lost 3 million in expired tax levy cap with another million in compounded interest on top of that so that's another four plus the seven um plus that he was talking about which gets Us close to that 12 million um less than average that our district is suffering from on Staffing savings um no changes here from the prior uh tentative budget two walking routes more next year 60,000 plus activity fee increase 10,000 uh the two walking routes Marlon Middle this is one that we wanted to start at the beginning of the year we were waiting for the crosswalk to get finished um that was finished in March we implemented this um in April and but it was not um part of this year's budget in the end because it took so long so it's going to be part of next year's budget Marton Elementary School also part of next year's budget that's another $30,000 every every walking route that we create that saves a bus route saves about $30,000 which is back to the 60 here uh this is this is a main slide that shows the budgetary uh positional shifts and reductions uh what this the maroon on this and the strikethroughs indicate the changes from the tenative budget so um at the top that G7 G8 six class instead of Team time that's back in the budget so that's eight positions saved we're very glad about that and I'll explain more about that um as we move along um some of these reductions are still there of course in order to balance the budget um Family consumers science one music position two Elementary classroom positions one Elementary Spanish position uh using the nine model which I'll explain a little bit later which doesn't save a position or cut a position just maintains what we have since we are using the nine model in one grade this year uh Elementary related arts positions three we added um another grade for using the non model which is to ma grade 7 that's another position and uh two uh middle school special education positions which I'll explain later as well which gets us to a total of just over a million um which is different from less than what it was in tenative budget the difference where where we're able to make up that difference is through uh two different one-time fund sources that have been identified since the tenative budget so the first is $220,000 which was originally in general funds and we are shifting that um to the capital reserve withdrawal that Oak Avenue remediation that is um the property that is um across from the administration building on oav is the former Transportation yard you could call it it's not a large piece of property but it um is an environmental remediation site in ongoing way over many many years and um we um have to take steps to bring that remediation to a successful conclusion per the D and um so we need to uh that we need that money in order to make that plan happen um the 180,000 from the school's Health Insurance Fund dividend um that is a total dividend of 381,000 two in onetime money we're going to use um 220 of it next year 180 to save help save the uh the G7 G8 team time and another 40,000 to save the tier three position which um will be uh explained in a later slide and another 40,000 of that will be used in the 25 26 Year again to preserve that tier three position meaning the total spent from that onetime amount after 2 years will'll be 260,000 leaving 121,000 roughly um which is needed um for uh as a kind of a cushion for many different types of unexpected expenses that can come up I'm going to let uh Mr Yates explain a little bit more about both of those shifts uh so school districts of New Jersey are required to uh provide health insurance for their staff members we seek that insurance uh through a few channels one of which would be to go through the state of New Jersey and just take the state's health plan or the SBP school districts also have the option to um seek private insurance the shift is one of those private insurers um you could also go direct through some of the the major carriers like horizon or Etna or mer Health shiff stands for school health insurance fund and it's where a group of districts have pulled their resources together to self-insure themselves and one of the benefits of going self-insured is that you can you're typically going to be a district that has an experience rating that is less than one so what that means for insurance purposes is for every dollar we put into the insurance plan if we're pulling out only 80 cents we're considered a favor able District if every dollar we put in we're pulling out a120 from the plan then we're an unfavorable District unfavorable districts or districts that have a higher than one experience rating have little option other than the state plan the state has to take everybody the shift can be selective we were previously in the shift because we had a good experience rating and when we were in the shift because it's it's pulled together with a group of districts that all typically run less than one any surplus that's there can be redistributed as a dividend to the member districts Eve sham accumulated a $381,000 dividend while in the shift and that is what uh is up here on the slide thank you Mr Yates just uh also want to give a shout out to Eta and njaa for helping identify that shift dividend since our tentative budget um which has helped us and in other words preserve the the team time for next year so uh this has been explained in a couple different ways but trying to bring it into one slide you know we're losing only only 55,000 in state aid so why cutting so much more in Staffing and we've exhausted the non- Staffing reductions through the prior six years of S2 um which leaves mainly just Staffing at this point um a District's operational cost just continuing to operate is going to cost more than this local tax levy increase per year of 2% so there's an Ever widening Gap each year moving forward for every school district in the state between the cost to operate and what districts can bring in with that 2% cap thus you know for looking down the road for 25 26 if state aid remains flat which we don't know what's going to happen with state aid in 25 26 so you know we we've been living um according to the seven-year script of S2 we don't know what the next script is going to be what the next Story the state's going to write with state aid um but just hypothetically if it were to stay flat we would still be making cuts for 25 26 because the cost to operate is going to create Gap and now our 2526 budget will include an additional deficit which you which we should be aware of because we're using using one-time funds the uh that shift from General funds to capital reserve withdraw for the OAB remediation and the uh the shift dividend in order to balance this 2425 budget a couple slides from about grade progression that were in there last time just explaining what's distinctive about our district the only District in the St in the uh County with two identical middle schools only District where kids are not all together in the same grade in the same school until High School difference here what's current will stay current next year only District in the county with students in smaller ponds before before the lake of high school class size comparison this stays true right so we will have class sizes in elementary that are higher than class sizes in middle in certain circumstances and that's because because we can only achieve class size efficiencies in Middle School more or less by modifying the Halls these slides removed because the team time's B but I wanted to leave them in to sort of underline the change okay this slide so uh last tentative presentation it said next year MMS grade six this year says this this presentation the final budget presentation says MMS grade 6 DMS grade 7 if we recall this year grade six Dei piloted the nine model um which basically involves capitalizing on Dual certifications among our teaching staff using nine sections instead of 10 um and there's some numbers up there to kind of illustrate what that'll look like at grade six mle next year class size average of 25 4 instead of what would have been 22.9 DMS grade 7 this also works with because we we know it works because we're doing it right now in grade six so it will age up with those kids into grade seven next year just a little some numbers to give background on where it works and where it doesn't work to try this non model we can't replicate this recipe uh on a whole scale model for the entire Middle School population because it truly is enrollment dependent the highlighted numbers there show where it works the high you know so you see uh for example tocy this year grade six highlighted 223 kids that's where we did it next year MMS 229 kids that's where um we're going to do it as well and then those grade six kids the 223 and Dei they're aging up into grade seven that's why we're going to be able to do the nine model there again next year special education so last year we're basically using the same recipe we did last year to achieve a savings we found efficiencies last year within uh inclass support within Middle School we did that in one grade at each middle school last year we're going to have that age up with the kids this year so it was grade six this year it's going to age up with them into grade seven it basically involves having four classes within CL instead of having four classes Within class support in each grade it's having three the way the numbers work if you have 24 students total in that grade let's say that needing class support instead of having four classes with six each it's going to be three with eight and that saves two positions and that all stays within the state mandated class size Max of 10 for an in Middle School in class support class continuing With The Changes uh nothing changing here family consumer science uh eliminated middle school music a decrease of one music position that'll be discussed further within the music and curriculum Department uh and a a you know just again a possible scenario but certainly nothing um that couldn't be improved on or looked into further from within that music department and curriculum department is um looking at a reduction of small group music lessons in grade seven and eight that's just a possible scenario tier three so the tier three position as I alluded to earlier is saved for next year and the year after and the main reason there um in the the blue font is and this is unprecedent I I can't think if someone knows an example please let me know 600 school districts in the state I cannot think of a single example of an Education Foundation or any Community organization donating money to preserve an existing staff position and if I mean of all the possible data points to illustrate where we are the Dess of our situation the fact that um you know a community a longstanding amazing community group is donating money so substantially that it's actually helping us preserve a position is amazing and like I said I think unprecedented I I don't know of another example if anyone let does if you can let me know um but but they're donating $40,000 next year and another $40,000 in 2526 to preserve this position our district is matching that amount with $40,000 next year and $40,000 in 25 26 from that uh shift dividend we're very excited about that changes continuing uh class size increase and that's all enrollment dependent so it's it's depends on how many kids are in each grade right we can say we're going to do that but again if the numbers um shake out in such a way that you know if you have 100 kids in in a Grade it's going to be four sections of 25 no matter what you call the class size um Elementary Spanish go going from four to three also a reduction of one position also like music to be discussed further within the span Department curriculum Department also like music I'm listing a possible scenario not necessarily what will end up happening but um it may look like uh the same number of Spanish minutes for the kids but splitting those minutes between uh new material taught from the certificated Spanish teachers and enrichment reinforcement from the classroom teachers again possible to be talk talked out within the department Elementary related arts that's a three position reduction um we would love to keep that going um but unfortunately um it doesn't mean that we can everyone's still going to get the same related arts instruction it's just going to be through uh traveling teachers uh more than having uh dedicated teacher at each school um three positions worth there and um we're continuing to look at what the most uh effective ways to do that would be in the most Equitable ways for our smaller schools brings us to this slide um one change since last time is a uh support position added secretarial position um $60,000 that's needed in order to again make up that difference from preserving the uh grade 78 team time um it does not result in the loss of a of someone losing a position because we have a retirement and vacancy in that area so um it's only the reduction of a position um totaling 180,000 here seven positions other steps being taken uh just moving through this and I'm I'm not going to go back over at all as much detail as I went through in the tenative budget but um there's you know departmental spending grants shared services agreement with our Township we're very glad for that it goes through next year year um improving the transportation department you'll see a few new drivers uh up for approval tonight we're very excited about that um so love to see that continue to that momentum continue to build within Transportation every uh dollar saved from Transportation at this point is another dollar we can put back into Staffing since the cuts at this point are are pretty much only coming out of Staffing um advocacy with State officials School Bus advertising facility use fee increases other ships being explored property sale we are getting updated appraisals on our properties we look every year at solar panels um health benefits reimbursement we look at that subscription busing um might revisit in a future year but um other things busing we do we do the busing but we do it uh incrementally and carefully late buses it would cost our district more if we cut those actually because we'd lose drivers because they lose benefits benefits are a big it's a big uh reason why people join our district to drive for us moving through these school lunches um again looking at uh the properties getting updated appraisals on those and then we'll we'll again um seek to find a um a positive outcome for those properties in such a way that um can help our district find financially I did highlight this sentence here since the last uh presentation just we are looking it takes it takes work this takes time it's because it's intricate and we don't want to inadvertently um you know hurt clubs that take can take a long time to build but we are looking at ways to possibly reduce the gap between what it cost to run our extracurricular programs and what we bring in in activityfree Revenue you know and um when we came out of Co there was a great appetite among kids and families for extracurriculars right it's it's part of how we kind of like came back out of hibernation and um so it's a beautiful thing we want to be uh thoughtful on how we do this and uh but we are looking at that administrator salaries I'll just go back uh to the beginning for just one little data point here when you go back to this um at the beginning with this here we go so the only number ones on these charts are actually I mean we're we rank super high in many areas when it comes to being efficient in our spending per pupil the one area where we were actually literally number one and H we were in 20189 we still are in 22 23 and Beyond even becoming even more efficient is in um administrative costs so and just this one I have up there you know in 20189 we averaged 23 214 kids per administrator the average K8 136 big gap right and then but then after four years um we averaged even more 135 students per administrator and uh those other districts on average dropped they averag 132 so actually we average more than 100 Kids additional per administrator than the average District um and then back to these um again other ideas we looked at follow up from the last board meeting here we are again this some districts districts are only required to do one budget Pres presentation so this this would be that presentation and thank goodness we don't do that because it is so complex is um you know we're able to take further looks at things and solicit and and get feedback and add that into the considerations that make up the budget that process of ideas and feedback and perspectives is ongoing it started it's always existed it certainly started in Earnest in Fall of 20120 we were talking about the very very difficult step of ending benefits for our longest serving pair of professionals so um you know we will need ideas um we will look for ideas moving forward because as we know every school district in the state faces an ever widening gap between that 2% tax levy and the cost of operating a district so every district is in that seemingly impossible situation of having to find new ways to save every year to continue to meet that Gap and the the ways used in the prior year are no longer available lastly just um one make a mention of this bill it's been in my updates it's been on our website um it may not may not become a law right so it's it's up for a vote on May 9th by the state senate they would need to pass that it would still need to get signed by the governor um so you know don't want to talk about it too much because it's hypothetical at the same time um it would be wonderful If This Were to pass it would create opportunities for the 140 districts in the state that have lost state aid over the last seven years we are one of them um and in in a nutshell what it does is it lets those districts go above the 2% tax levy one time shout out at that uh up to potentially 99.9% to raise additional Revenue to preserve programs and positions so for our district this would let us maximally meaning if we went to the full 9.9% go to a tax levy increase of 5.5 4 million instead of where we currently are which is 1.7 million in change we are currently discussing this bill as a board again it is very much pending may not happen one condition of the bill is that districts who seek that additional Revenue would first have to restore the positions in programs cut in the 2425 budget so we're a district to go for that that's where the um the additional Revenue would have to go to First and the again all subject to the final version of the signed bill because as we know a bill can change right up until its um final form the um the tax levy increase so right now with the 2% local tax levy that that's in this budget looking at as Mr explained an average increase for the average assess ter of $92 81 sense if it if we we in our situation were to go for the full amount able through this bill it would constitute an additional $188.7 tax increase for the average assess home and uh any questions from the board is no y I have a question on the one slide where you talked about the family and consumer science and how the adjustment would be you pointed out that one right there yeah um can you explain what that means example this year at Marlton middle yeah Library so they're going to library and it would be similar yeah so we'd have to we'd have to get kind of redefined right with each year variables change and so on but this year at MMS we had um an unsought opportunity to kind of pilot that and um so the school came up with alternate electives for the students in place of the family consumer science electives which um at MMS we've been unable to to run this year okay thank you yeah and also I just wanted to you know you talked about the suggestion box and the lid was thrown out I was here for that is there any way that the suggestion box could be reinstated so that staff no matter who they are could put ideas forth because we are going to be in this situation again so I don't know if literally that lid was tossed aside yeah that's I'm sorry if that's confusing I'm glad you asked about that that's former English teacher metaphor probably confusing but it kind of just my way of saying basically like instead of having to like kind of slide it through a a slit in the top we just took the top off and basically like just dump your suggestions in like it may trying to widen the basket so it's easier to to just toss it in if that makes sense I just want to make just way of saying like like you know we we uh I thought the whole box was tossed aside no no no it's a metaphoric box it's just uh the our inbox you know what probably is an email inbox is probably the closest equivalent in literal equivalent to a suggestion box but um anyway you know snail mail email email phone call passenger pigeon I understand but the what I've learned is some staff are are nervous to speak up without being anonymous do we have anything that staff can submit ideas suggestions on an anonymous basis yeah absolutely so what I mean just just thinking uh a little one we have a in office mail right so someone could send something in in office mail just um address it to the superintendent on the inter office mail envelope um okay it could be uh typed with no no name you know and and uh that's Anonymous okay you know so fair enough yeah thank you yeah Dr Smith can I ask a question yes sure um what was piloted at MMS in terms of the library and other General music electives I know the music is is a big thing in a sort of influx depending on the curriculum but what were the additional music electives what type of things are going to be offered that they is that one of the things that is still in flux or what was yeah so so this year so MMS was able again through looking at existing schedules within the school uh they identified ways to continue to offer elective options for the kids since we didn't have family consumer science so for grade six it was library and for grade seven and eight it was music electives so looking at next year and there are you know many teachers here in the school so it may not be what what next year looks like it may still be library for grade six it may not be music electives for grade seven and eight it may be other types of electives and the school have to look at that at their own staff capacities yeah thanks no other questions or comments from the board all right seeing none uh we have three uh public comments today the first one is going to be just for the budget hearing um so this meeting will now be open to the public referencing any items pertaining to the current budget presentation however if your questions or comments pertaining to litigation student or Personnel items or negotiations we a ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public please let me your comments at 3 minutes per person um we did receive some feedback about the timing of public comments um so we have a timer up that Miss Gord is going to be running today we'll pilot that out and see if the timer helps um okay guys so what's going to happen is um it's basically like the same as what I see on my phone but this is on an iPad so it'll be up there count uh timer counting down from 3 minutes and then it'll go off when when it's done so everyone knows where they're at and I will start it after you introduce yourself okay my name is Laura nardy I live at 41 nightswood Drive Marlton New Jersey and I'm here um on behalf of the ETA we'd like to thank you for using some of the 381 862 that we found to save staff members we urge the Board of Ed to consider utilizing all recently discovered funds to save crucial programs and more staff positions we understand that budgetary decisions require careful consideration and balancing various priorities however having the opportunity to invest in our students and Educators is the most prudent and responsible use of these funds and also uh we wanted to thank you for meeting with us after the last meeting thank you good evening members of the board and to Dr Smith my name is Jacob pman I'm a sixth grader at Dei I wanted to start off by saying thank you to Dr Smith and all of the teachers for working to find the money to save the Middle School model at the very same time I'm reminded that these changes very well may still be upon middle school students in the 2025 through 2026 school year which is why I'd like to share some data with the board and the rest of the etsd community over the past month I surveyed the students asking them for their opinions about these potential changes I surveyed six red and six green students and over 200 of them responded when I asked how they would feel if there were no Halls 75% of students had strong anger or dislike for this idea while 15% remained unsure one student said I do not like the idea of it I believe that the schools in Eve sham Township should stay the same I do understand why our middle school should be the same as the other middle schools we also just came from elementary school not many people are ready for junior high what about the communities built on these Halls one student says I would feel weird because the Halls have their community and groups and if you combine them you would get rid of the community that has been built upon these Halls some students even said they would want to leave the school district and go to another school if the hall system disappeared students also were asked how they would feel having the same teacher for more than one class 52% of the respondents didn't want to have the same teacher twice even some of them who already had this model disliked it I quote one student saying teachers specialize in one class so having multiple teachers makes learning easier when students were asked how they used independent study 75% said they've used it to make up work from when they were absent 66% said they've used this time for group projects which most of them can't do outside of school and 70.5% said they have used this time to make up tests I believe if sixth graders were surveyed next year the responses would be the same and I hope you can them mind for future years during budget planning I would now like to mention the instrumental program lessons are an educational time for young growing musicians this time allows them to this time allows them to learn valuable skills from their teacher helping them correct and teaching new playing techniques I had my band lesson today we learned several new scales and then practice music from an upcoming concert if seventh and eighth grade lessons are cut the program will crumble and students will not be able to get the specific instruction they need to grow as musicians the Cherokee instrumental program will shrink and tonight maybe even disappear to summarize I and many of my fellow students feel that eam is a great place to go to school our Middle School model and instrumental program are two of many reasons why this is a great District thank you again for all you were trying to preserve even during tight budget times I encourage the members of the board to do what you can and listen to the people who elected you to keep the programs that are valued a survey respondent said it best I would feel sad if there were changes because eam wouldn't feel like the special district it is so please Dr Smith and members of the board let's ensure the Ean School District stays the outstanding special place that it is today thank you [Applause] he's a heart act to follow uh I'm my name's Kevin pman I'm a parent of two children in the district um I wanted to thank uh Dr Smith and the board and the uh the teachers union for working together to find the funds to to save the middle school program um I also wanted to touch on the instrumental music piece uh I like many parents am deeply passionate about the music program within our schools I believe it to be vitally important for children to have the opportunity to learn experience and engage with music it will help them in so many aspects of their lives long past the time that they leave these halls I implore you to maintain the music program and opportunities that are currently available within the district if any Cuts must be made I ask that it be made the highest priority to restore those positions and those opportunities as soon as possible before any new programs are hired or positions are created or filled the goal should be to restore the programs that were lost that's all thank you hi Rosemary bardi 10 Halifax Court East I kind of want to Echo um Jacob's statements about preserving the middle school program or the Middle School um music program I think it's so uh critical and um thank you the board for saving the middle school program um that was great and thank you to the board for meeting to for with the parent group the ETA um the two parent groups the Isam United and isim fiscal allies on a Saturday morning um however I'm a little dismayed that there weren't additional uh we made a lot of suggestions but I didn't see that reflected in the presentation that perhaps could have saved uh the music program for this particular for the night tonight um so I was a little disheartened to see that the question I have is regarding the reserve funding um Mr Yates um it would have been nice to see the actual details I'm not a numbers person so I had to do my little calculation for the reserve funding you uh said it was 2.7% um that you guys are taken out of Reserve funding so I estimate that to be 2.3 million um so it would been nice to see what all is coming out and reserves because I saw the uh resolution and it referred to bathrooms for preschool which you guys haven't talked about yet but yet you're budgeting for so I have a question about that uh so the other thing I wanted to talk about is uh the Education Foundation um thanks to the ETA and njaa for finding that money um and thanks to the board for willing to work with the EF however I just want you guys to be aware that is a huge huge fundraising effort for the EF and there's a lot of parents in this room from the tier three parents it's a huge ask it's um three initiatives it's direct donations it's running a raffle and it's also going after sponsorship and membership so it's a huge under taking from the community that has to be done in order to meet that goal so I just want to really bring that to your attention and also to regarding the legislation I hope this isn't the final conversation the bill will be uh voted on on Thursday hopefully for a full vote on Monday so that you know you guys have the opport opportunity to get additional Aid or either raise a tax levy so I hope this conversation yes the budget development is always a process what happens in January is so different than you know April time frame so I hope that you guys will continue conversation and you know add in either the the suggestions that the parent groups have made and the ETA and or look to additional tax levy to um preserve the programs thank you good evening everyone my name is Pamela turowski I live in Mount Ephraim but I'm here today because I'm a proud yet concerned alumni of vanzan Elementary School Marlton middle school and Dey middle uh I been a band kid since the fourth grade from my experiences here in eam I I was inspired to become a music teacher and I went on to maintain to obtain a bachelor's degree master's degree and doctorate degree in music education I currently teach music in the South Jersey area and a child development class at Rowan University teaching our future uh future Educators about the importance of Music it how important it is to Child Development next year I'll be celebrating the start of my 20th year as a music educator and I can tell you from research and my own personal expertise that eliminating band and orchestra lessons will have a detrimental effect for for the students and the larger Community cutting band and orchestra lessons for seventh and eighth graders may not seem like a big cut they will still have a band and Orchestra rehearsal after school right so what's the big deal well group rehearsals are the time for all of the instruments to come together and play their parts but the lessons are the time when students get help with their particular instruments and work on the music that the band and orchestrators are playing there's not enough time in rehearsal once a week to teach students how to play their instruments and especially when Orchestra includes at least four different instruments and band includes at least eight different instruments and that doesn't even count percussion without lessons for seventh and eighth graders the quality of the band and Orchestra will go down at no fault of the teachers or their students there just won't be enough time to learn the same level of music that they do now and as the quality declines some of the students will become frustrated and quit thus affecting the overall number of students involved and again the overall quality of the program and the music um played the music at the high school um will also suffer uh playing an instrument helps students achieve higher levels of executive functioning and result in better memory and focus better decision- making and planning greater attention to detail the ability to multitask and have greater self-control all of these skills are also important for succeeding in school which is why students who participate in music programs tend to do better academically than their peers who do not playing an instrument in band and Orchestra help our students learn to be dedicated to persevere and to work together making our school Community better adolescence is a tough time for many students who feel that they don't belong students in Bandon Orchestra feel a sense of community and belonging when they are making music together with their peers taking away seventh and eighth grade instrumental lessons will decrease involvement in band and Orchestra I recently heard both the midle Marlon Middle and uh Dey middle jazz band play at a Cherokee alumni event and I was thrilled when I heard the middle schools perform and I was uh so glad to know that the great tradition of musical Excellence was continuing in eam but I shudder to think of what will happen if students do not have the support they need in Bandon Orchestra I hope you consider this when you make your decisions thank you for listening to my [Applause] concerns my name is Pat Leia I'm a 41-year resident of Marlton uh my husband and I met in our high school band we got married and moved to morlon in 1981 we raised three children here where they attended vanzan school and deacy middle Pam my oldest daughter is now music teacher in Burlington County and has her PhD in music education my son Tommy is a professional musician he's performed in more countries than most people can name my daughter Chrissy is an attorney for the State of Texas all three of my children started in the music program in Eve sham Township if you ask them who were their most influential teachers they would all name their music teachers including Hank Mamay Cindy wck Betty Rymer Mary Sams and among others I believe that these teachers have retired but they helped set my kids right in the right direction my husband and I still currently perform and teach music we spent over 10 years as band parents so we know the commitment that it takes to raise kids who want to pursue music it also takes a commitment from the school programs the key to keeping students in a music program at a most vulnerable age is to have them work together and grow together through music particularly through groups lessons playing in the band once per week is not enough to motivate a student to continue with the study of their instrument private lessons are all great as well but if you don't have the time or resources to take them or afford private lessons the group lesson will still give the students enough knowledge to participate in band activities group music lessons of offer a well-rounded approach to musical development fostering not just technical skill but also social connection and a deeper appreciation for music in a collaborative environment students learn from each other gain motiv ation from peers and develop essential listening and coordination skills through Ensemble playing group lessons also expose students to a wider range of M musical styles and instruments broadening their musical Horizons and nurturing a long Lifelong Love for music music classes give students a belonging and a common interest with others who they may not have been friends with or known in a regular classroom setting Middle School is a time when students are looking to find out who they are B gives them a healthy dose of self-esteem and helps them make Positive Choices they're less likely to succumb to destructive Behavior when they have uh self self-respect so advantages of group music lessons are more instruction time increased emphasis on song learning improved motivation to practice boosted teamwork increased socialization and sense of community reduce risk of stage Freight and public performance I hope the board will reconsider um finding the money for seventh and eighth grade music lessons one of the most important things that people enjoy in their lives at any age is music thank [Music] you thank you okay hi I'm Jennifer peelman I leave it I live at 33 snuffbox Lane in Marlton it's easy to remember I don't have anything prepared I wanted to see how it went tonight I wanted to stand here and thank Dr Smith David Bach um Jamie Lee um Mr Yates and Danny molik did I forget anybody that was there on April 13th um gave us the opportunity to talk and kind of come to the table um etsd parents United is a group of people that are very passionate and we continue to work together there's many of us that meet weekly on Zoom calls we have been meeting in the community with providing an inperson opportunity for parents to come together and these things aren't going away there's over 880 there's over 860 people on the Facebook page and there is a continued interest to continue to meet in person online whatever is possible and in a regular basis I would ask that the board and Dr smth consider a pack which is a parent advisory committee there are other school districts all over the country that do this kind of thing where there are regular meetings whether it's quarterly or whatever that there's a table discussion it's very difficult to just talk at all of you we understand all of us the Robert's Rules of Order and like that's what this is tonight but it was very great that day to be able to discuss some things and get some things answered and questions we thought we brought a lot of great ideas that we hope as Rosemary said like from her group are brought up in other future years because there's some things that weren't mentioned there um and hopefully we can continue to discuss it but thank you so much for hearing us we don't plan on going away anywhere there's very commitment and drive and people that have children coming up through the ranks but I tell my children all three of them all the time this has nothing to do with them and they love hearing that it's about all the kids in marleton I'm a marleton kid my husband's a Marlton kid and we just want to provide an opportunity for the parents to come together if teachers are available whatever but continue the discussion for collaboration it's a little difficult to see the things up there about transparency and things we appreciate the budget presentations and all that but there is still a feeling of trust that isn't totally there I can say that there's many of us in this room and online tonight that are worried if the band stuff gets taken away for example that it will never come back and I literally try to just know that like your kids took instrumental lessons Dr Smith and I know that mattered to you and your family and that was important you've shared that publicly and I don't want to have to rely on personal things so I hope the Pack is considered so we can keep the discussion going and thank you for the time on April 13th thank you [Applause] hi I'm Diane Snider 179 Preamble Drive I've been a a resident for 28 years and an employee for 15 I personally want to thank you Dr Smith Mr Yates Danny mulik rich danten and Jen Bland for all the work that you do for the children and you're trying your best for the staff to keep things going I want to thank the board as well it's a tough decision I've been here for the Evans and other big items that have gone through through the years here but I just hope that everyone around realizes that it is not an easy decision for anyone to have to make but I think you're all doing the best you can and I want to thank you Dr Smith for being transparent because I felt you've always have been and you've been a very good leader for us it has not been easy coming in as a superintendent during and I think you've done a great job overall and you're you're learning along the way and we all are so thank you to all of you it's not an easy thing to do but I do appreciate everyone for the work that you do especially as being elected officials would anyone else like to speak about the uh budget presentation seeing none we'll close that out now we're going to talk about agenda items this meeting will now be open to the public referencing agenda items only however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student or Personnel items or negotiations we would ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public please let me your comments at three minutes per person is there anyone who would like to make a public comment about the agenda today seeing none we'll close that out um just want to reiterate as usual whenever you're making public comments we know 3 minutes is a short amount of time we know everyone speaks one after another if you do have prepared pres uh comments please do email us afterwards so we can uh reference them back again uh we will now move to item six annual appointments and approvals we need a motion to approve items 6.1 through 6.13 do we have a motion motion by Miss Fox seconded by Mr ficaro any questions or comments on annual appointments and approvals seeing none Mr Yates roll call please on the approval of minutes Mr Bach yes Mr Brown yes Mr Demari yes Miss Fox yes Mrs N yes Miss Lee yes Mr [Music] pisaro you said approval of uh appointments I I thought you just said minutes I did say minutes I'm sorry I approve appointments thank you uh yes to items to all items on six 1 through 13 and Mr conon yes the motion carries thank you Mr Yates moving to item seven approval of the minutes we need a motion to approve item 7.1 through 7.3 do we have a motion motion by Mr dearcy seconded by Mrs null any questions or comments on the approval of the minutes seeing n Mr Gates roll call please on minutes Mr Bach yes Mr Brown abstain your abstention is noted Mr demarcy yes Miss Fox yes Mrs N yes Miss Lee yes Mr fisicaro yes Mr conton yes the motion carries thank you moving to item eight superintendent report we need a motion to approve items 8.1 through 8.7 do we have a motion motion by Mr fisicaro seconded by Mr Brown any questions or comments from the board seeing none I'll hand the floor over to Dr Smith thank you Mr canthon given this evening's presentation I'm going to try to keep my superintendent comments shorter tonight but I do want to mention a couple amazing things that one that just happened and some other things coming up uh as the last months of the year replete with wonderful school events and celebrations huge kudos to Dei and the Dei Multicultural night uh the committee and everyone who worked on it for their tremendously successful Multicultural night last Wednesday um every year gets bigger this is year five I think um bigger and better every year we had over 60 families participating through performances and displays it was amazing to see such sharing and collaborative celebration of the diversity of our community it truly enriches every one of us and um just since there's already conversation starting about next year and it's just just a wonderful if anybody didn't get out there this year please um try to make the time for that next year it's it's one of a kind um looking ahead our etsd annual art show another amazing event of its own right is opening on May 20th through June 3rd at the Township Municipal Building thank you Township for letting us use that space as an amazing art gallery uh and the kickoff Gala event is on May 20th like to thank all our staff for their continuing effort each and every day to support every student this is kind of a semi long stretch now as you work through May testing season all kinds of pressures to get things wrapped up um that truly is appreciated would also like to recognize that this month is asian-pacific American Heritage Month here in eem Township School District we recognize and value and lift up all students all persons with respect and appreciation of different cultures our differences and commonalities and take actions directed against any person including on the basis of race or ethnicity very seriously I'd like to highlight as well that our board president Anish Canon is our first asan American board member in our District's history and perhaps first Asian-American elected official in our Town's history he was recognized last year by the New Jersey state legislature for his service on our Board and Care for education and absolutely deserving um this year too if they just gave it to you two years in a row but um and that ends my comments thank you Mr K thanks Dr Smith again any questions or comments from the board seeing none Mr roll call please on administrative items Mr Bach yes Mr Brown yes Mr demarcy yes Miss Fox yes Mrs null yes Miss Lee yes Mr fisicaro yes Mr conon yes that motion carries thank you Mr Yates moving to item nine curriculum and instruction we need a motion to approve items 9.1 through 9.4 do we have a motion motion by Mr dearcy seconded by Mrs n any questions or comments as it pertains to curriculum and instruction seeing none Mr Yates roll call please on curriculum and instruction Mr Bach yes Mr Brown yes Mr Demari yes Miss Fox yes Mrs null yes Miss Lee yes Mr fisicaro yes Mr Conan yes the motion carries thank you moving to item 10 finance and operations we need a motion to approve items 10.1 through 10 Point motion by Miss Lee seconded by Mr ficara any questions or comments from the board yeah uh two things uh real quick I didn't really ask any uh questions in this budget cycle I'll just have two comments uh to go on first off um I am encouraged by our our plan in terms of hiring bus drivers um this is something I've told talked about for a long time that it was important for us to uh get a little more homegrown there so to speak uh and to to pull away from any type of of rented service um like like Hilman or or for student whoever uh so the fact that we went out there and we raised we raised those rates we did what we could and we already brought in three and with hopefully more on the way I think that is an excellent start for us I applaud that effort I'm very happy about that uh secondly um I wanted to talk uh quickly about um about the budget I know this was incredibly hard work and not just by the nine board members here in the administration but everybody in this room and Beyond um takes a village to raise a child I think is the most appropriate way to say it and I think a village was truly needed in this effort and everybody here was incredibly responsible for it I'm a music guy I mean that's obvious I you know hearing some of these stories about um you know about B and you know some of the people that came up and spoke I I went to school with you know or I went to school with their kids um I understand the cuts that we're making um but I I always something that's always been kind of important to me and we talked about this briefly in conversations um I I think in general as we go through with this um I've always found in particular Beyond we're always focused on budget we're always always focused on that but I think Beyond budgetary I've always felt like uh and I've used this phrase in in private um that sometimes and it's not just eam other districts are like this it comes to music we're like an hourglass sometimes it we have a a large population down in the lower levels it begins to thin out in the middle and then it starts to broaden back up and as we as we embark on on this new year with this new budget um I I think it will behoove us even though with all the efforts that are happening here um that we constantly keep that in the back of our heads on how to how to work on that even you know just even understanding why kids go into third fourth and fifth in in band pick up an instrument why the sudden drops it doesn't always relate to this it's not always about about this you know it relates to other elements as well I see it in the theater World myself sometimes there's just kids who they find a different avenue a different path and then they go there but I would like to see us just engage in that idea a little bit more to understand how to broaden out and make that less of an hourglass so to speak and that's something that's really important to me um I I I haven't spoken up about it much at these meetings in the in the last two months because we've just have had so many issues coming up and so many things that were happening uh that it felt like our attention was constantly diverted all the time um but I felt like now since we're here at this moment uh it is really important to work within the means that we have to try to broaden that hourglass and if if you don't understand uh you what I mean by that I mean always feel free to come and talk to me but that's really important um I I I've seen it firsthand work here I I I've seen it work here in terms of what we do with musical theater I I've seen us grow uh I've seen what for example Dei does dec's theater program is tremendous now it's it's unbelievable what they do the amount of kids that come into into my into my program up in the high school level uh from where it was just six seven years ago to where it is today it's it's otherworldly uh when I walk in into and meet with with potential ninth graders that are coming coming in from uh from from the Macy I'm treated to 30 or 40 kids interested in coming into that program and I I think that that can I think that that can also happen I think there is still a chance for that to happen and I really want to see it and if I can be a part of that conversation help in any way I will do so uh but even though we're having this vote tonight on this budget I still think we have the means and ways to try to growth in that area and to still make music a priority and stronger and if that is the board's Direction I will be fully supportive of that and I will always cheerlead that along the way even when I'm not here so thank you for listening to my I want to say it's a ranch not but I just wanted to have that quick conversation so thank you again for everybody here uh for everything and all the hard work and effort all of you have done all of you so thank you thanks Mr fgar anyone else like to make any comments Miss Fox I want to kind of address that as well um my first full-time job was Tower Records my background is in the music industry my daughter is a musici going to college next year for music um she was not in band or orchestra she was self-taught but music is extremely important to me I know some of you that I've emailed with about it it that's where my daughter found her footing um it is the last thing I want to vote for to take away but unfortunately with so many Cuts something has to go um My Hope Is that the remaining music teacher and curriculum Department can come up with some way to keep whether it's electives in electronic music or or something to keep the kids that that's their interest engaged I will be with Joe at the front of the line fighting for that that um and if and when we should find extra funds I've made that known that I would like that to be the first thing that comes back um I just want to say that before we vote on this thanks M fox anyone else seeing n Mr Yates roll call please on finance and operations Mr Bach yes Mr Brown yes Mr demarcy yes Miss Fox yes yes Mrs N yes Miss Lee yes Mr ficara yes and Mr conon yes the motion carries thank you moving to item 11 personnel we need a motion to approve items 11.1 through 11.11 do we have a motion motion by Miss Fox seconded by Miss Lee any questions or comments from Personnel if I can yeah just uh I don't want to jump ahead if any when any board member com I'm saving mine for December okay I just um yes and I and there'll be more more words in December I can't let it go uh without just saying so Mr dant's retirement is on the agenda I know it's May and his retirement is January 1st but that's how long it takes to do a search process to fill shoes that can't be filled um and uh speaking of the last day it reminds me of the first day which was like just you know summer our our districts open 4 days a week Monday through Thursday and it was the Friday in July 2020 rich and I spent the entire day in communication my first day was Monday and it was that it was Friday before working with like the first covid situation the district had um and uh that began a very long uh walking together through so many different situations predictable and very unpredictable um and uh I just I don't want to say too much right now but I just I do want to say thank you Rich and this is It's A Hard uh thing to approve the only thing that makes it easier is knowing how much you deserve it so the uh the other two uh items here that I want to mention um so we have the our new beer principal Ryan mman sitting over there with his wife thank you both for being here and um that news you know I announced that earlier today via email to the Beer Community um just a fantastic process we had so many applications and of such quality it was wonderful and Ryan emerged far and away as our number one um from the beer staff our PTA president uh Jen peoples was there from our our cabinet um he brings um like deep and wide experience across all Elementary grades as a teacher and and we always you know it's always a wonderful thing to look forward with it an administrator is like how deep are their roots in the classroom you know when he has deep roots in the class classroom um Deep Roots as an administrator as a principal recently as a principal superintendent um in Laurel Springs and uh so he's just going to you know be a wonderful leader there for the school and um just want to thank again Personnel department for helping lead that search um and uh I don't know if You' even want to say a couple words Mr M but uh the bike's yours if you'd like to so thanks good evening everyone just GNA borrow the mic good evening everyone first I would just like to say say thank you and express my appreciation to Dr Smith the Board of Education the faculty and the parents that were all part of this hiring process being an active part of the eang community with three School AED children of my own at jaggard I feel extremely grateful for all the time and thought that you all put into this process as I step into the role of principal at beer I am filled with a great sense of responsibility and optimism I am eager to continue celebrating and creating an inclusive and nurturing environment where students can grow as individuals both academically and socially I look forward to meeting all the staff the parents and most importantly the students your ideas insights perspectives are all invaluable and I am committed to working to address the needs and aspirations of the berer community I'm humbled by this opportunity to lead such an extraordinary school and staff and I'm excited about the possibilities that it would wait I look forward to getting to know you all in our time ahead and thank you once again for this [Applause] opportunity one more the last uh thank you Mr mman um and the last uh word I want to mention is um we also have with us Sarah Smith who is um which also announced today via email to the mees Community is going to be the interim principal of Mees July 1 to December 31st as Miss Bulls goes out maternity leave we wish Miss Bulls super well with that and we are also very excited that um Miss Smith can be the interim principal this I I wanted to explain just a tad because uh as we've had interims in the past for principles we've been using retired administrators this is slightly um little a little more outside the box but in a really uh strategic way um and part of it is um the uh Miss Smith applied for the beer position she did really well through that process on top of all the work that she's done in and Beyond the classroom districtwide very well respected smart energetic all in with everything and we'll be all in at Mees and um that's it's going to be a way for us to also um uh kind of provide a flexible Arrangement there for for the future at Mees depending on um how long a leave lasts depending on um what happens with future needs in our district so um want to congratulate Miss Smith very much for uh that opportunity and um that ends my comments thank you Dr Smith any comments from the board I'd just like to reiterate the congratulations to Miss Smith and Mr mman and Mr dtin you'll be getting my dissertation about your absence in December all right uh Mr Yates roll call please on Personnel items Mr Bach yes Mr Brown obain Mr demarcy yes Miss Fox yes Mrs null yes Miss Lee yes Mr fisicaro yes Mr Conan yes the motion carries congratulations Mr mman and Miss [Applause] Smith moving on to item 12 under policy we need a motion to approve items 12.1 through 12.4 motion by Mrs N seconded by Mr Brown any questions or comments from the board as it pertains to policy seeing none Mr Yates roll call please on policy items Mr Bach yes Mr Brown yes Mr demarcy yes Miss Fox yes Mrs null yes Miss Lee yes Mr fisicaro yes Mr conon yes that motion carries thank you moving to item 13 committee reports are there any committee chairs who would like to share a report Mrs N I'll I'll share a committee report on the curriculum committee we met uh late April I should keep my glasses on so we discussed um items that are on that were on the agenda tonight under curriculum and instructions specifically field trips and special events very exciting things coming up for students as the school year wraps up you know our fifth graders will be going over to their middle schools to um become acclimated to their environment there great adventure trips and we also have some trips to JCC Medford for the fifth graders amongst many other special events for the end of the year for some of our students we also talked about summer programs we spent time on that and I just wanted to um reiterate what they are for the group and also mention the esm Education Foundation once again with their support they support a lot of our summer programs through their fundrais amazing so it's important that we continue to support them so we this summer as every summer we have many programs happening we have our incoming kindergarteners during the Caps program we also have continuing what I we would call the summer Learning Academy that was through Esser funding and Miss mulik had applied for a high impact tutoring grants so we're able to continue some of that as well through that money since the s money is running out um the literacy and math support for the incoming grades 1 through 4 we also have the metamorphosis program at our middle schools for incoming sixth and seventh graders and of course our tier three enrichment program over the summer we also have um our Title One ESL tutoring and also this summer again we're going to have a summer book club at different um Elementary School libraries special events happening there as well so that was basically in a nutshell we began to talk about the school performance reports that the state put out in April we discussed those briefly to begin there's a lot there but it is right now under the curriculum and instruction tab on the website if you want to start looking at that which was published by the state in [Music] April that's all thank you thanks Mrs N would any other committee chair like to share a report seeing none we'll move to Old business of which we have none new business we do have new business tonight we need a motion to uphold the finding of Hib as discussed in executive session for the case we discussed motion by Mrs nll seconded by Miss Fox uh I don't believe we're going to be entertaining questions or comments because it's confidential uh Mr Yates if we can move to a roll call please on new business upholding the hi decision Mr boach yes Mr Brown yes Mr demarcy yes Miss Fox yes Mrs null yes Miss Lee yes Mr fisicaro yes Mr conon yes the motion carries thank you moving to open public comment for any items of Interest this meeting will now be open to the public referencing any items of Interest however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student or Personnel items or negotiations we would ask that you see their superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public please let me your comments at 3 minutes per person would anyone like to speak about any items of interest just wanted to talk about preschool for a moment um there's been a good deal of talk regarding the preschool expansion program stakeholders within the community have a great deal of questions regarding the plan I understand the plan was not presented tonight um so I'll refrain from the long list of questions that we have for now uh however I would like to say this please just wait we have been told that there's no chance that the funding will evaporate which should alleviate the need to rush into the program adding 8810 new students to the district is a massive change whose effects will be felt for years to come we are just coming off of seven years of reduced funding and we've been told to expect to lose at at least another $1.1 million next year please wait to apply for the program and give the district the time to regain our equilibrium let us have a year without the stress of impending uncertainty everyone supports preschool for children we are just asking for a pause so that all voices can be heard we are asking that you don't rush their presentation and vote without Community input and support a change of this magnitude should require buyin from the community please seek out that input we will be more than happy to provided thank [Applause] you any other uh public comments seeing none we'll close that out moving over to board member announcements would any board members like to make an announcement quiet today okay uh real quick um last week we had uh at Dei Middle Dei Middle School we had Multicultural night uh just want to say I had the chance privilege to go and Dr Smith you were there um it was a phenomenal night uh seeing so many different cultures uh presented there seeing the amount of people there uh which which was really really amazing to see um that kind of diversity uh displayed and also on top that the amount of people that came out to celebrate it was really wonderful um it's always it's always good it's always wonderful uh to go to an event in eam uh with where you have to wait in a line just to get a taste of of the food or to uh to see an exhibit you know something successful when you have that many people out I encourage everybody when uh when this happens again um in the next year uh go out uh major props to Dei for handling it uh I I was so highly impressed with everybody there but really truly a wonderful night um I was just glad my kids were able to experience that because when I when I was a kid here nothing like that truly ever happened just to see that kind of growth and to see my kids get to be a part of that uh really makes me feel blessed to be here thank you uh thank you um I just wanted to uh announce it out there uh the uh we we a lot about the eve sham Education Foundation has been brought up tonight um you know and supporting their initiatives uh you know and I just wanted to say on public record they're having their uh golf outing which is a great way to support uh their fundraising efforts that's on June 3D uh so information can be found out about that on their Facebook page which is simply Eve sham Education Foundation um also their raffle efforts are currently ongoing um you know and if you are interested in being involved in that then that would be great so that's all I had for tonight thank you thanks Mr physican Mr demarcy anyone else like to make any comments seeing none motion to adjourn you guys want to stay here motion by Miss Fox seconded by Mr Brown all those in favor hi thank you [Music] w [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] B [Music] w [Music] w all [Music] sh [Music] sh [Music] heyyyy hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey [Music] hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey he [Music]

