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this meeting is being recorded for the purposes of posting to gctv if any other persons present are also recording you must notify the chair at this time is anybody else recording great hearing and seeing none um moving on to the public comment portion of our agenda um Melissa you will have three minutes to to make your Spiel um I can set up a little timer when you are ready oh I was waiting for you to be ready um can I just State my name yes please state your name and where you're from um Melissa web I am a parent of Three Gps students all in different buildings so yeah am um I'm just here I feel like I've been part of the redistricting from a very early stage of development and I've watched a lot of things happen and I think for me one of the very disheartening things that I've seen happen and I'm not trying to like push back the Wheel of Time but we did hire an outside consulting firm to come in and tell us our best options and instead of as a committee a district um looking at it and saying oh thank you for this we tried to reinvent the wheel that somebody had already taken time and money and put into I I'm I feel I'm still here to advocate for the K1 two three four five platform I still think it could be done I think there's a lot of push back on it I'm very happy to see that like hard lines are being drawn in the sand because we're not the only District that does that um many major cities that you live in do have very hard lines with very few exceptions for people being able to stay in buildings after they move I also have a very strong concern for people who are moving and how we are tracking movement of people who are moving to different districts but somehow still remaining in the same school um I have a neighbor across the street who has lived there now for a year and a half almost two years and started the new school year at Federal Street school last year however her child should have been starting at Newton um there could have been an exception made and I just don't know about it but from my understanding they're like no we just went to school first day and no one said anything to us so I've always been like how are we handling that piece of um kids who are already attending schools and making that happen so I guess that's more summer forward thinking but again you know we hired someone to come in and give us options and I feel like instead of following through with one um we just made up our own and we're I know that both askp and Christine have done an amazing job trying to make it work but at the same time I'm over here like why did we do that if we weren't going to listen to them like I don't hire an electrician to come in and tell me how my Plumbing should be in my house I hire a plumber um you know I don't take the person who's like The Apprentice and say oh okay well I'm glad that you feel that way you know so I guess that's just where I am as to why we didn't take the outside advice from an outsider looking in who had no stake in the claim thank you that was perfectly three minutes and I feel like you've had a lot of practice to get to get to that level of doing perfectly three minutes thank you for your comment Melissa um are there any other members of the public present any other public comments to comment I don't see any I don't hear any so um thank you again and we will move on to our next agenda item which is approving the draft minutes from the last meeting that was April 9 UM can I get a motion to approve I move that we approve the meeting minutes from April 9th I second that and then I think that we technically do have to vote even though we both made and seconded the motion um so all in favor say I I I we have approved the minutes from the April 9th meeting um the next item we might not actually have much on and that is almost surely entirely related to my misunderstanding of the process that things were undertak definitely was um I put this agenda item on this is updating up the update on Transportation related to redrawing boundaries this was my understanding that we were going to have new bus routes to be able to understand the impact of of children moving but now I've um been informed that those bus routes probably won't be run until August or so we doesn't it's irrelevant we do not have the information to have the discussion at this time so um unless there's any other update that I am missing from our esteemed colleagues in the district is that can we move right there's no nothing on busing they told us they'll do whatever we need them to do so um all right moving right along then unless uh an do you have any questions or comments busing nope no new info no new questions perfect um all right next item is an update on on Green River School and so I did receive a letter which I'm not sure made it into the materials but that Dr dearu had sent me a letter um that was also signed by the mayor and the msba the Massachusetts school building authority so I mailed the summary to them of what they had requested so that we could finally close out take Green River out of service so they got that they have since acknowledge that they have it um that was it we have your letter um and um the chair of the school committee the mayor and the superintendent I'll have to sign it we did and we are starting to clean out Green River Mike Buro our facilities directors going over there with all the principls and department heads to see if there's anything that we need that's there otherwise we will start getting things on the school committee agenda to have declared Surplus maybe as soon as next week and then we can start cleaning it out and the intention is to um have an item on the regular school committee agenda to discuss turning Green River back over to the city excellent um based on your understanding do do you believe that there will be a vote to that effect next week or that that will likely take place in July I believe that there was um the potential for there to be a vote certainly if you know if committee members aren't aren't there yet I think Glenn would would move that but I think um I believe the agenda would reflect the potential for a vote okay so we were looking to do the handoff of the school around September 1st um that would allow us to have time to do cleaning out um and that would also allow us to work with the city um we have you know the the schools have we have our computer server there that is respons it needs to be there to run the things that are at Green River that continue to run such as cameras um so we need the opportunity to work with the city to switch over anything that needs to be switched over in that regard um to get our technology out of the building they're old but we still have phone you know handsets desktop phones that we might be able to salvage for parts and things like that so we're going to use that time to get everything out and then then it will be the city's potentially it will be the city's prerogative to do whatever they decide with the building indeed um I was hoping that the mayor would join us because I would like to be able to communicate something with the public about where in the city does this decision live so that people know where they need to go um to to advocate for what they would like yeah that we didn't talk I have not talked to the mayor about that part so I can't even yeah I know from the building and construction committee green River School shockingly enough has been discussed and uh there were two views on the committee one would be in favor of entering some kind of a partnership with someone who would handle converting it into the sustainable housing which does have a campaign pushing for but there were also voices on the committee uh talking about the city's desperate need for offices and so that is one other potential future for the building yes I think there are any potential futures for the building and those are the two that were most heavily discussed yeah and that that at the exact moment that that moves from the school committee's responsibility to the city's responsibility they will decide what it is to do with that not to make a obviously I'm not weighing in on any decisions um that would be at the city but one of the um factors in the msba do documentation that was signed by mayor Martin many years ago almost um almost 10 actually might be 10 years ago now um there is language in there about the way that the facility gets used um and if if those conditions are not met that could have some impact on the status of Le payment of funds so that may also be a factor that the city considers when it makes a decision about future use indeed there the provisions around educational purposes yeah I wasn't remembering exactly what the language is but it's it's in that realm exactly what you just said so they may want to consider um I that yeah I I do wish that we had a little bit more clarity about just like what where is that line between an acceptable use that's going to not cost us money and and an unacceptable use that is going to cost us more money than it's already going to cost us to do something with this building and also who we could talk to in order to get stipulations waved well the I expect that um mba's response will help in some of that um in my letter that I did send to Stacy as the chair of this subcommittee um I did speak to one of the um options that has been being discussed um with the mayor um that we hope I think I made a pitch for potentially um if the city goes that way meeting the requirements for educational use um I don't know if that's the case but I think we would get some guidance when m SBA replies um so hopefully we will see um but the the lines for Capital expense which that is one um when you look at the chart of accounts those lines are on the city Side Of The Ledger um so I think at this stage the general thinking is that would be a city um scenario for addressing the repayment if there is any but yeah ultimately will not come out of the school district's budget per se only in the sense that the city overall is impacted we are part of them correct um that is the general thinking I certainly am not the final decision maker on any of that but when you talk about Capital all of those accounts do lie on the city side of the budget but you're right I mean we get soup out of the same pot to use Glenn's analogy from several weeks ago indeed okay um I don't necessarily see that we need to have that much more discussion on this topic um except for you know an it seems to be our prerogative right now as to whether or not we would like to you know recommend a vote happen next week and whether we would recommend the vote to relinquish the the school we obviously don't have to do that they can hold the vote without us recommending they do or not in the full committee meeting that is Glenn's prerogative um but we can sort of we can either choose to do that now or we can not and it my only question is when will we be hearing back from the MS I always forget the order of the letters don't know they had indicated to me when I originally spoke to them that um given the fact that there are no programs excuse me no students in the building no programs to be moved um that they didn't think it would take the six months that it says we're supposed to notify we are supposed to notify them six months prior to the building being taken out of service which clearly did not occur seven years ago um but that seemed to potentially have a positive impact on their timeline for a response but I mean I can try to check in with them um Monday and see if they have a thought but I think that would be good um I'm more inclined to say yeah let's go ahead and recommend the vote uh people have been waiting for this for so long let's keep momentum going great I'm I'm of a similar mind so do I need to make a motion for us to recommend that the committee vote on uh the Green River School decommissioning to satisfy Robert's Rules yes okay I hereby move that the subcommittee recommend to the full committee to take a vote on decommissioning the Green River school and I second that motion all in favor of that motion that we've both just motioned and seconded I am in favor shockingly hi great um okay so that seems to be that for the Green River School moving on to the next item is reviewing the subcommittee's purpose and scope of responsibility now I will just share that I um there seems to be multiple conversations happening with regard to this item and I'll just lay them out one is this committee is done its work is done and it is time for it to be decommissioned and move on to other work another version of that is actually the committee's scope is Shifting as opposed to being completely decommissioned and in particular I know that there is there is an you know discussions about other uses of school facilities and ways to collaborate with others using school facilities that some folks would argue falls under the scope of this subcommittee now the reason that I have this on the agenda is because I would like to hear I guess from you and what you think the purpose of the subcommittee is um and if you think the work that you've identified to me in the past that you might like to do is served through this committee or needs to necessarily have its own space that perhaps yet I think what we're looking at right now is the implementation of the plans that have been made and I do think it continues to fall under the scope of this committee because we have to make sure that the way things are implemented as various hiccups and obstacles arise do stay consistent with the vision for the district that this committee well subcommittee is in charge of so I'm of the opinion that it's a slight shift but not even that radical of a shift as we work through the Kinks and get this done we've done a lot of planning but there's still like messaging alone there's so many questions from the public that it is good to have a smaller group to come up with the answers that the committee at large can give so that we don't have seven authors on one memo yes so I'm I'm hearing what you're saying and I would like to be mindful of the boundary line that occurs between setting policy and implementing policy and the two are related I I'm actually of the mind that the two are very much related um and at the same time one of them is our job the other is not um I would say where we are is we are in charge of making sure that uh the Implement not that implementing it but making sure that if the way it's being implemented is going counter or causing problems for the part that is our side that we can see that and offer guidance okay um thank you for sharing so I you the the role of the subcommittee accountability to the reenvisioning um the other element of this reviewing the purpose or scope of responsibility is I was reflecting on the fact that Bradley as a full committee we at one point had a a racial justice subcommittee but when um the new members came on such as myself and yourself and we were reassigning and re sort of reenvisioning the Committees that we did have um it was decided that that actually did not was no longer a standalone committee but actually the work of racial Justice or or other Equity focused um elements of our policy Infuse the rest of the Committees and so I was wondering if we could also take a moment or two to talk about how we see the equity Mission um that we all share being being held up by the work of this of this committee and can we articulate how we are trying to advance equity in the district with the work of this subcommittee well I I'd say the biggest way that this subcommittee is working towards Equity is making sure that there is a standard set of rules that apply equally to everyone and so that in itself is the biggest because we had a system set up where people who were in The know were able to get access to things that people who were not in the know are people who had the cars and could provide the alternate Transportation had access to far more choices of publicly funded schools uh so part of it is the even playing field which I think has been the major push of the work that we've done these past few months um and then I had another thought but I've lost it what was that other thought it was the other half of what I had to say sorry um yeah but you know and then also if you looked at the numbers for the way our schools were divided I mean I grew up in the Deep South and if my town had numbers like that there would be an intervention of some kind but that not Greenfield I mean I one one would argue that we we're intervening yes that is the work of this committee is the intervention and subsequent work of the district think that my talking was getting a little bit into uh dangerous territory there but I think Christine wanted to say something I just wanted to make reference I guess I was a little confused because I felt like we've done a lot of intervening to write some of those um inconsistencies so I just wanted to I guess yeah check in with you in case we were not thinking in a same way no we it sounds like we're on the same page I was saying that that has been the work of the committee that's how it related to racial Justice sorry I must not have been clear enough because I was trying to recapture a lost thought so my apologies for my lack of clarity yes so what I was trying to say is that that is the primary way in terms of racial Justice that this committee has functioned great I also think the the shift that sort of got wrapped into this discussion of redistricting around moving the grade levels back will will support equity in general by helping make sure that students are with the peers that that that best support them to to be their best selves academically and otherwise um so I'm looking forward to seeing the impacts of those shifts as well um for full transparency um it is unclear if this committee is destined to continue um in a formal capacity after after next week's full committee meeting so I just want to name that for folks um I think that we just articulated you know especially you and just articulated a solid reason why it could or potentially should and I would if if you feel called to do so to share that during the during that time that we discuss those things next week feel free to do so obviously not going to make you um um couldn't I'll come up with more eloquent phrasing before then um but otherwise that was sort of the reason that I wanted to have this is just to revisit what what are we doing here um and and how are we supporting the broader mission of what our district is all about um okay with that I do have we is there more on that agenda item before we move on don't think so okay I do have on here a call future agenda items but pending the outcome of whether or not we continue to be a subcommittee um it might not make sense and if if if you have a future agenda item that does come to mind you're always welcome to send me an email okay with that we I sorry I do have one question when uh the full committee votes on Green River school is there going to be anything else that would need to be done by this subcommittee on it or once that vote is done we wash our hands it's no longer our problem best of my knowledge it's the lad that once we made the vote and it returns to the city then it becomes the city's process like I mentioned earlier what I love to have um a communication about what happens next that we could share with people yes um but we are not responsible for coming up with that next step um okay I guess I was more of wondering like would the city need someone to be communicating with or at that point is it just with superintendent so who would the city be talking to during that transition is the real question imagining it I'm imagining it becomes Karen okay who gets to who gets to take over that lovely role sorry if it's a really obvious question I just wanted to have it out there in plane no appreciate that all right any other items all right I'm looking for a motion to adjourn I move to adjourn I second that motion um all in favor I think we have to do a roll call member Childs I me chair seon also I um with that we have concluded the subcommittee meeting for redistricting on this the 5th of June [Music]
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order uh the regular meeting of the Brookfield Board of Education uh this Wednesday June 5th um it is currently 701 um before we start the meeting would you all please join me in saying the Pledge of Allegiance uned States okay and since we have uh so many folks here tonight um for the road call I'll go ahead and just go down the the road we have six board members here with well actually with AA Kon who you guys and officially on the board but we do appreciate her very much then Sarah Divine is here Stephanie sakur Rosa Fernandez I'm Wendy Young this is Robert fetto Joy Greenstein and then we've got Dr burill assistant superintendent um Anna man and then our director of business and operations Casey diad so um thanks everybody and you'll notice that we are six members of the Board of Ed um and I think it would be it's appropriate that we take a second and just um acknowledge that u pa harani resigned from the board a few weeks ago um for personal reasons and she will be a Miss member she's very valued um wise measured uh she valued common sense and um enjoyed a good laugh I would say so Hala you're probably not watching but if you are we miss you anyway with that um let's get to the really fun stuff um I understand that we're starting with recognizing um the following teachers of the year so I'm gonna begin with Brookfield High School and the teacher of the year is conso so we ask you to come down line and Shake our hand to shake yours next from WMS the teacher of the year is ingred paraly and for CES the teacher of the year is Judy [Applause] sanbor congatulations and Dr Bru uh I think there's something you'd like to add there I want to let everybody know that the teacher of the year for the district for Brookfield Public Schools is Judy sorg congratulations and also just a special note um just the way it happened this year all of our um uh teachers of the Year from various schools are in special education department and um some of them actually even started as par Educators with us and made it into the teacher ranks getting their certification and we're just so excited to have them stay with us uh talk about Recruitment and Retention and just wonderful people and we're just so happy for all of them and uh it's nice to see their family still get introduced to them so congratulations [Applause] everybody so we know that it takes a lot lot of talented Personnel to U make a district operate um so the board would also like to recognize the following staff members of the year um and if you're here uh you please come on down and and and get a handshake let us shake your hand that'd be awesome so for BHS it's Jen jolio for WMS it's Karina chelo for C it's Sandy plum and for the town offices it's Karen Olsen [Applause] all right so now I think we're going to ask um Mr blenda to come up and give us a hand good evening it is my pleasure this evening to introduce the top 10 students of the graduating class of 2024 I'm going to call them up individually one by one I'm going to ask that when they come up look at the deep breaths you're you're all right got it it's okay you're going to come up one by one introduce yourself say your name uh and tell the board and the community where you plan on going to school next year uh and then if the board has any questions they'd like to ask they certainly could ask questions um and so we'll start in no particular order uh with rishik gorset hi my name my name is Rich gory shett and I plan on going to Cornell University next [Applause] year sure I'll start where do you see yourself in the next five years um hopefully alive and well um I'm hoping I'll have like I I want to start my own business or something like that so I think in five years probably have some sort of job or something like that and then after that I'll try to learn the thing that I'm going into and then after that make my business so [Applause] yeah good evening what's one thing that you think you learned from Brookfield High School that is most prepared you for that career path that you just chose or too or T I don't know um I think I want to go in like the tech field or something like that I did uh the robotics team and I took like classes like computer science and like higher level math classes in high school and those have definitely like prepared me because I feel like from robotics I get like the pressure of being on the field and stuff like that and then obviously I learned like the knowledge from those classes that I took [Applause] thank you rishik uh I'll add that when I ask you to come up and say your name in school also if you have a major that you plan on um because we have to kind of guess what Rik was Tech right okay so up next will be Eric puso I'm Eric puso I plan on going to Sunni ston Brook University and I'm majoring in chemical engineering so I have a question um now I don't know your eating habits but if you were going to uh point out one thing in the calf that you really really like what would it be uh I think the new sandwiches they made recently are pretty nice yeah could you be descriptive please so recently they opened up a sandwich bar to the side of the cafeteria and there's a lot of options there and I like the variet Au um is it not what do you think is your greatest nonacademic lesson that you've learned in your time in Brookfield I feel like my greatest nonacademic lesson would just be perseverance uh being able to get through stuff even when it's hard and focusing my own time on what I value in my life rather than than just focusing solely on [Applause] academics we're going to go probably two two questions yes the sandwich bar is something that has newly opened this year pre-co it had been a pretty popular thing and then after Co it was very difficult to reopen it with Staffing so they just opened that the spring so I get it Eric I hear you uh up next is Fatima Abdul Ramen hello my name is FAA Abdul Rahman and I'm going to seen Hall University next year my major will be biology as part of the school's bsmd program [Applause] hi hello congratulations thank you so what is one thing that you think you will look back on and miss most about Brookfield High School in your experience here I think I really miss the fact that we had a smaller class size and that's because I got to develop so many close relationships with so many of my peers and I see so many of them today and I just really know that I'm going to miss all of them so I really I was just wonder what you're planning on doing with your biology degree oh so I hope to go into the field of medicine um the fields I'm most interested in are Cardiology and Orthopedics so hopefully I can find a career one of [Applause] those all right three Downs seven to go up next is shria joha hi everyone my name is sh Dona and I will be attending Boston University next fall and I'll be majoring in computer science with the minor in biology and Entrepreneurship so what is the definition of success for you I think success is about you know doing what you enjoy but also in return doing something that helps other people um I think when we think of su we always think about like personal benefit but I think like when I grow older with whatever income I make um my mom and like my family have always taught me to like not only like keep some of that for yourself but also to give it to other people so I think when you're older if you're in a position to do well for yourself and you're also giving back to community and you're helping other people out I think that's the true definition of success that was very well said you had mentioned entrepreneurship right how would you define an entrepreneur um an entrepreneur is someone that takes initiative and going back to like being in bfu high school I think initiative is very rewarded especially at like a young age you know being the first person to speak in a class being the first person to um like go in a group of people and speak I think that's what makes like taking initiative and being the first person to do something that's what that's what makes you an entrepreneur and that's what I hope to do up next I promise it's going to be okay Bella she a little nervous I can see the face the definition of success really got her oh no what's my question going to be but up next is Isabella Ortiz hold me out there um so I'm Ella Ortiz um I'm going to North Eastern University and I have a combined major in biology and Mathematics with a minor in piano performance so I got to see you um on Monday evening um be um celebrated for some scholarships and awards that you had won and uh you and the group with whom you were sitting had a like a kinetic energy about you my question for you is when you need to decompress or regroup or have a quiet moment for yourself here in Brookfield I mean in in the building where do you go that's actually a really good question I I find that I'm around people a lot of the time um um there's actually my I is Mr law Mr Lola um and he has this like back hallway that like during I me and um a couple of my peers in in that room will go into um I'm pretty sure the floors are heated or something but it's really nice to just sit in there um like I'm around my friends for so much of my day like I think I have a friend in every single class um and just kind of during I going back and there we have to talk we can just sit there um doing work or on our phones or just honestly lay down um and it's really nice especially because Mr Law's room is so comfortable it's really nice to just kind of sit there and have like a quiet 30 minutes before I have to go to my next class okay what advice would you give to us as a board as we strive to make the educational experience here in Brookfield better words what can we improve on um well I'm not too familiar with what like most of your guys' jobs are but um if I'm being honest um really anything about your time okay um I would if I'm being completely honest I would say ensuring that students are um really learning um like kind of to their true potential in classes um I find a lot of times um um not necessarily nobody's fault but a lot of times um students can fall behind or they may feel like they're not really learning the material that they're supposed to be learning um whether that be El lative homework or certain assignments or just not being given the opportunities to um improve themselves if they're struggling um I know some of us have experienced that this year um we're all taking a lot of really hard classes and some seem to have a little more support than others um and I think kind of reaching out to students and being able to look at statistics and surveys and things like that to really see how the students feel about how they're learning um would be really beneficial thank you Bella up next is Abigail [Applause] Mom hello um my name is Abby Mone and I will be attending Northeastern University um I'm going to major in biology the pr medic track and hopefully Min are in Spanish Hi congratulations thank you so what personal quality are you hoping your college roommate has so me and my roommate actually already talked a little bit um the biggest thing that we're looking forward to is going on little um Cafe visits in Boston um I'm a big fan not of coffee I like hot chocolate um but I'm really exed like explore and make the most of my time um So based on what I I know of her so far um I think she'll share that desire to explore and learn more and Rel most of our experience in [Applause] Boston a little bit different if you could go back and do anything differently over the course of these past four years either in school or outside of school what would it be um I think especially in my younger years I was a lot more reserved um I struggle a lot with anxiety so I got very stressed with um talking to people I didn't know or you know I felt like I had to be like the perfect student um and I think throughout my time I was able to um make friends with people who really pushed me to be like fully myself and expand my um my friend group and things like that so I think I were able to go back I would start trying to be more open a little bit earlier so I all right two more to go up next is Ashna [Applause] Gat uh hi my name is Aswad and I'm attending Yukon in the fall and I'm majoring in bial can you recall when you stepped out of your comfort zone and experience personal growth that's there's too many moments um like AB was I not exactly the most social person so I think it's kind of an interesting like talk to like my peers and like try to make friends that I usually wouldn't like just with people I usually wouldn't talk to I think I've experienced that in a lot of classes this year because not like we have like a lot of General classes we always have to take and some of those I didn't really have friends but I was able to make them and I think that was really [Applause] important I'll keep mind simple if there was one thing you can add to your high school to this high school that would a learning experience that you would want um other students to experience what would it be I think more Hands-On experiences really fun I know last year I took AB bio and we got a dissect the pig which isn't everyone's thing but it was pretty fun as we were able to kind of just like explore like the anatomy Pig and like understand how it works I think more Hands-On experiences would be beneficial to kind of like understand different topics and I think it is something our bun should experience because it's learning in a different way which is kind of hard to do sometimes all right to be clear we have one left in this row and then two in the second row I don't think I didn't see the two of you behind there I know you're there up next is Dia GIS Kumar hi my name is Dia um I'm gonna be attending UC Berkeley uh majoring in bio engineering and business in the U management entrepreneurship and technology so there seems to be a a theme Here With Biology being like the track right on you guys um are you originally from California yes I am yes okay um when you get out to Berkeley and if you run into any cynics who disparage the East Coast or New England um what can you say about your time in Brookfield to let them know that it's not as bad as they think yeah sure um well what's interesting is I actually came from like a pretty large subur um in California and moved here and bfield was a CH know it's very small but I do think like there are advantages to being in a really tight-knit Community one being that like you know you know everyone essentially like um as a result you know you build like fa mentioned like really close connections with all your commies um so yeah I guess yeah that's really what I would say all right I have an easy question what are you looking forward to most in college um yes I question but it's interesting I'll repeat but um essentially like just the autonomy and the independence um you know I I really believe in the statement that like rules are made for those who really need it um so you know in college I guess like there's a lot more independenc when it comes to like really choosing you know um pursuing things that really interest you and uh really as like as a result in you know having all these opportunities around you I guess College really um forces you to find yourself and like figure out um what your true desires are and so I'm really looking forward to that all right up next is AA [Applause] wasth hi my name is AA wouth and I'm attending Yukon to study mechanical engineering with a concentration in Aerospace [Applause] hi it was me so what is one thing that you would look back at your freshman self and sort of give some guiding advice to how they could begin their Journey at I would tell her just find the right circle of friends like I think I I really surrounded myself with people who wanted what's best for me and my family definitely wanted what's best for me so finding the appro people to surround yourself with and push you to be your best self is very important I was just wondering how you feel that softball has prepared you for college and then in many many ways shout out to Coach Lane um softball's definitely helped me like persevere through many challenges um overcome a lot of fail year I've had to run run a lot of hills on that Hill back there wasn't very fun um but but it over overall helping like overcome challenges and do the hard things that you need to do to succeed and work with the team it wasn't stubbing you Catherine I'm just was GNA you were the first to answer the questions in the classroom I figured I'd make you last answer questions I there it was not my promise but uh last we have Katherine Sosi hi everyone my name is Katherine sloi I'm also going to Yukon in the fall and I'm not a woman in stem so unfortunately I'm studying political science Katherine so you're an excellent athlete and you're involved in so much so how do you balance academic demands extracurricular activities and personal responsibilities during High School um so I really like to run on a schedule so I'm the type of person who always needs to be doing something because I really appreciate the sense of the productivity um so I see my involvement in extracurriculars as a way of as a way for me to involve myself in a bunch of different types of communities so the types of people that are in all the groups and extracurriculars that I'm in are all different and I like to hear their opinions and be able to voice them to other groups and kind of just feel the community at Brookfield um that's pretty much why I involve myself a lot also for the college resume very well said what is your most memorable moment from your high school years most memorable moment God guys um my most memorable moment I would say I played basketball and my most memorable moment was surprisingly my covid year my freshman year um I really enjoyed the group of seniors that was on the basketball team and I they worked really really hard to despite all of the hardships that everyone had to go through through Co they worked really really hard to include all of the freshmen and I really appreciate um how they worked to create sense of belonging and that kind of made me strive as a senior Captain this year to um also give that sense of belonging to the Freshman as well I think the combination of confidence and humility that you guys display is something that could be a lesson for all of us here um your accomplishments do credit to your teachers and to your families but to yourselves so get out there and crush it that um you guys your evening is free if you and your families want to skidadle and like have some calm um this is this is the time we'll take a couple of minutes thank you so much for coming like turn go ahead AE resp not okay so uh we're going to move to the next item on the agenda which is our student representative report um and maybe if you guys still have some awesome questions and it's just us now just the family around the table you could ask Eva and give her a chance to share some of her insights as a remarkable BHS student thank you and yeah feel free to ask any questions okay so some current events we have going on May 24th was senior prom at the Waterview it was a great night everyone had a lot of fun next week so from the 10th through 13th is finals for seniors and then after those are over it goes into finals for underclassman it's a different sort of schedule LA on Monday night seniors Juniors and underclassman were recognized at the Brookfield High School ceremony of Excellence so some people receed scholarships academic Awards athletic recognitions and other special Awards the final study n it's called finalize your finals is hosted by student government and members of NHS Spanish Honor Society and other groups that will help tutor students is going to take place tomorrow night from 6:00 to 8 at the high school library so it's for any Brookfield High School student who needs to study for finals the Brookfield Library is also hosting a study night for finals on June 13th so students can either attend to study or attend to tutor as volunteers I have a lot of Athletics updates for Mr Baldwin tonight at the high school there was a meet the coaches night that was for the incoming e8th graders so all of the different sports at the high school set up booths and the coaches are there as well as usually some senior captains Junior captains so parents had an orientation about the Brookfield Athletics program and the eighth graders got to go around meet the coaches and kind of get a sense of what the Athletics program is like here right now the boys lacrosse team is currently at the state semi-finals um Mr Baldwin just emailed me and said 29 minutes ago we were losing two to one so I don't know how it's going now now it's us or oh them okay yeah that was fast um so hopefully that goes well tonight um congratulations to Olivia Walters she won the Class M state championship for the fourth year in a row ol is going to compete at the University of New Hampshire on Saturday at the New England Championship on Monday 25 student athletes were honored at the awards night like I was talking about before the scholarships awarded to athletes were all funded by Devon scandin she's the owner of Chick-fil-A and Brookfield very generous scholarship so we have a lot of thanks for her on May 26th 26 female student athletes attended the women in leadership conference at the Connecticut Association of schools Ava wouth presented the to the Connecticut Association of schools last week as a part of the CIA equality board on changes that should be recommended to all Connecticut schools she's going to meet with Dr man Dr Mr Baldwin and Mr Banda to discuss what she learned on the state committee and how we at Brookfield High School can help make the school better and give us recommendations about the Athletics program Vanessa Greenstein also presented to the Connecticut Association of schools as a member of the CIA athletic advisory state board she's also going to meet with Dr man Mr Baldwin and Mr Banda to discuss what she learned on the state committee and how we can make birfield High School better any the other recommendations for the athletic program I have a small update for Voice for change which I just wanted to include because I know it's my last meeting for this school year um again this is on behalf of Vanessa Greenstein she told me that construction has started on the benches and right now the multilingual signs the process of being put up so construction has started with everything it's on a good track finally a couple things going on with some clubs I'm in for the end of the year um National Honor Society all the new members were inducted in May so we have a blood drive being held on June 18th at the Congregational Church of Brookfield so the new blood drive coordinators for the year will be in charge of that one and the newly inducted members went on the new Member Retreat at the YMCA for some team building and team bonding activities last week for Spanish Honor Society new members for both Spanish Honor Society and French Honor Society were inducted on May 30th we've also been working on some end ofe things we're helping out by volunteering at the final study nights to provide support for students who are either English language Learners who need to study for fin finals or students who need to study for language classes and I've got some updates just for seniors we have graduation on June 15th we're receiving our caps and gowns tomorrow at ilts when they're going to be distributed the graduation rehearsal and walk are coming up at the end of next week just in preparation for graduation that weekend and there's a lot of end of Year celebrations Reflections goodbyes a lot going on in school that's all I have but as I finish up my last word of Ed report for this school year I want to say I've really enjoyed holding this position I'm honored that I've been able to to share about the life of Brookfield students and kind of give you guys a sense of what's going on in the schools it's been really rewarding and fun so thank you so much for the past year and have a great night if there's any questions I can totally answer where do you see yourself in five years in five years it's a little weird to imagine myself in five years but um I will be attending Clemson University in the fall I know I'm going to do a four-year degree I plan on after that probably doing grad school I'm going to be majoring in business I haven't yet decided exactly what discipline of business I'm going to do but I do think that a graduate degree either an MBA or a degree in some sort of Technology degree is something that I want to be pursuing oh I didn't have a question I just wanted to say you did an outstanding job and I think whatever it is you choose whatever path you go on you're going to be successful so great job thank you you are involved in so many amazing things with high school do you have something that has stood out for you like an experience in one of your clubs or actal activities that kind of informed who you are as a person yeah definitely yeah this definitely sticks out to me I would say besides this um I from my sophomore year to my senior year was on the dance team at the high school and that has always stuck out to me um it's been a really really rewarding experience just to have a group of girls that so tight-knit always there for each other whether it's about dance or about anything else going on in our lives um it really gave me a sense of belonging and showed me the importance of working with other people especially when you're reaching for a goal it's been really great just to grow with those people um through our winds and losses and I truly had a great time on that team sure okay who are you going to miss the most so I want you to think about not just BHS but your time in Brook Field teachers staff who's that person that immediately comes to mind the person that immediately comes to mind is my ilt teacher Mrs liebler um so IL I'm sure you guys know it's the same for all four years same students for all four years so my I we just had today since the capping down distribution is tomorrow and we're not sure if everyone's going to be at school on Friday um was like our last it was our our last I together so we had a little celebration end of year party um we always call ourselves we like a little second family for each other in that room cuz that's every single day you get to know those people everything that's going on in their lives so Mrs Le has truly been such an important figure in my life like a mentor um just someone who I can feel like I can talk to about anything all the trials and tribulations going on in my life um so just having her there for constant support through academics anything happening in my life um I will definitely miss her great um I have a quick question yeah so we we've talked about how you've done this position so very very well um quick tips for for all the Juniors who are watching at home who want to have your right um who want to have your job next year um even if they're personality isn't quite like yours um what do you think it takes to do your job here well I think that doing this role requires the skill of public speaking which is one of the most important things that anyone can ever know I grew up um being in 4 I've been in it for the past 10 years so through that I've done public speaking at the county level and at the state level every single year and it's kind of just being confident in yourself and being comfortable enough to speak in front of a group of people even if it's people you don't really know um you just kind of have to be able to connect with your audience and definitely a lot of preparation is required for this so meeting with the right people I would meet with Mr Baldwin because some of the athletic things I would never really know if it wasn't um for my meetings with him but yeah I think it's definitely requires a lot of confidence and speaking in front of people is a scary thing so bravery too but you just need to trust yourself that you can do it thank you AA the board has a present for you and Dr Young Blood is bringing it over and I just want to say on behalf of the board and Casey and Anna and myself we couldn't be more in Mr Banda and Mr baldon for all the reporting they do with you um we are just so proud of you and your en energy your smile and your maturity uh you made us even though you're the student at the table many times feel like we belong and so thank you did a great job this year really proud of you congratulations thank you so much thanks AA thanks AA great night see you soon okay um before we proceed to our next item um I've reviewed our agenda uh for this evening's meeting and believe it's necessary to refine um our agenda items that we've proposed for discussion in executive session to provide clarification because this is a regular meeting of the board uh the Freedom of Information Act permits the board to add items uh to the agenda with the affirmative vote of 2third of the members present and voting so for us as a result or for or more I should say as a result um I proposed that the board add two agenda items to replace the recommended motion under Section um 14 of the agenda yeah to clarify the discussion topics proposed for executive session okay therefore I propose the following motion uh I move that the Board of Ed add the following two agenda items to replace the current agenda item under section 14 of the agenda first discussion of confidential attorney client privileged information regarding the board's role and Authority regarding person Personnel matters and board policy 1312 second self-evaluation of the board so those are the two items in the motion that I propose to add as an agenda item I will second that motion okay is there any discussion I don't understand because that's what we originally had so what's different about it um what's different is clarifying so um the discussion of confidential attorney client privileged information regarding the board's role uh no so the the information has changed a little bit here regarding the board's role and Authority regarding Personnel matters and board policy 1312 it's just more specific it's just more specific thank you so we're basically just adding Personnel matter uh we're adding the words the board's role and Authority regarding Personnel matters and board policy 1312 but 132 so 1312 is a policy which we can talk about on the regular agenda don't we have to be more specific with that no because we're not just discussing the policy right we're regarding the board's role and Authority regarding Personnel matters and board policy 1312 so as it relates to policy 1312 yes I think that language should say that as it relates to policy 1312 we're not isn't that the same as and policy 1312 so okay what's the difference between as it relates to an and the way I read it is just we're just discussing the policy but we're not just discussing the policy right we're talking about the the the motion I made is about the board's role and Authority regarding Personnel matters and board policy 1312 I just don't know how that's different than what we did at the last meeting when we had a public complaint with policy 1312 because we've got we've got attorney client privileged communication about the board's role and Authority regarding Personnel matters and this particular policy yeah the public needs to needs to um not interrupt um so then is there more discussion about this all right all in favor please signify by saying I I all opposed please signify by saying Nay n okay so the motion passes and the agenda items are are added okay so moving next to public comment all right um the board has seen an uptick in unacceptable Behavior at public comment in recent months uh we've given extraordinary latitude to speakers at public comment and we've seen attacks on the people who run and work in our schools we cannot have this we will not have this it is one to call light to a problem of practice it is another to this merge the character of the Professionals in the district with that and for the people watching at home for whom this information might be new the board wishes to clarify the protocols around meeting conduct so this is policy 9325 a no boisterous or inappropriate or disrespectful conduct shall be permitted at any board or subcommittee meeting persistence in such conduct shall be grounds for summary termination by the chairperson of that person's privilege of address if necessary the chair may clear the room so that the board can continue the meeting to protect the impartiality of the board the board will not hear public comment that involves a complaint about Boe Personnel students a Personnel action a student disciplinary matter or pending litigation regardless of whether or not the employee or student is identified in the presentation by name or by another reference which tends to identify an individual all charges and complaints addressing these topics shall be submitted to the appropriate personnel consistent with board policy or if no such policy then to the superintendent of schools speakers are asked to express themselves in a civil manner with due respect for the dignity and privacy of others who may be affected by their comments while it is not the board's intent to stifle public comment speakers should be aware that if their St stat Ms violate the rights of others under the law of defamation or invasion of privacy the speaker may be held legally responsible speakers unsure of the legal ramification of what they are about to say are urged to consult first with their legal adviser remarks at public comment which violate this policy will be called out of order that will be a warning to the speaker to change the tenor or Tac of commentary any further violations will result in the speaker privilege of address and revocation of the speaker's privilege of address as stated in the policy so with that we move to public comment we do welcome public comment and each speaker will have up to three minutes to provide input to the board at the start of each regular meeting a maximum of 20 minutes is allotted for comment on any item included on the agenda for that meeting at the end of the regular meeting time is allotted for comment on any item which is within the board's jurisdiction which would also include overflow time discussion of school Personnel individual students or individual members of the board is prohibited and with that we call to the podium Mrs Scalera well I didn't have time to talk to my attorney yet but um I conne CT said can you can you please remind us of your address yep Erin scera 5 Jackson Drive CG said is merely a different digital platform of Frontline which the district utilized four years prior to the implementation of that all school districts needed to utilize CT saids in the 2022 23 school year in fact that the people in attendance at the last Board of Ed meeting as well as community members watching at home had to hear false and inaccurate statements regarding CT sets and how and how great it was holding the district accountable and on track was in poor taste and infuriating to the parents whose children are not getting what they need in order to be successful our report means nothing if the information entered is inaccurate parents have still been forced to file state complaints to request mediation and due process hearings and then if problems can't be rectified they're forced to use they'll find themselves in litigation so I'm here asking you the people who sat silent while misinformation was stated after the special education strategic plan was discussed in depth what exactly has CT saids done to help identified students what has it done for the parents that find themselves at the mercy of the state CT saids did absolutely nothing to ensure a child was getting legally required testing it did nothing to ensure the IEP was filed followed or WR or even delivered as written or provide meing instruction in fact there's no data that the district has to show this child is making progress yet I have progress reports that were uploaded to the state through CT sets the adequate progress has been made which is misleading and a completely Injustice to a highly capable student how is progress being evaluated or measured when no proper procedures are in place to ensure valid and relevant data is collected some parents have no choice but to stand before you and publicly speak out about these very matters matters because we are forced to listen meeting after meeting that everything is greated and to boot receive a state of the district email stating that everything in the correct review has been properly addressed be honest be transparent and be willing to help the director you hired to write this ship if everything is awesome then why was a three to fiveyear strategic plan for special education developed I'm well aware that it's needed but but by the God but by the continued Everything is Awesome stance does the administration in the board think everything's awesome next is Mrs K good evening de 21 Drive I am the person that filed the 1312 complaint that I was told would be reviewed during exe executive session after this regularly scheduled Boe meeting I'm coming up to the board to speak on this agenda item solely for record and for it to be known and transparent one today when I reviewed the agenda online it was not properly noted in the agenda only the policy number in reference not the title public complaint or even the matter of the complaint and yes you can do that with autonity sadly I'm forced to stand up here and be my child advocate so sadly I am not afforded that same opportunity I'm trying to write this ship two I wrote in to inform the board that I was available for questions in executive meeting and I was informed by a representative of the board that I cannot they cannot speak with me for clarification or for any questions that they may have and that is completely false and misleading to the entirety of the rest of the board because I can it is well within the right for the board to invite me in by way of vote the way it is for anyone else when I ask to please show the policy that states I cannot be questioned or even asked invited in I receive no correspondence back again I want it noted for the record that preemptively I am not feeling confident that behind closed doors in executive session my complaint will be resolved with Fidelity and care if this illegal information is what is communicated publicly and to the entire board thank you thank you next is is um Mr Korea um Andy Korea 45 W whis Road um I sent an email earlier today that the board must have read and understood to a certain extent in terms of clarifying um the motion um however you you made that motion earlier to change the executive session um agenda item you said that there would be two agenda items you just went all the way through it and you made one agenda item um um I would want to point out that um the agenda and the motion that you had only referenced policy 1312 policy 1312 means nothing policy 1312 is a public complaint it it seems like an intentional reason or intentional effort to clean the words public complaint such that it wouldn't be detected by the public um the use of attorney client privilege information for an F exemption so that you can go in to Executive session you need to name a specific matter of a specific lawsuit and you need to State it so the motion that you made is a if you go into an executive session it would be a violation of the foia um if you have it it needs to be a lawsuit or an adjudication process that is you know outside of the Board of Ed like a state complaint um you can go into executive session if you have another reason like a complaint against the staff member where confid confidentiality is afford it in that case you need to make a motion that says to go into executive session because of apparent complaint against a teacher or principal or central office employee regard regarding a complaint about hiring practices or employee Behavior you need to stay where the complaint came from the type of employee you can't just say a staff member there are foa cases that have reversed rulings that if you just set a staff member you have to say like a nurse or a teacher or an administrator so if you go into an executive session you will be violating the law you have done so six times in a row I have informed the board a month ago you have violated it a few more times while I sit up here and tell you what you need to do and you're planning to violate it now the history of doing so is to protect members of the administration for having their information known and in doing so you're not acting in good faith as board members my advice is to have a spirited discussion when you vote to go in executive session that you're talking about policy 1312 and if it applies you need to have the disc publicly and if it's about a a complaint then the motion has to state the complaint or the nature of the complaint additionally as it relates to the Brookfield pdeck evaluation support document that you're about to approve I read it Mr Korea that's your three minutes thank you very much you guys okay we're going to move to item um seven written correspondents the following people have emailed the Board of Education since the last meeting on May 22nd Debbie Brooks audio from 522 media meeting video Denise rice CT sets Kimberly AB BHS adopted senior volunteers needed Mark Banda concerning behaviors at the 522 meeting Dean Rena e8th grade moving up ceremony Deborah C 1312 complaint Dylan t Tower location Anda F violations Aon spera complaint procedures great um let's move to uh item eight which is the approval of board minutes I move that the board approve the minutes listed below as recommended regular meeting from 520 to 24 second second all in favor please signify by saying I I I uh any oppos please signify by saying nay okay so the motion passes unanimously the board minutes are approved all right now it's time for the superintendent's update Mr Brill you have I'm sorry Dr bril what do you have for us thanks Wendy um so be very brief tonight uh just another like every time I have a Cadence of updating you on our registrations for kindergarten we're at 118 at this time which is very steady from two weeks ago um next we're very excited uh for working with hrra uh in a recycling initiative not only to improve our existing recycling program uh we're working with our uh PTO and uh other parent Volunteers in addition to that we're actually doing a cafeteria audit next week of all three cafeterias to look at the amount of trash versus the amount of recyclables um and then building in some uh programming and uh parent awareness student awareness uh via assembly and also working with our of instruction and instructional coaches on uh integrating into uh newly developed curriculum some areas where recycling which affects economics and science obviously and and the like uh will be included we're really excited about that and I'd like to thank Casey and Dan qualo for really helping us out in that that regard um in addition to that uh the final piece it didn't make the report tonight but I wanted to announce it because Anna and I just received a couple hours ago received the email the increasing education diversity plan educator diversity plan that we approved the board approved a couple C of uh meetings ago received what's called they're calling conditional approval uh in talking with superintendents in the area the majority of us seem to be getting a conditional approval they're giving some feedback to us and then we resubmit in October so we're going to understand that feedback a little bit better talk with our different superintendent groups get feedback from the state um and see what we can do to tighten the plan up uh going forward so I wanted to make sure you all knew that that we're on our way with that particular uh new plan that's all I have aw awesome then we're moving a pace uh subcommittee reports um so Joy policy sorry okay uh yes so the policy committee met um on Wednesday May 22nd and Dr Bell informed the committee that the Shipman uh that Shipman and Goodwin the newly engaged Law Firm provides policy services so the committee reviewed correspondence from the firm which outlines the available services and the associated costs and um I believe that's on the agenda for tonight to talk about uh as well as two policies for final read which I won't go into now because they're on the agenda for later your wonderful thank you very much um so let's move to item 11 that's the consent agenda I move that the board approve the items on the consent agenda as recommended transfers and resignations um all in favor please signify by saying I I um any opposed okay so the consent agenda motion passes unanimously thank you very much all right moving on then to new business so first we're going to talk about flexibilities for implementing the Connecticut guidelines for educator evaluation for for the um 2024 2025 school year um so uh is this you I to talk about this okay okay okay I move that the board approve the Brookfield pck created Brookfield educator and administrator evaluation and support plan for the 2024 2025 school year for submission to the CT State Department of Education per state statute so let's have some um discussion Anna will you lead that please I would be happy to thank you very much so just as a point of clarification um this uh B this proposed plan that um our professional development and evaluation committee has adopted for Brookfield is no longer under the flexibilities um the flexibilities is what we've been working under for since the beginning of the pandemic so just a point of clarification that this is really implementing the new um guidelines for the educator the certified educator evaluation plan um and as I kind of spoke about last last month uh there are some um guidelines and statutes that we have to follow before I get into that I just want to thank everybody on the front page of your very lengthy 90 page document I appreciate your patience as you read through that is a list of the members of our pck as you can notice there um there are some requirements for any District's professional development and Ed education committee um or evaluation committee pardon me and it has to be comprised of teachers and administrators as well as at least one member of the par educator Union um and so those folks are listed there and uh we're happy that we have such a a good representation from across the district and I would also like to send a special shout out and thank you to our co-chairs who are with us tonight Elizabeth Larsson who is a kindergarten teacher at CES and um Liz Spencer who is the uh Ela Humanities content leader here at the High school um so they have shephered us through this process and we appreciate it um it is it was a Yan's effort but to rewrite an evaluation plan and to learn all of the new expectations and guidelines that the state has put down uh come you know put down for us um was was very it was amazingly smooth actually we had we did a lot of work we met a lot of times um but the way that it went was uh is a testament to their leadership so thank you very much for the work that you have done um as we discussed at the April or the May 22nd meeting um there are a lot of aspects to this plan that are fairly uh they're directly aligned to the state the process that we followed was that we essentially after being trained by uh the state trainers we took the released uh plan and then looked through every single portion of the plan and adopted it to fit the needs of Brookfield based on our strategic plan based on our developing um portrait of The Graduate and where we are as a district in terms of our professional uh development and um the history that we've come from our valuation plans over the last decade or so um so at this point you know it's all it is pretty uh there I I will be happy to talk about any questions that the board has um but I just want to highlight uh that the one thing that I I really want to I hoping to draw your attention to is at the end of each of the plans you'll notice that the two plans for submission purposes have to be one big document um we started with the administrators because I think as I said before uh previously the administrators did not have a a discerned defined plan just for them it was really just an adoption of the teacher plan which was pretty consistent across the state um so we wanted to start with the administrators make sure that we gave them their due time but also kind of learn from that process and then um really dig into the teacher plan um but both plans include uh single point competencies for their rubrics um which are kind of the look fors as the evaluators are working in a reciprocal and and kind of collaborative way with the PE with the employee um and it it's a a a more um organic way to give feedback and to have a conversation that is really about professional learning rather than just about a summit of evaluation this the guidelines no longer um have an expectation of summit of ratings if you remember the former High accountability high stakes uh professional uh evaluation plan required Sumi of um you know a rating they're no longer actually um part of the state statute so that's a huge shift and it's a a welcome shift because we can really focus on learning and not really so much on am I checking the boxes and being compliant so that's the nutshell what questions can I answer can I um get a sense of how you guys uh Brookfield IED this large document sure so um we had uh you know the the um this the uh example example plan um had a couple different choices so for example you know um have to be has to be standards based so you had a couple they had a couple different standards normed um that uh expectations that you could align to we chose learning forward which um is a a national standards-based uh professional learning platform and one of the reasons that we chose that is because we felt um and through the hyperlink on the memo be able to go to the learning uh through uh in the plan um the uh those standards not only uh support the instructional um core that we have in our single point competency but also provide resources for teachers to really lead their own learning and to connect with their standards so or with their um their professional learning plan and so um and one of the things that we're growing out of from this year which the PC committee came up with last year was that professional Pathways the professional development path ways they very tightly align to that same concept that kind of same schema and so that as teachers are are establishing a goal that is based on student evidence right they'll establish a professional a goal for growth and then they come up with their professional learning plan and that will take them directly to those learning forward Frameworks um and essentially kind of allow a cross-section between continuing on the pathways concept Pathways model we're still working on how it's going to morph into next year but we're going to continue with that pathway model and then connect with the learning forward framework so as the goals document is being developed they'll be able to kind of it's It's inherent and incumbent of the process to do some research and prep your own um professional learning plan and that is the the uh uh data for your goal that you're demonstrating your you know your achievement of your goal it's essentially going through those learning forward Frameworks going through your um observations they're called reviews of practice because they're not always observations right they may be um watching an instructional coach lead a professional learning experience you know for adults um or it might be uh an an administrator run a administrative meeting um so the the observations aren't just classroom observations um but that's those are it kind of aligning to where we have come from is one example of how we kind of Brook fiiz it a lot of it but much of it is what the state uh sample plan had to offer us thank you sure well what you plan for rolling it out to the teachers oh that's such a good question we had a long conversation about that where on on Monday was our last pedc meeting of the year and yeah they're they're fun um we actually have had a really good group I'm I'm I'm very um happy to work with this group uh we have a tentative plan to um during vation or after convocation Orient the entire um certified faculty actually picking up where we left off our last PLC Day on May 24th was a kind of um an adjournment so instead of convocation we adjourned we basically kind of um rolled back the tape on how we started the year so all of the pathway groups everybody came here and they all got jigsawed into different 10 different groups um so every pathway was representative represented in each one of those groups and they basically shared out the learning that they had worked on throughout the year and then after that they came back in here and Dr BR and I kind of went over the Strategic plan and reviewed where we were and kind of did a look forward of where we are so we're going to start there again on August 30th and then go back into those jigsaw groups and um do a brief orientation and essentially use the first month of school um through uh you know after W Wednesday afternoons and CLT time and those kinds of things to help small groups of teachers digest the plan we have some days set aside in August that um subcommittee group members of pedc will be meeting to flesh out those plans a little bit so we have a motion um on the floor and it has been seconded to approve the uh PC created Brookfield education and administrator evaluation and support plan for the coming school year um for submission to the State per state statute um you guys ready to vote do you need some discussion on it more okay all in favor please signify by saying I I I any opposed right on so it passes unanimously thank you very much thank you Dr man okay let's move to um the next item about the approval of field trips um for the coming school year I move that the board approve the attached list of field trips for the 2024 2025 school year as requested by BHS principal BHS principal Mark Linda second yeah that's going to be the next one so um yeah these are are is there discussion we have a motion on the floor for approval of these trips um is there a discussion about that all right all in favor uh please signify by saying I I any opposed okay so that uh the field trips are approved now let's move to field trips for Sports for the um 20242 school year I move that the board approve the attached list of sports field trips for the 2024 2025 school year as requested by athletic director Steve bman any discussion on that all right um all in favor please signify by saying I I I okay that sounds like everybody um any opposed okay great then um those are also the uh Sports field trips are also approved for the next school year wonderful moving on to unaffiliated salaries I move that the board approve a salary increase in of 3% for the unaffiliated employees for the 2024 2025 school year do we have that motion great great so this was an oversight um on our part uh in the in the last round these are the folks who work at the Town Hall um who support our um our district so is there discussion on this motion um I'd like to make a motion to table a motion okay um can you explain why um I'm not really prepared to vote I need some I need to review some more additional information additional information that has come forth so okay so um motion to table which has been seconded um and so could you could you talk about the type of information that you would need so we can make sure that it's like really specific and acted upon so we could proceed with alacrity on this it's nothing that I can talk about right now in public okay um so I need to be able to get more information to make a more informed decision okay fair enough then um I'll just add that we have already discussed this um we discussed it at length and all the information that we needed to was in that executive session at the end of our last meeting um and we as Wendy said it was an oversight of we should have came out and just actually added that as one of the Motions to there is no we weren't all prepared to vote that night so I'm not really understanding why we're not prepared to vote now um but if that's the case then I would suggest we add whatever information that you need to tonight's executive session so that we can do that tonight sure yeah absolutely so at the time yes I was ready um