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calling the meet to order roll call Maria oara pres Rick Ry here Gary Ary here Amanda buan here Dennis Bender here nobody's absent Mrs Nelson will you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance absolutely you right hand over your heart ready to begin I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice thank you so much Kylie do we have any public comments pertaining to the closed session we do not thank you in close session we are going to be discussing superintendent evaluation conference on litigation government code section 54956.9 subsection a current litigation cases cvds 201111 183 cvsb 211 1303 222 0303 22186 676 2227 023 23048 65 231 4073 23 22 17124 1 1 2 359 2 41 2687 23 21161 2 44404 and CI VVS 24 4289 government code section 54 5 549 54.5 subsection C and 54956.9 subsection D subsection D and subsection e and subsection E I anticipated litigation one case 2020 20215 Public Employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave titled certificated and classified employees number four Public Employee appointment resignation retirement reduction title certificated and classified employees conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Jeremiah Harrison employee nego organization Appo valy unified Teachers Association conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Christine Dupri employee organization California employee employees Association conference will real property negotiator government code 5495 6.8 negotiating parties Matthew schulenberg on behalf of Apple Valley Unified School District security matters government code section 54957 consultation with Apple Valley UniFi School District chief of police and I ask a motion to go into close session so moved I'll second all in favor I any opposed we'll see 7 o'clock for e e e call Maria okara are you here I'm here Rick Ry I'm here Gary Ry here Amanda Buchanan here Dennis Bender here thank you uh Shannon spiny will you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance i al to the flag of the United States of Amica and the it stands na indivisible andice for all thank you Shannon good evening everyone and thank you for being here before we get started I would like to say that the board appreciates and supports our educational Partners input at our meetings engagement by members of the public and Civic ma in Civic matters is the Cornerstone of our democracy everyone should have a chance to express the opinions within the guidelines the board has established for its meeting 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 comment 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 moment we are going to have a moment of silence for a retired a ausd family member Mr Reed stward thank you very much student report High Desert premier Academy Marissa [Applause] DTE okay good evening president OFA esteemed board members superintendent Nelson executive cabinet and Apple Valley Unified staff students families and the community members we at had a Premiere has started our 2425 school year off well we have two new staff members Miss post which is our Middle School teacher and Miss huckley which is our academic counselor September is aware is awareness month for many things including Suicide Prevention it's it's dedic ated to raising awareness about suicide in order to shift public per public perception and spread hope and share information to people that are affected by Suicide here at hdba Miss neilo and Mr gon went around and gave presentations to students while also giving students resources while giving students resources students can also dial 988 or use the anonymous owl tip line that's provided on our newsletter I will also be going around handing out Suicide Prevention bracelets and ribbons to staffs and students September is also attendance awareness month at hdba this consist consists of educating all members of our school and Community about chronic absentismo misses 10% of school for any reason did you know that the data early grade chonic absentismo indicator for a student graduating on time that's why attendance is so so important Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15th to October 15th to October 15th Hispanic Heritage Month also honors the in contributes to the Hispanics that have made it to the United States spirit week is through spirit week is the 23rd through the 27th of this month it's our first spirit week of the year and our leadership leadership class is excited to give us a fun week this month at hdba middle school and Apple Valley Virtual Academy are are coming together to go to Long Beach Aquarium and and to learn about the deep sea Predators hdba seniors will also have the opportunity to visit vbc and saning college and see what sparks their interest thank you for listening and I will talk about our school owls next time thank [Applause] you thank you so much I know it's your first time but you did great at Granite Hills High School Hannah [Applause] for thank you always the height difference between us good evening executive cabinet board members and attendees my name is Hannah for and I am the ASB governing council president at gr Hills High School I hope you all had an incredible summer and a great beginning to the 20 4 25 school year I'm very excited to be this year's representative for granite and I look forward to speaking with all of you each month to begin we just got our pollus for ASB the color signifies our silver year which is granite Hill's 25th anniversary of being open Granite Hills High School opened its doors in 1999 in the 1999 to 2000 school year over the last 25 years Granite has undergone many changes from adding high quality CTE programs robust cancelling and mental health programs from decorative Lawns to draw tolerant Landscapes and even a slight change in our school motto but the constant Focus has been on creating a