yes sir Mr Hopkins here here here Dr here here and I'm here okay and yes we've made Angelina the appointed acting clerk so may I have a motion to adopt the agenda I'll make the motion I'll second it Angelina you to vote all those in favor I please stand and Jo me in the 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 okay first item on the agenda is public comments I see we have no public here so we will go on to the first informational item which is the administrative retirement of principal Lance chol yes Mr President was board Lance submitted letter of retirement to superintend effective June 30th 2025 oh sorry nice try though I approve okay well not much to say other than Le bol's been really uh pleased with all the things you've done here and I know that first year with covid and being pretty much a halftime teacher at least was not an easy one so I was glad especially when you when you extended your contract for this year because I think uh I think you two have been a really good team and I think it's you can tell with the the staff attitude so anything else on that no other than we're not accepting it okay um next informational item is the certified employment of substitute teacher Thomas shank Mr Hopkins members of the board Thomas shank has been interviewed for the position of substitute teacher for the 2425 Academic Year there is no board action necessary this is a study session item only okay any questions about that no I'm curious you okay he has his fingerprint card but his teaching certificate yes he has to he have to we have to make sure to check with Angelina that he had everything up to date and so a long story short um once he does get what he is missing he'll be ready to go we have to make sure he has everything uh everything in place everything set okay those I got I guess the term teaching certificate confused me because we're not hiring as a teacher is a substitute substitute substitute Still Still substitute still okay but they don't need to get okay that's what I was just thinking like the full teacher certification I was like we have that requirement for ourselves like yes we have to um I believe uh I might be getting terminology mixed up in my head then yeah well I believe uh we can double check but I believe as long as they have their substitute teaching certificate okay that makes yeah this just said teaching certificate no that's where I was puzzled I'm like wait he's not required to get the same certificate some of our yeah that makes sense I just yeah just like I said I thought the wording threw me off any further questions on that next item is the certified employment of substitute teacher darl Pika M of the darl Pika a teacher at schools from 2017 to 2021 has applied to be a substitute uni School District she has been intered and to sub board approve no board action necessary this is a study session item only is this Miss P the one the kindergarten teacher yes okay that's what I thought okay so related she doesn't have a substitute teacher but she's a certified elementary teacher yeah yeah she's gone yeah above that c teacher okay uh next item is the approval of employment of teachers and parapros for the June summer School Mr Hopkins members of the board the following certified staff are being recommended to teach June Summer School from June 3rd to the 6 and June 10 the 13th each day you have the teachers there and the following par professionals and security monitor are being recommended to be one-on-one AIDS during June summer school we should have a list of the AIDS before the Wednesday regular meeting no board action necessary this is a study session item only I got the AIDS names at like at 4 o'clock today so I changed the Wednesday meeting but I couldn't change the Monday meeting because it's was too late okay so that if you look into the Wednesday meetings that you have access to the names are are already there as we speak you just can't do anything about the them at thise okay thank you and oh we got lost next item is the approval of employment of teachers and paros for July jump start Mr Hopkins members of the board following staff are being recommended to teach July jump start from July 8 to 11 15 18 from 815 to5 each day you have the certified teachers and the following par professionals and security monitor are being recommended to be oneon-one a during July K jump start so as you heard right now you'll have those names for the regular meeting there is no board action necessary this is a study session item only okay any questions or discussion on that and next item then is the approval of the 2425 retention stien for new teachers yeah Mr Hopkins members of the board um this will be an implementing a recruitment stiping policy with title to funds is crucial for attracting appropriately certified Educators in critical areas by offering stiens schools can promote diversity and mitigate turnover the Strategic allocation aligns with federal grants priorities and ensures the activties of resources to recruit top talent in the education sector no board action necessary at this time this is a study session item only and this is in line with um our uh Esa I believe our elementary and secondary Education Act schoolwide plan sr3 and so uh Miss Aran I believe uh shared this information so this is a this looks good Ian this is for our incoming teachers who can get this uh recruitment s them so to speak since they're coming in and uh so this is a good a good U good a way to attract our teachers okay any discussion on that okay if not we'll go on to the next item the 2024 District annual expenditure budget revision Mr hopk members of the board and accordance with Arizona revised statutes SS 15905 and 15- 910 by May 15th the board May revise the school district annual expenditure budget after notice has been given and public meeting has been held attached to the district annual budget expand itory revision there's no board action necessary at this time this is a study session item only uh and and I stated earlier any questions please come and let us know uh my door will be open so any questions that you might have um between now and Wednesday you're welcome to come in and um but it's pretty straightforward okay if there's no discussion on that we go on to approval of the 2425 academic calendar Mr uh president members of the board the 2425 off school's academic calendar has been proposed and reviewed this calendar meets the minimum uh the minimum instructional days on8 in the allate and federal holidays notable changes to the calendar and parent conferences in September and February moving fall spring break up on week uh there's no board action necessary this is a study session item only we looked at other uh uh calendars from other districts notably Tucson Unified School District just wanted to try and have a little bit more cohesiveness for example the quarter one and quarter three Fallen spring break happened right after the end of the quarter whereas before we'd have the end of the quarter then start one week of the next quarter then go on a fall spring break and it really wasn't very hardly any other districts that did that so he's trying to be more consistent also just in this past year when Dr sholz were reflecting on this quarter 1 and quarter three quarter one there's two weeks from the parent teacher conference that happens in September before the end of the quarter and in quarter 3 there's three weeks the uh between the parent teacher conference before the end of the quarter uh a big reason why that was done in other districts is that it gives parents a chance with students to see what the grades are so maybe if they're like a d to a c a c to a a b to an a they have some time still to get that grade up whereas before what what we were noticed in the last few years parents would come to the parent teacher conferences here's your grade this is what this is what it is and if maybe there wasn't that communication of a progress report the parents would would be frustrated like how come I wasn't informed beforehand the teacher said I I we did or long story short this gives students and families a chance to see what the grade is before getting to the parent teacher conference there it is we can change it just to try to be more correct but also just to have a little bit more cohesiveness like with other districts how they set how they organize their parent teacher conferences okay that's all and if there's no discussion on that we'll go on to the approval of fundraisers for Student Activities Mr President M of Bo consultation our high school student council advisor the following fundraisers um are being submitted for your approvement for usfr um there you have them there Car Wash dances Junior High Homecoming and prom food dinner sales game concessions stand Fall Festival talal um holiday store slowly hot cocoa sale holiday treats Valentine's December and Thanksgiving there's no board action necessary this is a study session item only um I'm also going to uh see if Dr sh and you know want to share anything you have the policy I believe with you JJ that is in accordance with the the asba policy advisory that we took care of within the last few months about governing board shall approv fundraising activities create a list of Cree approv fundraising activities so um Dr shab um you have anything else to add to board policy was shared with our with with our sponsors our class sponsors and those that do the fundraisers um just last week or maybe even two weeks ago now after the last board meeting where fundraisers was was brought up just to make sure they had an understanding of this you um board policy has to be followed we can't just without board approval add things here or there yeah and and yes it's student L um ideas and student you know a student government that you want to really um teach them how to get this up and going and how to vote on it how to do these things show up for the and do the hard work but they can't go out on their own either and just say here we want to do this and it doesn't involve the school but we can do it anyway so there was a lot of communication there that about um you know just following board policy and that's the way things have to be done yeah and um we we are getting ready as you've seen the middle school student council you may see some signs outside they're getting ready for their vote for next year that even the sixth grade going up to seventh grade they're and they're going to have a lot more instruction on on the fundraisers and and the dos and don'ts we've already been discussing about that for to get the new group up and running for next year okay so there's no mistakes and it's my understanding here that of these ones that are approved they can do them at any time they don't need we don't need to vote to approve a car wash next weekend but if they wanted to do something like a dog wash then it would have to come back here we vote on it to approve it because it's not on the approved list they do have to get it approved by student council yes because according to usfr systems of financial record records thank you um just so that if eth grades doing the traic sale and sophomores are doing the traic sale student council says okay no the eth grad act act first we can't have the the same fundraiser going on at the same time so all of their fundraisers have to be approved by student council and the student council looks at the list or supposed to have the list and say yes this is up down left right yes you can do this or whatever so this is required by um usfr and our Auditors check for it every year okay yeah I mainly wanted to make sure that we had that they had the flexibility if they came up with some fundraising idea that we hadn't thought of that they could still bring it to us and we approve it at that time so and I was pretty sure that was how that worked I am puzzled over what Crush refers to in a soda oh okay like I have a crush on you and they give them a can of soda now it it's a big it really is a big sell it's cheesy but it's a big seller because it's cheetah yep yeah and it comes in a variety of Flor one of the things I'd probably suggest where it says game concessions down maybe change that to event concessions um do they sell con sessions at like movie night and stuff so if you just change it to event concessions then maybe you know it'll cover both games and any other events that they're going to sell concessions at then you're covered because also covers them to do like orientation yeah yeah so just event concessions rather than game concessions okay because then it covers everything yeah well because if they have it depends if they're having the moving in the auditorium they're not allowed to sell but if they're having it on the blow up and then yes they can so then that'd be a good time or I guess to make sure that's covered yeah okay if there's no other discussion on that we'll go to the report update on the vehicle use agreement Mr President members of the board the facil leadership team Mr expectations outl resp possibilities and District expectations they are 247 on call for any emergency that requires their presence on a USD property this is also for school safety purposes allows managers to respond promptly and efficiently this mitigates potential risks and minimizing disruptions to school operations their 24-hour access to District Vehicles provides greater flexibility in scheduling maintenance tasks and facility improvements unexpected situations may arise outside of regular working hour such as power outages effect 28th March 1st or facility emergencies access to District Vehicles allows both managers to respond promptly to these situations adapt to changing circumstances and ensure the safety and well-being of students staff and visitors the improved Safety and Security of our campus is critical in the managers having access to District Vehicles ensures their safe travel especially during 8 hours or in potentially unsafe weather the managers can also carry the equipment tools or materials needed for maintenance task there's no board action necessary Neary this is a a uh a report update only I also just wanted to share uh this is something that I did uh inquire with our district the legal councel Mr Hufford just to make sure you could look through the this vehicle use and expectations agreement is something that Dr sholz and I worked on um both of the facilities managers have have read it and signed it um they also received uh what you have in your your board docs there they received the the policy e we went over that with them specifically administrative requirements the first paragraph the last sentence on6 schol vehicles uh the second paragraph especially um the last two sentences so they also have the board policy they sign the agreement and also received um ARS 38- 538 where uh we uh have decals we want to make sure we're get these decals on vehicles so that they can also be visible to the public um it states for official use on so that's is it going to have the the logo like the Red Raider logo on on it we can we can try and get a logo we can try and get it either that or have it just say a USD I mean we can do something like that sure okay sure um I do have a question about this you say that they are on call 247 what about Mr tidbit and what about our principal they're technically 20 on call 247 right yes yes yes so why do they not have take-home vehicles um well we have we have just those two vehicles uh and whenever they do happen to be called to to the district uh usually it's it is for a facilities situation for an issue and both of those two are the manager so they what I have instructed them to do is whenever they are called to the district office that they notify each other they both go at the same time for safety purposes whether they're there by themselves or whether there is an outside entity there you can have multiple School District employees there so that they both can make sure they're witness to what is taking place but it's just I believe it's just the best practice to have both of them since they are in charge of the facilities part of our district um anything and everything from whether a freezer that's gone down to a a sprinkler that maybe is busted or something like that by having both of the facilities managers there it it they'll already be there in case something like that happens to where you know if the other two one of the other two come over they would have to call whereas Mr cotton or Mr y here they already have the experience of L head we need to do this we need to get this taking care of so that that that was reason okay are they getting compensated for being on call 247 when when when they get a call out yeah whenever they do come over you know per I'm talking with our CFO consultant mrar whenever they come over for any kind of on call or it's I believe this is also a good practice because in other districts they're big enough to where they can have like T has a roing custodian department where they have maybe five six seven eight nine 10 roing custodians who are sent to different campuses any given day well we don't have that here so in the sense when one or two of our custodians which has happened you know quite a bit recently aren't here then All Tex or he knows he comes back and he covers for the ones who aren't here the same with Daniel when one one or two of his members aren't here he has to assume that so it is a cost efficient as far as you don't have to try and get another department but at the same time our managers it keeps them hands on it keeps them focused on what uh the people in the department are doing and and yes when they are called for talking with Mr Mo Tyler Moore they are getting compensated for that when they come in call situations okay both of their vehicles are work trucks uh one is a truck and one is a car a gr car truck one has a car the other work vehicle we have is here on campus in the shop the heavy duty taking the loads to the landfill okay but the little cray cars like the one I took for the law conference little Toyota okay but and when people need to use that to go like I just last week one of our athletic coordinators it's available like she had to take that to to the game out of town when she took that and so they make sure that they're in communication another best practice we want to implement is one of those two have to go get supplies we have to go out of town either to Lowe's or in the West Valley for financial accountability purposes they emailed each other they copy myself and the finance office so keep track of what purchases take place the district credit card both members in the finance office or where I'm aware who's who's going and so is the other man just for safy well that makes sense to because if if Jose knows he's going but then Daniel's like oh well I had something I needed to get from there next week but you know they can add it on right then and save that trip just the best practice that we're all aware of who who leaves to go take get supplies for the district at any get that yes okay okay is there any further discussion on that matter no okay well I the next item is the board member who requested it is not here to hear the information that he wanted well we can still do it that way the community can hear it table it until I think we should still do it I think we should do it yeah as I I thought about tabling it but I I realize there's a couple other ones I'm thinking about tabling too because somebody's not you know he's not able to make it okay we can go ahead and do it now so uh the following is what we discussed during our meeting for tracking field on JD Sports you have right there in front of you uh what we're going to focus on for JB Sports really is is um we want to try you know by having a summer basketball camp Dr Mr and myself met our basketball coach Mr leco and his staff want to do a summer basketball camp be a good way to try and get a pipeline to focus on JB sports for boys basketball and girls basketball there's going to be a two we summer camp here at our Red Raider gym and we believe we're going to have a good uh good turnout we also coordinate with our food services to have meal summer meals breakfast and Lun available for our students so we haven't done this before so this is this is good and tracking field Mr yon is going to check in with I believe Dr shol in the school office and put up a sign up sheet uh in the school office to see what interest we have so we can base what supplies we need if we need supplies on the interest if we have five people or four then we we'll reevaluate the requests but if we have a you know 10 15 20 that are interested and we have a potential coach already here we used to coach was Yer um and Dr Shotz found out that the CAA track and field weeks are on Saturdays in the West Valley Ro so all the ca teams go to either Buckeye or robale or goody year and the meets are on Saturdays so that would address the the any challenges of having to meet here which would be very difficult because we need to have it up to code more yeah well I would think we need to have our track up to code before we could use it even for practice like for the running Sports of it like but I would think the field events doesn't necessarily have to be on oh cross country is more running yeah yeah like for the sprinting events the hurdle events the relay events we wouldn't be able to even practice those here safely with the track that we have but we could do the field events or shot put discus even even the 800 met or 1600 I'm sure we can figure out another place to run it TR still have 800 met competitor or two or three but we get a sign up sheet and know the interest then we'll move for when is the signate sheet going to go out I think after softball season's over so on Wednesday essentially I don't know the exact date well the only reason I'm asking because school's almost over sure so are the kids going to have enough time to even show interest you'll we'll make sure Dr make sure that we have it up and make announcements but we wanted to wait till soft was completely over and after we want St understood understood so my next question is is I know we have approved three of these coaches one coach we have not approved are we going to approve her at a later date we can we can make it our focus at the June meeting can have a list of our coaches that have to be approved okay I mean sure that way we have them for the whole year and they're set to so should we do that in June or should we do that in July since the fiscal year is in July I think either way okay it'll work out fine okay sure okay sure okay is there anything more on that item okay next item is the approval of Student Activities Treasurer Mr members of the board Arizon statutes 15-1 22 States any District having Student Activities money shall establish a Student Activities fund and appoint A Student Activities Treasurer the administration is recommending everything Thea district and superintendent secretary be appointed as a student at's treasurer for the 24 25 school year no board action necessary this is the study session item only and there you have the board policy jjf I believe and would this be an extra pay position um um you know what I I can look into that I don't want to right away give an answer yes or no what I can do is is uh let me check with other superintendant to see how they handle it you know see what is the best practice other districts okay and um I can figure that out uh so uh let me look into that before I say yes and is this something Angelina's essentially been doing but not officially up until now um pretty much yeah okay that's what that's what I thought but okay is there any other questions or discussion on that item okay then we go on to the next one which is the 2324 performance payout and retention stien District president members of the board 234 performance Fe data has been calculated by leadership team the board is being asked to review and award the attached proposition 301 funds and retention compensation to qualifi teachers from the 22 24 school year L board action necessary this is a study session item only so um performance compensation will be 5614 you see your attachment um in administrative content performance compensation will be 564 for May of 2024 for this year's goals which is something different before it's always been the teachers get the performance pay but in October or November of the next year yes so this is something that one of our teachers spoke with about Mr jigi with Mr Mo a consultant and uh we still want to bring it to to the board and also a second half of retention company theay would be in May as well4 cons what was aged last okay do somebody say zero because they've already gotten the second payment or so the the if they say zero under the the retention ston the retention ston was for for last year's teaches oh they have a zero then they're new this year okay okay and they they're not they don't get the they're not being retained okay or they weren't retained they haven't returned yet yes and all of them are um credential we have all of their yes so like if you look at I'm not going to say names but the the uh one of the teachers up here you see my um that person didn't get certified until probably the fourth quarter or the very end of the third quarter so that affects what her total is okay where if these two people got theirs um like in September or October yes then that affects what their theirs is obviously if these teachers were here the whole time then they're going to get the total full amount but this person got half they got it in like December and so that affects what their their percentage is because it and Dr CH and I worked on when when each teacher became certified for that first year and we broke it up in the quarters so if it was during the first quarter then they 75 or right 100 and then the you know the first semester the third quarter and then the fourth quarter but that one teacher which I'm not going to say which teacher it is got it very late probably in April and um and that's why that it results that teacher amount is only this much rather than the others that have that percentage okay thank you okay anything else on that okay the next item is the report discussion on the auditor General's letter to P County school districts and that's another one I'm wondering if we do that tonight or if we put table it till Wednesday because the one he requested it is here but I believe he just requested it so the information was out there share it I have no problem sharing it that way talk to the public and these meetings are being liveed and yeah and I believe I said Eric did tell me that was his main goal in having it on there was so that it was there for the public so I say we go ahead and go for it okay U Mr President Miss Rodriguez M olon and of the audience just want to share uh this is a a um Gover board request an agenda item to discuss an email received from the Arbiter General office sent to all districts of County there's no board action necessary this is a study session item only so I'm going to highlight you got this in in a report of an update that I'd like to give you a monthly basis so I'm going to highlight the key terms here just so that it can be for the record um States here uh stated by P County Superintendent of Schools Dustin Williams school districts are required to establish and maintain regular reconciliation controls to the Puma County School superintendent's office regarding cash on deposit with the county treasur AO Unified School District did maintain the procedures for this reconciliation process and did complete our monthly cash reconciliations to the school superintendent's office her superintendent Williams in addition he stated on the monthly cash reconciliation process between the county school superintendent's office and the county treasurer's balances was not completed on an ongoing basis throughout the fiscal years so between County school superintendent offic and the county treasur office they didn't take care of what they needed to take care of according to the information he shared with us this is a key Point these reconciliation data are a key component of both County and School District annual audit processes the county school superintendent office shared with Pima County school districts as a result of the county school superintendent's office delay in completing the reconciliations Pima County School District audits were not completed by December 31st 2023 as stated by P County Superintendent of Schools the county school superintendent's office takes responsibility for his finding and has been working diligently to resolve these issues and ensure that these issues do not occur in the future that being said we will still continue to work collaboratively with the county school superintendent's office we have to keep working with them we do need to continue to to work together in a positive manner U another piece of information at our audit exit interviews on on May 2nd per John Dominguez uh from CWD Auditors the Auditors did notify the auditor General's office that the audit was still pending based on waiting for Pima County reconciliation processes so what I just shared with you in this letter our Auditors did reach out to the auditor direct office and say still La for this information like that other districts are being affected by so um just wanted to share that uh and that where we are we did do our part and we're just waiting like many of the other districts for the county to continue to take care of care of but we're we're going to keep working with them collaboratively and get this done yes yeah I believe Eric's main concern there was just to let the public know that it was nothing that the district had done incorrectly right that led to this that it was something out of our hands that we had done what we were required to do any further discussion on that next item is possible new agenda items for the next meeting and I'm G to add one mainly because Lonnie and Eric aren't here and they're not going to be here for our executive session after this so I think we had talked about possibly adding an executive session on Wednesday as well because they might have some discussion on what the executive sessions about and we wouldn't be able to do that in a public meeting okay uh want to I was going to I was going to bring up based on tonight's executive session do we want to just postpone the executive session until Wednesday or do you want to have two executive sessions I'm thinking I think we should just postpone it right see I'm thinking the one advantage to doing it tonight is that we'd be able to vote on it Wednesday where if we put it off on Wednesday because we could we could have executive session now and discuss it we could have the um executive session Wednesday we'd have to have on there that we're doing a vote though to be able to vote on it Wednesday or we'd have to wait until the next month okay yeah I can um I can present the information today you guys can have it and then you can still follow yeah I kind of figure maybe Trish is right maybe it will be redundant because Eric and Lonnie are gonna have questions and you're gonna have to do the same presentation two3 of two you can do an executive session and then come out of the executive session do the action item and then end the meeting okay okay um I think did you both get my email about the executive session did either of you I mean we could go into an executive session just to have the topic introduced to these two in case they have questions right now whatever you want to do it can go let's do that let's put one on Wednesday though too um but we can have one tonight just have it be a little short one and not get all the information but just in case Carolyn or Trish have questions that we can't ask in the public form we could ask it there to you I'd like to have a short one tonight if we could okay okay and then I just wanted to mention also um so are we going to add an executive and an action item yes ma'am on the Wednesday yes okay and then um just to reiterate those AIDS names are already on the regular session I just couldn't put them on here so when they pop up on the Wednesday meeting it's not a surprise yeah and you said they're already on the Wednesday they're already on the Wednesday meeting yeah I've already added them okay and then I don't have anything for Wednesday's meeting but for the June meeting if we could start getting um Dibbles assessment data I think we're Dibbles testing now for end of year um if we can get Dibbles assessment data and any other um end of year data we might have at that point Point mer I know a lot of the I mean I'm sure even if she's not here we can have some sort of report that we can take a look at and you know compare you know beginning middle and um end of year progress okay thank you okay is there any other new agenda items no okay then uh we need to vote to go in an executive session so I'll make the motion that we go to an executive session all in favor I and we're now in ex session okay and you're going to split the recording so I don't need to do anything here yeah [Music] unug it and then put a sign

hkin here here okay thank you and um you're okay being appointed as acting clerk yes sir okay so the next item is the adoption of the agenda may I have a motion I'll make the motion I'll second uh Mr Hopkins I Mr i h yeah okay okay please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all okay and the one item on this agenda is the buit uh the budget hearing Mr President mgz and miss public hearing to present the fisc year 24 budget revision for Al School District number 15 all districts are able to revise their adopted budget by December 15th of each year as Allowed by Statute is that date right and should it say May 15 I should say May 15th I'm Sorry by May 15th of each year as Allowed by Statute the district should post the standard 24-hour advance notice of the board meeting and hold a public hearing this is a public heing for the 2024 budget revision number two there's no word action necessary at this time but we do want to share with you your attention to our either on your on your Chromebook the attachment or here on the Smartboard type did do a a recording voice over to the PowerPoint so I'll just ask Ang to play play it and we'll get started the FY 2024 budget division number two virtually via this recording on the agenda again we're looking at the FY 2024 revised budget number two we'll look at the M&L budget changes as well as the daa or capital budget changes and then we'll review some of the upcoming budget conversations that you've seen in the more recent months looking at the M&L budget changes on the revision number two you can see not a lot of change from the December budget revision which is is the budget revision number one there's been limited time and changes that have passed since the December revision most notably the revenue control limit changed slightly at 49,000 and an increase bu budget balance Carri forward is still flat from the December revision so no increase there or decrease and on the add-ons these are state aid additional add-ons there's a slight decrease to reconcile those numbers overall you'll see a 4,855 increase in the general budget limit for M on budget revision number two looking at the TAA or capital budget revision changes only a minor adjustment in the uh unrestricted Capital allocation which is that Top Line we'll see a minor adjustment in the decrease of $1 16,924 overall the unrestricted capital budget remains healthy and sits at 1, 97,5 after budget revision number two now looking at the fy2 budget initiatives you'll see a lot of these initiatives have already been completed looking at the first bullet point the salary schedule adjustments as I noted all salary schedules has haven't been adjusted in several years we brought forth changes to the classified and certified salary schedules the g board approved those for next year compensation increases for both classified and certified were approved by the governing board the district went through an insurance evaluation um those recommendations were brought forth to the govering board and approved in addition the district move move the substantial a part of the classroom site fund to the base pay which allows for that to be paid out each pay period instead of in month sums looking forward to the fy2 budget we are still waiting on the legislator leg legislature to provide the district with a K2 budget or the state with an approved K2 budget once that budget is approved then budget forms will be released by the auditor general and at that time we will begin preparing the official proposed and adopted budget for f 425 so that was the um that was the last slide but he he did email me and say that if you had any questions you look back on it before the Wednesday board meeting that you could email them to to me and then um I could email them to him and hopefully he would be able to respond back um and answer any questions before the one he is still responding to emails he just can't couldn't here today okay okay does anybody have any questions or discussion about that no okay I believe we're on to asking for a motion to ajour I'll make the motion I'll second it all in favored pass 3 610 so I stop this between meeting and yes o

on or off uh press it through screen so just press the button there now it's okay you go like um today's date is Monday May 6 2024 calling to order the bobur UniFi scooter check special board meeting as I call the meeting to order I just um like to share and reiterate as we have in the past our um vision mission and purpose statement for barbecue UniFi School District to not only encourage but also to support all of the effort made by the administration in all of our schools within the district our vision statement is our students will be loved encouraged and prepared to Take On The World by embracing our himu our mission statement is we create healthy inspiring motivating developing achieving graduates word meaning way of life our purpose statement is we create a nurturing learning environment for every child every day with an additional commitment to support our him as representatives of the community and as representatives of all our stakeholders as members of the community as well it's important for us to continuously engage in the Hindu or the way of life of the autum as it is what we know and how we um move forward in life so with that I will turn over um of the time now to Mr sabala for roll call all those and CH okay we do have a quorum we'll continue with our meeting this evening letter C is the routine business number one is the approval of the May 3rd 2024 special board meeting uh board members anything or is there motion to approve motion to approve motion by Miss anarie Stevens second by missia Hendricks letter D this evening is our action items number one discussion and possible approval of the request for proposal award for modular Solutions Mr President Mia members of the board members of the community before I begin with the first recommendation I want to take a minute um to once again show our appreciation to our teachers this week is Teacher appreciation and I want to make sure that we may get a point to also acknowledge all of the work all of the efforts all of the love and all the commitment of our teaching instructional team um towards our students and to towards our community we want to thank them for everything that they do your mic's not on rewind no you're fine keep going president wendia members of the community um and members of the the board um I want to take a minute to acknowledge that these week is a teacher appreciation week and I want to ensure that our teachers hear from us um that we appreciate all of the work all of the commitment um all of the love towards our students and that their job is not only um in the mornings but they also they carry also the the the love and the concern of our students home um we wish them nothing but success we wish them health and not only for them but also to their families and once again we thank them for every every single child and for every single hour that they work with their kids Mr Diaz I'm sorry I apologize in the future just make sure you're putting that on the agenda or making it an announcement because we can't address anything without it being on the agenda absolutely um I should have done it and I apologize in advance U but it it I will take a risk to celebrate our teachers um given that it's a great week and president Mia members of the board um this year uh Babble cuin fire School District um in in the with the intention number one of maximize maximizing our funding and number two being a strategic and how are we going to be able to compete with our uh neighboring districts not only um within Pima County but also throughout the state um it's it's providing teacher housing and um our even though our district is currently offering teacher housing our teacher housing it is in need of providing um a little update uh so we have allocated as one of the projects for this year half a million dollars to begin the work on um updating some our teacher housings that are in desperate need of some TLC um we have uh put out an R an RFB and um it was out for the required time and um only two uh companies went through and they they proceeded with the presentations with the interviews and the supported documentation and based on the committee um I'm coming before the governing board to answer any questions um but also to um provide the following recommendation to our govering board um which is um I am requesting the governor board the approval of awarding the project to modular Solutions and I open for any questions Mr um Russell um wanted to hear your comments if any on the project or any other project that we have yeah that one's on it's on yeah um yeah so we we had uh we put an RP out we did uh we did meet with three companies we narrowed it down to two companies um and narrowing it down to two companies we met as a group and uh uh discussed you know our thoughts after we had met with them and the company that uh that we are are asking for you to approve tonight ma Solutions we've used them in the past in the district since I've been here they did very good work they they crossed all the tees and DED all the eyes of what we're looking for um in the project and hopefully once we do this project we can get one next year in the next couple years to get all the the housing back up to uh um not not to say it's a livable space but now now you know people are living in there now but I mean to to accommodate better living conditions better living conditions yeah yeah because some of the housing as you may know is you know 50 years old so we're just bringing it back to back to a better condition um especially the windows and doors because it's all single pain and stuff like that um and there's a lot of the stuff that we can't fix as internal we have to go outside and get some of this fixed so hopefully with you guys approving this tonight this will bring you know more teachers and them at some point get some more housing um right now we have 43 units um total that's including the superintendent's house so once we get that all done um we'll be able to add hopefully maybe another 10 more units is there do you I don't have a problem I know modular Solutions they're very they're very good at what they do I don't have an issue with the with the contractor my my only concern and I say concern because I feel like it's again one of the only responsibilities higher responsibilities we have as the boards to be mindful about not only these things but how they reflect on the overall district and to me would you would you support or would you consider that I I don't disagree that these are needed I don't know that at all but I know we are at the end of the school year and yes if it was allocated it was done my only question right now is why the timeline sits the way it is and as much as we want to say yeah it'll get done it's all perfect it's on Dandy but a lot of that doesn't always happen the way that we need it to so if we're working through the the latter end of the school year and there this timeline says they'll be done by the end of June but what if that do doesn't happen so I mean and and I only ask that because why wouldn't we then look at what we have in the overall housing um inventory or the houses that we have close some of them off get them done early ahead of time and then decide to move people in I mean I'm only saying that I understand we have to be competitive but at the same time it to me it doesn't seem like it's it's always the short thing that we're going to get things done on time because that seems to happen a lot with us we have projects and contracts that go Way Beyond what they're supposed to and that's not our fault not your fault but it is out of our hands and then we look like we're not doing what we we're supposed to when it comes to utilizing funds so we were suy because then it costs more for us to have to do all of it because it takes longer for us to get all of it done so I'm just I'm just hopeful that whether whether my concerns are taken into consideration and or we really work out how these contracts and what these committees are going to do um when we're looking at these projects overall and look at a better timeline to to put us in a good little bit of a standing um I don't know if you have any comment to that but I just that's just what I feel like and and I only ask you because I know you have two positions that are supposed to be open for the housing someone who fixes the homes right yeah well I actually have I have three position I total open I five maintenance people and right now I only have two and I'm doing some of that help too because we don't have enough people right so I just I just you know I think it's going to get a the way that we've seen the homes and this will kind of press again on whether the CFO or the superintendent are also going to consider putting a little bit more of an emphasis on you need to take care of these homes when you're in these homes because it starts to get out of hand and it seems to be getting out of hand the way that the homes are being left and I know we said that before and we made some changes to the agreement but I think we need to get a little bit more serious about yes it's good cost of living it's 200 bucks a month or whatever it is but it just seems like it's not appreciated to the degree that we need it to be and cared for I think a lot of it had to do with the budget and how much we were going to have left at the end of the year that's why this came up now um it would be nice if if we jumped right into it back into it in July and August you know coming up after the for the 2024 2025 school year because this company is still going to be here and if that's who we want to go with if we can just lead right lead right into another you know $500,000 because now we know how much we've already spent so everybody else is going to be minus that amount for the rest of the year for out of their budgets um I think that might be better to do it that way because then we'll have more time to complete some of these and right now we have we have six or seven units open right now just just just in my head that I can can count and we have about four or five teachers that are leaving so we're going to have an abundant amount of houses that are going to be open so if we can if we get the faster we can turn these ones around before we let people move in in in in in July when school starts is going to help us out um there are a lot of them I mean a lot of the ones that are in pretty dire shape are the ones that people have lived there for you know 68 10 years oh yeah you know that's um because because no one was doing anything and they W reporting stuff you know until I got here when we actually did a physical in inspection of the units and stuff like that right so it's not that the people that are moving out now since we changed it and they they put a deposit down that they have the cleaning deposit it's changed overnight okay but it's now it's the units that are like like I say 6 8 10 years that people have been there those are the ones that people are coming out of that need a lot of the work okay um the other thing I would ask about being mindful is I know our fiscal year runs a little differently than the Nations and right now the nation's fiscal year is coming to an end which means they're going to start to like slow down on all the things that they're doing which means when we're trying to gear up they're coming to a close something to also be mindful of because it stops what we're trying to do when when we got to be my understand we're not the only fiscal year here correct correct and I just think about that when when you know considering what we're here to do and be a resource for I would hope that that's taken into consideration Mr Diaz president M members of the board M sir president members of the board um and also to answer your questions one of the reasons um why this uh specific vendor came um ahead is for the following reasons um yes we do need a very aggress aggressive timeline and the solution that they provided is number one is that they're going to bring the entire crew to be able to live here in the nation while they're working number two they're going to have a superintendent on side to be able to oversee the work number three they're going to bring um uh containers with all of the materials that they need and they foresee that they're going to need for the renovation to prevent any driving or going back and forth so they give us not only a timeline but also they gave us multiple Solutions in which they were going to be able to be more successful than the other companies um and number four they are familiar with the terror process and they're familiar with the landscape familiar with their needs So based on on those characteristics and observations and and the way they have answer our questions and and how they going to overcome those challenges um they show a plan for the seen and also the UN unseen yeah like I said I've worked with Missy Brandon and all them before it's not I mean I have no doubt that they're going to do what they need to I just want to make sure that we're mindful um I gave some pretty good recommendations hopefully I don't know if the board has anything else regarding this project if there isn't if there isn't any other questions I think that the information that youve gotten and everybody shared I think is is well and do and I I I I'm anxious because I think yeah you're right those are are very old I used to babysit in them when I was in high school yeah so they're fly I have some workers that have said that they were in high school or they were in middle school when those were there yeah so if that I'll go ahead and make it more oh on a second but if I could add um just a caveat and a directive to Mr Diaz um and I guess the CFO um just a close out of all the projects and the cost and the expense by the end of the year um and you'll probably do that anyway but I just want to make sure that that's reiterated from the board standpoint awesome okay that was my second and I and I will try to get you guys a weekly update once we start construction from demo I'll send you st stuff so we've already talked about that with them you one me a second with the directive oh yeah is that right yes [Laughter] EVS thank you number two this evening board is discussion and possible approval of the summer 2024 culture teacher planning hours Mr Diaz President W members of the bo uh after reviewing the progress on our dual language program um based on the progress of our students we are in the need of opening now um a higher level of AUM language and to do so um we are requiring our teachers not only to come back uh this summer but also work on reviewing some of the lesson plans that they have for this past year but also create uh the lesson plans and the curriculum for the the now the next level in Autumn so what I'm I'm coming to before the Cen board um it is recommending the approval of up to eight teachers to work up to 40 hours um each uh staff member to develop lesson plants and materials aligned to the scoping sequence that we created with the in conjunction with the toono autum Department of Education and barbecue High School Districts teachers will be under the supervision of the superintendent and evidence of the completion will include that time and effort logs and the lesson plans uh completed the goal is to complete um at least uh the first level of the next uh scoping of the next scoping sequence uh for level one and level two um we anticipate in eight teachers 40 hours a total $28 an hour for a total of 8,960 plus 20% of benefits total in 10,792 um and this project will be funded through title 6 Indian education funds and the on the on the second page there's a description of what expected of them by the end of those two weeks couldn't click on the link for the proposed team members it didn't open oh that's the form that we created so they can submit um if they're interested working this summer it's a Google form you know who so far we do have um six already that submitted that they're interested uh we are waiting to see um we will be able to bring it back on the next board meeting on the 14th to determine how many have completed the form okay any other questions from the board a motion to approve motion by Miss anary Stevens second by Miss Sy Hendricks all those in favor motion M Kath m okay motion carries number three discussion dis number three discussion on possible approval of Brian Brown Youth Academy female counselor position Mr Diaz uh president M just like last year uh there's going to be um the same uh Brian Brown Youth Academy and there's a couple of positions the first one will be to have a female counselor um in this position um it will be um funded funded uh it's the last of sr1 uh it is 61 hours uh 32 hours for a total of 275.50 I the only reason I would would ask any further questions is because the last I remember whether this was a b USD camp or not I don't remember it being kind of the responsibility of ourselves there was a camp created through what Brian Brown I mean I know it just got changed to Brian Brown Academy after his passing but I don't remember I mean does this mean then that this person is going to have to apply go through all of the processes that they need to for the district because we're funding it then when is it going to be open who's who's going to what is the job description where um all of those things that need to be done before we approve all of that I don't remember approving this then if we did then then then I then I guess but it didn't I don't know that we should be I mean that's just from me but when and where did we agree to start doing that I know we oural director goes over there which I don't know that we're pay if we are paying her for that then okay but there's I think our contribution to the overall Academy which I think topd and then if Brian Brown Foundation or whatever it is is also funding to what degree are they funding and so on and so forth but that will be my understanding that if this is the position and the role um how does that hiring process look it's going to have to go through the district's hiring process I would say and you would have to open it to everybody and I don't want to make it so that there's someone already Chosen and we're just creating a position for them that's where I don't want that to come from just for equal everyone's equal opportunity to be able to apply if that's the case but I didn't know that this was what we were doing okay CL so well I know that we've done this in the past in collaboration with the police department and what you know I thought was you know a great count you know for PE for our Stu students throughout I mean it's for all students not just the USD students right and but I I do agree that I didn't know I mean you're you're asking for approval for a position but I don't see um do we have a job description salary um there's some breakdowns but yeah but I don't I mean basically and like who is this person good to report to you know all those things that have to be um actually stated in a job description okay um having said that I don't have the the r the answers with me at this point and I don't want to speak or mislead you or give you the wrong information um I'll be more than happy to bring this back during the regular board meeting and have my scoring um I I did not get any questions during off for briefings uh I could have gotten those ahead of time so I apologize if I don't know that information but I'll be more than happy to either uh postpone those anything related to the Brian um Brown Academy for the regular board meeting so I can have my ESS director um to answer the questions and provide the additional documentation needed so um go ahead so I'm assuming that's for both number three and four oh because that's also a a position that is correct asking for and I would just say for the sake of future that's what's expected we're not going to just approve a position without all of that information documentation where is it kind of who's who's the supervisor because you could present anything you want but but I think there needs to be a time where you where you would understand or your your HR would understand if you're creating a position they're going to want to know all of this information because that's what I would look to right away so just for future reference again whether the question was posed or not I feel like there's things that have been precedent set in precedent and one of those is job description if we're going create a position no matter what it is and I think if that's not the case and we're not if we've never asked for that and that would be my hugest concern but I know if we're creating a position again I think I think on the side of that is collaborating with topd for a camp is all fine like like Miss syvia has said it helps everyone but then to what degree is everyone else helping and where is it coming from just because that would be the question that they would ask were asking those thing things of them um com courtesy's going to put in this going to do this oural director which gets paid a pretty hefty salary is already participating um and so on and so forth so Point noted president Mia thank you with that well for without go ahead S no I was just gonna say I was just going to go ahead and table Yeah number three and four two and oh three and four um but also Alo that um I guess basically I think this sounds like more like a part-time position or seasonal position or something I don't know and how that works you know with HR and everything so basically and I think also because um I think we basically have to cover especially if there's an audit you know in in position that I I don't want to give the wrong information I have based on what occurred last year but I don't want to misrepresent I feel more comfortable comfortable U just like in the past do the additional research and bring you the facts okay well I'm making the motion to table three and four a motion to table number three and four this evening I'll second the motion okay number five this evening uh moving on is our discussion and possible approval donum culture teacher salary schedule Mr Diaz president Mia and govering board members there are two salary schedules that we still need to review um and these are for the the next one is for the Autumn culture teachers that have not completed uh or passed the the test um before you I have have the proposed salary schedule um for this group of employees um so I'm asking for your review and for approval for this so that we can offer them a contract for next care Year Mr Diaz is there a and please you could just send this to us later like uh last year's like a like last year's what is the difference what's the change I'll be happy to do that H side to side comparison of both of them it's a 2% oh okay yeah represents 2% increase okay thank you man yeah yeah I'd love to man right a Christmas bonus right I don't have any other questions board in motion to approve motion by Miss anary Stevens there second Miss Kathleen Vance M number six this evening discussion on possible approval of OT PT salary scheduled OT I assume is occupational therap and physical therapist Mr D president members of the board similarly uh this um salary schedule um is for the upcoming school year and it also represents a 2% increase Mr D this one says it includes seven pay holidays but the other one doesn't is that is that it the same as far as the culture teacher and then this one includes seven pay holidays and steps represent 2% increase PES um there are different groups um one of them is a certificated uh the the other ones are not president M Noak are there any other questions yeah um I'll go ahead and make the motion to approve I have a motion by Miss uh syia Hendricks no is there a second second second by Miss anary Stevens number seven this evening discussion on possible approval of archery rer M pres members of the governing board um we have uh one activity that is coming to our high school during Babble day um and upon review the activity with our trust the trust has made a recommendation that we will need to have a waiver so I'm coming uh before the Govern board uh to also review the memo and we recommended the B K School District governing board to approve the waiver as presented motion to approve I have a motion by Miss anamarie Stevens second by Miss Kleen V that'll conclude our action items this evening letter e is our consent agenda a consent agenda without objection a motion to approve is there a second second by Miss syia Hendricks m that will conclude our agenda this evening is there a motion to adjourn Move Motion by Miss Sylvia Hendricks I'll second the motion 603 p.m.