but new information has occurred since s so I'm not prepared to make those all right um so it sounds like we have a couple of uh things to consider here first of all um the the motion we have a motion to table um based on the concerns that Joy has has put forth um and it has been seconded is there more discussion or can we vote on that voting on the table Yeah voting on the table okay um so all in favor to table um all opposed okay so it passes 4 to two um that this motion will be tabled for this meeting okay um so okay so moving on to the next item we have a board candidate vacancy um and then we've got the action is that we talk about um the appointment of a candidate for uh this body um left by the I mean with the vacancy left by um holl's departure so I emailed you guys um in the last week or so a timetable um and press release about this I used uh the last press release as a model um Joy made a couple of suggestions to to um sharpen some of the language which was much appreciated thank you for that and um let's see let me pull this up so for folks watching at home um especially if you were not uh paying attention when there when we had the vacancy last year um this is how the process will work and and the veteran board members please feel free to jump in um if I missed something so there's some um language in our Charter that that makes this a Time bound operation so we're eager to get going um um with that we're going to um I mean as long as everybody approves it and and I I believe that you have because I think that people who didn't write to me were okay with the language of the press release um so we'll issue that um tomorrow I'll ask Dr bril to get that out to in all the normal channels and um that'll be wonderful so then the community will be alerted and then we'll have a uh twoe window um applications will be due on Wednesday June 19th for any um residents who are interested in applying and the only um by by Charter I believe the only requirements are that you be a resident um that you be a citizen and that you be at least 18 years old so if you um have some free time and a Civic heart we urge you to apply um we haven't finalized this as a board uh maybe we'll discuss it um I mean we could discuss it now yeah uh we'd like to be kind of aggressive with this timetable could we have round one of interviews on June 15 and round two of interviews on June I'm sorry June June so hold on I misspoke applications due uh two weeks from today on the 19th round one of interviews on the 25th and round two of interviews if needed on the 27th could board members just take a second and and check their their calendars please yeah I'm not available I can do 24th and 25th could we do because we would all want to be there and Sarah you have a commitment on 24 right um and I was trying to avoid the 28th is a Friday right and I'm trying to respect the fact that can we do the 20th right after their due on the 20th will we have had time to to Rev let's see for the 21st Sor um could we just clarify first how so if we receive applications are we going to like limit the number of applicants that we interview so are we like you know going to maybe like sort of have some sort of scoring rubric and say like okay we're only going to you know interview eight people or are we ining to interview all of the applicants I I think we do like we did the first time I think all of them but I think that as as so how it worked last time as applications came in that's when we reviewed them so um unless somebody sends it in on the 19th which is possible but I don't anticipate that happening so we had more than enough time people sent them in fairly quickly we could do the 20th I so I'm not available the 20th through the 25th oh sorry Wendy quick question on the off chance that during that week people have G on to vacation do we shouldn't we allow them another possible beginning of the following week for those that those who can't come to okay yeah so so we could do this um the first week of July we could do you know July 1 and July 3r okay so the only problem we might run into is that's the week of the 4th of July ands are on vacation we might need to do like the 27th and the third or like split it in two weeks sorry split it in two weeks so that people that are on vacation have equal opportunity as Sarah said um what what's the the last day that we when do we need to actually vote what's that what's that we have 60 days right so from so that's like the end of July at some point right so so I think um the the resignation was announced I believe on June 1st she says effect she said effect of June 1st I know but she announced it but I it's when it's effective when she when it's okay yes so effective June 1st so June 1st 60 days after that right so um I mean it would be ideal to on board our new person in the month of J July to just because we know what the learning curve is like right um the sooner they get in the better um how about something like like July 8 is a Monday and then maybe July 11 um why not is are we not available is every available July 1st and July 8th at to Mondays right I I say we do we do that the 27th wasn't anybody right that was for me oh it was okay yeah how about how about um July 1st and July 8th July and could we do the first and the n9th I'll be in AA you just had to say like that which which one on the nth okay do we have to do these on business days yeah how about the um how about the first and the sixth yeah because that might actually work yeah that might actually work better for some folks could you do the first or the sixth I can do the sixth as long as it's in the morning now fine okay everything yeah so July July applications and applications due the 19th and maybe a person will feel compelled to join this board because they're really good at getting dates that quickly we could use your talents okay that's great guys good job okay ex just awesome all right um oh and regarding questions for that um what was the protocol you guys used last time regarding questions did you issue them publicly we did not I don't think okay they were standard sorry there were standard questions um probably have them yeah no no we have them we have we we've made we've made a couple of um like Joy gave me some feedback we decided to collapse the first two because they were a bit redundant and then have a question that speaks to um you know people's time availability because that's such a huge issue for all of us um yeah my recommendation was to you know how we pretty much everybody asked like what does a job entail and like committees like thought if we can kind of do like a chatchi prior like before they come or give them a coupes read it like these are the Committees this is the time commitment you're expected to you know mean like for every application kind of send that yeah so because that took up a lot of time to go over so they know yeah for sure yep okay that's a great idea guys um I can work on that and Ros if you want to work on that together yeah sure that'd be wonderful thank you all right then I think we're we're good with that and we're ready to move to Old business we've got um a couple of policies to talk about so the first policy um is bylaw 9324 about meeting purpose and parliamentary procedures Uh I moveed that the board approve bylaw 9324 meeting purpose and parliamentary procedures for a final reading as recommended by the policy Communications committee first reading was on May 1st 2024 second second um is there discussion of this particular bylaw don't to say what it is so this is the change we actually made during the meeting um changing the streaming the television station to streaming service were there other changes or that's it awesome are we ready to vote then okay all in favor of um approving the new phrasing of bylaw 9324 meeting purpose and parliamentary procedures um please say I I I any opposed okay so the motion passes um next is the approval of policy 6162 d51 survey of students I move that the board approve policy 6162 51 survey of students for a final reading as recommended by the policy Communications commit subcommittee first reading was on May 1st 2024 second so I have a question about this particular one um when we when we approve for a final reading that's the step prior to adoption or that is a adoption okay okay okay yeah yeah I was thinking that for the for the previous one but I just wanted to be sure um so I have to say because I don't want there to be any surprises that I'm I'm personally not in favor of adoption of this policy because um and I'm sure it's informed by by my um work as a social studies teacher where a an open exchange of ideas is essential to intellectual growth um and so it it makes me um it makes me concerned about what might get called a survey um in in a in classroom or school parlament um and I I understand why my fellow board members have concerns about this policy but I think um actually we have a policy I think it's 6344 about controversial issues and I feel that that policy uh covers a lot of the concerns um and behaviors that are kind of the the Wellspring of concern around that student privacy um I think it's important that we teach our students to talk about topics that they may consider uncomfortable or difficult and I think that we need to trust the professionals that we have um we have in our buildings to lead um productive healthy conversations within board existing board guidelines so I I just wanted to say that you know where I'm coming from I've I've thought about this a lot and I've read it very carefully and so that's that's where I stand on this issue and I just wanted to say that I'd like to say I support this um policy uh to your point I I think that's a wonderful um mindset to have um but unfortunately um can't trust everybody in the world and unfortunately um for example a um I don't think it's appropriate for an educator to identify the political affiliation of the students in front of them so that would be one example um and I don't trust um that a educator would respect that and you do that in a non-judgmental way because it has not that has not happened so um that's one reason why we need to have this very important policy in place because unfortunately negative things such as that have been happening quite often and that's just one of the items a through H can I read the policy that you it's like three sentences policy 6144 I just want to see what people think because I didn't I'm just being brought aware of this policy so I'm wondering if it does conflict or I'm wondering what everyone thinks about it so it's discussing and exploring controver controversial issues may be discussed and explored in the classrooms throughout the school district controversial issues arising in the normal classroom situation may be handled as a regular aspect of instruction and learning in such a way as to not inhibit the digity personality or the intellectuality of either the teacher or the students the superintendent shall see that the necessary administrative regulations are established for dealing with controversial issues in speakers how do we I'm kind of wondering so I'm not sure on what your statement is what the connection is because I'm I'm aware of this policy um but I'm not sure I understand the connection you're trying to make so the way I understand it after you just read that seems like your issue would have been covered under that so the insertion of language into 61 6251 about instructional materials and it's a lot of language that has gotten inserted into that makes it honestly quite redundant we have a policy that covers controversial issues including the topics he brought up um and if you had you know sort of an issue with that policy being violated it's there right we have we have a policy on it so you're saying then that would violate this policy that 6144 yeah you're you're yeah but what about something like sex behavior and attitudes how is that controversial like I don't understand eth or age doesn't necessarily make it controversial I think these are just difficult topics is that what controversial means I don't in some respects I think that's in some context a interpretation really yes context dependent yes right with there sorry I'm just wondering the policy committee has discussed just like income How is income controversial it can be difficult not necessarily controversial I I think if I I don't have the dictionary in front of me I guess I could Google it but I don't think the definition of controversial have the word difficult would the would the policy committee has discussed uh taking the policies from J goodwi service and it's and it's um what we would be adopting are the required legal policies but there is we have talked about we kind of threw this around that there is an option for an extra cost for them to review a policy that we have a question about or you know we can go to them with questions about adopting things like that are would that be something that the board would be interested in spending some money on since this seems to be a sticking point would it be what was the first part you said um so since we're a doc member how the we're adopting the policies and for an extra cost because this is a not a required policy there's an extra cost in having them review and um talk to us about maybe what they would recommend so would that be something we had talked about it maybe not being necessary but I'm wondering since it's kind of we're maybe at a sticking point and this has been a long yeah I understand your point um I have no appetite for that at all and to to call a spade a spade I mean I I think those that are not in support of the survey it's because of um the book field care survey and that's not why I'm bringing this up that's nothing to do with that because that comment was made at a previous meeting um I think it's it's it has nothing to do with that at least as far as I'm concerned um yeah that's what's where this policy stemmed from you know why it came to light but uh this goes much deeper than the Brookfield Care Service do it does it have to do with another personal issue of yours because that's also it's what's what's currently happening to our students that you're not aware of because you don't have a child in high school so it is a personal thing for you it's not it's personal for all the students in Brookfield well and to be naive is is is not is not good it sounds like we've had robust discussion is there more I don't know I I was involved in the development of this policy and I I'm kind of conflicted now because of the things that you've brought to light but also mostly because I do feel like this is beyond our scope of being able to properly resolve I think that I know Joy you have said you don't have an interest in having the legal team look at it but it is like a really important thing that I think we need to get right so I'm kind of I don't know I'm I mean we did have our previous legal firm help us with this so I there's a motion on the table I think we should just vote y I think we should so uh the motion has been made that the board approve policy 6162 d51 survey of students um as recommended by the policy Communications can I ask a clarify question if it does not pass does it go back to the policy committee if you want it to the policy the policy committee can bring it up again if they want a n vote means we're not taking action to approve Now does not mean that it does not come forward against the board in the future so just to candas Sarah do you feel ready to vote Robert Stephan okay all right all in favor um say I I okay so U three four all um sorry all oppos please signify by saying nay n nay so that's were you a a vote as well because I was looking down so um it's the vote is three to three the um motion does not pass because we need a majority okay of members presented voting okay so um with that uh we will move now to um public comment we have three names for um public comment that was not on the agenda and first up is Mrs Scola Erin SCA 5 Jackson Drive I just um wanted to bring something up that was said to me at the end of one of my public comments um two board meetings ago um and it was I quote just one note on that to clarify I I think it needs to be said that the board hears the frustrations and it's consistent and it's easy to track but by law the board has no role in the special education process you can talk about your child but we cannot respond other than providing resources the administration requests so that's the point of the evening so I'm going to remind you I went through cape and when you guys you know we follow cape for everything else and you know as a board member you're each elected to help create a public school system that meets the individual needs of all children regardless of their ability race Creed sex or social standing so why is it that we are constantly told that sped is beyond the board scope those students and needed I remind you that most children who are identified who have a learning disability or average to above average intelligence you're not talking about lack of intelligence you're looking at a child needs a different type of instruction they're entitled to that instruction whatever it looks like so I am constantly I'm up here constantly about it I've been at this for two and a half years I'm not going away I can get it right for my kid but I'm going to make sure every child in Brookfield that is identified has what they need to be successful so they don't follow the path that my children had to offer through but I'm going to remind you that every identified child regardless their education matters just as much as a student sitting in the crowded AP honors classes that we're talking about thank you Mrs schola next is Mrs CES de k21 middle View Drive um I was actually going to Echo very similar um content and statement that Miss Clare just provided I do feel the same way we are always up here talking we're always a PA representing I can tell you from my own personal uh experience with my child anybody who knows me knows that my child story is a beautiful story of overcoming many challenges and it was always her story to tell sadly in fighting for her I have had to share that story that private story we're not here to rake anybody over the coals we want the same thing for our child our children that all the other children get we want the same policies and procedures followed for our children by that's mandated by the law that's all unfortunately administrators make these decisions sometimes they're poor decisions but they need to be rectified they need to be fixed so that we can get better and move on I might not ever see it for my children in this District during this time when I'm faced with such rebuttal but maybe hopefully in the future it can changed I can tell you and I know we're not supposed to name anyone specifically but I will say Mr Roland has been such a welcome in this in this District I can't tell you how much support I have personally received from him but he cannot do it alone things need to be changed that's all I have to say thank you thank you Mrs KES Mr Korea Andy Korea 45 West wh Road I have a few things to bring my reading of the charter is that the board member that you invite onto the Board needs to be a registered Republican um it was interesting the discussion of the controversial policy and whether the board was capable of having the discussion making a decision your main role is policym so if you can't make policy then you're on the wrong board um there was a 4 SLI toward the end was I guess a an assumption that it was uh 34 so that I think it was representative how the board has acted with um caucuses up to date but it doesn't you know it doesn't serve the district to have to approach things from a preconceived position but rather do your job um the only issue with public comment really is the are the issues we bring forward and the fact that they're not being addressed we wouldn't be here they were being addressed right um now there have been hallway discussions with between Administration uh and the board between regular session and special session which are by the way as I'm becoming an expert a violation of the foa where it's you know non-board members or maybe Administration members or directing board members how maybe they can control public comment and I think we heard a little bit about that tonight and that's that's highly concerning um and additionally I didn't get a chance to talk about the pck evaluation support document um I think you know obviously it's a state mandated process Etc but with local control we could put a wrong stamp on it and what I didn't see in that 91 page document that was essentially driven by the employees being measured was any provision where an employee if they need help to get you know to improve it or not performing where that ends there is no provision for termination and that's important um you don't want to get there but somehow you know when when you have a Workforce you know doing essentially a very similar job in very early stage employees with 400 people eventually you'll have people that need to be worked out of the business for one reason or another and knowing how and where you get there like after you know going through and saying okay you need to work on this you need to work on this if you're on round three you you have a notice you need to work on it some some districts some states some contracts have like a strike one strike two and then you get a you know next time you know you're you're essentially not going to be employed further that that is a a severe um defect in an employee management system thank you thank you Mr kria okay uh now we're going to move to um three main points we've covered a lot of ground tonight um Stephanie what uh what did you capture and board members think about what you uh think belongs on the three main points um I think it would be uh fun to highlight some of the seniors or all of them or just like the sen do like a senior highlight um the Brookfield admin evaluation plan and the board bacy so that that can really get out to the public we're unanimous okay upcoming events we've got the board uh vacancy dates got do we need quick action on that sorry oh vaces yeah so um the vacancy dates of the um applications due on the 19th and then the um I close my laptop what did we say the first and the and the eth first and theth of July so those are those are big dates for board members um Dr BR would we be able to have those at TSO can we arrange for that to happen for the um interviews do they happen there or do they happen somewhere else had yeah okay great and we can get all that fixed for Saturday as well awesome Joy we'll give you the times Saturday may be a challenge there might be overtime involved I have to work on the custodial schedule there and figure that out okay thank you um please keep us posted I'll be in contact about that so then is that it okay so with that hold on I have to find my paper so for folks watching um this concludes the public portion of our meeting um we are going to move and then vote to go into um executive session so with that I uh propose the following motion that we um that the board move into executive session um for two items first is the discussion of confidential attorney client privileged communication regarding the board's role and Authority regarding personel matters and board policy 1312 and the second item is self-evaluation of the board second great with that so I just have a question so do we need doesn't the motion have to State the complaint no no it's we're discussing the attorney client privileged communication regarding the board's role and Authority regarding personel matters and policy 1312 so we're not why are we not discussing the complaint if the the policy 1312 is the complaint that came in this this is the whole point and and I totally get your question and I I get yours as well um this is the the point of the executive session is to discuss the attorney client privileged communication about the complaint and about the board's roles and Authority um regarding Personnel matters as it relates to policy 1312 okay and so the motion doesn't have to State the complaint the motion has to state the topic that we will be discovering and it has to be specific enough to inform the public about the nature of it while still retaining the attorney client that's what I worry about that it's not being transparent to the community of what is it just says regarding the policy regarding policy 1312 so it's regarding the this and this is why I brought up the amended motion so if you'd like to look at this is the language that we used it's there's a slight deviation there regarding the roles the board's role and Authority which you have here yes I don't see any different on can I ask clarify can I ask the clarifying questions okay so we are not discussing the actual complaint right under 1312 we first have to decide if we are going to hear the complaint our attorney is here and correct me if I'm wrong is going to help us with his attorney client privileged information regarding our r Authority in that Personnel matter under that policy and then we will decide if we hear the complaint we are not talking about the complaint tonight am I right yes that is correct and I appreciate your clarification so the first step with with any complaint issued under 1312 the first step is for the board to decide if they're going to take this up or not right that's that's why I'm confused because we we had this situation in a prior meeting and we did it in public on our agenda right it did not have a attorney client privileged information which is what we will be discussing this evening okay so we need a two3 majority vote to enter into executive session all in favor um please signify by saying I I any oppose please signify by saying Nay n so the U motion passes 42 and we will um move to Executive session good night everyone
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e e e yes [Music] okay and last but not certainly least Betty beaz 23 years of dedicated Serv w [Music] okay and we're going to take one group photo for the those are in attendance tonight you want to come back over here take a quicko and we'll get that out I got you I got you okay thank you so much congratul [Applause] I'd like to take a second to make sure that we recognize uh the re the r remaining of the retirees from the list so have Beth Barry Beth brand Mason King Street primary Tel teacher 37 years Donna Edwards Pembrook library media specialist 25 years Susan a stly R Tel teacher 32 years Richard Scalzo Broadview math teacher 22 years Joanne Ms DHS biology teacher 33 years Rosemary dun King Street Intermediate media specialist 24 years Shields pbrook social worker 23 years Lisa Glasser Haz Town's fed teacher 15 years Donna Shore sadly Ruff grade two teacher 22 years ma nette DHS night custodian 21 years rosem Marie sentano Rogers Park Kitchen Aid 18 years Wade Wayne Hyde Rogers Park Middle School night head custodian 11 years Michelle casses ECC Granville fed tutor 26 years Rebecca I can never say her name iaki South Street School grade 2 teacher 22 years Moren simic Danbury High School fed job coach 22 years and again we just want to say congratulations we wish you the best of luck in your health in your retirement um we wish you all the wonderful years ahead and time well spent with your families so thank you very much [Applause] next uh we move down to the agenda for public participation the board welcomes public participation and ask that speakers please limit their comments to 3 minutes speakers May off comments of school operations and programs that concern them the board will not permit any expression of personal complaints oratory comments about Board of Education personnel and students nor against any person connected with the D public school system is there anyone that did not sign up to speak would like to come before the board and speak at this time War once for twice thank you we're going to move on down the agenda I need a motion from Kate to accept the consent calendar I'll make a motion the Board of Education apprent calendar 24138 hased and inance with those motion made by Kate I hear a second to the motion second by Julie any question concerning motion none all in favor could I hear all oppose motion education staff represent hello everybody good evening um please bear with me I'm having a little bit of a vertigo attack this evening so I'm like on a on a boat with you all right now so there with me so we're finally winding down this very very long year with some positives to celebrate first and foremost we celebrate the news that we are not facing a major layoff of our dedicated teachers thanks to the last minute funding secured by our mayor and our legislative team we're glad to report that we're nearly complete with all the teacher placements in their newly reorganized positions and open positions almost all of our teachers have jobs next year which was our priority goal when the budget season began labor and management have worked together on this with the exception of a handful of placements we're still working through but I'm sure that'll that's going to work out and we're pleased to see that most of our teachers have landed well in places that they're happy to be so I'm going to talk about some other positive things I bet you all missed me the last for of that meeting on the 22nd well we were really busy that night busy giving scholarships to a group of amazing students my fellow Nea Danbury officers presented four graduating seniors with NAA Danbury scholarships at a celebration at Anthony's Lake Club each student received $11,000 and the scholarship winners impressive essays and contributions to their school and Community highlighted the group they were such worthy recipients so I want to say congratulations to Kylie daughter of DHS teacher Emily Paralis Molly kley daughter of Broadview Middle School teacher Jennifer kopley Aaliyah Frank daughter of Roger Park Middle School teacher marleene Frank and Katherine celiz daughter of BR teacher or social worker excuse me Lori sise best of luck to all these kids they were really amazing it was a fun night for us it's kind of a good part of our un and we give back to our community and on that note any d along with many members on this board marched in the Memorial Day Parade well you guys didn't March you had a flow the better but our Nea danber executive board along with the Board of Education participated in theori Memorial Day Parade on May 27 the rainy weather couldn't stop our dedicated danburry teachers from honoring all who have served our country we paid tribute to our veterans and honor the brave servicemen and women we have lost as we march to celebrate the hard fall protected rights and freedoms of our country and for this last good part I'd like to call Miss Lori Woodruff teacher at AIS to take a seat beside me so I'm pleased pleaseed please to share the wonderful news that the Connecticut Education Association has honored our own Miss Lori Woodruff from AIS with the John cormick award for teaching Excellence this award the highest honor bestowed by our association is a testament to miss woodruff's extraordinary commitment to public education and her unwavering dedication to her school students families and the broader Community Lori was recently presented the award at our 176th annual Connecticut education representative assembly in met let me tell you this is a super competitive award to earn finalists it's finalists from the entire state of Connecticut they're judged by a Statewide panel of Educators in the following categories professional practice advocacy for the profession Community engagement leadership and professional development and attention to diversity Lorie's receipt of this honor speaks volumes about her exceptional capabilities and contributions for those of you who don't know Lori you should get to know her she's known for going above and beyond on organizing extracurricular activities and constantly seeking new ways to engage and Inspire her students especially in science Lor's students will tell you how much they love learning about science in her classroom she ignites a quest for knowledge and a thirst for problem solving in all of her students her colleagues also speak highly of her collaborative spirit and her willingness to share her knowledge and expertise Miss woodr has been a mentor to many teachers offering guidance support and encouragement she is famous for her hugs and her compassion her leadership at AIS has also been instrumental in fostering a culture of kindness and mutual respect continuous academic Improvement and professional growth her colleagues look to her for leadership in addition to her work with the classroom in the classroom Sorry Miss Woodruff has been a fierce advocate for educational equity and access her advocacy efforts have extended far beyond the school walls as she's been actively involved in community initiatives and programs aimed at supporting students and families Miss Wood's dedication to her profession extends to her advocacy for teachers and labor issues as well especially here in our underfunded District she's been a vocal and effective advocate for Teacher safety improved working conditions and essential funding for our schools Lori shares the challenge that Educators face in under a district and has worked tirelessly to bring our issues to Forefront engaging with local and state policy makers and the community to secure better support for teachers and our schools mayor ales recently celebrated Miss Woodruff in accommodation letter he wrote in part I'll just give you a little snippet I extend my heartfelt congratulations to you your dedication is a shining example for educators everywhere and I'm immensely proud to see you represent our city with such distinction teaching is undoubtedly one of the most challenging yet profoundly rewarding professions especially when faced with inadequate resources your unwavering devotion in such circumstances is both admirable and inspiring and finally to my friend Lori on a personal note I have had the privilege of witnessing her dedication and passion firsthand her enthusiasm is contagious and her commitment to her colleagues and her students success is truly inspiring she's not just a teacher and a role model she's a leader but a really huge asset for Danberry Public Schools so on behalf of nea danburry I would like to extend our deepest congratulations to Lori your recognition with the John mccormic award is well deserved and we celebrate this remarkable achievement with you we wish you success at the next round of competition on the national level as you serve the kinectic education you serve as kinetic education's nominee for the National Education Association award for teaching excellence and you also get a really cool party in Washington DC right in the fall up I just wanted to give Lori a moment to say a few words about her award thank you thank you uh as a generally quiet person I've always been a little underestimated I always knew I had a voice inside of me I just didn't know how to use it until I was 12 and experienced Injustice firsthand I tried out for the school basketball team only to be told I couldn't play because it was just for boys so I started a petition at 12 had all the girls in the school who wanted to play basketball sign it I brought it to the principal and then to the board and two years later we had a girls basketball team throughout my career I've tried to provide opportunities for the quiet kids to take the stage and find their voice for special Olympic athletes to shine like the stars they are and for all of my kids to know that they are just right and accepted the way they are in closing I wouldn't be the teacher I am without the loving support of my friends and family especially my mom and dad who worked hard and made it possible for me to become a teacher and finally I want to thank everyone that's in this room for what you do for our kids in danber especially my amazing colleagues and you the board of education for working together with us for supporting us and for trusting us to teach our hearts out to our public school kids [Applause] well that was wonderful and certainly not surprising though um Lori I couldn't help but notice that when you were sitting by the table next to Aaron you had that kind of shy humble approach that that is what really defines and makes you your character so amazing is that you do all that you do with such humbleness and um with with no expectation for anything in return so we appreciate you um your reputation at AIS proceeds you um and so congratulations on your award for see you thank we want to move on down our agenda do we have any of our students here to speak tonight board uh subc commit report we're going to start with the community relation committee uh so quick uh recap we had a community relations committee meeting on May 29th we talked about uh three different things uh elevator for the academies of hury um we also talked about putting together a Citywide uh uh education and youth related events calendar um and we also discussed uh event planning for the start of next school year uh so those plans will continue to be in motion um our next meeting on June 17th at 6:30 p.m.
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calling the meeting to order roll call Maria okara is here Rick Ry absent Gary here Amanda Buchanan here Dennis Bender here uh Miss White will you please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance i al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with libery and justice for all thank you so much kie do we have any public comments we do not have any public comments pertaining to closed session okay um we're going into close session um exposion cases number 25 23 to 24 through exposion number 27 23- 24 exposion case stipulated exposion number 2324 and stipulation stipulated number three 2324 for readmit cases AR 13 2324 through AR number 18 23 to 24 expungement of expulsion case ex uh number 10 22-23 conference with litigation government code section 54956 point a subsection a current litigation 11 cases cvds 1907 7 17220 1111 22956 cvsb 21133 222 0303 221 22270 23 23 04865 2314 073 23 22 171 and c and 2 412 359 government code section 5495 4.5 SEC subsection C and 54956.9 subsection D subsection 2 and subsection e and subsection one anticipated litigation one case 2020 20215 government code section 549 54.5 subsection D and 54 95695 anticipated litigation one case claimant Garrett Nicholas number three Public Employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave title certificated and classified employees number four public employees appointment resignation retirement reduction title certificated and classified employees number five conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Dustin Conrad employee organization Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association number six conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Dustin Conrad employee organization California School Employees Association number seven conference with real property negotiator government code 54956.9 negotiating parties Mar Matthew schulenberg Apple Valley Unified School District number eight security matters government code 54956 consultation with Appo Val Unified School District Chief of Police Superintendent evaluation I need a motion to go into close session so moved all second all in favor I I any opposed thank you we shall be back e e e calling the meeting to order again roll call Mara I'm here Rick Ry absent Gary RC here Amanda banan here Dennis Bender here um pledge of allegion um Amanda will you lead us in the Pledge yes all right please stand sh right hand over your heart ready begin IED Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the republ for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all good evening everyone and thank you for for being here before we get started I'd like to say that the board appreciates and supports our educational Partners input at our meetings engagement by members of the public and Civic and Civic matters is the Cornerstone of our democracy everyone should have a chance to express their opinions within the guidelines the board has established for its meetings so that we are able to conduct 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 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 at this time we would like to pause in a moment of silence to remember retired AV USD family member Penny spinny with an e and AV USD family member Monica Olaf thank you very much board comments Mr Bender how well behave graduation and God weather thank you Mrs Buchanan uh yes the graduations were phenomenal the best part of the year um I don't want to pick a favorite but I will say that the best dressed award has to go to Phoenix because the administration like principal White had the best suit and then her administrative team had matching sneakers their Nikes and the Phoenix colors I'm just saying it was pretty amazing so it's awesome thank you Mr Ry no nothing and for me uh it's been a pleasure um serving the students of this District this school last school year and to watch their happy faces at the graduation was worth the the ticket to the show um and I hope all the teachers and the administrators and all the support staff get a very well-deserved rest until we meet again in August I know we have another meeting next week but I'm looking forward to it I had the pleasure of seeing a adult adult graduates um at Victor Valley College and I I just have to say it's never too late to get that education um my mother used to say education is an Olympics everybody can win uh so I'm I do hope that when we come in next year um our children will be ready uh to go and we will be energized um to get this uh job going APO Val is a place to be thank you so much uh Mrs Nelson I too would just like to um comment about the promotions um the graduations I can't get to every promotion because they double up but I move around and um it's phenomenal to have those experiences with the families and to see how happy they are and how supportive they are of their children um summer school has begun and we have a lot of kiddos attending summer school this summer both at the Elementary and high school level and then um professional development is also ongoing we have um a room full over in the um MPR of people today um learning about crisis response uh our district has not been far from crisis response all year and so to have more people trained and skilled at this um process is wonderful for us so there's about 80 staff members over there right now which is incredible and then um the last three days so Monday Tuesday Wednesday was all about foundations um the foundations teams came together and reported out on what they had accomplished this year at each School site for common spaces um with our safe and civil facilit Susan Isaac's um and then I also would like to just comment on the adul head graduation oh you know that um Miss Buchanan and Miss okar were there but um Dr sharena betters did the keynote speaking and um she had us laughing and everybody engaged but um what I was most impressed with is the entire group of Apple Valley adul head students stayed until the very end they enjoyed the entire ceremony they were there to um process out and I was just so proud of them and I just I think publicly I needed to say that because um the room started as soon as people had cross the stage they'd leave to go start their parties and um I was just really proud of the Apple Valley crew so that goes out to Adele and her team and all the work they do to um make sure those people realize what a what an honor it is to be part of that kind of a ceremony thank you um we have Union Representatives do we have anybody from um CC here I do not believe so you have anybody from avuta we do not thank you um at this time I am going to read out our action taken in close session in close session the Board of Trustees approved the following on a on a motion by Amanda Buchanan and seconded by Maria okara to appoint Christie de debasco as assistant principal Elementary Mariana Elementary range 7 column 5 on the certificated management salary schedule 205 base Duty days effective July 1 [Applause] congratulations on a motion by Maria okara seconded by by uh Gary Ry the Board of Trustees approved the following appoint Jamie hjge as assistant principle Elementary Phoenix Academy range 7 column 1 under certificated management salary scheduled two 25 base Duty days effective July 1 on a vote of 40 congratulations [Applause] conference on litigation government code section 549 54.5 subsection D and 54956.9 five um n Garrett versus I AB USD on a motion by RC and seconded by Buchanan the board voted unanimously to accept and pay the claim of Nicholas Garrett I think that was it the board May approve the agenda as is or ADD and or pull items from the consent agenda for a discussion and or action I propose to add the following item to tonight's agenda pursuant to government code section 549 54.2 because there is a need for immediate action that arose after tonight's agenda was prepared to add this item to the agenda a two3 vote of the board is required if less than two-third of the members are present the vote must be unanimous board action to amend and adopt 2023 2024 Board of Trustees meeting a c calendar for the June 13 2024 meeting to provide for a onour dur ation of the closed session instead of the two hours present presently scheduled I I ask for a motion move I'll second it all in favor any opposed well I guess you got your unanimous um recognition presentation to recognize thas May of Walmart Distribution Center number 7033 Community part parip and support by Mrs Nelson where is he so as the board knows because they see them at every board meeting um we do a receipt of gifts and donations um that you all have the pleasure of seeing at every on every board meeting and the there are a lot of donations this District receives but the consistent donation is from the Walmart Distribution Center and Thomas we are Beyond grateful for the partnership and the support that you provide to not just Apple Valley Unified School District but at the community at large because the things that you donate allow us to support our families support the needs that they don't have um things that that just go unnoticed and we want you to know and we want your entire team to know that it does not go unnoticed by us and while we accept those gifts we want to give back in the sense of appreciation and in this District we do a recognition having to do with our values our core values and you represent all of those core values the part of dignity the food that's provided the things that we can give out at our food pantry that provides dignity to a family that couldn't provide otherwise service you serve with humility you never ask for anything from us and you just keep showing up um Community you're you you are in this community the the Walmart Distribution Center is here we are so proud that it is here because we had no idea when the town told us the Distribution Center was coming what that meant in Partnership and finally authenticity I think that Walmart has stood by authenticity every every chance that they've gotten to come come back and suppor in this community and so we just wanted to take the time I wish this audience was full of our students and our families um and we will continue to talk about this but I want everybody that is here that is watching to understand that when we tally up how much the Walmart Distribution Center has donated this year we are well over $100,000 in donations and without you we could not make the things happen that happen for um our family so thank you so much yeah [Applause] get [Laughter] my [Laughter] I love you thank you so much to the principles uh who um who were called up unannounced um but but we are all one big happy family uh we don't do things in the real way we make we we do it anyhow that works to make sure you we know you are here um now we are going for um propos to 2024 2025 budget presentation by Matthew Schellenberg assistant superintendent administrative Services thank you you should have a printed copy of my slide deck at at your seat so feel free to reference that and of course the slides are up on the screen okay it's going to do it to me again come on for some reason we'll try again here there we go um just a recap this is a familiar slide when we uh talk about our proposed budget there's a lot of information we use uh the first thing we use is we set our Benchmark for the current year as our estimated actuals 23 24 estimated actuals as of last month that really sets our projected ending fund balance for this current year which sets our beginning fund balance for the next year so that's the first Benchmark we have to set and then of course we're looking at the governor's January budget proposal that may revise uh we use the fmat lcff calculator as do the other 999 school districts in the state of California to determine what our lcff revenue is excuse me we use the school Services dart board again widely accepted information and of course the s Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools common message that gives specific guidelines to San Bernardino County school districts so here's our estimated actuals or EAS as of May you'll see um I'm going to take you through just a couple points if you look at the unrestricted column um about 192 million revenues 158 million expenditures we transferred out $166,000 and support of a another program in our district the contribution there I want to bring your attention to that line You'll see it's just a little over 39 million dollar the two components or the two major components of that contribution that's from our unrestricted section of fund1 our operating fund to the restricted side of fund1 is to support our special education program and our routine restricted maintenance program those two programs um special ed making up the majority of that contribution so you'll see on the unrestricted side we did spend our ending fund balance down by about $5 million from 27 to 22 million and you'll see the components there on the bottom on the restricted side um you'll see um 61 million in revenues and 112 million in expenditures well that's because there were some one-time funds that were already booked on the restricted side of our budget in previous years that don't come in as revenues we're spending down our restricted ending fund balance so you'll see we spent that down by about 13.6 million so it is down to about 13.6 or 13.7 million as our restricted ending fund balance and you'll see the combined side we did deficit spend to about 18.6 million a lot of that was planned and we knew that was going to happen the majority of it being on the restricted side of the budget any questions on this slide before I move on thank you um here's a little more detail uh breaks it down into what I'll say are the 1000s 2000s 3000s it's kind of the shortcut language in the business office uh salaries on the ones and twos for certificated and classified our benefits books and supplies um that's just a little more information you'll see the transfers out uh over the past few years we have been transferring out about $600,000 to support our deferred maintenance fund we did not make that transfer this year uh we did transfer 166,000 to support our adult education um we did also make a contribution to that in the previous fiscal year but I know uh our coordinator of our adult education program is working very hard to work within her budget we just did have some salary increases kind of and the timing just it it caus some caused her some increased expenditures and you'll see fund 40 reserve for Capital outlay I just want to remind the board that is our RDA Revenue the Redevelopment agency Revenue that flows into our general fund and the restricted side and we transfer that out to fund 40 fund 40 is the fund where we are currently making our cop Debt Service payments out of fund 40 um so that's restricted for facilities use any questions on this slide yeah um you had um 16 million on books and supplies under restricted can you give me a a just a short um um definition of what a restricted um budget item will be under books and supplies well sure a lot of on the restricted side you're going to see a lot of site specific expenditures related to Title One um in books and supplies and also they have payroll expenditures on the restricted side we have restricted Lottery uh funds that flow to us which are um earmarked specifically for instructional materials that's typically going to be your books and supplies on the restricted side subscriptions yes and some some Consultants also and actually they'd be under 5 thousands in the Services Consultants to support our professional development okay thank you certainly so for 2425 um moving forward we are still projecting a slight increase in enrollment for next year in Ada and we're we're getting some of that with the expansion of our TK program uh so we're projected our funded Ada at 12602 which we are projecting that as our P2 Ada in the spring of 2025 uh the statutory Cola of 1.07% we are assuming that U as the governor and the legislature as they battle up there um funding the cola is something that um hasn't been threatened too much yet but so we're making that assumption at this point so the impact on the lcff of course our lcf revenue is a little over 184 million of course that is the Lions share of our Revenue to our school district and of course it flows to us unrestricted but within that unrestricted lcff we always have to remember we do have our supplemental and our concentration grant funding which is specifically um utilized within the goals in our lcap and and it's it's kind of restricted but it does Flow To Us unrestricted with specific uses that we identify on the federal side we're budgeting about 10.5 million in revenues we're back to more of a normal post covid federal revenue ongoing Revenue situation all the one-time federal revenue all the one-time state revenue that flow to us uh is all gone it's there's no more coming um so we're we're normal izing a little more on the revenue we are assuming that we are receiving the full grade span adjustment revenue for our TK and K3 grade span adjustments so that has to do with the class size we maintain 24 to1 in grades TK through three well let me rephr let me restate that 24 to1 in K through three 24-2 in TK um for the the really little ones uh we are budgeting the contribution to routine restricted maintenance as I mentioned earlier that's that part of that contribution from our unrestricted side to our restricted side of our fund 01 and within our lcf I did mention the supplemental and concentration we also have two additional add-ons we have the transportation add-on and the transitional kindergarten add-on within that 1880 some million for our lcff revenue on the expenditure side we are budgeting step and column for all units as we do every year we do have a negotiated compensation increase with our certificated bargaining unit that is in the budget we have not negotiated any compensation increases for our classifier management groups of course we pay our stirs and purs contribution rates as those go up they they've kind of leveled out um and they're projecting those to level out on the certificated side although purs is projected to continue to increase I wanted to leave Fleet replacement expenses up there with a line through it because as you know over the years we've uh we've had a great opport opportunity to um purchase buses and rotate some old buses out of service and get some new buses into service well our buses are running about $250,000 a piece and these are not electric buses those are much more expensive uh diesel or gas but we are not budgeting for any Fleet replacement expenses this next fiscal year so I wanted to make that transparent as we always do we include all the lcap expenditures in our budget as an ongoing basis and of course we'll make any adjustments necessary as the lcap is lcap approval is the lcap is adopted and the approval is finalized so here's a quick look at what we have on the books for 2425 you'll see we are projecting currently some significant deficit spending on both the unrestricted side and the restricted side of our budget uh again the restricted is again that's planned that's spending down some of that one-time money that's assuming all of the routine restricted maintenance money will be spent all of our elop money will be spent all of our Arts music education block grant will be spent and that may not come true on the unrestricted side again we're budgeting for all of our normal expenses I would like to point out you do see something different on the unrestricted side we have a transfer in of $2 million earlier I mentioned the defer maintenance contributions that we've been making over the past several years to fund 14 um later on today's agenda you see a uh action item to uncommit the funds in fund 14 um board took action a couple years ago to commit those funds to support our routine uh deferred maintenance projects um we're needing I'm recommending the board take action to uncommit those funds as as you see on the part on that unrestricted side of our budget if we did not have that 2 million um we would not meet our 3% required Reserve any questions on this slide before I move on okay as we move forward into 2526 uh pretty standard Revenue assumptions again we are still projecting a slight increase in our Ada so we're budgeting for that we are budgeting per the school Services dart board and the County Common message the 2.93 statutory Cola for that year and again we're assuming receipt of all the grade span adjustment for our TK through three program and again the federal and state revenue are really normalized moving forward not a lot of anticipated changes on the federal side or the state revenue what's considered other state revenues that's some small unrestricted pieces and some restricted pieces this is the tough slide on the expenditure side um we are budgeting step and column we are there are no negotiated salary increases for that particular fiscal year we are budgeting stirs and purs all of our lcap expenditures but that last one is the tough one while we work through this year we will have some cost efficiencies that we will need to identify um programs that we need to make efficiencies in um looking at any positions that are vacated and determining if those positions are going to be filled so we are currently assuming right around $12 million in expenditure efficiencies and reductions for the 2526 school year that is approximately 5% of our total operating budget and most of those efficiencies or reductions will need to come on the unrestricted side of the budget the caveat we have there is the supplemental and concentration Grant funds fall within the unrestricted side of our budget but making cuts to the supplemental and concentration Grant don't do us a whole lot of good because we still have to spend that supplemental and concentration grant money if we don't spend the entire allocation then the following year our supplemental and concentrate ation Grant allocation is increased by the amount we didn't spend uh because there were a lot of districts that weren't spending it and they were just rolling it over and considering it unrestricted so the state came down with some more regulations so this year we're going to be making some decisions as to services to continue services to um streamline as we move forward so here's what we look like in you'll see on the unrestricted side we're currently projecting just under $200 million in Revenue 156 million on expenditures our sources and contributions up to 42 million again that is the majority um continued cost pressures and increases within our special ed program um but we're currently projecting what I would call A balanced budget with an excess of $261,000 on about $200 million of expenses the restricted side again pretty balanced um given that contribution of course and you'll see the combined side again it just carries through with a projected ending fund balance of right around 10 million which does meet our 3% required Reserve but which does not meet our 5% board policy required Reserve any questions on this slide before I move on thank you going into 2627 not a whole lot of excitement out in 2627 because um honestly we have no idea what's going to happen two years from now um hopefully the state's economy has recovered hopefully Gavin well I don't think it'll be Gavin hopefully whoever the governor is um whoever the governor is hopefully handing out money Handover fist especially to schools and we'll recover and all will be well U we are assuming again a slight increase to our Ada um the statutory Cola as recommended by school services and the grade span adjustment again and just to back up a step in the fall of 25 please note that transitional kindergarten is fully implemented in the fall of 25 which its ratio goes to 20 to2 so that's that could be a facilities issue but again full implementation at TK through3 is what we're assuming and on the expenditure aside again nothing exciting it's it's a lot of the same carryover um ongoing expenses on the LC cap is we make adjustments as we make adjustments to our lcap um but in this multi-year projection not a whole lot of adjustments out in our third year and that's currently where we sit um revenues are coming in about 205 million on the UNR unrestricted side with expenditures up to 161 there are a couple um instructional material adoptions that are being assumed in this year um which are a couple of the large expenditure increases in that year uh so we are currently um again what I would call a balanced budget we have about 800,000 excess on um about a little over 200 million in expenditures and you'll see the components and again we do meet our 3% required Reserve in the oute but we do not meet our 5% board policy so a couple concerns again our enrollment in Ada of course we are still projecting a slight increase um that's going to come through some additional transitional Kinder students as that reaches full implementation and also some increases in our K through 12 um smaller increases uh that is something that we'll have to keep a close eye on to make sure that comes to fruition because if the kids don't show up we will absolutely have to make adjustments to these Revenue assumptions uh the lcff funding I put Cola to fund or not to fund uh and that's still questionable I know the governor and the legislatur are still um negotiating the the budget package we'll know end of next week June 15 of course the legislature has to adopt a budget by June 15th or they don't get paid and they've been great at adopting a Budget prior to June 15 um then they negotiate some more the governor takes out his pen starts Crossing things out and then of course he signs it by June 30th and of course the effects of any continued economic situation and in the prop 98 maneuver I think you've you've probably all heard of that and you've heard of the governor striking a deal with CTA and we're still kind of waiting to see exactly what that looks like because none of the trailer Bill language has been written or is released on that so there's still some questions uh but it does I if that goes through it is better for schools than the governor's original proposal um I think I talked about a couple of these already the biggest wha if prop 98 maneuver um and of course that last bullet um based on the state adopted budget the end of June uh we'll do some analysis when we come back in July and if we need to make some major adjustments um you'll see those at the August 24 board meeting and it I have one slide left but all it says is questions and thank you so does anybody have any questions thank you very much thank you Cy do we have any public comments we do not um Mr Conrad is watching he does not believe that we will wave to him I told him we would so this is a double dare by the way so it's it's been done all right but we do not have any public [Laughter] comments should the this is summer we do all kinds of things in summer wow he's so excited okay so easily ENT happy birthday sir oh thank you okay we're going to conduct a public hearing to solicit the recommendation and comments of members of the public regarding the specific actions and expenditures proposed in the 2024 2025 local control accountability plan for the district do I do Bender time or do my time I can fill one Bender minute if you if you open the hearing and then I'm going to I'm going to open the meeting awesome I just wanted to um first thank the board for letting me present last time on this so you had a a chance to review the elap document and I wanted to apologize for a couple of errors that were pointed out to me as I went through you probably already found them I appreciate you not calling me and saying how come you labeled on page 26 I did have a Mis label of an action item I've had two Transportation items when one of them should not have been so that's been adjusted and I have been going back and forth with my County reviewer with um Minor Adjustments to some of the actions um just in just in language sentence structure things she knows that certain advocacy groups will be looking for of course she pointed out that error there was also a justification for Action 1.1 or 1.2 that had that whole awkward box I was able to get that out of there as a formatting issue from document tracking and then um I goal four and five are now complete and in the posted elcap the equity multiplier item for Phoenix Academy and the Phoenix Academy preschool is item five and Apple Valley virtual and Hydra Premier Academy are item four or go four those items are in there they've been reviewed our Reviewer is quite pleased with our progress we are in as good at lcap approval shape as we've really ever been in and so it's marching along well and uh we feel confident that we will be moving toward um approval soon after board approval so just a little update on the items since I've given them to you last month thank you any comments from members of the public well the meeting started at 4:00 so um time close is 4:02 conduct a public hearing on the proposed operating budget for the 2024 202 five school year I'm going to open again 402 any comments from the from the board you know I was let me go back as I was thinking about that uh that information um the cola is going to go from 1.07 in 2425 and then in 26 27 the cola is 3.8 3.08 uh the question that I have is um in this period of time where the cola is not growing as fast as the cost of living how are we going to make sure that we adjust enough so that our employees uh don't feel the pinch of the drop in Cola well if um W with the Cola in its current state um apparently not keeping up with inflation even though inflation has moderated quite a bit since its peak um ensuring that our employees as you say don't feel the pinch is going to require the the entire system to really take a look at um prioritizing expenditures um whether those be materials program expend ures um because as you know we are a people Rich organization um so if um in order to take care of our people that means we do have to find the funding somewhere else on our budget um thank you any comments from members of the public we're going to close this at 404 it is recommended that the Board of Trustees discuss and take action on the following items approve an increase to the compensation of board members beyond the limit delineated in Education Code 3510 in the amount of 5% based on the present monthly rate of compensation effective July 1 2024 I need a motion I'll seconded any discussion all in favor 20 $20 it's probably 405 20% 5% prob um M Mr Bender it would go from $420 a month this year effective July 1st it would be $441 a month wow that's a lot of [Music] money well did we all vote on this already okay good approved the certificated and classified Personnel actions as listed with amend with an amendment to certificated Personnel action Page One Employment 2024 to 2025 feris Crystal uh from Phoenix Academy to Rio Vista School of Applied learning and an amendment to certificated personel action page to establish new positions from teacher Phoenix PC number one teach TW 1230 7 and 7.1 9 hours per day 184 base Duty days to teacher R PC one teach 1 1230 79 hours per day 184 base Duty days I need a motion so move I'll second any discussion just just for um the public these there was a an error in the placement of where the teacher was being um transferred to they they had put in for a transfer and the PC numbers have to align so when we do a personnel number it has to match so that the funding comes out of the right account um in the business office so we did the one change caused the PC number change as well so that's why there's two pieces here so it is now seven hours and 18 19 minutes instead of 7 hours and 11 minutes it's 7.19 7 percentage 7 7.11 7.19 hours is equivalent to 7 hours and 11 minutes okay yeah it's a that's all I remember that's how I you know that s hours and 11 minutes okay um all in favor I opposed okay number three we already did that number three approve the recommendation for requested leaves as noted I need a motion move second any discussion vote all in favor I I any opposed approve the recommendation of the ethnic studies committee to proceed in the development of courses pursuant to option four of the curriculum frame framework a blended model I need a motion I'll move I'll second both of us were the people that worked it any discussion all in favor I any opposed approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson effective immediately expostion case number 25 2023 to 2024 I need a motion second any discussion all in FA all in favor I any opposed expulsion case number 26 2023 2024 I need a motion so move second any discussion all in favor I I any opposed exposion case number 27 2023 2024 I need a motion second any discussion all in favor I I any oppos stipulation stipulated exposion number two um I need uh number 2 2023 2024 any um I need a motion I'll second any discussion all in favor I exposion case uh stipulated number three 2023 2024 I need a motion so moved I'll second any discussion all in favor I I sponge expulsion case number 10 2022 2023 I need a motion so move second any discussion all in favor I I I I any opposed [Music] annual review number 13 2023 2024 I need a motion president president oakar I do want to offer that if you wanted to make those 13 through 18 in one motion you are allowed to do that for those annual reviews thank you okay annual review number 13 14 15 16 17 and 18 I need a motion so I'll second all in favor I pass and adopt resolution 2324 24 committed fund balance fund number 14 and need a motion so mooved I'll second any discussion all in favor I I okay okay approve the proposed amendment 2023 2024 Board of Trustees meeting calendar for the June 13 2024 meeting to provide for a onehour duration of the closed session instead of the 2 hours presently scheduled meeting will begin at 1:00 for public comments after which the board convenes into closed 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looking forward to their 14th year 14th year 13th year uh also I attended the reality the reality Fair on Friday it was interesting in the past have always been part of the budget department where we sit and go through the budget and this year there was a student Jessica who graduated in 2018 who created a new booth called Civic engagement and basically talking to students about what it means to be involved we wound up talking to them about getting registered to vote and while we were standing there Michael was with in the same booth with Jack Lewis U Mariana from Jack's um office and then Jessica who's from Senator spilka's office and we were chatting like okay so what can we do while we're here and talk to these students and we were able to create a QR code and get it printed out and we probably had 30 students register to vote right then and there so that was just great to to be able to do that and sort of the five of us pull that all together and we were discussing how can we get them engaged even more next year so we're contemplating having actual debates so Jack and I said oh we could you know debate for 2 minutes and have them their feedback or see what that's like to hear different sides so we're always thinking about what happens what we can do um how we can engage them even more so obviously as with all the booths sometimes they just step up and make sure they get their signature but we had a lot of students who were really engaged telling us what they thought about Civic engagement and how they could be involved so that was really cool uh so we talked about opening day on Friday June 14th up in Marboro the Metros Regional collaborative is having their legislative breakfast so this is an opportunity and if you don't have if you're not on the mailing list I'll make sure you get invited it's an opportunity to hear from MPC so Lizzie Wyant one of their um assistant executive director will be there Leia Robbins part of their government Affairs team will also be there and then our local legislators are there to have a discussion and tell us what's going on uh so that's happening on Friday June 14th uh let's see the other thing also on June 14th this is over in hopkington they start they kick off their Friday Night concert series these are outside these are also free concerts it's on a Friday night and uh they do an offer you know pay what you can kind of thing but they have some really good bands as well so that's just another opportunity to see some live music outside and that is all I have so pretty good Brandy 8:32 not bad maybe 8:34 if there is anything else I do I have one thing I want to say okay I forgot to congratulate you and welcome to the board and I look forward I look forward to working with you really do thank you now I'm done now you're done yes I think uh it's this is we actually weren't talking about this but before we got on camera we were talking how this is historic for Ashland in many ways this is the first time that there are four women sitting on the select board we've increased year-over-year over the last three years uh this is also the first time a person of color so it's great to have that on our board and we thank Makita for stepping up and we look forward I personally look forward to what we can accomplish in the next year in supporting uh our community and Michael and Jen moving forward yeah and and I just want to thank the people of Ashland for allowing me to step up and uh to be a part of this body and to uh uh serve them and to make history with all of y'all so great with that if I can have a motion to adjourn and a second second great we will see you back here on June 26 that will be our next select board meeting uh enjoy June 19th and hope to see you at the farmer Market any Saturday starting this Saturday uh all those in favor of adjourning I I I thank you all that wraps up this meeting for Wednesday June 5th we will see you back here on the 26 thanks so much for watching e for
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is going to be an inperson meeting and uh there's a document that was circulated by Dr C uh where we can do some brainstorming in advance that meeting so I do encourage committee members please look at that document and add to it so that we can make that brainstorming session on 17th productive um I also uh Dr sh if you could could we just make sure that that's for to all board members so that they have access to it you can see what's going on I will do that thank you so much why don't you do uh Mr jelle is not here to finance and then we add John if he has any comments to add to that Finance sure um so the finance committee meeting uh took place on May 23rd um we did discuss the rework of next year's school budget uh we went from our $181 million request and we uh we heard how uh the cabinet and the administration team put together a budget based on $167 million which includes an anticipated million in additional State funding that we um been told we going to be receive from the city um and there was a a video link that was circulated by the superintendent for anyone who may have missed that meeting the conversation was a little bit complex so I won't get into too many of the details here but suffice it to say that all but uh two positions um were we were able to find a space for them in the upcoming budget um which is wonderful and um we currently have to certify teacher openings at least as of that meeting so uh that number may have fluctuated since that uh the the next Finance meeting is June 18th at 6 p.m.
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I need a motion so move a second any discussion all in favor I I it is recommended that the Board of Trustees consider approving a number of agenda items as a consent list consent items are routin 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 item number 1 through 31 I need a motion so move 1 through 32 sorry about that 32 so moved for one through 32 thank you I'll second all in favor I I I okay future items do any members of the board have any future items for next week okay next board meeting is Thursday June 133 2024 1 p.m. educational support Center conference room a there being no further business to come before the Board of Trustees it is recommended that the meeting be adjourned I need a motion second all in favor thank you so much for your time
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thank you s and facility thank you um we have not had a sites and Facilities meeting since our last board meeting however we do have one schedule for June 17th at 5:30 will be before relation meeting in person and agenda any questions concerning any of the Committees at this time okay yes I just want to mention we have set up our policy committee date for the next meeting it's going to be Monday June 10th at 6:30 p.m. why we saw the following U committees right near at this time I would like for to go out to um the chairperson of the community relation is Kate and I'm adding uh jul to community relations okay so we move on down the agenda action item a one make a motion that the Board of Education excuse me we make a motion that the Board of Education appr the amendment to the Sodexo food service agreement to extend the agreement for one year July 1st 2024 to June 30th 2025 in in accordance with 24-1 second and motion motion made by second by Al any question concerning that motion seeing none could I hear all those in fav motion I he I I motion still before we move forward um we talked about the finance did you get John opportunity did you have anything to add John to I'm sorry no I think Kate covered it and I actually said our next meeting is June 18 okay okay thank you superintendent report some of a a short report tonight um I'll start with the strategic planning piece and then we'll talk about the graduation events and code events which a little bit shorter um so I am looking very much looking forward to revisiting the Str teic plan for the district I think it's really important to revitalize some of the goals that we've had in the past our strategic plan usually covers uh several years um but in light of kind of where we where we've traveled this year and we to go um we'll be revisiting that um during the summer months and um with the idea of rep prioritizing and refocusing and Gathering some feedback on on those goals as well I look forward to working with the board um as well as our staff and our school leaders um one of the things that I want to be you know sure of is that we don't let the budget the story of the budget the problems with the budget dominate the the school year I I felt that uh we spent so much time on it because we had to right in in crisis and more than likely we're going to be faced with that again next year but I don't want to lose sight of really the vision and the goals of what it takes to move a district forward uh and best utilize the resources that we do have to stay focused on that um you know creating engaging learning experiences and environments for kids is going to be top of the list right we need to reconnect with our students um get them back our students are um have not been the same coming out of Co experiencing that in the buildings and behaviors and uh we do everything possible to sort of reengage and support the teachers and in engaging those students um you we're coming from the work that I typically have been involved in in the teaching learning and curriculum field um creating that rigorous Continuum of learning also is going to be a a priority so making sure that we're looking at our K12 offerings uh and making sure that we're providing very best that we can for the students within the means that we have we need to invigorate our teaching ranks and our leadership ranks and make sure that we're providing meaningful professional experiences that will support them through carrying through with the priorities that we set forth um with our schools so those are going to be really important things heading into the school year we developed a wonderful for of The Graduate and we need to get back to making sure that we make good on the promise of that forun of the GR graduate to our students we need to revisit um how we engage with some of our families uh again the engagement um this year has been a lot focused on the budget and so wanted to make you know making sure that we understand the needs of our community that has been changing at a rapid pace and making sure that we incorporate that to some of our planning so um I look forward to working uh with all of our stakeholders as we revisit those and as we roll out the next school year um of course budget will be part of that um but it can't be it can't be our only story so forward to that um graduation we got some happy dates coming up here from the end of the school year so just to go over the end of the year graduation dates we have Endeavor Friday June 7th at 11:00 a.m.
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we have the ace graduation on Tuesday June 11th at 5:00 p.m. at the Broad View Middle School auditorium we have also on June 11th the three large middle schools we have a Westside Rogers par in Broadview so west side is at 12:00 p.m. on the 11th Rogers Park is at 2:30 on the 11th and Broad Middle School is at 5:00 p.m.
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on the 11 and then our grand finale is the Danbury High School graduation on Thursday June 13 at 5:00 so look forward to to that and then the last uh the last piece is on Kota um if anybody had a chance to visit Cota over the weekend on Saturday it was absolutely amazing as it always is our staff goes to the ends of the Earth to make sure that the art is is positioned just right the collections and the collages are stunning um the visual display was you know Second To None U the musical performance were on point and families and kids really seem to enjoy it we had some Vex robotics uh demonstration uh set up which were phenomenal to see and the kids got a chance to play with some of that which was great um we were trying to see the the pathway interest very early there so some of our students that came back to support were talking to kids about that which was great to see them passing on that passion and enthusiasm so uh it was a wonderful wonderful day we want to thank our art music special area TT teachers for putting that together it's a lot of work and it really is something that the community look for to moving on the agenda board chair want say this we have a few folks asked so as you know Dr Chris Alita was awarded our Middle School principal of the year for the state of Connecticut she's also going to represent the state of Connecticut as she moves forward and so we'll be honoring her um at the very first board meeting uh of the next school year we'll have a reception for her and then an official award she'll have her own board meeting dedicated to just her so it's been a busy end of the year um but we can't wait to celebrate her and her accomplishments board chairperson course I'm not going to repeat what the superintendent has spoken about I just want to thank everyone for That Rainy Day Memorial Day how we came together and and participated in the parade it was fun even though we some of us were wet early but it was still fun I want to thank you for that um uh Al am and I had sort of spoke earlier about the survey and him and I sort of discussed it again last night and we feel like the best time to get that survey out is to come back in September work together work along with the superintendent and then we get that survey out so and I hope everybody can join in to us putting your responses to that service when we get it out um we know that a lot of things are going on a lot of graduation we all can't be at the same place the way they happening um so do the best you can and support our district that's all ask my last thing was that I think Kim you need a representative do you two for would it be easier for them to just let Karen know if they available I actually have a date which just came through um we're trying to schedule a first session it's for both um school one for school lunch and one for um safety exits so the neg and the date is Thursday next Thursday uh 1 at 12:00 and 1 at 12:30 they're just the kind of organization so one person should be great um to handle both of them if you want to let me know anyone is interesting you can do either one and you know we can't have anyone to do 12 and it's going to be Zoom right yes so we let Kim know or let Carol know if you know n that you can do it let what's the day next Thursday the 13th uh it's in the morning so it's at 12 and 12:30 they'll be quick um they're they're just the organizational so The Bu run the organizational meeting so they'll each be by so I can tell everybody who's ever done it before it's running in the other direction and if you can't get any you know I can I feel it's two positions safy Advocate and scho any other discussion any questions we all have been going to a lot of activity this week and we have a busy week again next week and let's just uh close our meting there's nothing else I need a motion toour the meeting motion made back second
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Gade Tech environmental science and sustainability is a three-year Career Technical education program with one main goal set in mind to achieve a greater understanding of our environment and how humans impact it Mr Adams instructs his students on the role with every aspect in an ecosystem and explains how students can use sustainable practices to support them students will learn how to care for the nature around them and be equipped with the knowledge to make a real difference in our Earth's future environmental touches on many different facets of nature so no student is left uninterested students learn how to keep bees and will receive their beekeeping license by the end of their senior year the program goes into depth on the importance of preserving New Jersey's native plants students will learn to Foster native plants and will hold a community sale for them every spring students will work together to build and maintain an aquaponic system aquaponics is an independent system system that uses fish water plants and the properties of nitrogen to create a sustainable closed loop system the fish and plants are then handed over to our culinary program and used in our very own restaurant the perch students will also partner with Stockton University to tap red maple trees and make their very own maple syrup some field trips include the Philadelphia Flower Show Rucker shellfish lab Stockton University native Gardens and more to come seniors can expect to become beekeeper certified Wastewater management certified and to receive pesticide fertilization certifications from Ruckers students also obtain membership in Kate May Tech's FFA chapter where they have access to leadership and career growth opportunities through agriculture education joining environmental science and sustainability is not only a pathway to related careers but will equip students with a significant knowledge on why it's important to promotee sustainability within our environment [Music]
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for [Music] Jasmine possible [Music] good evening students staff families board members and Community Partners I'd like to welcome you all to our scholarship ceremony please stand for the presentation of our American flag oh say can you see by the dawn early light what so proudly we at the Twilight last who's brought stripes and bright stars through the per for the parts we were so gly streaming and the rocket redare the BS bursting in air gave FR through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that Stars Spangled [Music] way for the of the free and the home of [Music] the for please be [Music] seated welcome everyone tonight we've recognized many well-deserving seniors for being selected as the successful candidates of our local and Foundation scholarships we celebrate their commitment to academics their passion for CTE involvement in their community and for their leadership they demonstrated over the past four years I would like to offer my congratulations to each reward recipient at this time I'd like to call Mr baseli to the podium [Applause] good evening everyone thank you for joining us before we start I would like to give a huge shout out to someone who has worked hard behind the scenes all year to make sure that this night is possible and that is one of our counselors Miss Lauren dagel and before we begin I would ask all of you to recognize the moment family friends Tech staff members community members and beneficiaries join you tonight some may know you personally While others only know you from a paper application that you completed despite this they have one common belief and that is the belief in you and your future they have fundraised and donated all year to support your dreams as you leave Tech we've raised over $195,000 to give away tonight as you become leaders in our community it will be your turn to pay it forward and support those around you and here at Tech we certainly look forward to what you will accomplish with that being said it is time for our first scholarship of the night the Cumberland County vocational technical Education Association scholarship this $300 scholarship is intended for a student who contributes a great deal to his or her school envir but who rarely achieves a claim for his or her contributions this year's recipient is Katherine [Applause] or Katie will be attending Virginia Tech in the fall where she will be studying civil engineering [Applause] at this time I would like to recognize Miss wickcraft on behalf of the William G witcraft trade scholarship please stand to be [Applause] recognized the William G witcraft trade scholarship in the amount of $500 is in memory of William Bill witcraft Bill served as a power Trooper in the Vietnam War he was a motorcycle Enthusiast and spent most of his career in the construction industry as a foreman and heavy equipment operator he finished his career with the Westchester Area School District facilities department and Bill was known for his work ethic love for family and passion for motorcycles this scholarship is to be awarded to a student who has excelled in the trades this year's recipient is Tim Johnson [Applause] s has enlisted with the Marines he plans to open his own wood shop someday and would like to thank Mr Campbell for everything that he taught [Applause] him at this time I'd like to call Mr Kyle Platt and Mr Bill Jenkins from the automotive program to the stage to present the next [Applause] scholarship mini plug for our awesome car show that we have next year it'll be in early May so hope to see you there the automotive department scholarships range between $500 and $2,000 they are being awarded to students in the automotive program uh we have multiple recipients so hold your applause this year's recipients are Carter ER Ruben Mendes Matthew Campanella and Alexander Martinez [Applause] Sosa Carter shared that without Mr supy Mr Platt and Mr Jenkins he wouldn't have the knowledge and work ethic that he has now and they were the most supportive and motivating teachers he knows Ruben will be attending Camden County College for the GM as program while working at RK Chevrolet Vinland Matthew will be attending rcsj to pursue an associates degree in Business while working at Northeast pre-cast as a welder and mechanic and throughout High School Alex was involved in interact lassi and the coding Club all which he stated helped him develop useful skills for [Applause] Society for our next scholarship I would like to invite Miss chrisy de Leonardo to the stage to present [Applause] [Music] read it this next Award of $1,000 is presented on behalf of the bridon area Chamber of Commerce and Chamber of Commerce foundation in memory of William Gus goswell co-presented by bridon onized Federal Credit Union the work agency and Martin Corporation this scholarship is for a student who is enrolled in a business related major this year's recipient is Leslie [Applause] Hernandez Leslie will be studying marketing at Rowan [Applause] University at this time I would like to call Captain Lopez Officer Steve Monera and K9 KC to the stage to present the next [Applause] scholarship the CCT Tech campus safety strive internship scholarship of $1,200 is for a student in the strive program who has devoted their time working closely with the campas safety team this year's recipient is Jenny [Applause] vening Jenny would like to thank Miss Kesler she stated she has helped guide me during my time at Tech she always made sure I had everything I needed helped me with the job and job Readiness after graduation [Applause] for our next scholarship I would like to introduce Miss Kirsten Pierce to present the Gina Pierce Memorial Scholarship [Applause] Gina Pierce was a member of the brisan Exchange Club while working as the coordinator of the culinary arts department here at scarpet Tech this award was created in honor having served as a respected member of the Exchange Club in her love of scarpet tech the family of Gina Pierce donated $1,000 to a student enrolled in the culinary arts program who is pursuing post-secondary studies or has secured employment in the field this year's recipient is Grace rusy [Applause] Grace will be attending The Culinary Institute of America next year she'll be studying Food business management with a primary focus in baking and pastry Grace said the chefs here at Tech have helped me improve and hone my skills ensuring I'm ready for college the $500 lassi recognition of Excellence scholarship is being awarded to an active member of the Latin American American Caribbean and Iberian Club at Tech the recipient has also earned the Seal of by literacy in the state of New Jersey this year's recipient is yenia Manda Reyes [Applause] yenia will be attending Stockton University next year Goos sprs where she will be studying exercise science she would like to thank her health science and medicine instructors miss vieri miss bdsa and miss [Applause] simonini before announcing our next recipient I'd like to recognize a representative of the Cumberland County retirees education Association in the audience tonight president of the CCA Miss Pam Garwood please stand to be [Applause] recognized the CCA is awarding two $750 scholarships this year for students pursuing a career in education this year's recipients are Samantha Slimmer and Brian Snell Samantha will be attending Ryder University and will be studying mathematics secondary education and special education Briana will be attending Rowan University studying Elementary [Applause] education the Mars River Township Teachers Association scholarship is a $100 schol schip designated for a student who graduated from Mars River Township Elementary School this year's recipient is Chris [Applause] hansar another Osprey in the house Chris will be attending Stockton University next year for secondary education in English [Applause] I would like to call Dr Lachlan Miss Bruno Miss Gates Miss hickey Mr supi and Miss dagel from the student services department to the stage to present the next [Applause] scholarship The Tech Student Services team is awarding multiple 200 $50 scholarships the recipients demonstrated great resolve throughout their High School experience please hold your applause until all names are red there's a lot Brook Joselyn Emily wiel Tina Zoo arielis Martinez Alexandra Aguilar Anna Zoo Maximus Zera Ruben Mendes Gavin Miller Isabella Howard Ava Patt Jessica Lee and Jaden molter C Leon [Applause] the student services scholarship is funded through multiple multiple events at Tech we have the student services 5K early in the school year the Soccer Showdown in November and the volleyball tournament so thank you to anybody uh who participated student staff community [Applause] members the $1,000 bridon Rotary Club scholarship is for a student who exemplifies good citizenship academic achievement leadership and who will utilize the scholarship to help continue at a college or university this year's recipient is Natalie Dado [Applause] Natalie will be attending Arcadia University next year she will be studying biology to eventually pursue physical therapy as her [Applause] career the new Italy American society was established in 1905 in an area in violence still known today as new Italy and given the area's history of hardworking individuals members from the new Italy American society aim to support students who show a strong interest in their and skills in their trade by awarding two $500 scholarships to those in the automotive construction trades or welding programs this year's recipients are Michael kago and Morgan Mion [Applause] Michael will be attending Rowan University to obtain his bachelor's degree in construction management Morgan will be attending rcsj and ran University studying business administration to further her career as a machinist and [Music] welder the Italian American benevolent associ iation is providing multiple one Awards of $1,000 to students who have an appreciation of Italian culture and have achieved excellence in their academics before announcing our recipients I would like to recognize a representative in our audience tonight Mr Pete chaalia please stand to be [Applause] recognized please hold your applause until all names have been announced I love saying that it's great news this year's recipients are Noel asela Michael DeVito Natalie drada Morgan Heron Steven Horvath and Trista [Applause] supi students who received this award completed a comprehensive application that focused on family and financial needs the essay asked students to speak in detail about the importance of this scholarship towards their future college and career goals congratulations to our [Applause] recipients the Seabrook chapter of the Japanese American citizens League Award of $200 is presented to a student whose judgment courtesy generosity and compassion to fellow students best exemplifies the principles of moral courage Brotherhood service and Good Conduct this year's recipient is L Ramirez Ruiz L will be attending Rowan College of South Jersey to study psychology she said Mr celo Mr Campbell and Miss Evans were all teachers that helped her get not only through high school but the process of growing up they gave her good advice and helped her realize that she's stronger than she thinks and capable of great [Applause] things I'd like to invite Miss Bruno law enforcement counselor and Mr carado Jr law enforcement instructor to the stage to present the law enforcement scholarship [Applause] this $250 scholarship is for a senior in the law enforcement program this year's recipient is elsc yak [Applause] Lopez Elsie will be attending Rowan University next year she will be studying human resource management and wishes to become an HR specialist [Applause] [Music] yeah I would now also like to invite Captain Andre Lopez to the stage to present the law enforcement [Applause] scholarships and officer Pete o Jada sorry Pete before announcing our recipients I'd like to recognize law enforcement representatives in audience tonight Chief Michael gamari bridon Police Department former Sheriff Robert Tino former undersheriff Michael Santiago and Sheriff Michael Donado of the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office please stand to be [Applause] recognized three scholarships are sponsored each year by various community- based organizations in addition to those mentioned in our audience we would like to thank the bridon superior Officers Association the Cumberland County Improvement Authority Arc International Duran glass of milville the scarpet tech R rcsj campus safety unit the Selby realy Group brokered by Kini real estate and the bridon PBA we would also like to thank the following individuals Miss Miss Kathy osino Miss Stephanie oeta and Sergeant Justin Selby these $500 scholarships are awarded to students who have shown dedication commitment and Leadership skills during their four years as a member of the law enforcement program in addition these students have shown a desire to pursue a career in law enforcement this year's recipient of the sheriff Rob Sheriff Robert a Tino law enforcement scholarship is Emily [Applause] wiel Emily will be attending Rowan University next year she'll be studying Law And Justice studies and wishes to become an attorney after the completion of her bachelor's degree and jurist Doctor degree she would like to thank Mr carado for in influencing her career [Music] [Applause] path our next scholarship is the $500 Lieutenant Gary Marks Law Enforcement Memorial Scholarship this scholarship is in memory of Lieutenant Gary Marx and is supported by the brisan superior Officers Association this year's recipient is Gabriella Rodriguez [Applause] Bella Gabriella will be attending Messiah University to study graphic design and Digital Arts [Applause] the next Award of $500 is the law enforcement director's award this year's recipient is Hannah [Applause] Rodriguez Hannah will be attending Rowan University next year she'll be studying physical education and wishes to pursue a career as a PE teacher [Applause] thank you the Edward penson Scholarship Foundation was founded in 1997 by milville Resident Edward Pinson these scholarships which are offered as a result of Mr pinson's caring and generosity are an opportunity for the recipients to make a difference in their lives and the lives of their families and Community please hold your applause until all names are announced this year's recipients are Michael DeVito Natalie drat Carly Ferguson Caleb Garrison Alysa grick Brian Hernandez Leslie Hernandez Morgan Heron Nathaniel Howard Hunter Haley Jones Christian konia Isabella salar Callie Sloan Matthew sui and Edward Thurman hundreds of Cumberland County students have received the Pinson scholarship since 1997 with the intention of advancing their Endeavors in colleges trade schools vocational schools and professional programs tonight the total is over 21,000 combined for our student unes [Applause] Dr Charles S Razer an outstanding lion known for his community involvement passed away in 1986 the bridon Lions Club created a $500 scholarship to memorialize his community-minded spirit and to recognize outstanding students from the bridon area who display academic ability leadership qualities and an attitude of caring for others this year's recipient is Zera de [Applause] Rez another Osprey Zera day will be attending Stockton University she will be majoring in nursing she would like to thank nurse Pala for making her mornings great every day the $500 cumland County council of education associations Frank marsy Memorial Scholarship Award winner is a child or family member of someone who is an nja member the student must demonstrate the following characteristics humanitarianism leadership sportsmanship citizenship Integrity desire and determination this year's recipient is Noel [Applause] Aela Noel will be attending Hoffer University next year she will be studying forensic science while continuing to work as a nail tech she would like to thank Miss Ocasio for encouraging her to be confident in herself [Applause] at this time I would like to call Miss lean fucci and M Hillary sharp from the PTO to the stage to present the PTO [Applause] scholarship the scarpet tech parent teacher organization scholarship is awarded to individuals who have shown active pursuit in the educational experience at Scarpa Tech and have formed bonds and connections within the school these Pursuits and connections are reflect Ed in the PTO mission statement each scholarship is in the amount of $500 this year's recipients are Jaden molter Castiglione and Isabella saltar Jaden will be attending Ron University to study psychology with hopes of becoming a therapist or social worker Isabella will also be attending Rowan University in the fall she will be studying biology as an honor student in a 3 plus4 veterinary [Applause] program at this time I would like to call Mr Matt McDonald from Cumberland Mutual Insurance to the stage to present the Cumberland Mutual Insurance scholarship [Applause] one $500 scholarship is generously awarded by the oldest insurance company in the state of New Jersey Cumberland Mutual Insurance this student possesses a minimum 3.5 GPA and intends to pursue a career in the field of Information Technology or business this year's recipient is Michael DeVito [Music] [Applause] Michael will be attending Messiah University next year he will be majoring in cyber security as he wishes to pursue a career in the Information Technology field with a focus on always serving others and honoring the Lord in his [Applause] work I would like to introduce Mr Robert odesi chairman and president of the Board of Trustees of the Italian cultural Foundation of South Jersey to speak on behalf of the Italian cultural Foundation congratulations class of 2024 it is my privilege to be here to play a vital role at the John F Scarpa technical education center and for our foundation to present scholarships to seven worthy students Andrea Cruz Natalie Alisa jerak Steven Horvath Jamie Marian Christian quintella and Isabella [Applause] salar the Italian cultural Foundation each year is truly honored to be able to continue to Foster assistance and providing assistance to our local students starting in 2018 our cumulative giving is over $225,000 each of you here tonight have shown great resilience and commitment to your studies and truly will become the creative minds of our [Applause] future for our next presentation you did it you showed up and dedicated yourself one day at a time now you are here to reap the rewards of your hard working commitment so congrats to you and as you path forward unfolds Beneath Your Feet May you realize your dreams and become all you can be now it is with great pleasure to present once again our 2024 Italian cultural Foundation outstanding scholar award in the amount of $5,000 this individual has excelled in many areas throughout their four years at CCT Tech some of the highlights member of the robotics Club at CCT Tech member of the interact Club member of ignite one of the founding members of the Lego Club at c tech official member of the National Honor Society and the National Technical Honor Society some of the awards freshman sophomore and junior varsity award Vex robotic competition superintendence list principal list perfect attendance award New Jersey start scholarship Stars scholarship award and school counts award this year's recipient will be attending Virginia Tech to study electrical engine engineering it is with great pleasure that I present this year's recipient of the 2024 outstanding scholar award to Steven Horvat [Applause] the following scholarships are on behalf of the Vinland Rotary Club the first is the Sha kot talk Memorial Scholarship in the amount of $1,500 this year's recipient is Natalie [Applause] dragado Natalie has to share this about her counselor Dr Lin she has supported and helped me through everything from academics to personal Endeavors she has been my biggest cheerleader and always has my best interest at [Applause] heart the second vinand Rotary Memorial Scholarship is the spirit of rotary scholarship of $1,000 intended for a student who is enrolled in the nursing program at rcsj rotary's model is service above self the spirit of rotary scholarship recognizes a student who has achieved academic success while also enthusiastically leading a life of service to others this year's recipient is Michelle [Applause] dong Michelle will be attending Ruckers University New Brunswick to study biological sciences to become a physician's assistant [Applause] the violent Rotary Club established the $1,000 Edward F Duffy Memorial Scholarship to honor the memory of respected attorney municipal court judge and longtime rotarian Edward F Duffy his family and friends will continue to fund it in his honor this year's recipient is Morgan Harry Morgan will be attending the College of New Jersey she will be majoring political science with a minor in philosophy she wishes to become a lawyer the GE mechanical Workforce advancement scholarship for $11,000 is awarded to any student majoring in mechanical engineering or attending a technical education school or training in either pluming or HVAC this year's recipient is Alexander Martinez [Applause] Sosa Alex would like to express his gratitude to Miss Evans for being both a teacher and Mentor she always was available to answer questions about math or life [Applause] the $1,000 Harry D do Memorial Scholarship is for a student who demonstrates positive character intelligent standards and Scholastic ability this year's recipients are George Cardona and cie [Applause] Sloan George and c will be attending Ron University to study electrical and computer engineering Callie mentioned she hopes to someday design program and enhance Prosthetics she will also be playing for the women's soccer team at [Applause] [Music] Rowan the Edward L burnhard Memorial Scholarship of $1,000 is for a graduating scarpet Tech interact member this student demonstrates positive character and Scholastic ability this year's recipient is Anna [Applause] Nichols Anna will be attending Thomas Jefferson University next year and majoring in [Applause] architecture at this time I would like to introduce Mr RJ Francis skini Tech Alum to award the Ronald J Francis Kini senior Memorial [Applause] Scholarship in memory of Ronald J Francis Kini senior this $1,000 scholarship is for a student choosing to pursue a career in the automotive welding or construction trades this year's recipient is Alexander Martinez Sosa [Applause] he studying electrical and Computer Engineering and wishes to further his education by obtaining his Masters [Applause] Degree this year the Elks Lodge of milville awarded multiple $1,500 $750 and $500 scholarships to students who demonstrated Mastery in their program of study please hold your applause this year's recipients are Kaden bevon Chris hansar Haley Jones Karina Marcato and Edward [Applause] Thurman Kaden will be attending Rowan University for electrical and computer engine enging Chris would like to commend Mr costell for his abilities as a teacher and funloving attitude to help Foster great sense of future and allowed her to feel secure with their writing Haley Jones will be attending Rowan University next year for exercise science and Karina will be attending nursing school at Rome College of South [Applause] Jersey sorry Eddie you were on the next page uh Eddie would like to thank Miss hickey miss Mr Davenport and Mr Voss for making an impact on his [Applause] education I would like to call kloe Swift to the stage to present the alumni [Applause] scholarships oh you're here the tech Alumni Association is excited to honor three individuals with 500 $100 this scholarship is given to those who exemplify school pride and an eagerness to make the world a better place this year's recipients are Natalie drat Morgan Heron and Edward [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Thurman Natalie wanted to thank Mr Campbell for teaching her the power of argument and being an example of what it means to be a good person Morgan gave a shout out to Mr Campbell as well and Eddie will be attending Princeton University for undergraduate [Applause] physics the Shi International Scholarship of $250 is for a student who plans to continue their education at a New Jersey State University College or Community College the student must be pursuing cyber security or information technology this year's recipient is Teresa [Applause] ineri Teresa will be attending Rowan University she will be studying computer science and wishes to pursue a career in cyber [Applause] security at this time I would like to call Mr love and miss plumber from the PE Department to the stage to present the physical education [Applause] scholarships the phys physical education department is awarding four $250 scholarships for our graduating seniors who showed a commitment to lifelong health and wellness this year's recipients are Teresa engineeri Brian Hernandez Callie Sloan and Matthew [Applause] Sue Teresa would like to thank Miss dagel for being a fantastic counselor and for her constant support Brian will be attending Williamson College of the trades next year to study construction technology with an electrical emphasis to become a residential and Commercial electrician Cali would like to thank Mr Ziller for inspiring her to pursue a career in engineering and Matt will be attending Stockton University to pursue a dual degree for business go outs we're gonna have our second dog on the stage at this time I would like to call Chris Hannah and Cole the deaf dog to the stage to present the next scholarship come on [Music] buddy the mission of the cold the deaf dog and Friends Foundation is to support special needs inclusion acceptance and advocacy through Community programs Cole and friends are proud to provide this $500 scholarship to a graduating strive student to use towards their educational enrichment this year's recipient is autumn [Applause] sartino autumn will be attending the ACT program next year at rcsj Cumberland [Applause] Amazon has awarded the njac foundation a grant and in turn yanj Foundation awarded one $1,000 scholarship Per County Vocational Technical School District to graduates who plan on continuing their education in New Jersey at a County College State College or State University this year's recipient is Carly [Applause] Ferguson Carly will be attending Montclair University studying in the film and television [Applause] program I would now like to call Chef Olen from the culinary arts program to the stage to present the next [Applause] scholarship these $250 culinary arts scholarships are for graduating seniors in the culinary arts program this year's recipients are Dev Patel and Brendan Martinez [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Dev will be attending ran University next year where he will be majoring in mechanical engineering and wishes to pursue a career in the automotive industry Brendan will be attending Walnut Hill to continue his trade in the culinary arts [Applause] I would now like to call Mr sea McDonald construction trades instructor and Ryan supi counselor to the stage to present the next [Applause] scholarship these $200 construction trade scholarships are for graduating seniors in the construction trades program please hold your applause until all names are announced this year's recipients are Michael kagna Caleb Garrison Tristan Gribble Brian Hernandez and Daniel Jimenez Nunes [Applause] I wasn't ready for that the Riddle Memorial Scholarship was created to honor the memory of Brian riddle who attended a technical high school program in Oklahoma and was a welder this year the riddle family will be awarding three $500 scholarships to graduating seniors who plan to further their career in the welding trade and one in the medical field this year's recipients are McKenzie Deo Morgan Mion and Katherine [Applause] lamb McKenzie will be continuing her career in welding as an employee at battelini Towing and recer sales Morgan shared that she would like to thank Mr boner and Mr Jones for making an impact on her education and pushing her to be the best that she could be Katherine will be attending Point lman nazarine University in San Diego California next year to major in applied Health Sciences and wishes to be a pediatric physical [Applause] therapist before announcing our next scholarship I would like to call up Mr David fback to the stage to [Applause] present y good evening congratul ation to all the students graduating I'll get through this quickly uh on behalf of my mom and dad Margaret and Rudy fback who were the biggest fans ever at New Jersey Motorsports Park and on behalf of Mr Lee bran the owning the managing owner of New Jersey Motorsports Park and our entire green flag committee which is a Youth Foundation we would like to present the $3,000 scholarship to Romeo Lopez from the Auto Tech [Applause] Romeo will continue to work for Lon Ford he would like to thank Professor celo for making his sophomore in junior years two of the best while being in his [Applause] class to announce our next scholarship I would like to call the olivary family to the [Applause] stage this scholarship was created in memory of Tina olivieri Tina taught middle school health and physical education in vinand for over 25 years she loved teaching and and her greatest joy was having several of her students follow in her footsteps to become health and peace teachers this scholarship in the amount of $250 will be be presented to a student who will pursue a career in education this year's recipient is Hannah [Applause] Rodriguez Anna stated that Miss Gonzalez has been a big impact has made a big impact on my High School career being the ignite adviser Miss Gonzalez has helped me with my leadership skills and acted as a Guiding Light in hard [Applause] [Music] times AT&T has awarded a grant of $10,500 to the njac foundation the foundation Awards one500 scholarship to each County vocational technical school to a graduate who plans to cont continue their education in New Jersey at a public county college or state college or university this year's recipient is Jackson [Applause] benvia Jackson will be attending Ruckers New Brunswick next year and he will be studying computer science he wanted to thank Mr Voss for a great two years in AP Physics [Applause] South Jersey Industries has awarded a grant of $10,500 to the njac foundation foundation will award one $11,000 scholarship to each County vocational technical school to a graduate who plans on continuing their education in New Jersey at a public county college or state college or university this year's recipient is George Cardona George stated Mr Ziller and Mr Boss have made an impact on my education by imparting the skills needed to pursue a career in the electrical engineering field and a thank you to miss siki as well at this time I would like to call Miss Sandy Garden to the stage to present the gardens rigging scholarships [Applause] this scholarship was created by Gardens rigging a local crane and rigging company to give back to the community's youth it is designated for students in the trades who will be pursuing a career in the workforce or will be attending college this year the garden family will be awarding four $1,000 scholarships this year's recipients are Alexis Flores Brian Hernandez Carter Schaefer and trissa [Applause] supi Alexis plans to continue in the welding field upon graduation and he would like to thank Mr boner for helping him throughout High School Brian was a member of brion's High School cross country winter and spring track teams his team's Captain he won MVP most dedicated athlete the year among other accolades Carter will be continuing his work full-time at Gardens rigging where he is a mechanic and Trista will be attending Atlantic Cate Community College for culinary arts and she plans to own her own food [Applause] truck I would like to invite captain ricado from the vinand fire department to the stage to present the next scholarship [Applause] Luigi Lou a Trana Senor was born in Brooklyn New York his family moved to vinand when he was a child where he resided until his passing Lou graduated from Vinland high school and entered the workforce as a laborer over the years through hard work and dedication he learned a skilled trade and later moved on to be a manager broadening his Horizons Lou landed a job as a manager with a large firm in the moving industry working his way through the ranks to president and coo a civic-minded person he was involved Through The Years with many organizations and served as a board member and president of the Rotary Club the YMCA the NJ movers warehousemen Association and the Vinland Chamber of Commerce Lou was co-chair of the Vinland Challenger league and was proud to be instrumental with overseeing the construction of the rotary center in 2004 a handicap accessible facility upon retirement Lou returned to the trades working for tquo brothers to keep busy Lou was always there to mentor and is only appropriate to present this award to someone who will be seeking employment as a skilled Tradesman the tramontana family would like to congratulate the student receiving the Luigi a traumat senior Memorial Scholarship this year's recipient is Isabella saltar [Applause] Isabella would like to thank Miss simonini she made learning fun and interactive helped her learn more and she would like to thank her for all she has done and will miss her as she moves on to [Applause] college I would like to call Mrs Garrison to the stage to present the next scholarship [Applause] this scholarship was created to honor the memory of Isaac Garrison Isaac graduated in 2023 from the construction trades program he actively volunteered in his community and was looking forward to furthering his education at rcsj this year the Garrison family is awarding three $500 scholarships this year's recipients are Michael kago Morgan Mion and Caleb [Applause] Garrison Michael was a member of the National Honor Society and participated in skills USA while he was here Morgan was one of many Tech students that participated in our school to work program as a senior and Caleb wanted to thank both his construction trades teachers Mr McDonald and Mr barons [Applause] I would like to call Mr Bonner Mr Jones and Mr supy from the welding program to the stage to present the next [Applause] scholarship this $600 scholarship is for a graduating senior in the welding program this year's recipient is Ashley [Applause] Ashley will continue to pursue welding and wishes to use the scholarship for to further her education she said Mr Bonner is one of the most important aspects in my development over my time as CCT Tech he has encouraged me to always try my best has developed my skills and confidence over the years thank you [Applause] this next scholarship is awarded in memory of Mr Kent Edwards this $250 scholarship is designated for a student pursuing a career in law enforcement or criminal justice this year's recipient is Michaela h [Applause] Michaela has enlisted with the US Army she would like to thank Mrs dagel for always helping her with anything she [Applause] needed I'd like to call Miss dagel studio production counselor to present the next scholarship these $250 scholarships are for a graduating senior in the studio production and broadcasting program this year's recipients are Emily Bruce William Ziggler and Carly Ferguson [Applause] Emily will be attending Rowan University next year she'll be studying RTF and wishes to pursue documentary film making William will be attending rcsj for photography and film he said Miss deel really helped me pursue my interest in the studio field and has collaborated with Mr Neer to bring forward opportunities to practice and grow Carly is grateful for Miss fow's help in the scholarship process she wrote many recommendation letters from her these next $1,000 scholarships are for students who reside in milville or a milville high sending District commercial Township Cedarville MRT and La Lawrence Township they have met a GPA requirement and have a strong history of volunteering or giving back to the community demonstrate Financial need and are planning to go to a college or trade school this year's recipients are Rebecca Royer and Callie Sloan Rebecca will be attending Emanuel college and will be studying nursing and throughout High School C was our class secretary for three years she was also National Honor Society secretary and a member of the National Technical Honor [Applause] Society I'm going to call Miss deel forward again to present our next scholarship the information technology scholar ship these $250 scholarships are for students in the information technology program Antonio Pichardo Andrew Cooper and Teresa [Applause] engineeri Antonio will be attending Rucker University majoring in computer science he wanted to thank Mr Morales for connecting him to internships Andrew will be attending ananova to study computer science and he would like to thank Mr Voss and Miss dagel for keep for pushing him and keeping him grounded and throughout High School Teresa was an active member of ignite book club NHS nths and she was a tech [Applause] Ambassador at this time I would like to call Cara vivarelli O'Neal and Dan velli Jr to the stage to present the next scholarship [Applause] these $1,500 scholarships are presented to two seniors pursuing a four-year degree in education with the goal of becoming a public school educator this year's recipients are emj monor and Hannah [Applause] Rodriguez MJ will be attending the College of New Jersey for our education she would like to credit Mr Paige for encouraging her potential and pursuing the field and throughout High School Hannah has not just been our NA national anthem singer she was involved in ignite the technical players Wizard of Oz Legally Blonde those Productions over the past couple [Applause] years I'd like to call back up Mr Carlos Marcato to present the Dr Thomas mccan scholarship the friends of violent crew parents Association will be awarding a $500 scholarship to a graduating rower who has been a member of the VHS crew Team all four years of their High School career this award will be presented to a VHS crew team member who has above average grades in high school and plans to further their education at a two or four-year college or university or vocational technical school over the course of their four years the rowers Cox or Cox Wings must display leadership character and willingness to Foster good sportsmanship this year's recipient is Brendan Martinez [Applause] Brendan would like to thank Miss Gates he said quote for helping me to become more independent throughout High School this has prepared me for the future [Applause] in addition to Mr Marcato I would like to call battalion chief Tony saltar from the violent fire department to the stage to present the Lloyd ronti [Applause] scholarship Lloyd ronti or the boss as he is affectionately known by the members of the violent fire department is the namesake of a scholarship offered to fire department members and their families KY who retired in 1985 wore many hats in his 52-year career with the violent fire department he served as chief of company number four on Main Avenue from 1938 through 1948 he was appointed to the position of part-time fire director from 1960 to 1970 at which time he was hired as the city's first full-time director of fire ronti was active in the fire department's exempt and relief Association and the Lloyd ronti scholarship enacted in 1998 is a tribute to Lloyd's outstanding work ethic and commitment to the violent fire department this $11,000 scholarship is awarded to an individual who wishes to further educate themselves and may be in need of some financial assistance to achieve their goals this year's recipient is Isabelle [Applause] saltar at CCT Tech Isabella was involved involed in HOSA National Honor Society National Technical Honor Society science club and the science [Applause] fair Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cumberland and Salem counties are awarding scholarships to graduating seniors each in the amount of $1,000 recipients are currently a trained or matched High School big brother or big sister please hold your applause until all names are announced this year's recipients are barry [Applause] Borio let's go Barry Jackson Pensylvania Chris hunar MJ monor L Ramirez Zera Rea soles Julia Ortiz robbles and Crystal Pacho Sosa [Applause] Big Brothers Big Sisters has established a positive working relationship with CCT Tech over the past few years through the mentor 2.0 program so we also want to give a special thanks to past and current program managers Miss Leah Sadler and Miss Sharon kment [Applause] the Italian American Civic Club of bridon $500 scholarship is for an outstanding student who shines academically and is involved in their Community this year's recipient is Natalie [Applause] drada throughout High School Natalie dances competitively at South Jersey Dance Center dedicating 20 hours a week to rehearsals and teaching she's been the class treasurer for the past three years participated in HOSA all four years of high school and was this year's HOSA [Applause] president at this time I would like to call Mr Carlos Marcato and his son and CCT Tech Alum Sebastian Marcato to the stage to present our next scholarship [Applause] this year the Marcato family is offering five $100 scholarships to students in the strive program this year's recipients are Devin Harris Jasmine Newton Autumn s Martino Jenny vul and lared Williams [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Jasmine will be attending the ACT program at rcsj she would like to thank Miss Sharon for helping her every day make sure she is ready for work Alum would like to recognize Mr love and Mr Lawless for making a big impact on her Jennifer would like to um she will be working with CCT tech security this summer and Texas Roadhouse next year and lared will be working at Crumbs Cafe next [Applause] year I see two food establishments so you're going to hook me up when I show up right at this time I would like to call Miss Chris Burns and Miss Shannon Burns to the stage to present the next [Applause] scholarship the doctor John R Burns Memorial Scholarship of $500 is for a student who has faced unique circumstances and has been a positive inspiration to others they may not always be in the spotlight but their actions speak kindness selflessness and resilience this year's recipient is Julia Ortiz [Applause] robbles Goos phas Julia will be attending Stockton University she will be major in social work and wishes to become a social worker she wishes to use the scholarship funds to help her pursue her education start a career and be the first in her family to be able to attend [Applause] college at this time I'd like to invite Joanne gon board member of the Cumberland County Women's Hall of Fame to the stage to present the next scholarship [Applause] this $11,000 scholarship was created to honor the women of Cumberland County and is designated for a student who exemplifies academic achievement community and school involvement and extracurricular activities this year's recipient is Anna Nichols [Applause] Anna would like to thank Mr Paige for making a positive impact on her education she said I only had him my senior year but he teaches one of my favorite classes which is Art and his class has allowed me to be creative and experiment with my ideas [Applause] [Music] The milville Babe Ruth league is awarding two $300 scholarships to milville baseball players this year's recipients are Matthew Kavanagh and kayen [Applause] bevon Matthew will be attending Virginia Tech next year for chemical engineering with a minor in environmental sustainability he would like to thank Mr Ziller for guiding him down this career path Kaden would like to thank Mr Ziller as well for teaching the topics of engineering and sparking the interests of hundreds of students at Tech over the [Applause] years at this time I'd like to invite Miss Jennifer plumber to the stage to present the vinent tennis scholarship [Applause] this $500 scholarship is being awarded to an active member of the violent High School tennis team this year's recipient is Trista [Applause] supi Trista would like to thank Mom and Dad Chef Olsen Chef alberty Miss Gates Miss tagel and Mr Sharp for encouraging her to reach her dreams [Applause] [Music] the dulio family scholarship is given in memory of heavyweight State wrestler champion Daniel K dulio senior a 1975 graduate of milville Senior High the Tulio family is dedicated to the continuing education of student athletes and the growth of milville sports programs this year they awarding $2,000 to a student who participated in the milville wrestling program this year's recipient is Rebecca [Applause] Royer Rebecca would like to thank miss m Miss Sim and Miss Birdsall they were amazing teachers and she appreciates them [Applause] the historic green witch Education Foundation values and recognizes the thoughtful pursuit of higher education in all young scholars as such the foundation offers a $1,000 scholarship opportunity for qualifying high school graduates with a specific plan for college or university to help them achieve their goal this year's recipients are Katherine or and Jessica Lee [Applause] Katherine wants to thank Mrs hickey since freshman year she has always encouraged her to do her best and always present through her ups and downs she believed in me even when I didn't and she will be forever grateful Jessica will be attending Ron University next year because of the influence of her teachers Miss Shaw and Mr Ziller she will be studying chemical engineering [Applause] the coach Wayne engling soccer Award of $11,000 is being presented by the milville high school alumni association it is being awarded to a senior on the milville boys high school soccer team this year's recipient is Gavin Miller [Applause] Gavin will be attending conquered University next year he'll be studying physical therapy and playing soccer he would like to thank Mr Campbell and said thank you for not only teaching my English English class but teaching me how to be a better [Applause] [Music] person this time I'd like to call Mr Shane Tate and Mr Shawn McDonald to the stage to present the next scholarship [Applause] this next scholarship is designated for a construction trade student who excels in the program the Eastern Atlantic states Regional Council of Carpenters Local 255 is awarding this student a complete set of tools a monetary award and guaranteed entry in to their apprenticeship this year's recipient is Michael [Applause] kago this is a first for our students to be awarded an apprenticeship program in the Carpenters Union so we are very excited and proud of Michael [Applause] I'm I'm still baring tools for my dad I give him a call I'm like [Applause] the next scholarship of $500 is for a violent High School swimmer it is given in memory of Mark DePalma who graduated from VHS in 1995 he was the state champion swimmer and a member of the YMCA national team this year's recipient is Michael DeVito [Applause] Michael stated Mr Voss thanks for always being a relatable teacher and always willing to help Mr Morales thank you for introducing me to cyber security and helping me grow in the field that I love Miss Cooper thank you for making math fun and for being an awesome [Applause] teacher at this time I would like to call Miss Maria Hensley to the stage to present the next [Applause] [Music] scholarship the Tyler W Hensley Memorial Scholarship was established to honor the memory of Tyler Hensley a devoted and passionate baseball player cherished by his family and friends Tyler's dedication to baseball was evident through his eight years of participation in L league with in the vinin community his love for this sport extended Beyond little league as he played travel ball and represented both the prep and St Joseph's High School with distinction these two $250 scholarships aimed to support young athletes who share Tyler's passion for baseball and his commitment to Excellence both on and off the field this year's recipients are Michael Sanchez and Luke fithian [Applause] Michael will be attending ran University next year to study law he would like to thank Miss Bruno and Miss Torres for their guidance and support throughout High School Luke will be attending Ruckers University in New Brunswick to study sports management and play division one baseball [Applause] before I announce our next scholarship I would like to invite the legend miss Patricia Robbins to the stage to present the next [Applause] scholarship the robin Spirit scholarship in the amount of $1,000 is to be awarded to a student who is involved with tech clubs activities and organizations this award is being given by miss Patricia Rob retired assistant principal from scar attch Miss Robbins oversaw the student services team clubs and organizations and school activities during her tenure Miss Robbins fostered the development of student interests and promoted student involvement Club development and pride in Career and Technical education Miss Robbins witnessed many students flourish as a result of their engagement in extracurricular activities these students have left their Mark at Tech and their school spirit will be longstanding their example will allow others to follow in in their path of belonging acceptance and fulfillment this year's recipient is Michelle [Applause] dong Michelle would