all right wild cats it's May it's the last month of school the final few days for the class of 2024 we're going to recognize some of them today they made an impact here in their time in West Chicago they're being recognized by their classmates but their senior superlatives this year let's meet some of them and find out what they've done here at West Chicago and what comes next all right wild cat here to present the crowns is PEP Club sponsor Miss masterani our first award is best Bromance and that goes to Jonathan stto and Brady John congratulations what makes a happy Bromance I feel like the way we're just able to like connect with each other like I feel like you know we're just like two brains you know I mean one brain two people one brain two people one brain Brady you agree with that 100% yeah last year's best romance if you're watching feran and Chad they were rooming together UI is being roommates in your future definitely after college we were looking at that um in apartments and you know we want to raise a dog together so yeah we want we want our children to like be friends like us so So the plan is to live next door to each other start off as roommate buy a dog first good first step and then buy houses separately but near each other so your kids can be friends and potentially they could be best Bromance down the road our next award is class clown that goes to Carlos alen Carlos congratulations thank you it's a big honor it is a big honor what makes a successful Class Clown you know you just got to be witty with stuff you know you just got like you know can't use the same jokes over and over again like situational comedy not like you know knock knock knock knock jokes okay situational comedy no knock knock jokes no dad jokes what uh class is your favorite class to clown around it consumer Ed with uh shitaku so I'm so sorry about that that's okay that's okay that's my department that's okay do you got a good uh situational uh dad joke anything for us uh nothing appropriate congratulations Carlos thank you our next award is Life of the Party M Anna pinkovi congratulations Anna thank you and what makes you the life of the party I don't know everyone thinks thinks that so I guess I'm just the life of the party she's a life of the party Anna pink ofic next one is teacher pet that is Sasha bomgardner congratulations Sasha thank you thank you very much so what makes someone a successful teacher pet well first you got to like not eat lunch in the cafeteria you got to eat lunch with the teacher okay second got to take student assistant and then during your study hall you got to like go sit with a teacher too so you actually have to talk to teachers you got to spend time with them outside of class and that apparently is something you enjoy doing yeah I do our first repeat winner most school spirit Carlos Allen thank you another big honor yeah you're always at the front of the squad All Season you led those field rushes back in the fall you came from our smallest Middle School Winfield came to the big school how did you make such a good impact here at the high school I don't know I think it's just my personality just want to make friends with people all right our next is most likely to be president Chase pekman congratulations thank you all right you're approximately 60 years younger than both of our presidential candidates currently so you have a long life ahead of you where you could still run for president is politics in your future you know why not sure sure so I'm going to put you on the spot right now 2044 you will be eligible to run for president will you be running for president no next one is most liked by parents Vale Harris you're popular with the parents yep I guess I am what do you do that gets you on the good side of the parents I don't know maybe I'm just like polite to them or when they ask me how my day is I always ask back so you actually talk and respond to parents not ignore them yes tip for you kids if you actually speak to parents they might actually like you good job Vil best of luck in the future thank you all right our next one is biggest flirt and that goes to Carolyn Fleming Carolyn congratulations thank you are you surprised by this award no oh itic you haven't open my Snapchat in a couple days I think we just saw some flirting in action right there by Miss Fleming do you have any flirting tips for the underclassman as they get older get to the point get to the point don't play games listen to Carolyn she won an award for it it's most like to be on Broadway Alex Bradley you've seen him on the stage dozens of times throughout his four years here congratulations Alex thank you is Broadway in your future you know maybe maybe Hollywood not sure yet what is your favorite acting scene that you've done here in high school this one time when I got to spit a lot of water all over Michael Angelus it was pretty gross but it was it was funny it was also acting that's why he's headed to Broadway most athletic Brady Johnson congratulations Brady multiple time state champion record holder going to college for swimming what has made you so athletic the amount of work I put in the pool and in the gym but also at a young age I did multiple Sports so I think that's the key to key to being athletic good tip kids don't specialize too early play multiple Sports I know you have like athletic tape on your elbow and stuff there is that just for show or do you actually need that no I need it for it helps with my blood flow in my elbow and it looks cool too most athletic Brady Johnson next one is best smile Clarissa Alvarez congratulations oh thank you what is the secret to having the best smile I don't know I didn't even have braces either like my teeth are just like get out of here those are natural teeth you never had braces nope never super impressive do you brush twice a day I do do you floss I do do you use mouth I do do you stay away from like lots of sticky candy sour stuff sometimes I try yeah sometimes it seems like you're always smiling you're just a happy person yeah I would say so there's nothing to yeah I'm always smiling yep best smile Clarissa Alvarez it's next one is next influencer Alexa Morales congratulations Alexa thank you what is your soci soci media app of choice Tik [Music] Tok what do you do to influence people on Tik Tok I don't know every thought I get just goes on there video form if you want to find out some info about Alexa and maybe advice for Life follow her on Tik Tok congratulations Alexa thank you the class MVP most valuable player goes to Jack Walsh Jack congratulations thank you thank you MVP are you more of a LeBron or Jordan fan definitely Jordan good correct answer so what would you say has been your biggest contribution to the team here at West Chicago High School definitely my school spirit in just organizing things here a weo a lot of school spirit lots of organization he planned the Senior Skip day last week uh allegedly lots of leadership skills being shown by Jack lot of school spirit he's made his impact here great job thank you had one more she didn't show up most likely to be late was rean misler oh wait here she is here she is on time got your tardy pass in hand 15 15 tardies loss of activities luckily prom's over why are you always late I don't know it's just it's it's a little hard to wake up in the morning so it's always my first hour so I mean I had your second hour of first semester and you were laid off into that as well so that was your first hour we didn't start class till almost 9:00 so that was still tough to make it too early yeah little tip for you heading into college you get to pick your schedule don't sign up for classes you know before what 10:30 11:30 oh I will not do that she's going to work on being on time she's going to start her schedule a little later in college don't forget your tardy pass head on the first hour thank you so much all right Wildcats prom is over graduation is near class of 2024 is almost out of here but they've made a great impact here at West Chicago High School freshman sophomore juniors you're next it's your opportunity to make the most of your time here in high school like these seniors that we just recognized finish strong Wildcats a couple weeks left unless you're a senior we'll see you tomorrow morning for the senior Sunrise to kick off your last day of high school [Music] G

e e e and Julie would you mind calling the RO please Cara Caston here Ken Dawson here CHR esposa here Terry pavich here and Don rener here and Jan hun here and Nala M here thank you having a quorum let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance 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 all right Hank I'll turn it over to you for student recognitions all right and I will turn it over to Arwin because we have a bunch from South High this evening good evening everyone I'm so happy to be um back this month celebrating student recognitions I was just getting a chance to share this is my most favorite part of my job is celebrating the success of our students so thank than you again for allowing us the opportunity to do this um we're going to start tonight um with ID DEA which is Illinois design Educators Association you can see that we had students placed both first and second in this highly competitive competition so to introduce and explain the success of Zach and Alex I'm going to introduce Mark mulinari uh thank you for having us once again um I think this is an awesome opportunity for our our students to um be recognized and um I have the opportunity to watch Stu athletes compete but I think watching students compete in academic competitions is they're typically not some of your best athletes that you have but they really you see their competitive juices coming out and so Zach and Alex you guys can come on up real quick um I've known Alex since he was been in like fifth grade and uh I live right next to his grandma so I knew he was going to be taking my classes at some point and Zach is a very bright young man and so um I'll let those those two talk talk about the competition a little bit but there was a regional there's 19 regionals they took first and second out of cood and then the top two from those 19 regionals compete at Illinois State and they got they were able to take first and second out of there so go ahead wow very good um hello I'm Alex um I'm a senior at South I'm planning on going to uh Huntsville Alabama next year uh to make major in Aerospace and uh I've been architecture has been a major part of my life like I've I've loved it I've thought I was going to go into it from when I was little I was always super interested and honestly I've been struggling to choose between Aerospace and architecture and you know mon Ari's class has really helped me choose and it's been a really amazing time competing in skills and idea um the opportunities are just absolutely amazing just some wonderful people my name is Zach and I'm also senior at South I'm going to University of Illinois at Urbana champagne next year to go into civil engineering and I'd also like to thank Mr nari for this great opportunity and great class of architecture it's been great to explore career options before you actually delve into them into the real world and just helps to make sure that I'm prepared for whatever Next Step I'm taking in life so you can see I talked both of them into not going in our the profound impact that I have but uh Zach didn't tell anybody but uh Zach is going tuition free to University of Alabama so or Illinois so it's a pretty big [Applause] accom before they run away wait wait wait um our uh villages got in on the ACT for Zach and Alex um I have something from the village of Woodridge and then Downer's Grove it's production it's on the way so I'll turn those over to you when they come in Mr Molinari so for uh for Zach here I have a proclamation from the village of Woodridge that uh recognizes that Zach won first place at the Ida championship in the category of 3D architectural modeling uh would not have been possible without the exceptional sponsorship of Mr Molinari um says that Zach's uh achievements highlight the commitment spirit and pride of the Woodridge community and uh mayor Cunningham has declared today Monday May 6th as Zach Muka day Alex as a second place finisher Woodridge recognized you as well for your second place finishing at Ida in the category of 3D architectural modeling uh um also recognizes Mr Molinari uh thanks uh everybody else that's involved in representing uh this program and the mayor has also declared today as Alex burck [Applause] Day could you uh gentlemen just uh describe a little bit about your projects that were submitted for uh this competition all right um so the projects are normally like you're given like so it's time based and so you're given like a a template kind of like an idea of what you're supposed to do they'll give you like a rough idea so in this one it was like a museum like a car Volkswagen Museum and so it gave you like a really rough outline of like the different um details it needs and stuff and you kind of have to work like around that and try to like like they'll give you like a floor plan but you kind of have to like incorporate everything that inside of it and stuff and so you need to know a lot of the like software um a lot of small features that normally you don't you use and stuff and so once you obviously once you put it all together it will I mean it's just whoever can do it better but it wasn't something that you prepare prepared ahead of time it was it was something on the spot yeah wow ni they an hour and a half they're giv The Prompt they have an hour and a half to do a floor plan elevation in a couple 3D views wow wow that's a lot a lot of pressure sounds like and congratulations Mr Mullen Ari one of the best things about workplace learning is helping students understand what not to spend their next four years doing and their money on job well done appreciate [Applause] it next up we're going to celebrate our ihsa short film contest team they play sixth at the ihsa state meet um and I'm going to have will Elliot come up and speak on behalf of the team um Mr Blum is not here tonight he's homesick so hi Mr Blum if you're watching um and will is going to come uh represent the team and talk about short film hello the board I hope you guys are having an amazing day uh for those of you who do not know me my name is will Elliott and I'm a director of editorial for the ihsa short film I also did sound design and I also did a ton of other little tiny bits and details before I start and start talking about the ihsa short film there are a few people that I want to recognize that are here that help the process and help make the short film a short film and not a long film so we have uh the director of writing Nick Sadowski please stand of Applause we have our production manager uh Brianna Zigler and then we had this fantastic lighting person come in and help operate the lights in the studio theater uh Nick gamsky can you please stand nick uh you're coloring uh other Nick blue nick uh you're short you got complimented on the color choices at state by a em neon so congratulations for that but the significance of IHS short film we played six in the state which is I believe the first time that we podiumed on the actual ihsa Podium Podium which is a huge achievement and in order to have this outlet for students is really important because not a lot of schools have Outlets of creativity where students like me who are interested in film and television and everything can really Express themselves our short film story was taken from the mind of Nick and his struggles with accepting that the goals that he placed freshman year weren't really the goals that he completed senior year which is a struggle which a load of high schoolers face and a load of people come to terms with I wanted to go to state for swimming and as you can see now I'm not a swimmer anymore but that's okay because we all change and we all morph ourselves into beautiful wonderful people and being able to tell this story at a very very prestigious event and get feedback from Emmy nominees people who work in the business people who drive to make film film that is something that I can remember for the rest of my life but also something that I can remember for the rest of my life is that I got to share this moment with my role model yeah my dad drove all the way up from the middle of nowhere down SC grr to come see my film and it was a beautiful experience because when I was little I used to sit in his office chair and I would play around with his coloring board and I would say I want to be you someday and then my dad was like do you want to rethink that decision but now I got accepted into his aler Mo Southern Illinois ghost Tois and the fact that I was able to share my short film with my father and to complete someone's goal of telling a story within the span of a week yeah I just say push this back like two weeks we did this in a week so that's really impressive as well but I also want to thank the board members for allowing me to come up and speak allowing everyone to experience the film and allowing us to tell a little story that probably would not have been told without our director Chris Blum who is sick so thank you boor so [Applause] much you'll get us a link to that video so I can share with yes I can get it to everyone I will do that I can do that tonight all right so next slide so I'm excited about this one there are two um very high-profile Awards about ihsa State journalism and our blueprint so for our blueprint advisers Miss Long Miss lore and Mr Andrea they are celebrating two significant Awards tonight they are celebrating our state champion Sebastian Blanco and our state champions will Elliott who you just met Grace Stapleton and Micah Olsen along with third place winner and two fifth place winners at the ihsa state competition and then they also received the the Golden Eagle Award from northern northern Illinois student press Association so I'm going to have Mur come up um she'll talk a little bit about both things and introduce our students hi thank you so much so like my students I'm sure some of you are like what is a journalism competition and what does it look like they were so confused but this is really exciting so essentially it's very close to what Mark was talking about they have an hour and a half they get a prompt and they have to write something something and our journalism team plays third in state tons of schools all over Illinois come and it's such a PR like they did such a fantastic job and should be so proud and that doesn't even represent all the students that went up to State and made it to sectionals we also play first in sectionals so we are so proud of the commitment some of them spent hours upon hours training with the various coaches in order to get that achievement so will was once again going to come speak about the experience he was part of the uh what is it technically called broadcast TV I got no clue yeah it's they made like a little 90c video no it was longer than 90c they made like a news video and they got first place so will Grace and Micah our state champion in TV news Sebastian got radio news Anthony uh Dante third place uh headline writing Sabrina Crowley who I don't think is here right now but she got uh fifth place newspaper design design and Maya Hamburg fifth place in copy editing will would you like to speak a little bit about the experience about being a part of the competitive journalism team and what it means to you yes I would love okay thank you hopefully you guys didn't miss me I'm back uh for those of you who maybe have forgotten my name is Will Elliot and I do I'm a freelancer for blueprint I do a ton of media stuff media is my life but it's time to talk about ihsa journalism ihsa journalism was a very interesting experience as someone who went to a few journal or not journalism competitions a few ihsa competitions this was the real deal we were placed in a three-hour time Block in order to get stuff done which is very like real life you only have three hours to get a story get it working and then put it up or it's not news at all but it's not really about journalism it's about the stuff and the people and the friends and the experience I got to sit down in a Starbucks with people who I never thought I would sit down in a Starbucks in my life with and it was such an incredible moment and we were all supportive of everything every single one of us like even if we got called up for a medal which you know medals are cool and all but friends are better it it was this loving supportive environment and even if we didn't get a medal we still loved each other we still told each other it's okay because you got here because you got to experience what it was like to be a real journalist and that's incredible journalism provides an outlet for our school that allows us as people and writers and future photographers and future you know writers and ramly experts to sit down and talk about something without the fear of being censored and having this great great great power to actually inform people about informative topics like I think one of the topics at state was canine units I didn't know a thing about can9 units until I actually sat down and recognized the topic but there are a few people that I want to thank while I'm up here again um Mrs lore um M slong Mr Andrea who um apparently doesn't know about emails which is cool but but we also want to thank Mrs Martinez who is one of our biggest supporters our number one fan and of course readers like you who sit down share our stories encourage Us in the hallways in order to strive and keep doing what we're doing and most importantly the board for recognizing us for our achievements thank [Applause] you um yeah it's really and I'm glad I work for a district that really supports the journalism program we the next thing we were going to talk about is the Northern Illinois Scholastic press Association which is a bunch of Illinois schools uh that come together and there's a competition but we also go to a conference and this is kind of a side bar one of the things we learn during the conference is not all school districts are supportive of their students newspapers they don't give them the funding they don't give them the support and we just feel so grateful that we get to help the students and let them pursue their passions with the support of all of you and you and Miss Martina so we're super excited about that and that helped Miss Long's journalism class who is in charge of the blueprint which is a print publication and an online publication get the golden eagle the golden eagle is like the best of the best so like all the newspapers in Northern Illinois submit and this is like you did the best journalism it was the most ethical it was the most interesting it was the most entertaining it's a huge award and we're super proud of the students for getting it so like everybody in the classes in here we do have some people should you stand we'll have people stand why don't you stand if you're in Miss Long's advanced class and get some recognition for your awesome JM Sebastian Anthony uh Kate I know your name it's not your class these are not my student like this is not my class class can we can I clarify that please these are not students in my class but I am a co-sponsor does that make sense so like I know your name darling because you were on the bus with me but what van Vana the photographer Vana and I actually don't know you Grace Grace thank you very much so they did a fantastic job and then there's obviously a ton of students who aren't here that also did congratulations I have a couple of recognitions uh for are State journalists so the this is from Village of Woodridge and I believe Downers Grove will be sending over these are in production as well so um this first one recognizes uh will Grace and Micah for winning first place at the state championship in the category of TV news at Normal Illinois uh recognizes uh miss alore Mr Andria and Miss Long uh as the sponsors and and uh has named today in honor of will Grace and Micah and then in recognition of Sebastian's work uh the village Woodridge has recognized Sebastian in the category of radio news uh recognizes that he's been on the speech team since his freshman year and his competed in multiple speech categories throughout his time including radio speaking humorous duet acting dramatic duet acting Duo interpretation original comedy and radio news um recognizes the sponsors as well and his also name today is Sebastian Blanco day [Applause] congratulations and just congratulations again to Anthony Sabrina and Maya for your top placements too we're really proud of everyone so congratulations all right now we get to orchestrate photos so let's uh you can just decide who's going to come up and we'll kind of get board members around for a picture so we'll start in Reverse so why don't we have all of our golden eagle winners who are here come on up whoever's representing come M you too please after you young are we just G be [Music] like where do you want us to go get out Terry and Chris are still coming up from the back too the all right right here one two three very good let parents take pictures before you run thank you all right thank you team come up and [Music] all figure out all right ready can you see me all right 3 two one 3 two one thank you all right parents get your wa wait Don't Run Away Let the get their photos sorry I don't know to zoom say journalism journalism fin I can help you zoom all right good all right so will can stay and we'll do short film all right for next picture my short film team one two three two two my parents photo I forgot that congratulations let's bring up our Ida Ida it's much easier smaller group but no less than all right there we go Terry all right all right one two three say engineering engineering wait wait wait thank [Music] you all right all of our students that were recognized your family thanks for coming you're welcome to stick around for the public portion of the meeting but you're also welcome to thank you so much for us it's riveting I was wondering I was like I pulled up and I was like where's the parking that I was on the phone my yeah because there's a baseball game going on so um you know do you remember have she's in our daughter's grad isn't she the all right marn you're still up with students perspectives like oh my gosh all right so um also tonight um we are recognizing as part of our formal student perspective presentations um our research Club so um their sponsor Michelle sacken is just going to wave and be the cheerleader so shout out um but I'm going to turn it over to Nala and our team who are going to talk about the work they did with research Club Nala would you like the clicker oh oo can to have the power oh power there you go mhm yeah if it goes backwards click the other one got it okay we have like a formal presentation like slides that we're about to pull up but just an introduction so we're the research Club um I'm the president this is Mara huk vice president I'm Taylor Mitchell and then this is n no secretary vice president and then Nala you know her obviously she's the vice president so we planted a prairie on April 6th in like at the corner of norfol and Dunham um yeah we had a really good turnout a lot of people came to help and so we're kind of just going to do an overview of our planting day and our inspiration and stuff like that so yeah that's us um so our inspiration for planning our grounds people came to the research Club sponsors Mr Howard and miss staven and told us that they had a problem mowing this area because it is a detention Basin so there is some runoff that gets collected in there but it's not like enough that it gets full it's just always super muddy so they always still have to mow it it's just more of a problem with like getting the like the mowers stuck and any Machinery they have down there gets stuck in the mud so that was our main inspiration or the concern that we had that started like us brainstorming what we were going to do with this area so we also talked about like urbanization and how that's led to a loss of pollinators and how we wanted to do something to increase the biodiversity of our campus um just because there's not a lot going on in this area it's just grass we wanted to do something to make it a little more beautiful so there are many benefits to this Prairie the first is that it will beautify our campus our campus does not have a lot of plants or trees or that I know Miss Martinez is working with the arbor to plant more trees and stuff like that but right now we were focusing on increasing biodiversity and beautifying the campus with all the pretty flowers and things like that we also wanted to provide some more research opportunities to research club members but also to classrooms like the Apes classes and things like that it's always a valuable opportunity and there's lots of possibilities for advancement and we also wanted to reduce work for maintenance crew like Taylor previously mentioned because it was a muddy area and it was getting dangerous for them to keep going down there and Machinery was getting stuck so it was also like a safety hazard and we also said that we did a research on the positive impact of prairies and it's a good space where people can connect in nature and we and there's many mental health positive mental health effects and yeah we just thought it was a great idea and a good project for research Club to take on so this is a picture of the seating planning that we have we ended up only doing half of the area that is shown here and the the watery part is more so on the left side um so it I mean it's it's wet on the whole detention Basin like on on the bottom but it's more so on the left side so we only ended up doing half the Prairie so it' be more accessible so people could actually get down there because if there was plants everywhere it would be kind of hard to like go down there especially once they grow and the grasses get tall so we did the left side and at the top we had to focus on issues of visibility and so we did a short grass eonia mix which is the first one and there's a lot of pretty flowers and things like that but we made a custom mix so that the grasses wouldn't grow Too Tall and it wouldn't block any visibility for cars or and we wouldn't face any problems with that next we did a pollinator seed mix which would increase biodiversity and there's also a lot of pretty flowers but it's great for attracting bees and just wildlife in general which you know that's obviously a problem that our world is facing today so we thought why not and it's good for um like things to study and stuff like that and then at the bottom we did a detention Basin seed mix which is really good for the wet soil that we have at the bottom of the Basin and it's going to soak up the water and the grasses will be a little bit taller but since it's at the bottom of the detention Basin we won't really run into any issues with visibility and so we met with seating experts we got different uh quotes and things like that but that we ended up going with Prairie Moon and these different seed mixes and yeah that's what worked best for us yes and then we had planting day so before before we get on to planting day we just wanted to say that this planning all this planning took around four years so Taylor was actually the one who started this project like she was one of the people who was who realized this was a problem and then um she started her freshman year and then Mara and I came in our sophomore year to help out with the project and then we finally got to planting day which is which was April 6th and there we had a lot of people show up we had a lot of our me a lot of our research club members came so we kind of like a few weeks before we kind of warned them saying like Hey April 6th at 9:00 a.m.