like to thank Miss simonini she said she has been a bundle of joy for me and really the greatest teacher the way she made learning fun and enjoyable I will never forget [Applause] I would like to welcome Dr Rossy past president of the ccasa to the podium to present the ccasa Allen Associates Insurance scholarship in memory of Stanley Allen [Applause] the Cumberland County Association of Supervisors and administrators and Allen Associates Insurance Group present two Scholarships in memory of Stanley H Allen these $250 awards are presented to students whose outstanding performance in their program has set them apart and they plan to continue to pursue higher education or employment in their trade this year's recip are Jessica Lee and Jackson Venna [Applause] it is now my pleasure to introduce Mrs Darlene Barber former Tech superintendent to join me here on the stage to award two [Applause] scholarships the Darlene Barber scholarship award is a $250 Award presented to a student graduate of strive who shows dedication to both athletic and Scholastic achievement the students selected has shown leadership and a desire to continue their education this year's strive scholarship recipient is layard Williams [Applause] leard would like to thank Mrs Kesler for making an impact on his education she helped him understand the importance of independent living and staying on track congratulations [Applause] L the second award is the strive outstanding scholar award this $250 career in Tech technical outstanding scholar award is presented to a student graduate of the strive program who has shown dedication and determination all the while maintaining the highest academic average this year's strive scholarship recipient is Jennifer Vulcan [Applause] throughout High School Jennifer has been an active participant in Special Olympics Jenny as she's known to us her strive teachers are proud of her willingness to always try new sports she has participated in every sport we have offered and has excelled in snowshoeing and Bot bom [Applause] before I want to invite the next guest up I would like to tell you a little bit about the CCT Tech Foundation founded in 1999 through a donation from the estate of Mr Mel Camp the Cumberland County Technical Education Center Foundation an independent nonprofit communitybased corporation was formed for the purpose of providing increased community support for CCT Tech by directing available resources towards areas of identified need the CC te Tech Foundation provides an effective mechanism through which Community Resources can be allocated for worthwhile programs and scholarships for graduating students the foundation is a vehicle for informing the public channeling support for students of uptech enhancing Community participation and furthering the quality of Education provided by the Cumberland County Board of vocational education this mission was expanded in 2017 with the generous donation of $1 million by Mr and Mrs John F Scarpa and their Foundation since 1999 the tech Foundation board has awarded scholarships and grants to graduating seniors totaling close to $500,000 that deserves a round of applause tonight we recognize the class of 2024 recipients of the tech Foundation scholarships and with that I would like to invite Mr Charles wet president of the foundation board to say a few words Mr [Applause] West hi good evening everybody uh as Dr Rossy said my name is Charles wetstein I'm the president of the CCT Tech uh Foundation board um all I can say is wow you know this is uh extraordinary I've had a smile plastered on my face for the past hour and 35 minutes and I'm sorry to take up just a little bit more of your time but I just want to recognize and congratulate each and every one of these students that is sitting out here tonight for the extraordinary work that you've put forth over the past four years to reach this point and in a week and a half send you off to the next phase of your lives congratulations to all of you as Dr Rossy said and I'll expand upon the mission of the foundation is to support the students of the John F Scarpa technical education center of kumlin County some of the mo uh most talented young men and women in all of Southern New Jersey the students who have the privilege to attend this school are tomorrow's leaders of the vital Industries trades and professions that will help our community thrive investing in these students is an investment in the future of Crumblin County um just a little off the cuff here um I was born and raised in Crumblin County um I'm a proud graduate of Stockton where's he at go ask Grace all right um and I left Crumblin County for three years to attend law school and I went to law school with the intent of coming back to crumbling County and trying to make this community better and I just want to invite each of you uh who may be going away to experience new things to experience new places to get your education or to start a career is don't forget this community at some point in your life whether it's right after you graduate school or during the course of your careers think of this place make it better it's worthy of that contribute you know run for political office you know uh become a CEO and contribute back uh be a firefighter you know be a lawyer um remember this place I just want to say that you know it's it's each of you no matter what that contribution is will make this place this County just a little bit better I'm very excited about the future of the foundation which has recently secure donations and contributions to fund new and additional scholarships for the graduating students and I'd like to thank uh members of the executive committee especially Jim guo as well as trusty Robert oresi leading those efforts on behalf of the foundation I would also like to acknowledge Foundation vice president Carol muso immediate P president Ron franchini and Tristy caros marado for their support guidance um and fundraising Logistics and efforts the foundation has also recently welcomed local community leaders Heather Garrison and Matt maali as trustees to join the rest of the board which includes darl and barber Lan Allen and Khloe Swift I'd like to take the opportunity to thank all of them with the substantial time and efforts in making the foundation the successful organization that it is and I applaud you I would also be remiss if I did not also heartfully thank Dr Rossy and Cy Redmond for their support to the foundation as well and of course on behalf of the foundation a sincere and humble thank you to Mr John Scarpa whose initial gift and all goinging contributions are why the foundation scholarships can be awarded to the many deserving students here this evening uh back in April the foundation board met to go through the many applications that were received for these scholarships and a special thank you goes to the foundation scholarship chair Khloe Swift as well as Lauren deel and all of the guidance staff in organizing the application and reviewing process all the foundation trustees were greatly impressed greatly impressed by the many achievements and successes of the applicants and I want to congratulate each of the recipients on your accomplishments and wish you all the best in your future [Applause] endeavors we'll begin with 24 $1,500 scholarships that are being awarded to students from each of scarpet Tech's Career and Technical programs we will list each Award winner by program this year's recipients are as follows from the automotive technology program Matthew Campanella and Alexander Martinez Sosa [Applause] from our construction trades program Samantha Slimmer and Brian [Applause] Hernandez from our cosmetology program Carla Guzman and Olivia Smith [Applause] from our culinary arts program Mariah Maldonado and Alysa [Applause] Garrett from our engineering program Callie Sloan Edward Thurman Joseph Dominique and Nathaniel Howard [Applause] hunter from our health sciences and medicine program Natalie Dr Emma negr Michelle do and Haley Jones [Applause] [Music] from Information Technology Michael DeVito and Teresa engineeri [Applause] from law enforcement Michael Sanchez and Morgan [Applause] Haron from Studio production and Broadcasting Matthew soy and Jamie [Applause] Maran and from welding technology Warren sprous and Ashley lore [Applause] at this time to join Mr wetstein up at the stage I would like to invite you're not going anywhere Mr W you're up there for a little bit I would like to invite Mr James guio Junior president of burns call Automotive Group to recognize the recipients of the next three scholarships first one the burns Cole Automotive Group scholarship this scholarship is a $5,000 award to a graduating senior who plans to pursue a career within the automotive field is enrolled in the automotive technology program and has maintained high performance within the auto program this year's recipient of the burns call Automotive Group scholarship is Carter schaer [Applause] the next scholarship is presented on behalf of Renee and Ken bull the bull family scholarship is a $5,000 award for a senior who has successfully completed a career in technical program and plans to pursue a career within their respective field this year's recipient is Matthew Kavanaugh graduate of engineering [Applause] our next award is a $7,500 scholarship awarded in memory of Mr Mel Camp a retired tech school T work coordinator when Mr Camp passed he donated his estate to the tech Foundation it is through this generous donation that the tech Foundation was formed this award is for a graduating senior who is continuing their practice in one of the following areas automotive technology construction trades cosmetology culinary arts or welding this year's recipient of the Mel Camp award scholarship is Trista supi graduate of culinary arts [Applause] at this time I'd like to invite Mr John F Scarpa to join me at the podium to present the John F Scarpa Legacy scholarship Mr [Applause] Scarpa I'm gonna let Mr Scarpa say a few words and award the scholarship but a little bit about his scholarship the John F Scarpa Legacy scholarship in the amount of $10,000 is being awarded to a graduating senior who plans to pursue a degree and career in one of the following areas information technology engineering technology health science and medicine law enforcement or Studio broadcasting this graduate earned a 3.7 GPI or higher but before we announce Mr Scara your remarks thank you [Applause] [Music] thank you Dr Rossi and good evening uh first of all I know you want to get out of here as soon as you can uh my pain is to have to be the last person to keep you here but I want you to understand a couple of things um first congratulations to each and every one of you and I mean that sincerely I am a technical school graduate that me you can [Applause] do I know you're eager to leave I feel your energy is about to catapult you right out of your seats I'm asking to keep your seat belts on for just a few more minutes please be patient as you go forward in your lives we have one more important scholarship to award but before I do that I want to ask each and every one of you to slow down focus on each of you and your families and also right now are very precious moments in your life for each of you as you look around to those who are seating on around you and all of your friends and student members here uh please understand what the present of the moment is this is the president this is the president of a moment in your life it's not going to happen again so I want you to enjoy it I really do and speaking of time practice being present in the moment as I just said to you look around your life runs on very fast legs believe me even though I have gray hair I know this why are you here you're here to celebrate all of your hard work your commitment and focus that has brought you each of you to this moment you are are exceptional let me say that again each of you are exceptional in not only your lives but the future of our country you're here to celebrate your hard work your commitment and focus and you've established a solid foundation of learning experiences that you will take to build upon your future as you navigate forward but now you each of you build your own game plan you plot your own course you create your tomorrow and why am I here to share some things that I have learned along my path to success with the hope that you will truly listen and take some of this with you as you go into the next pathway of your lives stay true to yourself when the world is surrounding you with confusing messages and Lord we know today that is the case trust your instincts trust your families who have brought you here think about this think about someone in each of your lives who help you to become where you are today to each and every one of you so important you are the change that we need so desperately in our country in the world and you are the next leaders of this country keep learning your education is just beginning low learn and grow and become all you can be don't be afraid of taking risks open yourself to new opportunities to to surround yourself with others who can mentor you as you Mentor them Follow Your Passion the most important thing I think anyone can do in their Futures is to follow your passion Chase whatever excites you truly do that find fulfillment in doing what lights up and Sparks your creativity most important make a difference be a force for good do not forget your roots as I said your families help build a better future for yourself and others remember the path ahead of you may not always be smooth the road to success is always under construction so choose your path wisely do not waste the moments they will not return lastly bet on yourself when you go outside in the hall here you'll see my picture and underneath it it says bet on yourself and you will achieve things that you never ever thought you could do I now have the distinct pleasure to announce the winner of the 10 th000 John F Scarpa award drum roll please I don't hear any drum roll thank you and the winner is an individual who has excelled in the studies of Health Science medicine the class of 2024 has participated in sports been a member of student government been active in community organizations earned an academic Varsity letter and unbelievable as this may sound has a perfect attendance record with Jenna Bachman please come for [Applause] could I have another round of applause for all of our winners this [Applause] evening I would now like to introduce text teacher of the Y teacher of the year Lauren Kesler [Applause] Mrs you're going to stay up here for a [Applause] minute join Kesler up here we have an educational service professional that also got awarded this year can I have Mrs hickey join Mrs Kesler up [Applause] here and I'm going to use a phrase from Mr scarp speech we're going to slow down for a minute and you're going to stay up here so students you know that a lot of your achievements have to do with you a portion of those achievements have to do with your parents and your families that are here with you this evening and here at Tech a whole bunch of your achievements are because of the teachers counselors support staff every individual adult that you encounter here at Tech so let's give them a round of [Music] applause and I'm not really on social media all that much but a friend of mine sent me this earlier this month and I thought to myself oh I'll save that for graduation but then I get to do this which is awesome and I thought it'd be more appropriate today so just need a second and this is actually a little test for you so pay attention this philosophy is of Charles Schulz the creator of the Peanuts comic STP you know Snoopy Charlie Brown all those good guys you don't actually have to answer the question just in your head think about it you'll see the point number one name the five wealthiest people in the world number two name the last five five Heisman Trophy winners number three now some of you probably could do that I can't name the last five winners of the Miss America Pageant name 10 people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer prizes name the last half a dozen Academy Award winners for best actor or actress name the last decade's worth of world sea arese winners now again I know some of you could probably do this I could not how'd you do when you thought of those questions the point is none of us remember the headliners of yesterday there are no second rate Achievers they are the best in their fields but the Applause dies Awards tarnish achievements are forgotten accolades and certificates are buried with their owners but here's another see how you do on this list a few teachers who aided your journey through school name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time name five people who have taught you something worthwhile think of a few people who have made you feel special appreciated and loved think of five people you enjoy spending time with was that an easier test I see a lot of you you passed that test right the lesson the people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials the most money or the most Awards they are simply the ones who care the most and I think you would join me in saying through your Round of Applause that these two young women up here care a whole heck of a lot don't they now so again congratulations to our 2024 teacher and Educational Service professional of the years and let's give a round of applause not only for them but all the wonderful teachers and staff members here [Applause] all right who wants to celebrate now afterwards with dinner and all that kind of stuff or do you want me to keep up here talking because I can now oh come on I had all kinds of things to say now congratulations 2024 award recipients and graduates we'll see you in a couple 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roll call please here here here here here thank you please join us in the pledge of allegiance alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands under God indivisible liy and jusice for all all right um Dr Solen sir if you'll do the honors before our student reps give their report good evening everybody and uh thank you madam chair uh I hope your your palms are in good shape because we'll be doing a lot of clapping tonight uh there are so many incredible folks in the audience that we need to recognize some of our students and then the teachers who have committed so much time to providing the incredible education and supports to our students to allow them to do such great things and so I'm thrilled to be able to kick it off by a couple of recogn recognition of familiar faces that are in the crowd all the time at our board meetings and that is our student reps Andrew Elliott and Ella Paul uh they're both graduating seniors who have dedicated uh a couple of Thursday nights a month uh to come to the board meetings to tell tell the board uh what's going on at chesher high school all the great things the the challenges the the ups and the Downs uh the always occur throughout the course of the school year and you've done so so admirably it's amazing from the first board meeting to the last board meeting you guys are so eloquent uh put together and incredible representatives of your school and your community so uh we just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you and we have parting gifts for each of you so congratulations guys [Applause] more thank you Dr Solen Ella Andrew give us one last one so I'd first like to begin first of all by thanking you all for having both L and I throughout this year um I've thoroughly enjoyed this experience and speaking to you all um each month up until now in this our final Board of Ed meeting um moving on I'm very glad to say that treaser sports are doing very well right now despite a tough loss in the state state playoffs for girls lacrosse girls golf placed fourth in division one Championship with Julia pek being Chester's first state champion boys golf came in third in the division one Championship also congrats to Alex Orleans Chester's back-to-back state champion in girls tennis boys came up short in the semi-finals both boys and girls track and field are also full of SEC and state champion athletes as well as we're here right now boys volleyball is playing Simsbury in the state championship in newt New Town additionally boy lacrosse just beat Simsbury last night and is headed back to the state championship Sunday at Sacred Heart also softball will be playing on Saturday um who also won the SEC Championship congrat congratulations to all these three teams for making it this far in order to commemorate me Memorial Day and and celebrate our local veterans the brave Club organized a breakfast and ceremony in the Commons it was amazing to be able to speak to and see every veteran and attendance to celebrate Memorial Memorial Day with them at our last meeting we had mentioned the future Fest event organized by British literature now that it is complete I can say that it went very well and it is a very creative way of not only learning about but teaching our ideas on envisioning the future in either a utopian or dystopian society as we end the school year a seniors are passing the torch down to our current Juniors or shall I say rising seniors class selections were yesterday and I'd like to congratulate all the winners and those who didn't um didn't win additionally most of the clubs and organizations at CHS are electing new officers for next year us seniors as the year is beginning to come to an end have been doing many great things together to um to bond with each other and just make make the best out of our last few days most recently was our senior picnic out Holiday Hill which I thought was an amazing experience just get us all together one last time have a bunch of fun eat a lot of good food and um and just uh bond with each other before we go off to college or whatever we're doing in the future so I also have a few follow-ups from last month first of all we had our honor cord and Senior Awards night ceremonies as mentioned at the honor cord ceremony there were hundreds of cords given out to seniors from our various departments and the awards night awarded 10 T of thousand dollars in scholarships to Chester high school students which is an incredible opportunity there were scholarships for people doing College trade school military all the above we also have had so many amazing opportunities for the seniors to create memories like Andrew is saying um the senior walk right now during study halls and lunches has been filled with yearbook signings and things like that we also talked last month about the chestra High School drama Department going to the son times Awards and I wanted to share the exciting news that we won best choreography our choreographer was in from Florida to achieve the award so very exciting we also I had mentioned the opportunity for the first time of the biliteracy exam and the results came back and we had a huge number of students pass the exam which means they received an intermediate five level which is right below Advanced language speaking so it's a really great opportunity and they're planning on expanding the administration in the future so that more students can get this certificate with their diploma so that's very cool opportunity moving on back to CHS drama they just had the Aries show performance which is a class and then also miss torney the director of that show announced that for the fall play next year they will be performing A Midsummer Nights Dream It's her tradition to do Shakespeare only every four years so it's a special year next year um we have finals prep going on at Chester High School lots of review sessions lots of review packets seniors don't have to take too many finals but our underclassmen are in a little bit of stress mode but luckily the teachers have been very helpful and accommodating to students we've had lots of end of the year Club activities going on I brought everyone a copy of the Rampage grad Edition and then we also had B1 day which was an incredibly successful event we had a flower garden planted that's being taken care of by Mr Manning special education life schools life skills class we had 40 blankets made that are going to be donated to children at Yale New Haven Hospital we had letters and cards made that are going to be delivered to Elm Park and also some to um children at Yale so it was a really great way for the treasure High School Community to realize that we have the power to do some good and then we also had the fun volleyball tournament of course and for that there was $1,000 donated on behalf of the winning team so aside from all of that really our big thing right now to look forward to is gradu ation for the seniors and of course the all night grad party but we are really excited for our time to come to a close because as much as we're going to miss chra high school it really has prepared us for our next steps so we're very excited graduation is going to have the chorus singing um four Chester High School speakers including Andrew and I and our impressive valoran and Sal salute atoran you're going to meet soon and just to kind of wrap up I want to reiterate what Andrew said this has really been an incredible opportunity and it's so been so nice getting to know you all so thank you so much board members have any comments questions for Mr P question thank you for the Rampage I of course looking forward to reading this now every year good um before I pass this down so the all night grab party I I assume as with every year still looking for volunteers um donations if people are interested who do they contact how they go about contacting to help so I can write it down for you we have the emails of the two people who are in charge of running it actually do you have a Chester Public Schools email cuz I could forward you there I do that I'm sure Dr I just so someone ask I'll Point them to the emails I know I know it's always a a big ask and but it's very it's always very successful so I hope it's a good success this year too and it's been a pleasure having you this year look forward to seeing you again and please enjoy your summer much deserved anything Mr gri yes thank you um Andrew and Ella it's been great having you um this is my uh do this me my eighth PA Tony of uh Representatives I think that's it I think yeah but you're my favorite but uh again uh thank you for being able to report to us this year and I wish you all the best um and I I know that the C CF awards were a couple nights ago I think I was unable to attend but uh congratulations so thank you thank you Miss Cullen I also just want to offer my congratulations and thank you for keeping us up to the minute with everything that's going on so congratulations and best of luck to you in your future thank you I I Echo everything that's said up here I am super proud of you it's been a pleasure to watch you in action providing us up to the minute news of all all things chesher High School um and you know it's tell me again where you guys are I one of you is a husky soon we're both going to be hus actually yes hopefully coach Hurley is still there um it's a sore subject right now but definitely congratulations good luck you're going to truly add some value to this world because we've seen it here already so thank you very much um and I do want to REM kind of set up Ella I might have to pass my speech to you because you just seem to you know be able to do it without an emotion agreed Vinnie right I want her to do the finance report cuz she can make anything entertaining please come back and do the finance report we'll be awake for it for sure Mr gripple um I was just looking through this and I was so impressed and I was talking with Tony about this like wow this is a really incredible newspaper and I was like gee uh please send our regards to editor and Chief and that I turn to the back and I see who it is so excellent job Ella to you and your team this is really fantastic nice job and we will see you at graduation for sure good luck thank you up next Dr grad please present to us our valorian and salutatorian good evening it is my absolute pleasure to present our Val Victorian and salutatorian tonight our two students embody the achievements and success of the graduating class and all that we value at chesher high school so first I will introduce our salutatorian Adia Jen aditia is the son of Ja and Barat Jen Adia is a phenomenal person and student he is intelligent highly driven and genuinely caring in addition to his academic achievements AI is an intensely caring person who served as a role model to younger students through a variety of clubs and organizations some of these include the science National Honor Society where AI has been an officer for two years The National Society of the the National Honor Society of which he is vice president and the student community outreach program for Education where he tutored children during the pandemic and worked his way up to math tutor to meeting administrator and then to vice president it's in ai's nature to want to help others he is a golfer and grew up playing at hopbrook golf course in ngat for a school project he had the idea to start a camp for young younger kids in nagat for which he created a 27-page comprehensive golf handbook he then pitched that idea to the mayor to the mayor of ngat Pete Hess who loved the idea within minutes and within minutes of the start of their conversation and was thrilled to have it in his town ai's goal for this event was to provide other kids with the opportunity to learn golf skills and etiquette but beyond that to learn lifelong skills such as Integrity commitment passion and also positive adult guidance which is everything that AI learned as a child and wanted others to experience another part of ai's life that he's very proud of is his commitment to his Hindu religion AI spends a great deal of time volunteering and participating in a variety of events through the Hindu Cultural Center in Stratford ai's an incredible person who will continue to do amazing things in his future he has committed to attend the University of Connecticut in stores and will be studying medicine and majoring in molecular cell biology [Applause] want be do you here wait [Applause] and now it is my honor to introduce the Val dictorian for the class of 2024 Daniel Souza Daniel is the son of Fiona Fernandez and Bernard duza Daniel is an extraordinary student who consistently distinguishes himself as a scholar and a leader with a remarkable 4.93 grade point average Daniel stands at the Pinnacle of his class a testament to his unwavering commitment to academic Excellence he pursues the most rigorous curriculum including numerous advanced placement courses reflecting his intellectual prowess and insatiable curiosity his ambition to pursue a degree in health and Medicine underscores his passion for helping others and his exceptional intelligence dedication and hard work and those ensure he will excel in his field furthermore Daniel is an active member of the National Honor Society and serves as the vice president of the National Science Honor Society showcasing his leadership and commitment to The Sciences his dedication extends Beyond academics as he selfishly volunteers at Midstate Hospital and passionately contributes to to conservation efforts at riverbound Farm a wildlife sanctuary additionally Daniel is an avid Runner participating on cross country indoor and outdoor track teams and this of course reflects his discipline and commitment to both physical fitness and teamwork with his with his outstanding academic achievements leadership qualities and dedication to service Daniel duza is poised to make a significant impact in the field of health and Medicine in his community at large he plans to attend and we are now four for four the University of Connecticut in the fall majoring in molecular cell biology our Val dictorian Daniel [Applause] duza I know I look better the further away you came would you like worries this is you don't get a lot of opportunities this [Applause] to [Applause] you're still up Dr Gad I'm still up it is now my honor again to introduce our National Merit Scholars the National Merit Scholarship program is an annual academic competition among high school students for recognition and Scholars and and college scholarships uh this program began in 1955 the program is conducted by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation a not for-profit organization that operates without government assistance United States high school students enter the National Merit Scholarship program by by taking their preliminary SAT National Merit Scholarship qualifying test the PSAT as we know it which serves as an initial screen of over 1.3 million entrance each year and by meeting published program entry and participation requirements students are awarded recognition and our two National Merit Scholars are Daniel duza and Austin Blair come for [Applause] thank you Dr Gad Dr stolen our student wck so I know that the next student that we're about to recognize will not be attending Yukon next year um I'd like to invite Alexander gulis to the podium please how you doing buddy awesome so uh the reason that Alex Alexander's here tonight to be recognized is that he participated in uh something called the 19th annual es smarts student contest uh Alex is a third grade student at Norton Elementary School and there were over 600 students throughout Connecticut who submitted projects for consideration basically students were asked to um give some sort of project presentation on energy saving and why that was important uh so young Alexander who wrote A limmerick on Energy savings and out of those more than 600 students who submitted for this award he finished second in Connecticut so we are very proud to congratulate you tonight buddy great job give me so we have a certificate for you oh my God stop crying [Applause] thank you Dr Solen next item is our recognition of our retiree Personnel thank you very much um we have uh and you know as I mentioned at the outset the opportunity tonight to not only recognize some outstanding students but the teachers who played an important role in helping them become outstanding uh people that have dedicated cumulatively hundreds of years to this community uh into teaching in general to uh make the world a better place and uh it's it's challenging work uh they have in many cases Advanced degrees and have labored over many years uh to become the Specialists that they are and The Talented individuals they are so it's our honor this evening to recognize them and thank them for their years of service here in the Treasure Public Schools U so pardon me for I think Kathy you doing Chapman Chapman and okay so um to recognize our retiree from chap school please welcome assistant principal Kathy carluchi good evening everyone so I am going to start with Chapman school it is an honor to recognize an outstanding Chapman teacher Cynthia atanasio upon her retirement Cindy leaves behind a legacy of dedication passion and unwavering commitment to the students she served Cindy earned her Bachelor of Science in media broadcast production from Lynden State College in 1985 Then followed by a teaching certificate from St Joseph's College in West Hartford Connecticut she first started teaching in 2004 in Watertown and then in 2008 Cindy joined chest republ Public Schools where she has spent the last 16 years imparting knowledge shaping young minds and leaving an indelible mark on the Chapman in excuse me elementary school Community her dedication to her craft coupled with her innate ability to connect with her students made her a beloved figure in the school I have personally had the pleasure of not only working with Cindy but also having my own two daughters in her classroom my older daughter Emma had Cindy three different years in elementary school and she still remembers how Mrs atanasio challenged her with creative opportunities to go beyond the curriculum and explore Math Science and Technology a field she's still pursuing today in college this is the impact she has had on her students not surprisingly Cindy still keeps in touch with many of her students and one former student even invited her to his wedding Beyond her professional achievements Cindy's warmth and kindness endear her to all who've had the privilege of knowing her whether she is guiding her students through their educational Journey or collaborating with fellow Educators to enhance The Learning Experience Cindy's presence illuminates the halls of Chapman Elementary as Cindy transitions into re into retirement she does so with her husband by her side they will surely be spending time in their new home in Florida while still traveling back to New England to spend time at their house in Vermont and with their son TJ in Connecticut on behalf of the entire Chapman Elementary School Community we extend our deepest gratitude to Cindy for her years of service her unwavering dedication and the countless lives she has enriched May her retirement be filled with joy relaxation and the Fulfillment of all her dreams congratulations Cindy on a truly remarkable career [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] you want me to do Norton we'll do a picture of all the [Applause] retired so while I'm up I'm going to announce the two retirees for Norton school as well Terry lechance served the chesher public schools for 32 years 32 years educating our students and while simultaneously filling their lives with music her other passion in 1983 Terry earned her BS in elementary and special education from Keen State College in New Hampshire upon completion she joined the Peace Corp where she taught prek through adults after three years in the Peace Corp she began her teaching career in Connecticut and worked in various districts including Farmington New Kanan and Andover then in 199 2 she joined the chesher public schools as a fourth grade special education teacher at Highland Elementary School she was then appointed as a kindergarten teacher at Darcy school and most recently second grade at Norton Elementary when I walked into Norton every morning I would typically hear the melodious sound of guitar music coming from Terry's classroom it was how she started her day Terry approached her teaching the same way with passion and Harmony she cared deeply for her students academically and emotionally and her warmth made them feel confident and safe she gave her students many gifts and touched their lives in memorable ways we will miss ter at Norton and throughout the district and wish her all the best for a relaxing enjoyable retirement [Applause] I'll [Applause] Jean Jean Aspen well celebrated her 35th year in chesher this past school year and her impact has been as deep as her lengthy career she knew she wanted to go into education ever since she was a child because she had a desire to help others this was solidified when she was partnered with a deaf student in seventh grade science and together they had to navigate their lab work through collaboration with an interpreter so in 1989 Jee attended Southern con Connecticut State University and earned a BS in special education she was hired at Chapman Elementary and taught special education for six years before transitioning into regular education where she was excited to have a class of students on her own she spent seven years teaching fourth grade and decided it was time to push herself further so while teaching she earned her second master's degree in School counseling that transition in 2002 brought Jean to Norton school as a school counselor where she could help students in a new way at Norton Jean's office is in the center hallway truly the heart of the school this is no coincidence the support Jean has shown staff and students through the years is boundless and that office will be hard to fill she is an integral part of the Norton family and these people are what she will miss most looking back at her time at Norton Jean notes that her partnership with Kelly gillo former principal has been her greatest gift working side by side they tackled the complex decision-making that goes into caring for a school full of children Kelly was the most influential colleague of her career and now one of her dearest friends as a new AP at Norton as a new AP at Norton I spent much of my first year Watching and listening and learning from the two of them Jean showed me the Fine Art of building relationships with Primary students as I transitioned from the world of middle school she trained me without even knowing she was doing it and for that I will be forever grateful in retirement Jean will spend more time with her precious Sons Tyler and Logan what lucky boys you are always know that your mommy is a very special person who touched so many lives here in the chesher public schools [Applause] after you I was going to make it to 10 I remember it [Applause] punch punch unfortunately uh uh due little principal Amy O'Brien fell ill this afternoon wasn't able to make it so presenting on our her behalf is assistant superintendent Marlene Solano this is for Christine MCN Christine received her Bachelor of Science in elementary and special education from Central Connecticut State University in 1983 she went on to earn her master's degree in special ed from the same University from there she was a special education teacher for grades 1 through four at the Newington children's hospital she was a first grade substitute and building substitute K through five at Yalesville Elementary School in Wallingford after which she transferred to Rock Hill Elementary School and Morgan Middle School in the same district as a special education substitute Christine joined chesher public Public Schools full-time as a special education teacher in 2004 and remained at dittle school until this year Amy O'Brien writes we have been so fortunate to have Christine at dittle school as a special educator I am not looking forward to starting the 2425 school year without her she has been a rock and a constant at dittle and someone that we all have been able to rely on as a team member not only has she been excellent for all the students she has worked with but she has has been a mentor to many of our general education and special education teachers we had the opportunity to celebrate her at doitt recently and her colleagues spoke from the heart about she has how she has helped them in both little and big ways personally and professionally she will be missed dearly congratulations on your retirement Christine thank you again for all you have done for the students and staff at ditt school for the past 20 years [Applause] way I really want to make it last from DOD Middle School please welcome principal Kelly gillow good evening congrat congratulations to all of our retirees and to our fabulous students in all your accomplishments we wish you the best of luck um so I am I have the pleasure of introducing two of our our retirees from DOD and Mr Murphy our assistant principal will um help as we have four total in total I'm going to start with rose denzo oh I'm gonna put my glasses on Rose received her uh BS in Health Service administration at Providence College and earned her MBA from Southern con conut State University Rose first joined chesher Public Schools as a districtwide substitute teacher teaching prek through sixth grade she then went on to be a special education power professional for Darcy and then eventually du little elementary schools from 2000 to 2003 Rose was a homebound Spanish tutor for Chester Public Schools she loved that work so much that she pursued an alternate route to certification then became a full-time Spanish teacher for our district in 2004 while Dad was always her home school she also had the Good Fortune to work at chesher high school and humiston she's retiring after 20 years of service in retirement Rose is looking forward to traveling with her husband who is also will be retiring this year and she hopes that they will explore places like Portugal Spain Italy specifically Sicily I think um and eventually South America she's excited that retirement will bring her time to volunteer as she hopes hopes to do so for women agencies or translation services Rose told me that she will miss the kids the most in her retirement but I'm sure we will miss you more rose on behalf of all your students and colleagues we thank you for your service to chesher Public Schools Felisa dates Rosa [Applause] no you did good you did good we [Applause] our next retiree is Mr Alex yaan Alex completed his studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology earning a degree in computer science in addition he obtained a degree in General Studies from tungus Community College and Bs in mathematics from Central Connecticut State University in 1992 in 1991 he worked at as an eighth grade math instructor for New newington's School District teaching basic math pre-algebra and algebra in 1992 he served as an instructional aid for grades 9 through 12th grade um at chure in chure public schools for mathematics while also tutoring for science earth science chemistry and physics in 1993 he became a math teacher at DOD Middle School where he eventually taught both seventh and eighth grades after dedicating 31 years of service Alex reti hred this past December because I only had a few short months with Alex I asked his teammates how they thought Alex would spend his time in retirement and they exclaimed with passion Faith Family math and motorcycles which I think tells us a lot about the man Alex is his teammates lit up when they shared with me how much his students loved him one teammate shared his students adored him and loved math because of him what a gift that was you gave to our students we thank you for that and for your 31 years and we wish you the best of luck Alex [Applause] good evening I get the pleasure of speaking on behalf of Mary McCormick a Spanish teacher at DOD Middle School mary originally received her Bachelor of Science in business education from Central Connecticut State University which is where she also earned her Masters in elementary education a few years later she began her career teaching business at w at high back in 1986 where she taught students accounting keyboarding computers speedwriting and other professional skills for 3 years before taking time to raise her own children she returned to the classroom in 2004 working in the nguk public school system teaching fifth and sixth graders keyboarding skills she first made her way to Chester public schools in 2009 as a substitute teacher working at both DDD and cheser high around that time she went back to school to obtain her certification to teach Spanish even traveling to Spain to immerse herself in the language and the culture as a part of that process she joined cheshire's World Language Department as a Spanish teacher full-time in 2011 and is now retiring after 13 years of service in the district Mary's excited about getting the chance to spend more time with family but also the opportunity to travel with her husband somewhere warm and beachy Mary you're going to be missed at dot but you've last a lasting you've left a lasting impression on your students we got the chance to speak with some of Mary's current students and these were some of the highlights that they shared somehow she's able to make Spanish class fun she has strategies to help us remember and correctly pronounce our vocab she's there for us and is easy to ask questions to when we need help she's flexible and finds ways to solve problems and fix kids Chromebooks nice value added bonus from your pre-spanish days she gives a feeling of wanting to help and I'm actually excited to go to her class which if that's not the biggest compliment coming from a 13-year-old Middle School student I don't know what Mary we're going to miss you but we're so happy for you to have all of the well-deserved experiences that lie ahead congratulations and I'll see you tomorrow morning at 11:30 for your end of your evaluation [Applause] our fourth retiree at Dodd Middle School this year is Sandy Fern Sandy received her BS and special education from Southern Connecticut State University in 1981 she earned her ba in early childhood education from Metropolitan State College in 1988 and her ma in special education from Southern Connecticut State University in 1995 her special education teaching career began in 1989 as a fifth through 12th grade teacher at Deo glenholm school in Washington Connecticut then she moved on to a fourth through 12th grade special education position in Fairfield and from 1994 to 1996 she was a K5 special education instructor at Easton Sandy joined chesher public schools in 1996 as a special education teacher at Highland Elementary School Sandy has done just about everything as a chesher public schools special education teacher following Highland she created a life skills program at DOD middle school and then a behavior program at our homon Alternative High School for middle school students that program was moved to DOD where she remained until this happy retirement after Sandy retires she is going to be a bigram hot yoga instructor and plans to race BMWs at Lime Rock racetrack after her training her husband will be her pit crew Sandy also will finally have the opportunity to travel with the Special Olympics for the world Gam and she will be sailing into retirement sunset at the new Yacht Club that she belongs to Sand's not here this evening but we thank her for her passion for teaching here in cheser and the caring and support she has brought to her students their families and to our [Applause] staff and finally from Treasure high school please welcome treasure High School principal Dr Mary gat thank you oh good evening again and I am first speaking on behalf of Teresa LeBron who is retiring after 27 years in education 24 years at chesher high school Teresa received her Bachelor of Science in accounting at post College in 1979 she earned her master's degree in Business education in 1997 and her sixth year degree in experiential health and healing in 2004 at the graduated Institute her education career began with teaching grades 9 through 12 business at William H Hall High School in West Hartford she then went to teach the same grade levels in subjects at Rocky Hill in 1998 Teresa then transferred to chesher public schools in 2000 teaching business at chesher high school as Teresa has completed her last few weeks at CHS uh I want I she received an extraordinary uh recognition by the national FBLA organization she will be featured on their wall of Fame and this distinguished honor is for her many many years of service to the FBLA as an adviser since 2005 she will be formally recognized for her achievements at the national leadership conference in Orlando in June so she has just kept on learning and kept on growing right on through so Teresa thank you for being such a wonderful teacher such a wonderful colleague and for supporting our students to truly find their passions we will miss you [Applause] I'm sure you go anywhere without run yeah probably not [Applause] Terry morau Terry is retiring after 43 years in education and 38 years at chesher high school Terry received her Bachelor of Science and business education at at Central Connecticut State University in 1981 she earned her master's degree in Business education in 1985 from the same University and went on to obtain an additional 30 credit hours at St Joseph College and 30 credits at the University of New England in 1987 throughout the Summers of 1980 to 1982 she was a liaison coordinator for summer youth in Bristol Connecticut her first teaching position was at planville high school specializing in personal typing in shorthand then she taught typing one and two speed writing at business Careers Institute in New Britain Terry transferred to chesher public schools in 1986 teaching business education at cheser high school Terry has also been an Adjunct professor at tungus Community College and she's been on the Leading Edge to create a strong curricular alignment between chesher business courses and the college level courses Terry also gave her time and Keen insight to support the Mastery based performance assessment process and she has been a kind and stalwart support of her students and Department Terry we will will miss you you've left an indelible mark on chesher high school and we're so grateful that you spent the last 38 of your 44 year career with us teaching and caring at chesher High School [Applause] Kathy Sullivan is retiring after 44 years in education and 40 years at cheser high school Kathy received her Bachelor of Science and physical education from Springfield College in 1980 she went on to receive her Masters in PE and uh and for handicapped children in Southern Connecticut State University in 19 1985 from 1980 to 81 she was a fifth and sixth grade physical education teacher two days a week and the junior varsity girls basketball coach in Foxboro Massachusetts in 1981 she was a home tutor and substitute at the boys and girls varsity at the boys and girls club and varsity assistant track coach in sh Sharon Massachusetts Kathy joined chesher public schools in 1981 and throughout her many years of service she taught at Norton and Highland Elementary School before coming to chesher high school where lucky for us she spent the bulk of her career she's taught physical education and health at all grade levels and she's run intermural programs coached inter Scholastic field hockey basketball indoor and outdoor track been a class advisor Club adviser and K12 Department leader and dear friend and colleague to so many people in the district and school Kathy has led a department that has been on The Cutting Edge and model for physical education programs in the state during her tenure as leader of treasure Public Schools phys physical education and Health she has brought in leadership opportunities for students project Adventure several programs that have been recognized by the Connecticut Association of health physical education Recreation and dance she is widely recognized as a leader in her field across Connecticut and she has a deep regard for her colleagues and is Led with a true north belief in the importance of physical activity physical education and health education for all her work to ensure inclusion across all PE health programs is noteworthy it is nearly impossible to capture everything she has done and what she means to the chesher high school community and the chesher public schools Community Kathy thank you for your incredible service for the past 43 years and we will miss you time words [Applause] our retirees come up'll aoup photo the math here's a service I'll wait till her done while they're G Dr Dr Sol Dr Solen so my quick math says that this group represents a combined 300 years of service within chesher alone is that amazing everyone [Applause] adoring [Applause] fans I just want to say thank you for your years of service to our retirees um you've clearly touched many lives and we're grateful for all that you've done um especially your hard work and dedication to our students and families so congratulations again on a well-deserved retirement the next portion of our agenda is uh audience if there's any audience members that would like to go up and speak please do so seeing no audience members we're going to move forward with our agenda um we would like Mr jensi to um propose a motion to move the Personnel committee up to um before Finance so if possible can we have a motion to amend the agenda motion to amend the agenda to move the Personnel committee to the next item before finance committee is there a second Mr perini thank you um vote to to amend all in favor it's unanimous we will move the Personnel committee up before Finance thank you and with that um we have Miss cullinen for personnel committee hold on no we have um we skipped cons I apologize I skipped the consent I was just so excited we changed it oh my goodness um consent calendar so the the consent calendar we just need a motion to um you got it Mr White that the chesher Board of Education approves the consent calendar as presented is there a second thank you Mr eki um all in favor I unanimous thank you okay now we can move to personal sorry that the chesher Board of Education apply a 4% compensation increase to Dr Jeffrey F Sol's total compensation package to a new total of 27,43 it is further moved that the superintendent contract be extended through the 2026 2027 school year there second Mr White um call for a vote all in favor any discussion any discussion I apologize discussion Mr White no yeah no I just want to say uh to the superintendent thank you I appreciate very much the job that you've done in the past year um I won't say that everything is perfect but you are doing a really good job and I appreciate that um probably going to i' I'd like to see a little bit more uh you know focus on math School climate but overall you've done so many things well um school modernization is a huge undertaking you moving forward with Personnel you've got a number of shifts and changes that are happening over the course of probably two or three years significant changes in Personnel um uh there's there's a lot more going on uh it does not all come to mind we've had all these discussions in executive session but I just want to say overall thank you um I support you and I hope that you hang around for a while board members Mr gripple uh Dr Solen uh happy to support this motion um we've uh certainly grown together over the last eight years or so so uh couple of bumps here and there but uh uh overall uh I think U we've done pretty well and certainly you have done very well and um I support this motion tonight and uh continue to uh support what you're doing here thank you any other board members me Miss cullinan um I'd also like to say how happy I am with this motion and the collegio approach that the um committee took the Personnel committee and the committee of a whole um to discuss the um superintendent's contract and how happy we all are with um what the job that Dr Solen has been doing and again I I second it that I hope he continues here for a very long time we are very appreciative of his work um and time that he puts into this job thank you thank you Dr and I Echo everybody's statements um I I have some comments during my report for you actually but I I do appreciate most importantly your leadership um you continue to impress and innovate and basically check everything off the box that we've asked of you um and I I just think this is uh welld deserving for sure okay so we're calling for a um can you just reread the motion if you don't mind the did it again that the chesher Board of Education apply a 4% compensation increase to Dr Jeffrey F Sol's total compensation package to a new total of $270,400 Mr White all in favor of the motion it is unanimous thank you thank you madam chair and to everybody on the board um I know this tonight was about my contract and I appreciate that and I appreciate the the kind comments but you know the people that are in the audience here the the folks like U Mr massana Miss Solano and M Jen you know that they deserve all the credit in the world for what we accomplish in the school system I'm just proud to represent the work that they do uh they are incredibly hardworking people that are also very talented and I'm I'm proud to be a part of that team and I also uh while I'm at it would love to acknowledge the board I've been in this community for 20 years and the last nine is superintendent and um the as Miss cullin and said the collegiality uh the honest intention to support all students be successful and in that process supporting our teachers staff everybody who works in the Chester Public Schools is genuine and uh very much appreciate I think that's uh really a pillar of our success obviously along with our talented folks so thank you so much for the um recognition this evening thank you Dr senen moving on to the finance committee Mr maiana I believe thank you good evening or do you want to hand it to Ella before she leaves the building I I would like to do that because she can make everything sound great so the um board members do have the finance report I will be very brief this evening if you do look at the finance report you'll see that we are projecting to balance with a zero at the end of the year and our accounts as we've gone through the month of May where we've started to make the encumbrances for our yearend purchases and our summer maintenance and other projects um I I do see that everything will fall into place very nicely we still have quite a bit of work to do as we get through the month of June we have two more payrolls we have purchase orders that we will review and close if they're not going to be expended we do have to apply some of the grant balances to close out the year um and and finally finish up on any new additional purchases and projects that we have to encumber for that we will be completing over the summer so we are looking good I look forward to the fiscal year-end board meeting on June 28th at 7:30 a.m.
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the following members are present Brian O'Neal Katherine H Smith Jessica Guerrero and Anar rondall tro staff has requested the following amendments to the agenda page two of the agenda remove Janette James from item six and then on exhibit a replace Pages B 29 B bot 33 B b84 b85 to correct typos okay do I have a motion second all right all in favor I I all right and we will now stand uh for the Pledge of Allegiance um in thinking back to our um service folks men and women who um bravely have served our country right hand over your heart ready to begin I flag of the United States of America and to the repic for it stands Nation indivisible with liy and justice for all and for our moment of silence just to uh Ponder the last weeks of our school year and um as it's come to a close um and I know most of you are still working um but to really appreciate and be grateful to all the folks who have made um our district successful um and to wish our graduates um a bon voage all right moment of silence all right thank you okay moving on to the agenda see okay we do not have any student speakers moving on to public comments Open Session items opportunities for public comments occur at the beginning of each agenda item and at this time for um items not on the agenda persons wishing to address the board should complete a speaker request form available at the information table and um each topic item is limited to a total of 20 minutes board members cannot immediately respond to the public comments as stated on the speaker request form uh first up Jeff Morganstern welcome all right good evening uh Board of Trustees superintendent msud and cabinet just want to give a couple updates and comments um I do want to express it's been a little less than a month since the decision was made to resend the layoffs on May 10th and I want to express as's appreciation to the consideration given by the board in that decision um I also want to extend our appreciation uh to Brad Jackson jiren freed uh Celeste Krueger and Amanda Bean for working diligently with Asa myself and Lisa e and James Goran to kind of figure out Staffing in a very rushed and way in the last week or two of school uh but it was uh we' really appreciate that collaboration one of the other asks that we had in addition to resending the layoffs um was to begin thinking about that collaborative structure that we want to set up going into the next school year here I was reminded of this on Wednesday at a Los Amigos meeting and I was asked by the folks there um if I was going to continue to follow up on that and so just putting this on your radar and we can begin these conversations in August about setting up a transparent and collaborative structure with the board the cabinet ASA leadership the leadership of the other associations as well as parents and community members we haven't done this before so I don't know exactly what that's going to look like but I think we should should all be thinking about that um and have those conversations in August so we can begin that work immediately once the school year begins and I'm available to discuss that in any way that you like I know tonight as well that they're going to uh give the lcap recommendations and as for now about 10 years I was part of the elcap um stakeholder meetings and always appreciated sitting in with parents and students and other staff and having those conversations about what's going on here in the district and once again the topic of class size came up as a top vote getter with the lcap recommendations um this is a definite concern of students and parents and staff and I do want to put on your radar and it's something that we're going to address uh in the coming school year the idea of looking at and talking about class caps I know this is something that we haven't really dug into much in the last 5 years or so in bargaining but it is a topic that I think has had a lot of action with our community and is definitely on the minds of teachers so just wanted to put that on your radar to continue those conversations uh when we begin discussion about the elcap priorities and also into next year so anyway thank you for your time and appreciate it thankk you chff okay so the rest of these are for item six we're moving on to item six right hey uh Kenna Kenna Russell can can we call and open the public hearing please oh sorry we're closing the public hearings um item six is a public hearing for candidates for a provisional appointment to the Board of Trustees uh just going to give folks a little bit of background on May 6 2024 uh trustee piery passed away following an extended illness trustee Pier's passing has created a vacancy On The Board of Trustees for trustee area five on May 10th 2024 the board voted to fill the vacancy by making a provisional appointment the process for making a provisional appointment is to the board is outlined in Ed code sections [Music] 509-9500 1111 pursuant to the board policy this public public hearing is scheduled to provide an opportunity for input from the district Community regarding candidates written comments may also be provided through this process so we're considering Stephen Blount Sheila Hart and Ron hosi um we will convene a special board meeting on June 11th 2024 at 5 to interview the candidates and then on June 13 2024 the boy the board will consider appointing a new member to the Board of Trustees at its regular meeting the public is invited to attend both of these meetings all righty Kenna Russell will you please come forward time limit time limit have you stated uh based on the number at this time it looks like the regular three minutes would be appropriate thank you we do this yeah I'll be brief hello and thank you for allowing me the opportunity to come speak in support of Ron hosi as many of you know I am Kenna Russell I am Anna Pier's daughter and the hole she has left here in our district is large before her passing she and I had a lot of time to talk and we talked about what the opening that she was leaving behind meant and what we were looking for um and who we thought should fill it and Mom and I loved a good debate so we had lots of good debates mom heard Ron was interested actually I heard Ron was interested and I told her and we talked about what a good candidate for the board would look like I feel Ron possesses those good qualities Ron knows Cyprus he knows the community he knows its strengths and its challenges Cypress is a unique a unique area in our district the west side in general is um he was a huge part of the Oxford Community for many years he knows Cypress residents as a principal as a teacher and as a business owner in the city of Cypress but more importantly Ron knows the ahsd he knows the district as a teacher he knows the district as an administrator and he knows the district as the head of the ambassador program we need representation that knows all of the different sides of the ahsd and I do believe that that is Ron thank you very much uh next up Elizabeth oi good evening everyone my name is Elizabeth o and I'm honored here today to endorse my candidacy for Mr hosi for a seat on the Board of Trustees my connection to Mr hosi runs deep originating in 2018 when we first collaborated through the nonprofit organization youth leadership America even then as I worked alongside Mr hosi to empower the young people in our community his servant leadership qualities shown through he inspired me and so many others to dream bigger do more and create positive change his drive to build environments truly designed by students for students gave me a new vision for leadership our paths crossed again when I was elected as the student represent representative to this very Board of Trustees in 2020 2021 school year as my adviser during those tumultuous times of the covid-19 pandemic Mr hoshi's steadfast hand helped me steer the ambassadors and the school district through unprecedented challenges when confusion reigned his deep expertise about our schools and wisdom from years of community service provided an inval valuable guide quite simply serving our thousands of students would not have been possible without Mr hoshi's leadership his commitment to our schools and families goes beyond that one year however for decades this district has been fortunate to have Mr hosi working tirelessly behind the scenes to uplift our education system time and time again he has rolled up his sleeves to do the hard work of enacting real positive change yet he carries himself with humility and Grace never seeking the spotlight his integrity and ability to help people and bring people together makes him a unifying force when I think about the qualities this Board needs expertise servant leadership a strong moral compass and collaborative Spirit Mr hosi embodies them all he's a true Workhorse dedicated to the children of this community I've seen it firsthand through his mentorship and outstanding example he sets on a personal note Mr hoshi's impact goes beyond just being an adviser he is a friend for whom I know I can always count on for wise counsel his caring presence has been a Guiding Light for all of these reasons and more I give my highest recommendation for Mr hosi to be the elected to this board our schools our teachers and most importantly our students would be tremendously fortunate to have such a principled experienced leader fighting for their interests his passion for education in this community is unmatched Mr hosi has already given so much to uplift our district and I'm confident he will continue making a lasting positive impact in this new role I Ur you to all vote for Mr hosi thank you thank you Fabiana maget MCH I'm so sorry oh hello hi everyone my name is Fabiana Minch Casanova and I a teacher at Oxford Academy I'm here to support Ron hosi for the position of ah uhsd board member I have known Ron since 2002 when I joined a district as a new and inexperienced teacher back then he was our legendary choir director and his enthusiasm and passion uh made for the most uh fabulous shows his attention to detail and excident planning skills not only ensured the success of his choir shows but also helped him transition into new roles at Oxford as he sought new challenges over the years he served as our assistant principal and later as our principal after he retired whenever we needed an interim principal which was way more often than you might imagine Ren Ron stepped in without hesitation he has consistently supported our school and the district and despite his countless attempts to retire the district frequently calls on him to fill various roles which speaks volumes about his reliability and dedication this opportunity to serve as a board member is another Testament to his commitment this position is particularly high stakes especially given our current circumstances and I believe he is an excellent choice for this vacancy not only due to his extensive experience with the district but because of his remarkable generosity Ron is incredibly generous with his time connections and resources always willing to help especially when it comes to students he is a Fierce advocate for students and has a special knack for supporting the underdog if he sees even a spark of potential he will do everything in his power to nurture it helping students become confident and successful his dedication is evident in his current role as RSVP director and in his countless contributions to my club in particular at Oxford the association of Latin American Scholars um he has really helped us build a sense of community among our Hispanic population at Oxford where we are a minority despite being a majority in the district he has been instrumental in planning events and supporting and encouraging our students to thrive and succeed at Oxford which as you can imagine is no easy feat one of our biggest successes was our club president J Joseph Reyes um where he became the auhsd Ambassador last year and he excelled in this role and now is driving at UCI achievements to which Ron significantly contributed to um he has Ron has proven himself to be a dedicated public servant to this District time and time again he is a strong advocate for students always putting their needs first and he is not afraid to question or push back on popular opinion when necessary his experience in passion make him an ideal candidate for the board and he would be a great addition to it because let's face it this man is never going to retire so we might as well benefit from it thank you thank you fa an malori good evening uh thank you very much for having me here tonight president Randall tro honorable members of the Board of Trustees and esteemed professionals who um put Education First that's our our purpose and why we exist and I'm here to speak on behalf of Ron hosi who I think would be a really good addition to an already wonderful uh board that provides excellent educational for our youths um I here I'm here speaking as a resident of Cypress and a mom of kids who went through the system I'm not here speaking in my capacity as an elected official for another organization um I have known Ron for over 20 years uh as a a mom when my uh oldest went off to Oxford I was so fortunate that his core teacher was Ron hosi and Ron was a instrumental Mentor for my son throughout his entire career at Oxford um in many many ways people really know of Ron's expertise in um and the way he brings kids out in the choir program Eric definitely Ben benefited from that but Ron is a good counselor and encourager and uh just a wonderful educator which is what we're all about um I think in addition to the E for Education Ron is enthusiastic this is is a man who never tires never stops if you have work to do I know that he will get it done because we've seen it that's what he's been doing I guess uh we all agree he's never going to retire the um engagement piece is really critical you need somebody who is going to represent the um perspectives from the district which he you know the section of the district which he represents but I also know he's going to take the message back to the community where he lives and um and is going to make decisions based on what's good for the district overall he's going to be that voice that understands the local the microl local issues but I know he's going to make decisions that are best for the entire um Anaheim Union High School District I know him to be a man of great ethics I have had the opportunity to work with him on many projects in a variety of capacities and I commend everybody who has put their name forth for this position I I I appreciate their uh desire for additional public service but you do have a decision to make and I encourage you to um choose Mr hosi for the reasons that I have um spoken of thank you very much thank you Andrew compano welcome Andrew hello everyone I'm here to speak on the appointment for the Cypress area board member and I'm also here to just give a few comments on the lcap presentation um you know my biggest thing is the school board is up there for the people in my opinion that is the taxpayer's chair that is the seat of the people so when we have someone who's up there we need someone representing the students most importantly but also the cypers community so I've heard a lot of people and there's Mr hosi so my message to the candidates are we need to engage in discussions with what happened in the last year we need a candidate who's going to reach out take initiative and speak to the students um what what we really need is delegates of the community we don't need any more political or we don't or trustees we need someone who is a champion of the community last time we had an appointment if I recall was anarie who is still up on that board um so in appointing a candidate there is a very good possibility that the candidate's going to be up there for a while now Miss Randall Trejo we have had our disagreements and we have had conversations um and so my biggest thing is we need someone who is going to Champion the community but most importantly we need someone who's going to hear us at the last board meeting you said that it wasn't right how people could go up here and say whatever they want I'm a firm believer in the First Amendment and I Champion that I believe that too so I think the community should be able to go up here and voice their opinions so we need a candidate who's going to stand up here and advocate for the community and I really hope one of you does I really do now after reviewing some of the lcap um presentations I was just you know I um had a meeting with with a few community members and a a teacher and we um overviewed some of the spending um now I'm just a kid in the end of the day um I don't know much about budgeting but I think one thing we really really need to push is having the money reflect the amount of students if we're going to be pushing money to schools that have a smaller School Community I don't think that's Justified I think we should be investing where the majority of the students are um and I just really hope that we can continue to engage in conversation we need transparency and I really hope that with the new member up on that Das we get more of that thank you thank you uh Germaine Newman Chan Chow sorry thank you um my name is Jermaine Newman Chow I'm a Community member member here in Anaheim longtime resident um I just want to talk about the school board um the role of our school board is oversight Community oversight of our school district and it's really important especially after what we've just gone through this past spring on the issues the the issues that we've talked about about transparency accountability um ending the perceptions of nepotism and Chon ISM in our district we we need to really like focus on trying to heal and make sure that people feel that they can trust our school board and trust that we're having that oversight and when we have situations where people feel like they're not being heard or they're not being listened to whether it's our teachers our students our parents when parents feel like they're being shut down by our Administration when they're talking when um things like that are happening that doesn't bode well for our community and it doesn't mean make us feel that we're in a safe space with our our school board we we rely on you guys to provide that oversight so I want to request that when you're considering these candidates you consider who doesn't have Financial contacts with our district who is isn't already financially benefiting from our school board our school district we have long-term candidates I don't know any of these people um but I think we should put that as a priority and say okay what are your contacts with the district where you know have you taught for us have you substituted for us do you are you a consultant are you going to be are you being paid this is something that we talk about on the national level we talk about it on the state level it's really important especially here at the local level so we can heal as a as a district and heal as a community um that's that's my biggest concern and I hope you guys when you're considering those candidates next week you really take that into consideration um just food for thought for our community here the ACLU is offering some training coming up that's free on school boards and how to file complaints and how to oversight and how to um make sure we're following all the rules and I think that's something that we need as a community to keep that oversight and hopefully our school board will show us that the rest of us can stop coming to these meetings because I'm sure you don't want to see me here every month um I know I have got other things to do but um I just really hope if anybody's interested in that information about the ACLU or any of the other training come see me I've got the info thank you thank you gerine okay were there any other forms no all right all right we are closing the public hearing for our candidates thank you everyone for speaking we really value your input there was one for my je John Pete I apologize welcome honorable trustees superintendent matsuda and cabinet my name is John Pete I'm an active member of the community of Cyprus the passing of truste an a piery represents a tremendous loss for the city of Cypress as well as the Anaheim Union High School District Mrs piery was deeply invested in the city of cypress as an educator as a member of the city council and as a member of numerous Civic and philanthropic organizations as a longtime educator and member of the Board of Trustees Mrs piery was equally invested and committed to the development and education of Youth throughout the district Mrs Pier's longtime service to the district as an educator and in-depth involvement in the city of Cyprus gave her a unique perspective that allowed her to represent her constituents in area five while Al also prioritizing decisions that were in the the long-term best interest for the entire District I come to you this evening to speak on behalf of Mr Ron hosi as the best candidate to fill the vacancy On The Board of Trustees in area five as with Mrs piery Mr hosi has had a long successful career with the Anaheim Union High School District as a teacher coach advisor assistant principal and principal in his 40 years of service Mr hosi has worked at schools all across the district which means he has an understanding of the issues and challenges that the district faces in all areas of ahsd not just in area 5 in his various roles within the district as an educator advisor and administrator Mr hosi has worked tirelessly to help students achieve their goals and realize their fullest potential I believe Mr hosi is a living representation of the district's philosophy unlimited you Mr hosi is also deeply involved in the community of Cyprus as a business owner and as a member of Civic and philanthropic organizations Mr hosi has received CE numerous awards for his service as an educator administrator and as a community leader among his many awards M hosi was selected as the prestigious Cypress College Foundation Americana citizen of the year in 2018 through his years of service all across the district I believe Mr hos has developed a unique understanding of the needs and challenges that the district faces over the next several years as well as the opportunities that abound to serve students and families in new and innovative ways this combined with his understanding of the interests and desires of the families in area 5 make him the best candidate to fill the vacancy and I hope you will select him thank you thank you apologize again all right now we're going to close the public hearing for the candidates for provisional appointment and we are moving on to our presentations but before um I've neglected to announce and Welcome to our board meeting um AE and him elementary school trustee Paulo mollus to the audience welcome all right moving on to oh there you are right in front of me North Orange Community College District trustee Stephen blown welcome every welcome Stephen all righty now we're moving on to presentations the local control and accountability plan elcap and annual update SL California school dashboard and local indicators all right well good evening everyone good evening Madam president members of the board also to our executive cabinet of course to our families parents students and community and staff colleagues out in the audience and watching online um gives me a great pleasure tonight have a team with me to talk a little bit more about the California school dashboard our local indicators and of course we'll talk more deeply about our local control accountability plan our lcap and the process that we have gone through um I want to First just thank and recognize uh the team who helped put this presentation together Dr roxan Hernandez who will be here with me tonight Robert salivar our executive director of ed services who will be here along with Amanda be our director of career preparedness systems framework so the four of us will present tonight but of course there's a whole team behind us uh who are part of this work including um as you're going to hear in a little bit the incredible community that was a part of the elcap process it's always an incredible event to see um our community come together for a series of five nights to really work through and wrestle with the the data and the assets but also the challenges and needs of our district and to come together with recommendations that we can bring forth to the board in terms of how we might best serve our students and our families in our community so I look forward to the presentation tonight I also ask oops did I do something was that me I don't think I touched anything yet see Paulina oh I was like I didn't touch anything I swear umy yeah this isn't counting techology so but I again want to thank the community I also want to thank and I think we'll talk about this later to the steering committee we have a steering committee made up of a number of our Community Partners including our teachers our classified staff our counseling staff our unions um our we have parent representatives and of course staff Representatives uh both on the Ed Services side business side HR side and our site Administration side that are part of this process to um kind of vet the work that our lcap does as a whole uh and kind of guiding the work that's being done so I want to thank a lot of folks that were part of this great journey having said that we're going to begin with a review of the purpose of this presentation remember this is a two-part presentation first we're going to talk a little about the local indicators and then we're going to go into the elcap process I do respectfully ask if you can uh to hold your questions till the end because we likely will answer some of the questions that you might have throughout the presentation but of course once we've completed any questions that you have we'll be happy to to to answer the purpose of this presentation is really just to Pro provide A Brief Review and overview of our California school dashboard it's also to share the reflective process we're required to go through in the implementation of our local indicators what's nice about this process is it's not looking the local indicators is not connected to any quantifiable uh data per se it's really a chance for the district to use rubrics that the state provides as a reflection tool to reflect on how we're going about our work uh so again there's no um data that we're looking at to see if we've met or didn't made it's really that we go through a process to reflect on where we are and where we're headed and we'll share the the the reflections that were done that were collected as a part of the elcap discussions that happen in different rooms plus the discussions that happen at the site level spsa that we've collected and at the district level with different conveni that we've had this is also meeting a requirement of the state that we present this process to you as a school board at a at a current board meeting if you think about the California accountability system it has changed over the years where you may recall before we had um an ayp annual year yearly performance or API academic performance indicator which was typically boil down to one score or one one number this dashboard really looks more at a holistic measurement of students in their achievement and their growth so it's not connected to just a student or a single number it's connected to a number of things what we also like is this this dashboard focuses on continuous Improvement so it's not necessarily about comparing School a or School B with other schools it's really about comparing ourselves with us in terms of how we were and how we are now and then what we can do to get better so it's about measuring measuring growth uh and continuous Improvement it does also focus on the equity bless you the the focus is on Equity of all student groups um as you just heard from uh one of our speakers I think it was Andrew who talked about the need for equity-minded Concepts right that we of course always have traditionally in districts look at through the lens of equality but we're looking through the lens of equity and how we best serve the needs of students and their groups while also finding times to celebrate and recognize the assets that both the student groups and all of our students bring uh to our schools each and every day along with our families so it focuses a lot on Equity uh it's also integral to the lcap process and development so when we we hear from both Dr Hernandez and Mr salivar on our elcap process you're going to see how the work of our local indicators also connects and feeds what we do with our elcap process uh and of course it also allows us to measure the progress around the state priorities which Miss Bean will talk about momentarily actually we're here at the part where miss being will talk about that thank you good evening so the California school dashboard um has 11 indicators that are used to measure performance six of the indicators are reported through the state um data reporting system system known as cow pads and those would include the College and Career Readiness indicator and that includes um different combinations of student attainment of ESC scores passage of AP exams CTE pathway completion dual enrollment completion um leadership or military science or IV exams and so students are marked as prepared um based on earning any combination of or certain combinations of those things um um the other indicators that are reported through the data system would be our graduation rates our Ela and math scores through our esac testing our English learner progress chronic absenteeism and suspension rate um tonight the really the focus of this presentation is the local indicators as Dr Fred mentioned they are locally evaluated um and they are uh again done through Rubik and a self-reflective process and um and then a a a submission of a narrative to the state around around on these five indicators those five indicators include the basic conditions the implementation of academic standards parent engagement School climate and access to a broadc course of study so as we go through the presentation tonight we're going to go through each of those and what some of our areas of growth and our areas of strength are and how we rated ourselves throughout that process to give you just a quick snapshot on the dashboard so back to the the the data that is submitted to the state through cow pads um this is another piece that is used for the lcap development um districts and schools receive one of five performance levels for each state measure and it is based on comparing the current uh year data um and the growth or the decline from the prior year so there's a comparison from year to year uh during the covid years there was not a comparison so our previous presentations were about single-ear data only but now we're back to comparison from year to year so the 200 2023 dashboard is a comparison from our growth from 2022 and so when you look at the metrics on the dashboard um a red would be the lowest and a a blue would be the highest and each of those indicators would have a score based on how we how we grew or how we declined from the year before the College and Career Readiness indicator um is is still not being comp compared from year to year uh so when we look at that data when it comes out this year we will just see receive a status level of of ranging from very low to very high um and that has tied to how many kids are meeting the prepared metric or the not prepared metric um but for the bulk of this presentation we're going to talk about the local measures and again um basic conditions is really related to teacher assignments safe and clean facilities and having instructional materials for all students um implementation of the standards um School climate surveys uh so student safety feeling connected to School parent involvement and family engagement and access to courses so uh we went through a series each of the Departments that oversees these areas um so that includes you know um Dr Adam Hernandez in the student services office um Carlos Hernandez in the family engagement and Community Schools um Diana Fujimoto and her team around academic standards um all of the teams um contributed to the self- evaluation um and completed the rubrics to determine whether or not we met each of these indicators um and so once we go through that we receive one of two ratings we can either um determine that we have met it or we have not met it and so we'll we'll share that with you tonight hand it back to jiren to St talk about our first indicator thank you Mana so our first indicare is basic services that again talks about appropriately assigned teachers access to curriculum align materials and safe clean and functional schools facilities again we have a rubric a tool that we're used we had to use to to measure our progress which was a St uh Stu the school accountability report cards was part of that process to help us gauge uh whether we were able to meet or not based on our reflection when you look at where we are uh we had 24 out of our all the teachers that we have in our district that were what was called the Miss assigned that's assigned misassigned as the board may recall um based on credentials um teachers who are assigned to teach in an area that they're not credentialed has to go through a misassignment process of the 24 the majority are actually connected to JC if you may recall that all of our teachers had to go through a clad certification process many many years ago which authorized them to work and teach with English Learners both um in the integrated but also the the designated courses so jrtc teachers do not have that authorization so they have to go through this misassignment process so a good chunk of the 24 are our jrtc teachers um because they're not because again they're hired through a different agency when they work with us so they're not coming with the clad certification you may also see a handful of teachers as a part of the 24 who are teaching in elective courses that maybe they don't have the unique credential for but we're allowed and permitted to assign Miss assign them to do that one course you may also see that coach who has let's say the social science credential but teaching that one section of PE because they're coaching the football team and that's our PE section so you you'll see again of the 1100 plus teachers 24 were assigned misassigned and that's something that's standard each year that we we share with you that's what those numbers wen't again a good good percentage were connected to jotc because of the the not them not having the cloud certification with access to curriculum line materials we go through a Williams audit each year um and I'm grateful that we get back um a great rating 100% rating that our students had access to aligned CR line materials and and and access to those materials either online platforms or is a hard copy uh we are required to make sure students have one or the other um now we know that some teachers will use those materials um as as as part their class on a regular basis and some may choose not to use them as often in in certain times that's perfectly okay but the key is students have access to those materials which we we do have that access and the Williams finding showed that um also clean and functional schools facilities it just showed again that our that Williams comes and does an audit on that that we do have our facilities and good repair and standard it doesn't mean that we don't have facilities that need to be upgraded or upkept uh or that have additional needs I know we have a master plan that shows significant needs in our district but it doesn't mean that they're not functional in clean spaces so that's different concept and based on the purpose of the local indicator um that is one of the things you'll see in a bit with Dr Hernandez and Mr salivar when they share the lcap you're going to see one of the I think it was the top recommendations talked about facilities um so you're going to see this kind of surface back as something that our community has identified as a priority the second local indicator is the implementation of State Standards this is um something that obviously is as part of the Ed division team as a priority for for for for our team right in the way that we make this real we had a reflection rubric that we had a look at in guiding um kind of where we thought we were in the process and where we feel like we need to go based on to the conversations and dialogue collected at the elcap from our community as they were looking at the same kind of data points in determining where the recommendations were going to be in terms of how to move the needle towards equity and Justice in the this this area and we have a specific focus group that did a lot of work in this area so want to start highlighting some of the strengths that were identified through not just the lcap process but just through the work we've done as a district uh we show a lot of areas of strength in the way that we approach professional learning and instructional materials aligned to those standards and Frameworks um this is something we're really proud of as a district we'd like to think it's our our bread and butter um our drivers as you know as a whole child approach when you think about the 15 schools that have received Federal funding and have been awarded the distinction of as a community school um we believe our all of our schools whether they receed that funding or not are Community Schools and as a at the center of that approach is a whole child approach and that is done through as you see on the right of the screen our cpsf or our career preparedness systems framework this brings in uh both the 21st century skills which as you know the collaboration critical thinking creativity communication and perhaps the most important uh character compassion kindness these skills are integral in the way that our amazing teachers teach and instruct our students um but also Central to the cpsf framework are the technical skills this is where the traditional content uh lives but it's also where the pathway work lives with our exclusive Pathways and also the Google cert certification programs that we have and our uh cre Career Tech Pathways connected to dual enrollment so uh a number of technical skills that are integrated into the work that we do and then lastly it's the youth voice and purpose it's making sure that our students voices are Amplified uh both in the classroom and out of the classroom providing feedback in terms of what they learn but also um bringing Civic engagement to the classroom allowing students to leverage the content and the skills that we're trying to build and Empower and equip them with uh to be able to tackle the issues that they care about as you all know Mac uh our Magnolia agroscience Community Center at Magnolia High School a lot of that really stemmed from the voices of our students in our community when they identifi the food insecurities and the food deserts uh surrounding our area and that's what really prompted both uh the board and of course the cabinet then to respond to the clear need that the students identified through their Soap Box uh and ahd Ted Talks um so that's an example of that voice being Amplified and helping to impact um local community to to be a better place part of what we do that we identified in that reflection are the systems of support and like anything one of our core values that we speak about uh if systems not silos and be the first to tell you that although we do a lot of great work in this area we of course have things that we constantly are working on to improve these are some of the systems of support that we have in place to support professional learning so that our teachers are equipped to deliver first best instruction uh we talk about our Ed division as a team the curriculum specialist but also at the site level we have incredible 5c coaches Community School teacher leads I know on here are our Title One coordinators we have our edtech coaches and then through that the last two years we've invested some of the onetime monies on the site leadership team to have that release time to be together and work to improve uh systems and instructional outcomes on their campuses like the the development of the Capstone program and the performance task assessments which are essential to the work that we're doing as a district and of course our our teacher leaders who serve as Department chairs all those systems as an example are helping to move the needle in the way that we meet outcomes and and support our students with their academic growth what we did identify as areas of growth and some next steps based on the feedback that we've heard at the lcap and just through conversations we had at the sites and the survey that's been collected is the need to continue to identify professional learning needs of individual teachers just like we ask our teachers to differentiate their instruction with the students that they're serving going back again to that concept of equity we want to make sure that we're doing the same thing with our staff that when we deliver um professional learning that we're also thinking about the teachers and where they're at um and not just teaching kind of to the middle right that we're really trying to support our teachers and their growth around cpsf implementation and the the work of um our drivers we also talked about the need to continue to refine and grow our performance task assessment system and the Capstone program as a district who doesn't um who teaches to the whole child and doesn't believe in teaching to a test um it is essential that we have a way to progress monitor how our students are doing academically engage their progress and for us the the performance task assessment is the way that we we Monitor and progress monitor our students um we believe very much in our teachers and believe uh them to be the experts and so these are teacher developed performance task assessments that help gauge connected to their content while implementing uh the the 5c's and allowing student students opportunities to amplify their voice and find their purpose uh those ptas that we we do across our district again with each teacher having a minimum of two U ptas per per um their content area um this is a way that we as a district begin to Monitor and progress monitor our students in their academic growth and that Capstone is really that collection of performance task assessments that you see happening across our schools and Central of that process is the reflection where students are constantly reflecting on how these ptas made them a better collaborator Communicator critical thinker Etc um because you know John Dewey talks about learning is not just from the experience it's really from the reflection on the experience so the reflections are part of a central part of our cap Zone Program and this is something that as a district we want to continue to refine and grow um we believe that we need to also continue to provide support for our teachers on the standards they have not yet mastered so as teachers begin to identify where they can use the support going back to that first bullet that we can provide better support as a system to help support their growth um in the way that they support students whether that's leverage leveraging our late start time in the way that teachers and sites are given more of that time back to work together on on their professional learning plan and how they support students or things that we do at a more Global level District level in the way that we leverage um our Ed Summit and other professional learning opportunities that we provide through our Ed division um as you may know the the science teachers across our district have been going through a process to adopt uh new textbooks so part of what we identified also as a next step is to provide support for them in the way that they leverage that tool remember the textbooks are not the curriculum they are tools the teachers are the experts to to be able to bring the curriculum to life in their classrooms and the textbooks are a tool to assist in that work but we want to make sure that we're providing professional learning on how to leverage that tool to support first best instruction and our science teachers because they have these new tools we want to make sure that we have the support in place for them to utilize that tool at the highest level and then the last thing is the increased use of what we call Street data um as a district we are constantly looking at the satellite data and just as a reminder satellite data are more the global Trends and patterns that you might see with a through G data graduation data chronic absenteeism data um suspension rate data those are all incredibly important things for look at for us to look at and engage in but what's more powerful is you can take that data and break it down and listen to the voices of our students and our families who are living that data right they're the ones who can share their lived experience through either Community circles empathy interviews things of that nature where we can uncover more of the reasons as to why the satellite data is what it is uh so we as an ed Division and as a district can be more informed to guide the next steps that we take to better support our students so we're going to see more efforts this year this upcoming year on how we leverage and use Street data to really hear as you heard from some of the speakers as they were endorsing one of the candidates how that the voices of our community are essential to the work that we do so hearing that we want to absolutely make sure that we're leveraging the voices that street data to really influence what we do and how we go about that work next indicator is the parent engagement process and I'm super proud of the work that we've done with our parent engagement uh we again had a reflective rubric that we had to go through and it talks about looking at how we build relationships between School staff and Families how we build Partnerships for Student Success and how we seek input for decision making uh that is that is shared and as you know that's a that's a central aspect too to the pillars of our community school approach that we have these these collaborative forms of shared leadership and that we seek the input of different voices to be a part of the decisions that are made um so so I'm really proud of the work that we're doing I would argue these are all areas that we're working on but things that um are to not only are they strengths but they're also areas of improvement right we know that we have to continue to improve in these areas as we started to identify the areas of strength um we're proud that we have 15 Community School uh centers at our Our Family Resource Centers at our 15 Community Schools they look different each each of our schools but we're working to create a space where both families uh parents and also our Community Partners can come and be a part of our work together um we're also talking about the service and programming that's implemented based on the individual site and asset needs one of the pillars of our community schools PR is also the asset needs survey data so it's looking at what's right and what are bright spots within our community how do we leverage those as strengths to bring back into our schools to leverage our approach to instruction and to make sure that those are highlighted in the work that we do while at the same time recognizing there are challenges that are within our communities and the challenges are unique to Unique to each Community though as you heard from some of the speakers earlier what Cyprus and and Kennedy per se might have their needs and assets might look different than what you see at South and catella or Anaheim and Sycamore so it's it's take taking the time to really understand specifically where the assets and strengths and the needs and gaps lie within each community and then using that to inform our next our next steps in the process uh we talk about work work being an asset based approach and collaborative interactive that's something we feel um is a strength for our district but also something we need to continue to work on and grow um our parent learning walks our parent leadership academies family education series our ready to set go curriculum these are all things that we're doing culture responsive environments that build on the assets of our community something that we've been doing the last several years um and something we want to continue to do but those we we feel are strengths and I want to take a moment just to talk a little more about some of the parent engagement things that we've done as a district that just shows how these are strengths for our district you know we've been recognized as a leader in this area that the community engagement initiative also known as CI their Consortium that's at the state level we have been recognized as one of the top districts in the state of California in the way that we engage families and parents um not to say that we don't have areas of growth but we've been recognized as an outlier for the state so we are one of the original cohort members and we've been actually charged with helping to lead and facilitate other districts throughout the state um in their own growth in their own journey in terms of how they can better engage and support families as you know through our community school approach we've been deemed and recognized as one of three Deep dive transformational districts we've been hosting in the past monthly visits um with with visitors not just throughout the state but also across the country and we've had a couple of educational agencies that have come outside from International Canada Korea to name a few um so really proud of the work that's being recognized in terms of what we've we've been able to do and what we are still working towards in our district also as it relates to um this shared leadership you'll see examples that constantly in the great work that Dr Bryant does with our daac and our site elac teams you'll see that at the school site councils uh it's something that we're really trying to integrate in the work that we do across our district um so all of our community members are at the table helping to determine and decide where our next Collective steps are we talk about buyin versus ownership buyin is a top- down construct where you know I'm selling you something I hope you buy in we are really trying to operate through the lens of ownership where when we co-construct co-develop together there is that ownership where we're all a part of developing or co-creating what it is that we're trying to accomplish so um that is something that is a goal for us but we feel like it's an area of strength but it's certainly something we want to continue to grow and strengthen uh and then of course opportunities for parents to actively participate in decision-making what we talked about one other data point that I want to share that I think is worth noting at the last last year um local indicator in elcap presentation I think maybe it was trusty O'Neal Who asked about how we're collecting data on parent engag what does that look like and you may recall that we've been leveraging our five-star um software to be able to track how many parents are participating in the work that we're doing so we actually have data now at each of our sites in terms of how many parents are participating in our coffee with their principles our elac our um College and Career Fair activities our um parent workshops Ready set go the modules parent leadership academies all the different things that our sites are doing we're now tracking the data and we're able to track it not just on our repeat visitors so parents who attend a lot of different things but also our parents who maybe only attend one or two things so you're going to see data and we're we're talking about how we can publish that data so it's very transparent and visible to our community so they can see just how active our parents are in participating in school events and in community events um one of the things that our team has been working on and I want to give again Mr Carlos Hernandez Kenny Perez aeli Chavez a lot of accolades and the work that they're leading is we're also working to create these modules that will also be online so I think about me as a parent I have I have students that went through the K12 system and although I didn't go to the PTA meetings and I didn't go to all the events at the school I was super engaged in my own students high school and Junior High junor Journey um so we have these modules that parents can log in at their Leisure whether it's 10 at night or 5 in the morning where they can log in and be given capacity building opportunities and through their login we can capture that data so even though they may not be attending physically the lcap or they may not be physically attending that coffee the principal we know that they're still contributing and we're still engaged with our schools just like I was as a parent even though I didn't physically go so we're now starting to capture that data so we can see just how active our families are again we think it's a strength but we recognize know better do better we want to continue to grow and support that effort as well some of the ne areas of growth and next steps that we've identified is the building of relationship between School staff and families we are never done with that work we will never be satisfied with where we are we know that we have to intentionally continuously build staff professional learning and how we connect and engage with our families as you may recall this past school year we began our school year with our staff getting on a bus and visiting their local communities to understand the context of where our students are coming from the the the way that they may walk to school uh that is something we want to do every other year um so we continue to have our staff engage and visit we're doing home visits now our teachers are doing home visits to to our schools not in a disciplinary or negative way but to really learn about the aspirations and the goals and hopes and dreams for our students and our families so again cont continuously looking at how we can build capacity in our staff and the way that they connect and engage with our families in our communities we want to design structures to ensure that teachers are able to meet with families and students to review student alchem progress so it's not just something a counselor or the admin is but teachers are a part of that work uh so these are things that we're working on as next steps and as goals um and again you heard the last couple months how much our students love our teachers so we feel like we can leverage the love that they have for our teachers to continue to grow and strengthen this as a part of our work uh we talked about building Partnerships for student outcomes um one of the things that came out from a number of our families who serve students with disabilities is they want to be able to be at the table as well in terms of how we support our students with disabilities we have a structure that's already in place that's a legally bound structure is through our greater Anaheim Sela where it's the community advisory Community called CAC don't ask me why but that's that's what it's called uh where we've committed to making sure that our families who serve students with disabilities um have opportunities to not just access but able to participate in those meetings and our director of special Youth Services Amy Maya who does a great job along with our coordinator Lauren claser have committed to making sure that those families are given opportunities to be there and participate at those meetings that was something that came out via our lcap process and then lastly again you can see the theme seeking input for a decision making we want to make sure that even though that's a strength we know that we can do better and we want to make sure that all of the things that we're doing are really seeking the input of our families uh Dr Bryant reminds us all the time it's officially called liberatory design right it's those most impacted by the decisions have a voice at the table to give input in terms of what that might be uh we want to make sure that we're committed to making sure that voice is loud and clear before decisions are made so we have the input before we move forward so we hear clearly from our students and our parents our caregivers in terms of what it is that they need what is they see as assets that we can leverage as a part of the ultimate decisions that we we make our next one I'm gonna hand over to to miss bean and she's going to talk more about school climate so the local indicator of school climate again centers around um school safety and connectedness so the um standard that we have is is to administer a local climate survey at least every other year that Val that is a measure of perceptions of safety and connectedness uh so we administer lcap students survey yearly that includes questions in this area and then every other year uh we give a a healthy a California healthy kids survey to um our seventh ninth and 11th graders uh so this year um in terms of school climate we primarily wrote Our reflection and narrative around the elcap student survey we had an approximately uh 50% participation rate in the survey which was about just under 15,000 students um and so some of the highlights from the survey are that 87% of students feel accepted at their school for who they are um 79% reported that they get what they need to be successful in at least half or more of their classes um 81% say they're cared for it and found um and they're treated with kindness in all of their classes or at least half their classes um 69% reported they have at least one adult they can go to to ask for help and 76% reported their teachers have high expectations for them in all of their classes and so while these numbers are on the higher side um there are a number of kids who don't feel that and so we still have a lot of work to do to make sure our kids are feeling safe and connected at school and so some of that oh we lost it again I swear I just hit one button think we don't have a keyboard up yeah I don't unless I hit the off button accidentally I don't I don't know they're all kind of right in the same spot thank you thank you sorry uh right here so we have a number of um efforts that we engage in to improve climate um the first is is that our student ambassadors at each school um leads an rsbp Summit two to three summits a year uh where they are soliciting feedback and input from students on the things that are of concern to them on their campuses and then the ambassadors engage with their administrators to talk through the student responses and to set action plans on some of those areas of improvement um we have Civic engagement to encourage all students um to have use their voice and um and whatnot and that happens through our democracy school activities and all 20 of our schools are California democracy schools uh our focus on first best instruction um really just that idea of knowing kids by name and need making feel sure they feel connected in the classroom really helping them to build um again their skills through um through the cpsf 21st century skills the technical skills and most importantly elevating um voice and purpose um many of our staff have been have been trained in capturing kids hearts and each year we continue to add staff new staff um new schools to to ensure that they have this training to create safe and welcoming environments in their classrooms um we have restorative practices through um a number of um res restorative justice um practices that our staff has been trained in and some staff that has been contracted to work in our schools and then this year to address um physical safety uh we did um work with the city of Anaheim to add six um school resource officers um to our campuses and we have increased the number of campus safety aids to help just with the physical the physical safety on campuses and then last the last indicator is course access and so really this is tracking um that students have access to and are enrolled in a broad course of study and so we would look at um some of the long-term uh the satellite data if you will have graduation rates and a through G completion um a review of our course catalog and participation in things like CTE Pathways our world language courses our vapa courses um our PE offerings and PE electives um we've also done a lot of work in the last couple of years around um transcript and IEP audits um with a specific intent to identify the gaps in Access for students and so you know where are we falling short in a through G placement um especially for our students with disabilities and and how do we help our case carriers and counselors um remedy that and um call attention to to where the problem might be and then we also have um our English learner task force students with disability task force and our foster Youth and mck mckin vento task force teams that meet twice a year year to review um the outcome data and progress for those student groups and to set action plans at the site levels to increase access to course options so our areas of strength um are that we have a 54.3 a through G compl completion rate and that is above the state average as well um we offer CT Pathways and 12 officially recognized Industries and um we have a 27% completion rate of pathways and um just to make sure everyone knows when a student completes a CTE pathway that is a two-year commitment to a sequence of courses in a in in an industry area so when a student completes a CTE pathway they've made a long-term commitment to do so um we've introduced a number of innovative Pathways that are meeting the labor demands um in our immediate area here in Orange County um such as biotechnology cyber security a medical um nursing and medical assistant droning um film and Digital Arts um and Pathways like that um we also have World language courses that include eight languages um Spanish Vietnamese Korean French Japanese Arabic American Sign Language and Mandarin um and we also have a number of courses for our heritage language speakers and our of course our dual language programs um we are leader in the state for state c biliteracy attainment um in this year or typically we hover right around 23% of our students earning the state SE by Literacy for vappa um we are working a lot to align our programs in the junior high to what's being offered in the high school so students can have a a Continuum um from Junior High to high school um with the recent passage of prop 28 um it's providing us an opportunity to continue to expand our offerings and um and to think about new ways to offer vapa courses so we already have a couple of um new courses in the pipeline for examp example a modern band class for for South Junior High um and and really trying to think about um uh new ways to think about vapa offerings for students um and we also offer a broad set of dual enrollment courses um we are now I'm I'm proud to say we have embedded dual enrollment which means it's during the school day at every single high school in our district um including Gilbert and CVA um and this year or last school year in 2223 we had approximately 3200 students stents complete a dual enrollment course um as part of their of their academic program and of course we have areas of growth um and so we really are working on strengthening the connection between students interests and strengths to their six-year academic plan their course selection process and our master schedule practices and so through our learning management system e Cadence we're working on building a dynamic six-year plan that's feeding data from a Str strength and in interest assessment students 5c's Reflections and some other pieces of data to help curate an academic experience that is is fitting to their to their needs and their um their goals and so we hope to launch that in the fall a pilot of that in the fall um but we really want to build a strategic system um that is helping students to make sure that they can take their a through G coursework and take a CTE pathway earn the Sy by literacy and take dual enrollment and to build that all within within their um their six years with us and so um so again those next steps is that implementation of the EC Cadence six-year plan that we are um that we are working on and then to continue to leverage our master schedule process um to create flexibility this year we went through a process to identify ways that we could provide acceleration for students um we've expanded our summer school offerings um and through CVA for students to be able to create space and flexibility in their schedules to take more of these courses of interest and be able to do it all basically right if if they choose to um and then we're really again doing that work to identify um some of our um student groups students with disabilities and English Learners to ensure that they have access to the courses as well and um and that we are creating the systems and the structures that allow for that hand it back to Dr Brie the before we shift to the local control and chy plan with Mr solivar and Dr Hernandez I want to double down on something that Amanda said I think it's important for both the board and the public to bless you um we talked about course access and the implementation of standards and one of the things that we looked at was a through G rates so as a reminder the a through G is a set of courses that the UC system University of California school system and the Cal State system csuf right foron as an example they use the a3g as a metrics to determine college readiness you cannot be admitted into the Cal State or UC system let you've unless you've met a through G requirements uh so that is the bar to be deemed College ready and in our district we have gone from a 37 or 36% rate to a 54% rate in the last several years so a tremendous tremendous growth and what's most impressive about that growth when you think about we serve 70 some odd percent I don't remember the exact number but 70 something 78% thank you Mr solivar my data guy right there 78% of our students qualify for the free and reduced lunch program and when you look at our a3g data not only overall are we outperforming Orange Unified Saddleback in Santa Ana but when you look at our plural lingual students we are outperforming Huntington Beach when you we're outperforming Newport Mesa we're outperforming placent or blinda right these are districts that on paper demographically should be outperforming us but our students our plural lingual students are students with disability they're also outperforming floron in Brea uh so you're seeing the great work of our teachers uh really help our students be deemed College ready remember a through G there are math classes they are our English classes they are our science classes they are World language classes there are our arts classes so we have students being recognized and being deemed College ready at higher levels than M most districts that you're seeing who serve similar populations and in the districts that have less of the free introduced lunch uh students who qualify we're still outperforming students who the student groups that they serve that are comparable to us so it's just something that we're really really proud of it just shows the great work that our schools our teachers our classified supports that they're all doing our admin to make an impact on our students again we still have work to do we know that we can do better we know there's gaps that we need to continuously look at and improve but I think that's something to really celebrate the that the students that we have in our district are really doing amazing amazing things and it's something that we want to continue to leverage and build upon having said that now it gives me great pleasure and I wanted to introduce them specifically before they turn it over because I recognize a lot of people in the beginning who have done great work participating and being a part of the lcap process but I really want to give a big shout out to Mr salivar and Dr Hernandez they are the ones who have led our community through this process it's not an easy feat it's also the incredible classified staff that works in our office because they are doing so much work on the front end and the back end not just in prepping for the the the six or the Five series but helping to do the invites all the logistical stuff so there's a huge effort that goes into making this a successful event because you know many districts just do the survey that's all that's really required to get input we go above and beyond just the survey we really do bring people in and and really listen to the the voices as we craft and develop the recommendations that come before you so I want to give Mr salivar and Dr hernandz a big shout out for their leadership so thank you so much I'm going to turn it over to Dr Hernandez first who's gonna walk you through the process thank you Dr Fred um it's my distinct pleasure to provide an overview of this year's local control and accountability plan as well as our education partner engagement process before I do that I want to first take a moment and acknowledge the work of our board and cabinet for your continuous support in this inclusive process I want to start with a quick review of the local control funding formula and how it works the local control funding formula is the way the state provides funding to school districts under lcff school districts receive a uniform base grant for every student adjusted by grade level school districts such as ours receive additional supplemental grants for students with greater needs defined as unduplicated pupils which include our low income English learner plural lingual students and Foster youth we also receive additional concentration funding when the number of unduplicated students enrolled in the district make up more than 55% of our District's total enrollment the state has identified eight State priority areas to help students succeed the eight State priorities can be categorized into three domains conditions of learning engagement and student outcomes we'll mention these later in the presentation as we speak to our elcap focus groups and the work that they did at ahsd we see the elcap development process as an opportunity to tell our story highlight accomplishments and gain comprehensive insights from our educational Partners in auhsd the development of the elep has been a unifying process that involves significant and purposeful engagement with our educational partners ERS and we're very proud of that this year we have two separate reports that were presented to you beginning with the 2324 annual update this report is a one-time transitional Standalone document which must be included with the new lcap this document summarizes our last three-year lcap cycle it is important to mention that the metrics reported in the annual report were based on the Ava ailable data at the time in which that Year's l cap was written the Baseline data in the annual report captures the metrics from 2020 21 which was the first year of that lcap cycle and in some cases the metrics from that previous year which is 2019 2020 the annual update therefore captures the metrics preo during covid and postco which if taken out of context May illust illustrate may not illustrate our full story and processes of continuous Improvement in academic growth so it's important that we consider that as we look at those metrics you also have the 2425 El lcap plan which is written in the newly adopted State template beginning with this new lcap cycle the district will need to change actions that have not proven effective over a three-year period the 2425 plan includes our District's newly revised lcap goals added recommendations and data for subgroups not making progress in metrics required by the stage which are found on the California dashboard and include academic performance academic engagement and conditions in climate in the plan our actions have been aligned with metrics that will help us identify our progress and meeting those actions additionally it's important to note that some actions are marked as non-contributing which indicates that the monetary resources attached to those actions come from other funding sources and not lcff for contributing actions we may have a combination of lcff funds and other state and federal dollars which help us support those actions also new this year is our Equity multiplier funds these funds provide additional funding to districts for allocation to school sites with prior year non-stability rates greater than 25% and prior year socioeconomically disadvantaged pupil rates greater than 70% and this is pursuant to California Education Code 38024 non-stability rates is a measure to identify the number and percent of students who do not receive a full year of learning in the same school Equity multiplier funding is required to be used to provide evidence-based servic and supports for the students at the qualifying School sites which for us includes Gilbert High School Polaris independent studies and Cambridge Virtual Academy the receiving sites have developed goals and actions through consultation with their local educational Partners these goals are extended to maximize student outcomes These funds must be used to supplement and not supplant funding that the sites already receive such as lcff and other state and federal dollars as you can see there have been some significant changes to the plans and at this time we're working closely with the Orange County Department of Education to review these plans as we speak ocde is reviewing both the annual update and the 2425 lcap and we're waiting feedback this may cause some changes to the plans reviewed tonight change may include added metrics and expanded language the over overall content however of the plans will remain the same but please note that additional edits will be made in the coming days we are also rereading and closely reviewing metrics to ensure we capture the most current and accurate data available so in developing the ELC cap we closely looked at data specific to our unduplicated pupils our lowi income our English learner plural lingual students and Foster youth we also reviewed the needs of important student groups such as our students with disabilities and homeless youth during the engagement process we ask our educational Partners to keep these important subgroups at the Forefront of the decision-making and as they draft the elcap recommendations at this time I'd like to invite uh Mr salivar our executive director of IT services thank you Dr Hernandez good evening everyone so here what we have in front of us are the lcap goals that guided our work starting in July of 2021 as mentioned by Dr Hernandez and will end at the end of this month June of 2024 um I just wanted to provide a quick slide to just a remind us of what those goals are still are and then in the next slide I'm going to show you what our new goals are based on the input that received in our uh recent lcap process so I'm going to go through those goals all students goal number one all students will demonstrate college career and life Readiness and Success Through implementation of the five C's goal number two provide meaningful educational engagement opportunities for all parents and families to advocate for all students and goal number three provide and nurture a safe reflective responsive and positive School culture um before I go to the next slide what we did recently back in March at one of our um alcap meetings is we ask we surveyed our educational Partners all those in attendance and we asked for some feedback or some input to help revise or refine our goals questions asked um or do the goals still reflect um or still speak to the vision mission and values of our district and what recommendations or suggestions would you provide to us um and so with that input that we gathered we were able to refine our goals so our new goals that will begin in July of 24 and take us through June of 2027 for the next three years are as follows through a whole child approach all students with specific attention to our district students who are lowincome Foster youth in eel plural lingual will be college career and life ready by successfully demonstrating 21st century skills youth voice and purpose and technical skills when you look into goal number one and you see what are some of the actions and services attached to the goal you'll find some of our programming like Avid buente DLI Google search which are very important and critical for our students all students and families but in particular those at the lcap calls out our foster youth our e and our um low-income students goal number two through a community schools approach co-create and provide meaningful culturally and linguistic linguistically responsive educational opportunities for all parents and families to advocate for the assets and needs of all students with specific attention to our district students who are lowincome Foster Youth and eel plural lingual again examples of what you will find on the goal number two for actions and services our faces you know our faces at each of our sides who are providing all kinds of different programming as as Dr Fred had mentioned earlier and in his in his slide deck presentation and also some of our staffing that are um being used to the brating of funds for our Community School staff and then goal number three provide and nurture a safe positive and inclusive School culture that is responsive to the assets and needs of all students with specific attention to our district students who are low-income Foster Youth and E plural lingual and once again examples of this work Services would be our social workers um our counseling support and all of the programming and and services that go along to support the mental health um um of our of our students and all students and families but in particular those at the outc cap calls out so as you can see there is a much more robust three goals but just thanks thanks again to the input from our our families and our students and our staff um that were part of the outc cap processes um for this past outc cap season as we like to call it the outc cap season just to an overview of the timeline um you know this is although the main part of the uh of the process is you know between February in in May um we do start some of this work in early September and thanks to the work of Dr Bryant um with our daac folks um we start to present and provide input meetings and an opportunity for our deac um uh