[Music] okay all right good evening one of the wonderful things of our work here in this district is opportunity to celebrate our young people for their accomplishments I'm going to invite uh Teresa kidas to guide us in uh celebrating our winter athletic recognition everyone if you could join us in the center we would appreciate that okay our board of education is proud to acknowledge the award-winning efforts of our students have received State and or national recognition for their school related activities tonight we're going to congratulate the coaches and students who competed and played skills USA State leadership and skills conference skillsusa recognizes career and technical education students who excel in their occupational in Spotlight leaders develop activities that are integral parts of the ills USA program the asigo East students by Mr Bri switch mics on we go Ryan Allen and Ben Niles and the asgo high students are coached by Kevin pman and Tom DWI and Dwayne Wilson students as your name is called please come forward so you can be congratulated by our Board of Education and Dr katti and then just stay up here so we could do a photo after from mrio high school Kristen G gurii senior first place National qualifier and culinary art next is Phoenix Goldstein senior first place in National qualifier in restaurant service next is Daniel over Street a senior second place in cabinet making next we have a team of Cody CHR Jr Jake Dylan sophomore Zack puler Jor and Anthony Thompson Jr they play second place in Teamworks [Applause] construction an an ASO East student Dominic dadis sophmore third place in cabinet making okay if we have building administrators here this evening or coaches present if you could come up join us for a photo all right yeah don't be shy okay guys stay there for just a second we're gonna let parents hey how about one more round of applause [Applause] congratulations we found the ladder thank Bill we got tall kids up here here we go congratulations students all this evening our Board of Education acknowledges our pride winners for the month of May Pride stands for proudly recognizing individuals demonstrating Excellence the Board of Education implemented the program in the fall of 2015 to recognize promote and celebrate the many contributions made by teachers and employees across our district we thank our generous District Partners serve Bank Huntington Learning Center Chick-fil-A and Culver for helping make this program a success we would also like to thank all of those who have nominated individuals for consideration this is our final Pride recognition for the 23 24 school year awardees after we call your name please come forward and be congratulated by the board and Dr katti and we'll ask for you to stay up there as we take our photo we'll begin with our may teachers of the month first is Nick Dunn asigo High School Dean's [Applause] office Nick has gone above and beyond with Reviving our annual staff volleyball tournament from securing the day to helping with promotion recruiting teams establishing rules setting up nets the sound system and all the logistical components from his position inside the school Nick Nick reached out and helped with organizing an event that brought together staff parents and students across our district for a time of fun and friendly competition this task was all in addition to his normal role at o this dedication in creating and sustaining a culture of collaboration is so valuable congratulations Nick [Applause] next is Sheila O'Brien asigo East High School orthopedic and health impairment [Applause] interent Sheila puts her heart and soul into everything she does to provide for the needs of so many students throughout the day as she travels to different buildings navigates the IEP needs of many fills in to provide various physical care needs manages meetings trains staff on each student needs and countless other forms of assistance she also provides a support and guidance for many Tas and teachers in sd308 her students know they can count on her and she is a constant in a sea of changes each year for her students congratulations next is Jennifer Tui as sgo East High School 504 coordinator okay we will move on to our oh y go ahead we will move on to the picture if we could have building admin come forward and stay there for just one second I think we have some others that want to grab a photo okay congratulations [Applause] teachers next we will award our amazing support staff winners awardees again please come forward as your name is called our May support staff of the month include Dave bansky transportation bus [Applause] driver congratulations every day Mr Dave welcomes students with a smile a high five and a warm greeting parents feel blessed to have him take their students to school indicating that they feel safe and always eager to see Mr Dave the students from broka who ride his bus as well as their parents have thoroughly enjoyed having him as their bus driver this year and they want to say congratulations Mr Dave next is teria Brooks wolves Crossing special education teaching [Applause] assistant teria brings joy and humor wherever she goes she cares about her students and is not afraid to ask advocate for them she jumps in whenever and wherever she's needed her fun personality is contagious and draws others to her she is the glue holding the school special education program together [Applause] congratulations next is Joy gatz asigo East High School College and Career Center manager Joy is new to the student services team at oehs and has blown them away she is bringing new ideas and starts every day excited to work with students this year was their first College and Career evening fair and despite joining the team late in the game she blew it out of the water OE feels so lucky to have joy [Applause] congratulations we'll ask any AD ministrators here this evening to join us and we're going to do our photo fin Round of Applause for our winners this evening did you get what you want do we have some more photos feel free to come forward okay congratulations everyone on behalf of our Board of Education and our Administration we again want to do a shout out to our program sponsors and to everyone that took time to nominate one someone here this evening and watch for the program to resume again in the fall thank you arsa I would love you don't even have a table skir good evening board um for 6.2 just as a matter of order 6.1 will be a part of the student bassador report so we can move to 6.2 board okay all right 6.2 we want to welcome has been our tradition this year um we've appreciated hearing president presentations I'm going to invite Dr Waller to welcome we have the Latin American student organization presenting this evening and I'm going to invite Dr wallet to open up hi good evening um we have some phenomenal women over here um young ladies who would like to share um with the board and the community their experience and how they advocate for their Latin American Student Association or or um excuse me organization um they have worked very hard to put together just some experiences that that they they' had and that they've shared within their school Community um and so they are here with us this evening and do you all have the mic sky can you grab the mic and then that way you all can introduce your sponsors and yourselves thank you so much for being here this [Music] evening Oh yay okay all right hola Jessica Yun I am one of the sponsors for lasso and um I'm also a teacher at as weo high school so we're super excited to let you guys know what we've been doing this school year hello everyone I'm francisa Castellanos Lopez I teach uh Spanish one and Spanish 2 in uh rosgo High School uh this is my first year here and I'm I'm another sponsor for lasso too um hello I am Mia Medina and I am one of the board members of lasso and I am currently a sophomore I'm Sky Weaver I'm also a board member for lasso and I'm a junior I'm Saraya I'm also a board member of lasso and I'm a junior okay so our purpose as a club is to celebrate our heritage Foster cultural connections and create a supportive Community for all well we welcome you to discover the richness of latinx culture through events discussions and collaborations that unite and Empower us okay so some of the events uh we've had with lasso uh have been a Chipotle fundraiser uh with the money we raised for the Chipotle fundraiser we used it for a latinx student scholarship um another event we had was conasi Cafe which was an informational session for uh postgrad um parents whose students are entering College we also had communicar which was a practice session for nonnative speakers um to practice their Spanish and feel more comfortable speaking and also learn a little bit more about the language we also had guest speakers president of au and state representative Barbara ernandez and our most recent event has been La laes um which was an event with cultural Foods music games and with the money we raised for this event um we used it for two senior scholarships uh $400 each okay so here are just some flyers we made including laes LA cafe with Chipotle and the so the president of au is the first woman and Latina to be Pres president at that school and when she came to talk to us she talked about her upbringing and challenges she faced as a land immigrant and she also inspired us through those stories and she showed us that as Latinos we can become something more and earn jobs in higher levels and then we also had state representative Barbera Hernandez she's in the state house and she talked to us about being one of the youngest members also being Latina in there one of the only Latina she talked about other things such as DACA scholarships but also about a coal project that the Coalition has been doing with the mentor products from the restrooms she was actually the one who passed that and she discussed that how to gain funding for that and recently she actually passed a bill to fund that and we will be trying to use that so [Music] for we for the The Day of the Dead in case you didn't know uh we got together and we participated in cultural activities and traditions that take place during that day and we also honored our loved ones who have passed away by writing their name on a flower pedal called the sasil and we placed it on an altar that seen in the picture right there on the left and then when not Barbara heredes when Dr Rivera Mills came to talk to us she actually got it posted on the Au Facebook page that hey she talked to us it was a nice little win for us got some advertising out there also shows our awesome shirts we're wearing it just a nice opportunity to express who we are and what we're about so for l m um this was an event open for the public um for all ohos students and their parents um and with this event um all the students and parents got together to um make cultural Foods in which we sold um to raise money for the scholarships which were the two of $400 um we had live music we had dances um food we had a variety of different um Latin American C cultures displayed um such as Argentina Ecuador Panama and Mexico um we also had uh temporary tattoos coloring face paint for um little kids so they could have fun um yeah so some of the challenges that we have faced during this uh school year uh is that students are stop attending to the meetings but they show up to toos for the events so that's something that we want to uh get improved more for for the students and and also we planed to do a couple field trips uh we plan to do a field trip to the Mexican Art Museum also the Puerto Rican Art Museum and the the most uh important one that we want to attend is to Oley so that's the ltin leadership conference and also we all we want to bring more guest speakers uh to the students so that way they can get more motivated and to um be more and feel more important in the society that probably they feel like it's a minority um and also we want to include the um Club size of the club because we want to also have no have more students even though if they don't speak the language we want to be um having their those students to all right a couple things that would help um lasso uh we thought of three things the first one would be dual credit uh currently Spanish speakers 2 is not a dual credit Spanish 4 is um and both lead into AP Spanish language and literature so we would love to have the opportunity for them to get college credit through these classes um funds for our Spanish speaking students elll families for more events FAFSA workshops uh we would also like like to have a uh latinx PTA so that's something that we would need um funds for um and then the third or resource office we would love to have a physical space for a liaison between students and staff and our whole Community a place where they can get support ma managing and navigating the uh school system here in United States it's different than in other countries so that would be great and then yeah thank you guys we appreciate your [Music] time any questions from the board yeah please talk to us we're cool yes yes um I'm glad you called out the families and you know supporting that I think a lot of these you know the things that help probably align with things that we're hoping to do um now whether I don't know how it's not for me but no I I appreciate you I just appreciate that you're calling that out so I want to sayas um I know that those events and all those things that you're putting together is a lot of hard work uh for an exact board to put together um so thank you for all of that I I was at the Miss with my daughter so awesome event um I want to say in the vein of teacher appreciation uh thank you to the sponsors as well [Applause] um I know it takes a lot of hard work uh as well to put that together and not um always a lot of um extra support for that so thank you for that um to miss yand dun I had the chance to work alongside Miss yand dun 10 years ago and I actually hired Miss Yun at ASO high school so we were best best hire uh so um I'm so proud to see uh where the support and how she's grown as an advocate for our Latin American students and she's also a Community member um so thank you amiga the last thing I'll say is that there was um a request there for um dual credit for Spanish for Spanish speakers too um this to me is an equity issue as I know um your your group I'm sure aligns with that um Spanish 4 is at the same level it's offered to non-spanish speaking students and Spanish speaking students and it's a dual credit course and sss2 is specifically for Spanish speakers um but it's not offered as a dual credit so I'm hoping that's something that we can resolve uh fairly quickly so that um we can make sure we have that Equitable um path for our Spanish speakers great thank you anything else um I just want to say well first first of all to your point I have a feeling that's going to come come up when we uh talk about our uh legislative committee the Dual credit piece so if you want to stick around for that stick around but I just want to say thank you um I actually have a junior in my household who just um succeeded at uh passing for his seal of by literacy and and listen while I'm happy while I'm I'm ecstatic and yes thank you to to doesn't get there without teachers I think there's another piece that we need to thank and that's thank all of you because uh anyone who's been in any of these types of programs where you reach a sealed by literacy it's such an advantage and an asset when you have students and peers around you who um well welcome you um uh joyfully teach culture uh Embrace culture together uh Embrace language together moving towards a more multilingual society and so I think also the students because I don't think he gets there without um all of them uh so thank you yes yeah I was just excited to hear I don't know which one of you said it but it was in one of the events and you were talking about promoting um non-spanish-speaking students attended and I think that that's a phenomenal idea CU my son did not speak Spanish took started Spanish here and still has Spanish now that in college and he just appreciates the culture so much and so I think that that's absolutely a wonderful idea to make sure that that um everyone has access to learn about all the phenomenal things that you're doing so great work I just love that you came out to present tonight we don't have any idea what is out there in the district unless it's brought to our attention so I always love learning about what's going on out there um uh Dr Mario actually answered my question about dual credit um that is something that definitely is important and we will fully advocate for um and do what we can um we are we have a new assistant superintendent for multi-lingual Learners coming in who I think would be able to really help Elevate and um support you in a lot of these things um so thank you so much it is keep I know sometimes when you put your heart and soul into things and you don't get the uh turnout at the meetings and so forth it can be frustrating so really dig in and find out why they're not coming and you know find other ways to see how maybe it's virtual maybe it's something else but don't give up just because of that because you're doing some amazing things thank you very much so how' you determine to use the money for scholarships okay so I can answer this one so I was looking around at like the art programs getting scholarships and I'm like did we used to have one and I'm like I don't know I didn't know personally so I thought I talked to S and I'm like hey what if we do that and she mentioned that you me you were in the conversation but so she she mentioned that it was an idea that she's been pondering for a long time so I'm like why don't we do this and so a friend of ours helped set up the Chipotle fundraiser which we got a good amount of money from that and then we also wanted to throw an event we just weren't sure what to do so I'm like what's the type of party we throw L and so we kind of pieced it together with things of Mexican culture pananian culture and so many other cultures so we can just be L lasso not just Meco and other cultures wonderful I actually did have one last question I'm assuming that the the Mexican art museum is that that's the one in pilson right yes oh that is anyone gets a chance go it is oh yes one of my faves yes you know my cousin was talking to me the whole time about it she's like you have to look at this you have to look at that it was so fun I think be for last visit as well you're not going to say it but she's also a part of the SS she rocks so thank thank you so much oh yeah she'll be back later I like talking well thank you so so much Al you please put your hands together for the amazing lasso executive board and their sponsors thank you for sharing your story and for filling our cups this evening and we will see you soon thank you thank you thank you 6.3 we want to welcome Rob Schwarz from RSP demographer um you know I will say that um programs like we just heard from lasso this kind of initiative is exactly why our area is just such a uh wonderful and Vibrant Community to move into and uh Rob has come up to share with us some of the highlights from a recent our most recent demographic study that we launched as part of our budget planning process this year as we started to think about the priorities it was really important to get uh close to really what what are the current status of our demography and what is of our Trend so turn it over to you sir and Mr obafemi also has worked very closely anything else Mr I just wanted to reaffirm what Dr katti said that when it comes to planning the district's future whether Financial allocation of uh staff resources as well as just facility planning shortterm long-term it's importance to know what a demographic Outlook is and working with RP helped us to be able to do that thank you great good evening you filled your cup now it gets drained right all right so in another side note as I walked in several people remembered me from years ago and are we changing boundaries no we're not changing boundaries so not yet not yet the wrong answer right so um just a little bit for people to to know I believe it was 2012 when we started working here so goes back to I think Dr odonnell when he was here so a rich history with your community to assist you in your planning efforts um one thing that I did want to remark on about rsps we exclusively work with school districts and we do a lot of work here in Chicago so I'm up here quite a bit in fact this morning when I flew in I drove through some of the developments just to get a sense of what's been happening and there's a lot of dirt moving in some places and you'll see that in our analysis um the way that we've categorized this report a little bit different than years past um there's more infographics that are in this presentation and there's more things that will help you understand what some of the specifics are that's happening on each of those slides in general the report is categorized in these four parts so we have enrollments is part one um part two is the developments part three is the projections and then part four is what are our next steps 100,000 F foot perspective so we try to categorize this in three areas this is a great page for you to know this is all you got to remember with whatever Rob is talking to you about tonight and the first is that enrollment overall districtwide is going to still decrease over the next 5 years we'll talk about about a few of the things that we think are emerging so we have a more stable enrollment there's still decrease but you're going to see some positives with our elementary enrollment which sets the tide when we get seven years 10 years down the road of more students the second piece is with capacity we do have some buildings that are um at a point where during this 5year projection time period we're going to be over capacity we we'll talk about that we we can have a plan for that it's not anything that we immediately um need to do anything the third piece is with development there's a lot more development we've been talking for years things that would happen on Wolf's Road or Wolf's Crossing depending on what you want to call it right um things are happening in planfield things that are happening up in mcgomery so there's some stuff that's breaking loose that we've been watching and monitoring and it's part of our projections the next few visuals are going to be some maps and I'm not going to go Page by Page you guys have all this I'm going to hit some of the highlights so people like are you going to go 70 Pages it'll pick up so just just some visuals with some of the attendance boundaries right so we got to have a visual of where we are how that relates to our feeder system so where we have the dotted lines um with Southbury how it's broke between two of our Junior highs everything goes back to the planning area so a neighborhood so think about single family developments mobile Homes apartments duplexes we're trying to quantify what subdivision or what um number of students change um are occurring in each of those planning areas it's a statistical model so it's a social science um been pretty remarkably accurate I think um one person to my back remembers the last time we did redistricting and Revisited how accurate was the forecast and we were 99% accurates um with what we thought 5 years prior so again that's kudos to your community members um them taking time to visit with our team so we can understand the timing and the type of developments that are being built and some of the developers as well this visual I want to spend just a moment on because this helps you understand when you look at the projections how do things impact what's happening in each of those planning areas I want to just call out one variable mortgage interest rates so last week the FED Reserve said let's Hold Steady which means about 7% so when we look at this model it has a differing impact on things where if I have a loan that's 3% probably going to stick right I'm not going to move to to a more expensive loan I also if the interest rates are going to be at 7% I can afford less so what does that mean and what I can afford that's factored into what our modeling is saying plus it's an election year so we we see some nuances the next piece that I want to spend a little bit of time on is your live burst this is something that's impacting the entire country definitely the state of Illinois when you look at this table this this is really kind of daunting when you go back to 2005 with have the number of live bursts um that were just in cane County and so when we look at King County back in 2005 we had 8,600 live burst 2022 about 5500 right so when we look at this what we're trying to understand is 5 years later what is our market share for kindergarteners knowing that this is not a complete set there could be a lot of babies that were born in September October November and December 5 years later probably not going to be kindergarteners we also know that people that were born here 5 years ago they don't live here so migration out and we know people that are new to the community that weren't here 5 years ago may have had babies born 5 years ago so what this starts to tell us is in order for us to have a certain number of students in future years for kindergarten we have to have something remarkable change what's our market share so drawing them in so what's the cool awesome programming that we provide at the Early Childhood level and then on into kindergarten and then what's happening with some of these new developments and how do they maybe impact the number of kids that we could see can I can I say one thing real quick to that I know you said 100,000 fet I'm going to go to 500,000 feet and I I think it's just important that people realize when they're looking at just demographics from a macro scale I think there's one state in the Union that has like um natural where their natural birth rate is outpacing the natural death rate right and I think that's Utah and that's it otherwise we are we are we are only boosting from the outside and while I appreciate and all this and we're going to go I promise I'll drop back down to 100,000 but I I just think it's important for people to realize there's going to be some serious ramifications as a society as a whole um that we're going to have to adjust to um and I'm sure some of that will will kind of intermingle but I want to go 500,000 for a moment and then we can come back down to 100 for sure for sure yeah it's definitely something that's going to impact this country in in a way that nobody really has strategically thought about that's I I agree right yes and and that's part of the the advantage of this analysis that we're providing you it's like we can start thinking about if we're not going to get those market shares and if we stay at this 5500 level of lierse how do we plan for the future um again we show it for Kendall County as well um again here we've actually seen some slight upticks and some of that's related to some of the the new development in um this portion of of your District um that's in that county the same thing for Will County so again a significant drop in Will County um when we look at past enroll moments really what I want you to understand on this page this is the wave if you think of a wave coming in and out um this is the students as they move through the system so as we look at the number of students by grade go down to that bottom row and when you look at the um we'll say the ninth grade class and we're at 1380 as you go up you can see that's a larger class than almost I believe every single year um but one or two years um so what what does this start to tell is some of the larger grades are in the secondary and as they move through the secondary and as the middle schoolers come in um we start to see some of what I told you the the middle school and high school grades will be stable to slight decreases that's what this page helps you understand when we look at the cohort by change this helps illustrate as the students move through the system what's that change year to year and what I always try to focus on what's really cool in your district and I know it's really small up on the screen small enough even for me to put my glasses on but when you look at the last two years um it's really been phenomenal what we've seen for cohort change at the elementary level and if we continue to have this this is what our model is starting to pick up is we're seeing growth that we have not seen in a long time in most of those Elementary grades and so because of that that's starting to say hey with this change in students we're going to see more elementary kids and and some of it's driven by development some of it's driven by migration but come back to this page there's a lot of little nuggets on that um migration um this is a way that we try to understand the movement of students we show it to you for the last three years so really focusing on um postco and what have we seen with migration of students so the green parts of the bar represent students the previous year were receiving services and then in that year they're no longer receiving Services Orange is the positive they're new to the district so we show you for the last three years at each of the grade beans and so remarkably one of the things I mentioned with um Administration is look at the reduction that we've seen for out migration at the elementary level this and then when you look at the cohort change this is why that's happening so some things are occurring we also looked at your out of District students so students that don't live within your District boundaries where are we getting um the majority of those from these um five school districts and so you can see that breakdown and we see a stability of students where um we're roughly um 70 to students we also because of those planning areas you'll see some visuals of what it's been like over the Last 5 Years orange being an increase green being a decrease what what's occurring in specific places of your community we have a heat map so the red areas represent the greatest density of students again just to understand where are the students how does this relate to some of our buildings how does this relate to the attendance boundaries when you get back to I said there's a couple buildings where we do have some challenges over the next five years so again we have some some positive things with enrollment growth we have some other things that say hey we better watch there there could be some negatives namely live burst then as we started to look at your development from touring the district meeting with um the the cities Villages um we started to try to understand how to all of these things mesh up with the 2020 census data which is the green line so for your District boundary we have more people moving into your community the Blue Line represents the certificate of occupancy so we have activity that's happening and we have had some years um a couple years ago where we had quite a few apartments came on so that was kind of the bubble where it welled up I also want to make note certificate of occupancies is when you can move into those structures it's not building permits we look at the building permits but we want to know when families can move into the households that's when we get kids we then also try to transfer that over to what is the enrollment change so is there correlation to more people in the community building activity and then what does that mean for our students namely trying to get at the Millennials um are they having kids and are they having more kids typically they're waiting longer and they're having few kids um driven by a lot of factors we also show you some things that help you understand with specific type of developments how many students do we get I'm just going to focus on the bottom row that's our district average K5 for single family students and what that means is back in 2014 we were yielding 36 K5 students for every 100 single family units here in 2023 we dropped to 28 and we built about 1,800 units in that time period this is pretty typical when we we get into some of these other slides but I first want to say here's single family where we're in that roughly 28 30 for K5 students for every 100 units we look at multif family units half as many students clustered more dense but we get fewer kids from multif family developments you can see with each of these two tables we show up by each of the existing Elementary attendance boundaries where you see green it's it's lower than three students from the district average where it's greater than three it's orange and it changes you can see that just year by year other things that we looked at was what is the year built because that's that again goes back to our planning years what's happening with the age of inventory we've looked at the the value of homes to understand how is that correlating to the number of students we could see we then looked at what units were builts specifically and on this we're zoomed out to your entire District but the dots represents on the the units that were built um over the last 5 years this is the slide where I want to tell you what's what's been happening with developments when we look at this illustration the yellow represents the number of units at the start of the decade the blue represents what was built look at that in the 2000 decade that's where we just boomed it is on fire here right and so with that construction activity that led to our enrollment boom so now when we look at the last three years worth of data we've already outpaced last decade so we're we're going to we're definitely having more than last decade right are we going to have as many as the 2000 decade I don't think so I don't think we're going to be close to that but we're we're going to have quite a bit of developments from all that information that we garnered we created a map that helps you understand it's a applied back into our model and so we show many different colors on here um that range from Green being current um all the way down to the blue where it's longer range we've done that for your District so that um like as I was driving up Ridge Road you start to see a lot of of coverts and dirt moving right so we've applied that into our model of like a timing when when do we potentially see units that's why we do this every year um this devel velopment table helps you understand how it relates um to each of the high schools and where we're seeing development because all that information on the map is tied back to a table there's stuff in the appendix where you can drill in and you want to know some of the names of the developments at the time we did the study it's in there um so again we see a lot of positive things happening with your development in spite of it being a national election year which typically is a year where um the shine of building is is kind of a little bit less robust but we see a lot of things that are already in play um prior to coming into this year that are moving forward so what did that mean for our projections so when we look at the projections um you can see where we've been in the past and we've broken this out um where when you look at those um bars the red is the elementary the blue is your Junior High the green is the high school there's a purple line that's the aggregate of all three of those so right now we're at about 16,40 students and you can see over the next 5 years we have you just under um 16,000 students um when we get out to 2728 you can see on this this chart the elementary enrollment starts to increase so again if we start to see the elementary increase you get Beyond those five years they move into the middle school get out towards seven years they start to get in the high school so you can see that wave of of kids that that starts to move through all of this information I'll explain on the next page um this is this is really where everything comes to light what does this mean as we look at the buildings and and those projections so on the left hand side you have each of the buildings As you move to the right you have the capacity for those buildings and then as you continue to move to the right for the last four school years we show the enrollments three different ways the middle row for each building that's in the green fonts that's the reside So based on where the student resides when we geocode them to those attendance boundaries who resides there the bottom row blue font attend is based on the student data how many students are actually attending that building the top row purple font reside attend that's a subset of reside do they actually reside and attend that building this gives you a complete picture of the past of how the students are moving through um when I look at these numbers it helps us understand what I would quantify as school choice school choice not necessarily being just driven by a parent choice it may be where programs are or are not in buildings that are driving where kids can go to school so that shows you the flow as we move through the projection periods um we show you the reside in the attends so if everybody went to school where they should based on the boundary that's the reside the attend we try to get at hey there's some changes happening could be programs could be um intradistrict transfers and there's a page in the appendix where you can look at that um how is that impacting the number of students in those buildings we also have shading on this page that helps you understand how this all ties back to capacity so where it's shaded in green it's under 70% utilization where it's shaded in that peachy color um that means it's over the building capacity so it's over 100% And so when we look at um Long Beach for the reside they're over but when the flow of students moves around we're fine we don't have a capacity issue but when we look at southberry um when we get out three years we have capacity issues over that number in both the reside and the attends so that's how you look at that information that's the elementary we then have the secondary and so no over capacity issues so um we we have some flexibility where space can be used um maybe differently for how you want to see programming work in some of these buildings so a different position than what we've had if you went back 10 years ago we weren't talking about it in that manner um we were talking about do we build a third High School do you remember how great that decision was to not build it um imagine that right now right so so again using this data to your efforts as a board member to make good decisions is is what I really want you have as a takeaway this page just helps illustrate that breakdown of what's Happening um with some of the different Trends as we get into the next steps I just really want to highlight um really the key considerations um th those are the big points here we got to continue to track the lierse um and what we get for our market share um if that dramatically changes our outlook for the future will also change we need to continue seeing what that natural change is in students is the seniors graduate new kindergarteners come in in and as they matriculate through the migration I told you some positive things with our migration specifically at the elementary level um does that continue um that's necessitated for us to see our outcome in five years and of course the building Trends um do they continue do they stick and do we see families that can afford this new housing product and have kids um yeah I'm not going to go over the appendix there's some cool things there if some questions allude to it that's really now we're all hand off to use board members comments questions if I can answer them I will if not I'll get back with the superintendent on those specific answers I think you excuse me I think you just said it but on the the key considerations I saw it on the previous slide with the 14,000 units of the production potential so basically you're saying that with and that's not until 5 to eight years and then the seven plus years and and based on I think it was a percentage that it was it's basically 32% of that number is how we would be get how we would be impacted by it the growth potential growth for that yeah there's there's some information so I want to tie everything back to this page that's in the appendix so everything on the map think is page 63 or 62 um in page 62 um where you see all of the stuff on the map is tied back to what the potential units are key thing that I want you to understand just because there's potential units doesn't mean they get built we've tried to put into our model a time periods um we'll get significant heads up to those things with the um dirt work the preliminary plats the final plats um they're not all going to build out um in that time period but something is going to go and so if you think about this it's almost like a gravity model we've put some influence on those that are within the first five years that some of them may go based on some of the indicators The Villages cities have provided us um with that timing component when you go back to the page that I think you're referring to that gives you kind of like just a general um yield rate with single family or multif family um that just that gets you in the ballpark of this but when we look at by attendance boundary you can see it oscillates quite a bit and so that's again the beautiful thing where we've tied it back to those planning areas and what the value is going to be when it's built the potential Square footages type of developments that's kind of built in so we can say here's what we think it will be this is kind of a district average thank you thank you question now do you tend to see um more students in new developments per 100 as far as a trend good question and the answer is it depends and dollar amount there yeah there's some other variables but we for sure see more kids in a new development area just because there was no developments we do see higher yield rates typically in new developments um because it's new it's shiny it's it's cool and if I compare that to something that maybe is older and I have to fix it up we see some of those associations so I would say yes and that's how we've kind of modeled it um but it's within some of those price break points that will make sense for this community when it gets too high we may not see those yield rates or if we see a yield rate it's more with older age students one other question oh go ahead no sorry in regards to your m in migration um and I know that there's no perfect science but I'm just trying to figure out your because I think this has the potential to blow up all of the numbers that we have but there's no way of really being a true predictor so how do you how do you factor migration the impact of migrating in based on what you just said yeah great great question so what's really cool about this is this is showing you like that 100,000 foot view by the bands we look at this by building and so we can see where we're starting to see what I would call a subdivision life cycle because it's sexy to talk about the new stuff but we have more existing units and so it's important for us to try to to nail down how many kids are we going to get in future years as people that might be myself as an empty nester I'm ready for something smaller I move out who's going to move in and so that's why that affordability the amenities that might be in those subdivision those start to come into play so this is that larger perspective but it's literally tied down to each of the planing can I ask about that real quick though sorry can I ask real quick about that because you know I've talked to a a multiple realtors in the area and the stuff you're describing isn't happening there's actually something and I'm curious if you've looked into that because um you know the people in my generation a little bit older that stuff's being scared skip we can't afford to sell our house we can we can definitely afford to sell it what are you going to buy so there's a lot of people that aren't downsizing they're staying in there and I'm curious like if that's what you're seeing because I gota be honest I've talked to a realtor my age a little bit older they're not only seeing it but they're also experiencing it themselves true and and so what my statement is more of just a generalization that is typical of how we would think of a subdivision life cycle so that that's one aspect the the other thing is how quick quickly are they turning out so if we go back to 2008 with the housing downturn everyone just kind of stayed in place right so if we look at now with interest rates being at 7% I suspect we'll see a lot more people holding in place because of what I was saying earlier on that slide that ties back to the the the modeling is that we we have to anticipate interest rates drives what you can afford it drives whether or not you can move around in the community so um that's the equalizer of movements um do we see interest rates coming down probably not until after this election cycle to be honest I mean when you look at last week with the FED Reserve so so what does that mean so these are adjustments and so we have to look at this from more than just this minute time period so I know my first interest rate that I had on a house um won't say what year that was I'll give my age away was like 12.5% right so that's like incredibly horrible right so it's it's still better now it's all what lends and how do people feel about being able to move to housing product that's what we're trying to nail in and it's going to be slower for sure is would you also say though that the tight labor market is an effect too because I mean the inventory is so low and and that's part of the issue too is it not is that there's there's where you going to go I mean affordable housing good luck finding it right um and can't build fast enough because you don't have a labor force there's a myriad of of issues right supply chain um things that were set in motion with with covid right and and we haven't really fully created what I would say a return to some of those Cycles that's why in this modeling we're not saying anything about returning to to what it was um prior to covid it's it's more as we move forward there's some positive things in your community with some development are there going to be challenges of affordability are there going to be challenges of of the tightness of the market absolutely but um as we build more product as um the cities and Villages they're they're trying to tackle these um here much like any of the other communities um right around here that it's a real issue affordability I mean I have a list of concerns and things I'd like to go but I'll give my other board members a chance before I get into my list so going back to your projections um your instructional capacity is that just are those just num numbers that you've carried over or I'm I'm curious as to um who determined that the capacity at Boulder Hill for example was I can almost read it 770 yeah I think these are carryover capacities I would have to boot this back to Administration for for validation of that I know these are are typically the numbers that we've um used in the past and I I think they've been validated for I'm not debating them I'm just curious yeah where they came from okay Jared Jen Amy did you have something you want to say first okay so I'm going to start at the top and work my way down so the first issue I see on here that jumps out to me right away is by 2029 a 500 student gap between high schools that's the problem anytime you have a two High School District you do not want to become a or you don't want to encounter a situation where you have that much of a difference it matters SE I've seen school districts where that imbalance happens and increases and it causes issues that's concern number one I have when we look at this concern number two that I have is um southberry uh when I look at this I'm alarmed and I think there's some really low-lying fruit that we need to discuss like ASAP which is you've got all this building south of wolf and right now they're all they're all slated to go to southberry when I've when I'm looking at this I see a decrease happening at Wolf and Churchill like I see I know they're going to disagree with me but plenty of plenty of capacity in comparison to southberry which is a problem um and I listen I would say it would be smarter to talk about south of wolf a Long Wolf before talking about Prescott Mills because moving them again is going to be traumatic for them although I don't know maybe they'd rather go to wolf since it's right across the street I'm not going to pretend to sit here and speak for the people of Prescott Mills but that's the southberry piece is alarming and there's some low-lying fruit right now while those houses are being built like I I understand we're like we don't have to do boundaries or whatever but I think there's some stuff we need to talk about and and I am concerned with trer I'm concerned with trober seeing a an increase in 100 students some of that translates to southberry I think that's an easy fix um and and um what else oh and then um I I I'm I'm this is going to sound like a weird worry but Homestead because it's really like locked on an island it's sitting right next to the wheatlands which is decreasing and it sits next to wolf crossing which is also decreasing so um you know I'm sure that's a concern as well um but in a different way and you know I don't know if that means the conversation of well can bed nark really house the three of them like it used to and listen I know that's going to bring up a lot of stuff too but um I also question I'm worried about Hunt Club uh I'm worried about the fact that going past 2029 my concerns are how many schools are South like all of our schools are in the northern part of this district and I'm looking at all this growth we're going to have to probably have a discussion should Hunt Club really have anyone north of the river some people would call that west of the river but if you look at the map it's kind of north at that point um going to hunt club especially when Fox Chase and Lakewood Creek are losing students um you know and so those those are all concerns I have I I don't think that we have to like redraw the entire School District I'm not saying that however right now south of wolf that's all slated to go to Southbury and we don't have people there yet I would think making a move sooner rather than later because if you start establishing students to go somewhere and then you tell parents now we're going to move you to Wolf or or Church Hill when their student has already started at Southbury that's delicate and and parents don't like that I I'm glad you raised that one yeah one of the things two couple things I'm going to invite Faith to speak to it as well I know there's been some work rooms already over the last year and a half two years um we're going to really need to think about bringing the voices of our community into that and so part of what you're talking about yes I agree it's not boundary Chang but there are some tweaks and really addressing those um there's also needs that go beyond population increases in each of our buildings and so those are they're hidden impact so while the numbers may not grow there are the the need in these respective communties also changes um I also would say that South bear both has boundary and also issues around some of our special programming in those buildings that we Al also need to be able to think about faith M alist do you want to add anything there you go one more time okay so yeah right uh so as you recall we did just move some of our early childhood classes to Homestead because we saw that there and thank you for all the information that was part of that move uh looking at that they have Room to Grow for that and then if you recall we are now having dual language at woles Crossing so that for the overcrowding at Boulder Hill and also when you Pro for Hunt Club that you're worried about uh those are the considerations that we went into for looking at that uh and then we also as we looked at southberry looked at the number of self-contained special education classes there as having some flexibility there to anticipate that growth so some of the things things that you talked about we're already being strategic with where we're moving classes to and I and I appreciate that I really do I just I'm looking at this South Berry's lines stretch all the way from 30 and 117th all the way over to the river um first of all have fun driving that um especially at certain times of day that's number one but number two like I I I just feel like we're missing an opportunity right now with with all that growth south of wolf um and it's advertised only as 308 schools and and seeing that decrease at Churchill and the decrease at Wolf and and to your point I do realize that right I I I get that piece but when you say missing an opportunity I want to clarify language sure just so we're clear you're because we're in terms of timing we're talking about engaging in a process to review and then engage in making sure that our our staffing and our supports are correct and then making a plan for next year I don't think this unless we have signif when you say worry you're talking about developing an appropriate plan and responding we just got this now so I think we are we've worked very closely with our Registration Department and and to address and to start to think about the planning required I would be I I think your concern returns are absolutely valid we will take that as part of the study and we will now work with the team the Registration Department our student services and our various departments to really look at what we are planning in terms of supports and then Engage The Right voices I would be careful about I just want to make sure the language your is your when you say worry you're not we're not you're not suggesting anything for I'm worried about those numbers I see at southberry I look at that map I'm you know um I'm obviously fully aware of Wolf Road um and and its um got capacity and then um you know I'm I'm looking at the I'm looking at the elementary schools that are near there I also am aware though I listen I'm also aware exactly what I'm saying I'm probably going to go home and get a few emails and calls because there are people in Aurora who were told oh don't worry those that that's not going to affect us that's not coming here right um and so I I this is kind of a jigsaw puzzle that's going to be interesting at times and especially to your point where the growth goes so just as a and I know I want to um make sure we just as a summary definitely noted um we're going to definitely be paying attention to those areas um think about east of Roth and uh thinking about um The wol Crossing area so definitely um duly noted absolutely neat we will be working on that and I appreciate you bringing it up so we'll be we'll be working and make sure that we're we're both on the short term and the long-term paying attention to both thank you thank you thank you so much for coming out appreciate your time um left us with a lot to work and think about has been raised um it's important and I and I want to just applaud the board for its continued investment uh we have you know even former board members in here who paid attention to these things through the years and it's made a difference in our work thank thank Youk you thanks Rob all right so we're moving to 7.1 superintendent report Dr katti okay all right so as it's been noted this week we are celebrating uh Teacher Appreciation Week teachers represent the largest group um staff group in our district and have an essential role in shaping the hearts and minds of our students so we are grateful for them and all that they do um just as a plug please take a moment to use the online greeting card opportunity to send a shout out to your child's teacher it's free it's part of our um who will really make a big impact in your child's life um in this final stretch of the school year just thinking about our teachers who are the champions and who've really spent um infinite number of hours really you probably could keep counting and and run out of time in terms of amount of investment they've made and really no individual has a more a greater impact on the lives of students I was excited this past weekend on Friday to join the Dual language program for their uh the bpack for their dual language graduation uh ceremony such a powerful event and uh uh thinking about the impact of Education we had a guest keynote speaker who was a student who was an alumni of our program who is now a teacher and so she is a dual language teacher at a program in a district I'm not far from here so really exciting um next week and well in less than two weeks we will graduate the class of 2024 we have two commencement ceremonies some of us maybe get miss the eye around the table um two commencement ceremonies um at Northern Illinois University um we look forward to seeing the many faces of our excited and eager students as they begin the next chapter of their lives it's a great reminder of the role and the impact that we have and that our district has on the lives of our students of ultimately that is why we are here and Behind These statistical demographic numbers is a child whose life is so important to all of us and why we rally together we're excited to hear about the next chapter of their their journey and don't forget about us as you're out there yonder in the world world so this is can you believe it our final meeting before the end of the school year the academic school year doesn't feel like a long time ago we were starting so what an incredible year this has been um we have learned so much about our district strengths um and opportunities uh We've lifted priorities uh a road map to get to those priorities and begin to launch um I want to thank everyone for their engagement for the community members who really come out staff and students zabelle and uh for all your support um the student voices remain strong and are always growing and we have pushed further um we have students who've come every meeting who don't have official roles but we want to thank you for your support um in every step of the way this year um and tonight we will be bringing to the board uh Testament of this which is we've worked to build our partnership with the union we are bringing to the board a vote on our OS ba contract and uh want to thank our Union partners for their work together as we go towards um this next step our labor unions um on have focused on our recruitment retention and rewarding of our staff and tonight is really a uh the board will consider a vote um on this agreement working collaboratively a comprehensive proposal was crafted that addresses The crucial concerns while fostering a positive working relationship between between the administration and the dedicated support professionals within our educational Community if passed this evening this is the second successfully negotiated contract this year representing our commitment the board's commitment to honoring the work of our education professionals and we know we're not done this is just the beginning of this journey and where we will allow strategy to drive our processes our values to drive our processes and where we expect High achievement for our students after all that is why we are here equipping our students with the tools knowledge experience and opportunities to strive and when we collaborate across the district be certain that each person knows that they belong here both parties in this process have committed to fostering a positive and supportive workplace environment that PRI prioritizes the well-being and professional satisfaction of all employees we want to thank our partners and we also I want to thank the board's investment in our people and recognizing the value of our people and with that I close my formal comments um I want to again thank the board for its support of all the work we have lifted this year I want to turn I know we have some other announcements and board announcements and support of this because there are so many things to excite um that one night when I went there were so many things at that um that Friday night but P Eugene OR who's going to Dominic oh yeah yeah at the jump in do language ceremony and then what we saw some baseball baseball saw some baseball went to the prom and prom I did go to prom too so yeah know that wasn't easy yeah um shout out uh asigo e bass fishing took third place in the ihsa sectional representing the school there for the first time they will advance to the state finals cool congratulations bass fishing we got it also May 8th this National School nurses day we join our entire District in thanking these healthc Care Professionals for their care expertise and dedication to the health and well-being of our sd308 community thank you very much [Applause] nurses ohos track Panthers News Lauren broom is the SPC champion in the 300 low hurdles and the 4X 200 relay team that took second place and is All Conference uh Sprinter Destiny Hicks named as all conference as a freshman and boy track had a second place finish at conference in the 4X 100 nice job a few weeks ago we celebrated um our retirees and multi-year Service uh School District employees at a beautiful dinner at White Eagle Golf Club the employees who are celebrated have a combined 1,441 years of service and dedication to District 308 students under OS alumni news Noah Shannon was recently signed as an undrafted free agent with the Las Vegas Raiders that's awesome [Applause] Iowa okay Iowa oehs Poetic Justice captured 17 count them 17 awards at the SPC literary literary Festival the most of any school placing in poetry short fiction personal essays and descriptive sketches wow great and