staff and parents and those who are a part of that of the of the daac and the site Ela to provide input on on the um on our lcap January is really for um where our We Begin our introduction workshops for our parents and students um and that is something that we just started this past year I'm sorry a year ago so this was the second year that we did this and it's been very successful with the support of our student ambassadors as mentioned earlier led by uh Ron hosi um they've been integral to that work as well and also OKO which we'll mention in a bit our steering committee will begin to meet in January and meet all the way through April the 22nd and we want to give a lot of thanks as as we've mentioned them before for all those that are part of the steering committee for all of the work that goes on behind the scenes to really to really um help bring everything together um February through May our our educational partner meetings we have five of them and we'll go I'll have a slide on that as well just to go do an overview that in a second here and then we'll have our draft completed in early May in miday we'll submit our draft to ocde and that brings us to June 6th um our public hearing on on our outc cap and then with um a board approval uh next week on June the 13th our school sites will begin their work on their single plans for student achievement beginning in August all the way through December based on what's approved by our board um next Thursday and making sure that what's in their spsa is reflective of the lcap as well here's some pictures just to provide um of what you would see if you were to attend any I know a lot of the folks um here in uh in attendance have been a big part of our our um alcat process some for the first time this past year and many of you for many many years now so we owe a lot of gratitude to all those who have been there um whether it's your first time or or for for the past few years um on our next slide we have the uh overview of the educational partner engagement process again we have five meetings beginning with the uh general meeting in February early February this year was February the 88th where we provide an overview of the process for all of our educational Partners we had over 400 in attendance and then we also go over our vision and and um things like that our second third and fourth meeting is where we our our um educational Partners based on their interest will be uh will be placed into a focus group and I know roxan will be going a little more in depth with those Focus Group in a second here but they're placing a a focus group based on their area of interest and they begin to look at the needs Gap analysis they look at analyze data uh at their second meeting which is our our third official meeting um they be they continue those activities and begin to develop the recommendations um and in their fourth meeting they're refining the recommendations and uh building consensus at our last meeting which is our fifth meeting we bring everyone back together um and that's where we uh were able to uh gain consensus and make the recommendations um which will be presented to you okay all right so a couple of just before before I hand it back to um Dr Hernandez um we just really want to give a lot of gratitude to OKO um OKO um thanks to the work of uh Mr Hernandez and his team Mr carers Hernandez and his team who has a seat at the uh table for our our community school steering steering committee um came to us with an idea to um further support our parents um in a second here I'm going to provide some some data on our parent involvement over the past couple of years and you'll see that there is was quite a differen this year with the the number of parents involved and we do believe it's in in part to not only the work that's being done back at our sites through our our um you know faces and Community School coordinators but also by because of the work of OKO right OKO um was able to uh bring to us an idea to put together some um debrief sessions for our parents where they had you know the um opportunity to in a space in a safe space to ask additional questions um get clarification on things uh continue to look at data make sense of the data and then they would come back to our um elcab sessions and obviously be be more uh engaged in that participation right and so we had five of them um that we implemented this year and again Mr Miguel hernandes who I'm not I'm not sure if he's here but maybe he's uh tuned in online um who's the uh executive director of OKO and then we also have Marissa bermudes who's uh not only a staff member for OKO but also a parent of our district who are a big part of that work um and just as a reference this alcap booklet was provided to all of you um we do provide to all of our partners in in four different languages we provide it obviously in English and then we also have it translated to Spanish Korean and Vietnamese um we also have it online and thanks to our um graphic arts team um they did a lot of work this year to make it more user friendly so if you were to access it online you no longer have to scroll through you know 100 Pages you could just go to the tab click on that Tab and it takes you directly to that section so it's definitely more interactive more user friendly and what you're going to find in this out in in in this uh resource you're going to find our a priorities our our three outc cap goals from the previous three years obviously um you're going to find uh our need and GAP analysis template you're going to find a glosser of acronyms um so there's a lot of different resources that are made available to to our educational Partners during the process okay so here's the data I was I referred to earlier so what you see highlighted here is I know we reference a survey the outc cap survey which we use as one of the um obviously one of the uh uh groups of data that we analyze in 2022 a little bit of trend data for you we had 12,000 students 12,800 students who took the survey 2023 we went to 14,300 and this past year we had 14,860 students who took the survey so we're very proud of the work that our sites are doing our admin teams our teachers encouraging our students to take the survey um all the work that goes on back at the um back at the sites we very um grateful for that and you see that that work is paying off as you see more and more students partaking in this survey um I also want to take you to the you know we we referenced the um our parent participation if you notice last year in 2023 we had 64 parents who who were a part of our our outc cap um this year we had 165 parents so again going back to the support from Moko going back to the work that's being done back at the sites with our faces and Community School coordinators and our admin teams and our staff to to reach out and and connect with their parents and and um invite them to be a part of this process so again a lot of gratitude um and Kudos goes to all of them okay I'm going to go ahead and hand him back to Dr Hernandez thank you so as part of the process we had four focus groups structured around the eight State priorities focus group members concentrated on drafting recommendations that were related to those State priorities assigned to their focus group and each focus group consisted of Partners from all groups students parents staff district office district office folks um community members so our focus group members examined and refined our lcap recommendations through the lens of these State priorities to which they were assigned the focused groups developed recommendations that were considered by all Partners in the final lcap whole group like Mr salivar mentioned our educational Partners were able to submit electronically their to top three unduplicated recommendations so for group one basic Services they focused and paid attention to the rate of teacher Miss assignments access to standards aligned materials facilities and good repair and group one came up with these following uh recommendations one to increase the proficiency for students and staff in using technology for educational purposes and preparing students for life after graduation the district will research and purchase tools that are that all students have access to implement proper professional learning for the tools to maximize their effectiveness the second recommendation School administrators faculty facilities and maintenance staff and community volunteers will Implement a comprehensive plan to upgrade and maintain school facilities this includes repairs Renovations and necessary improvements to ensure a safe and healthy learning environment which is crucial for the academic success and well-being of all students including lowincome Foster Youth and eel plural lingual students upgrading facilities demonstrates a commitment to equity and enables students to thrive so as the board considers going for a bond we feel that our educational partner recommendation around facilities May support your considerations so group two focused on State Standards pupil achievement course access and other pupil out outcomes they looked at performance standards standardized test scores evidence of college career Readiness pupil enrollment in Broad course of study and pupil outcomes in the broad course of study group two's recommendations included the district will continue its efforts to increase the number of school counselors as funding permits to support academic development to ensure all students including low-income Foster Youth and El plural lingual students are aware Ware of and meet the a3g requirements learn about possible post-graduate education receive personalized academic guidance and support to ensure that all students are College and Career ready the second recommendation the plural lingual services department will provide districtwide elel plural lingual professional learning support such as belief modules for all teachers not just ELD teachers and bilingual instructional AIDS BAS the strategies will benefit all students as well based on available funds and site needs more Bas will be hired to provide the necessary support for our plural lingual newcomer students and then the final goal in this group was a modification of an exis existing action 1.10 the district will continue its efforts to reduce class size retain teachers and offer professional learning that increases student engagement and improves the teachers ability to address the assets and needs of all students with specific attention to our district students who are lowincome Foster Youth and El plural lingual students as funding permits this action was actually a Consolidated recommendation from group one two and four which our our elcap steering committee worked on uh refining as a team uh group three focused on parent involvement and they looked at efforts to seek parental input in decision making and promotion of parent participation um this group had the following recommendations the district will appoint parent representatives to the greater Anaheim special education local plan Area Community advisory committee and disseminate information gathered in those meetings to all parents of students with disabilities as appropriate hire faces assigned to represent special education parents at all schools as funding permits and the next recommendation the district will revamp parently Leadership Academy which will include placement of parents on committees professional learning for parents parent training to recruit and engage parents to present to the school community and the final recommendation from this group The District and school sites will work collaboratively to ensure the availability of interpreters interpreters in multiple languages to enhance on-site family and Community engagement IEPs and other parent communication and finally group four focused on people engagement and school climate and they looked at attendance rates Dropout rates graduation rates chronic absenteeism suspension rates sense of safety and connectedness here are the recommendations from group four teachers and School site staff will attend professional learning yearly provided by the district focused on social emotional mental health lowincome Foster youth El plural lingual student groups to ensure lesson design and classroom environments are culturally engaging and relevant for students the second goal this district will continue its efforts as funding permits to allocate Staffing such as social workers counselors faces Community School coordinators for every site specifically to support Foster Youth and lowincome students mckin vento students to provide transportation mentoring programs supplies Mental Health Services and care coordination with outside agencies here's the poll um in how it looked after our we received our electronic educational partner results as you can see we had a total of 168 total responses each participant was able to select three unduplicated recommendations um that they deemed important so I stated earlier we were very proud of the outpouring of oured educational partners and here are their top three recommendations for the board to consider at this time so the first recommendation came from focus group one recommendation two which emphasizes that the district will Implement a comprehensive plan to upgrade and maintain school facilities this includes repairs Renovations and necessary improvements to ensure a safe and healthy learning environment which is crucial crucial for the academic success and will wellbeing of all students the second recommendation was focus group came from focus group four recommendation uh number two which emphasize the allocation of Staffing specific to social workers counselors faces Community School coordinators and also the emphasis on providing Transportation mentoring programs supplies Mental Health Services and care coordination with outside agencies to our unduplicated PU as well as our mckin vento students and then the final recommendation came from focus group two recommendation three which emphasize continuing the district continuing its efforts to reduce class size retain teachers and offer professional learning that increases student engagement and improves the teachers ability to address the assets and needs of all students as you can see the elcap process provides a structured opportunity for us to align our Resources with the the priorities that matter most to our community as our superintendent stated at the launch of our lcap session this process is not just about budgeting it's about ensuring that our investments reflect our Collective values and aspirations for our students future and I believe that what we have accomplished during the elcap process does just that now I would like to invite Dr freed to make the final remarks thank you all right so first of all as we come to a close I just want to kind of end with the celebration of although we still have a lot of work to do and we have a lot of work ahead of us the next couple years with the three-year uh aspirations of our lcap um there's a lot of things that the lcap has allowed us to do over the years which is why you're going to see some of the just the highlights that I want to make sure that you're reminded of one again we're still number one in the state of California with the state seal of Civic engagement um we're number two in the county of our state seal of biliteracy number two in the county with our c te or Career Technical education completion we have over a 90% graduation rate which is above the state average we saw an 11% growth in our a3d compation rates which I just talked about as well earlier and then again this year we were named a California democracy School District as all of our schools have that distinction and that is the first school district in the state to earn that distinction and it's because of our lcap and the work of our community to outline priorities and our drivers our core values that allowed us over time to be able to reach these Great accomplishments we're we're optimistic and hopeful that the great work of our community will inspire and continue to allow us to do great things moving forward with that I want to come to a close thank you for your attention and now we'll go ahead and uh take any questions that you may have um for our team okay and I have the book here is the consensus of the board to ask questions first uh we have a speaker for this item um for public speaking would you like to ask questions first or would you put the speaker put the speaker all right that would that would be under the next item the next item is the public hearing okay any questions then Mr O'Neal yeah I'm trying to figure out what questions you've answered so hold hold on just a moment all them Mr well I'm sure you have to some degree um says uh in the uh handout that we have in our in our agenda packet the district and sites will regularly assess the impact professional learning intervention Etc uh who in the district is responsible for that and then who is this reported to is starting at the sites I'm assuming and then what's the sort of the chain of command how does that work talking about the assessment of professional learning that's the effectiveness of implemented strategies how do you how do you determine the effecting of those strategies so well one it's going to depend on the strategy that we're talking about so as you saw one of the lcap recommendations were the belief modules so as Dr Bryant and I see V here as the team and I I don't think Paul is here but Paula is part of that work as they work with our sites on the implementation of those strategies for example we're going to want to monitor throughout the process um the implementation of those strategies and then the effects uh which can be done through PLC conversations one of the things that we've talked about next year with our principles is having data dive days where at as principal meetings we're looking at data specifically connected to the things that we've identified as values and metrics uh one of the things that we're going to be a that's going to be a goal for our district next year with our Ed division through and the work of our sites are the elk Cup goals being our goals uh we're also going to leverage that time with data dive days at the sites where the sites will engage in a very similar process where they're looking at specific data connected to the work they're doing and have those bless you reflective conversations um we also at the end of professional learning opportunities we we've talked about surveying our teachers who've gone through that professional learning to get a sense from them in terms of of what was valuable about the process and then again that progress monitory is also going to be part of survey data that we collect with our staff as we see kind of what's been happening the the challenges when you when you're implementing a number of things right we have our cpsf Frameworks the implementation of the 5c's we have our Civic engagement trains there's a number of things that are also happening simultaneously so sometimes it is challenging to pinpoint this this Improvement or this impact is because of this one strategy when multiple things might be happening but that's where the voices of our teacher going be important so they can share the strategies that they're using which can help us understand some of the impact that we're seeing those classrooms but it's it's complex in the sense that it's not just one strategy that may be making the impact or not making the impact um I know one of the things that we've talked about through the K reads Grant as an example with reading um there are very specific strategies that we've been talking about and this really began at the junior high with I know we've talked about our writing Journey but we talked about having some type of reading Journey where we're using the the strategies that are outlined in the calar grant that we've seen impact with and how that's rolled out across our schools to measure and impact students growth in Reading as an example both fluen and comprehension as an example okay another question um recommended action one school administrators faculty uh facilities maintenance staff and community volunteers will Implement a comprehensive plan uh to upgrade and maintain school facilities who would be coordinating that is is that under the offices of of petty Neely or how does that work yeah so so i n you're not necess part of the presentation but you certainly can answer it's going to be part of the business office per se I mean they're the ones to manage and oversee the facilities both a great work not just of Nancy but Patty Ney quinton's here I saw um so they're going to be charged with working our sites we have a workflow system so when schools identify a challenge they do the workflow system where it triggers the next steps uh for both the business office to then work to accomplish or repair whatever that that that facility issue might be um I know that the both the business office uh and quinton's work along with the work of Patty they regularly on our campuses um walking the campus to to see regularly what is in good repair versus is what may need to be addressed um so that's something the business office will definitely take the lead on and I know Nancy is constantly coming to cabinet with updates for for us as a Cabinet in terms of what's been identified as a project that we may need to invest in or something that we can't wait on we have to address now so I don't know if n you want to add to that so we track all the work orders as well to see how long it takes to get something done if there's earning um specific uh requests on the site obviously there's a certain form that they would submit um obviously and then if there's any like major facility project uh then we would kind of plan that as part of our facilities program and obviously we're coming to an end of our our current um Bond at this point um and so most of the book the major projects are currently you know they're going to be done pretty quickly at this point um but we do track all these projects we also have a Citizens Bond oversight committee that oversee those funding as well and so it's very important that there is accountability on all levels and um we also implemented um a tracking so that all the major projects are tracked on a document we send that to the board as well as send it to our our School site principles as well so everyone knows at any given time where all the projects are are at if it's at at the stage of bidding is it um is it getting done uh when and so there's all the timelines as well and so I think it's very important that there is a mechanism to be able to continue to track these projects as well I'm I'm assuming what was discussed uh during this process in order to up upgrade and uh maintain our facilities is a lot is going to be based upon having a bond successfully passed is that a correct statement the bigger projects for sure okay yeah so there there's um so obviously those are the bond projects we also have different maintenance projects for example the roofing some of these things and they do cost money right obviously and um you I'm sure we've some seen some of our roofs as well um that they do need to be repaired as well um and then there's some other things right and so some of the pipes that there's some bigger stuff that we really need to open things and then those do require um Bond dollars to work down the road right okay um I think it's my last question is um on all these action plans uh we we see a a title description and we see total dollar funds that so um there's there's many uh action plans have have there been detailed plans for each one of these action plans developed or is that sort of an an evolving process as we move down the line if it's evolving when is the plan actually totally planned so so yes uh some some of these plans are continuance of of of like it's work that we've been doing but we need to continue doing because it's like I said we're never there right we're always working towards Improvement uh where other plans maybe have surfaced from the community as a need right identified need that we want to work on so part it depends on which department it would fall under right so if it's something that's very specific let's say to um our plural lingual students then although as an ed division we'll wrap around support with with with Dr Bryant and her team Dr Bryant and her team will take a lead on working with the El Department chairs and our other teachers on building what that plan might look like as an example so it really depends on what the actionable item is and who oversees it per se in terms of um the work right so where you see things connected to families and then Carlos oselli and Kenny their team will take a lead in working on developing that plan with their teams right the community school coordinator the faces Etc um we do this kind of it's very fluid throughout the throughout the process but some of the plans that you see identified are a continuance of work that we've already begun but we just as we constantly review its impact or how our students are progressing we make adjustments along the way it's part of that continuous Improvement cycle okay so I'm I'm assuming that as the next board meeting if we pass this um plan of the elap then everything we just talked about is going to be go correct correct it's it's when it's if if and when it's approved then yes that's our then it gives us our marching orders okay this is the plan and we all know that the lcap is a living document so even though it's approved we also know that things may change right based on our asset need survey data we may identify a different need uh in a year from now that may cause us to revisit how we want to approach something so there is fluidity in the way that we work through this plan you'll see the school site uh the spsa the sipsas right the single plan for student achievement those are updated every year there rying to our district elcap but those those are going to be very sight specific so we we have the ability to make adjustments as the needs or assets change within our school Community thank you I don't have so much questions but I am in awe of how education has changed and over the years that I've been on this board the changes have been remarkable and the schools were not in good condition when I came here and I suggested the first Bond and now we're asking for a third Bond and all I can say is the quality of schools matches the quality of your neighborhood and your homes one of the first things that people do when they want to move to an area they want to know what the quality of the school is and um I'm just proud we've done so much I my heart almost goes pitter patter but I do have one question the one group and this is a new group that I haven't seen in past years is homeless how does that is that determined and um how do these um youth get to school again it depends right so so we have our Mento Foster youth students and and actually Dr Cruz is is here she she helps to work with with our students and we have um our social workers who serve as case carriers uh when students are identified one of the hard Parts about um identifying students who are homeless is they often have to self-identify and as we all know um sometimes there's um it's hard right there could be shame there could be feelings uh in being able to acknowledge and say that hey I'm homeless right I struggled so sometimes we have more students who technically would fall under that student group but they're not identifying because of the potential stigma that can be connected to it so I know Dr Cruz and really our whole team but um Dr Cruz and her team work really hard to work closely with the county and a number of the agencies along with the great work that Carlos and our community schools are doing too to make sure that we have the agencies we have the resources and this in the linkage to be able to provide the supports needed to those students in terms of how they get the school um it depends on on where they are currently residing um some of our students who are identified as homeless will take public transportation which we do provide bus passes for some of our students are in areas where they are not terribly far to be able to walk to school so it really depends on the student in their specific C circumstance um but it's nuanced and and our team Works hardly hard very hard to support um our students who are unfortunately faced with that with that challenge do you know how the number of homeless students that we have in the school district yeah a little under a thousand under a thousand identified so for buses that has to be worked out so these kids can get to school a thousand so how is that all determined well as we work with the students depending on where they live um again they get free public transportation passes that we provide to the students and their families so depending on where they live we work out the public transit routes for them to be be a part of to get be able to get the school because that's the other thing is even though a student may be living in point a or home a temporarily uh and may move they still have the the ability um to to continue residing or attending the same school that they've been a part of because as you can imagine if they're constantly moving around it'd be very it'd be very challenging difficult to constantly be moving schools um so there's things that both the Dela team and really our site teams are doing to support those families when they learn of the circumstance to help provide as much stability as we can the transportation issue um can be challenging but we leverage the public transport Transportation um services in the county provides in the way that we transport a lot of the students who identify as homeless but some of our students get to school in other ways I just want to thank you one and all uh you've had a preview of what has changed in our country in society and what we are having to work out to take care of all of the youth that need to be if not college career ready and I take such pride in what our group has done Mr matuda and all the people that work here it's a heavy heavy load and I just want to thank you thanks Smith can I say something about the homeless um it's a very fluid population often invisible and uh they're not these young people are not necessarily out on the streets they're in motels they sleep on the floors of garages um many of us here have seen the conditions and um this is the challenge of urban spaces like Anaheim where there was just a lack of planning uh around um ex uh access to uh low income and homeless shelters so this uh this is a bigger problem than just the schools and that's why I think that our Partnerships uh with the Community Schools folks and all of our churches and nonprofits are so vital uh to provide support from them we're lucky uh Dr Cruz and your team working directly with and trying to identify this population um this has been an ongoing Challenge and I I know that um we this is why Dr freed earlier was talking about the importance of Street data of understanding our kids and their uh their voices and their narratives and their stories and um giving them a space to share that and develop strategies to support I me it's very complex and um it's an ongoing challenge so I really applaud um our teachers and our social workers um on the front lines thank you thank you uh I want to start off by thanking all of you presenting um and everyone that took part in the elcat process we appreciate you um and our partners including OKO who helped with our uh parent engagement I'm had two questions um the first was on you mentioned home visits um does that help with The Chronic have centm uh that has been going up so there's different kinds of home visits so the one that I was speaking to in terms of um listening to the voices of our students and our families were the home visits that we're actually doing through the K School approach that's approach where um our teachers are actually going to visit homes not as a negative or disciplinary effort it's more to connect with students and their families and to listen to them right give them their voice again in terms of what their hopes aspirations and dreams are so that one builds capacity our staff but also kind of forges that connection um because we know that when students feel connected when they feel a sense of belonging at Schools they're more likely to come um and um so that's one aspect of home visits the other home visit is the more traditional perspective where both the work that Dr Cruz does the work that our site admin teams are doing um you may recall we have um Outreach workers at our schools where those are the ones who were kind of knocking on the door to make sure families and students are okay because we haven't seen you in a while right so we're doing those as well so there are two different kinds of home visits we're doing both um one is more um proactive right we're really trying to build relationships connect uh and find ways that the schools can better support and serve uh connected to their aspirations hopes and dreams the other one is unfortunately it's more reactive where they haven't been coming so we're trying to do some Outreach and figure out maybe why that is and what we can do to get them back right so so they're two different versions but hopefully accomplishing the same thing and giving us Street data that's going to allow us to better connect and support and serve them that Mak sense yes that does make sense thank you do we have any data on the visits the so the home visits we just recently board approved the ones that the community schools are doing so no not yet on those and then I'm sure we do have some data um I don't have it with me but we can certainly get you data on what those home visits look like and the kinds of impact they're having okay we have a couple we have one at Gilbert we have yeah oh thank you yeah the training for the new one the the where the teachers are going to visit the to learn more about the aspiration hope dreams that's starting August 1st so it's to start for this implementation of this school year thank you m thank you um and then my second question um on the we met some of our goals in the first threeyear outcome um and then some of the new desired outcome was um created I was just curious how those percentages were I guess calculated I I'll give an example um the graduation rate uh um the e3g completion uh we had a goal 55 we met uh 54% and then our goal for the next three years is 58 I was just curious um yeah so when we're selecting goals we truly we we usually aim at a three to 5% increase based on where we were last time based on the base so that's always something that's we try to make sure the goal is reasonable you know obviously Within Reach um we don't want to set ourselves up where we're we're I mean obviously we always want to shoot for the moon right but but we also want to make sure that the goals we're setting forth are are reasonable and and obtainable right it's kind of like that smart goal right the they're measurable they're actual they're time bound but they're also Within Reach okay that makes sense thank you y thank you uh again thank you uh to all of our um our employees and parents and students that served on this committee is it is a commitment um again uh we uh I think uh do it do it the best and as I recall um when we first started this program because it was so in depth um other school sites were uh coming in and seeing what we were doing uh back in the days when uh menuel starred and uh and also we were nationally re recognized for this process so I'm really uh impressed as how you you you've improved it tenfold um and one of the things that you talked about was um making sure that our parents understand um it's hard for us up here to understand a lot of the um the jargon and the and the and the education talk um but I'm really um really proud that one of our partners reached out and and really um and thank you also Renee that uh you you helped our parents understand this language because sometimes it can be intimidating to sit in a room where everybody kind of already knows uh you know what to talk about so um getting that input from them is very very vital with the understanding not just kind of being in the room and and going along so I really appreciated hearing about that um I also wanted to um understand what is the difference when you're talking about um the local indicator of uh of you know making sure all of our schools um facilities are upgraded and all that uh and and and supplies I mean we have the Williams Act to also make sure I'm just kind of curious what is the reasoning behind um having that in the in the lcap well I think then the state identified their priorities under basic um that was considered a basic function is is that we want our schools in at least good standing repair so you know you want students to come to a place that is safe that's clean and that's it's in good standing of course we have facilities that um are older because of just the sure age of our schools but that that's I think the premise so they wanted School community through local control to identify um where we stand within that process and if that's something that um has been met or not if it's something we need to address so I think that's really why that's been that on in the elcap because it's a basic function basic need that we want to make sure um is established you know we want students to feel they're coming to a place that that looks and feels good they're to be a part of and I I understand I think um because it's a process it's not the dict the district dictating what needs to be done because I have seen other school districts that take priorities with uh buildings I feel like for you know the district and you know and and they they take care of those needs uh rather than the school sites so um I understand that uh when um you talk about the Capstone um approach that's usually isn't that a a college requirement uh not necessar I mean it it for us I mean it's Capstone is not a college requirement um certain programs uh may have a Capstone um as a part of their process but I don't think it's something that across the board schools have capstones for us we wanted to make sure that um since we teach the whole child and we're trying to you know we we talk about do you um value it can be measured or do you measure what you value right our community through the visioning process at almost all of our schools we have we have have uh three schools left um they have clearly identified this whole child approach as a driver right they've talked to parents and students specifically even our staff when we did these visioning processes they've identified very clearly they want their students to be collaborators communicators critical thinkers they want them to be employable right I want my student to get a job and get off my payroll someday right that's what parents wanted so as schools how do we create the space and the conditions for us to build capacity and equip and Empower our students to be able to do just that while at the same time teaching the content and the standards so those drivers are very different than what is often measured on the traditional standardized test it's still important it's still something we must do um but with this whole child approach we have been looking for ways to better measure and assess what we value the 5 C's as an example student voice so the performance task assessments which our teacher created allow us to do just that they allow us to be able to to revisit how our students are progressing as it connects to their Seas we're also leveraging our partnership with e Cadence right in Chan Zuckerberg we have a grant in the way that we're leveraging um the AI algorithms to then analyze the student Reflections that happen after these ptas to give us a sense of how students are progressing as it connects in relates to the 5c's so for us it's a way of and my hope and I think our team's hope is that in the coming years as this gets built out that will be another metric that is integrated into our lcap so when we're looking at data in terms of analyzing our assets and our our gaps that 5c data will also be a part of that work to inform our community how we're doing and where some of the next steps might be so for us it's about measuring what we value and so that is big part some of the other grants that we we've received are focused on that whole child approach and empowering us as an institution to better assess uh where we are and inform our next instructional um steps Mr mud I feel like you have something you want to say yeah yes um one of the outc cap recommendations is under uh focus group for about school climate and it talks about the importance of uh ensuring that lesson design and classroom environments are culturally engaging and relevant for students could you explain the connection between that and school climate and the performance task assessments that you talked about earlier absolutely that's really the the Crux of all of this so one um when you through the lens of Civic engagement in our community schools when you allow students to bring in the issues and the topics that they are deeply care about um and the teachers through their you know expertise and and just um sure Talent right they're finding ways to still connect it to um their content and so when students start engaging in things that have meaning and relevance in their own life one school becomes a place that they want to be at they they start wanting to be more engaged in their classrooms it impacts absenteeism it impacts behaviors right it also impacts um just the connection to what they're experienced in their classroom right we I remember a day when I was a teacher and when I was a student right A lot of times students stud would ask why do I have to learn this I don't ever want to do this when I'm older and because we're so deeply connected to the 5c students are starting to see more relevance in terms of what it is that they're learning that that that we're learning the content but through these skills connected to things that they care about and so these performance task assessments allow students to go deeper with the topics issues that they care about while at the same time building those skills that we know the world of work and just life demand um so those are huge and then you're seeing even more so now keep in mind we're still in our infancy stage so it's important to say that all the success that we've been talking about we are still in the beginning of this process where our teachers through the work of our community school teacher leads our 5c coaches and just our teacher leaders throughout the district we're building more and more capacity at our schools the way we leverage our larts to integrate more of these thoughtful and intentional performance task assessments where they're connected to community issues so again our vision to create a better world through the unlimited you right A lot of these performance tasks not all but a lot of these performance tasks are connected with doing just that helping to improve our community again the Mac is a perfect example example of students identifying issues that were local to their community and the Mac is a response we're now that is feeding our students it's feeding families as a way as as a as a solution to address the food insecurity and food deserts that within our community you're seeing that across the board I know Mr mallus is here I remember when he was a teacher short-term rentals were a very big deal in the city of an specifically at ball and Lera because of what was happening at Disney and I remember our students going to city council and petitioning for them to change laws around short ter rentals and it was because of our students and their voice and what they got to experience in the classroom they were empowered to make change in our community not by the adults but by the kids the adults create the conditions for the students to really Thrive and that has been our approach uh and we're seeing that grow uh exponentially over over the years and again we're not where we need to be but that's where this is foundational and as we continue to refine and refine and grow our Capstone our belief is that in time these ptas are going to become exemplary and they're going to be a model for schools Across the Nation in terms of how you can help support your community to become a thriving place that meets that where schools as the Hub are serving to meet and address the needs of that local community where it's happening in the classroom and we're also empowering the next generation of Voters and our citizens and we don't believe it's something they can do when they leave you saw clearly in the last few months our students are empowered to make change now and so uh you know so it's exciting to see our students voice Amplified and be able to make this kind of impact while they're 13 and while they're 14 um so we're seeing our teachers integrate this beautifully into their classrooms still have work to do but we're already seeing incredible results because of the Capstone in these collection of performance task assessments that we've integrated as a part of that process okay thank you um I I really loved the you know the healthy approach that even though we are doing these things there's still room to grow and we're still learning um every day um on the uh School climate it was talked about our um sro's and and you talked about Anaheim but can you uh expand on that there at our other sites yes we we focus on because that's where the expansion was but we're very we're very blessed to have a relationship with both the Anaheim PD who now is serving those six sros that we mentioned and matter of fact today Dr hernand want to give him a shout out the other Dr Hernandez doing a great job um and overseeing that process but we also have a tremendous partnership with the city of Lama and an SRO both at Kennedy and Walker and then the city of cypress where we have SOS at Lexington and um Cypress High School I believe they also support Oxford a little bit but it's more Cypress and Lexington so very blessed to have relations with all three um police departments as you know we're also engaged with all those all of our our five City that that were a part of but those three cities in particular we're very close with um so that those three cities have the SRO program where we work close with today we had a meeting with Anaheim Police Department uh we were with their team to to debrief on this year Lessons Learned things that we can do better in terms of next year with strengthening our SRO program this one was specifically anim because they're the newest right we've been doing this for a few years now in Le and in Cyprus but um that's the SRO program and the other two cities they were actually in place prior to us now doing uh the Anaheim so we're very fortunate that we have the SR program at all of our schools within our district and Anaheim had shared today that they're hopeful that um because they shared Fresh Off The the Press right that um they have seen a reduction um and not to say there there isn't but they've seen a reduction in gang violence and they've seen a reduction in some of these other violent crimes and they attribute some of that to the work that's happening at our schools with the SRO program um so it doesn't mean it's not happening but they're seeing it at a much lesser level um and they attribute a lot of that to the work of the sro's and the work that they're doing to build relationships and make connections with families and Community because that is really the tener of that program they're not there to enforce and and and and be security they're there really to build relationships and make connections they help with investigations but they're there as really another Community partner uh which is really their their purpose wonderful um I uh I really um am very impressed with the number of um participants of our um our uh parents going from 64 to 165 because that number indicates um that we're doing this with Fidelity so I really applaud that however I did notice that um the participation um in the survey uh went down and so uh I wonder uh have we discussed or have we thought about how we can improve we're always talking about that and we we are very much aware of survey fatigue uh between the assets and needs survey we have the lcap survey we do other surveys with our sites um no excuse I mean we've talked about things that we can do more intentionally to get more folks involved we have worked closely with our sites uh where with our students for examp example if it's integrated into the school day they're in their check and connect for example um there's no reason why we can't get close to 26,000 students participating in that survey right um you know how do we leverage multiple parent events if we know that the sites are having cof principes other ways to be able to get more parents engaged we did see and we learned when we had a lot of all hands on deck full full um um Blitz effort on the needs and asset surveys if you look at the data there I mean I don't remember off the top of my head Mr Hernandez and Mr Morganson but I want to say our asset need survey was kind of off the charts in terms of the number of survey respondents we got from families so learning from that experience right how can we replicate that kind of effort with our lcap so we can get the same kind I know we've talked about integrating that survey into our lcap so we're not duplicating our efforts and surveying our families there's really one survey that they get that feeds the process so that's part of us working smarter not harder that's part of our knowing better doing better but um we obviously have something that has been done that showed tremendous results so it's learning from that and doing more of that to get more parents more students engaged in participating in that survey so we can get the information we need in addition to the voices right the empathy circles the the community circles and hearing firsthand what they're feeling what they're experiencing to to inform some of the next steps that we take thank you and just one last comment um I really uh love the brand new goals um and something that we all learned in the last couple of months was to be more specific and uh and I think these uh three goals so I applaud everyone one um that participated and um I I applaud the change in the in the language for our new goals so Bravo to everyone on the team uh is there any more questions question thank you so much thank you okay thank you all right item 7.2 we are opening a public hearing for the local control accountability plan lcap and annual update up to speak is Jermaine Newman Chow hello again I I'm going to be try to be really quick because I know we're all getting tired um I've been participating in elcap for six years now um for the past two years I've been on the state standards group and I've been deeply concerned over the years about our um results for our state testing on math and English Arts especially our math I'm really pleased pleas to see that in page three of 95 in the annual report um our district is finally addressing this current situation with the mathematics on State Standards it's nice to see that our Administration is finally addressing its uh this critical issue with ahsd we are 10% below the state standard for mathematics that's including Oxford that is at 90 90 something per and um Kennedy and Cyprus was really raised the standard our percentage but our whole District at a whole we below um 24% so um it has taken a lot of work we're working hard on it I appreciate it but at our District's Nam stake School Anaheim High School the math scores results have declined for three straight years we are now below 10% of our student students meeting the state standard for mathematics that is shocking um the whole point of the lcap is to bring areas of concern to the surface and Target our funds to address these issues um ahsd has been addressing this the issues at our schools that are not meaning the standards but by not identifying any funding in the lcap we are leaving this to chance you've address you've talked about it's there but you haven't actually identified any funding sources in the lcap that is actually going to make it a priority so I would like to state that we have 10 schools that are in the red on the state standards or the state dashboard they are all in the red this accounts for over 11,000 students in our district that's more than 60% of our student body are at risk for mathematics I'd like to ask you to address those needs and call it out and put an item on our LC cap that we're actually addressing this issue you've added the district has taken the Liberty outside of the group The Community meetings to add goal number four goal number five and goal number six goal number four and five are for Gilbert and Polaris 100% support of that but goal number six is for Cambridge Virtual Academy you have 141 students at Cambridge Virtual Academy according to the elcap this is a very small percentage of our students our class sizes at Cambridge are at 13 students 14 students 16 students per teacher where our red schools are more than double does class sizes we need to put the funds at the school sites on the students who need it we have more English Learners at Anaheim High School than CVA has as a total student body if we address the math issues at those 10 schools and really focus on them we could raise the percentage for the whole District that number of 11,000 students would increase it and make our schools more attractive to our community where people would want to send their kids to their schools so I'm calling on you guys to ask the team the administration to really relook at this and and see what we're doing to focus on our mathematics and the bigger School sites where we have our larger populations there's also a couple issues on our elcap where we have a addressed money that we're going to spend on page 64 we were going to spend $8.2 million to improve attendance and yet we actually spent $2 million less than that I'm wondering what happened with our chronic absentismo that is our Revenue Source we hear about it all the time if we're not spending money on that item then how are we going to approve our chronic adism where does this money go and why do we put it on the budget and then we're not spending it there same item question for our faces on the action item on 64 it's item number 2.1 we said we were going to spend $2.5 million on our faces but we actually spent an additional $2.2 million on that item how are we spending double the amount of money on our faces what happened with that item why are we increasing the money there and where's the accountability to I'd go back to the chronic absen ASM item on um those are the things I I hope we look at in this LC cap and look at what we're actually spending our money on and please please address the needs of our students in mathematics at our actual School sites where they we have 11,000 students that really need the help that could really use the attention of this District thank you [Applause] close the public hearing public hearing yeah so we will close the public hearing on that item presentation 7.3 public hearing for 2024-25 proposed budget perfect well good evening Madame President members of the board superintendent mauda cabinet members members of the public and those watching online tonight I'm happy to be presenting the proposed adop the budget to 2425 but before I get started I do want to take the time to thank my team Karen or Joe kimona as well as Rihanna Krill for um their hard work on getting this budget done together um and it does take a whole village and and as well as as working with ed services um on that side as well to get all the budget together so I wanted to start to see what what was being proposed at the mayis by the governor and so at the May Revis the governor Nome must resolve the projected deficit shortfall in 2425 25 26 and the actual deficit in current budget year as well outside of Education he proposed significant spending cuts to government operations reduction to programs and the pause of new Investments thankfully k14 so far we've been shielded from some of these ongoing programat IC reductions um and he was able to do this by three different ways first one is to fully deplete the prop 98 ring day fund that's about $8.4 billion so it's being fully depleted at this point in order to balance the state budget next one is increasing the size of the prop 98 funding maneuvering and I'm going to be explaining that a little bit and then the third thing will be the adding the one-time education uh cuts so prior to the governor coming out with his May revise uh back in April um AB 106 the assembly Bill 106 um was adopted on May um on April 15th so it included um some of these early Solutions in order to balance the budget um there were um $3.6 billion in reductions $5.2 billion in revenue and borrowing $5.2 billion in delays and deferrals okay remember deferrals it's coming back again now um and then 3.4 billions in Cuts uh shifting from general fund to other state funding but ABC 106 does not address the um core Educational Funding however it does factors in some of these uh points here it has now delayed $550 million contribution to the California preschool TK and food day kindergarten facilities grant program that does not affect our district but at the Statewide level that will be a significant impact as well and the next is the it uh basically reduced um the $875 million one-time investment to the school facilities program uh initially by $500 million at that time and then the May Revis the governor basically scried the entire um $875 million and so these are the matching funds that we as a district could have uh received in matching from the state and so the entire program now is scraped um obviously the governor does recognize there is the state um bond that is being proposed osed for the November 24 um ballot at this point uh currently the latest polling that I'm receiving is um 59% voting yes uh to support the state Bond of $14 billion um the last one does the state fail was back in March of 2020 with $15 billion however if the CSUS and the UC systems are involved um in that the pooling drops to 55% and so at this point at this juncture um they're going to have to figure out or is the UCS and CSUS is going to be part of this $14 billion State Bond or not for this November and obviously we are closing closely monitoring that because that will be a significant um program to the entire State of California and I and we're going to being proposed a 2425 budget but why am I bringing you back to 2324 the reason why we're bringing back is there's is this shifting of the uh budget of the loss of the $8.8 billion so we can see here this is a 2223 budget so the uh basically how we how um k14 uh K1 14's fund is we get about 40% of the total dollars from the state revenues and so back um when the state budget was adopted back on June 27 of 2023 the 2223 budget at that point for Education was $17 billion however by May Revis of current year it dropped to $97 billion and so that's a huge drop as you can see here and obviously the reason why that this happened was because in 2022 personal income tax and corporate taxes came in$ 26 billion dollar below the estimates at that time and so this is a big issue because how we get funded is always based on prior year that is your base and then you add it on to the cost of living adjustment and then you adjust for your attendance but however if you look at this so that's first slide so this is what's being um happened at this point um if you can see in 20 um the 2223 minimum um it was initially um$ 107 billion and then now it was back in May revised the 97 billion so just's $8.8 billion Gap um but there was about a $800 million U revised minimum guaranteed um that was being uh proposed between uh January and may but the issue is this the governor at that time proposed in order to balance the budget for the oute he was proposing to basically um reduce the funding um of that Gap um over five years beginning in 2526 with annual payment of $1.8 billion to uh back to the um General to the general fund for at the state level and so just doing basic math at this point $8.8 billion what does that translate to our district so there's about 5.6 million students in the state of California so 8.8 billion you take that math about $1,571 per student approximately um and if we take it the number of students we have assuming that they take into the 88 account n enrollment so depending on how that funding so we're looking at for our district about a 3 um7 million uh shortfall that this could happen starting 25 26 what they're saying is Well pay the pay the state back starting at that time okay we're not going to take it out from this year 245 we're going to take it out from 2526 and that is something that is something that we dread it when we heard that I was like wow this is what kind of math is this this is called funny math Nobody Does this kind of math we don't this kind of math I don't just do this this kind of math um so that would mean approximately $7 million that the district would have have to quote unquote not receive in starting in 25 26 for the next 5 years so this is a significant uh significant issue that was um you know that came upon how the government is trying to balance the budget um thankfully there was a good solution thank you so much CTA they came to save the day they uh made a deal with the governor on May 27th this year um in order to balance the budget till that $8.8 billion do will not be a factor at this point and so you know um and so how they did it was this so if you look at this basically they said okay fine we can um figure out how to do the math but overall um there are going to be some deferral so number one thing will be inclusion of the $6.2 billion funding from the 12 the 2223 uh 2223 above the minimum guarantee meaning that they will account for that $6.2 billion so we're not going to be losing that funding that's very important and then there'll be a suspension of prop 98 in 23 24 meaning that okay we're not going to worry about that the piece that's missing and then they're also going to draw the uh prop many Reserve to maintain at the 23 24 level at this point in order to support 20 425 budget now the last thing will be um a budget deferral from June of this year 20 uh 24 2 24 currently into July so using basically our 20 in our budget for current year the year that we're still in right now 23 24 the money we're supposed to be receiving in June they're saying we're going to defer that into July so one month of deferral we have done this many many times in the past this is not as bad as back in 2008 2009 when those deals were six months long this is a one month deeral okay so uh this will be for this current year as well as the 2425 meaning the because how we budget the money is a different than the state when they give us defal let's say into July we still count the money as our 2324 budget we acre that amount that's why we call it acral we acre that amount into our current budget so that will be okay we're not losing money it's a cash flow issue right if some District cannot afford that we're able to do it so this will be a two-year um defal at this point and so I do want to make sure that I do want to give credit to CTA for at least solving this issue as for right now and there's not the $8.8 billion dollar that money would have come master stting in 2526 and then right after that on May 29th so there's a lot of things developing at this point even as we speak there's a lot of negotiations going on but on June 20 uh sorry on May 29 2024 uh Senate and the assembly they came with a joint um uh proposal for the government at this point it first one is to fund the 1.07% cola as you have seen the cola went down to about 0.76 but now we are back to the 1.07% cola and these uh proposals also include the following actions um first is to maintain the universal meals meaning that we provide Universal meals to all um all our students the next one is to adopt an amended version of the instructional continuity plan that was proposed back into uh back in May to retain short-term independent study program then the next piece uh will be to eliminate the $875 million in the uh general fund for the school facilities program in an in anticipation of a November 2024 school bond initiative so $875 million that we've been receiving for part of those matching that we were able to receive that piece is no longer in the budget um and then finally it provide a $20 million onetime for new and ethic City uh block grant for local adoption of the curriculum and so so so far this is what's happening and obviously once the governor um once they they send the whole entire package and then there's going to be a lot of negotiations and so once we get those information then we'll come back to the board and to update those numbers so these are what we currently have as of today one of my favorite topic enrollment and so we can see here this is the state enrollment from 201819 to uh 2223 as you can see that at the state level uh we had about 6.2 million of students in California at that time and since then uh the latest number that certified the state level we dropped down to 5.8 million students we lost a lot of students it's about 5.4% lost in the same period our districts dropped over 88.4% um in the same period um uh when we're comparing from 201819 to 20 um and this is our latest projections um we went back just to kind of show you what the historical numbers are to our current year uh number and um and what we are projecting for um the next uh four years out as well as you'll see we're currently projecting uh to decline by about 1300 students from current year into next school year and then the next three years after that we are projected to lose over 2900 students and so obviously um we have all know that it's very very expensive to live in Orange County especially Orange County as a whole has lot lost a lot of students during the pandemic and then given the the housing market is continued to be extremely tight in in Anaheim as well um and as well as in our other um cities Cypress as well as Buena Park laama all these um cities we're having a big issue of housing as well and so we are continuing to see a declining woman Trend in our district as well and do you want to share the impact of um covid-19 projections on our multier projections as you will see here um I'm showing you some of the Statewide numbers of what the um attendance rates are in compared to enrollment right and what was back in 201920 versus what um it was back in 2223 as you can see um in comparison at the state level back in 201920 the average um um attendance r about 95% and look at our numbers we're 95.15% that is extremely high for a high school district since the little kids for some reason they tend to attend to school a little bit more and so um but if you can see in uh 2022 23 uh the attendance rate went down to about 92% across the state level okay but the same period um our numbers dropped down to about 90.9% but if you just look at ours compared to the high school the 912 um were pretty much in line and so if you look at on um back in 201920 on average a student miss about 90 days of school but in 22 23 they miss an average about 14 days and in our district that number increased to even 16 days of instruction and that's a lot of um days that our students are not here and so it's very important that we know how many days right because this is equivalent to um as well I mean we get funding based on attendance but it's not only that is for them to come to school we need to make sure that they want to come to school and I know our a lot of our staff work extremely hard to get them to come to school and this is something that we need to continue to work on in order to improve um and so this is something that I just want to share to to make sure we know this is a Statewide problem at this point um and um I think numbers are coming up we're hoping the numbers are coming up um and then I'm going to have some numbers to share with you uh what current year um has has brought so far if you look at this is our district numbers here we're going back to just to share with you from 201920 to 20425 that's our projection numbers at this point if you can see here um in 201 1920 our um attendance rate we're about 95% that is extremely impressive but as you can see um throughout covid uh dropped down to 22 23 about 90.9% right it's start dropping and this year we were at we dropped below 90% 89.2 three that's the number that um the latest number that we have at this point I do want to point out that we did file three emergency days because of the flooding we have a lot of students that did not come um the first day was approved back in April um the the one from August 20 21st that was finally approved and then just this afternoon I receiv received an email from the California Department of Education the the two days back in February 5th and 6th just got approved as well and so we'll be going back to those data and to up to update those data and we're hoping that that number will at this point then hit beyond the 90% but we're going to have to work with it to go back and adjust those data um but I am very um thankful that we're able to get those days approved as well so thank you so much Karen for submitting all these documents we literally have to submit a lot of documents and a lot of backup in order for us to justify why we needed those days to be emergency days and now I want to share with you the wild s we have seen from uh really first interim budget back in 2023 24 when I took the budget to board back in December um to currently now and you can see here the green line is the line that will sh that will show you what those assumptions were at that time and the the the cola as well as what what the um Ada um are projected at that point and what I want you to see is between um the green line and the red line that is between the first interim and second interim when the cola dropped from 3.94% to 0.76% for 2024 25 and the um because of that drop in that one fiscal year you can see the revenue continued to um be be lower for those years so back in so for example between the Green Line in 2425 and the red line it's $1 million difference and you can see sorry it's a $9 million difference and between 25 26 you can see that between the green line and the red line um what the significant impact was $14 million and so it is very important that we can see as we take the budget to board why we say there's a lot of adjustments every time a cola change even from 3.94 which is a huge col out difference to a 0.7 uh 76 and then how when the um the the latest number right now for 2425 is at 1.07 you can see the line it's a little it's you know Improvement but because we did have the um the uh attendance rate lower we had to adjust uh those assumptions as well for those Adas okay I want I show this so we can see what a difference even a 3 percentage of cola makes onto the budget and so with all that said we're going to be um sharing with you the current year and then the next three years of budget um that we are preparing for right now and this is our budget assumptions um for um next year as well as the next three years after that by law we just need to have um the current year in the next two years but in our district we always prepare for your budget just to share with u with the public as well and one of the things I do want to point out to you is um so you can see the cola next year is at 1.07% going up to 2.93 then 3.08 to 3.3% and stirs rate continue to stay about the same 19.1 so stirs is most people um who are uh teachers a lot of teachers are in that program um some of these certificate admin and then the pur are classified folks um including as me c as well even myself I'm a person employee but you can see that um purse rate going up from 27.05.2012 to 29.2% and so for every dollar for example we're looking at um in 2425 27 cents is going into the um the purse for that uh employ for for that account so the district has to pay the 27 um um% of the uh Pur rate for that and in order for us to balance the budget um we had to make some adjustments to the budget um as you can see here we have are using a lot of our one time dollars coming through we are going to be using up that in the next couple of years to balance the budget uh you can see here the Arts and Music blockr $16.3 million we have a lot of our facilities project totaling over $40 million at this point that we had to reduce in order to balance uh this budget for the next three years and so these are some of the other Pro um other items that we had to make reductions as well um some of the overtime extra pay as well as the school side budgets and so this is the uh proposed 2425 budget um as well as the uh budget for the next three years as well this is a combined general fund so that um would have our unrestricted and restricted and I'm going to go I'm going to break that budget down for uh for you as well so you can see what are the different parts of money that we do have and so for um you can see here um uh for 2425 we're looking at to bring in uh $532 million in revenue and we'll be spending about $540 million and so you can see here in the combined general fund we are entering uh a deficit spending of $8.4 million in 2425 this number increased to $29 million and to 45 almost $46 million in 2627 and uh to almost 65 $ 5.4 million in 2728 and I do remember that um as a president Jeff morgon talked about a budget committee a budget stabilization committee and we did have the committee back in 2016 and it is also my a proposal to the board and um that we need to start addressing the problem of death deficit spending in our district this is something we need to start earlier so that we have time so and then I'm going to show you on the on the unrestricted side and that will give you a better idea of what are some of these dollars are as well okay so for our budget for current year in the next two years we are able to afford um based on the current plan that we have right now and so we're able to certify a positive budget for to the county um for the current year and the next two years unfortunately in 2728 we are not going to be able to meet our fin financial obligation at that time but obviously a lot of things will change between when now and when the budget is adopted right at the state level um but this is the best guest we have as of today and as you can see here this is our total revenue um the $584 million for re for Revenue side and you can see our bulk of our revenue is coming from the state 77% coming from lcff that's the prop prop 28 with all these maneuvering that the governor is trying to do and we're thankful that hopefully that um will be gone at this point um um but that's our bulk of our revenue and that's where it is critical for us to really address the attendance issues that we have and extend uh in terms of expenditure as you can see here we spent both of our dollars on Staffing and we continue to do that and that's is very very critical to us as well but just give you a pie shart to see where we spend our money we also have some of the one time dollars coming through as well so we do have some of the projects they're coming off as well and so but once all those $1 time dollars are gone we are now back to to our base our a general fund that we have in Prior years uh prior to co I wanted to so in general fund when we talk about combined general fund there's the unrestricted side meaning that these money you can spend on anything you want well some of them have a little restriction still but nothing like the restricted programs which I'm going to talk about in in one slide but in terms of the unrestricted general f you can see here um in current year um we're actually not deficit spending but we but we are deficit spending in the restricted side so I want to make sure that we understand that but so this is our general fund that's there's the least strings attach but starting uh next year in 25 26 you have a $6 million deficit then $44 million deficit and a $65 million deficit and so it is critical that we start addressing that now so we can come up with options uh starting next year so that we can have a softer landing and the goal is really anything that we can start addressing it sooner than later then we can have a much softer lending by 2728 we cannot work on 2728 in two years we must work on that right now because any thing we can cut now then you will basically doubles a dollar the following year and it triples a dollar right anything we can start addressing earlier the best it will be the um restricted General funds you will see here so these are programs for example entitled one title two title four um and so these are programs with a lot of strings attached there's a lot of rules and for example special education is also part of the um um um expenditure in the restricted site program and so for example and I'm going to talk about that in just a little bit here and so in the restricted program as you can see we also have a deficit spending but part of it also because we receive a lot of one-time dollars those dollars has come in and basically we already had those Revenue in the past and now we have to spend them based on the those deadlines as well and I do want to share um that um special education this is one of the the things that we have been way underfunded and I know that our uh Board of President you sit on the Sela board as well and this is something that I do want to bring up um to the public today is because we have been way underfunded in in special education um overall and for many many many years as you can see I went back to 20112 to look at what our total enrollment was in that year and um and we had about almost 33,000 students and at that time we had about 3300 students who are are receiving those services but if you look at um this just this last year in 2023 24 we have dropped our enrollment to about 27,000 students uh but our as you can see the orange line but our um students receiving um special services have gone up um can and has actually continued to go up even though our enrollment overall enrollment has actually dropped quite a bit okay so just I want to kind of share with that with you but this is not um the phenomenon just only here this is the phenomenon across Orange County and across the state of California so if you can see here this is a percentage of special education uh in relations to the overall enrollment and back in 20112 we're about 10% uh 10.24% and you can see back in um in Cur uh 23 24 like current year we're about 