last but not least Let's Help Sarah from Broar Early Learning Center win a bike from Project Mobility Sarah is a 4-year-old and suffers from Rett syndrome she lost several skills and abilities un unable to walk and talk she loves water music and riding bikes and horses and here's how we can help go to Project mobility's Facebook page and like their page and once you like the page find Sarah's picture and like it voting closes tomorrow so please go today and do it tomorrow at noon it closes Tuesday May 7th at noon all right so we'll move to 7.2 student ambassador's report you go to the meeting good evening good evening so typically Luke and Isabelle um kind of kick off their their student ambassador report um and Luke had a band concert tonight so we did text him and tell him to be careful as he Heads This Way um we thank you for allowing them to go a little bit later in the agenda we had hoped that he would make it um the superintendent student advisory committee presented at the superintendent advy group on April 11th um and so they have the presentation here but just so everyone knows they're not going to go through this whole presentation in this space ultimately they really just want the floor to um just share some of the work that they've been doing and then acknowledge the committee members who um support all of their work we know that Luke and Isabelle sit at the at the table um but they have Brilliant Minds behind them um who are helping to facilitate and drive this work so without further Ado yeah we don't have a big formal um presentation because we have done a lot of work in the past couple of months to go to stakeholders and share kind of what we've been researching but we just kind of wanted to talk about what the ssac has been up to and just you know congratulate our members on a good year we've been very busy we were part of organizing two schoolwide Ascend events along with releasing a teacher survey that has served as the basis of many discussions over the past few months we've also had the honor of attending the triple I conference in November and the first sd308 West Suburban Equity conference Ascend in addition our members reported supported the third annual amplify event led by the Coalition our members have been working tiously in representing student voices helping so many be rightfully present in school and I am so proud of all we've been able to accomplish our members include Sky Weaver and joeli Sanchez um so I'll just have them share why they joined the ssac okay so personally I'm kind of new I joined in January so I remember Luke was telling me about it actually he was talking to me after crystals oh God crystals was a mess but so he was talking to me about it and he's like this is actually really interesting I think you'd like this I heard you might be in it next year well next yeah and I was and he thought I'd be a good plan for me and here I am all right so going off a little bit about that um the reason I joined is so the board can hear our voices and hear our problems and really to um create more of a how do I say like student voice um I know we have a lot of events that we recently have talked about um I think it went really well um and yeah so and the members that were unable to join us today are are Bella Johnson Ian Roy Brooklyn Martinez Caitlyn katalo Gabriel Lopez Grace Gordon lyanna Milton Natalie Pope and Hannah grow and so again just thank you to all the incredible members for their hard work along with them I would just like to formally thank him although he's not here like to thank Luke for being the most amazing student ambassador to work with he's always there he's always there to lead and help and someone I'm proud to call a friend and I am just so proud of him for his work this year and wish him nothing but the best lastly I just want to thank all the adults that have guided us this year Dr Waller Dr katti Dr Paul Mrs early Mr Gatewood Mrs Johnson Mrs Bowski Mr artson and Mr Grace just to name a few on behalf of the ssac thank you for making this possible we also want to thank all the student groups who have come to the board meetings to share their stories experiences and impactful work they are doing in the school communities I hope everyone has an incredible summer and get some well needed rest after a very productive [Applause] year you know I just I want to assure you that you heard and when you're speaking listening very intently so it's um it it's big impact so it really is absolutely thank you all for all you do thank you so much you it's a a a fortunate yet unfortunate thing when you have so many talented brilliant children who are involved in 85,000 things and so um we have definitely been pulling them into different spaces throughout this year so just thank you everyone at this table and um and all the other spaces that we've been in that have received um just all of the the messages and the information and the passion that this group has brought to the table so thank you again thank you and I don't know if you heard but this the village of us weo is looking to learn and model some of this good work here by having a representation on their commissions and is looking to partner with with us in supporting that initiative and uh so uh the good news is spreading as they say great all right moving to 7.3 board committee reports we'll start with the finance and Facilities uh report it is a summary of the report is inside of board dos but if there any additional questions or comments I wasn't able to attend but I think that I can ask these questions uh it's just um the financing facility excuse me financing facilities I'm sorry I will say that we had a great meeting uh we talked about fees reg for registration meals and Facilities um the only real proposed increase is 10% for lunch meals um breakfast will remain unchanged and um Amanda has done an amazing job of putting together rental fee classifications and understanding um all the different groups that use our um our buildings and what that looks like and really putting a an a an assessment around it to make sure that um we people are paying for the times they use our buildings um and that we are actually collecting on it because we never have and good job about um communicating um these changes so um I'm just really glad to see the process around that so thank you Mr oaam we also discussed the Food Service RFP process um the administration explained that the process changed from previous years by the state the state used to to dictate that we had to take the lowest bid that is no longer um the um way that it is so um we did talk a lot about the lack of consistency across grade levels with quality menu availability for um the vendor that is being recommended which is aramar and they have assured us that they will make the needed changes and also Mr oi and Amanda and their team are very much um committed to making sure those changes are um realized and that all of our schools are getting exactly what they should be getting so um we will have frequent check-ins with our students to make sure that they are um comfortable with uh the food choices and they'll have QR codes around where they they'll be able to give immediate feedback so um that is very important and something that we will expect is um um looked into Mr OA is going to make sure that uh at least um a couple of times a year the board is updated on what that feedback has been given um from the students and staff regarding um food Choice food uh menus and so forth Mr Queen presented um some bids for some exterior concrete work that they were hoping to get done this summer unfortunately um we really are at a position where we need to reject these bids and issue a new RFP to get a higher number of responsive biders it was an unusual timing um but the the um feel very under you didn't have to dress up for the last meeting Luke um what we really need to make sure is that when the bids come in they adequately cover the scope of the project otherwise we're really putting oursel in a in a challenging situation so we are going to send this out for bids so we do ask that you um reject these bids at this point and finally um homestead school their um Administration which one was that for or their PTA uh uh fundraised to put a new digital display um out front if they's school and this is the way the PTA wants to uh spend this money this year and um Administration went through the bid process and they got three quotes the operations Department meaning the district will cover $1,500 of it to adjust the base for the display we did have um vibrant conversation around uh the administration reviewing the use of Marquees across the district as an effective communication tool and I won't point out any schools but um there is a um there is a lack of consistency across using our Marque across the school some schools have not changed their Communication in five years um yeah so um it's just such an an opportunity for us from a communication perspective and we talked about likewise like when there's a board forum and it's at a different School other than here we'd like to see communication the same for on all of the mares so that it's just another way uh to reinforce um and highlight events that are going on at your school or in the district I just have one clarification this was just a a a misspeak but you said 10% increase on the lunches it's 10 cents 10 cents that is all we can actually increase lunches by the way by state law so yeah I apologize state law 10 cents sorry so it's going from 355 to 365 for junior high and I don't have that in front of me breakfast is not changing it's just 325 for elementary and 365 for junior high and high school thank you I thank you I just had two quick things question has have we had the discussion on that committee about sports fees athletic fees we we had some very interesting discussion about fees um everything is is um being discussed and I will say that we went a little off agenda the other day um they are going to bring us a two things they are going to bring us a per uh cost per athlete and they are going to work on a presentation for Junior High Sports and understand kind of what has been taken away and what um we need to bring back to bring some Equity to Junior High Sports that's good to hear and then the other piece I just want to clarify when you say we've never collected like what do you mean by that because I know like I know organizations that have told me they they pay us they write a check and like so I I find it hard to believe that we've never collected on any of that that seems not any of it but some of it okay some of it okay okay it was more I just wanted to clarify CU When I hear we never I I don't want someone out there to think we've never collected money for facility rentals okay on a system that's what it was got it yeah yeah that that I appreciate thanks they have really dug into the processes and so forth and finance to understand um what where the needs are and where the supports need to be and what hasn't been done so I apologize for that no no I just want clar I just wanted to clarify thanks anybody else for finance and Facilities if not policy and legislation any other questions or updates I was just going to summarize uh we um mostly focus on legislation this time uh we talked about priorities for next or we reviewed a pending legislation we talked about priorities for next school year which I think we're still discussing uh but we are also concentrated and dedicated to aligning some of those meeting topics with the legislative calendar so that we can act or Advocate or communicate at um the appropriate times I think communicate being the operative one one of the things that we focused on yeah I I will say as a followup I did um attend virtually the um iesb Advocate Ambassador piece and one of the conversations that really came up was dual credit right and it was fascinating the followup at The Ambassador meeting because everything that I thought I was seeing was pretty much um uh was reiterated at that meeting which was there's definitely an attempt to bring more Equity Statewide when it comes to access for high school students to dual credit classes and when that bill was in the house you could look at the witness slips and virtually everyone who was in favor was somehow tied to a high school and everyone opposed and there were way more people out there speaking who were opposed were tied to a community college and so there was definitely that divide and it's interesting because as far as the committee on the Senate side it is stalled out um and so it's it's a tricky thing and I don't think people realize how different it can be from school district school district to school district and a lot of it depends on who your community college is which is uh a little fascinating I'll I'll leave it at that and it's it's hard it's hard to navigate through and there definitely some questions that I asked about potential legislation one of the things I'll tell everybody point blank what I ask for is I think if you pay into this taxing bodyx body and you pay into wabansi as another taxing body I think wabansi should have to be transparent and produce something that says here's the Dual credit classes that we have with these school districts that we have a relationship with where we're at in the process and why we're stalled out we're stalled out because I'll just use us as an example we're stalled out because asigo doesn't have enough qualified teachers for dual credit then I think that's a win for them to say that to the taxpayers right if it's stalled out for another reason I think think it's on the taxpayers to ask why why is it stalled out right and because you shouldn't have to just go three miles down the road to another Community College um district and find that they're working with everybody and that's not I'm want to make sure I'm clear I'm not saying anything bad about wabansi I know that we have great relationships and everything however um there should be more consistency and I do believe the taxpayers should have access to that and I'm just asking for transparency where those community colleges are so that people can look at that I I think that's important for people to also understand who are paying taxes into these things and so it's a very divisive piece I've had I've had people in this community not happy with me about where we're at with dual credit I've tried to explain exactly how complicated it is a lot of people don't want to hear it and and and I get it but trust me all you have to do is look at those witness slips and it was eye openening and then when you realize it stalled out in the Senate afterwards even more eye openening so there's definitely been some advocacy on the other side I I think Jared it's really important to understand and explain why there are 1 million fewer students going to college than before the pandemic and what happens that the bulk of that is the The Entity hurt the most by that are community colleges so if we are allowing dual language at the high school level students have even less likelihood to go to a community college so we are really seeing this all kind of come to play and while we you know that the team sat up there today the the students sat up there today and said please help us with dual language there's part of that we can do but there's part of it that has to come from the community schools as well willing to up up to up to do that and to make that opportunity happen and but what's happening is is because of so many kids have found out that they can start a job and start make long-term make more money over their lifetime than they're putting off college and then when you put off College the likelihood of you going to college I'm going to slightly disagree and here's why because if you really dive into where your dual credit classes are happening they're actually happening in a lot of these Rural Community College areas even down state the inconsistency is actually here in the collar counties in the collar counties is actually where you see real huge variances and so like I sat down with um a senator down in East St Louis from East St Louis he's like I don't understand what your problem is we we they're they're on board we're we don't have any issues this side or the other um and and I think there's not consistency I agree with you by the way in the fact that definitely community colleges have been hit by the pandemic I don't know who hasn't but if you look at the CER counties that's where the inconsistencies are and it doesn't make sense to me that we would have issues accessing whereas like 204 wouldn't there's only one difference right there's cood and then there's wansi that's the difference what's that I I got that data from the national student Clearing House I was on a panel that discussed this so it might be different in asgo specifically but that's a national that's a national well I'm not disagreeing with the fact that numbers are down but the as as far as the inconsistencies throughout the state I mean they're they're there okay any other questions in regards to policy and legislation all right great moving over the 7.4 board member comments anyone to go first I will in perfect oh you already did anybody else I just want to say thank you to our student ambassadors um I do have something to say for them go ahead no go ahead you go so I just want to say thank you for your time and dedication to our community uh I know thank you I know we will only hear and see great things from you all in the future so please visit often um my last shout out is just for you know a teacher appreciation U I'm reminded uh with all the events that are happening in the spring um just how much time and effort our teachers put in not just in the classroom but outside the classroom whether it's at prom or with lasso or With Honor Societies or field days or whatever you know it's going on um in May it's a busy time so um thank you to all of those uh thank you for all those extra hours that you put into our students have a great experience great I just want to say Luke you look fabulous thank you for dressing up for your last meeting is it aod all right we we'll get it well I'll jump in and I just wanted to say just because this is the last meeting for our student ambassadors and I've had the distinct honor of working with both of them for the entire year and so the student ambassador role is not just about self-promotion or serving themselves but it's really about them serving their peers and giving their peers voice to provide the board um with student perspective that helps us govern and you are not only servant leaders but you have grown to be transformational in your leaders ership with all of the things that you have done throughout the entire year and just to Define it transformational leadership is a calling much more than a title and this is from a quote from the effective leadership uh prototype um for a modern day and a transformational leader does not care about how she is called she only cares about what she has to be what she has been called to do and so you all were not only seen and heard but your voice is demand demanded that the board the administration and the teachers take action and I so so appreciate that so Luke and Isabelle thank you so much for your commitment thank you for your courage to speak truth to power thank you so much for all that you have um done throughout the entire year you you have played a very vital role um not only to help shape students in in 308 but you have created a legacy that has already reached beyond the walls of this of this uh of this District given all of the work that you did in uh down in triple I conference so thank you so much for setting a standard and blazing a path for for future sd308 student ambassadors and the student the superintendent student advisory Council so on behalf of the entire board Dr katti Dr Waller Dr Paul we all want to say how much we appreciate you and thank you for all you did this year [Applause] [Music] [Applause] any other board comments I just want to um are you going I just wanted to share that um I spent the last week um experiencing arts in this District um I was able to stop in at happily ever before at Boulder Hill ranked at oe mean girls at trer and then the Fine Arts night at Long Beach and I truly believe that music and the Arts really are something that are so richly embedded in this district and it's something that I'm so incredibly proud of while I also want to thank all of our teachers who truly are the heroes they're one of the reasons that I ran for the school board because I think they are the backbone of our community and um please please please just go send your teachers you don't have to bring them massive gifts and so forth but send them a letter of appreciation it means a lot students um you can do that as well and then we just came off of our oesa negotiations and part of that um group are sign language interpreters the first Wednesday of every May is National interpreter appreciation day which is May 1st and I just wanted to recognize our s our sign language interpreters the vital work that they do as the language gurus for our deaf and heart of hearing community and I have a trivia question does anybody know who the most famous interpreter is in history no anybody in history yeah interpreter saaka Jia and I'll let you Google and find out why but something very important to know thank you thank you all right moving on to 8.1 consent agenda can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda please make a motion to approve all items under consent including 8.1 minutes from the Board of Education meeting on April 22nd 2024 open and close session 8.2 to acknowledge the foer requests received by the district 8.3 to approve the field trips for overnight and or more than 200 miles and 8.4 the following board policy footnotes legal updates Andor updated cross references section two colon School Board 2 colon 5 2 colon 60 2 colon 140 section four operational Services four colon 204 colon 110 4 colon 165 section five general Personnel 5 colon 35 5 colon 40 5 colon 120 section six instruction 6 col 40 6 60 6on 185 section 7 students 720 7 185 any questions for the consent agenda you got to make a motion or you got to second first I'm sorry second thank you question worri comments Ur Mr gate I Dr Mario hi M Johnson hi Mr hi Mr hi I all right all right moving on to 9.1 can I have a motion please I make a motion uh to approve the 20242 contract with the asigo education support professionals as presented second second and that went fast as far as we just uh recently kind of last meeting and a week later so um I guess thank you for getting you know getting that moved up voted on so that's all I got great Mr Sone hi Mr G I I hi Mar I I motion passes 70 76 we have members our presid [Applause] president all right oh for the for the online um I would like to thank for myself would you tell the audience who you are just oh I'm the OA president thank you I'm Nikki rien the oesa vice president and on our behalf and our negotiating team um we would like to say thank you to all of you HR our board members Finance everyone that was on your negotiating team and bargaining team for us um it was a transparent and effortless uh negotiation um first time in years I truly can say we felt that our voices were heard uh our concerns were met with a respectable uh contract uh we look forward to continuing as you had mentioned in the fall our progress in the fall when we meet again um and I think the biggest thing is Nikki and I relish the relationships that we've created and we're very proud of what we've done over the last few years to make some really good relationships and uh work hard to build the trust that uh you all have us and we truly wish to recruit retain and [Music] reward thank you that is awesome transparent and effortless voices were heard that is a dynamic duo right there I'm just going to say awesome 9.2 uh approval of building administrative contracts can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the building administrator contracts as presented second Miss ven hi Mr gate I Miss Johnson hi mrone hi Dr Maria I Mr I motion passes 60 9.3 approval of District administrator contracts can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the district administrator contracts as presented second I just wanted to make a really quick um comment before we get into this there's been a lot of community feedback about um the district administrator positions that have been added it's a very sensitive subject in our district um this past week if you are um in Kendall County our taxes came out and a lot of people were shocked um my family included um with a huge increase what I I think is very important Dr kelat and I have what we call crucial conversations with each other and um I I challenge him and I and I really do think that um I hold our community's interest at heart and we talked through this today very heavily um those two things do not coincide with each other you are not getting an increase in your taxes because we are adding administrators I know that's a narrative that's going around right now there is a lot of trust that we are asking for from our community right now that trust the process trust what we're doing trust that we are trying to reach all of the goals that together that we've established as the community and it does come with a lot of we don't know Dr we've been with Dr katti for less than a year and we don't know but we are trusting the process and we are trusting that all of the things that the board has asked him and his administration to do that these are the ways that in that will get us to reaching our goals so I ask everybody in the community just as I asked myself um please trust the process if it doesn't work we will make amends down the road but right now this is the process so thank you for our conversation today I'm I'm GNA add to that which is um a couple of tidbits I know people don't want to hear about other school districts I get it um totally understand however it is important to understand understand Trends and if you are hard pressed to find a school district that levied for CPI you you have to ask yourself what is going on right and I I welcome the conversations about how we fund schools that's a great conversation to have uh it's a great conversation to have if we over rely on property taxes I would welcome that question um but we are seeing our staff that need more and more resources they need more and more help it's not less um since the pandemic um and so we we have to be cognizant of that and I will I will say to your point uh We've we've traveled many roads in the last decade and for those that were paying attention I sat on a board that cut Administration by 25% and a lot of that hurt uh and a lot of it actually led to scenarios where we were actually in the name of saving money not saving money and so there is a way to not spend recklessly which was done before I got on the board where they weren't levying for CPI and the state was Pro rating and we were expanding Administration all at the same time and yes that formula did not work I've had close friends to me say Hey listen this is the same thing all over again and I've pushed back quite frankly and I said it's not the same thing the state starts Pro rating let's talk right we don't start um you know leving for CPI then let's talk right uh but but it's not the same scenario and it those nuances and the differences matter and the historical piece matters and so cutting people that we needed did not work and that's part of the reason why we got to where we are um there is a limit what we can do and I think it's incumbent on us as board members to Advocate and make sure that people are aware that to continue to fund schools in Illinois this way there's there's going to be a point where you can't go there on the other hand we're going to still need to fund schools so that's going to have to be a real conversation on the other end as well and so um listen I you know full disclaimer uh my property taxes went up $1,000 from last year right I'm also looking at the fact that my property value increased a ridiculous amount over the last two years and that's why you're proper and that's why my property taxes went up we I mean people want it's people want to move here yes yeah exactly yes to the person who said hey the board uh what is it that they raised the rate and CPI that's probably not going to happen right if you're if value of your house goes up your rate's probably actually going to go down but the good news is and listen I welcome all that because it's a learning opportunity for the entire Community yes and that's good the conversation is good the only thing I will say to the Press out there is you are robbing other communities the opportunity to have the same conversation when you report that asigo raised the c or raised uh CPI but you don't talk about Yorkville you don't talk about Indian Prairie Indian Prairie advertised it on their own site you don't talk about caneland you don't talk about West Aurora you don't talk about planfield all these school districts that we touch that did the same thing so please I would say to them out there don't ruin the opportunity for those communities also to have the same conversation that we have and I'm not sure why we always have to have it but I always welcome the conversation seventh largest District in Illinois I just want yeah and I just want but I think to my my point originally was we hear everybody we are not we are not not listening we hear you we will hold you know the administration accountable for the budget and we will make sure that we are reaching our goals if you don't agree with the way they're reaching their goals that's another thing but if we are on budget and reaching our goals please trust the process and I know it's a lot to ask and if you don't understand um I know anybody in this District including the board members would be more than willing to um explain it but I just had to State again increases in your property taxes do not have anything to do with us hiring people period thank you okay i i i mrone i Dr Maria i m Johnson I motion passes 60 10 point I just [Applause] have and with this with this uh motion passing uh Dr Paul assistant superintendent for learning Innovation um there's a unique opportunity um this evening of who's being promoted and approved into this position and I'm going to ask her to speak to it yes good evening everyone we have two of our uh just approved directors here for learning Innovation uh Ben Owen and Tony holve our new director of steam and uh you guys are welcome to come up and say anything you'd like to the board you like first can you grab the mic Tony please Anthony he has teacher voice I gotta be careful because I have a teacher Voice still and so I don't want to be too booming um as uh the new director's steam uh it's it's a dream job for me and I I first want to thank the board of education for supporting investment in Steam uh I have been in the district since 2005 started at Thompson and then I taught at plank when it opened and I became a project leadway teacher I've taught AP Physics and I've had the privilege of serving as the science department chair at OHS the last two years and uh I just want to thank the board for their investment I I promise you it'll be um over time A very wise investment you're going to see some really cool things coming down your way in my interview uh with 35 different individuals um I had a futuristic presentation that I gave and I I hope to deliver on many of those things uh not by myself because it's not about me it's about involving everyone amplifying amplifying and elevating voices and so I talked a lot about that and that's something I've gotten to experience in a small small scale as a science department chair but I'm really excited to work with Early Childhood elementary junior high and high school to really Elevate awesome steam experiences I just want you to know that um I also work at argon National Laboratory because I don't have enough already on my plate I do stem Outreach there and that's one of the things that really attracted to meet to this job as well um I've met people from Colombia Japan Tokyo well Tokyo is in Japan sorry I'm a little nervous here um um Egypt and uh Jamaica uh these are individuals that have helped design the supercomputer that's at argon uh they have done amazing work with electrochemistry Material Science and I go on stem events into the community and I work with little children who are really excited about hydr power and seeing that they're batteries too and there's all kinds of crazy things we do uh those are things that I'm really excited about building as far as Partnerships with industry and area communities because I've seen it in the real world and I want kids to see that I want kids to experience that um that's what I really love about what I do and um it's it's a very big jump for me to leave the classroom after 25 years in education uh but I promise you um I'm going to be very visible and I'm just really excited to work with you all on really uh elevating what we do as Steam in the district thank [Applause] you good evening um first I want to say thank you for your dedication and commitment to providing opportunities and really focusing on making sure that the students here are prepared for their life After High School because that's so important and I'm so passionate about this work and I apologize to Dr Paul because she's heard this probably three or four times now but my journey to uh be here tonight was not your normal Journey so I actually started out in Industry um have received my MBA and worked in the bu business industry for five years and had an opportunity my last role to go into school districts and help students who are deemed non- colge bound prepare for the workforce and I left that experience by going back to my office and saying I love that experience and I quit my job and I went back to school and I'm uh a decade into education now um in a variety of different roles but everything that I've worked towards has been about helping make sure that we're preparing all kids for their future regardless of what that path is for them and I'm just really excited to be part of the great things that are already happening here um and the great things that are to come for our students so thank you thank you so much and we also want to acknowledge Kate Li hold is here uh just uh want to welcome you to the [Applause] community 10.1 trans over to you okay so uh next board we have our financial statements and investment schedule any questions about this I just wanted to point out that we're making steady progress with our finances and if you look at the Investments our portfolio we actually ended uh April with uh close to $40 million we had a cash flow call with our Municipal advisor this this morning and what it shows without equivocation is we'll be able to make it through the end of the fiscal year without having to borrow any money we're in good shape so we expect to be able to get the first installment of the uh the tax distribution starting the 15 of June so we have um we we have more than enough money to last us through that so and uh things things are going well for us thank you so can you say that again once just can you just repeat that just for the record for the first time in 20 years I don't know if I've heard that repeat that we're making progress okay we making [Applause] progress yeah and I I just want to say thank you and I I want to be careful how I phrase this but this is kind of one of those examples right of like we we want to invest in people we need to invest in people and like um we were giving away I don't even want to know how much if you add it all together but definitely tens of thousands of dollars every year just in interest to sometimes school districts enigh us so thank you um tremendously thank you yes 10.2 okay uh we have this evening uh we're bringing to the board step one in our for information uh first Solutions agreement Amanda sitar um any questions for Amanda so by the way of uh a brief introduction to what we're doing we currently use um FR student solution to do uh routing for us in a limited way and we do some routing internally uh with a couple of our staff member and in looking at I I think I've mentioned this to the board over the last few months Transportation continues to be a tough pinpoint for us operationally the uh the operation is not as efficient as it needs to be and uh I think uh this year already the board approved a transfer a loan of $8 million from a working cash fund to Transportation fund and we know we cannot continue on this path so we're looking at every aspect of Transportation making sure above all that we provide excellent uh customer experience for our customer the students who ride buses as well as their parents who are you know who are their parents and but we can do that and still manage the operations well so one of the ways we're doing that is looking at routing and looking at expanding routing and doing it a more efficient way so we reached out to uh three major firms actually Four firms and have them submit uh an uh respond to a a request for routing uh solution for our students and uh the the best submitter that we receive is from FR solution The Firm that we already use for some of our routing we asked for a solution to do regular Transportation uh routing as well as special AED Transportation routing in addition to that they will also be doing out of District routing those are kids who are mckin vento and other kids that are played out the district so what we've shared with you is the uh is the breakdown of the uh of the pricing that it gave us we believe the pricing as well as the services and the experience of this firm coincide with what we need in the district the company currently works with a couple of major uh district one of the district they just took on is Springfield Public School in the state capito 186 uh Springfield decid to uh to have them do all their routing for them this year and so far the response from the folks there I've been very positive about the work that frud solution has done thank you do you know if it'll be I'm sorry just quick question I mean I see that Outsourcing it there will there be on site or will it be something there will they be doing it uh remotely they'll be doing it remotely but they will partner with one of our uh senior Personnel person and in our case it will be the assistant director of Transportation okay we work with them by doing this it offers us the opportunity to be able to to have some efficiency in Personnel instead of doing it internally doing it internally we were doing okay but I've for a solution take over this we'll do better and we'll be able to save some Personnel uh resources that is currently directed towards routing is there additional Sor is there additional uh software that we would have to purchase licensing for or would it just all inclusive the pricing that it gave us is all inclusive okay 10 did you have a question Transportation um I just where are okay so I have a couple of questions every year we feel I feel like Transportation comes to us and is asking for more investment more of this more of that but consistently at the beginning of every school year we have major issues not that we're not going to have some issues that's going to happen people enroll late whatever blah blah blah where what does this solution that you're recommending give us the ability to have a smoother start to school is part of the solution to that the bigger solution in our view is the operation management of the department and we are working on that right now and we hope to have that in place before the start of the new school year so this is not a paner this is one of the process along the way but the bigger the bigger change maker will be the operation management of the department and that has been a challenge today part we're working toward is trying to fix that I I'll give an example of that so part of the work that's been done and we want to thank our um OTA Partners in this is there was a handbook operational guide to guide the practices of the department so that is being finalized right so there are in a so there there's the operational and there are the technical elements um we've made some significant shifts in our our staffing there and we are anticipating um some continued alignment around those efficiencies that we believe will make a big difference first student was problematic around some elements of it in the past what what we did is we identified the those soft spots that needed to be repaired right so how do we fix those things and so Mr oemi and Mr satar have worked to identify where where are the ways that we can improve that for next year um and so I would say the biggest win is really the partnership with our our Union Partners around the communication and making sure that there's an increase in that and regularity and the smoothness to that okay we absolutely have no choice we have to do this right the way transportation is negatively impact the finances of the district we can't wait we have to fix it if we do everything else right and we don't fix Transportation we'll continue to lose money and we can't afford to do that so will this be an ongoing like line item in our budget then like should we consider this as this is going to be something that we because last year it was $4,000 the year before it was 70 something so whatever this is this should just be something that we are now going to see as a line item and just part of the transportation yes but the off offsetting cost that we're reducing to pay for this so this is not in addition to existing expenditure okay this is thank you we've teed up offsetting cost okay so if we not increase the expens we can't afford to do that trans AB kind of getting at because we already are in uh the red there and then my next question is will we have a and this is will people be able to be whatever this trained on or whatever prior to the start of school happening absolutely we we cannot start working with a firm until we get board approval but as soon as we get board approval we're going to hit the ground running already yes oh okay we are going to as soon as we get approval so June to the board approval yeah I was just going to say that we currently work with this company and so there wouldn't be really any training they're just going to take on more of our routing um and working with our internal people to get that and also another great thing is that they offer a 24 to 48 hour turnaround where I know some parents who move into the district or who move or change homes or change dayc carees are often waiting weeks to get a better route so this is really going to help the families and the students um really get back on track so we're hoping that this is a great solution it's um relatively inexpensive to the other ones that we have found and um we have high hopes for it I I don't remember if we did this or not excuse me but I I remember it coming to us and board please refresh my memory but there was a GPSs software with a an iPad I I don't know if we actually was that a part of what we approved and if so how will that affect how would the new routing affect that technology it integrates with it so we won't have to buy any new software that was um transfinder okay and they implemented the iPads this year so um all of that their system will feed into our system and then it also will we be able to export that to power school to let parents know notifications so it all talks to each other um Raphael and I were very clear with the company that we needed these things to be handled well um and they said that they could handle it okay and this is a multi-year agreement I saw that three years and even before we brought it in I had a conversation a very Frank conversation with the managing director of frustrating solution he and I had a couple of Frank conversation where we made our intentions very clear to him and we also talked about the uh the kpi that we're going to be using to see how effective the solution is wonderful we know we absolutely have to do this that's wonderful we have no room for error in getting this right okay I think Amanda and Raphael are becoming the muscle of the of the district you guys go get them thank you both for your attention to this and your support 10.3 okay uh Mr Queen and uh yes good evening so I've invited Mr Nathan Baldwin principal um from the homestead Marquee conver ation that Miss Johnson touched on a little bit earlier he's got a presentation that we would like to share with you any way Nathan any questions thank you guys so much even I'm sorry for interrupting you I'm sorry but thank you all so [Applause] much Mr Balman please good evening uh my name is uh Nathan baldon the proud principal of Homestead Elementary I appreciate appreciate the opportunity to tell you about the possibility of a new Homestead Elementary digital uh Marquee now why why do we need a digital Marquee a new digital Marquee would give us the opportunity to communicate with the community in a quicker way to what is happening at Homestead we would be able to recognize students and staff throughout the week we could talk about our husky way winners and how they are respectful responsible and ready or tell the community about how great the fifth graders were at their musical or show how much we appreciate our teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week it provides us with another opportunity to tell our story at Homestead kind of the timeline and the process that was spoken of a little bit our PTA raised the funds during the 2022 and 2023 school year uh through our Boosterthon uh to order to purchase the Marquee uh the sign cost $2,296 uh they donated that money uh to the school our current Marquee uh kind of looks like this which is fantastic uh it allows us to change the letters and messages usually throughout the school year or about once a month with the new uh we can put a few events on there at a time but we don't have that opportunity to recognize staff different events that are going on or different celebrations these are just kind of what is part of the new sign uh with the different displays with the different Banner control some of that wireless communication and kind of what does that look like this is just kind of a mockup of what the sign would look like with that bigger base and those adjustments you know with this Marquee we'd be excited to give every Homestead Elementary student a chance to put their Name In Lights what questions do you have two quick questions the size of the new Marquee versus the old sign do you know is it is it this the old one just looks a little wider but if you don't know that's fine think it's about the same size I want to say uh besides the bigger base is it two is it double-sided the new sign double-sided yeah double face and double-sided yeah oh parfect yeah other question go ahead no I just want to thank you for following our bidding process I I just want to thank the the parents uh over there um oh yes you know it's um and and and any community members involved um it's it's exciting to live in the ninth ward of Aurora I'll be honest with you and some great things going on and um you know at the heart of all that are the schools um for sure and so thank you for all you do um thank thank you to the parents just wonderful over there um and uh it's it's a great place to live and that's part of the reason my house went up a lot in value it is yeah thank you our PTA organization home school organization does a fantastic job uh over there and it's been great to be part of that Community thank you for your leadership thank you m so much other pta's raising funds for design digital signs Mr Queen yes have a multiple Mr oi no I got it multiple concrete this is what we asking to uh reject all bids so we can go out and try to find some work um not that Abby didn't do a great job at bidding we just have nothing to compare it against so we would be looking to reject all bids on this all right all right thank you 10.5 the process is working oh sorry it is okay 10.5 we're going to discuss fees registration meals and facility rentals yes um board member Johnson went over this we had information at finance and facility um we are only raising lunch 10 cents and we did come up with better classification for our renters and and um to make sure that they're accountable and they know what's coming up so we have let them know that the fees right now are status quo for the rest of this year and then they will take place or take effect um July 1 and that includes um also branching out to say if they're going to um make some of our staff come in on weekends holidays before after hours that they will be charged an extra fee it's all in there and so um they'll know exactly what's coming when they get built and you said that there were going to be three sets of communications prior to this taking place so everybody is aware of what's going on it was really important for us Jared uh you asked this question earlier um not only are we making sure we more than willing to share our buildings with our community but it needs to be if it comes at a cost to us to the district the people that um rent the facilities also need to take on that cost because it's fine if you're using it during school hours or um when we have custodians on staff but when we have to bring them in we need to make sure that cost is covered by any um entities using it so that we're not absorbing that cost um Amanda you did a fantastic job on this and I love the chart it's so easy to read and um just very much appreciated very straightforward yeah I don't know the only thing that I'd um like for us to kind of monitor is if we're um you know losing any uh any renters I guess you know and kind of keeping track of their feedback so we definitely thank you we will one of the things that we talked about especially with like the Partnerships with asigo Land Park District and um other organizations is that neither one of us want to cost the other one money or have a financial burden on either organization so um we just have to come to some kind of agreement where that's a win-win for everybody well we thank you for your your attention to this and your information on this so all right uh 10.6 uh Mr Bei energy contract renewal Miss satar Amanda thank you so our contract for energy is coming up I believe we signed a four or fiveyear contract with constellation um back right before the pandemic hit and we were able to really um take advantage of some low rates uh that is now going away obviously we're in an election year and um with inflation and everything over the past few years the rates will go up however we have um we have uh reached out to several companies to get quotes and um you know the prices are anywhere from3 cents to 5 cents for natural gas and um electricity three to six cents per kilowatt for um electricity and it's just it's very uncertain right now um what I'm proposing is that we do a 12mon contract get through this election year we will uh secure the lowest price that we can with constellation who is our current carrier they um were the lowest by far out of probably eight different companies that we tried to bid out um another thing that we found were that these companies or these Brokers were taking a piece of the pie so they were helping us get the lowest rate but then they were adding that price into their broker fee um so we obviously don't want to do that we just probably stay with consolation like I said for 12 months and then um reassess at that time thank you for your due diligence any questions for okay thank you again uh next we have uh similar update regarding our property and casualty insurance policy so one of the thank you Dr katti one of the uh big cost driver for a district outside is the cost of uring US property casualty as well as workers C and so what we've been doing been targeting major cost driver in the district so uh we started talking to different entities to try to find out if we can get better pricing than what we we have currently and at the end of the day we we ended up with two firms who have the ability to be able to ur us because um an an organization ourside not a lot of company can can write us a policy that we need to be able to cover us so the the company that we currently have is icmt it's actually it's funny we have a broken firm that placed us with Illinois County Municipal risk fund and that's the firm that we've been with for the last 16 years the funky thing about that is that those are counties we're not a county with school district so if you think about it counties they have jails they have police officers they have firefighters they have EMTs they have nursing homes their risk profile is higher than the school district we don't have any of our employees who carry guns we don't have any of our employee you know who run jails or or or prisons so that was that was troubling but we decided you know we'll give them an opportunity to give us a quote for what the pricing would look like for next year we also contacted uh a collective liar Insurance Co-op which is a co-op that was started back in 1983 that focused exclusively on school districts and special education Co-op but education so those members risk profile mirrors our R our risk profile they they ensure school buildings they they provide insurance for employees who workers come who work in school district so we ask them provide us uh quote and lo and behold the difference in in quote between the firm that we've been with uh that placed those with icmt the county pool and the commercial liability insurance Coop that ensures exclusively School District the difference price is close to $900,000 $811,000 and the interesting thing is also that we actually get more robust coverage with click that we were getting with crmt so what we asking for I include a package that shows the price comparison and it breaks down all the different types of insurance coverage that we get and how much we'll pay for and the comparison between both quotes and we are recommending that the board allows us to join commercial liability insurance co-op in Prior uh appointment in other District I've used C their their claim processes is very easier their prices always comparative no one can actually match it and it's just it's just a well-run call and the difference also that I I I didn't point out the board of directors of icmt is made up of counties a school district can be a member can defas some of the cost of the risk but we can be on the board that make decisions about how claims are handled or about how the co-op is ran we click since it's all school it's actually ran by School District we can sit on the board the school district actually make decisions about about the operation of the of the uh Coop so we have a voice in how decisions are made with icmt we have no voice because we're not a County only counties can sit on the board thank you Mr oh it's amazing what happens when you start asking questions yeah spending money yeah I mean this this goes back to we need quality people you know it's called an investment right and so we're looking at better coverage better rates I mean perfect exam and the part that I also want to point out is we know that when you change coverage especially with the issue that we're dealing with with a claim that was made against the district now we wanted to make sure just in case a claim like that came up we bought we also asked the new firm to quot us um stop capap that yeah he said no it's prior claim prior claim insurance and the cost of that is actually included in the code and it's still cheaper than a current provider that's a onetime insurance uh cost of 250,000 and it will protect us for any claim prior act that goes back from uh from 2021 I believe all the way till the new policy that we had yeah I saw that yeah so we we looked at everything we were trying to make sure we didn't have any gaps in cover so I was just kind of going through everything here um am am I to understand this correctly that the uh first company didn't that cover us for sexual abuse or molestation I mean that's kind of what it says here what they're doing is they actually they have not what they did they went out to the market to shop around for pricing they have not received a commitment from an insurance company yet that they will be able to write us a policy so they put a placeholder in here and said if we get you coverage it's going to cost you X but they have not actually been able to secure coverage so would be more so so one company so the first company is excluded right and the second company the one we're talking about going with is full limits yes 37 million uh coverage well that's not yeah I have no comment on that it speaks for itself all right next uh 10.8 workers compensation insurance policy same thing except in this case in that of Property and Casualty is workers comp uh that is required by Statute and the rates it's included in there it's it's better pricing more coverage than what we've had with a P with a current provider that we've used since okay okay 10.9 res resolution for membership in the property casualty workers uh casual insurance Workers Compensation Insurance cooperatives as I mentioned earlier we have to become a member of the co-op and that's the resolution that the board has to approve in a meeting in order to be able to join the co-op okay questions okay next one 10.10 policies for first read um I did have a question on the last one yeah oh I'm sorry first read on the policies yeah okay yeah yeah um it was two colon four student ambassadors and maybe I just don't know what the definition of executive session means but board will annually appoint a student ambassador from each High School to give servant and advisory capacity the student AB bassador will not have any voting privileges and may not attend executive sessions of the board closed session so that's closed session should be closed session right now this seems like a is that exec isn't that what executive session that's the same thing just to me it seems like um a redundant thing because like why does that need to be there because can't we invite them can't we invite anybody I think we can invite everyone anyone we want to close session but this reads to me except student ADV they're like forbidden well it that's because of the state that has nothing to do with us by different states have different laws Illinois school code does not allow you to invite to Executive session so that's that's not our choice that's press plus policy okay and there there is a lot of liability with giving students information that's in closed session and we don't want to do that to our students no oh yeah yeah yeah that obviously it wouldn't be for the entire thing I was just yeah okay but by the way though Dominic I'm very happy you asked a question about this because just so everybody is aware it does uh specifically just to dispel any kind of uh rumors out there does specifically say that you have to be a resident of Illinois and the district right so you got to live here for at least one year just so everybody's aware that's that's in our policy so just thought I'd throw that out there as long as we're talking about that policy make sure everybody's aware all right okay Hey listen was long week last week yeah me yeah for other thank you that policy is going to have to be updated other questions Scott no no okay Mr chair all right action items uh 11.1 approval of bills for payment can I get a motion please make a motion to authorize the payment of bills in the amount of 4, 39,00 44070 as presented second and just for those that are aware I'll be abstaining tonight for my usual reason whenever it comes up so got it Miss venth hi Dr Maria hi Mr hi Mr Gatewood hi M Johnson hi Mr cler abstain motion passes 5 to one uh 11 Point 5 Z 5 5 Z and one exstension I'm sorry that's okay 11.2 approval of food service RFP can I get a motion please make a motion to award the RFP contract to Aramark for an initial 2year agreement second Dr Maria hi Miss Johnson no Mr ploger no Mr Cerone hi Mr G W I miss benou hi I will I will say this and I'm pretty sure I don't want to speak for you board member Johnson but um I'm H I'm actually happy at passed because I like the process and everything so I just want to clarify but I'm I'm I do think it's important to send a message even though Aramark received this that we're watching and we did have student voice and um so I appreciate I want to say thank you to the board members because you know um in this instance you're governing right but um I don't want to speak for Miss Johnson but I know for me it was a matter of I wanted to respect student voice and I want to make sure that they understand that it wasn't a slam dunk so um I want them to know we're paying attention motion I absolutely agree that is um why I did but also I don't know if anybody went through it I actually put a chart together the difference in the ratings of how it was so close between the three vendors and honestly for a fifth of a point for Less Than Zero 1% of being the difference between the two top vendors it was really we could have awarded it to any of the top three that's how close it was it just was so close and I just I H when our students write to us and tell us that they want something different it's very hard so that's why I had to say no I appreciate that and I just want to reinforce that we did do reference checks as well um with other vendors and we will I will say and I just to re that the scales would have still tipped towards aark when we looked at the other vendors references in terms of some of the work we did there was some additional due diligence that was done by our CFO around some of the other ones so I but I appreciate the the candidness and the the the vote thank you motion passes 4 to2 11.3 uh Montgomery abatement agreement can I get a motion please make a motion to approve the Montgomery abatement agreement as presented second I'd like to say a few things before we vote tonight um I want to say that um I welcome businesses to this community and I truly understand the need to diversify our tax base uh which is why it's so important to support businesses here they bring jobs to our community and needed economic activity and services to our residents which are all super important I have no doubt that the businesses involved in this tax abatement that we're going to vote on tonight will do just that bring services and support to our community however for me it's been frustrating as an advocate for public schools to learn about this trend Nationwide which provides you know tax breaks um or you know for goes tax taxes uh for million dooll businesses to Jared's Point earlier you know where you're using property taxes to fund schools so when we delay collecting full taxes from businesses that impacts what we can do in our schools uh and until we are funding schools differently these are hard decisions for me however we are living in the systems we are living in and I know that an increase in taxes is better than no increase uh or collection of taxes is better than no increase which is why I'll I'll be supporting this tax abatement tonight um but with that said I want to say that I've learned a lot from this process and and we look forward I think as a board um to and the administration to continuing to build Bridges and Partnerships with the the businesses in our in our community so thank you for the The Learning Journey that I've gone on um and um the only other thing I'll add is I know in some of the documentation we've received uh there will be votes in other taxing bodies about this tax abatement uh and then we could forgo a vote on that I'm not be prior to learning what to wait until we learn what other taxing bodies are doing I'm not uh suggesting that we do that but I would ask that the administration or our representation um tell us what the results of those um taxing bodies are on this matter I'll be happy to and one thing just to make clear uh the taxing bodies are looking at us before they vote yeah because we're the largest tax inbody but we will provide you the tabulation yeah of the results once the thank you no there was there was one piece in here I should I should have it open um which kind of helps with the abatement is that the The Debt Service piece um isn't Abad so that will help that will spread out across the entire Community um that part so that was u a pretty good negotiation there um that will impact you know for explain what you mean by that so whatever is being used whatever the value of that property is will get fully assessed for The Debt Service part so whatever that our we have a $36 million annual tax payment yeah that will not get evad um or or debt payment right that will not get evad um from them and I think there there was a recognition on all parties that need to make sure that once dead is an issue we have an obligation to pay it back and I think there was a recognition on all parties I need to to put that provision in there it's an important provision and yeah that was yeah I appreciate it where we where we were and where we've gone it's been a it's been a a learning process and we're at a better result for sure it has and yeah yeah and I I just I want to obviously recognize and thank we have a couple of Montgomery board members here that that's a demonstration of their commitment to the school district to sit here that long thank you um number one number one but number two um you know this is this is uh this is how they've been and and listen I I agree with you um Amy like these are tough decisions they're tough things that we're thrown into um but it's always I think at the end of the day what people really want to see is they want to see government function for them and so I applaud them I thank them because it's always been productive even when we don't necessarily see eye to eye it's still always always productive and there's a way to not see eye to eye around here in in local government and still work and function right and and so I thank you for that and I just want to say the last piece like I know that speaking I think you brought it up the tax the tax piece one thing to think about right we have like what do we have 20 24 facilities something like that thousands of workers you know it's we're Ser we we serve right we serve the community and that's why we're so large and and because we fund things through uh property taxes so heavily yeah people are going to look to us so um but the end of the day we're trying to help kids so that's it that's what we got to do thank you though Dr marel you really um synthesized everything that's gone on and I totally um agree with your with your um synopsis so thank you very much M agre Miss ven I Dr Maria I Mr I Mr Gatewood i m Johnson I Mr I motion passes 6 60 11.4 approval of storm waterer easement can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the easement release agreement as presented any discussion second first oh sorry second second that's all vote no questions Mr Cerone I Mr Gatewood hi M Johnson hi Mr pler hi Miss venth hi Dr Mario hi motion passes 60 11.5 approval of IgA with Village of asgo can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the intergovernmental cooperation agreement between the village of asigo the as we go Library District fire district Park District and School District providing for the study second any dis discussion of questions Dr Maria I miss I mrone hi Mr gwood I M Johnson I Mr cler I motion passes 60 11.6 approval of cooling towers can I have a mo question please make a motion to award the contract for commercial Mechanical Inc I'm sorry to sorry let me start over make motion to award the contract to commercial Mechanical Inc for the Boulder Hill and Long Beach cooling towers project in the amount of $421,500 second any any questions or discussion Miss venet hi Mr Cerone hi Mr pler hi Mr Gatewood hi Dr marel I Miss Johnson I motion motion passes 60 11.7 approval approval of parent University partnership can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the partnership with parent University second second questions discussion Mr pler hi Dr Maria hi mron hi M Johnson hi Mr Gatewood I miss ven I motion passes 60 11.8 approval of Consolidated District program application can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the 2024 2025 Consolidated District plan second questions comments vot Miss benen hi mrone hi Dr Mar hi Mr gate M Johnson hiate hi motion passes 60 I can see if it was jwood right 11.9 approval of additional 2000 I'm sorry 2024 2025 District Administrative contract renewals second what I didn't we got to make a motion first make a motion to approve the additional 20242 District administrator contract renewals I got to ask for any kind of motion I changed my mind thank you for secondy no discussion hi Mr G hi M Johnson I Mr pler I miss venm I Dr Mario I motion passes 60 [Music] 11.10 approval of personnel report can I get a motion please pleas make a motion to approve the Personnel report as discussed in Clos session second any additional discussion Mr g i Dr Maria i m Johnson I Mr 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okay thank you everybody for coming would you please stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance with Meed States na indivisible Dr K have we seen if there were any signups for public comment please no sign for okay with no signups for public comments I'd like to turn this meeting over to Dr PR liver all right thank you Mr Tor Mr Torio good evening everyone and thank you for coming to our monthly school board meeting we also welcome those that are watching our meeting online we appreciate their time and watching the regular Schoolboard meeting for the month of April at this time we would like to begin our meeting by having a special uh opportunity for our students and staff Hamilton Elementary School to share with us some important information about their students and their school and we look forward to hearing all of about those good things that are going on here at Hamilton so at this point I would like to introduce Mrs Jennifer Havens Rodriguez principal of Hamilton Elementary School to make that presentation thank you thank you welcome everyone uh we're happy to host again this April um first reminder I just want to um put out there to the public our kindergarten registration opens April 29th and it goes through May 3rd that's online uh Mrs Hayes and I will have our office reach out for screenings in May and then kindergarten jump start um is August 6th and 7th so um please get those dates in the book The earlier we have kids sign up the earlier that we can have them come in and get screened and get them ready for the fall um uh like I said thank you for coming um some things that I just want to go over this year I want to talk about some of our successes that we're seeing here uh at Hamilton um I want to give a big thank you to our PTO um that's something that has been um vital so I think I see one of my PTO moms here so thank you Mr Campbell um you know we we've really struggled the last couple years with parent involvement and I feel like they have been one huge component that has brought our parents back into our building um they assisted with a holiday assembly in December um we were able to give some students some awards we were able to coordinate some pies in the face that was myself officer Olsen was it just the two of us but it was good yeah Mrs Walker so three of us got pies in the face so thank you to PTO for that help um we did a spring assembly with a balloon artist and um a music program presentation from Edison so we were able to bring all the schools together for that um PTO this last Friday hosted our first school dance and we had close to 200 people in attendance wow so that was amazing to see our bus drivers were here they helped bake and they sold bake goods for our dance um do you know a number on how much we made at that dance wow yeah so they they have done an excellent excellent job and I could not be happier with the team that I have from our PTO um we have also seen Mrs Hayes and I worked really hard this year at getting our tier three meetings going we spoke about that a little bit at a previous board meeting with our reading Specialists but that has been another way that we have increased parent involvement ment parents are invited to come in and attend those and see um how we're helping their kids out so we've increased parent involvement through our tier three meetings um My Fabulous Title One facilitator has helped um put together a literacy night and a math night that saw huge attendance so big thank you to lizza prisco um she has also started implementing uh social and emotional learning lessons so each month we have themes so for example we did growth mindset and each day students can answer a question so for growth mindset an example would be How can having a positive attitude help you achieve your goals um and then we read some of those responses so that's been really great uh she pushes into classrooms and and helps with those various topics throughout the month um some testing updates I learn starts next week so parents that are in the audience make sure if you have a three third through fifth grader you're getting them here and getting them here on time um I read I want to say a huge shout out to not just my third grade teachers but to also all of our support staff we saw 81% passing rate on I this year which is phenomenal uh State average is only 63% so we're doing great things here um we do have two perfect scores to announce I don't know if those students are here all right you want to come up and help me are you sure okay so this is for Lucy Maye from her teacher mysteric she said that I knew the day I met Lucy that she was someone special she had a smile and an eagerness that shined as she walked in the door this this shine still follows her to this day as Lucy's teacher I cannot take all the credit for Lucy's success Lucy is a student who is always curious to learn more and do more she has has a support system of teachers parents siblings and even classmates who always push her to go the extra mile she takes the time to not only look out for herself but her classmates too she is a student I can always count on to be who she is and put a smile on everyone's face I am so proud of you Lucy and I cannot wait to see what other great achievements you are going to accomplish and remember my little Swifty that Sparks Fly when you smile myeric so come on up Lucy and [Applause] um fine up there our second student from Hamilton that had a perfect I is not here tonight but her name is Ari Jones and her teacher is Mrs Peterson who is also not here tonight but Mrs Peterson would like Ari to know or everybody to know that each day Ari comes to school ready to learn while working she takes her time and rereads everything on the page to ensure she understands the content during the test I saw her using our reading strategies she took her time and tried her best it clearly paid off I'm so proud proud of her and all of her hard work Mrs [Applause] Peterson thank you Mr prisco all right so um obviously having two perfect scores at Hamilton is a huge success so we're very proud of both of those students um I would also like to highlight some of the new opportunities we've had this year for our students um Miss Cappy Tanner new librarian has started an AM Library program so students are able to come in five days a week and go to the library check out extra books get help with homework um it's been a great program for our kids in the morning um we also have new club opportunities uh student council this year um for Mrs pae one of our fourth grade teachers uh Girls on the Run is a program that's also running right now that is Mrs Walker one of our first grade teachers and then Mrs Maguire from kindergarten and then miss Ratcliffe our art teacher has started Art Club and our art Club runs three different sessions um she completed the first one and they did jewelry making um right now she just started a new one slipping my mind what the topic is and then she'll have one more section so each time she does it she's got about 15 kids that are coming in um and participating in art Club um in addition to those Club opportunities we do have three different academic bows we want to recognize tonight um our first one is our spell bow participants here sorry all right so spell bow I'll just call out the names if you're here come grab your certificate uh our first um Miss uh Peterson said during the spell bowl season students practice 50 to 100 words every week and were then tested on those words uh they wrote them two times each and spelled them aloud while writing on the day of the competition we ended up not having a complete team so while our overall score was not what we hoped each speller did try their best and that's all we could ask for uh Mrs Peterson's very proud of her team and all the hard work that they put in um the members of that team were brenn Barnes Brianna Rob Oscar Silva John galowski Tanya lungu Lily blankinship and Jacob Waker we have any members tonight alrighty thank you y all right our next one is our science Bowl uh and that coach is Mrs quig you want to come here and help me hand out some certificates all right so science bow team this year consisted of 10 students who were excited to learn about life science uh we discovered many wonderful vocabulary words for the growing of cells and plants uh the experiment this year was seeing the impact that salt can have on plant life the students try to grow radish seeds our experiment was not as successful as we thought it would be but we persevered and finished the students continue to learn and do their best they improved their score from last year and still enjoy science I hope that each student will have wonderful memories learning about science so our fifth grade our team consists of fifth graders if you hear your name you can come on up Tyra brenston Talia shabus Timothy kingry Sebastian Ramirez and Landon olivari and then fourth graders Taylor Bron Giovanni contras Amaya Guzman Eric Martinez and Khloe [Applause] Sanders for all right another round of applause for our science full team and for Mrs [Applause] quig all right last but not least we have our math bow Team uh all the students have worked really hard from the end of January to the beginning of April um I'm very proud of all their hard work uh they put in during practice and outside of practice they learn math skills that they will be learning in Middle School uh they really worked together to do their best during all of our practices and at the competition they helped um each other learn new skills throughout their math B practices um our math bow team placed first in their division at South Central Elementary School and overall they placed 15th in the state so great job guys um I'm going to go and read off the names and we'll give you your certificate so Italia shalz Bonito Diaz Michael Jones Aaliyah Lawrence Landon olivari Logan olivari Romeo Rodriguez Oscar Silva jacobe Wallace and Jackson Whitaker a [Applause] wardrobe right good job guys thank you thank you Miss Havens for that update and congratulations to our students and their wonderful accomplishments both in SE spell bolt science bowl and math bowl and we congratulate you for that and even though Ari isn't here Lucy is we want to congratulate them both for their outstanding effort and getting a perfect score on their I read and a perfect score by the way 650 so these two young ladies ladies did an outstanding job with their I test we're very very proud of them so thank you to them and thank you Miss Havens once again for your presentation and Shining a positive light on our students and their accomplishments and that's what we want we like to brag we like to brag about our students and how well they're doing and I know sharing with the board the sentiment that that's our favorite thing to do is really brag about our students and put the Limelight on them so thank you for that and congratulations to all of them once again at this time we will go into the business portion of our Schoolboard meeting the first item of business would be for the excuse me these two article it's G to take us about two minutes to do these we'd really like to say our appreciation for kids could you hang out for just a minute we be this will be done in two seconds I'd really like to thank the kids for all the hard work they've done thank you there's only two items on the agenda it's going to go really quick thank you goe Dr under the consent agenda I'd like to recommend to the board that they approve the items under the consent agenda as is recation was Bo pleasure so move first second second any discussion now Tak the vote Mr Bigs I Mr Curtis I Mr music I Mr Right I vote I told you going pass under new business there is simply an information item for the board to accept volume 36 number one bylaws and policies first reading I will bring these policies and bylaws back to the board in their next meeting in May requesting the board take action at that time and finally the last item under Personnel I'm recommending to the board that they approve the hiring of Sarah navakas to the position of accounts payable at the administration Center so move second motion second any discussion we take the vote Mr Bigs hi M Curtis hi Mr music hi right I and I vote I Mr President there is no further business to come before the board this evening except to announce that our next regularly scheduled school board meeting will be held Wednesday May 15 2024 and Bailey Elementary School at 7 pm thank you Mr President thank you P stay it was be really quick um Mr B you have any comments you'd like to make yeah I want to thank Miss Havens for hosting us tonight and this is what makes it all worth being on the school board with these students and and especially the two didn't they I hear two perfect scores of 650 wow that's unbelievable but I want to say congratulations to all the children that got all the awards toight uh I appreciate everybody coming out and I appreciate the on on our video is watching video tonight so I want to thank all the math Po and science po students especially so that's all I have to say Thank you Mr bricks M car having part in comments yes let me see if I can do this fast because I know everybody's in a thank you very much U Miss aen rri for hosting this and I see our principles other principles are in um in the room I want to compliment how beautiful this um cafeteria I haven't seen it since it's been repainted redone I really appreciate coming here and seeing your accomplishments huge success you students are absolutely wonderful it's absolutely why I do what I do in this school so thank you very much I hope that you are challenged and uh encouraged to do even betterk thank you very much thank you Miss Curtis music yes of course um I'm going to keep it a little short so I can save some things for David to say um but I do want to uh encourage all of you to keep with the spell bow science bull math bull all those things um I participated in Science Olympiad when I was in school and things like that and I loved it so you know keep keep that up I liked the Jersey change uh you know from one one one bowl to another that was a good touch um thank you all for being here tonight thank you to our our teachers staff principls and attendance here thank you to our PTO um of course I know how important that can be uh to support the kids and support the the teachers in the school so thank you very much for everything you do good deal I know it's repetitive by time you get down to this here so I'll say quick uh Havens Miss Havens thank you for having us here uh other principles thanks for being here everybody in person parents students teachers everybody else that's here and also online we really do appreciate appreciate it coming to the small schools it it it really does make it fun it's it's nice to get out of that that office atoc out every now and nothing against you Mr St but sometimes seeing the little kids and their accomplishments just it's just great um congrats to the two students on your perfect scores that's amazing uh spell to spell Bowl science Bowl math bowl congratulations on that you guys did awesome not only to the the students but to you teachers you guys you guys work hard to to make this all work and there's there's not enough we can give you to say Thank you so my words is enough thank you I wish it was more uh PTO awesome job on the dance and doing that for the students that's super cool and uh that's all I got thank you Mr R um I'd like to personally thank all the students that participated um in the spell Bowl the math bowl the science Bowl I know it's a lot of extra hard work but you represent us so well and we're so proud of you I especially like the young man who who took off the uh science Bowl to get to his b I I love that part thank you thank you for doing that but um so proud of you guys especially two had the other two students have the perfect Bowl on the iene but uh thank you for representing us so well you guys always do so well on the spell bows and the science BS um so thank you for doing that the PTL thing what is your name ma'am thank you so much for for doing what you do with the PTL the PTL is such an important organization I really thank you from father the hearts thank you for what you do and um this aens wow what what's numbers 81% what's the state um average on state average is 63 and we're at 81 I know Bailey did outstanding also so I'm very very proud of both of the uh success rates that you guys have so thank you very much for all your hard work you must have amazing staffs I see all your teachers here that all the programs that you've initiated here just sound amazing and uh good good job so thank you that I'll wrap it up so we go home Dr k um no no Miss pipa just congratulations to all the kids it's always U very rewarding to see what an outstanding job you've done so it does take a lot of extra effort for parents to get them there as well as the staff to participate as the sponsors so thank you um it's nice to see everyone working together for our kids so thank you for the PTO thank you Miss Havens thank you and now we're going to go back to Mr Riggs yes I just wanted to get the last round of applause for everyone in this room okay final word yes I have a special announcements uh of importance to our parents the City of Lake Station in cooperation with the school district and Midwest Factory 55 is organizing a summer camp program for the month of June and also for three weeks into July the folders on the table contain this flyer and information about that program and registration and they are working with us after summer school hours for those students to participate in this program they're be doing things such as basketball flag football softball and pickle ball and lunches are free that will be provided to this program for students to participate in that summer program so I wanted to share that information with you you can also get information from our school they have the same packet of information about that sum of Camp secondly I'd like to recognize one of our employees our Deputy Treasurer payroll Jody Carr who has completed 73 hours of course instruction to be certified as a human resource specialist and she is working very hard to get that certification we are very pleased pleased and proud of her for her efforts the last announcement I have not only do we want to shine the light on our students and our employees and our PTO members for their hard work and dedication but the same is true for our school board members and we have Schoolboard members this evening that have been awarded cert not certification but have been awarded awards for recognition by the Indiana school boards Association for their hard work as well I'd like to name those board members and their Awards Kevin music is received the commendable Schoolboard member award David Wright has achieved the advanced Schoolboard member award Larry bigs received the exemplary governance award and our entire School Board received the exemplary governance Ward and they receed this plaque that we will mount on the wall and share with all of our community members at board meetings so congratulations to our individual board members as well as to our board as a whole thank you all of your hard work and your dedication to Lake Station to our schools and to our students thank you you have a comments before we the meeting he none meeting ajour thank you for coming thank you everyone

[Music] okay rolling everyone's here good evening I would like to call this meeting of the Berlin Boon Regional school committee to order just a reminder that this meeting is being recorded your image and or voice may be broadcast let us please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge alance to the United States of America the stands indivis okay so we're gonna do our best tonight we've got a jam packed agenda we had not planned on having a robust budget discussion tonight um but I want to honor it looks like there's a lot of folks here I want to make sure I honor everyone that took the time to come tonight to speak so what we're going to do now is we're going to roll into public comment um we're going to let everyone that wants a chance to speak speak all right um and then what we were supposed to do do we have uh the Consultants yeah Paul here I'm gonna do my best to get you Paul is here and then Andy is on his traffic okay perfect so you know what we'll do so w don't since I think most of you are here to talk about the budget right is that why okay so what we'll do is we're going to do start with public comment Hillary right Hillary you're Hillary all right Hillary okay Hillary is here for something else so Hillary why don't you go first okay introduce yourself and let everyone know why you're here and then we'll roll into public comment I'm guessing most of this is about budget and then what the committee will do is we'll jump into a quick a brief budget discussion and then we have to get into our business um that we have um that we have on our agenda we do have the budget discussion on the agenda I had it on here as budget discussion if Berlin does not approve the school committee budget so we'll we'll jump into that first debrief from last night and then we'll move on to the other things just so I know everyone's trying to get back to Berlin for the rest of your town meeting okay all right so Hillary why don't you take it take got three minutes okay all right um so you can stand up if you want and introduce yourself okay I've just never been for before it's okay you're fine fine and introduce yourself so everyone knows who you are because I did not share your email with everybody okay okay hi I'm Hillary I live in Berlin um I have a third grader at BMS and do I need to say anything else about myself nope that's it okay um sorry I've never been to one of these before okay I know there was going to be so many people here this is all about the budget yeah I know yeah um so I actually had this like statement prepared about I I came tonight to advocate for Performing Art arts in the school district and I I prepared the statement like a few days ago um and I I'm not going to read it all because I think that some of I'm you know I was planning on advocating for like theater and music and things like that at um Berlin Memorial and um just the elementary schools in general and then advocating for some things that the music teachers have um expressed that they need just to a little background um at the beginning of this year I formed a committee where um through link and there's about eight of us on the committee and we um the Performing Arts committee and we've done actually a lot of work this year um to Advocate and enhance and promote the Performing Arts at BMS and um was one of the reasons why we have a a play happening this Friday at at BMS in the morning so it's really cute you can you should come um um so anyway I I think that some of what I was going to say is probably like not super relevant well it it hopefully will be relevant but maybe not right now so um but so I'm just not going to say all that that's okay you can email it to me and then what happens when you send an email it goes to the committee and it'll be public record we'll give it to our um our secretary and she keeps it it's public record okay so I will email that to you can can I come up there please okay um I just I made this packet and I have seven copies I didn't know how many I didn't really the committee there's six committee members in Carol so I'll do I'll just pass out the packet that I made with just it's just some information that like the music teachers have shared with us about their needs I'll just pass it out and then you guys can just look at it when you have a chance thank you so who are are you okay Julie Jessica Jessica oh Jessica hi oh we were on zo yeah we okay talk zo hi thank you so much for and Carol yeah myself and Lisa and then Lai and Mike thank you than you so much I'm sorry I know the timing on this is not thought about that this morning it's okay it's okay this is great it's great know unless somebody else no no that's okay no I think hi okay um I think I'm a Hillary I really appreciate this um and the time that you guys have spent working on this obviously I think this is very important so thank you very much thank you thank you very much for okay all right so we're going to roll into public comment if you would like to speak can you raise your hand just so I know who is planning on speaking and who's just reserving so we've got two over here oh no one else is planning speak okay all right that's great all right so who wants to go first Kyle let's do it thank you H Kyle Burns I'm the president of Link at the parent teacher organization at BMS anybody at town meeting last night was my voice a few times um so and I have done my level best to uh help link to help our community understand what's going on with our budgets uh and we came within 10 votes of actually passing it and we beat an effort to put it to ballot so I feel like there was a fair amount of win from last night um and there's a fair amount of learning and that's why I wanted to really come and articulate how the community is showing up today to me uh specifically and through messaging through link um and so the first and foremost I'm here as link to set to learn what the process from here going forward is so that we can rally the families to be in support of the budget that said our families have been very clear that last night's 10 votes could have been earned if there had been a lot more transparency in the budget that the school committee presents our We Trust our town to utilize our tax dollars appropriately and to that extent they give us a line item budget to see how they are using our tax dollars it is not unreasonable for our communities to receive line item budgets from the school committee so that when they say what the heck is this for you can very obviously Point Line to Line what it is for and the argument ceases so my request that I am echoing on behalf of many people who have reached out to me today is that the school committee approaches this next portion of coming up to this new town meeting with Clarity and the ability to provide a very transparent budget so that we all can easily defend the needs you have to serve our children and our community thanks thank you Kyle okay um so I'm going to talk about the budget in a little bit and give some clarity it's hard for me because a lot of stuff was said at I don't know the 20 meetings we've had this year at the subcommittee meetings I get it if I was not on this committee I would not be listening to all of it or watching all of it um a lot of the questions asked last night were addressed and if somebody had come to the budget Forum on March 19th and asked questions it would have been addressed you're not wrong so we're going to talk about that in a little bit but let's have the next public comment or the last public comment right um Jason pette I have a seventh grader here at Tano and a fourth grader at BMS um relatively new to the community we haven't even gone through one full Academic Year we moved in in the middle of last year this was our first town meeting so it was a little eye opening um the I had a prepared statement and I had asked if I could take five minutes now I had not coordinated with Kyle and I feel like I'm going to regurgitate a lot of what she said but um May I read or would whatever you're comfortable with yeah whatever you're comfortable with um I have a to wander if I don't have it written so I'm going to try to stay right on point so um regarding the contentious Berlin town meeting on Monday and the town's rejection of the school committee's uh requested budget I wanted to offer feedback about the discussion leading up to the failed vote um even as someone who voted for the budget um I was missing important information about justifying the budget um if we take example from the the Berlin Capital Improvement plan and the nin finance committee budget motion that were voted on before we got to Berlin at Toano data regarding the items in the budget and year-over-year changes were readily available in the warrant hand out uh when there was a discussion on a Point Town committee members mostly answered questions with specific information uh several of these budget items included um 6 to 8% upward changes despite a goal to keep the changes to 2% in other words the same challenges we've been hearing about in this body yet they all passed because the supporting justification was readily available and questions about details were generally answered so they earned the trust of the voting members similar information about the school budgets was not readily available to the Town members the explanations that leaned heavily on Draconian Cuts felt disingenuously scared of tactics I suggest more proactive distribution of summaries and commentary on the most Salient points of the overall budget it could have been a handout at the table when we entered it could have been mail out to town members in advance of the meeting not just the parents of school children in this District or at the very least a slide put up on the screen during discussion as for pointing to the website for meeting minutes from March I had a hard time finding them when I was actively seeking them out when I finally found the budget PowerPoint deck it was still confusing to read through without the context of the discussion and presentation the deck accompanied and it lacks breakdowns for what is behind those numbers most towns people without kids in the school system would have little reason to go look for this and it feels like that is the demographic that mostly voted against the budget even those that found the deck asked questions about large line items for instruction and other services they didn't get a clear answer additional evidence of the lack of transparency and diligence that eroded trust was apparent when asking for over 500,000 Capital expenses without supporting evidence of quot quot and plans only to find out that once quotes were received the budget request could have been a third lower this calls into question whether diligence was applied to finding reductions and savings elsewhere in the budget before resorting to cutting all alerts and Athletics I suggest putting more emphasis on highlighting what components of the budget cannot be changed and the reason why some information was mentioned very briefly and almost like an afterthought instead of being emphasized and clarified as the drivers of the budget I heard things like 3% increase mandated for teachers there was 4% for a different group of people and and this is to a point that salaries are the largest portion of the budget and those people and their families are experiencing the same inflation we are and their contractually mandated raises are already in excess of the 2 and a half% there was sort of an ambiguous reference to required spending that we can't cut but not a lot of clarity on what that was there's some other reference to some other nebulous State requirements and no information about what that meant there was a passing comment about dollar per student compared to other districts which I think is a fantastic data point to emphasize that we're already achieving great results with lower spend than other districts numbers of teachers versus Paris versus administrators versus others there was a slide in the deck listing over 600,000 in reductions that didn't get talked about the budget with versus without the new special ed program that is supposedly generating savings these evidential points should be summarized and articulated cohesively in a table to support the budget that is being requested not brought up reactively or defensively in passing discussion out of the 4 and a half million for BMS and the three and a half million for Toano what is the breakout of the numbers and the reason for the upward change Beyond Two and A half% what dollar amount makes up the non-negotiable and why is it non-negotiable versus discretionary Like Music Arts and Athletics remember that your audience isn't as entrenched in the detail as you all are we need clarification on details that you may take for granted given your regular exposure to them instead of only talking about the cuts show the simplified picture of what Baseline minimum is required what reductions have already been made what savings have already been achieved what is discretionary and therefore what any budget shortfall has to be taken from having the supporting evidence more readily available and answering questions more directly will instill confidence in the voting members remember that you're selling this budget to the Town members so make it easy for them to understand it on a final note regardless of what is or isn't legally required healing the dysfunctional relationship with the finance committee would certainly Grease the wheels with the Town members if the budget already agreed upon uh was recommended by the finance committee coming into the town meeting thank you all right thank you very much okay did anyone have that was it for public comment okay did anyone have any Communications want to share did you well it it was basically I just had a lot of conversations with people the community all day today but they were pretty much saying the same things that you guys already spoke about so yeah I probably don't need to repeat it yeah okay all right um is there a motion to approve the consent agenda so second L and Julie all in favor I any opposed all right that motion passes all right so I think um what we're going to do because it seems like a lot of people I'm guessing are here to are here to hear about what's going to happen with the budget I'm going to say a few things we'll push Emerson is not here so we'll push that to the end Lisa and then we're going to go into the budget discussion we have an executive session that's going to start at 6:45 at the latest um so we're going to stay on a on a schedule tonight and if there's anything that we don't get to we are going to have our um as needed meeting which I believe is May 28th we' originally scheduled it for Zoom if it's if if we need it for more time to actually discuss we had it on a zoom because we need to vote on two scholarships sh in Berlin um if we need to actually discuss anything it will end up being an in-person meeting um so if there's any overflow from tonight that's what we'll end up doing will be May 28th All right so a few things I wanted to say about the budget um I have some observations as well and I spent last night doing a lot of observing and and not speaking um it certainly was eye opening um so first off the process of the budget we start working on it probably um sometime in the fall and what happens is the principes and the administrators come in and they give a list of things they need extras right um we take that to the towns and we had a pretty robust list this fall this winter right we had a pretty robust list um we take that to the towns and they yay or nay it right they're like oh there's no way we can do this or you know so we start having informal conversations uh Julie and I actually went with Carol and Nancy on December 8th and we met with um the Berlin fincom uh Julie and I make up the budget subcommittee we meet every month um the meeting is an open meeting it's open to the public the agenda is published the minutes are published and the meetings are recorded so um if you want information about the details of the budget we discuss it at nauseum where we meet for about two hours every month some months twice a month uh those are all on our website um so we started back then we met I think the list included multiple heads at Tanto we had an SRO in there um I don't know if John had anything in Berlin I think the roof we had talked about solar panels and um and most of what we asked for both towns said we just can't do it this year we just can't do it so in we took it back to the table and and in Berlin Memorial we ended up taking everything out we added nothing new for Berlin memorial for Tanto we ended up deciding to add a finance teacher which is going to end up being a state mandate I don't think we added anything else right as far as heads goes just the ad moving yeah so we added one head at toono at Boon Elementary we ended up adding a teacher which was needed so this is all done through talks through December and January um on February 27th we had a draft of the budget that was presented to the school committee everyone in the community is invited to come invited to speak did anyone show up to that meeting guys I think we had two people was that one we had no one I can't remember um we open it up for questions it's in Mrs Costello's email the towns have it on their website it's blasted out to all of the boards the fincom the board of Selectmen so everyone is aware of it or at least to the best of our ability um I didn't get any questions so again we have budget subcommittee meetings we go to finance committee meetings we try to meet in the middle somewhere all of this was done and we presented our final Budget on March 19th at something called a public forum which is pretty much like a town meeting so any of you guys could have come and spoke and asked questions all the details were explained I think we met for two hours that night we literally just dug into the budget our Director of Finance presented it she explained everything we did have a line by line something that we cannot put out there because it includes salaries and very detailed information where you could pinpoint things that we you know might not want all that detail out there um so we did that on March 19 uh again I think we had two members of the public show up at that meeting um the budget passed at that meeting we had a lot of good discussion it passed with adding the things I discussed before the next next step after that is the budget goes to town meeting and at that point town meeting is not really a forum to discuss or change or explain the school committee budget it's a forum where the town should have knowledge of the budget and they either approve it or they deny it and it's based on you know maybe some information that might be explained at town meeting is the effect on taxes that would come from the town um so this is the process where are we now now the budget has failed in Berlin the budget has passed in Boon Boon funded the budget Boon is putting a roof on the elementary school and adding a teacher so Boon the budget passed Berlin the budget did not pass right now what happens in a Regional School District the budget comes back to the school committee we decide if we want to change it or if we want to create a new budget we vote on that budget again and then the town has 40 5 days to hold another town meeting where the budget is voted again that time in between when the school committee is voting and the town meeting that's the time for people to hopefully do their research review the budget watch the recordings because I understand it's really hard to get here I have two little kids too and a husband that's on the road all the time so I'm always scrambling for child care um I get it it's really hard so but that's a time where you should be looking the budget figuring out if there's any questions and asking those questions because going into that level of detail on Town floor is just not possible and I don't believe we've ever done that and as far as the warrant goes this is something that the town prints so they take the assessment as certified by the treasurer of the school district and they print this we have no say what goes in the budget what goes in the warrant and what does not as a matter of fact we have asked ful multiple times to just put the school committee budget in the warrant and and been told no by Berlin this year uh Boon had it in the way that um we had asked this year so that is where we are now I I love I welcome questions and feedback I think it's great um hold on Jackie um guys did I miss anything in there in that process can yes please I agree with you 100% but at this point going forward it's clear there's a disconnect absolutely I don't know where it is but whether we vote if we vote on budget tonight we do it a couple days from now whenever it is 45 47 days from now whenever that next vote takes place tell we we have to get someone to put this information together it has to like a simple one page y I agree data infographic whatever something it yeah I mean I didn't see their line item in there either but we we have to see I don't know why it was done that way but there's clearly a disconnect between what is working with the town and what actually happened I don't know where it was missed where it was dropped but yeah I think there's a lot of little things I don't know I don't know but yeah no I think it was a lot of little things the ball was dropped on the communication I don't know what last year was brought up for but the next three four weeks is going to have to be I mean it's simple there there's nothing new in there it's just it's what it costs tomorrow to pay for what we have today it's just inflation it's just what it is but we we just need to be better explain that yeah yeah Lor oh sorry I just had a suggestion um I was thinking and Jessica had a suggestion before and I I think it's good one um I'm wondering if I should go I I know um I can go to Vio and post our subcommittee meetings on our school committee page and then maybe we could share especially the budget ones yeah I going to watch sub committee I agree but I what it is we have it out there it's just another way for other people that might be able to see so it's just a little more transparent based on no I know but I'm just saying if you want to put it on I thought it was already on the Vimeo people get all their information from Facebook Square yes so I just feel like that it's another thing I'm not saying it's the answer I'm just suggesting from now on I'll put our subcommittee links there and that way people will say I can go and find it someone did comment that it was hard to find things on our website so if I can try to put things there that might be really helpful yeah the budget is right for anyone that's looking for the budget it's a PowerPoint presentation and it is right on the homepage I think of this District move it perhaps like or post the the power and then also like just not the whole meeting that was in but to cut it I think Britney said she could do that she just the portion on the budet gave her you know the beginning in the end time Mark or time stance yeah okay I think mik I think we can do what's being asked we can do that on our budget sub commmittee meeting um because the problem with this I know it because I've taken the time to know it because I was forced to take time to know it yeah um but for the general public these numbers I mean the 26931 and all of that um right this goes back to communication we want to be effectively communicating and I don't think the packet does that your CPA you get you can pick it up and move through you get it but for General people like myself included I did not get it until I got it yeah but on Town floor when we need to and and I would actually argue that point about these line items being readily available and I warrant I don't think they are at all and I've done the warrant with the town for over a decade um however I think we can do have what does that $500,000 represent what does that $255,000 for Tanto represent if we do not pass that 750 what's a list and then it will be more than that because in dant's portion of the 65% and see this is where all the towns people you don't understand it unless you've been a part of it so we can give we can do that we can do that I can take that on I can that Narrative of that so the only thing is um and again just to point the school committee does not have access to the general ledger uh that would be a segregation of Duties issue because we actually sign the warrants right so um we cannot go in we can ask the district to provide us with a detail to the budget yeah and we can use that and hopefully come up with something um but the school committee does not prepare the budget the district prepares the budget the school committee approves the budget the school committee does not have access to prepare the budget or to even know what should go in the budget that comes from the principles and then the Director of Finance who has general ledger access right so we don't have that type of access that I I think what we can do because we have the knowledge we can say oh we know what this makes up like what Julie tried to do on Town floor last night when somebody asked they were like what is this increase and she said okay there's a special ed Transportation increase and there was a um an increase in we hired four pair of Professionals for the bridges program and that's what this is so what we can do is we can document those increases in a summary but none of us are qualified or um should be certifying what is included in the general ledger or or how that stuff is broken down we're just essentially proving it we're not preparing it yeah so we can take what we have and try to summarize it um yeah and definitely I agree I think that something needs to go out I we we are not going to do a mailing we do not have the money to send a mailing it can go out in the newsletter it can go out schools and it can go to the towns we also do not have access to email everyone in the town is that correct Carol yeah I could send it to the towns we can ask the towns to send it out to the public but we cannot ourselves blast out an email to the towns so I think that's a great point that we can do you know for the Budget moving forward and I hope that we have a email copy of Jason's comments because he had some really excellent suggestions for yeah were you going to email me that yeah okay yeah um and all of those questions again should go to the Director of Finance because we unless we ask and we had for when we voted on the budget we had that spreadsheet right guys remember we had the spreadsheets with the detail that's not something we prepare or um we input into the system that's just something that we receive as a report ourselves and then we kind of have to figure it out um for those that don't know we are in between director of finances so we are working to hire a new one uh that's on the agenda tonight um all right so yes I just am I allowed to speak during yeah I mean not really but if you have I just I wanted to sort of reinforce the idea that we're not necessarily asking for detailed line items everyone's salary like if we take inspiration from the public safety lines on the warrant there's a top line for Police salary we're not getting individuals we're just getting total top line we absolutely have that spreadsheet and we debated about posting that and we did not post that so because it Sal and these are the things were not all it was 3% rate here's the Paris salaries and here's the thing we were not allowed to cut because 4% rat yeah we had that detail it was a very messy report we opted not to put that on the website because Nicole had asked yeah so we did have that detail it was messy all right Jackie my question was just about the process that you were saying going forward yeah um let's talk about that a little bit more did you want just does Boyston have to re I am still unclear on that I have put in a question to council and they are not sure because Boon passed their budget so I don't know that Boyston has to have another town meeting Berlin if the committee does not accept the town of burl so last night what was voted was the town of Berlin's fincom budget if the committee decides to accept that budget they do not need to have another town meeting um if the committee decides not to accept that budget and we vote on a different budget then Berlin must have another town meeting to approve whatever budget but if you change the budget Boon have to vote because if we change Boon's budget so like if we change Tonda or B Boon Elementary if we do not change anything for Boon I do not believe Boon has to vote our council is out of pocket today um so that question is in and as soon as we have the answer we'll let you know all right last question and then we're going to discuss the budget yeah just curious March 19th that's when you voted for the proposal don't debates end for all budgets like March 22nd it 45 days before town meeting so the school committee must vote 45 days before town meeting that's the law when does it actually close for debate with like incom or the select board or I think it's how long can they debate with you about it oh so they technically cannot the fin con technically really has no say in how the school committee sets the budget we try to negotiate that I up until the final vote and once the school committee votes then that budget is unchangeable unless we have another vote and we cannot have another vote um less than 45 days before town meeting the the vote has to be final 45 days within town meeting so this year town meeting was what was yesterday May 6th so it would have had been final um the last week of March so I think we had like a week to spare uh we voted on March 19th we tried to do our best to um that's why we present it in February as well so if there's questions or comments or changes we had that huge chunk of time in doing there's also laws like it had to be in the newspaper for seven days before we had our public forum so it was also in the TNG right car yeah seven days before um that um and it you know was a public form yeah Jess be explaining why our timeline was different this year than in past years I think that's yeah so um again we we the past two years we've done a somewhat different timeline where we have um so and again I'm not a finance director I'm not I'm a CPA I I'm versed in taxes but I'm not versed in governmental accounting something I had to learned a lot of this year but what happens is the assessment is not just the expenses of the district the assessment is a calculation of a set of other Revenue that comes in from the state and the federal government and other grants and so the Director of Finance gets all of that information some stuff doesn't come in until March so in order to be as accurate as possible in the past we had kind of estimated that stuff um it's really tough to do that we try to push it off as long as possible so that those actual numbers can come in um and we can use those so the assessment can be as accurate as possible before it's certified once the school committee votes then the assessment letters are sent to the towns by the district Treasurer so the Director of Finance draws up the letters and the district Treasurer certifies those letters signs off on them and sends them to the towns and that's saying here you go towns this is what we need in the warrant because this is what our budget is and this is what needs to be voted on and and the Consultants that came in that were mentors we did have Consultants come in that advised us to do that to wait as long as possible so that we could keep the assessment and the and the um expenses as accurate as possible so that was we were trying to kind of find a happy medium of not going too far but still again in Boyston we had zero issues we gotten in on the warrant on time I think we were like a day or two late but their their timeline is different than Berlin so I'm guessing the towns make the timelines as they feel feel or as they see fit all right so um my question tonight is um we're faced with us so school committee so I did speak with with Kim today briefly um and we're faced with decision of so she did say if we wanted to we could vote on the budget tonight um if we decide to keep everything relatively the same all right um the only change I would propose is because we did get a quote on the HVAC after we voted on the budget we might want to change the Berlin Capital assessment on the H to the amount that matches the quote um but I don't know how people feel do people want I'm I'm talking people on this committee do people want to talk to vote again on the budget tonight or do you guys want to think on it and wait do you w to propose some changes like uh and take things out or how are how are you all feeling on the budget go ahead Mike yeah you go first I I would like to know if we did accept the town's number from last night because that's what the B trips what would that look like in burlin so I assume you would looking at the books today at some point what would that look like in burlin and there's a Time component here the 45 days June 15th the deadline July 1st yes we have deadlines um if we can post something is it too late to post a meeting today for 48 hours to have something Thursday afternoon if we could postpone it just a day or two too late today reach out to you know SC the town just be like listen Friday all right Friday we could have a meeting Friday Mike okay so that's you know three that pushes our timeline out three days get pretty tight uh because then we're into the end of June and we've got July 1 deadline past the June 15th deadline where teachers need to be notified but maybe we can the town doesn't have to take 45 days they do it earlier if they act in good faith hopefully they'll do it earlier so we postponed it from tonight discuss it tonight y postpone vote and just one more time reach out to Scott okay I'd be happy to I don't know and see if you can chat yeah but I would like to know what the schools would look like if we accepted those members um did John and Lisa want to speak to that briefly first uh Lisa spoke to that last night so I just kind of reiterate the key points that you said last night um so what would look like so we have to be cognizant of what is required by the state because it's a middle high school high school in particular because we're giving them a diploma for graduation so we have to be very careful about what we um are able to cut because there are graduation requirements so then we look at um what what we are able to to cut in um in that realm we are able to cut Sports we are able to cut and and sports means coaches and transportation we know that transportation is a very large line um $30,000 um and let me just bring up because I I did work on the budget today um Lisa why you bring that up and ask another question yes so if we were to accept let's say the Tanto number which is different what the school can be voted would Boon then have to again Boon has to vote again I think we have to take that back to Boon fincom and Boon would have to so Boon would there there would