14.5% so it has gone up quite a bit but if you compare to what the number um is at the state level so um the state had $6.2 million two million students back then in 20112 um and then uh state had about almost 700 students who are receiving the um special um Services um so the number was actually 11% so back in 1112 our district numbers were actually lower than the state averaging at that time but if you move forward to 2223 that's that is the uh latest number that we have um from the um certified number from the state level we we were at 133% of 13.5% Orange County as a whole was about 133% or so so we're pretty much in line with Orange County so this is something that I think ac across the county those numbers have gone up um but but at the state level the numbers was a little lower at 12.19% and so so we were a little bit lower back in 112 but then now we have kind of caught up and then we actually increase but as as a whole in Orange County the numbers has gone up as well and the reason I do want to address this is this the um idea which is the individuals with um Disability Act is a federal law that mandate that um special education to be provided to students and children who receive the services across the entire United States and the goal is to provide up to 40% of the additional cost um of special education cost however um as I'm going to share with you right now the level has been extremely low to maybe close to 15 to 20% at the federal level and this is something that we need to address as a whole we need to advocate for more money at the federal level to come into our state to address this problem and so you can see back in 201 um 111 12 the contribution from um general fund into special program was about $17 million at that time and the current number for as we're projecting to close this year at 2324 is $71 million okay it's a huge number and I wanted to bring to everyone's attention so we can really start advocating and send Advocates and really lobbying um the federal government to really need to improve these services to the these kids and to continue to maintain the services we have for them you expect the districts to educate these kids but you do not give us enough funding to help us to have this program and so we really to need to to address this so in 23 24 our total expenditure is about $11 million we received from the state level revenue of um it's called ab62 funding of only $6 million and the federal government on the federal level the Ida program we have a few different programs with uh from the federal programs $23 million so I want to address that to to contain for us to for our board president when said the Sela to really advocate for our district and as well as for all all the students in our district we need to address this problem because if you can see um we have basically contined this trend and we are going to deeper and deeper and that's because things do cost more and but the federal um level has not increased um for many many years and so what is next um at this point um the governor has Pro provided his May revise um but he re really used the uh use of one-time dollars for the ongoing problems that we're having and so we really cannot um work with his math he's doing so we are appreciative of CTA and a lot of different lobbying groups as well to make sure that um there's no funny math being done for our Revenue we cannot live with that um and then at this point the governor does not assume a recession um at this point but if there is a recession then there could be other risk that would affect prop 98 at this point and I don't know um if if you're aware for example San Diego County have not uh filed their taxes either they have I believe until June 16th to file their taxes because there additional flood in that county so they were given the extension and so the the issue at the state level is you keep pushing out the tax collection date when you already finished your fiscal year and you have not even collected your revenue and this happened in 22 23 and then it moved into and in 23 in 23 we collected all the taxes much later so it was very tough for the state to do their balanced budget and we understand that but we even right now with current budget we still have one County that has not even submitted their tax uh returns at this point so the personal and corporate tax as well um and so uh today we're sending you the proposed adoptive budget uh to you and if there's any adjustment from the lcap as well uh we will be taking those and update the budget uh for your approval on the June 13th board meeting and then once the state adopt its budget uh we have 45 days and so we're hopeful by the early um August board meeting then we'll be bringing um any uh changes to the board so that you have um the opportunity to review those numbers as well so giv you a lot of information uh tonight um and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have before I I open it up to our um my colleagues I uh want to thank you Nancy but I also have a correction that our organization the California school boards Association was right on the dime thank you uh in the get-go and uh so I'm really uh glad that uh CTA has also uh jumped on that because it was funny math and and it was extremely surprising and upsetting uh to you know try to try to uh you know hear the reasoning behind uh you know what the governor was doing so um I'm really thank you for that comment yes relieved that there's pressure and that um that hopefully that doesn't occur um so opening opening up to just have one question first of all thank you and your staff for all the work you put into doing this um you mentioned there's uh a 13 % other state revenues what consider constitutes other state revenue so there's um the all the state different programs the um so the ones we received from the um state so anything um so some of the Arts like the the program from came from the state level so the Arts and Music block grant any of the uh dollars coming from the state those are those other State uh revenues from there so which which page are you talking about I'm I'm just looking at page 16 okay where and it says 133% of our total revenue is other state revenue I was just want to get a clarification of that out of the lcff so lcff no beyond the lcff you say there's a 13% Revenue yeah so for example the lottery program that we receive from the state level that's also part of that that um other other state programs as well okay so anything that's coming from our the state revenues are coded into that pot thank you Nancy oh yes uh thank you for your presentation um to your staff um I know it's been a challenging uh budget year but appreciate all your work uh throughout the time I just had one clarifica clarification question uh you mentioned the 70 million um I lost the page for the special education contribution or uh no the uh uh multi-year projections uh that we um decided to deviate from the 70 million will impact 3 years out correct the oh the um the facilities and yes so that yeah we had to because they were at different um they're being used at different times right so that's part of our three-year projections yes okay so we were able to uh reduce um a lot of those contributions some of them came out from current years some of them are coming out from the out years as well got it okay um and then I want to Echo your comment uh to the organizations CTA um csba that advocated for prop 98 I know I also sent a letter to some of our legislators um it was looking a little uh scary there uh for a few weeks um so we appreciate their advocacy um and I Echo your comments about the continued advocacy for our special education um funding that is definitely impacting us um on the ground um so appreciate all your work thank you thank you uh so um you mentioned I do on the Sala board but I'm also um an employee that works with special education um and we absolutely adore our special education students and um you know public education takes on a lot of um factors where private institutions can kind of um you know ship them out and and you know we take pride in the service that we provide however um you know we're mandated to to um you know make sure that the um students are getting that proper proper education since 1970 but we have never been fully funded and I've been in special education for over 20 years and um all of the organizations have just been hounding um the federal government and so I really think at this point we really need to continue that advocacy um because we we can no longer continue um you know to to bleed out with this um it just kind of gets higher and higher um but we will continue to uh uh provide um you know excellent service for all of our students um there was one other thing um oh I uh Echo um the sentiments about the budget stabilization committee I think that's a fantastic idea um we can get started on this uh right away so thank you for that thank you for that Jeff I I have just one question Nancy that that approximately 15% that we are receiving for the special needs is that's a na that's not just to California that's a national number correct yes it's a national number yes I also um in in getting a couple of emails uh folks think that this is just just happening in our district uh I know I've seen you know the national news and this is a phenomenon you know with uh budget deficits across the the the you know the C the um this not only the state but the nation um so um can you just can you speak to that yeah so and and I think what what's happening too is since Co 2 the number has actually increased as well right and there's different types of um programs right that that the students needs and um and so I think overall we seen the number increasing and we also seen the cost also of increase if you look at how much it costs per pupil right like you you I've did a lot of different analysis but I just kind of wanted to highlight these three but the the the the biggest issue is they have not been really um they just give the same kind of cola and sometimes at the federal level when the federal government do not when when it doesn't have the money it basically either even Cut You Down 10% right and so the issue is they need to continue to fund beyond that so to even catch up to where we're at and if you can see from our numbers we were um and we can go back and take a look at at those um figures and see you know how much of a federal portion was in that year versus what it is now we can definitely go back and do some analysis uh because we already have all those data as well and say look was it always spend about the 15 20% I mean has that even been um more or less but I think that the issue what we're seeing is as a percentage of overall budget this is a um you know is a big number for us and we're not I'm sorry to say this many districts are we're in the same boat and this is something that we do need to address um you know it's it's it's a federal program problem but it's also a state problem state only give us a cola for that number and that's not enough either they're giving a 1.07% cola to our base AB 602 and that's not enough either thank you did you have something to say I have a question on page 22 um like Amy Maya if you can come up um because I do want to talk I want to ask you I I think it's very important that our public know uh the the challenge of uh you know serving our special needs students and on page 22 if you just look at the number the contribution uh in in terms of the budget um you know it's it's it it's arguably exploding now my question we have five Feer elementaries um is this is this number going to continue to increase or are these students being identified while they're in our system uh yes it will continue to increase in fact I I predict the next two years years you're going to see probably an incredible increase um kind of looking at the data the number of students who've been qualified in like fourth and fifth grade sorry sorry Nancy I got really set up um fourth and fifth grade uh specifically those numbers have increased therefore that's going to impact us uh the number of students that we qualify in our district at the secondary level is is not as significant as what happens in elementary which which makes sense yes so I think it's really vital that our public um understand um the trend is um despite declining enrollment we are seeing a rise in the actual numbers of identified students which we by law and by moral obligation uh need to support and it's um really going to eat up more and more of our general fund thank you thank you and um also there is a little bit of bright light I want to say with um how did you predict the cola how did you get oh we get um we receive it from school Services as well as the Orange County Department of Education to see what number we should put in there for now um but in my opinion those Al colas are pretty high and so if that does change then we'll come back and adjust those numbers so it's going to depends on if there's a recession the inflation number come down a little bit then that could soften those numbers as well and so but we do get the advisory from the county as well as from school Services as well okay and the question that I know is on a lot of folks Minds on page um 14 and 13 um a lot of this um a lot of these funds were already projected were already almost being spent they were already uh you know and you um and team really uh have I think has done have done something that I don't know if any other District would be willing to do and go back and you looked at those those projects that hadn't started yet right and we already were starting to work with Architects and um getting to those project design and I people that came and talked to me afterward and said Nancy you know we really need that project at that school and I said I absolutely do know we need it um but I I think at this point given what we have and given what's also that could be happening at the state budget level um it's it's the right thing to do and um so you know we have an opportunity to pass a state Bond we also have a possible opportunity to pass our local Bond as well and um we will be going out to solicit support from that as well but we will be working hard to make sure the state Bond passes but if the state Bond passes if we don't pass our own Bond then we do not have the opportunity to have matching funds from the state level only when we put in our own money put our own projects in then we can apply for those State matching funds and so I do um want to make sure that we um you know um are looking at that and um yes and some our facilities are looking really really well but there are many schools still that still need a lot of help I mean you can see some of the the new buildings they look great but if you go to another site we need to work on a lot of our school buildings as well and so um I think that's something that we do need to to make sure that we support um you know the local bonds as well as the state Bond as well and the state Bond pass rate will be at 50% and then the district school bonds are 55% but I want it's a little different I want to publicly thank you and the team and our cabinet for rolling up your sleeves to um to come up with this solution um and uh you know we didn't want to do what we were doing um and you provided a solution so um however these are great needs out here um and uh you know I hope that we can all work together and uh and do what we need to do in the next coming years thank you anyone else I just want to thank you the complexity of your job is just horrific and then you're always having to think where this money is coming from and how you're going to allocate it so thank you you have a tough job well I love numbers and um absolutely love that kids here and we want um we Tred to cut as much far away from the school size as we as we could um and we feel extremely terrible that we did have to cut some of the S money um but you know it's it's gonna it's it's going to hurt and we're really really um sorry about that we that was the last thing we wanted to do but in order to bounce the budget at this point we we had to look into everything and look through every line Bud budget to figure out is there just anything else we can take and um and we did cut the district office too by a lot of the services too and so um I'm sure it's going to be very tough for those um directors as well and so um I know it's going to be very very tough and um you know I'm sorry I'm going to have to tell a lot of people no from this point forward and I always to find ways to say yes but it's going to this is going this at this point we need to make sure that we can take care of our our people first we can take care our students and then um that's a priority right now thank Youk you Nancy all right closing the public hearing item 8.1 a resolution number 2023 line 24- bot d06 order of banial trustee election and specificate specifications of the election order this is an action item so moved second okay just um some background information a Consolidated election is required in the district this year in accordance with Education Code section 5340 a resolution and Order of election are required to be completed and provided to the Orange County Department of Ed and Orange County registar of Voters so um the board has requested to adopt resolution um so that we can have uh the elections can be held on Tuesday November 5th um not sure the cost of this but every election cycle it costs District's right uh Revenue so the approximate cost it's about 300,000 um that's how much we budget for right now and just to mention that the clarification this has nothing to do with the appointment process we're going through no absolutely notk you for for mentioning that although the um individual who is appointed will need to actually run in that election yes yes okay you said it's 300 how much about 300,000 that's how much we budget for for um for this year okay it used to be 25 250,000 yeah yeah yeah cost has gone up but well that's how much we project and if it's less then that'll be great but it's we need to make sure that we budget enough all right any other comments or questions on this item okay uh vote uh Mr O'Neal hi Miss Smith I Miss Guerrero hi and I vote I 8.2 employment agreements and compensation for assistant superintendent and District Council action item so moved second okay it's been moved and seconded uh any questions or comments on this item okay hearing none all in favor I I I uh all right Miss Smith you say I all right I'm moving on to superintendent's office 8.3 employment agreement for superintendent action item so moved second okay and we do have a speaker Mr main all right thank you guys um so I just want to say um I I I appreciate appreciate Mr matsuda's work um I appreciate what he's done for us but um I'm asking you to vote no on this item um his contract is currently up in June 20 uh June 30th 2027 that's three years from now that is a great time to spend working on our district but we just saw this Reckless waste of time and money caused by Mr matsuda's leadership with our teachers L layoffs this spring the massive disruption of our classroom education caused by four full days of hearings the loss of morale caused at every School site and also the huge financial cost to pay for the administrative judge the lawyers and the substitute teachers I'd really love to see the line item on how much this thing actually costs us that would be great transparency it's not just this recent failure but in fact under Mike matsuda leadership our schools have declined with the the state uh English language arts math science scores as reported and documented in exhibit a of this agenda many of our schools are now below 10% of completion uh for State Standards we we have 10 schools on the red list with the state dashboard we have less and we have less students passing our AP exams we have less students completing dual enrollment courses we have less students in aapa classes we have less students in World languages classes we have less graduates enrolling in postsecondary college we have less students completing CTE Pathways our parent engagement is actually declining if you look at the exhibit a and read the numbers our chronic ABS Tome is skyrocketing with little Direction I would say let let Mr Matsu approve to us do the work get down to business focus on our school sites stop traveling so much and spending all this time at conventions talking about how great we are and really work with our teachers work with our students work with our families to improve our school sites so our schools won't have the declining enrollments so people will feel proud to come here will want to be in our schools um I speak to a lot of teachers and staff they're all saying that they're afraid to speak up on issues at our district they're all saying that Mr matsuda is extremely vindicative and vengeful that is no way to be a leader if you want to continue to be a leader here at our district we need you to change we need you to be uh listening to your staff listening to your people working together and I want you to be successful I just think it's premature to give you a contract extension for the next four years we cannot wait four years and see where this is at right we need changes now we need you to earn them we can't give you rewards today without results thank [Applause] you okay there was a motion and a second um I I can't speak back to you about some of the things that you had said uh I can direct uh staff to kind of answer some of the misnomers because I think when uh I can't speak on that would you so yes thank you madam president and thank you Germaine for your public comments a few things just to clarify uh some of the things that that was said that um is actually not accurate but I want to make sure we have that um it is true we we we do have areas of growth in our sback scores but as I had shared with the dashboard um that is we're no longer looking at a single number uh to measure how students and how our schools are performing and when you she talked about uh declining enrollment um the county alone has lost 60,000 students so it's not something that's unique to our district it's something that we're all faced with um when you look at our College and Career Readiness indicators on the dashboard um we are consistently showing some growth where right now we are at 46% prepared Which is higher than the state average which is 43% as a part of that indicator our our ESC scores so it's showing that we have more students prepared and as I mentioned a through G rates that is a metric for college readiness to get in and perform at a UC or a Cal State which I know I'm proud of Andrew who's going to UCLA you have to show proficiency and Content Mastery and when we have 54% of our students meetting a through G um that's a pretty high record especially given the demographics of who we serve I mentioned earlier um we have 78% of our students who are qualified for the free and reduced lunch and when you look at a district like um Huntington Beach as an example their their overall a through G rate is 56.1 or 54.3 they are not close to 78% free and reduced lunch so when you think about the work that we've done over the last several years and the growth we've made it is remarkable that I also agree we still have a lot of work still to do um when you look at she I think was mentioned CTE has gone down that has actually gone up we have gone um we have a 27% completion rate we're second ranked highest in secondary school districts in Orange County uh we have 22 Pathways which 11 of those Pathways offer dual enrollment courses to certification uh she had mentioned dual enrollment is down dual enrollment uh in 2016 we served 482 students in 2023 we served 3,4 242 students that's not going down um when you think about the AP exams we actually have 15% more students taking AP exams in 22 23 versus what we've had previously um and when you factor in our dual enrollment success a pass rate plus our AP we are exceeding the number of students who are earning both high school and college credit um we do have um when we talked about the CTE Pathways uh what wasn't mentioned tonight which shame on me for not saying this but Google certifications um we are the first Public School District in the country to offer Google certifications to not just our students but also our parents um and that's something to be really proud of because the Google certification uh is equivalent to a bachelor's degree and we have students who are earning those in our school classes during our school day which is again a tribute to the amazing teachers that we have um when you think about parent engagement and she said I think said parent engagement is down on the contrary we are actually up and that's why we're getting the recognition we are at both the CI level this community engagement initiative and also the Deep dive transformational District I had shared with you the data um some of the different things that we're doing we can very easily make public the data to show how many of our parents are actually engaged work and I think with the new modules that are being created where parents don't have to physically come here but they can do things online to build capacity in different topics or areas that they've identified as priorities um we can show that our parent engagement is actually thriving and growing still have work to do we have a lot of just like we have students who are often disconnected or disengaged and we have to do more work and Outreach to reach them we're seeing the same efforts with our families who maybe aren't coming in but finding other ways to engage them in our work um I think it was mentioned that college enrollment is down that can't be furthest from the truth we have 75% of our graduates who enroll immediately after um leaving us from school um compared to 64% in in the class of 21 and 67% in the class of 23 so we're seeing growth in the number of students who enroll in our universities um we think about our vapa programs I would argue there's no District that comes close to the work that our vapa programs do both in the Performing Arts and the visual arts in addition to the drama and theater classes um we have seen about a 55% uh incre or 55% rate of access to Broad courses study in our vapa programs has to compare to 42% in 2021 and 46% in 2223 so that's growing um it is true that after the pandemic a lot of our classes took a dip and as you know with declining enrollment you're going to start to see some programs take a dip because we have lots of choices but when you have fewer students some programs naturally will decline that's a normal part of the process when you're faced with declining enrollment chronic absenteeism is a problem for all districts across the state of California it's not unique to our district it is a challenge though it is something we're doing having to deal with one of the things that we're doing with our multiplier Equity funding is we're going to be expanding the ilcs or the Independent Learning Centers we're using that funds because we know from the ilcs they have shown tremendous success I know Robert was a great principal at anim High School where they had an IC and you can see consistently their tenance rates have taken students who traditionally were either Trent or habitually chronic chronically absent from school and they're coming to school and they're finding more connections so we're expanding those programs to I think Savannah and um Magnolia next year so those are things that we're doing in response and we have a tenant site task force teams that are working to address these problems as well I mentioned next year the lcap goals will be our Ed division goals for the entire District as we work through um our journey next year but also is going to be a deep focus on attendance there is great work that um the Gilbert team uh has been doing this year in partnership with Diana Fujimoto um Kenny Perez and Danny Warez uh part of our SF team doing again the street data work around students who have been missing school and and kind of understanding why that is what is it that would get them coming to school getting that feedback from students Gilbert is beginning to engage with their staff on the feedback that they have received from the students voices directly and so they're building plans to help actually address we talked about the strategies right these are strategies that the students and families are giving us that might help them get back to school more often so we're going to be leveraging what we've learned from that experience with Diana Kenny and and um um Kenny Kenny Diana and Kenny Diana and P yeah there three of there's three of them my mind sometimes goes so fast I can I can stutter um Danny Danny and and Diana thank you yeah say that fast three times um we're going to be leveraging that same process with all of our schools next year so that's something we're going working with them on next year to continue to increase chronic caps which we recognize is a challenge and something we need to we need to continue to work on um the World Language um I'm so proud of the work that we done with the world language we have the state sale by literacy where um we have over a, 1100 students who have earned that state seal by literacy and we have 23% of our students receive that state seal which is again amongst the highest in the state and I'm really excited about the work we do with our world language programs offering a variety of of different languages in addition to the work that we're doing to expand our dual language immersion cies right we have South that began and it can tell us shortly not too far behind we have a great program at Sycamore in Anaheim along with Brooker and Savannah and then a couple years from now we anticipate growing our Korean uh dual language pathway at um Walker and Kennedy right now we do have the first Vietnamese dual language program at um Magnolia and Dale and I know where working closely with Dr Bry on ways that we can revive that program because they've been impacted by declining enrollment as well um and then in terms of suspension data we have RJ specialist our school we actually are parallel to the state average um we did see along with a lot of other districts after the pandemic a spike in discipline um so we have been working closely with teams we have a discipline task force from the site level and also site level teams where we've been working in our discipline task force and I know Miss Smith you've come to to a number of these where we're taking our task force to the sites to listen to them about what they're seeing what they experience to brainstorm ways that we can better support our students so we have less students getting U themselves in trouble and we have taken quite advantage of our Pathways to success program which is our alternative to suspension program where we've had over 900 students take advantage in lie of suspensions because of choices that they made so a lot of things that were said are not necessarily um accurate um in terms of the current data that we've we've been able to collect but we recognize we still have areas of growth and that we're committed to to making those improvements uh as we as we talked about in our earlier presentation throughout the year and the coming years thank you any other comments or questions um just one thing uh that I that's off the top of my head uh we are uh employing uh how many students this this summer uh through our Partnerships um and no other district is doing 500 students are receiving um an income during this this summer we're employing them and so I I think there's just so many Innovative things that other districts are not doing um you can't you can't yeah that's priceless you know to put actual funding in a student's hand that helps Elevate uh their opportunities to go to school uh elevates maybe their family um and uh you know I was going to I saw that over there I mean we're talking about students coming out of high school certified to go into the job market uh Brian and I serve on um Roop board and uh we know of three uh Simon Builders students in in the program that are being employed uh professionally employed coming out of school the Kennedy student that got her nursing assistant certificate I mean what we're doing as a an entire School District um is is expansive and it's Visionary um and we could not have done it without the superintendent sitting to my right so if I can add U I just want to uh also add that uh the superintendent also declined a salary this year um and I want to thank you for sharing an overview um and areas to work to and um I think that work is very important and we look forward to continuing that work and we're still growing we're still going going all right uh all in favor proudly yes I I I item 8.4 so moved second okay action item all in favor I I I abstain okay item nine Advanced planning 9.1 future meeting dates we will be here next uh Tuesday um um and we will be interviewing our candidates and then uh Thursday uh for a regular June 13th 2024 at 6: PM motion for adjournment or I'm sorry any suggested agenda items not this time time okay second all in favor I hi thank you
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but we'll let it slide this is one I do look forward to and not just because of the Neil's Donuts what your bringing Dr Solen will be bring gotcha thanks V you're welcome next item on the agenda is policy committee oh I apologize Mr GES go ahead I just wanted to ask I'm guessing because of the uh the earliness of the month we don't have any medical benefit reports that is correct Mr grippo so bad from that this evening we so bad he keeping it from right no no no never do that we don't have the report yet you're holding out for the 28th thank you Mr eki here are next sir policy committee so we met on uh Monday God was it only Monday uh so we're moving along um with our equity and diversity policy uh getting some great input from the public and we're bouncing some great ideas off of each other as far as language and and how we uh the verbiage in in within the policy that's moving along uh transportation is moving right along and then we're we have a motion for continuing education tonight so uh do I have a motion for the second reading do I make a mo no okay so we have a second reading of the policies for 05 523 equity and diversity and 3541 transportation and then we are making a motion tonight that the cheser Board of Education give a third and final reading to policy 6200 adult continuing education and direct superintendent to put set policy into immediate effect second by Mr gripple is there any discussion no public comment none out there all right uh call for a vote to approve the motion all in favor unanimous thank you anything else Mr REI for policy nope we're good all righty next item is any other standing committees I'm going to pass this to Mr perini if he has anything from legislative or cab no uh I think next week There's a cab board director meeting and I think we'll get a a debrief of what happened in legislature and how it might affect education so I'll definitely share as I get it but but thank you for asking awesome thank you sir next item is approval of minutes if you take a minute to review our minutes from the May 16th 2024 meeting can I have a motion to approve the minutes please Mr uh moved that the uh Cher Board of Education approves minutes from the meeting held on May 16th 2024 is there a second Mr eki are there any deletions corrections additions that need to be called out none all right vote to approve the minutes of May 16 2024 all in favor unanimous thank you Mr Caro is there any correspondence yes there is oh please do share um we have an email from a uh Mr levit um and he requests that um these words be read aloud at the next meeting so here we go um the Mary and Webster dictionary of the English language def uh defines the term equity as Justice according to natural law of right uh specifically freedom from bias and favoritism virtually all of the other meetings of the word refer to the stake one holds in a property or an interest in a property in excessive claims or leans against it thus the equity you have in your house or stocks owned in a brokerage account have been Prim have been the primary interest in the noun for several several centuries the current interest interest in equity uh stems from its current second meeting of freedom from bias or favoritism and this is a meeting which should interest the chesher Board of Education it is my understanding that the board may now be considering uh adopting a so-called Dei principle in hiring of Staff in in hiring of Staff it is my further understanding that this would in capitals entail F favoritism of one group of people over the others in granting employment this is the exact opposite it of the meeting of equity and constitutes a perversion of the meeting intent in plain old fashion understanding and caps of the concept any intelligent person in chesher would want the most qualified individuals and whatever subject is being taught to fill those positions the Dei concept as I understand it seeks to make some people more equal than others now this governmental intrusion has been practiced in Connecticut for a number of years but let's call it for what it is patronage connectic style of patronage has helped the state earn its unofficial model corrupt corrup corrup in the past any number of school districts use Pat patronage in their hiring practices I have no idea what cheshire's past history in this Regard in this regard is or was but what I see now is the alarming reappearance of the concept being forced upon school districts which are currently trying to do the right thing and seeking the most qualified individuals to instruct their pupils patronage is a corruption by an meaning of the term if the voter if the voters want the system in their state go State government's everyday hiring practices let them vote on it but this should never even rise to the level of serious consideration in any school system thank you for your kind consideration of this matter your is truly Steven levit cheser resident 24 years plus and that concludes um any emails to the board thank you sir Dr San you are up Sir next item is your report thank you very much um going to keep it real brief tonight uh two items one is uh on the school modernization front uh Slash our capital budget planning process uh Mr masana and I had a productive meeting last night with the Town Council as we were reviewing our capital budget uh that ties in with school modernization and that uh in this group's meeting the Board of Ed last month there was an expression of of interest in pursuing phase to I it was really noted in last month's meeting but it's been an ongoing conversation with the board for many months and uh we had the opportunity to engage with the council last night on that front there's a lot of interest in how do we move forward as we try and identify projects uh for our facilities it's hard to do that without knowing what the district plan is with respect to uh updating so I hope to kick off next fall you know collectively between the board and the council uh the same way we did in this last round looking at our facilities the needs the future all the different factors that weigh into that and hopefully have an update uh early next year or at least by mid next year um as it relates to our current projects we had a walk through at the North End and a walk through at Norton it wasn't required for uh biders to attend to do the site work that's necessary in both locations this summer but we had more than 10 people uh attend which is good news for us in terms of getting a competitive bid that work should start in July uh you'll start to see fences go up and it's going to get real it's exciting uh this dream of many years is is coming come into fruition the other thing I wanted to just mention uh was that uh our team you know I've listen to parents uh board members uh certainly Educators uh and even students Express concerns about the impact of social media on our students and uh what that really entails uh just recently um there's an author researcher Jonathan hate who had put out a book The anxious generation how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness I had the opportunity to hear him on a television broadcast and I it was really uh pretty impressive so I'll be inviting members of the board the our faculty and staff as well as our parents to engage in summer reading opportunity and talk about uh how this uh Modern Marvel the cell phone and social media is influencing our students and what we as a school system may need to engage in uh to make sure that our students remain um healthy happy and able to effectively participate in school so um look for that soon coming to an email near you so thank you that's it for me any comments questions for the superintendent no Mr Grio uh Dr Solen are you suggesting the summer reading is the book that you just held up one and the same yes sir okay thank you thank you um any old business no no old business new business um I just want to kind of take a point of personal privilege first off I said this before I I want to thank my colleagues on the board here um you know first rookie year as as a chair has um been uneventful not gwood um and you know I really thank you Tony for kind of being my mentor um but the rest of you just supporting me through the process Mr jinsky for writing the script thank you um but I do want to end this with thanking you Dr Solen because I felt I wanted to say it at graduation but I think this deserves I have grown with you my children have grown with you since you were AP a do to principal at DOD me being on your PTA at DOD and just watching you through Treasure High School principal and superintendent and then sitting next to you here so I want to personally thank you and appreciate all that you've done for our kids here not just my own so and I do Echo like before we would like to see you stay um we feel as though you've done great work there's much more to do um and you're the right person to lead the pack thank you any comments questions thanks um next up is just announcing the upcoming meetings we have a Monday June 10th curriculum meeting um at hingston boardroom 7 p.m. and on Friday June 28th at 7:30 a.m.
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Vin the fiscal meeting as mentioned before at humiston and then um the elementary promotions I will be there on Wednesday June 11th hopefully all the other board members can join us for the tour of promotions and then Wednesday June 12th would be the dod promotion in the morning um and then the chesher graduation later on that day and last day of school for students would be June 12th and that I believe is it is there a motion to [Music] adjourn M ja second was calling all in favor unanimous we are adjourned thank you
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[Applause] [Music] going yeah I know [Music] they don't listen no it's job I know [Music] now if you would please rise and welcome the 151st graduating class of Ashland High School the class of 2024 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] awesome [Music] oh [Music] I [Music] la l [Music] Sunday yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] night you think they' [Music] please remain standing [Music] please remain standing and gentlemen's remove gentlemen remove your hats for the singing of the national anthem by the Ashlin High School chorus [Applause] so the Twilight and through the night and our flag was still there [Music] for the of [Applause] just another reminder for those that are just coming in there is Overflow seating as well as air conditioning in the auditorium and the ceremon is being live streamed good evening and welcome my name is Kelly sanker I'm the very proud principal here at ashon high school on behalf of ashin public schools it brings me great pleasure to welcome you all gathered here today to celebrate the commencement ceremony for the class of 2024 this evening on behalf of ashon Public Schools I would like to express my gratitude to the Ashen school committee select board and other elected officials both past and present for their unwavering support and service to Ashland I would also like to acknowledge and thank the military personnel and First Responders in the audience with us tonight including our graduating seniors who have enlisted after graduation I ask you all to please stand our enlisted in First Responders and graduates who will be enlisting please [Applause] stand I also invite all current retired and former Educators and staff of asham public schools to re please rise to be [Applause] acknowledged your commitment and your significant role in The Journey our students have are ending today is very deeply appreciated preparing for today took a great deal of organization and collaboration I'd like to also thank everyone involved Mrs blank Mrs Cheney and Mrs Dwayne you do it all each and every day Mr Maul and Mrs namoth Thank You For Preparing our students to be part of the musical presentations this evening Mr Murray Mr Burgess and the entire facilities and custodial team we are grateful for your efforts and setting up and helping direct this event and Mrs benstock and miss notton your guidance as class advisers has allowed these students to enjoy many traditions and celebrations during their time as students and we are grateful [Applause] last but certainly not least thank you to the parents and Guardians who are present here today as well as those who are not able to be present but have helped to shape these wonderful human beings sorry my daughter's school is calling right now as educators we appreciate your trust and support in us as we help to prepare them for their future this group is well prepared to embark on their new Journeys and embrace the opportunities ahead to the class of 2024 today as We Gather here to celebrate this occasion I want to take a moment to acknowledge each and every one of you as I reflect on your time here at ashon high school I'm struck not only by your academic achievements but also by your remarkable kindness and compassion that you have shown to one another and to our community your acts of generosity empathy and inclusivity have left an indelible mark on this school and you have touched the lives of those around you looking out at this class I am filled with pride you are moving into an adult world that is often divided yet I am hopeful because you have demonstrated ated that kindness and understanding are powerful forces for Unity and change whether it was lending a helping hand to a struggling classmate standing up for what you believe is right or simply offering a word of encouragement each Act you have demonstrated has made a difference and helped to create a culture of compassion Within These School walls it was a true pleasure to watch The Joy you shared this week coming together as a class for your final events as you get ready to move into this new chapter in your lives I hope you carry the lessons you have learned here with you the importance of compassion the understanding that every mistake is a chance to learn something new the value of hard work and the belief in yourselves and your ability to make a difference remember that the greatest achievements are not measured solely by Awards but by the impact you have on the lives of others embrace the challenges that lie ahead with the same enthusiasm and positivity that brought you to this point keep smiling through the hard times and lean on each other tonight we celebrate not only the end of your academic career in the asham public schools but also the remarkable young adults you have become May continue to grow learn and make a positive impact on this world at this time I would like to invite your class president Morgan danowitz to the podium to share a few thoughts whoa this is a lot more nerve-wracking than practicing to my stuffed animals at home first and foremost I would like to thank all the teachers and faculty who've made it possible for us to be here tonight also thank you to our friends and family members who've shown up to celebrate this incredible accomplishment with us a special shout out to my family for their unwavering support and to my brother Andrew thank you for being brave enough to watch me outshine your graduation speech from last year Andrew are you filming this for those of you who siblings you know that everything and I mean everything is a competition most importantly I'd like to thank my fellow friends classmates and graduates for sticking by each other throughout both the longest and the shortest years of Our Lives congratulations class of 2024 we finally made [Music] it these past few years have been a thrilling Journey when I look around the room to today I recall some of my fondest memor memories and I see some of my best friends I'm proud of the person I've become over these past few years and I'm sure many of you are too seniors it feels like just yesterday I was at convocation asking you to picture the version of yourself you wanted to be by graduation and make the necessary changes to get you there so how'd you guys do okay you don't have to tell me and as I'm sure you're all hoping to hear life advice from an 18-year-old tonight I promise to keep it brief if you remember anything from what I say tonight let it be to bloom where you are planted until now many of us have done what is expected of us we showed up at ashon high school every day well most of us because the state required it and our parents happened to live in Ashland we bloomed where our family's planted us what you do next is entirely up to you you may know exactly where you want to go from here but a lot of you don't and that's okay who knows maybe you'll end up at a school with a cooler mascot than a clocker wherever you end up you have the potential to be the best version of yourself while each of us may have different goals and aspirations we can all work at leaving a lasting impact on those we encounter for those of you who have been at ashin since elementary school do you remember the book have you fill a bucket today if not here's a quick recap in the story each person carries an imaginary bucket with their happy thoughts and feelings you can fill others as buckets by uplifting them through compliments or making someone feel seen and heard like hey Maggie that hat looks stunning on you you see how easy that was you can also be a bucket Dipper by taking away from others' Happiness by cutting someone in the lunch line or saying something mean while this book initially taught us to be kind to each other on the playground the same message applies right now each interaction with someone is an opportunity to fill their bucket our actions have consequences whether we intend for them or not so whatever life throws at you next choose to be a bucket filler not a bucket Dipper the future holds so much in store for all of us and while I have no doubt that many of you will go on to accomplish great things I want to ask you not what are you going to do next but rather who are you going to be people will remember you for your character and your kindness not your achievements or material success so wherever you're planted next at College a job or the military Bloom into a kind and genuine person it is not about what you achieve but who you become in the process although many of us may feel feel overwhelmed by what comes next remember to be great people as you strive to do great things class of 2024 this chapter of Our Lives has come to an end but our story continues so Bloom wherever you are planted next thank you [Applause] [Music] thank you Morgan at this time I would invite the senior members of chorus to join one last time as our chus performs like an eagle for [Music] is the to [Music] andell you T me well you gave me strength you show the way I'll not foret you I the CLS spread my RS into the sun St be the street know that you watching me [Music] as my as my show and the time now and fairwell [Music] as we you T me well you gave me strength you showed the way I'll not forget you like an eagle I will above the CLS I will spread my wings and fly the SK Like an Eagle I will rise above Stars I will to places yet SE beond my wild stre know that you are watching over me I can fly with the eagle to the mountain high with the eagle to the rising and with the eagle so far beond my dreams E I will F Like an Eagle I willar above the grounds I will to fly the sun like an E I will R the Stars don't to places yet see be know that youing over me like an eagle Like an Eagle I will fly like an will fly fly the highest mountain Fly Fly Above on highest ground fight fire like an e will [Applause] for [Applause] it's spe that e spe really [Applause] thank you very much for your respect and patience um I will remind you again there is there's plenty of space in the auditorium if people are looking um for a little time to cool off we are being live streamed there some of our students have been members of Ashen Public Schools since pitway some of you joined us along the way but you've all come together to be a class that supports each other again what is special about Ashen Public Schools is the acceptance and inclusion we represent I'm very excited today to introduce this year's class address by Isabella B [Applause] ghost all right so before I begin I just want to say I'm gonna try and not cry so please bear with me um good evening faculty members teachers family friends and most importantly the class of 2024 my my name is Isabella Bergos and I am both nervous and honored here today to stand before you on this momentous occasion although I am nervous I think that it as a pre-c commmunications major I should be able to communicate in front of crowd so here I go today marks the end of a new beginning as the class of 2024 moves on to the next chapter of their lives I want to take a moment to reflect on everything that we have accomplished and everything that we have learned not only as a student but as an individual I'm sure many of us have been grappling with the same questions throughout our high school years but whether it may be what are you studying in college or what are you going to do next what you are going to do differs greatly from who you are going to be as I think about my past I realize they has shaped me to become the person that I am today if you would have asked me eight years ago to stand in front of a crowd independently speaking about our experiences as a whole I wouldn't have believed it not only because I was literally 10 years old but also because I had not met all the people that I've come with along the way but through growth in maturity came the acknowledgement and appreciation of someone who has guided and supported me along the way growing up as an only child all I really had was my mom I remember being outside in the Florida Air playing with Barbies and planting flowers in her garden as my mom sipped on her coffee alongside me it was a daily ritual to only be with each other learning new things such as how to be imaginative like looking at the clouds to see what shapes they make or learning how to be compassionate and caring as my mom taught me how to feed the ducks that would accompany me as I played with my Barbies however following not too soon after that came a part of my life where I would have found myself at home after school most of the days as a 10-year-old I never understood completely why but because of this I learned to pass the time by making little music videos on videoar or vlogging myself doing little routines little did I know my mom was working three jobs at the time two being employment jobs and one taking on the role of being a father through the process of understanding this I grew up to become more independent in order to take some way off of my mom's shoulders and with independency came finding what I liked and what I disliked who and what I surrounded myself with how to be a kid how to be a teen and now learning how to be an adult I learned how to appreciate the little things in life and without knowing it I had not only found my profound passion for capturing moments of life and cinematography but the understanding of judging people not by what they are doing but who they choose to be As I Grew Older I learned to become more understanding with the idea that my mom didn't want to do two jobs and missed out on some of my childhood experiences instead she wanted to be financially supportive in order to be the role model she is today I also just realized I also never told my mom I was doing this speech so [Music] hey um with that being said what I wanted to consider is what does it mean to be a human being and not a human doing as I stand before the class of 2024 or wherever life may take them I would describe them as a diligent and committed Community rather than just a group of Faculty members and graduating students whether this may be Associated as as a community of sharing a classroom or a zoom call borrowing a pencil lending a hair tie or biking during quarantine we have all shared a connection throughout all these years I knew the moment I walked into ashon high schools ashon schools in fifth grade that I wasn't just a student I grew up as a classmate as a girl behind the camera as a teammate as a coworker and as a friend we grew up surrounded not only by teachers and staff but by supporters and by wise role models we grew up not only with the parents of friends but with people who have welcomed us into their homes with open loving arms and as one of their own own shout out the rors we grew up not only as a class of 2024 but with the with other kids who have taught us the true meaning of being surrounded by the richness of kindness the pro of maturity and self-acceptance companionship laughter and unity which we will all take with us throughout the next chapter of Our Lives we all matured and we all grew up if there is one thing you take from this speech I hope it is one thing as a human being we should learn to acknowledge the obstacles that life throws at us and learn to face it with more certainty because after all all we have is right now and what we are being is present and as I stand here today I am certain in one thing through all the obstacles we still made it thank you [Applause] at this time I invite Rachel zuu to perform for us Whispering Woods [Applause] perect for Rachel [Music] in [Music] [Applause] thanks Mom thanks Bob good evening I'm Jim Adams superintendent of schools each year it gives me great honor to present the two highest achieving students for the graduating class our class salutatorian this year is Nathan Galan Nathan has been a consistently excellent student athlete at ashin high school where he has been a leader on the AHS cross country and swim teams a four-year member of both Sports he has been selected as a tvl Allstar for swimming his freshman in junior years and as a Boston Globe Allstar a dedicated member of his community Nathan has donated his time to organizations such as the Pearl Street Food Pantry in Framingham the Ashland farmers market and project just because academically Nathan is one of our top students and serves as vice president of the robotics club and math team in his spare time he creates music pixel art animations and video games Nathan applied to numerous competitive schools and it was accept Ed to Rochester Institute of Technology Worcester poly Technic Institute brandise Middlebury College and Dartmouth College Nathan looks forward to continuing his work in stem by majoring in computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst I present to you Nathan Galan as this year salutatorian our distinguished class valedictorian tanush gar is a beacon of academic Excellence his commitment to our curriculum is unparalleled he has fearlessly taken on the most challenging course load including 14 advanced placement courses all of which he excelled in danou has served HS Community as president of the math club vice president pres of the senior class co-president of the stock market club and a volunteer at the Ashland Farmers Market T has a particular talent in mathematics and because of his exceptional score he qualified for the USA junior math Olympiad in addition he earned a perfect score the first time he took the act and subsequently earned a nomination for the United States presidential Scholars Program tou a future Economist in computer scientist has made significant strides in this field already he's interned with Dr Sarah Ellison at MIT and Dr Melissa Dell at Harvard University which has provided him with very valuable experience his dedication to learning is unwavering as he plans to continue his economics and computer science studies at Brown University in Providence Rhode Island where he was accepted into a very competitive early decision program I present this year's valedictorian of the class of 2024 the newscar hello faculty administrators proud parents anxious graduates and disinterested siblings I'd like to begin by thanking my parents and brother for supporting me throughout the way and helping me with all my art projects every year I'd like to thank my friends for not always drafting me last when we play basketball Mr Campbell commencement speeches by Mark Rober and Ryan Burton that inspired some of my speech Paul who's one of our janitors Miss Kerr Miss L Chappelle teachers and other Administration well fellow graduates we made it today I speak with great happiness that we're all able to be here as well as some sadness that we might be cooked since AI could replace all our jobs in the future while it seems like we were late for almost everything good that was supposed to happen to us a new Mendes and an eighth grade DC trip some of our best memories were formed in these very hallways Friends Forever Memories for a millennium these will be things will hold on for the rest of our lives I mean we've gone through so much together Co Triple E and community service day now I'm not going to say that our class is going to change the world and become the world's greatest scientists and athletes no no no let's not get ahead of ourselves and contrary to how much of a nerd you might think I am from Mr Adam's description I also scroll on Tik Tok for three hours a day but what I will say is that we all have the experience and capacity to strive to strive to become the world's greatest doctors and scientists to strive to become the next Einstein or the next LeBron James or the next Taylor Swift or Superman or whoever your idol may be because if there's one thing that we all have in common is that we know how to push through failure and towards success I mean all of us here have gone through some sort of adversity or defeat in their lives for example I'll always remember my first time watching The Dark Knight in my living room I remember telling my parents Mom Dad when I'm older I want to save Gotham and be like Batman too my dad stared at me and told me thos go put on your cap and gown you graduate tomorrow class of 2024 it's truly been an honor serving as your vice president and now as your valedictorian I wouldn't be here without without the help of all of you and without you all by my side life isn't easy but all of us should feel ready chat gbt is nothing on us thank you so much everyone congratulations class of 2024 and Celtics and four okay it is now the time we've been waiting for the presentation of diplomas Mrs Mrs reap and Dr Kyra will be reading our names tonight I ask that after each name is read if you will hold your applause as the students will class officers will be reading a statement um of thanks and future plans from each graduate give me thee I got it [Applause] tanush gar Tanish will be studying economics and computer science at Brown Unity University and he thanks his parents his brother and his friends for their support Nathan Lawrence [Applause] gelfand Nathan is majoring in computer science at UMass Amherst in the Honors College he would like to thank his parents and his brother for their endless support Morgan Katherine dubanowitz [Applause] Morgan will be studying human and organizational development at Vanderbilt University next year and she wishes to thank her friends and family for their support Ellie an lemov Ellie will be studying Finance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and would like to thank our friends family and teachers for their support lauron RF luron will be studying international relations at Bryant University on a pre-law track and wishes to thank her parents and her family abroad for their love and support Natalie Andrea Dunbar Natalie will be attending Worcester State University next year and would like to thank her family and teachers for all of their support Senna Elise arms Senna will be studying marketing and sustainability at the University of New Hampshire and wishes to thank her family for their support Emily Grace umholtz Emily will be attending Penn State University majoring in forensic chemistry she would like to thank her parents and friends for their love and support [Music] [Applause] Ryan Richard abunas Ryan will be studying business administration at the University of Vermont and wishes to thank his parents for their support Chase Marcus Abrams Chase Chase will be studying Sports media and communication at the University of Rhode Island and is super grateful for the support from his friends and family Cameron James antonuk Cameron will be studying civil engineering at the Ohio State University and wishes to thank his parents for their support Andrew Gardner apy Andrew will be attending Brigham Young University and thanks his parents for their guidance Ji dianara armo borha ji wants to study biomedicine and she is grateful for the support for her parents aunt and uncle in her life Kaylee iiss aroyo Kaye will be studying psychology at American International College and wishes to thank her family and friends for being there for her Isaac SS Isaac is is going to UMass LEL for engineering and he's thankful for his family Isa B Isa will be attending nor Eastern University studying biology this fall and would like to thank her friends family and especially her sister Iman David Joseph Bowden Jr David will be studying computer science at the University of New Hampshire Myra Rosemary [Applause] Beckwith Briana Michelle Bonia Ventura Briana will be majoring in nursing at Emanual college and would like to thank her mom and her grandma for all their love and support because this the reason why she's here [Applause] today jayen Miguel Borges [Applause] Kevin botsis Olivia Katherine balanger Olivia will be studying preh Health Management policy and information at Florida State University she would like to thank her family and friends for their love and support Kylie Alexis Bradford kosaki Kylie will be studying business at um Dartmouth and would like to thank her mom and Mrs shields for their support Zachary John Brennan Zach will be studying mechanical engineering at University of Massachusetts Lowel and wants to thank his parents for all their support and encouragement J Robert Brown Jake will be studying business at Bryon University and thanks his parents and teachers for their support Isabella Bergos Isabella will be attending UMass Amherst and wants to thank Mrs Shields Mrs eurn Mrs wolf and her mom for supporting her along the way KO bavana Cade KO is not sure what she'll be doing but would like to thank her friends family and teachers aora calet allora will be majoring in Marine Biology at Roger Williams University and she wishes to thank her parents and all her teachers W Ferrera Campos wiita will be studying nursing at Regis College and she would like to thank herself for not giving up and always doing doing her best Jared Allan canning Jared would like to than Miss lha pel and Mr mcken for helping him throughout his four years here he couldn't have done it without either of you Margaret Kimberly Carter Maggie will be studying Communications at Penn State University and would like to thank her family for all their support Quincy Charles Carter big shout out to Mom and Dad for [Applause] everything Nathaniel Patrick Kavanaugh Nate will be attending the University of New Hampshire Emma day Chapman Emma will be attending Enda College in the fall to study nursing and would like to thank her friends family and teachers for their endless support Wy Rebecca Chapman Wy will be studying Health and Human Services at the University of New Hampshire and would like to thank her family friends and teachers for their endless support Anna Sophia chumakov Anna will be studying at Florida State University as a presidential scholar she thanks her parents and her older sister for always supporting her Ethan Matthew [Applause] Chinelo Jason chisen [Applause] Vega Anna Marie kuna Anna will be studying animal science at the University of Rhode Island she thanks all of her friends and family for their loving support Jessica Nicole [Applause] Darnell Joshua James Darnell Josh wants to thank his family and friends for their support Samantha Ray de Bernardo Sammy will continue her education through Cosmetology School she'd like to thank her friends and family for their support through High School Jasmine Marie Delgado Jasmine will be continuing her academic career at the University of New Hampshire and would like to thank her parents and family for all of their support CHR cha Rose Dennis Chrissy will be attending Worcester State for business and would like to thank her family most specifically her mom Arjun Dash pondi Arjun would like to study computer science at UMass loo and would like to thank his parents and friends for their support gotam Desh Pandi godam will be attending Virginia Tech and wants to thank his parents Maya Grace Dickinson Maya will be studying mathematics at Colgate University and wishes to thank her family for always supporting her Alex John Dale Alex will be studying business at the Ohio State University and wants to thank his family and friends for their support sag Doan sag is attending marrat college to study computer science he'd like to thank his family and friends Vanessa Marie Douglas Vanessa will be studying engineering at the University of Massachusetts amher I would like to thank her parents and teachers for helping her along the way Michael Thomas duch Michael would like to thank his mom and his dad and a huge thanks to his papa for always being there for him Michael would like to thank Miss L Chappelle Pedro Bader elen Pedro will be pursuing HIS Automotive career at Mass bay and wishes to show thanks to miss La Chappelle Miss McAn and Miss McMahon for their gratitude support and encouragement throughout the last several years and pushing him to where he needed to be Ava Elizabeth elgart AA will be studying psychology at Emanuel college and wishes to thank her parents for their love and their support throughout her journey Kaye Marie Ang Kaye will be studying English creative writing with a minor in theater studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst she would like to thank her family and her friends for all their support Brian Alexis Escobar Brian would like to thank all of his teachers for helping him in this High School Journey Carlos hos Espino Carlos will be studying business management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst I would like to thank God his family friends teachers and coaches for all of their support Christopher Shan Fagan Chris will be studying mechanical engineering at Lehigh University Victoria Lima fundes Victoria will be going to Mass Bay for a year and then transferring to Florida Atlantic University she'll be studying early childhood education Victoria would like to thank her family friends and Miss shields for supporting her along the away Arian Jacob finstra Arian will be attending the University of Iowa to study mathematics he'd like to thank his family friends and teachers Antonio William fanes Cal will be studying music education at Ithaca College in the fall and would like to thank his parents and his brother for their continuous love and support Daniel Steven [Applause] Ford Elizabeth an Forster Lizzie will be studying biology at snhu and would like to thank her parents for their support Jacob Paul [Music] franzella Maya James fredman Maya will be studying business administration at the University of New Hampshire and would like to thank her parents for all of their support Jacob Paul FRS Jacob will be studying Marine engineering at massachusett Maritime Academy Matthew Chase [Applause] fulan Chase ever Gara Chase will be studying business marketing at Keem State College and thanks his family for inspiring him to be where he is today Luca Gerber Luca will be attending the University of Tampa in the fall and wishes to thank her teachers friends and family especially her sister Izzy Elias John Gleason Elias will be majoring in finance at Bryant University and would like to thank his family friends and teachers for all of their help along the way marceli Silva Gomez marceli will be attending Bryant University next year in majoring in finance she'd like to thank her teachers and friends for their kindness and support throughout these four years Sarah Gomez Sarah will be majoring in biology on Premed track at Framingham State University she wishes to thank both of her parents for their love and support Delaney Lawson sany will be studying business administration at the Ohio State University and wishes to thank her friends and family for all their support Jack Michael Grimes Jack will be studying Criminal Justice at Keen state in the fall and would like to thank his mom dad and sister for their support and getting him through High School Ayla Mary Kathleen H AA will be studying rehab Sciences at maram college and will also be playing for their field team she would like to thank her mom and family for always supporting her Heidi an housan Heidi will be studying international relations in German at Mount jolio College where she will continue playing field hockey she would like to thank her family and her best friends who have helped her along the way Marcos elil [Applause] perau we're not we're not wait wait I got the energy no no no one last time who is the goat one more thing sweet Carol line so good so good so good so good [Applause] Matthew David hickey Matthew will be attending Providence College in the fall he would like to thank his family for their support Vanessa Claire honey Vanessa will be studying Pol political science at American University where she wishes to thank her parents for their support mayam ibnat miam will be studying mechanical engineering she would like to thank her parents for being incredibly understanding and amazing and and her sister for consistently being by her side thank you samisha [Music] izari Lillian Grace Isaac Lily will be studying international business at Emanuel college and would like to thank her parents for their support Kos wayel Jacob Kos will be studying business and finance he would like to thank his parents and sisters for all their support Darius Samuel jebas Shaker Darius will be studying computer science at um LEL and wants to thank his friends for making school a little less boring as well as Miss La Chappelle and the teachers and family that helped him along the way Jerome Joseph Judge Jerry will be studying economics at the University of Massachusetts ammer he would like to thank his family and coaches ad c adti will be studying psychology and public health relations at the University of Massachusetts LEL and wishes to thank her family teachers and friends for their support Ilia [Applause] Carol Ryan Maxwell Kaufman [Applause] Keegan John Michael Kelly Keegan will be studying Actuarial mathematics at Brent University in the fall and would like to thank his parents and his friends for their support Camille Kang Camille will be studying digital media and design at the University of Connecticut she would like to thank all her loved ones for their support Andrew Patterson clay Andrew will be studying psychology at the University of Delaware and thanks all of his family and friends for their support Jason Matthew [Applause] Khan Matthew Daniel kulaga Matt would like to thank his family friends and teammates for their help along the way Brandon Lamb Brandon will be attending ums amers who would like to thank his friends Taylor Quinn lamb Taylor will take part in a 3+1 program studying business at Quinn aak University and would like to thank her parents for always being supportive Nicole El Serene karz Llana Nicole is attending Pacific Union College she wants to thank her family teachers and Friends Alexandra Ruth leand Alex will be studying business management at the University of Delaware and wishes to thank her family and friends for their support Omari Alexander [Applause] Lee Ty Arthur lefki Ty is studying business at Bryant University and wishes to thank his family for all their love and support Tiffany Grace Lynn Tiffany will be attending the University of Toronto to study statistics she'd like to thank her family friends in the AHS Community for helping her get to where she is now shice Sophie shna lipo shernice will be attending pitchburg State University she is grateful for everyone who contributed to her success thankful for her faith which kept her strong and alive and proud to have persevered through challenges Andrew luago Andrew will be studying biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and wishes to thank his family friends and teachers for their support Ryan Joseph liio Ryan has enlisted in the Marine corpse and the intelligence Department with future plans to join the [Applause] FBI Anna Bella mcginness Anna will be attending the University of Connecticut while playing lross there she would like to thank her friends and family for all their support Ian magnago Ian will be studying astrophysics at Stone Hill College and would like to thank Miss Chappelle and Mr mchan for their help and support paana Martin Manago Jamie Danielle magar Jamie will be studying radiology at Mass bay and wishes to thank her family friends and Miss shields for their support John David maret John will be studying business at Clemson University Samantha Michelle Martin Sammy will be studying Health Sciences at Sacred Heart University she would like to thank her friends and family for their support Danielle Renee masaro Danielle will be attending wer State University with a nursing major and wishes to thank her parents brother Mimi Papa G Nana and Papa for all their love and support Joseph Antonio [Applause] matares Jake Michael mcreal Jake will be attending Bryant and wishes to thank his family and friends Ethan Bailey McLoud Ethan plans to study nursing and thinks his mom family and friends for their support Payton Eleanor McMullen Payton will be studying psychology at Clemson University and wants to thank her family friends and teachers for their