see the cuts too because of the shared nature of T and the districtwide number Bo the town of Bo would have Cuts as well yes students in Boon would be affected by this as well if we cut to Hanto it would from my understanding it would actually leave oilon in a better financial position because we so in order to get so there's a gap of um$ 25,157 um between the school committee proposed budget and the Berlin um finance committee budget for the schools that 255,000 rounded is 35% of an allocation at Tonto so then what we would have to do is in order to come up with that amount of money to cover that discrepancy in the Berlin budget we have to cut a total of $730,000 over our entire budget because it's 30 right because it's yes Tanto is everybody clear Berlin there tant's expenses all right so tanto expenses are this is rough it's not that's not actually the number there is an actual allocation it's based on the number of Berlin students and the number of boil students that go to Tanto for rough number purposes because we don't want to say 36.66% we're going to say about 35% of the students go to are from Berlin and about 65% are from Boon so when we have an expense like when we do the budget we have all the expenses for Tanto and then in order to do the assessment the Director of Finance would take take 65% of the Tanto expenses and allocate that to Boyston assessment and 35% of the Tanto assessment or Tanto expenses and allocate that to the Berlin assessment if the Berlin the town of Berlin is saying you need to cut 255,000 for the operating assessment at Tahanto the total cost you can't just if you cut a head at Tanto only 35% of that head is allocated to boy Berlin so for example if you cut a $100,000 head Hond like let's say we cut this is a round number I'm not giving anyone salary a teacher for 100,000 that only Berlin would only see $35,000 worth of savings right so if $255,000 you divide that by 35% you get about $730,000 is what Lisa would have to cut it to Honda is there any room in the the agreement that that somehow could be waved for you know I I'm just wondering if the regional agreement can be looked at to see if there's some type of loophole that that we don't that's a question for uh Kim but I do not think that Boon would be okay with um funding yeah picking up because that's that's the boils to taxpayers I don't I don't think there's a loophole there yeah I don't know I have something to share [Music] okay all right go ahead Lisa just uh F two more minutes and then we got to shift GE okay so what I did today was I I looked at chunks of the budget that would not impact graduation requirements so we would have to come we would we would have to sit down and as an administrative team and look at this but I know that our extracurriculars so all of the clubs so if we cut all of the clubs that's approximately $46,000 so$ 45 826 if we cut the fall Athletics that's $45,500 now remember we're trying to achieve $730,000 so we're we're talking about nickel and diing this but this won't this will not impact graduation requirements so we have winter sports $3,573 we have spring sports 47526 for total of extracurricular in sports $123,600 then we can then we can look at stien positions so team leader positions department chair positions that would be um a savings of now please understand every everybody who is seeing this recording I am giving numbers to like values of chunks of things that are not going to impact graduation requirements I am not saying that these items are being cut I saying that this is how we can we're going to have to Nickel in dime $730,000 okay is everybody clear on that I am not saying we're slashing these things I'm saying this is what I have to look at and at the end of the day Lisa to be clear it would be by vote of school committee as to what actually the school committee would accept as a cut and as right the school committee would have to essentially determine correct so um Department shair team Le that's $ 27,825 have a um a retirement for World languages if we didn't fill that we would have a we would have one salary and one benefit package and that would be you know um over $100,000 you can understand that heads impact the you know what happens at in our school but it is those that's the largest chunk of money is um salaries um what would that do if we didn't fill that retirement Middle School language would be unavailable so students in the Middle School would not have language um opportunity for World Language exploration and we wouldn't have opportunities for maybe year four Spanish um we have other positions we can cut you know we if we cut the Arts and we cut music those we can we can essentially say $100,000 per head so approximately you know everybody's salary because everybody's on The Matrix those are the types of things that would and and I'm talking a $100,000 at a time or $50,000 at a time and we're trying to paying $730,000 [Music] that's going to be a massive implication and like good I I I can't may you could I people want to ask questions and that's not my you have to call on people yeah Lisa did you have something I'm just like that is so invasive like I can't even imagine that happening and I have a thought that is going to be probably very unpopular for people in Berlin but it almost seems like it could potentially just solve all of this for this year okay so that is a lot of suffering and a lot of degradation of our education and when you balance that against people being hot at BMS could we put off the AC totally unrated that that's not assment I realize it comes from a different F whatever that's something fund with cash but it's not gonna affect the 750 is that yeah well because Berlin is like upset about 250 right no they're upset about so they're upset about the um well at the end of the day I mean again we've gone back and forth with them I think at the end of the day they don't want to to um they really don't want to increase the taxes any higher than the 2 and a half% or whatever they the number they gave us so um I I so first off Capital is free C they use free cash to fund that can that get shifted they don't want to that's what happened last year they used free cash to fund an operating assessment and that's what they're complaining about about the $383,000 I understand it's like not you know it's the fund but well well they don't they're not they're saying they don't I don't know that they I I think getting rid of the air conditioner is probably something that needs to happen this year we can talk talk about it doesn't affect the operating it doesn't affect what Lisa is describing right now is reality because that's the number that was voted that's the number they're prepared to pay so this is reality right now unless we want to have this argument for the next 45 days yes this is the reality so what Lisa is describing is the reality in this town and it's not yeah Ahad and I'm not being dramatic like I really I wasn't trying to be dramatic it is the reality of that our budget is I I mean I can I can go down and I can be like okay so I can cut $500 um you know from you know the science budget and I can cut $400 from here but that is not going to even touch $730,000 so even if I tried to pair down every single thing where where no one would have any supplies for being here it's not even going to come close to even one person does everybody understand that so it is not dramatic is it possible to do this without affecting graduation requirements to do what cut it is but it's it's it's very complicated and um I would feel very uncomfortable discussing it in a public for I have spoken to my my faculty at faculty meeting and spoke to them very honestly about what $730,000 would mean I've spoken to in individuals because I did not want to have them hear me on the town floor saying we will'll not have a music program we will not have an art program without having spoken to them so although we we've talked about worst case scenario I'm I'm not prepared to share all the details because we could say because as you pointed out that in the end school committee can you know if I lay out all the possibilities you can say this one this one and this one so you could say no Middle School sports and these two Varsity Sports um and no and no Transportation they have to get there themselves you could say so it's a it's a puzzle piece that has to be put together and I I can provide all the information as the best I can that will not impact graduation requirement but in the end it's school committee that that will then have the decision or take my recommendation or however that process works so it's it's comp it's more complicated I do have shared with you some of the numbers all right this is good this is good I'm not trying to cut you off we got to move along so yeah no I um John tell us about what Berlin Memorial would look like if you have to cut $455,000 so I'll be way briefer because it's not possible um and I've tried to make this clear several times we don't have sports at burin Memorial School we don't have stiens at burin Memorial School we don't have department heads at berin Memorial School when you look at the teaching staff I have two teachers per grade I can't combine a grade into one room because the rooms aren't big enough yeah I have two special Educators I can't go to one special educator because the two can barely get the job done we can close the bridges program and save about $150,000 but those five kids are going out of district and five times the be a million dollars for us yeah it would be but it would be mandated so the state would come in and say you're pay you gotta do it you gotta do it yeah there is no you could cut art and music and somebody said that you know it was drama it's not drama it's really the only thing I can get rid of is Art and music and library and health because PE is required but if I do that those people only work for me two days a week we're talking $20,000 ahead it doesn't get me anywhere near and of course Lord knows what happens in boils because those very talented very capable people need full-time jobs so it it won't happen what they proposed can't happen because you can't run the school right you just can't and there's a whole process that I would you know encourage the committee to Avail itself of yeah which ends in a two-town vote just have patience with the process one last thing that I got to go because the moderator will yell at me if I don't to lock the doors do not I would strongly encourage this committee not to rush into a financial decision we don't have a handle on finances yep we don't know did a really nice job but as we trying to dig in what does this cost what ises that we can't tell you yet give us a couple of weeks to sit when we're not exhausted Y and frustrated and a little scared give us a couple of weeks to really dig through and make a reasonable proposal I don't think the number changes I think the school committee number is exactly what we need but let's give the town something to your point that they can really hold up want to this was our big mistake we expected them to come to us doesn't happen like that in Berlin you go to them and it's been that way for I ask any of those but guys they tell you we've been coming to them for years and and we have to do that again we have to be the people who reach out because it's as my mom would have said it's not enough to be right if you don't get what you need in the end we might be right but we're not going to get where we need to be you're you're 100% right and I'm sorry you can just stop the meeting right there trust me I would love to I'd love to go to my son's baseball game you're saying weeks we don't have weeks we have we actually do got 45 days no we have 30 days but town has 30 45 days from when we vote if we go past July 1 so if the town says like they did last night and we go to day 45 the state is GNA come in on July 1 because we don't have a budget yes they are and that is going to affect Boon that's part of the process but the the cut you're talking about in Tanto are going to affect Boon just as much the loss of Art and music those teachers will get new jobs is going to affect oilon just as much I think we'd prefer to get to that process before July 1st oh yeah I'm not saying take the whole 4 we do and hopefully they'll be able to get the meeting on the book but don't do it in the next two days because I got to TI tomorrow I'm sleeping in because I'm tired um and I know the superintendent is tired and I know the rest of the admin team is tired but next week sometime all right let me think about it let me think about it I mean quite frankly if you want my opinion I know I'm supposed to be moderating I I I'm ready to vote on the exact same budget tonight and maybe provide more information maybe that's because I'm so close to this budget except for the HVAC I I think the capital thing is totally separate and I appreciate you bringing that up um I think we can all get it for now that we've just done it in Boon we can get a steal of a deal it sounds like because the rebates are like 50% and I think the new quote is like $280,000 so then when you get the rebates you're looking at 270,000 297 297 and then what are the rebates like another and something thousand anywh between 25 50% 25 to 50% of that would be a rebate that would come back so I mean it's and what is this the same people that did Boon no oh it's someone different from town from town yes so it's somebody from the town of Berlin so it's putting business back into the town so anyways that's something we can talk about that just real quick just one point of information as you think about the air conditioning remember we have to go back about the roof and that's like an $800,000 job the roof's original the roof is actually going to be and that's gonna under the new lease the town has to deal with that that's not going to be a school they won't care because it's still tax we're literally doing this uh 76 that but ask me again in two weeks just looking at dates okay all right let's talk about dates July 1 is Monday okay so we have to be graft up with everything by June 28 okay 45 days before June 28th is May 14th that's Tuesday okay we need a couple days in there for letters and certifications yeah we can't vote on Tuesday we we'd have to have Friday would be the last day because we don't so for again I'm we're do it before July 1 this is the day yeah yeah we don't have a Director of Finance that's so Carol sorry no go Julie are you saying the date is this week no you're saying Tuesday but that's with no time between so you need a couple days that means they have to have the letters by May 14 Assessment letters I know you guys are it's from the day it's 45 days from the day we vote not when they get it is it yeah it's from the day we right yeah and then they have seven days to send it but it's 45 days regardless and then they have seven days to send the assessment letter yeah I mean I'm ready to vote to I'm all right so let's go around the room and see what everyone wants to do Jess I haven't heard from you tonight how are you feeling what's going on there was breakdown of communication which is frustra because last year you know we have both GTO and we're out there and going everywhere in the community so is frustrating that we weren't able to do that this year but I I I agree with Lisa's thing that we do have to cut something to show good face yeah you know like that we're meeting you know we we realize it's a large increase of the town but when push comes to shove there's really not much to cut because honestly you know I don't know if I want to send my daughter here next year and I've gotten several messages of to that effect too I don't you know that's not the Tanto that I know and would want to send my kid to so just half a second I'm Joe ainson I'm Jaden's dad sure everybody knows her um I'm already drawn blank so as far as the budget did you guys even consider that morons like me didn't know there was a meeting that was that important last night my wife and I two votes didn't are you burlin residence yeah we're burlin residence she was born and raised yeah she went here too not here down in town hall but Jorts J then you'll pay 20 grand a year for private school rights because was my choice if it was my choice and you said to me you got to raise your taxes 5% this year to said in Tonto I think you guys do such a great job here I would pay it and I would not even question I would do it any day that's to you and and I think that if I the I'm fixing day I'm definitely Jason my sister my brother-in-law thought it was a procedural vote they' never had problems approve they B that's the Joseph Sarah there's four votes right so did you guys read Carol's email every week no no I told you no Tex I'm all right I got it I got it want represented people that would have been willing to entertain the conversation were under represented but without the justification to feel comfortable saying I'm willing to pay me so I feel like we sorry if I'm taking to it but I feel like we were having a conversation backwards from what the tone of the town meeting was saying the questions coming were really more like where's the rest of the money going what's happening with the other $ three and a half million doll right not I don't want to pay 250 it was where what's happening with the other and I know you're going to say it's on the website it's in the minutes and it's but again this is this body's job to sell the budget and we have to make it easy on them to understand it so if yeah so like financial statements they're on the website they really are those audited financial statements are on the website but I get it I get it I get it I get it I get it and and just so you know just so all of you know again the school committee cannot do that we cannot produce financial statements and provide it to the public a little more detailed on the presentation than I don't even know that the that the school committee can do committee doesn't have I don't know that we can disseminate superintendent this district has to the district did show up to a link meeting but only two weeks before the town vote even acknowledged that this was an issue did the superintendent say the same thing to our stag team to allow Tahanto to have a chance to get those people out and I will tell you right now Stags BMS kids suffered last night and I will not be able to get two votes per household like we did last night unless we have a town meeting on a Sunday at noon help me sell yeah this just sitting right here she didn't go because she had to stay home with her kids for child her husband was there we sit right next to us are out there but they need to understand just email us and put it in simple dumb guy [Music] terms okay last last comment and then we have to move forward Stacy plunet president of the STA PTO Stacey to meet you nice to meet you as well well uh I just wanted to um like like we were saying the boy Bon wasn't even an issue past no yes I know yeah with Berlin it sounds to me it's unclear to me if it's that they didn't want their taxes raised or they didn't want to spend money for something they weren't clear on because if it's you don't want to spend so if you can be more clear like like they're saying give them the information and we were to no no new vote on the school committee we have a budget take that back with the data no budget no no no vote no change take it back with all the details behind it I Kyle and I and uh and Jackie we worked tirelessly last year to inform everybody about the budget issues and we were successful so I mean if there's something that we can do to Pro uh pre prep people to let them know it's a meeting to let them know how important is to let them know why we're spending all this money and what it's going for and then to let them know the response from Lisa and from John John that here's you know this is our minimum if you want to keep having arts and Athletics and this and that and that's that's the stick give them the carrot which says here's how we're gonna sell everything here's how we're going to use everything and just let us us as a you know like I can't vote in Berlin because I'm a boon resident but I certainly know half my PT half the PTO is from Berlin and we can always work you know with people that we know um because it's both the elementary school we want the elementary school to succeed because those are the kids who are going to come to us in the cple years we don't want them to lose anything we can Julie I agree we can do that we can work with Carol hopefully these support Consultants have been sitting here all night waiting to talk to us are G to be able to help us um all right so this is good so um and I I I'm Megan yeah just planning for the worst looking for the best working backwards for this policy July 1 is Monday okay if you want to have a districtwide meeting that's the third step in the process working backwards last day for that if that were to happen on June 28th which is the Friday for July 1st uh we need to give 48 hours notice at least right so that brings us to the 26th of June yeah uh they have uh 45 days to hold the meeting from whenever we votes or 45 days back from that notice period who decides that that's a good question I don't know but they have they have to do it within 45 days so ass use 45 days uh that brings us to which is a Sunday so we would have to do something before this weekend I if that if that does anyone want to vote I I'm ready to vote tonight I really think we should reach back out to burlin but I I I want to support that a bunch of people came to me and said Fin's opinion is really important and we need to repair that relationship we could I don't know we don't have an attorney here I don't know if we could do this we could vote tonight with a caveat that we will meet again in two days we could vote tonight we did this last year we could vote tonight and um we can talk to fincom and see I know they're going to ask if we can use some of our cash to fund the budget we can vote tonight to start the CL vote tonight to start the clock we could meet again and which is what I tried to do to see if they wanted us to use cash it's all in writing um after we voted I reached out to to Berlin and and said said you know we'd love to talk to you and maybe we can use some of our cash um so maybe that's something we can do is we can vote tonight to start the clock um unless now what we can't do tonight is if you're gonna say I want to cut this or I want to cut that besides the hbac the hbac is different it's a one number it's easy if you're gonna say I want to cut you know that one coach at Tanto like we can't play around that we don't have anyone here that can do numbers okay but if you guys are comfortable with rev voting the budget um I I think the capital stuff has to be that like because that's easy guess it doesn't it doesn't yeah the Berlin Memorial Capital but we have to vote on the budget AC out of we can just take the AC out of the budget and as a matter of fact again according to the new lease agreement with Berlin the town is actually responsible for installing and paying for an hbac so that would be something we could say we're not putting it in our budget but we are Dan got local a local business guy that can actually do this for you so all we got to do is take the town you've got you're putting business back into your town you can use your free cash you can take the rebates so we'll take that out of our budget tonight we'll just vote on the 143 which actually passed the town meeting last night um but what what would that 143 cover that's what's in The Bu cover walkies um that it walk did you say so walkies were 12,000 is yep walkies the swipe cards the it support that's it so security protectability y uh Athletic Field renovation uh HVAC controls non- student device repair walkie-talkies the paving of the walkway the lawn mower the water heater the boiler repair is this the wrong presentation so sub total 109,8 35% of that is that 38 page8 of March 19th presentation no no I know I wrote my note I have so many notes so it would cover it would cover Berlin's share the 143 is the Deb mm no no to what do they vote 143 sorry Berlin Memorial Julie it would cover the it support the update the security and the walkie-talkies I thought you said what would Tanto Capital covered there's no issue with Tanto Capital so Berlin Memorial Capital we would just take out that line of hbac installation 400,000 and it would cover the it support the security and the walkie-talkies somebody last night asked why we need walkie-talkies they will that was with the police station they were just talking like reason they HED in on that because it was the only number put in front of that's the only number they see so if we show them the offex budget okay we can have a more fruitful conversation yeah yeah all right so it support is you know obviously that's devices and we gave Capital I'm sorry I speak can I we gave them detail on all that and and and quotes so yeah for all that they did have that they could have shared that detail the capital I think that's important all right last question and then we have to move forward with this on the town in the town meeting as we were checking in and sitting down there were a number of handouts including the hand as much as I'm hearing this detail has been made available to town we should have just had the budget you just need to put out it doesn't have to be pretty like this I'm TR do it because they print in it doesn't have to be pretty don't it's just a piece of paper that's on the table for us to pick up so that when we when you stand up to make an amendment or we stand up to talk about why we are supporting that paper is there what town decided to print all right we could have just put yeah we could have just put the whole Budget on the table all right all right so um good lessons for next time um we went through this in Boon last year and it was a totally different process so I apologize um also we gave Boon the exact same information and did not have any of the issues that we had in Berlin so again two different sets of people they work differently and we got to manage that we got to do a better job managing that all right so let's um let's see so let's so they covered the Honda investment in total we have to vote on the total number correct that's correct so right now they haven't voted on the D that's the first thing oh no no that's tonight oh yeah sorry Jess they ended they ended Berlin they did not vote on the Tanto Capital assessment they voted on the Tanto operating assessment last night they did not vote on Tanto capital or the debt what's the number but the number in the finance committee approval is the full D assessment yeah no no the 200,000 left no they voted on the fincom number for the F for the um Tanto operating assessment last night and then they did not they have not voted on the Tanto capital or the Tanto debt but those numbers match the fincom so those are probably going to pass easy peasy tonight which it doesn't matter they're the same number all right so we need to let's take a vote right now so we can get this counter started and then we can yeah reach out to the towns maybe something so I mean if fincom is recommending the same amount of capital request for Tanto Tanto that should yeah that's going to pass tonight recommends in but it doesn't matter the budget is taken as whole so we have to vote on the whole budget again tonight because and we're making a change we're taking the H back out or that's what we're gonna that won't affect Boon so that should it will not affect Boyston so I will confirm with Council that Boyston should not have to have another town meeting if we vote on this budget but Berlin will Y no matter what Berlin is going to have to have another town meeting unless the school committee took the fincom budget which I don't know if anyone in this room wants to do no I do not there can't be a BMS then right John just said he could not operate that school with making those cuts so I mean could we have then like Mike said say vote on the budget minus bms's back off to the capital with the understanding that further talks will happen with the finance committee in 48 hours CU like because you want us to take a vote to start that 45 days correct yes we should yeah and then if we have to have another vote to um adjust it would our vote if we have to have a second vote it wouldn't be to change the budget it would be to allocate school choice funds to pay for the budget I don't know that we're GNA be able to do that because again we don't have why don't we yeah stipulation that we'll meet again in 48 hours after reaching out to Berlin to you know see what we can do whatever however you want so we'll have to meet meet Friday and Nicole will have to get the agenda will have to vote tomorrow morning y yeah we can meet Friday when what time you guys want to meet Friday I know you want to do it on Zoom No No need no all right what time you this is this is assuming they reach out they communicate and if not there's no need to meet what time are we gonna meet on Friday Friday is the 10th you want to meet at noon I don't know yeah bur up there Finance commit proba to yeah I mean o00 I know um keep it five it's our usual time do you want to do it five o'clock I mean that's tough right that's the thing it's two days I'm sure I mean I got a dance class I've already prepaid for for my um so what do you guys think Julie what do you think Tom you want to meet on Friday um I don't have time restrictions like other people do so I'm open to what other people suggest Jess you're working all day on Friday I have a conference but I can leave early I'd rather not all right what time's conference is it local yeah all right all right so let's see if we can do it but I mean I think also if we're inviting the finance committee we have to consider that other people I would find it highly unlikely that they're going to come but I'm hoping that we'll be able to speak with them planning for the worst hoping for the best positive spin on this let's yeah reach out to them tonight yeah they're busy but they'll have something I'll reach out to them tomorrow morning they're at town meeting tonight I'll see them whatever oh perfect that's great all right so what are you guys saying four five o'clock or no five not works for Lisa and L you want to do four four would be better want to do four La is that work for you does four work Mike Four J four all right so we'll plan to meet Friday at 4:00 um only if we have something else to vote on if we do not then we won't so no call we'll need to get that agenda out the only item on that agenda will be um discuss the budget and possible vote and yeah business item for um a budget vote all right so let's try take a vote right now um so let me see I'm going to have a hard time figuring out what the to so we vote on the total expense not the assessment correct guys you got to help me out we don't have a director Finance here vote on the budget as approved March 19th 2024 previous committee meeting less yeah less than 400 all right okay so could I please have a motion to approve to re-approve the March 19th 2024 school committee budget as stated less $400,000 for HVAC in the Berlin Memorial Capital right so L yes discussion so I think a big bone of contention was the 38 3,000 that was moved from some it wasn't moved it was they used this is what we're going to get ourselves into this muck again now they used cash to fund an operating budget and an operating budget by nature is an operating budget its heads it's recurring expenses but I think the line item that it was applied to originally is not the line item that it was applied to in the current budget no it it all right so what happened was we had children that were the assessment was approved that means it's the superintendent and the school committee's decision on what is done with that money we can't open up this can of worms where towns can come in after assessments are voted and say oh you got the money but you didn't have to use it well I want you to do it on this that's her job that's her job guys and then it's our job to vote on that to yay or nay that we did vote on that we voted on that I think it was December we had a school committee vote do you guys remember John proposed I wish he was here Cindy you might remember he proposed the bridges program to us he said we had five these children they were out of District the town and again it wasn't they were saying this 383 is for this what they did and I've consulted with Council various times on this the the school brought the assessment to them we don't owe them any level of detail they said we can't swing this so we'll take $383,000 of cash and we know we don't have a choice it's because it's the law and oh by the way the schools use $350,000 of our own cash okay to fund this and they said but we can't do this next year and we said okay and that was the agreement that was made there was no well we'll take this out next year we'll do this it was just like okay kind of like putting up a Hail Mary and hoping this works out and and it it it appears that it didn't it didn't work because they're upset about it and it's not like we tried to deviously steal this money so what happened was we had these children family moved out of town correct so then we had this ex these extra funds right these children were out of District children family moved out of town we had some extra funds what you can't give it back to the town it was out of districts right what does that mean does everybody we're trying to be transparent with the information out of District we heard this a lot last year this is what caused all the problems last year an out of District you can't provide the services that these special yeah Janelle why don't you speak to what an out what is an out of District placement and what is an average cost for an out of District placement so an out of District when we say out of District that refers to a student that needs a special education placement outside of our three school buildings um into the district it's part of the special education Continuum um and you know students with much more significant needs sometimes need a placement outside of the school district the cost for those placements range um there's a there's a huge range I made an attempt today to find an average cost for whatever that you know may be worth and I calculated that out at about 85,000 it can be less it can also per child Janelle correct correct plus Transportation um and that and that is based on the unique needs of a child I think is we're hearing through the entire budget process education in any context including in our own buildings is not is not inexpensive there are there are significant costs associated with buildings Staffing specialty Etc think Janelle so if you do five times 85,000 get certain number and if the bridges program was to close down or because sponsorship to that program which which absorbed five children which an average of 85,000 so then you have to pay that for out of District of the bridges minus two teachers plus trans plus transportation and there's also there's also I understand this is a conversation about finances but we have to keep in mind that these are and I know you I know you know that but just for the greater conversation these are conversations about individual students who have and families who have rights to privacy and confidentiality um this conversation Al makes me a bit uncomfortable I'd like to I'd like to finish and say that um in addition if we can provide for students in the district that is our responsibility it's not our option for these students to just say oh we're going to close this and send these students up if we can educate them in the district that's our respons there are neighbors there are friends and better for the child to be educated in the district with his or her peers and again it doesn't matter just from the financial aspect whether the child has to go out of District or the child is in District the district by law must pay for the child whatever the needs are it is the state law it doesn't matter so if we did close bridges down John said it would be five times the cost we would be mandated by law to pay for those tuitions so closing Bridges so that that money that 38 who looks at numbers that's what that was that the school committee voted we decided we were going to start the bridges program we use those funds to hire par professionals that run the bridges program so that's what that money was used for and the school committee did vote on it it was brought to us I Believe by John and Janelle we had a presentation on it we learned about the savings and we decided at the time since we had the savings that that was what we were going to use for so in the in the budget there's no actual savings there's movement in the line items um and I think having the transparency about that that that is an investment in our district in our children to keep our own children in the district but but because the finance committee curely looks at numbers if there's an estimate or guesstimate that that if you know this is the money that you're upset about this is where it went this is how it was invested I think quite smartly um you know emotionally and educationally and fiscally you know so but to say that if we were to close this program hypothetically numbers only this is what it could guesstimate equate to but if we keep it this is better for the children the district and so it was wisely invested and it wasn't you know some you know yeah I don't know where the breakdown of communication was this year with that because that was explained multiple times um I think it finally like hit home um at that Forum uh one that Kyle had like a couple days ago um they were like oh yeah that is a good idea so um yeah totally agree um and so now it's 6:30 right we've been here for an hour and a half trying to talk about this budget just trying to explain to people why this is not like a simple two second sheet on a page oh yeah I'm gonna get it I bet you're going to leave here more confused than you came in so I think this is just complicated stuff and it's not something that you're going to walk into town meeting and pick up and and look a she at a sheet and say I totally get it it's something that if you really want to understand you kind of have to follow along put the effort I do think we should be we need to be a little bit more transparent we should have printed the handout at print it and literally strike out the HVAC and and add a slide that says we can we can just adjust it we don't need to strike it out we can just I think we have access to change that yes yeah all right so we have a motion on the table we're discussing all right did I did you want to say something I did just want to say something just sure of course I I will on I will work on that sheet I want to take a look at what you have we're going to use that model we'll go through that I have access to the GL and we'll figure that out Carol has GL so we'll make sure we have that information but I think you're right I don't think it should sit there I want to go to your link get Link at least link and the Boyston pto's and the STS STS Stags I don't know if anyone meeting again year to are you guys now we can talk but I think I'll work on going over that with them but the other thing I think it up that's a good idea Carol is going over that with everybody and then also an idea I had too which was if we could get our PTO to set up with their through their committees to do a phone chain phone call about coming to the meeting so I think got addresses what you were talking about that we're not reaching I can't make that announcement like I do with school messenger for your snow days but but if our PTO can help with a phone chain the oldfashioned way hey can you come to the meetings that's what people need all 10 friends direct emails like if they agree like what like Berlin soccer sent out a message say support the fields oh they could have done the schools well we could we have to be really careful about what we do from our school committee emails because we're governed BYT she saying use the department oh for 100% 100% yeah Mike could go to Berlin soccer yeah everyone La can go to whoever she knows from yeah so we have a motion on the table right now yeah we have a motion on the table so any more discussion on that oh oh sorry this isn't maybe about the motion but just in terms of getting the word out a lot of the other feedback I got today was that the town's people who aren't necessarily following the school district need to get this communication somehow and I don't know how but I just want to put that M pardon 19 Carter have an email Carol went to 19 Carter I think twice and like 10 people showed up so I mean again it's not like it's not for right did you go twice but it wasn't it was not for the budget itdg this has this is this is a Berlin issue um in terms of the communication in Berlin and people that live there know this and everybody will attest to it too the communication is just subpar for community members it is and there needs to be the post office the General Store maybe right that's what you guys do if there's time for the I mean your Facebook page doesn't I mean the Facebook page is should we vote yeah let's vote any any more discussion what can you repeat the motion because did it remedia in 48 hours that's my only question sorry yeah repeat the motion or just Does it include no I didn't all right so um could you repeat what I said Nicole or did you not have that I wrote it says vote to reapo the March 19th 2024 school committee budget as stated less $400,000 for hbac in Berlin Memorial capital I don't think we need to put contingent upon speaking with the finance I can give you my word with a Berlin fincom I can give you my word I'm gonna I can make a a motion for an amendment what do you guys think do you want to put an put put that in the motion yes and was the budget as stated on the 19th of one be approved uh yeah that was the only budget vote we that differ the only budget made a change on March 19th which I don't remember and don't think we did it would be we made one vote on March 19th I can look at all right so the motion is on the floor does somebody want to make an amendment I make a motion to make an amendment to the motion on the floor that it is also conent on a meeting in 48 hours at a formal invitation to the finance committee of Berlin will be made okay so she has the motion we need a second second all right L second all right any discussion on that Amendment I'd be careful with that that's I would too I don't think we can determine what the r Finance committe yeah formal invitation a for you said on a formal invitation or acceptance or disc no I said formal invitation to the Berlin Finance Finance I think she said formal invitation like I just have to send an email or Carol they deal with you Carol can send an email to them yeah yeah yeah it just she a formal imitation so Carol will send an email sorry maybe you should s i don't send it I'll be happy to all right all in favor the amendment of the amendment yes I I'm an i as well all right the amendment passes so now this vote is going to be we've already seconded the first motion we have an amendment this vote is going to be to vote on the original motion with the amendment meaning we're going to approve the March 19th budget um contingent upon uh school committee chair is going to reach out with a formal invitation to the um the burlin fincom for um a discussion minus H for yeah yeah the budget is less the HB all right so we have that motion on the table it's seconded any more discussion on it all right all in favor I all right I'm and I as well congratulations we have a reconsidered budget today is day Zero the town of Berlin now has 45 days to schedule another town meeting in which the town will revote on this budget okay all right thank you so much guys um real quick um we're gonna switch gears very quickly um so if you were here just to listen to the budget we're done talking about that don't feel the need to stay trust me I would be leaving if I could thank Kim before we get to Kim I would like we have some wonderful folks that have been sitting here for an hour listening to what they may or may not be jumping into um so Carol I know we're gonna speak first can we just get them on and then we're gonna have to table um some of this other stuff Julie Lee was thinking that someone should be present at the burlin meetings cap Theo Capital the first item on the agenda even though it's what the finance you want to run do you want to Jet Julie so she has the I have the school choice we're gonna have to table that because we have to jump into executive session okay so we we'll table that to the next meeting which is probably gonna be Friday which or we already said it's Friday at 4M yeah are you okay with that Julie only for the St for that well all right so here's the de all right so here it is it's 6:37 we've got these guys here they're GNA they're from TMS I want to hear what they have to say because we've got a proposal from them for them to step in and be an interim Director of Finance very very important for us to get this taken care of um that is not something we have to vote on tonight but it is something that we want to um hear from so Carol can make a decision get our input on that so I think we had allotted uh 15 20 minutes for them to chat um so we're going to do that I think we're gonna have to move Carol's self assessment and the school choice discussion to our next meeting whether that's May 28th or um May 10th Friday May 10th if you guys want I'm asking what do you guys think I I I just be have to jump exact timeline no Friday meetings for any budget issues but school choice might affect that cash my question is what was the other date for the other the other meeting May 28th we have an AS needed meaning so we can do Carol's so the problem is May 22nd is when we're all getting her evaluation and she has to present her report I'm prior to that so here's what we can do um here's what we're going to do so I don't want to waste Kim's time okay so what we're going to do is we're gonna hear from TMS quickly they're going to leave I'm G to close open session all right if you have to leave you can go we still have a quum then we're going to go back into Open session for Carol's goals I know Cindy we got to vote on Nature's Classroom too we'll do that really quickly after you hear from TMS yes asking I don't mean to interrupt the meeting by but I had the opportunity to actually spend some time this afternoon reviewing everything that occurred last night at the meeting oh we would love to does anyone want to hear that I wouldn't recommend having anyone go it's not going to make a good difference you you already had am I not right three of the four pieces of the budget yes went in front of we just revoted a new budget tonight P yeah I don't two of the three went I think I thought three because I actually spent some time going through them and I think you had the capital as well as the operating budget for the elementary school we're already voted on and then the cap what was the other one the operating the operating budget for Tanto Tanto I don't have any passes or the fact of the matter is the way I'm looking at it in another Community they would put all of them together so you would have one budget they just piece meal parsed it out once you had one that failed and didn't pass your budget didn't pass what we said last so I'm thinking your attendance there is great if you want to go but I know that there's something you might want to participate in in the executive session so i' rather have everyone here that that's my ask I don't see Howe is gonna have value I me we can only do so much we've had this scheduled I never in a million years would I thought this budget was going to fail on Town floor based on conversations we did have with finance committee um ahead of time I um let's hear from TMS quickly let's let's we'll have they knew we had our meeting tonight so you know what you can do you can invite them to participate now and you can resume conversation with the budget if you'd like you can just say I'm going to put the budget on hole for a minute if you want to go back to it no we're done with the budget we voted on the budget I think what I think what we're going to do is we're going to have TMS speak so they can leave we're gonna close open session and we're going to go to Executive session and I know Julie does want to make an appearance at town meeting at some point after executive session if you want to leave um then Carol is gonna have to do our goals the school choice that's I I don't know what to do about that think about what you want to do about that go ahead you guys are you want us to go sorry um you know [Music] what um in an effort to get an interim some interim help and I tried in every direction to try to get some help in while we were in the process of hiring a new Finance director um I we reached out to one of our former superintendents who again recommended TMS to us we've had them in the past um and that worked very well for us they do a lot of this work and they'll speak to that around districts in the Commonwealth exactly what we need to kind of fill that Gap um and so I wanted to intro so I've sent you information on a proposal from them we had to go out to bid I did that Megan and I met with the with the president um Andy pette who spoke to us about what they can offer um and I also sent you there was a a brochure a while ago so I tried to explain that to you last Friday about about them coming in um I have with me tonight Andy Brown who's the vice president of strategy and communication and um Dr Paul Livingston um we were talking he's a former superintendent and uh and so both both of them are very experienced in this work and they if they are not going to do the work with us they they have a company it's a company and they and depending on what our needs are which I sent to them they send the folks in to work with us and I and a the timing is perfect because they heard everything tonight they were probably were probably writing reports yes that's okay they've walked into worse we wor walked into a lot worse yes so I I I'd like you just to top give a little summary and then folks had questions um here I have not hired them yet I wanted your input on this and and to let me know what you would like to do so I superintendent was kind of enough to introdu I'm Andy Brown I'm the vice president of strategy and Communications which is why a lot of this conversation was really interesting to me because a lot of it could be solved via Communications but that said we're here to talk about Finance which is more of Paul's specialty Paul has a background in in business and being a super superintendent um the company was founded in 2006 we have staff it varies depending on needs between 15 and 20 business managers communication experts curriculum experts all have worked in schools to some capacity we we have I ncpo uh we can pretty much do anything you need us to do um and one of the nice things here is none of this is anything we we haven't heard before this is not uncommon with regionals it's not for us it's not scary and one of the things Andy p and I talk a lot about one of the values and bring us in is we are AP political we we can go to the town side and say no this is the way it is these are the requirements this is the La this is how it has to be for the schools to function legally and for students to graduate with an a diploma so we can we can kind of take a lot of that emotion off of the whole equation Paul can talk a little bit more about what we what we actually do on the finance side good evening thanks for having us I guess we were here before M Andy or I were connected with the PMS when they were here but uh I think the values and energy are basically the same um as Andy said we are um all school people and when you work with TMS you don't work with either just Andy or me or whatever you're working with a team we we connect with each other so if we don't have an expertise in something there's somebody on the team that does which is very unusual with when you bring in your own individual business manager and certainly in today's climate you can't find you a bu manager it's very difficult uh def find town finance people as well your CPA here said fund accounting is very different than profit and loss account you know business so um it's just it's a it's a form of energy that we can bring into your system that has seen The Good the Bad and the Ugly everywhere um currently you know I'm working in lunenberg and down in Watertown I've been mentoring the business manager there in Watertown finishing there the end of May now and we're starting in Harvard um we've had many Regional experiences myself individually I will probably not be you know necessarily A but I I work retired from pentu Regional a while back and worked at Moga Regional when we actually became one big happy family way back when when I was in my 30s I was superintendent in Lancaster time Lancaster and put that District out of business and know became one of new C family that was a a great experience Finance wise and curricul so all of us have different experiences like that we worked at you know Regional Schools as an organization Mount grar Mohawk Trail Frontier uh we worked here Berlin Boon Southern Berkshire D HOV Farmington River I'm actually leaving here tonight to stay overnight in Westfield to go to Farmington River tomorrow it's a tiny little school district why they even exist is beyond me but it's 100 students 100 students and they have two two towns they have to get together and they have like two people that work in the office so you know I'm there to do sort of a review of their business practices and start to write a report and say what is best practice that's something that we can bring in from having seen it in so many places you have to honor the culture that exists in the district and in each of your communities but you have to find ways to bring that culture into best practice all the time and it doesn't happen overnight you don't change that you know like a V turning around it takes time but what are the steps and we've been successful in bringing some of those best practices forward whether it starts with policy and procedure or just knowing some knowledge I mean knowing in order we couldn't answer any of your questions probably tonight quite honestly because you have to know your town bylaws in each town you really have to know your Regional agreement and then still even knowing a lot of that stuff you have to have advice of council sometimes to make sure that it's going in the right way is Mass General law we're pretty experienced with um but those are the kinds of things that again when you hire TMS you hire a team of people and we're there we we're a political we're just here to do the job we've done it many places we aren't always on site perhaps heard that but we we work virtually I mean I'm working in lunberg one day a week but I'm working talk to my wife a lot of times and I'm fitting in water of time and that goes to the the way it kind of works we have a lead and we have a second and then we have our whole team so we would assign two people here um depending on what the agreement we come up with is we might be on the site one two or three days a week um to start with it might be more just to get our heads wrapped around everything and help you guys get through this this rough patch um and but after that just because we've left for the for the day and we're not coming back but say until next Monday that doesn't mean we're not still working that doesn't mean we're not still available we're still working on all that stuff behind the scenes we're still taking phone calls we're still answering emails we're still doing all the work but it's that that model nobody wants to talk about anymore that hybrid model that kind of came out of the pandemic nobody likes it it's an ugly word but we've been doing it since 2006 and it works it works really well because it means you get exactly what you need plus and you get really a bigger team on of it instead of having one business manager maybe a payroll person you get a business manager plus payroll who can also do um do Grant processing and a whole team of people who they can call call and say look we need some help with this bring them in get them up to speed and then that just gets done and maybe it's a special project and they move on um whatever the actual agreement is on what work we're doing just we don't walk around with a checklist saying that falls outside of the of it Andy Pucket fond of saying the business manager business card is the biggest business card out there because it's well you need some operations work done well that goes on the business card you need finan you need grant writing you need all of these different things we will do it all and we won't if if you if something comes up that it's slightly out of the realm of what we said we were going to do we'll just do it it's it's part of the nature of being a business manager that's exactly and I would be extremely great I just want to add that in if you could start tomorrow or maybe tonight I also I just want to you know add two that I what I had shared with the school committee I uh worked out a time timeline with TMS if they can join us until August 7th with the option of perhaps going out longer but I do want it to overlap if we do um if we do hire a permanent Finance director and that is out right now it's posted um we do have candidates for that um and I that's something I wanted to talk with the school committee tonight also about serving on that interview committee um one or two folks to join us for that um so I can tell you a little bit more about that but so they would be with us until at least August 7th because I think it's going to be important if we do get a permanent person to overlap and be able to kind of transition from from these folks into that new person and to Mentor them as well so that's my thinking I sent you the the quote um that they offered us um I do have the funds to be able to cover that at this time so I didn't know if you had any questions for them anything else you'd like to learn about I think a team sounds nice Andy pacquette did already helped us with something that we were stuck on we could not and he just did it and but what they do is similar to when I talk to Kim on the phone and her team I don't see Kim every day but if I give some I talk to you every day at night and weekend but but she doesn't know the answer she can't she has a team that she goes to specific like when we did the broland lease she got an attorney who worked specifically on that area and that's what they do and I I love that it's very complicated School Finance these days and one of the things you mentioned was that agreement and I heard that from our Mars folks again this today I was on the phone with Steve he say go back and look at your Regional agreement for information so all those pieces are a lot to look at that's the first thing we do anying engagement first thing we do is we read Regional agreement it's dry it's boring but we need to know how everything works and how is it connected to your school committee policy how are your policies connected to procedures simple things like how do you collect Revenue you know often is an issue in communities it's just not clean and those are the things that end up with districts getting in cou now on a short-term basis obviously through August 7th we have not going to be able to do all of that particularly when you're trying to end one year and start another year in a difficult when you don't even know what your budget is but um those are the kinds of things we've done studies of Contracting negotiations and projections of salar for the purpose of overrides uh we've done the mentoring we've done you know curriculum work we've done John Hopkins kinds of grants for places and others so U the experience is there and that's what nowadays is very difficult to find out in the public um you know many have looked and that's why we're fortunate to get any call we've been in car we've been in a about to go to hav uh we've been in the city of Watertown we've been in regionals so you guys sound so experienced and grounded and calm and I think we need that and I I'm just wondering do you guys ever act as the finance director like full-time for a school I had asked that I mean already asked or is this only for like interim type things no we we'll we'll function like long term we've been in wear for 15 years and what's the cost comparison it's hard to say but it it usually comes out to be between 60 and 80% of what you pay for a an in in in-house person wow um and it also depends on the services the services we request from from the company you don't have benefits or we have our own laptops right this is a good trial period to see how this fits for the District so that's why Carol and I kind of talked and we're like let's give it like a three we might love it and we might find we have no applicants we might find like an amazing applicant that were like oh we can grow this person we can still have these folks as mentors because we clearly could use I feel like as a district because we have so few people I think we could use you know all the help we can get one of the things that J we haven't mentioned is we have we have another side of the business and that's the side I run is that's the strategic planning and the the communications and every year we need that too well every year that's that's kind of where the business arm and the communications arm come together on bunch of presentations and how do we communicate the budget how do we explain the basically Goble so you could make you could make that she can you make can't make the sheet and sometimes it's it's as simple my my the story I like to tell is about when I worked with comp Rhode Island they they had a they knew they were going to have a tough budget process and one of the they so what we did back in October we identified four or five flash points that we knew one would help get past but two would get people behind the budget one of them was Librarians so we started they had one and a half Librarians for for three elementary schools and they wanted to increase that to two so they started telling the story of basically throughout the year social media posts about the library and media Specialists with what they were doing made sure with what the photographs we took were in different libraries in different schools people started connecting like wow she's all over the place and then when it came closer to the time when in the budget presentation it was explained look this is how many we have we want to increase it to this this is how much it's going to cost and the library and media Specialists that's something all of us grew up with as we got a special we got a library once a week and suddenly there everybody was up in arms the budget passed because of library because people people thought that was so important to their their share of experience that they wanted to make sure their kids had it and it it was just simple storytelling but that that's kind of like a bigger a bigger budget process as far as Communications go but it's not something you guys can think about in terms of next year yeah I mean we're going to again we we posted the permanent position which is pretty traditional for school for school districts to do we don't know who's coming to the table for us to meet we may find somebody that we really see potential in we may not find somebody I don't know I can't promise you um the pool is small and getting smaller um we just were with Asad Valley they had an emergency meeting today to appoint a new Finance director because the other one just uh announced that she's leaving um she's only been there not even the beginning of this year and um as a result they are in doing an in-house person somebody who was in a lesser kind of position and is taking over and they're going to train her up from there so that's what's starting to happen now they're going to in-house shury did the same thing they took a principal um Elementary principal and he is now the finance director of The District so so people are making creative decisions around you know making this work for them but I I respect your work and I I we are one of those creative decisions it's we we're an Al we're an alternative to the traditional model do you guys can you do bookkeeping too okay what about up here roll yep interesting I stand as a music teacher I was a music teacher for 12 years in Wayland became business manager in Franklin and had some very good connections with other business managers and and people can learn a great town accountant that I learned from play back that's true and then I was a superintendent for you know over 20 years um so um it's it's not hard to do necessarily but it's Unique it's different than when people yourselves walk into you know what people from the finance World um it's a different kind of thing but I think we know how explain it well and how to put it together well and so you can solve the problems that you saw us facing tonight every one of them in a week yeah do you see like this is like we're all volunteers and we're all picking up all this extra slack because we yeah you can put the things I am comfortable I wanted to make sure you were all com you don't need a vote is your decision correct but I still respect your opinions your your feedback and your and your questions too so I want to know I I just wanted to say my my my mom always used to say till the St she still does or something you know bad happens sometimes you get what you need and not what you want we don't want to be in this situation but boy do we need you and after everything that just happened you coming I feel say thank you because you you you've taken something that's been very stressful and you're his hope so I appreciate that always yeah great job Focus mandatory moving for so and a grand Position will never be approved so that's lovely that you do that as well yeah and like when when would you be able to start we that's more more of a decision between you and Andy but I know that there's a plan that um Nicole would who's been a she's been both a lead and support is ready to come on board and start start on the ground and then we have somebody else who needs to finish up an engagement and and then he'll he'll join her and take over his lead I I it sounds to me that the school committee is is supporting this and so therefore I will be in touch with you probably around 5 tomorrow morning if I get home ear I will be so just yeah because we have the bid again so I had to just own the bid and whatever process okay involves that so right this is great thank you guys so much for coming sorry can relay the information that is what we need help with immed good to you so much thank you so much Cindy before we um go all right go ahead I'm gonna have Cindy present Nature's Classroom and we'll do that vote Cindy could you present to us the donations for Nature's Classroom and let us just do that vote um we have to wait for Julie guys to get back into executive session right Kim we need Julie for executive session we can stop without her because I think she has she said she was coming back she yeah she'll come back I think she's going to try to attend the first uh motion town meeting okay a few minutes let's do um Cindy well Cindy has to before so why don't we have Cindy um it's gonna so we've got two votes and then we've got the policies so we can do those now while we're waiting let's give Julie like five 10 minutes to come back um so the vote for the approval of fundraising request by fourth and fifth grade music parents at the end of the year concert at Danto they are going to do that through link I don't know if they're going to do it anymore as Hillary stated tonight she had emailed me um a few days ago and said that she did not they didn't need to do a vote on that because if they were going to do anything link was just going to do they were gonna sell snacks at the concert at Tanto June 5th on June 5th and B PTO is gonna do the same thing so that was my or oh it's through them it's a joint effort it's a joint effort so one is going to do something with a food truck and the other one is going to sell snacks at the concert and they originally I think a group of parents was going to do it but then they just decided that link was going to do this fundraiser um so they do not need approval we do not need to vote on that so Cindy um we Cindy's GNA present I guess there were some various donations for Nature's Classroom Cindy's gonna present those and then we'll vote on those all right thank you thank you Cindy so we have a few um I tell you I'm going to do this again we're going to do this in September next year to get this out of the way so it's not last minute yeah um but we had a music fundraiser parents organized for, 126 we had a py op fundraiser and I didn't know what that was but it's a patreon pottery that Jess helped organize that was $40 and then we had a pasta dinner raffle dinner a raffle basket Penny wor for $ 4,689 C oh my God that was a huge one $4,000 with Penny Wars Penny it was three things raffle baskets which we served F night um those are for nature classroom I also had another one it was a PTO student council bait sale at the um oh yes that was something for $472 that goes into the student council account activities account all right so let's vote on the Nature's Classroom one first does anyone have any questions for those Nature's classrooms donations do you guys take a look at all those is it BMS too they have a bunch too no John didn't have any I think he got his done the last time he had few extra come in and plus I didn't do the pass but in the drives it was the the calendar ra stuff was there does John have yeah he does there's a bunch they because they yes sorry yes um sorry hold on one sec all right so we'll vote on those uh let me see so I mean I can kind of speak to it I've been on communication yeah Jess if you want to do that that would be great sorry I'm also running on about like Lisa and I were talking like four or five hours of sleep I know Mike too Lisa I mean we I think we got home midnight last night after ring night of so they did so similar to what they did last year was BMS parents uh did a calendar R so every day it was a different donation you could win a different thing on a day um so Beth had a meeting with she said they raised $3,534 um 5% of the sales has to go back to the state because there had to be a permit um and so she's writing that child to cover that what was this for this is Nature's class no sorry is this the raffle the raffle the calendar raffle and why do they have to put 5% back to the state so they were told as we were covering that for State San a raffle you need a oh because it's gambling okay fine it's probably excise tax yeah okay um and so it looks like some individual checks contributed to that because parents were selling so they wrote checks at the end all of them have notes on them say class of 21 raffle or nature classroom and best letter covers that as it was for the calendar raising the calendar uh looks like Mark Adams did a $500 donation from Berlin insurance company to cover the cost of the bus and any excess funds going to the class of 2031 all right so this is all the raffle stuff so John did have donations for Nature's Classroom Carol for voting on Nature's Classroom right now all right okay thank you Jess so does anyone have any questions on any of the nature classroom donations all right um so do you know what the total we do a vote on that on the last time noo $364 you want the to uh I would love the total that we're voting on tonight so the deposit from Berlin is $3,534 Right 3534 minus $186 right I know no one really knows because no one was involved in this that's in this room okay yeah 3534 okay that's that's for just the calendar ra yeah and then there was $500 from um Mark Adams I I guess the question is those I guess all of those checks from parents are included in best final total those yeah those those are these are the checks that make up that 35 34 okay all right so uh why don't we do Berlin first so the total amount is Mark gave another five is the 500 included in that no no it's a separ it's for the bus for nature class for bur all right so um the motion should be to approve um 3534 plus 500 so it's $434 right that's what Berlin got all right so could I um please have a motion to approve um the donation from various donors to the class of 2031 for nature classroom um in the amount of $434 second all right any discussion on that I might abstain just because uh yeah that's fine yeah for we still have a form all right all in favor all right I'm and I as well that motion passes all right so Cindy what's your total donations for Nature's Classroom is $598 70 cents other one that's separate yeah that take sear all right so could I please have a motion to approve um donations for Nature's Classroom um from various parents and fundraisers in the amount of $ 5,987 and um any excess funds will stay with the class of 2031 correct second all right was Lisa and Lai okay any discussion I I abstain Jess is gonna abstain all right all favor all right I'm an i as well that passes and then the last donation was for um that was the papaginos no B sale at PTO B sale collaboration yeah I so they that's right they had a bake sale at the talent show and they're donating that money to the Student Activity account $472 yes for student coun coun student council they're donating that money to student council they did it in collaboration so the kids all ran it but it's going to the student council yes and they so PTO is just donating 4 what's the amount 472 you said yes but they they kind of did it together so it's not like a donation they work together to do going to the school it's going to the student council account and in our Student Activities there $472 all right so could I please have a motion to approve the donation $472 raised from the PTO bake sale which will be used for the student council at oilon elementary school to approve gardening as for gardening well they want to work into the Gard they want to do are G the beds over so they're whatever they're going to they're going to do with this money is going by the Student Activity you know student council so yes that's the plan it's been gardening things but I don't know if it's going to need that much money so stay in that account all right so we just have it the motion is to ke go to the student council that way if the gardening is too much if there's not enough for gardening or if there's too much they can use it however fix so it'll go to the student council fund that's a motion on table Lisa move motion L second in it any discussion all right all in favor I all right I'm an i as well again okay she's OB staining thank you all right so that motion passes so those donations are all set thank you very much uh while we're at it you guys want to vote on these policies we had some no could I ask that we postpone the vote on these policies because we didn't get the chance with everything to fine-tune the the edits that we need to do absolutely do you want to postpone this to May 28 yep and but I is there for first read so we can include that in may as well all right as a vote yeah all right we also have the school committee calendar as a first read there was one typo on there um Nicole um we which we'll fix uh it was just that all the May meetings were as needed the first meeting in May should be just a regular meeting regular we call it a regular meeting okay all right let's see we just heard from Julie Julie is heading back now so we're moving the policies Julie's on her way back now all right so the only thing we did not get to was Julie wanted to open up school choice um which you need to make a motion on the table to open up so School Julie wanted to talk about school choice again I believe according to Robert's rules in order to reopen a motion a reopen a discussion we need a quarum we'd have to vote just to reopen the discussion okay um it doesn't mean we're going to revote on it again our vote is going to pass so I think that's something will push we're going to push the subcommittee updates because we've got Kim here and um why don't we take our executive session and then we'll come back and we can sit with Carol and do her goals we don't need everybody else here does that work for everybody let's get the executive session done all right so um what I'm going to do is I'm going to adjourn the meeting now now um so could I have a motion to adjourn Open Session and enter into executive session which we will after we conclude we will return to open session so wait I'm not adjourning the meeting sorry I don't no I believe you are I think you're adjourning this portion and then you'll somebody help me move to enter executive session to discuss strategy and potential litigation is the district and return to open session all right thank you so moved second all right Le a second all right any discussion on that yeah we all right all in favor what about huh the filming for when we reopen sorry Kylie you're gonna have to come back time uh no so we've done that J that we've come back and we have not filmed it Nicole will have to sorry stay and take minutes she's probably should stay for executive session to take minutes as well all right um the minutes from executive session will be confidential we'll review them at our next meeting you guys remember we R them on paper and then I believe we do vote approve Kim's gonna advise us on all that all right so the motion's on the table it's been seconded we're going to do a roll call vote Jess sorry L Mike Lisa I'm and I as well good job guys voted a budget

here thank you pledge United States of America to the stands na indivisible andice for we have a member of the audience would you like to comment or just going to listen yes no I am heard comment okay you're up the floor is yours um you could just say your name so name and my name is paulski I'm a uh graduate of the school system from 87 I also have a daughter within the school system she's seventh grader right now um I was looking at the uh diversity and Equity policy um what I do in my regular job is I'm a compliance officer and I do policy review and in listening to the uh the last session um a couple of things that crossed my mind when I was going through this uh policy here was it's got definitions that actually aren't used within the policy um and I know there were questions about that like the uh institutional racism I mean to me with a policy I wouldn't use that uh divisive language within it um but uh the other thing that I was looking at um I believe you were saying this is actually kind of like another Talent policy it was kind of tweaked it's a few different policies that we pulled together uh one toown and Connecticut Association of boards of Education uh they provide templates as well so it's a combination of a few different is based on the conversations that we had had previously yeah cuz uh for me we take policies all the time from other institutions and stuff and I mean I'm not a big fan of just plugging a uh a name on it moving on yeah because you never know what's in it um this one here you had made the comment that was more heavy on racism uh which going through the language it seemed to be more combating racism in areas when the policy itself should probably be more about promoting Equity diversity I don't I think what I said was that the original draft a different version was um not as unifying we changed the language to make it more unifying yeah because uh you know I went through and I think I stuff that I thought was um like I said divisive um there are a number of areas where it seems like uh for example the district will Employee Staffing process support and gender racial and gender diversity and staff well the policy is supposed to be encouraging more than just those those two categories um there was a thing in here about uh removing barriers um systemic barriers I think was in the uh the definition on the first page and realistically I think pulling the Lord systemic out is much better because you know if you're physically uh handicapped mentally handicap other groups you're going to be um have barriers they may not be systemic barriers so um and then you know going through the one other thing I did was I actually asked on chat GPT to generate myself a policy and it's just simple it came up really quick draft a polic for E diversity for a school district in Connecticut with legal citations I mean it came out with like an 8 point uh policy in here that didn't have definitions that address pretty much everything you guys were looking at I would expect and I just thought it one p here Plus in looking at the legal citations I mean they seem to be all discrim ation and less about diversity and um I mean one of the other citations that wasn't in here that I found uh was important was the Harvard and missig case from last year which is the one that did away with affirmative action now working in the private sector um a lot of private sector companies are pulling away from Dei initiatives and it's mostly because they're fearful of um being sued and mostly for job discrimination so I mean the sections in what chat GPT came up with and Poli talk about diversity and employment um if you're tying it to like the diversity in school has the potential to be turned into a quota kind of and then that becomes problematic and the district could be sued um for for that I mean that's that's what the private sector is looking at I mean more than Happ I was going to say if you want to leave that with me or if you want to send me those comments if you don't want to leave them with me um we could take a look at that too yeah I can send it I I think that is just seeing that and working through is much better than uh any comments that I made because um that really I think was just simple it make sure to keep throughout the document uh that all inclusive language for everything um the only thing in there is it doesn't have a comment on employment so Chad GTP wrote it's not perfect uh but it may be instructive give us some inut that's right so thank you that's all I have to say thank you appreciate it thank you um following up talking about the uh equity and diversity uh couple of things that came up at our meetings our last meeting uh there was a lot of public comment and again tonight um one of the concerns and I would I would have as a parent if my kids were still in school and and was brought up by several people over a DOT do we have an issue filling uh AP classes or opportunities for kids to get into those classes is you know I I know I asked you about a quota when we were talking about hiring but is there a is there any kind of restriction that we'll have as far as getting classes of uh no like AP classes the the only we don't have any restrictions as it relates to um race gender or anything like that I mean the the only Hang-Ups we ever get into in terms of scheduling AP classes is usually that student you know if they have a a scheduling conflict like maybe they want want AP music composition and AP Physics C or whatever we're only running one of each of those and they fall in the same period that that would be the only conflict um you know we we currently look at all of our data to look and see is it only boys registering for this class only girls I mean it's typically gender based um and try and we I mean we look at other things too but when we find a preponderance it's usually based on gender and we try and figure out why that is um and see if there's anything we can do to support it so you wouldn't foresee anything in this policy that would would impact the uh the ability of no yeah yeah I mean if there's an opportunity for us to strengthen language in the policy to reiterate that point then maybe we should do that if that's a question or concern um and a bulk of this well not a bulk pieces of this are from Cade how many other districts comparable to ours are have policies you aware of those numbers or uh I I couldn't quote you a number but I do know many do yes so in our reference group yeah yeah we are we would not be alone there are several do some have had the pr some have positions dedicated to it um you know I think our take on that has been that you know everybody who works here is responsible for everybody's success I never proposed a Dei position before the board and like an administrative position because I I wouldn't want to establish a situation where that you know the the responsibility of being inclusive and providing Equitable opportunities for all students falls on one person should fall on all of us so and we don't we don't have anything like that but um you know this policy was put forward is I think just a a community statement and a reminder to all of our uh constituents but it is important uh that we are inclusive in our environment thank you sure I mean this is um since that meeting and you know to your point mark I think it's good to uh this still one I made comments on I don't see the comments should beop let me I'm [Music] technology better safely sorry yeah we don't want any hackers is do you accept the the comments I had on the side maybe oh I didn't know I have to accept him I accept him no no that's I was wondering let me go back to the email you said that is because they were there on my computer I wonder if they got kicked in um if you change the drop down from editing will that do anything for you on the right side no I just want to look at uh you could look at revision yeah history after Ming after May first it wasn't I was doing it at 7:30 you doing it today no didn't look so it's probably locked in here right here see the okay so you know if we we can explore for language around um that question that you were just asking if we felt like we wanted strengthen that but I think that that's where that question was coming from was I mean this was one of the things that we had talked about and Mr lki just brought up uh the definitions um you know whether I highlighted those because we were looking to determine whether or not they were necessary within the construct of the policy the other thing is this um alternative text was recommended I had a conversation with uh Jody goer who does the house he worked for Cade and he recommended that you know so one through 10 is pretty prescriptive um and he talked about administrative regulation should include but not uh limited to the following areas so that this would be an alternative to the one through 10 so just that one paragraph yes no so I don't understand what you just said is the is this alternative text 1 through 10 to replace the earlier 1 through 10 this 1 through 10 here would be stricken for that par take the whole thing out and just have the paragraph Yes Tony you provided that feedback and Jody when I spoke to him talked about the you know those being generally much more prescriptive than you find in a policy about specific actions to be taken and just um making a blanket statement about um how these what these things should address rather than specifying what the AC things is that because it ties the hands of personnel he just said it was situations um when you look at the actual things to do this is um more prescriptive in terms of telling you this is what will happen um and doesn't have the same flexibility I mean policies as we've seen can be WR for 30 years not 3 months it's like it's like bylaws they shouldn't they shouldn't be so specific so specific that yeah things all the time yeah that as things evolve you're not you're stuck in your old ways which you know this is uh it's not like time limited and in some of those places I tried so like number five five periodic professional development to its staff to improve cultural competencies anti-bias training and serving a diverse student body and Community District shall offer opportunities for all staff to improve culturally responsive instructional practices curriculum and assessment well how often are we doing why and for how long yeah yeah it's it's a little bit vague or prescriptive where did you get these from C can and there was one other District do you remember what the other District was that we looked at we had another one that we were looking at initially those are the best ones of the ones that we reviewed that provided us a starting point I think it was New Town new town so so Jeff is he saying that that we should be creating a regulation somebody saying like these yeah and that was the language he used I I would even um administrative I don't know I don't like the term regulation that's also something that goes into your policy manual if you wanted to go the regulation route it would be in the policy manual doesn't require readings for the board to change it but I would say you know responsibilities admin yeah responsibilities or strategies um expectations you know I I would change that word from regulations as my my take but I I use the language that Tony used Adam we cut you up you would raise your hand earlier uh yes um I would say striking 1 through 10 replacing with that paragraph is a step in the right direction um the uh the word aware what is that mean the word what remains aware of this policy so be you know that one of my big sticking points was Point number eight where all students will be educated the implications of the policy which of course then would mean that they're being educated in um institutional racism and uh implicit bias conscious and unconscious bias um which is still in this policy currently um so does what does awar mean or what would you intend it to mean I think regular communication about so it would be more just a placement inside the handbook or um well what would it mean CU before it meant much more I don't think a placement a placement in the handbook would be where you would start I would think if you find that people are still not aware after that I mean we've done other things other types of communications uh newsletters things like that I actually think that language is better than remains aware something about that this that this policy is communicated yeah that's right I was think when the communication pieces um is communicated to the community and ensuring that the tenants of these policies are commun this policy is communicated uh to the chure public schools Community maybe say at least annually you that's as a superintendent that's a little bit uh easier for me to understand and follow are people comfortable with be ensuring that and if it's included in the I'm sorry if it's included in the student handbook they have to sign off on it anyway right annually yeah so everybody theoretically would be reading the policy or be aware of thec sorry no I just like the language of communicating this yeah information better just put hand yeah you can just probably scratch at these just yeah now was that going to change our legal references um I would have to review that but you mean or have all those memorized probably with Jody because I'm not an attorney but um yeah we'd have to look at that so um can I ask about um uh under the re we strive to section uh Point number seven which I believe our Our Guest mentioned as well that seems to be something that we would have to commit to if left into this policy because potentially what it's saying is that there could be if there's an over representation that needs to be corrected and if there's an under representation it needs to be corrected and if so what would that correction look like I think that's the one where people were saying oh we have too many boys in this class you're not going to let girls in that's not I mean it talks about gender yes but it also right talks about yeah ethnicity and other I think what we would commit to which is something that we've done and continue to do is examining that in um seeking remedies where possible uh so that should be changed there's a it's funny cuz when our Korean friends were here uh and visiting our class classes last spring we went into a math class and um his fate would have it there's like 12 kids in the class it was a very small class AP I want to say it was like AP stats and um if there are two girls in the class both of them weren't there that day so there were two 10 boys in the room and we walk out and they were like where are the CR you know they don't take stem well we continue to travel along and go into apem and there were 12 girls and two boys in the class and they're like oh in chemistry yes like it was so you you know we have these preconceived notions so I guess I would say that we have done a good job of along the path of telling you know making sure that girls have opportunities in science and theyve taken advantage of those opportunities I think they do exist in math too they just and so when we look at those sort of things and we say huh I think what this is asking us to do is to look at race representation look at gender uh other variables and say are they are are classes and places you know wildly represented and if they are you know can we at least explore strategies and maybe girls just don't want to take that AP Stat I'm not going to force any female to take it the same way I'm not going to for Force boys to take the APK um but at least it makes sense for us to be aware and to say all right maybe we need to in the grade before say to girls hey you know you'd be great at AP stats if you want want to go take that route maybe they still don't want to but at least we've made sure they were aware of that opportunity and same with the boys for cat um so I think that's the practice that we want to embrace and finding this should be number seven I would recommend being about language that reflects what we want to embrace and if it doesn't if the language doesn't reflect that then I think we need to change the language would be my recommendation um and so identify and remedy any practice I think is the identify I think everybody's cool with that identifying practices that may be limiting kids it's the second step it gets people anxious about well does this mean now my son won't be able to take AP stats because we got too many boys no or my daughter can't take AP chem same thing but um we want to I think remedy the practice that language should probably be massaged here to be more reflective of what I was just saying that you know and we'll try and educate our community and ensure to ensure that all students are getting opport all opportunities maybe that's the language um and attempt you know so it says Identify practices including assessment lead to the over representation of any group of students um yeah you know through the rest and where those are identified work to um support students to ensure that all students have equal access to opportunities but equal access is is is not what this is saying it's saying it's talking about over representation under representation specifically in gifted talented in honors classes in advanced placement right and so this is saying something different than what you just said I don't because you're talking about fairness and equal opportunity and um whoever wants to sign up will have the ability to most likely take take the uh class if we have the uh resources to do so um but what happens if we don't have the resour ources to do so or if you have to make a decision about only having one class versus two because maybe there's one or two kids over the over um our capacity um are you now going to have to document something that you normally wouldn't have before because this says maybe someone will feel that um they are part of an underrepresented group and that you decided wrongly this gives them an opportunity rightly or wrongly to per perhaps uh further uh an opportunity that uh may not have been uh deemed correct but I could I you know people could identify opportunities wrongly all day long anything right now right it's mostly up to you and your staff to make those determinations you have the freedom to do so currently yeah this takes away that freedom I don't I don't see that though I and I'm you and I have known each other a long time so we thankfully we could engage in something and realize neither of us are upset at each other we're just trying to have an intellectual debate so um I don't I mean I again I always just feel more comfortable striking the entire thing you have your administrative practice and you do what you do which seems to have been working for the last 30 years arguably I don't I don't know if there have been any losses brought against we're not aware of any lwuit that have been brought against the school system for that yet right correct Mr um so far you have a pretty good track record so I don't know why it's even needed yeah yeah would you would you keep the words including assessment yeah I I I think that's those are examples of where we currently look for issu so if um you know the reality is that our Asian student population has outper performed um all of the groups and a lot of the assessments and we look at that and see what are those students doing to perform it doesn't mean it we're not limiting uh students who identify Asian we're not you know taking them out of classes to say all right well we better make sure that we homogenize everything and and that uh you know all students perform the same uh we're not and I wouldn't I don't think anybody would advocate for that U what when I say when I read this assessment I'm saying it's we're looking at and again that's where I would say most people would agree but if if if we're going to have a policy how would we make the language reflect us that we should look at assessment data we should look at all available data that we have and if there are substantial disparities between subgroups that we should try and identify why and make sure that we're still providing you know opportun uh and success for all students um and I think that's that's something so Adam to your point like whether or not we have the policy and what we the policy says ultimately not my decision and if the board was going to have a policy that's what I would recommend that we had language that says something like that and so representation um I think that if that is the buzzword that provides concern to you what I would say is that you know equal opportunity and access and and um you know that the our our scores our enrollment those things should be relatively balanced and when they're not in their way out of whack and that's a discretion it's not a scientific term way out of whack what are we doing about it well we're looking at it determining determining our kids opportunities limited and making adjustments as a as a result do your point things you been doing do you have um for lack of a better term wash out rates for AP classes for like kids sign up don't cut it um it's small or they decide not to take classes further AP classes anymore or don't make it out of that class in middle of semester I don't know if they can switch out you know like in college drop a class and add a class or whatever yeah you can drop it's rare um you know typically we do everything we can to support you you might be more likely to find a situation where the student doesn't take an AP exam sometimes they just like dude I got into college I'm done I don't want to take this AP exam sometimes it's I'm not going to take the AP exam because this is dual enrollment with ECE I'm going to take the Yukon exam and not worry about the because the AP credit doesn't mean as much as the EC credit does there are a lot of different reasons some kids do um not finish an AP course but that's really pretty rare so I don't have data available on that I could probably get it but it's not really high this it's just I I find it unusual that when this town and now potentially us included this there must have been a study or something that made them Target AP classes for whatever reason and even though you know we seem to to be fine here it doesn't say AP that I see well it says gifted talented honors andan placement yeah does are examples such as but if it's in a policy it's it's more than an example I don't know if it's more than an example I think we're reading into to that with with the that's what policy is it's it's just providing an example it's not saying I guess but yeah it's not saying in these programs it's saying in programs such as gifted and talented honors classes Advance placement it also ref usually such as inaly means it also references special special displ where you know we do look at the representation right you know boys typically over represented in both those places you know um so I mean I again if we're keeping an eye I gave some thoughts recommendations over representation um maybe identifying any practices including assessment that lead to um how about under data that is that is you know markedly different than the student population rather than over representation marketly different could address under representation as well um so that mean that could be an option here mean obviously nothing sentenced on here I'm just drafting for so you want to take out the under representation new representation no took out the over representation but you also want to take out the under representation because you're saying yes because now you're just saying that are markedly different on the overall and you can just continue that stream right so identify any practices including assessment that lead to results that be markedly different than the overall student population in areas such as special education and discipline gifted and talented honors classes and advanced placement when evident uh the administration should take steps to evaluate potential causes and Implement strategies to support uh success for all students for that's a little bit tighter anyway like why is over representation two of them and under representation the other ones seems more in line to what you know is already occurring well it's definitely already occurring but you're going to laugh at me but when I look at cheser Public Schools we strive to um I hope you're laughing that strength because when I I say we don't strive to we do strive to identify this is like telling you what to do this is not something you strive to do so when I think of this you know intro we strive to in my mind I'm thinking identify any practices that uh create barriers to Student Success for all um you know that's that's what we are try I mean this is this is the practice you would use to I um we strive to identify any practices that uh create barriers for success for all students and address them as necessary like that's what you strive to do this is how you strive to do it like this is how you would actually do it right does that make more sense to people or do you prefer the language that's here um because you don't strive to identify practices that I guess I mean that are markedly different in areas are you talking about that we strive to language where it says we strive to and then it says Identify any practices including assessment that lead to results that are markedly different than overall student population and areas such as special ed discipline gift and to do that yeah okay when evident the administration should take steps to evaluate potential causes and Implement strategies to support Student Success for all students so you know maybe more succinctly identify practices that uh limit success for any subgroup of students and Implement strategies to ensure success for all I mean that's very succinctly said same thing identify practices that uh create dispar results between students and uh create remedies that support success for all I'll type it out but I me obviously we're not adopting no I don't like that this one I don't think it's say clean as good have change one word I like design remedies though excuse me it's more in line with the other uh n points do you think the shorter one is the shorter one I mean that's why when I reread it it just seemed to fit the rest of the policy a little bit better I mean obviously if there's language that you feel like needs to be changed in set to change the spirit of what's being said then you can always do that too just throwing out suggestions you can have S A and seven b see what people think we could leave them both in there the draft right now I me like we've done throughout the process solicit feedback from people on the board you know Senate and obviously you know Community will comment so you had mentioned um this uh with the with the intention of being a community I forgot the word you used U community statement or you you had said before I was it something to that effect yeah yeah statement of affirmation or something yeah more or less and I don't know you have one through 10 which are aspirational and then we'll have the final paragraph which is aspirational but then we have the definitions in the middle which seem out of step with the rest of it so what do you shbt well I mean there a a Wise Wise public commenter once said you know the definitions should be items reflected in the policy themselves so I mean I think I think I I said that right but um the uh I would look to see you know the things that we have definitions for are they in the policy itself if they're not I don't know that it necessarily makes sense to include them but I mean if there are terms that what do you mean by diversity I think it's good to have a definition in that if it's in the policy of well identifying practices let's go back to number seven if those practices are systemic then that's institutional no institutional racism is different um I'm going double check but I I don't think we have institutional anywhere in the uh or is it meant to be systemic racism I'm not sure if they're different but institutional can we get a definition for systemic racism in here in these or do you want you to to look at yeah systemic barriers I mean either way I've always thought them to be an indictment of the system as a whole going all the way through potentially as I mentioned before the indictment of Western Civilization people who wrote that definition that I believe that's what they meant just trying to find a so there's systemic racism as defined by Miriam Webster I'm sure you can get uh the oppression of a racial group to the advantage of another is perpetuated by inequity within interconnected systems all right so institutional racis a more nuanced definition of systemic racism according this uh so the Meer no well no the the definition we have here institutional racism seems to be a more nuanced definition of systemic racism it's one and the same yeah I don't know what the difference would be between systemic institution so I think that believe Equity is recognizing and valuing each and every individual removing systemic barriers to wellbeing to sustainable action and ensuring access to Pathways for success for all then it's worth having a definition for systemic systemic barriers or systemic racism or institutional racism I I agree that they're sort of the same thing we should probably V for something that says systemic it it should be consistent yes but is that in the spirit of what we're trying to say because it talks about oppression purposeful oppression is that what we're doing here yeah I like what you were saying Mark do we talk about it as systemic barriers rather than only racis because we could have systemic barriers that are gender based as well we could have systemic barriers that are religious religious absolutely [Music] you have a good what's your definition systemic barriers systemic barriers are obstacles that place unequal value on individuals and communities they prevent positive progression in working class communities of color barriers include racism poverty and disparities the health education and Criminal Justice System systemic barriers or what sorry obstacles you want to have that in our policy I'm just typing it down yeah we're just we're just looking because I'm just looking for a definition of systemic barriers yeah as opposed to institutional racism right and I don't I don't know if it fits I I don't no I'm just looking at that CU you know I said previously the definition of diversity educational Equity uh racism up up until we get the implicit bias um and ethnicity are all definitions that are used in federal language those are spoton for the most part but in institutional racism is not in federal language implicit bias conscious unconscious all that is not in any federal language um even in revised uh Title Nine language it's not in there so we're adding something that's not in any state federal documents we're defining what systematic B barriers which is referenced in the policy are obstacles to place unequal value uh on individuals you know I I would take out in and communities one well I'd say because we're using this within the context of the educational policy systemic barriers or obstacles um and and I think most people would indicate that um even intentional even intentional obstacles I mean you know um systemic barriers or obstacles uh that place unequal value on individuals and communities you know I think what they mean by communities though is like ethnic groups or yeah but if I were um see I'm just thinking because if if that is part of what we I and I don't know right now I'm thinking it should be part of if we are identifying practices that lead to markedly different differences whatever then those practices might be systemic they might be institutional not because we know about them but because we don't know about them but what if we come across something so systemic barriers or obstacles that prevent positive progression even inadvertently for individuals in the school system which likely lead to markedly different outcomes for students or which um we we could mle on that for a bit yeah that better just because that would fit you here systemic barriers to wellbeing and that you know I know that in it's race is certainly a part of this but you know when we're looking at this we're looking at other variables too you know um look at we look at some of our data around school culture and kids who identify as not male or female not binary um you know what are they reporting out how do we better support those kids like I gave the gender example in class enrollment before um and while race is certainly an important piece of what we look at it's not exclusive to race which is why you know I do like the systemic barriers piece I like the systemic barrier piece for you gave a really good example and we can go as simple as gender identity and bathrooms we we have to do something about that we've had to in the past do something about that because we were not thinking that putting girls and boys on bathroom doors there was anything wrong with that but in more modern times we find out that that's exactly what systemic barriers are stuff that you don't necessarily know because they've come through the centuries they were done in a different time they were put into they were codified at a different time and they've become common practice so are you adding systemic barriers and and also leaving institutional racism well we're I think we're contemplating removing leaving highlighted so that we can yeah pass it along to others for their thoughts on it so so far we have two questions for the full board I could send out get some feedback to come back to this menu seven A or B we've added systemic barriers thoughts on that is that preferred to institutional racism which doesn't which we don't exist anywhere anywhere in the document and if you guys see I think how would you feel about me striking this and asking people do you agree with that or not because and here's why we're saying now because it doesn't exist anyway what are we we have a a definition for something that is not reference it all in the policy itself and it's likely we'll continue to work that systemic barriers that people wanted ored all right you guys good with this for now mhm almost we still have unconscious bias in there yes we do do we want to take that up or we want to push that off for now I mean well if we're going to move it to a second reading then at least like you know oh I don't know that we are moving it to a second reading are we moving it to a second reading before here here's where the feedback we kind of got squirely um am I spelling unconscious wrong I can't spell this conscious n u n c o n s c i o u [Music] n that noise is something I'm all too familiar with hey dummy uh my spelling is never I don't like it Dev is talk to me so where was that Adam the uh um definition it's racism it's okay okay that's why I all right yeah all right here we go so I had to look I had to look this up just to for my own feelings on this and this would be um something when we're talking about unconscious and this isn't me talking this is an example well she's Asian she's going to be good in math it's that that's an unconscious bias because it's somewhat racist because everyone they they all should be good in that that's that's where that is that's an example of the unconscious part of that an example I've heard before is like you know you've heard the story of uh a black male walking down the street and and a a woman crosses the road or clutches her purse or something nothing that they they may not even be aware that they're doing it they do it um which is you know unconsciously racist you know um that's that's just an example that I've heard used before where did the definition come from I guess my question uh that might have been C but I don't know where C took it from we could always look and see if we have preferred a definition of racism Maran might have I mean I I don't have a problem with implicit bias conscious and unconscious I was just wondering as Adam says it's not in any federal legal this is doesn't include those references you know conscious unconscious otherwise this is this is a pretty basic definition yeah I think the first part of the definition is accurate where then when you go to individual racism includes when you include the the uh examples right that's more down here no no no in our in our definition right you have prejudging bi or discrimination by an indiv by an individual based on race I would call that imp accurate generally accepted definition of racism the second part not necessarily those are more possibly examples but not definitions or part of a definition unless you want to expand like you know external Behavior or actions towards others but that's more you know I like that definition though it's very Elementary I I could look at other in every sense Psych it's time then look at the glasses it's a pretty small F here though you can blow that uper how you get the glasses thing I'm going to a bigger phone now I'm doing so much reading on my phone now so much email I need a bigger phone easy enough to get this definition includes all of the I need to finish my semester before I can do any phone shopping not easy for me really maybe it's because racism adapts and changes over time so I wouldn't great the way that racism manifests itself may change over time like this is where we're you know well I think we do we need that in do we need that example in the definition or we just the basic definition I like the example because I mean I can seek out alternative definitions to um racism because people don't think that that is included but it is included so prefer 7 a or 7B need to realize that yeah to it definition I make a suggestion of course when I was well you need to ask the chair may I make a sure when I was looking at this uh particular language I considered that since the you want to use a more neutral term Define bias and then under the definition of bias indicate that racism is Prejudice or discrimination on the basis of race so Define bias rather than racism correct just or Define them both yeah but a simpler definition on racism you know being like I said the definition I found was Prejudice or discrimination based on race and then uh form of bias so what were you saying bias yeah I didn't I didn't actually pull up a definition of bias but I figured it would be a more neutral term given that you want to be more inclusive so Jeff I think you need to keep that where it was that second sentence to racism and then do a separate do a separate definition on bias and see what you come up with and we'll look at those two side by side but we don't need to do that right now okay because it's already five or four now here's here's the tricky thing here that we did have a first reading of this already we going we moved it to the board and I guess when we put the um agenda together I apologize for this it still says first reading so we can do one of two things vote to um amend the agenda agenda so that this is actually a second reading for this which is technically the case or we can just keep it as it is as a first reading you mean the agenda for this meeting correct oh technically this is yeah that's what I'm saying you could vote to amend the agenda or else just not moving forward for or not uh move forward keep it as a first reading keep it as a first reading or not move it forward I think we had a lot we have a lot practice and I think I think we talked kind of about this before and that's why I just didn't it was an unconscious idiocy that I have um that we didn't move we're not ready double check that but um unconscious error my part I guess so we'll so we'll just keep it as is which would as long as we're okay we then would be at the end looking for a motion to Mo this for a first reading again I don't have to do anything because I already had a first first yeah so yeah we just just we're just not moving it forward so um and then at our next meeting we'd be moving it doing the second reading um in that case if you guys are ready Luther and V are here we're waiting go first yeah well now Transportation are you going to bring this up yeah this one okay while you're doing that I I'll give a little bit of a of a backdrop here so this transportation polic that's in effect which was last this one the draft version 3541 yeah it's a it's a table so this was last revised in 2002 which predates when I got here in 2010 and when L was fired and was 11 or 12 so not sure 11 I think 11 so we've got some recommendations that um are based on an experience that we've had over the years I will say that we've been able to work effectively within the transportation policy as a general statement it just needs to be tweaked and I'll explain the two major ones that we write to make um and if I just look at the history even though Luther and I typically deal with I don't a couple of dozen accommodation requests you know per year is very rare that any had gotten to the superintendent or um the board is even more rare in fact we've never had a transportation hearing with the board though we've had a couple of parents that have come to policy meetings so you know if you look at the policies as a whole they've been working just fine so we're not looking to make wholesale changes the first one which is on page um it's the third page in it's highlighted in yellow the top right then has ABC um yeah it's part of C okay yeah there it is so this is is pretty straightforward for special education students where we do provide prek services it's actually not great it's not ages five it's actually ages three so we thought we we should just update the policy to reflect that even though K through 12 students is age five and up to age 22 that's 22 is the new requirement under the law so pretty straightforward what instances are they are three-year-olds riding buses that uh this is not working okay they get picked up at home all right okay all especially need your home to school school to home we're not walking to bus okay then the the only thing I would want to carb out here is she guide decision making students eligibility students should be over three and under 22 if I'm in the transition K program for example and we're not providing Transportation unless you live that's going to be carved out below right or no no you about the so like next year regular Ed or yeah so I'm in the regular education programs or I'm a student not identified for special education services under the age of five we're still not providing your transportation there no right but I don't know that that says that well so I I guess that becomes a question of how detailed do we want to be this is just saying that you know we will provide 3 through 22 doesn't necessarily we're mean we're providing it at 3 years old we don't have a three-year-old regular Ed program so so we met on November 8th and one of your suggestions Jeff was to just put in school AG child to kind of encompass but and in my feeling is is that covers everything because our the age 22 has changed four times in four years yeah this is it's this age has been a a moving Target um about eligible School AG child because you're not you're not eligible for public education unless you're identified for special education services or um 5 to 22 really so eligible school age child well it says the following standard shall guide the decision making concerning a students eligibility for school transportation accommodations right yeah so the student is is a school AG child does that not cover this moving Target it covers the age moving Target Target but it still doesn't address um so our interpretation then is and I don't I get a little antsy about leaving it to interpretation our interpretation would therefore be that you're a four-year-old um you're not but you're attending one of our opportunity programs like the transitional K or one of our um tuition based programs then you're not um eligible for transportation services would the eligibility occur through a PPT yes right that's why I was saying you know um you want to broaden it was two wayo you could broaden it or you could say what it is it's for children K through 12 it's ages 5 through 22 for special education students it could be as young as age three right I mean that that's what it is now whether or not we want to just take ages out all together in favor of just making some generic statement that was the that's the what we originally talked about is making it somewhat generic because it's been a moving Target so what I think we're doing is uh students enrolled in grades K through 12 and uh those enrolled in specialized programs that covers everybody the K through 12 if you're not if you're enrolled in K through 12 we're going to we provide you a bus right regular bus for anybody else you're identified and specialized you know through a specialized program um so the students shall be [Music] enrolled in grades so that's the only place where that's mentioned right Pages yeah I think we have one more yeah I I thought it [Applause] was CU there there is a specific section for special ed well this is for accommodation so that's that's going to be okay special ed right and then section 11.

the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees meeting of May 7th 2024 is called to order at 3:30 p.m. the following members are present Brian O'Neal kathern H Smith Jessica Guerrero and anary Rand tro staff has requested the following amendments to the agenda page 8 pull item 106 exhibit F replace page two to remove HR d202 3-24 d64 and H r-20 23-24 D68 and exhibit BB replace page three to correct enrollment numbers okay do I have a motion to adopt the amended agenda move the balance okay all in favor I I all right no public comments uh the Board of Trustees will now hold a close session to discuss items 4.1 through 4.5 on the agenda it is now 3:31 p.m. and we will move to close session