endless amounts of support Ryan Christopher mweene Ryan is planing on going to ums Boston in the fall and would like to thank his peers Mom Dad older siblings and his dog Quinn Ashley Al menes Ashley is planning to pursue a career in real estate she wishes to thank her mother father and brother for being her source of support and motivation Vincent Mark Merlin Vince will be attending ums amers in the fall and would like to thank his parents for all their support Zachary Seth Mell Zach will be attending UMass amher in the fall and would like to thank his family and friends Oliver Gabriel Morton Oliver would like to thank his family along with Miss Cameron and Dr Steve for all the love and support throughout his high school experience Lara menden Laura will be studying Finance at the University of Massachusetts LOL with a guaranteed transfer to Boston University and wishes to thank her parents and brother for their support haui Meridan haikui will be studying history and premedical biolog biology at the University of Vermont she wishes to thank her family and loved ones for all their support Manish muala Manish will be attending hunt University and studying finance and Entrepreneurship he would like to thank all his teachers and his parents for their love and support David Mack Myers David will be studying mechanical engineering at the Pennsylvania state university university park and would like to thank his parents family and friends for their support Samantha Mariam nakami katamba Samantha will be studying neur neuroscience at umth and she wishes to thank missha pel Miss MC she would also like to thank everyone who contributed to her success she also thanks Jesus Sasa phindra Aben maruchi shy will be attending Virginia Tech to study aerospace engineering he expresses his gratitude towards his family and teachers for providing him guidance throughout his grade school years Anthony Nevis he would like to thank Mr McAn and Miss [Applause] lelle Jordan a Ashley Rose [Applause] Norris Jordan Norris Jordan would like to thank her dad and her grandparents for the consistent support throughout her life she'd also like to thank all of the friends she had throughout her years at Ashland Cene Tina Nunes Rodriguez Kathleen will be doing nurse in public health at wer State and we'll finish that mcphs she's very thankful thankful for everyone at school who believes she could make it Caroline aruo Olivera she would like to thank her family and friends and it will be going into the National [Applause] [Music] Guard Stella Monet odobi Bella will be attending the University of Rhode Island this fall studying business marketing she would like to thank her friends family and loved ones for their constant support Freddy's Yer [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Palma Chiron vas parcha Chiron will be majoring Finance at Drexel University and thanks his parents for their support Erica Marie Peterson Erica will be studying Early Childhood at Mass Bay Community College and wishes to thank her family for their support and everything bradden Culver pelleter bradden will be studying business at North Eastern and he wants to thank his family for their support Hannah Teresa Peña Hannah will be studying biology and Public Health at Boston College and would love to thank her parents for their love and support rido Jose evanor Pera Rich would like to thank Miss Finn Mr McAn and missha Gabriel Gales [Applause] Pereira Sophia Evelyn prelock Sophia will be studying neuroscience at Sarah Lawrence un college she would like to thank her family and friends for their loving support Jordan Marie Pine Jordan will be attending Mass Bay Community College where she will study for her EMT certification then to the fire academy to become a firefighter she wants to thank her family and friends for all their support Tyler Arthur Pine Tyler will be studying Criminal Justice at Southern New Hampshire University and thanks his parents for their support Nora Lynn quit Nora is excited to attend UMass Amherst in the fall to study pinology I would like to thank her whole family for all their love and support she would also like to thank her best friend Marissa Rogers for putting up with all her Mischief over the past years ruged Ron rugid plans on majoring in finance and pursuing pre- law studies at the Pennsylvania State University and would like to thank his family his teacher God and his friends for their help Dean Vincent reap Dean will be studying Finance at Bryant University and would like to thank his mom and his dad Grant Michael re Grant would like to thank his friends and family for all their [Applause] support anoi Leela ready anoi would like to thank her family for all the love and support they have given her for these last four years sandep lakshi ready will be attending UMass L for business and thanks his family and friends for all their support Connor Patrick re Connor plans to attend UMass L with he were major in business with a concentration in finance he would like to thank his family friends and all those who have helped him be here today Matan RF Matan is attending Binghamton University and is going to major in business in minor and Engineering he would like to thank his family here and in Israel his friends as coaches and a special shout out to his twin sister Anna Julia fera rero Anna would like to thank her God for helping her throughout these four years of school for setting her for growth and for molding her into who she has become she would also like to thank her family for all the support they gave her Lily Elizabeth Robinson Lily will be studying architecture at Wentworth institution of Technology and would like to thank her her parents and sister for their endless support Tyler Andrew Robinson Tyler will be studying Finance at Bentley University and wishes to thank his parents for their support Marissa Allison Rogers Marissa will be attending Dickinson colleges next year and would like to thank her family friends and teachers for their support and guidance special shout out to her sister Alexa for always making life interesting Caroline Francis RoR Caroline will be attending the University of New Hampshire she would like to thank her family for helping her along the way Jessica olera Rosa Jess will be studying Child Development and social work at Emanuel college and wishes to thank her parents for their support Lily an Rosenfeld Lily will be following a pre track in studying psychology neuroscience at University of Florida she wishes to thank her family friends and teachers for their support Adam Edwin rosof Adam will be studying business at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and wishes to thank his parents and brother for their support Sophia Phoebe Daniela rotha Sophia would like to thank th family for all their love and support [Applause] Alysa Michelle Rothman Alyssa will be studying psychology at Simmons University and wishes to thank her friends and family for their love and support Yanni Demetrios Rosas Yanni will be attending Bentley University and wishes to thank his family and friends David Brian MOA sales David would like to thank miss leel Mr McHugh and his little cousin Penelope and God Cecilia freus [Applause] [Music] Santana Camila Christine diera [Applause] [Music] Santos Rachel will be studying nursing our reg's college and wishes to thank her parents and friends for their support Kyle Edward Schiller Kyle will be studying biology at North Carolina State University and thanks his parents for their support Sarah Elise Schiller Sarah is going to attend the University of Vermont to study psychology she would like to thank her family and friends for their support Julia Katherine shriber Julia will be studying business management at Bentley University in the fall and she would like to thank her friends and family for their support Daniel Jonathan Schwarz Daniel will be studying Finance at Quinnipiac [Applause] University arouche Sharma arou will be studying economics at UC Berkeley and would like to thank his parents friends and Mr Campbell Joshua Tyler s Josh will be studying mechanical engineering at the University of Massachusetts ghers and would like to thank his family for their support Abby Ray silag Abby will be studying psychology at the University of Delaware and thanks her family friends and teachers for their support Lucas [Music] Silva Lucas plans to pursue his career as an aspiring musici who would like to thank Mr mcken Miss leel and the coaches and staff that have helped him throughout the years Matas deito Silva Matt would like to thank Miss leel Miss Bradley Mr mchan and Mr Noel Giana Tanya simman Giana will beIN communication science and disorders at the University of Maine she she would like to thank her parents grandparents aunts and uncles and best friends for all their support Aron Singh AR will be studying chemical engineering at Purdue University today she would like to thank her family teachers and coaches for helping her through her High School Journey she wishes special thanks to her parents who have supported her the most in achieving her goals Stephanie gonz Desa Stephanie would like to thank her parents for all their endless love and support mom your strength inspires her dad your human advice have been invaluable and to her grandmother in heaven your love and wisdom still guides her Fior Jean latero soza F was excited to attend college and thanks the nurses cafeteria staff and of course her family and friends for their support Chloe Sarah Steinberg Chloe will be studying art and fashion design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston she would like to thank everyone who has helped her get to this point Smitha Shani [Applause] Sedaka Shar Mosen Sayed Ali Chara will be studying cyber security at Norwich University and would like to thank Mr mcken and Miss La Chappelle for their support alishba SAA alishba will be studying biology with a specialization in neurobiology at Boston University and wishes to thank her family friends and teachers for their love and support matin Taj matin will be attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst and we'd like to thank his parents sisters and friends for their support NAA May Tavarez NAA will be studying biology at University of Massachusetts Boston and would like to thank Miss L Chappelle and Miss shields for their support and patience throughout the year Mia Elizabeth to Mia will be studying Finance at Virginia Tech University and wishes to thank her teachers friends and family for their support Michael 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uh a month or so is is sort of like the standard time frame that you know between the approval of the RFP and the drafting you know and you know drafting of the contract representation to the board you know is it safe to say that usually we would a board would expect uh you know a month out after approval of the RFP for a contract to be presented I'm sorry what was that question I is it nor is it is it the is it is is it the normal is a month a normal time frame uh for a contract to be presented to the board after of after the approval of the RFP yes that seems to be a reasonable time frame um you know as um the contract was approved on May 9 our understanding was that it was going to be at the next board meeting or regular board meeting that's kind of where we're working from all right thank you Mr Chang for the clarifications thank you trust Chavis uh so this is what I heard from the other board members okay um first U president Corina said that it is important that I'm glad you said that it's best that they start as soon as possible and so I hear Mr G say that um there was sufficient am amount of time we've given a certain time frame and uh Mr fam also says that he's in agreement that uh that we should move ahead but let me tell you my point of view my point of view is we gave a certain timeline it was in March where we at in March 14th that we now needed a superintendent and we're now in June to me it's kind of moving kind of slow so as far as uh the search went we had one that was good to go and I thought that we should have made a decision in the last meeting so I am all for moving ahead because we we should do this as as soon as possible as you said Thank you thank you any other comments or questions the only thing I'll add is um you know again I'm in agreement we get to move forward we have the contract um I do plan to support it uh however I think we're on agreement that it should have happened sooner um being that you know we call this meeting from yesterday to today was the only part that I was uh concerned about and to see if I was missing anything um we could have called a special board meeting weeks ago and given our families um enough time to prepare to be here so that's just that was just my thoughts um and so at this point I'll go ahead and bring it to a vote all those in favor of passing this contract please do so by raising your hand all right so I'll uh trusty fam myself vice president Kinto and uh trustee Chavez um approved I know uh Andrea is um not here moving on to item 202 motion to amend amend board bylaw 9100 organization to allow for the midterm nomination and elections of board officers uh motion by Linda second by trustee fam um I'm going to go ahead and open this item up for public comment um first and then trusty Chavez sorry thank you uh and then I'll bring it back to the board um any members of the public wishing to address the board on this item welcome hi everyone my name my name is Veronica M I'm parent here at Alan Rock School District and I [Music] am I am disappointed I am very disappointed have three children and we're not going back we're not what you're doing right now is skimming it is really skimming and it's skimming Community it's skimming children right and you know it and you definitely know it and you know what we're going back to the three we're not you know what happened to the three and we're here again and and this is not okay whatever intent you have whatever skinning you have in the back because it can't be out of um B Brown act violation have the guts to come out you're here because of community you're here because of our children they are first you're not here for your political gains you're not and I'm glad you're looking at me in the eye and I hope you continue to but this this that you did today if I wasn't aware you don't even know what I to do to come over here I just got here and what I have to do to come to every board meeting with my children but doesn't seem to be caring either you know how many doors I knocked for my community and they couldn't come because it was so last minute but sure they want to be here and I will continue knocking and I will continue spreading whatever this is happening to make sure that they know and that this stops this is not okay I am angry I am frustrated and this a pointment in the leadership remember the threea TR and the lus and right now we have three that seem to be doing that thank you thank you my name is gonalez I am a parent of two children here in Al Brock School District I am a Community member and I am here solely as a parent in 2019 more than 400 students and families walked out to demand transparency and to demand accountability from the board years later 2024 we continue or we going back you trying to go back to that same scheming of doing last minute meetings or trying to change policies and trying to change things when parents are not here when parents cannot attend because of the last minute things and because these agendas not every single parent receives them in their backpacks in their schools and because we're in vacations kids are already out parents do not know what is happening and this is intentional why because the less parents are here the more the more uncountable you guys going to be to us but then you forget you have leaders and community members that care enough for all of our children to show up again and again not only to be here and give our voice but to go outside and educate our families on what you all doing we're not going back to that tree we're not going to allow to go back to that tree and if we have to door not door or not and we have to go and do educational forums and we have to go back and do rallies and marches we will because we cannot go back parents need to be present parents need to be engaged there was a district known for the community engagement knowing for how you work with us in this decisions how we were able to be present in these meetings bring what we used to be an engagement Al School District where parents voice and youth voice and our student voice matter thank you good evening my name is Olivia Ortiz first of all take off the timer away from my face I did a lot to be here today I have to things to do with my with my son so I think I deserve the time for you guys to listen to what I have to say because like the other times I had to do a lot my name is Olivia orti I enjoyed the district family 12 years ago and since then we did a we have done a lot of work most of you have been witness of what we have done here a lot of work we have to do we have to do a lot of sacrifices to make sure that the district runs the way that it's supposed to be run I heard you guys talking about timelines I heard you guys talking about Community engagement well you know what sometimes you need to see what the best for the community if the timeline is not enough make sure that engagement of the community it's there before anything before any timeline make sure the community engagement it's there and make sure that we the parents have the time and have the um the ability to be here I'm the lucky one of the parents that could be able to make it today but there's a lot of parents out there that want they wish could be here they cannot be here because they just found out this morning when I have to reach out because I have to reach pars because I think this so important the lastek we had about you know the uh superintendent there was a lot of community members that wanted to be engaged of this process they want to be part of this process you guys remember that there was a lot of families there was a lot of parents that they want to be engaged in this process uh hiring the permanent superintendent there not we're not starting good I'm very disappointed this is a bad start you cannot do a meeting just to dayin 24 hours that's un noral let's learn let's show what happened please you can't guys cannot do this and also I have a question about 20 or2 thank you you guys want to do that nomination thank you you can come back I I want to know why time I want to know why because back not December oliv I hope you guys can find out thank you thank you good evening trustees uh my name is hero laa um I'm really prepared myself to to speak this evening one of the main reasons is because of the lack of notification in regards to this meeting I live here on the east side uh our daughter sitali began attending school um at adante 2 I I guess it was probably about 10 years ago and um we were extremely dismayed at the way the district was conducting business on behalf of our child and the children that were attending that school it was then that we realized it was important to have a voice as parents it was at that point that we realized that not only is it Our obligation to hold this institution accountable but it's also important to be a part of the process since then years have passed and we saw more mismanagement in this District as was referenced by those that were known as the elmrock 3 I was proud of our East Side Community I was was proud to see our community come together and demand what's right on behalf of our children I'm proud of to say that things have changed things have changed significantly I'm proud of some of the work that's been done here by this board but what's happening as of recent is unacceptable it's unethical and it's not right dismissing our superintendent in the way that she was dismissed after 10 years of service to this District was not right more of these last minute meetings being called is not right you all what you're doing you will be held accountable please consider why it is that you're here it's for our children thank you okay uh members of the board any questions or comments trusty fam H thank you uh M president I you know I I want to acknowledge the anger in this room I want to acknowledge that yes there is Disappointment in this room also uh I I'm going to speak for myself as one member of this board I did not call this meeting uh however uh I will say you know that for my part uh I have a severe disagree severe disagreement of policy with the board president Herrera Lera uh at the May 21st meeting uh you know this board a board majority passed a uh budget Savings Plan uh that could potentially close up to nine schools in this District I deeply disagree with that budget consolidation I think that there was probably there is still uh and again uh which will be discussed at the January I mean in the June 13 board meeting uh the upcoming budget for this District in the next fiscal year but I do want to reiterate that I believe in a smaller consolidation I believe in Saving as many of this district schools to the extent possible so that we do have a schools in each quadrant we continue to maintain a level of ser Educational Service for our kids to keep our commitments to our teachers and our classified staff uh and so uh I just can't for the life of me you know support a board president who's willing to recklessly close nine of our schools I did not call this meeting but uh once in you know under under the educational code one of the checks on the board president is the ability for a board majority to vote out a board president if the situation calls for it and uh you know as far as I'm concerned this is I'm registering my vote of no confidence in uh the president the current president of the board as well as it looks like you know I'll save it for you know for another officer of this board and I will you know uh or I should say um the clerk of the board as well so again it's for these deep policy disagreements that I am casting my vote of no confidence I think that uh at the end of the day it's the voters of this District that will determine uh you know whether uh they prefer a uh shutting down nine schools or shutting down a lesser amount of schools and I hope that uh the voters of this District choose to save as many schools as possible thank you thank you than you any other members of the board wishing to speak or ask any questions all right see none I'll go ahead and share uh my points um wow I I was kind of wondering why this uh this item was brought forward and why um if it was even me because I know all all three are um on the line here but I guess my question was answered um and it really saddens me that uh we as board members don't have the opportunity to voice our thoughts and opinions on our board without getting I don't know what the word is really right now reprimanded I mean it's just really sad that um over 18,000 people elected me in our community to represent our community to ensure that our district moves forward in a way that is governed with ethical and um ensuring that we don't go bankrupt ensuring that uh people have jobs ensuring that children have schools to go to um and that governing in an ethical way is considered Reckless governing by some of my peers that really saddens me um and that if we vote in a way that our peers don't agree with that they will take us off our officer seat and also just to clarify because I was elected here by over 18,000 people of my community to serve them and to be transparent and honest this meeting was called by board vice president Andres kto trustee Linda Chavez and trustee minf so to hear him say twice that he did not call this meeting is again lack of transparency and I apologize if I sound upset because I am upset because I'm being sanctioned uh for conducting a meeting a special board meeting that we had on May 21st where I facilitated a very rich conversation allowed for every member or facilitated not allowed because I don't have that much power facilitated a conversation where I continued to ask any more comment or questions from my peers before we move on to the vote and there was no hand raised and there was no comments then but less than a month later they're taking me off of my board presidency role or wanting to because it still hasn't happened that is upsetting and the way it's being done because as uh you all know on the agenda we have a waiver of a second reading wow the second readings are placed to hold us accountable so we don't go and amend bylaws and change laws that govern our our way of governing this board that we are waving a second reading and we will discuss that later so public know that you'll have an opportunity to come and speak on that that we have the guts three of us majority have the guts to put on the agenda to to w a second reading the day before when families could not be here and we've heard that over and over that is concerning and that is upsetting as a mother first when I was sitting in that seat watching some of the same behavior happen when my daughter was young and I said absolutely not in my presence it is really frustrating that this is happening now and I trust and I know because I am from Community First I was a parent sitting there and said no more and I said that is why I'm an noan and over 18,000 people voted for me to be here I have the duty to ensure that their voice is here that I take this time to speak up in this way and to ensure that each one of us each one of us including myself are held accountable for our actions and that if there's any wrongdoing that we are looked into each one of us all five of us because we all should be looked at right now and I'm okay I open my books I open all my messages and anything to ensure that there's accountability held on this board and I will continue to act in that way um and ensure that it's done as a board president as a trustee or as a community member either way so I will not go anywhere and will continue to be here and speak up for those that elected me to be here trusty fam well I too was elected by the people of this District uh in the last election and in fact I was the top vote getter and I was elected by the very people to represent your views now I I will say that uh you know uh you know the I resent the some of the character characterizations you've made now obviously we have a again we have a Hu uh near irreconcilable difference in in how we perceive the budget but uh you know uh you know I I sent an email to uh I you know with uh inter room superintendent almazon and assistant superintendent chain there's a uh the state Cola for the upcoming budget year has increased uh and that has uh how you say trickle on effects for outline years I'm not going to deny that there is declining enrollment there is a SE there is a drain on the resources of this District but uh I said you know I provided plenty of comment on the uh at the meeting of May 21st I express my reservations I express my reservations about uh the magnitude of such a large consolidation of schools uh the geographical consequences of not maintaining a school in each quadrant this this school sufficient schools in each geographical quadrant of this District I also discussed the issue of uh the city's resoning of our school sites and how that impacts the real estate assets of this district and of course you passed a vote for the consolidation up to uh nine schools uh you know I think again I think that we should be more considerate thing would have been to wait a little to see how the how these State Cola uh you know has impr you know the improvements in the state Cola there is an improvement in the state Cola I think I certainly hope that in the upcoming budget we may be able to uh pair back the severity of the uh prop of the past budget savings plan but uh I let me State this to be clear I was elected to save as many of this district schools I was I am a graduate of this District I went you know k through eight nrock schools uh I have worked for two State Assembly members that represented this District I live in this District uh you know my you know my red line is clear I'm going to try to preserve as many of this district schools to the extent possible and I deeply resent the implications you make that uh you know it's Reckless to do so uh again I do not see you know a board you know board president can't defend her own school so I'm not uh I'm not uh bound to uh you know be buckled in for that roller coast ride uh as I've said this is an opport you know opportunity to cast no confidence vote and I am going to cast that no confidence vote in both your board presidency and cor ship of trusty Flor Shelton as well any other comments questions well that that ended with a surprise I I didn't know uh Lor shter also was involved in this um and uh I'm glad that you mentioned um the directive that was given by staff to um that's another concern Le so right now there's just a lot of things that are adding up in my mind and so more reasons to ensure that we are being held accountable all five of us because when uh staff are given directives by one board member when we as a board have made a decision that is a red flag that is a concern whether I agree or not once we decided as a board I get to move forward with you whether I agreed in that moment or not and I will always vote as I stand and I will always speak as I think in the moment not a month later so um thank you for reminding me of some things that get to be looked into because um we none of us should be giving uh staff any directions after a vote has been made by a board um trusty Fam I'm sorry trusty ch um I look at it as an opportunity to vote do no confidence as well um this is not a decision from just last month this is for me this is a decision that has been on my mind for many months and um so this is not personal and we were all voted here by the voters this is has nothing to do with personal reasons this has to do with who we think that can move the district forward because ultimately we're all concerned for the kids we're all concerned for what's going to happen but we're also concerned if this is the right way to do it um to us at this moment to me I can't speak for the rest for me it's the right moment to do what we're doing and it's believe me it's nothing personal it's just all of us have been voted here to do what we believe is best for the children and what we see what I see in my heart is I think moving forward with this is what's going to be best thank you thank you any others okay and the last thing I'll say because I just remembered is that um I was also informed months ago that there was some direction given to staff and that that direction was not followed um that there were contracts that are were being pushed by some of our board members to be passed and because that didn't happen there was consequences so I'm just again adding things in my mind and just making sure that I'm putting all of us on notice that I will ensure that there is no illegal Behavior Happening Here on on our board on the time of our children and our hardworking families and staff that trust us to do our job so with that I'll go ahead and bring it to a vote all those in favor of passing this item please do so by raising your hand bam vice president ginto and trusty Chavez pass all those oppose myself and Andrea not present moving on to item 203 approved waiver of second reading of amendment of board bylaw 910 to allow board policy to go in effect immediately motion approve I mean second okay sorry just want to make sure I'm reading everything and um yes thank you uh public for being ready I'm going to go ahead and open open up a public comment at this time all those uh wishing to address the board on this item please do so by coming to the podium welcome all right hear and this is something as a parent of children that attended Alum School District that attending school district and and as an alumni of school district I heard something said from um trusty Linda Chavez going like we need a person to lead us parents don't need a person parents need a team of board members and trustees that work together that are fighting together and are talking to each other to bring Solutions permanent solutions that will benefit our students our teachers and the staff in here right now just what happened minutes ago hearing I don't trust you hearing I don't believe in you that's a should be a concern from all of us parents out there because when a trusty like this is so divided and broken it means it's only a one person idea and do not help our students does not help my kid that is autistic and that need special education and that the not help the other kids in that Community or that teachers that are trying to get something better every single year going back to again we're not here because of a person we're are here because there's no transparency there's no accountability and there's no Communications toward the parents that are trusting you with our kids every single day they're trusting you to make that right decisions to be able to bring our students I was here May 21st and I had to walk out but I join through Zoom I saw that conversation I saw how you were conversing and took a decision together as the team and coming today and say it was it te a disappointed and dising for any other parents that bringing their students here can I with some more I am super worried hurting some of you guys just put in a person in a board president I've heard you guys saying we need a person that that's mov the word forward no it's all of you guys whatever happens go that is all of you guys all single of you guys stop that St just putting we've done that before you guys know our history right all history we are know our history right yeah it's bad bad bad bad we have done so much work we have done a lot I mean we Community parents to make a better Alum Rock we're not going to go back to the old times we're not going to go back so you either get your whatever you all have in it you got a B together work together for the own good of our kids my kids her kids at the end of the day you guys are here for our kids it doesn't matter your personal Your Personal Agenda it doesn't matter if you like the person or not if that person doing their job you guys need to work together to make sure our schools are learning better now what I've heard is that we know that there's a deficit in the district right there's a depy we know that and it's s but that's a true I don't think one person is going to make magic and make that disappear I hope I wish I really wish that could be wish that that person makes magic of this that's it we we don't have a deficit we don't need more money that's not going to happen let's get to the rules stuff let's work together all together please stop this nonsense It's s of me it's it really so fat that you guys be that thank you Olivia wow disappointment that's all I can say right Beyond disappointment I'm angry I am angry I am not sad I'm angry because what I'm hearing is personal agendas here what I'm hearing is contracts what was that the Terra and that was in long ago and some of you sat through it and know the tactics guess what we know them too and we know this is Shady trying to change laws because oh I don't like that person because they didn't put forward my friend in a contract because they didn't do what I wanted them to do again team right but then conflicts of interest and yes you might be have been elected here by voters the same voters that will get those knocks from me and from other family members to get educated on what you are all doing here again what you did today is Shady Shady calling a meeting that was said right oh I didn't oh but yes you did you did take accountability for it you call a meeting call it and say it why because you don't want parents here it's done graduations you just happen to finish with graduations did you forget to tell parents while you were at graduation taking pictures hey we're having a board meeting that we just called to replace our board member because we don't like her because we don't agree with her did you I hope you did because that's your duty instead of taking your pictures right again this is sh and I hope you do not vote on it I hope you continue to do what we put you're here to do thank you I just want to take a moment to um think about all of the positive things that we've seen in the recent years you know things that have made me very proud as a parent of a student who has promoted from this District when I think about uh some of the hard work that was done around being the the first K8 District I believe in the state to introduce ethnic studies when I think about um Early Learning Centers for our children first of its kind in this local area when I think about teacher housing and I've seen you all work together towards amazing things productive things things that are going to benefit not only our children our staff our parents our community immediately and in the long term when I look at this agenda I mean it it's it spells it out right there right not only the ingredient of calling a meeting with short notice all the things that have been said immediately following a day when families are celebrating graduations without one of you mentioning this meeting approval of cont contracts going against decisions that you had already agreed on to happen next week where parents would be involved amending a bylaws specifically around midterm nominations and election of board officers I mean it's right here guys it's in black and white what you all are doing and then finally the approval of a waiver of second reading of amendment of of board violence again I mean it's just it's all very clear and this is a call to action for our community to keep your eyes on this board to keep your eyes on this alumrock Elementary School District to make sure that the very best decisions are being made on behalf of our children our families our staff for tomorrow and into the years to come thank you right any uh questions or comments from the board yeah I have some comments vice president kto so um the the board officer positions are are elected by the board not it's not something that takes place through the voters it's an internal thing in all honesty it's a very limited position it's intended to essentially run the meetings uh collaborate with uh with the um Administration to develop an agenda beyond that there's no other power that uh a a president has um you have the authority to reach out to legal counsel and ask questions but even getting questions for the rest of the requires authorization by the board in order to get those clarifications so it's not necessarily a position that um that is owned by anybody it's owned by the board the board collectively makes that decision it's through a board majority that you act to place somebody there it's through a board majority that you act to remove somebody there and so with that being said I've heard a lot about my my my this is not anybody's position it you while you're there you have to hold on to it you have to work with everybody give everybody their space so that they can communicate so they can and I appreciate the the the work that uh that board president has done up to this point uh in certain aspects obviously there are others that we haven't agreed upon uh but um yeah I just wanted to make sure to reiterate that this is not anybody's position you're not entitled to it you you're it's granted to you by the board and it's your job to go ahead and keep it um I I I think in all honesty there was a there was a sever issue with board bylaws where there was no provision to to have some sort of ability to to make a change if there is a significant difference um we we saw that uh in place previously and so it's for that reason I'm going to be supporting that I was supportive of the the board bylaw Amendment and I'll be supporting item 2.03 any other questions or comments from the board okay I I'll say my comments uh so in regards to bylaws um and I just want to make sure that I'm clear so that the community at least gets some clarity because you at least can see this video on YouTube later so we have bylaws that govern us as board members and then we have amendments where we can come in and change the bylaws um as a board majority if three agree to do something they win that happens but then we have a second reading to hold us accountable we have a second reading in order to bring it back at the next board meeting in case some of the community members may be missed to speak up or to say how they feel um and again to continue that transparency to ensure that we're held accountable for any changes that we make now when we have an amendment and a bylaw in the same meeting and then right after the waiver of a second reading that's concerning that's another red flag so we need to pay attention um I think it's pretty clear where we're going um I agree you know board president whether I'm a board president or not I will continue to speak up so that's not going to change anything I might sit on that side or or whatever and that's okay um however I do want to highlight the running of the meetings and collaborating with our staff um in this case our superintendent mainly to organize the agendas so I do want to ask our superintendent um has there be been a lack of working with me as a board president to organize the agenda doesn't get them out in time we've collaborate pretty collaborative collaborated pretty consistently um in order to get these agendas um published and in place for our public to see and then in regards to running or facilitating the meetings I'm going to ask my peers if they have any thoughts or opinions have there been any issues in facilitating the meetings running the meetings as board vice president mentioned any issues or concerns well since you asked and if you want to go ahead and start having a conversation about I think maybe I more appropriate for a facilitator to come in and have a a an ability for us to work with each other it's going to have to be in public because we're a board meeting but I think there's a lot of opportunities that we can learn from um but I don't at this point I don't think it's healthy to go through it right now I think it's better to bring a facilitator that could try to bring some board Unity at a at a at a retreat or something that or a workshop that we can put together uh because if we start going into this this it could turn into a mess without uh somebody to properly facilitate a meeting and have it be constructive so that we can all figure out how we can work best with each other and and move forward so this is exactly what I was trying to prevent from having this conversation in public um therefore I called you specifically left a voicemail in the text and didn't receive a call back you know I look forward to being able to work with my colleagues and being able to have conversations about items on our agenda and running the board um I haven't heard any issues directly here other than you know um not agreeing with some of the ways that maybe I voted um so I look forward to you know not having to wait for a facilitator for us to communicate um or I'll continue to bring my questions in public so that the public is aware of what's Happening um with that also before I turn over to trusty fam and then trusty Chavez uh the only way these meetings can be called the special board meetings are either by a board president by the superintendent or three members of our board so I want to make that clear and this case this meeting was called yesterday by trusty mfam trusty Chavez and vice president kto I would not do anything illegal uh I you know ensured that in my language you know that was clear and which is why we're here otherwise we would not be here so I just want to make sure that that's clear um and you know back to the point because I don't want to get caught up in this politici way of moving away from what we need to be focusing on the second reading that's being uh proposed to be waved at this time um again calling our community to pay attention to how we're moving with business here at elen Mock trust fam uh Madam president uh I just wanted to note I'm uh for the most part I mean you you know uh do your duties as prescribed but I am concerned uh just now uh you know I I can see the you know I from my from my perspective the badgering of prusty ftero and you know some of the things you say you know I think would you know ought to be consulted with with councel uh some of these remark could again land not just yourself but also the entirety of this board in in you know judicial proceedings so uh I I am deeply concerned that the way that some you have framed some of your questions to trusty quo you know just now but also if I recall in the meeting of uh at the uh regular uh the board meeting for the month of April you you did pose qu you did ask uh you know uh questions of to trusty qua which you know nearly which I thought uh could have infr you know could have uh you know infringed on the confidentiality of uh you know public employment uh you know as it was related to the uh con you know contract that this District had with a uh uh Mr Jess Cerna at the time and so I'm just deeply concerned that uh uh you know some of you know that the phrasing of your questions uh comes sometimes perilously close to uh uh you know uh D you know creating a legal Risk by divulging uh you know issues of personnel or issues of uh you know persons in active employment and MISD districts thank you trusty I'm glad you mentioned this um the legalities because I did ask our Council if it was legal to wave a second reading and I didn't get a response yet yet so um I'm in agreement ensuring that we are following legalities um so thank you for that which is a reason why I mean one of the many reasons I won't be supporting this item uh trusty Chavis um we have waved second readings many times on this board throughout the years this is not the first time it's been done many times it's no surprise and second uh when you stated uh president Corina erera that you said that you allowed all trustees to speak um in the other board meeting where we all voted that we were going to close schools you weren't allowing me to speak you kept cutting me off I was asking Mr COA a question and when you don't like what I say you'll cut me off so you have not g and then even and the other trustee said let me reframe the question maybe she'll allow me to speak and I said okay go for it and once she spoke you you agreed with the exact same thing I was saying only another person said it so um your statement of you have always allowed all trustees to speak is incorrect and other times when I've spoken when we Clos schools before you flat out called me a liar and it was true we did vote to close schools I wasn't lying I was telling the truth and then later you said oh yeah now I remember we closed folks you didn't apologize for calling me a liar and that was not the first time it doesn't matter that you call me that because it's only words because deep down I know it was a truth that I said and it's a fact so you haven't always been respectful so that is why I said it's been many months that and it's not just this year other years so that is my no vote of confidence thank you thank you and uh I mean I think I'll just clear it up with there's many things that I don't agree with what you said today and I've allowed you to speak so when you say you never allow me I think that's clear so I mean I think it's clear honesty transparency comments that are made that are not untruthful um you know again I'm just calling our community I will continue to be here serving as you elected me till November uh for president or not um and even if I am in the minority and we have a majority that's maybe taking the direction of this District I don't know we get to uh pay attention um in a way that is questionable um I will continue to be here and will continue to speak up even if I am one of five uh to do so um go ahead trusty I believe we can all work together like I said it's not personal it's just that uh like Miss Olivia said that this is a team this is a team and I'm thank you for pointing that out and we are concerned for all the children and before I thought of sitting here today I I believe that this is to me at this this moment in time and with what I know and I know we can't divulge everything and we're not going to uh or at least I'm not going to but a lot of times you don't know what we know and a lot of times everybody has a different perspective and again I'm corrected I can't speak to the public but I can look out to the public without just mentioning somebody's name who said we are a team yes we are a team and we're trying to build on that team we will always try to build on that team because what's at stake here is all the children thank you thank you uh vice president can yeah um I don't think anybody has a monopoly on the truth or a monopoly on that they they're the only ones who can do right by the district I think that we can all be we can disagree without being disagreeable we can take action and that's what differentiates us from uh you know folks out there that are engaging in violence we can have a difference of opinion and through the uh documents that we've adopted the bylaws um the the the laws that are in place we go ahead and we act upon those and we go ahead and move forward the district continues to move forward um and so while we may disagree and I might not like it um you know you just go ahead and you you move on with it you you accept the fact that that's the the way the decision was made and you figure out how you can collaborate how you can work on on those issues of common concern where you share uh uh a a desire to uh to do something to move forward and so um I I don't I don't I don't see the need to engage in vital and angry over the fact that a decision uh might have been made that we don't agree with um I was in I was in the minority by myself when the decision was made by the board majority on a decision that ultimately was reversed I could have gotten angry and start yelling and screaming and get upset um but well let's figure out how how we can go ahead and work this out and turn it into a win-win rather than just sit there and be upset over the fact that I I didn't uh get uh my way that evening and so luckily the community prevailed and went ahead and came up with a a an option as to how to go ahead and make a change that is now being worked through and hopefully it moves forward um and so that those are my comments that uh we can go ahead and disagree without being disagreeable there's no need to engage in that historical negativity that uh uh to that that basically you know grab the board and and and and had a hostage for years for decades uh there was still people uh reminding me of the time that board members are running over each other God I I do want I do not want to go to that I believe that boards can have a robust discussion and have a difference of opinion and then leave the meeting at the end of the night saying I don't agree but you know it is what it is when we move forward and uh it's not healthy for uh Alan marck to be perceived as the place where if you have a difference of opinion people are going to get and violence like they used to do in the past no we can't we can't go there we can't or that if you have a difference of opinion you're going to get you're gonna get uh uh you know you tongue lashing because you aren't agreeing with a particular board member or another and so I I don't think that that's necessary I think that we can agree to disagree uh and we can disagree without being disagree my comments thank you vice president canetto uh I mean I I I'm really in disbelief right now because I think the reason why we're here is because I spoke up in a way that maybe wasn't agreeable and now I'm getting tongue lashed and attacked and taken offboard presidency role so for me actions speak louder than words I mean we can stay here and talk forever um so we need to pay attention to our actions and when our words don't ma match our actions that's a problem uh especially when we speak up and say that we can disagree and that it's okay and that there will be no repercussions or um but at the same time this is a reason why this meeting was called in itself uh from what I hear so at this time I'll go ahead and call a vote um since there's no more questions or comments by the board we'll move on to the vote for item 203 all those in favor of passing this item please do so by raising your hand all those opposed 3 to one and uh with Andrea absent um Mar you got those or do you want me to read the names I I got them thanks than all right moving on to item 204 discussion action board president nomination and election I move to nominate trusty Chavez as board president there's no need for a second moved uh by board I'm sorry trusty fam um there's no need for a second so nobody on this board seconds that motion there's no there's not a motion an election we don't need a second okay um can you repeat your uh I nominate trusty Chavez for board president okay so board president um as trusty Chavez uh nominated by trusty fam and accepted by truste Chavez yes can you second I'll second just to confirm uh TR second by uh vice president ginto um all those in FA oh I'm sorry open it up for public comment at this time any members of the public wishing to address the board on this item please do so by coming to the podium yeah afternoon right almost nighttime and here is joining my son Liam who attends San Antonio elementary um and you're right prto you know we're not here you can disagree and agree and agree and disagree right it's it's as a team that's how we we tangle that's how we dance but when you do Shady things such as cold meetings within a a special board meetings when school's over when you're not having even to notify your voters right then what does that say what does that say right just stand with that took me a while to process that right because again we can agree to disagree that is completely fine and there's no violence but when you do Shady things don't include your grand and don't include your parents the parents Who oversee the children who are a future who you are here because of them what does that say when you do wave second motions to do Board elections because you agree to disagree without getting CL what say what they really sit with it when come commenting here that uh you're United font right that you are here for community and yes we take your pictures that's beautiful we out there with community and also in them and also bring them because again did you bring them you informed them when you in those graduations or you called a b meeting and yes you did but you didn't form them stby thank you I don't think you all getting the message that we are trying to give to you guys this is what we're here for this are decisions that the community has to be engaged with Community engagement Community engagement that's what we need here there's not going to be communication if you do in 24 hours there's there's no communication there there's no participation in there cannot be we need to be part of this and you guys are not allowing us to you guys are not allowing us to do them it is not what you guys are proposing is not about you guys are making choices of it's about committ engagement and transparency because yeah maybe you're doing something that is right but to me I don't see like it's right I don't I really don't we need you guys to be with the community don't you guys want to listen to what we have to say don't you guys want to listen to what we have what we think as parents as Community don't you want them to do that I want to work who wants to listen to me I want a board that wants to look to make parents to the community but when you guys just type of things 24 hours it's not going to happen it's not going to happen so please for the future think about it think about Community engagement and transparency to me it's not transparency and I'm sorry it's not transparency thank you thank you once again the second I am here solely as a parent of two children in the school district decisions have been made and they're Contin going to be made right at the end of the day we're not here for one person we're not here to protect anybody or to say who's good enough or bad enough we are here I am here as a parent because the way that this meeting is conducted it's not okay it's not all right a district that says parent engagement is key of all the beautiful things that we have built and I heard them today my daughter just graduated high school and is going to San Francisco State and she was the first student in the brist to kinder pilot program and I want to be proud to say that that my daughter's a part of Al BR School District that she came here because we had a board and people and staff that were un Ed for that dream and for that Vision today I don't see that and I don't feel proud because there's no transparency there's no accountability and there was no opportunity for community and parents and students to come here and be part and listen to what is happening here yes we're not sitting in there and we're not make those decisions and whatever you already have decided prior to coming in here it has already been decided but at least Community deserve to he that you're taking out a a board member of her position as a president because you didn't agree to what she said or was or the decision that she took that you don't believe in that leadership because couple of days ago once again I say you all took a decision as a majority and and I was expecting all you all of you to walk as a united front to take that united united front didn't happen and and trusty Chavez I hope this is a a reminder and I hope it is your voice and that you're not follow somebody that tell you to not say why you feel because it's happening today thank you our daughter uh sitali you know we as I mentioned we're we reside here on the east side of s and uh I grew up here I gr up here on the east side of s and I'm proud to be from the East side you I can't help when I hear the words East Side to repeat right immediately thereafter East Side I just can't help it you know I love I love my east side of s and yet our daughter you know sometimes we're driving around and things will happen you know things somebody driving a certain way or maybe exhibiting some kind of inappropriate behavior or maybe somebody's done some illegal dumping or something like that you know and she says that's the East Side that's the east side you know we deserve better we deserve better when we begin to believe certain things about the community in which we live we begin to embody that we begin to behave that way we begin to accept that as the way it is likewise here on this elen Ro board we saw a lot of behaviors taking place for a long time to the point where we lost the ability to manage funding for ourselves we lost the trust the Faith by the state by the [Music] school County Board of Education and our ability to manage our own funds right here and through the work of many we've regained that ability and many strides have been have been made to move forward and those are the kind of things that I want my child to to to be proud of as a member of the east side of San Jose and a graduate of this elen Rock Elementary School District I just want to reiterate that we've seen these types of things before and we're a little reactive I'm upset and I apologize for being upset but I love my children and I love the children that attend these schools and I believe that they deserve a chance of the future thank you all right any members of the board wishing to make any questions have any question questions or make any comments at this time all right see none uh the only comments I will say is that uh it's been a pleasure to serve as board president um uh doing my best um doing my job ethically uh facilitating tough meetings conversations but allowing um or facilitating those conversations um and on behalf of all those that I represent um those that elected me to be here my daughter sitali my family um the children the staff of this District um it's been it's an honor it's been an honor to um have sat there as a parent um have watched some of the behaviors on this board that called me to be here on this dis um and you know I I look forward to our community um continuing to come together and speaking up and coming to these meetings and engaging because that's how I started um and maybe just maybe some of our future board members are listening and will be um excited upset enough whatever it is to maybe sit on this board in the future to ensure that we are doing our job ethically um honestly transparent um and that we are continuing to hold ourselves accountable so that when we go to sleep we feel good about our actions um you know I just want to say clearly you know again um you know this meeting uh although it was called you know yesterday um majority is the one that will make decisions here um and so these things are important for our community to know that we need to pay attention and that there are many red flags um and that I open myself to be you know investigated um and I think all of us uh you know to see what's really happening and the why behind the actions of today because I still haven't heard the reasons for this emergency pretty much meeting um I'm not in the hospital I'm not in jail I'm not not uh not able to do my functions and this meeting was called so there's something um there that doesn't sit right and although I'm only going to be minority it's clear here on this board um I will continue to speak up and I hope that my community continues to hold all of us accountable um so count on me um you know to be your voice who continue to be here and I look forward to continuing to serve you as a trustee one of the five um and at this point I'll go ahead and call for the vote all those in favor of this um action please do so by raising your hand restate are we do you not know what item we're on can you if we're gonna vote we would want to vote on we want to know can you repeat what we're voting on vo on the nomination of pry Chavez a board president okay is that fair and I think you second is that correct thank you all right um any other questions or comments before we move on to the vote all right all those in favor of uh this item please do so by raising your hand all right I'll now we now we vote on the election we're not we're not done yet I'm sorry all those oppos all right and then um and is not here all right um I'm going to go ahead and pass the gabble to president uh have to hold the election that was a nomination oh sure right we moving on to fast so nomination and election all right so nomination soor we been done so we have to have elction okay anybody moving on be this you know point of order the board you know uh having having approved the nomination of trusty Chavez's board president this board moves to you know elect uh trusty Chavez's board president pass the vote again yes well I'm going to go ahead and open it then for a public comment before we vote on that already had public so okay so are you um seconding the election yes okay all right so motion to elect presy shavez is board president second by Presby quo okay um all those in favor of this item please so by raising your hand all right all those oppose myself with uh Andrea uh absent right now I'm gonna hand over the gabble to president CH moving on to hold on let me just moving on on the next item um do I have a motion for being used vice president nomination so uh Madame President point the for so be item 2.05 discussion action board vice president nomination and election so I'll move to uh nominate trusty Quintero as board vice president thank you second need second okay um can I have uh public comment none okay um we're going to first vote on gu the nomination um all those in favor of having uh as vice president raise your hand four and one absent motion passes and uh nomination for election of Vice President in yes I have to do the nomination the election the election excuse me thank you um do I have a motion motion to elect trusty Quintero as vice president of the board you have a second second trusty quo um uh all in favor uh raise your hand three elction uh oppose one and zero one absent uh motion approved and um item 206 discussion action board clerk nomination and election uh do I have a motion for the uh board cler nominate board member P okay uh motion by truste kto do I have a second I have I accept and second okay accepted and second by trusty fam do I have any public comments okay again till now I don't know why was this brought up this a special election I am not I just don't the the the uh reasons you guys are youing us tonight is I just don't I don't get it I'm sorry um again this this makes me feel like losing my trust on the bo I just want to mention that I'm not sure if you guys care about it but um it's not to me right now you guys have commented about why this is why this have to happen today um again I'm not here for one person I'm not here for a certain person but the actions that you guys are taking tonight it upsets me and it it makes me um very uh I not I don't want to say angry I'm not angry it just makes me feel worry worry that you guys are doing stuff that it's to me shouldn't be done tonight to me this should not be happening and first of all to me there should has to be uh community there to be Community here engaged in this process um I just hope that in the future we do better we need to do better again for our good of our district we need to do better um yeah really sad thank you when we talk about uh confidence and um you know we see this changing of guard and and and and you're right uh Ino um you know there isn't a whole lot of power held in these in these uh in these positions as far as presidency vice presidency uh board Clerk and and whatnot yet it's the tactics that we just got to be alarmed about um if it if it if it really isn't that big of a deal then why not do things in a way that are transparent in ways that are transparent and inclusive our East Side Community far too often is left out when it comes to having a voice about those decisions that affect us and our families most and here it is there were who thought for generations to have people that look like you sitting at tables like this you know that and yet here we are here we are using those same tactic tactics of exclusion to exclude the opin to exclude the opinions of the people that we serve our constituents I'm worried that we can sit here and have trusty fam blatantly lie about his participation in calling this meeting and here we are nominating him to one of these positions again I ask our community that just be alarmed we should all be alarmed by what's taking place here you're right it's not a big deal I hope to God we're wrong I hope to God that we're wrong about what it is that you're doing I hope it's nothing but we all need to be alarmed because we've been through this too many times before the county should be involved the state should we need to begin letting them know what might be happening here because we've seen it all before we will we will do that and I hope we're wrong I hope we can look back on this and say thank God that by us showing up here tonight and calling alarm to this we somehow voided avoided another catastrophe on behalf of our children okay so we'll take the vote uh do I have everybody in uh who would comments made after another another thing it's kind of kind off because we usually don't come election yes I know so we gonna have comments on every single no I think uh we've heard it what the community has have to say given them appful opportunity and I'm going to uh what about our colleague com yes any board comments please yeah see uh sorry I didn't see thank you man president I'm you know uh I highly you know I'm going to be clear I resent being called a liar I stated the truth I did not call this meeting I will say that I did consent and give support for the meeting but I did not call this meeting so I wanted to clear the air for the public I wanted and I deeply resent the implications that I'm being called a liar uh again at the end of the day it's a vote you know it's a vote of confidence and I'm casting my you know in this I cast my vote of no confidence in the you know the uh in trusty Flor Shelton as Clerk of the board due to as I said uh you know a trustee who who votes to close up to nine schools is not it's not a decision that I'm going to support I'm not going to be buckled in for that roller coaster ride and just to be clear I casted the vote against uh you know the budget savings plan that was adopted by the majority of this board on May 21st so I am I am not not in any ways committed to that decision of course I will work within you know the law within the Democratic meetings that are available to us under the Constitution and of the State of California the laws of the State of California and the California Education Code uh but this is just a vote of you know uh when somebody loses confidence in somebody of course they're not they're not bound by anything to continue supporting that person so again this is I resent being called a liar and this is again a vote of no confidence thank you thank you um so I'm going to read an email that I sent yesterday in the response I received at uh 3:16 p.m I sent an email hello Andres Linda and Min I have received your separate emails regarding a special meeting I have asked legal council for guidance board policy 9320 states that special meetings of the board may be called at any time by the presiding officer yesterday which was me at the time or majority of the board members based on the various emails I have received because there were several and we were at various graduations I didn't want to miss any information or misunderstand I said based on the various emails I received I want to make sure I am understanding correctly please reply as soon as possible no later than three to get the agenda out to our community as soon as possible my understand standing is truste Andres Kinto Linda Chavez and minf are requesting a special board meeting for tomorrow Friday June 7th 2024 at 7M to include the following six items approval of the contract with mcferson and Jacobson to support the board with a search for a permanent superintendent number two amend board bylaw 910 organization to allow the midterm nominations and election of board officers number three approve waiver of second reading of amendment of board bylaw 9100 to allow board policy to go into effect immediately number four midterm nomination and election of board president number five midterm nomination and election of board vice president number six midterm nomination and election of board clerk please let me know as soon as possible if this is not what you are requesting otherwise I will work with Administration and have this posted thank you Corina erera board president of the Alam Rock un Elementary School District the response from Andres Kino was I sent you my request for this special meeting at 2:39 it is exactly what you listed below Andres Kino so that was sent to all of us um and I just want to make sure that that is uh that I'm being transparent and that we are clear um thank you so much uh board president than full transparency that email was sent out at 3:16 and you're asking us to respond at 3M so it felt like we're going to be set up to to to fail I don't know if you re if you you saw that thank you um superintendent uh can we ask superintendent to say why that might have gone out that that time can I ask you the the agenda the email oh the the uh when I asked why the email wasn't out and I called you when I had sent this email and uh we were yes um there was an it um server that I understood was it wasn't working our server wasn't working our Exchange Server to be exact and um when I immediately heard of that I contacted our it department and they were working on it immediately and it affected some um some emails uh with you know that were connected with some of our employees so um unfortunately uh it had found that you were one of those emails that were affected by this Exchange Server unfortunately and there were other employees as well thank you uh so and that's why it was sent uh late I sent it early I was in between two graduations when I got the request but I want to make sure that our community knew as soon as possible um so I wanted to clarify because legally the only ones that could call a meeting is a board president superintendent or three board members so this meeting is illegal if trusty fam is saying he never called it so that's concerning to me if I have here that the three were called and now trusty fam is saying he didn't call it then this meeting was illegal and so I'd like to ask Council to look into this um excuse me I'll follow trusty F I'm not done but if you if you're if you're you're shutting me down I'm okay to stop I'm not shutting you down but before you start uh giving direction about Council um he's had he did have the floor and then trusty fam I was just recognizing that he had the floor and trusty fam I don't mean to cut you off but um we can have that discussion I guess after sorry trusty uh board president I you had given me the ability to speak and I was speaking and you're cutting me off but I'm I'm okay to stop now okay I'm just saying to keep everything uh from getting out of hand I I kind of I'm asking you to to stop for a minute and and just reflect that everything that is said here today um can also we can also ask Council but um will the sender of the email uh because he sent the email I I want to give him a chance to also speak uh trusty canetto do you want to say what's well she's saying that uh I guess the server wasn't working and I didn't get as okay at that time point I I'll leave that thing alone and I'll defer to my colleague okay py fam I will say uh I am I did not propose calling this meeting that is the truth that is the clear truth yes now when a pro when I you know when it was brought to my attention I gave my consent that I agreed uh to the calling of the meeting so it may be I you know uh uh mix up in in the expression of the proper parliamentary language uh it's my understanding that you know when there's a proposal by one member of the board to call a special meeting they're uh you know they you know if they ask other if if other within the limitations of brown act they ask others to agree to the calling of the special meeting I think that that counts it you know in a sense how a major how a board majority ends up calling a special meeting uh then I you know if if I use the wrong terminology I I apologize but it's sort of like you know it looks like you know I I was not the proposer of the meeting uh it you know and I'll take responsibility for that uh but you know to to implicate me you know I just wanted to State for the record to implicate me as lying to the public uh knowing ly or playing to lie then I resent that I've been uh you know honest to to the voters of this District since my appointment to the vacancy in 2021 and my election to a full term in 2022 uh again at the end of the day this you know this is an expression of non-confidence in uh you know uh the former president of the board and you know be soon to be former work of the board uh you know uh this is sometimes it's the available Democratic means to for board members to express their non-confidence in the facilitation of their fellow you know uh of the role by fellow trustees and again uh I have been open and forthright about this I apologize if I may have used the wrong uh language I take full responsibility for it but I did not propose to this meeting I did give my Ascent to this meeting and I will leave it at that thank you madam president thank you who was first I I didn't see who was first go go ahead trust Kina um so yeah uh superintendent if you can help look into because of the three call it then I'm wondering if this was an illegal meeting and we if we should even be here right now um and I just want to call out when I hear language like uh right after former president because it happened already and then I hear language like soon to be former Clerk of the board when we have not even taken a vote yet really concerns me uh because that vote hasn't happened yet and the current cler is Andrea Flores Shelton so this certainty and language that's being used and behavior on this board again is concerning so I just wanted to highlight that um thank you madam president yeah um I it's unfortunate that this meeting's devolved into this and I you know I get it uh it's a very it's a there's a lot of passion um however um what I would hope uh is that for example I remember that long time ago uh my colleague here beat me up for board president and it it was an election it was a democratic process it was veryan Square correct and we we didn't have to have a a war of words or anything like that as a result of it we just moved on I it didn't feel great ackowledge never does but it it just is is it's democracy you accept uh the will so Winston Churchill said that democracy is the worst of it's all except for all others uh forms of government when he was referring to that um I would hope that uh when we encourage folks to run we do so because they they want to do was St by the district um I I would never have hoped that somebody runs because my colleague here beat me out or because I was removed as board president or anything like that because I was I was removed as board president and um you continue to move on you move ahead and so my hope and I would encourage good people to get out there and run not because of any sort of political issues that took place or whatever but because you have a real passion to serve the people of alrock the kids of alrock um we need good folks and so that's my that's my uh those are those are my words thank you I think there's been enough discussion I think that we should now vote on it because I'm looking at the time and and there's been plenty of discussion I believe I have given everybody the opportunity so let's go ahead and vote um the so the item is six 206 uh and the nomination was made and second uh for the nomination of board clerk uh and trusty fam was nominated so all in favor of the nomination for trusty fam as board clerk raise your hand so it's three all opposed one one absent so now for the election uh of of trustee fam as board clerk uh all those in favor please raise your hand all those opposed 3101 dissension Corina erera and one absent um truste Sheldon moving on to the next uh thing is the president adjourns the meeting it's now 844 uh and I'm adjourning the meeting
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