positive learning environment for all students we look forward to celebrating our history and planning our future to continue our Rich tradition of preparing student leaders as for ASB we've had an incredible start last month we had senior Sunrise which was so much fun and it had a really big turnout it was very Bittersweet for myself as well as all the other seniors I think but it was fun yesterday was Club Rush during both lunches students got a walk around meet club members learn about clubs on campus and also purchase things from those booths we had clubs like ASB mock drama saw Christian Club Key Club interact 524 Avid water polo French Club women empowerment club and a lot more we have Homecoming coming up on September 14th our theme this year is Once Upon A Homecoming and we have an amazing DJ and taco truck lined up ASB has been doing an amazing job hyping up football we named our student section this year the cougar cage and it was a big hit for our first game we also have a home game tonight in the student section themes USA I'll be heading over there after the meeting and I'm pretty confident in saying we have a win coming but I don't know hopefully uh ASP has been fundraising like crazy for both prom and gr night we're also selling Senior Crew necks and t-shirts which have been a huge success on campus link crew started the year off strong with link leader training days over summer our link leaders gathered here at Granite for two days to learn how to connect with the class of 28 and run orientation activities freshman orientation was a huge success two weeks ago we held our freshman tailgate before our very first varsity football game we had food as well as face paint for our Freshman Class academic follow-ups also took place and they also went very good for mental health awareness this week we are highlighting Suicide Prevention awareness month we're doing a Spirit Week student Raffles and a lot of giveaways on Saturday our Key Club and band are going to be participating in the annual happy TRS parade our theater department is hosting a car wash on September 21st at the Grand coffee shop here in Apple Valley in hopes of raising money for a New York trip Athletics have had a great start to the year volleyball is having a very good season it's a very young team but they are extremely experienced and we are 3 to zero in League cross country just started but are doing great we had our trying yesterday and our cross country team is getting ready for our cross country challenge with 10 schools to be in attendance this year the team has over 40 students and we couldn't be happier football is going strong with a two to zero and a big match tonight versus asparia the match will be a good test to see how the season will continue to play out for us girls tennis has league play in two weeks and they are a very strong team and had a really good preseason this year we have over 35 student athletes on the team and it's incredible we're looking forward to seeing how all of our Sports continue to grow we thank you for your continued support of Granite Hills and I look forward to sharing more with you next month as always marun and gray lead the [Applause] way thank you Hannah abov High School Eden [Applause] Piola thank you good morning or good evening sorry good evening members of the board and attendees my name is en poo and I am representing the Apple Valley high school and I'm the line president tonight I'll be sharing with you what our students and staff have been doing in the last month and also our goals for September uh this August our students have been getting involved with clubs and extracurricular activities the sun stations had their first recital for back to school on August 16th and it was so lovely to hear such talented voices and and last Wednesday we had our back to school night where students can see and join clubs that interest them some new clubs are starting this year include letters of love where students can write and create cards to Children's Hospitals uh we have lift that represents love Inspire feeli together this club serves to LIF up our community and help others with their mental health model un that um where students can learn and discuss international relations and C current current political world issues we also have abhs Community ad Kangas which students can learn more about Hispanic culture French club that teaches French language and their culture and lastly badman Club where students can play badman there was also a lot of sports like wrestling track and field basketball and swimming that we're looking for new athletes and speaking of athletes our athletes have been doing such a great job so far the girls volleyball team has been very successful in their preseason they currently have n wins and the girls tennis have won their past two matches and cross country had two meets so far and our football game has played two games and we have a home game tomorrow which is also our homecoming game against Corona Del Soul and we hope to win we are so thankful for our ASB students who have been working so hard decorating the student section as well as pep rallies and the students have been making posters balloons that decorate our football stadium our Pep Squad and band have been practicing so hard performing so well at our events and we are so thrilled to see them bring the school spirit to our campus our camp film crew has been doing an amazing job at capturing photo and video content of content of our sports events and so much thanks to our sports medicine program for keeping our students um athletes safe and healthy we are very excited for this month there are so many exciting events we are looking forward to tomorrow we have our homecoming football game where we'll be announcing the the homecoming court and we can't wait to see who the homecoming king and queen plus our princes and princesses are and on Saturday we are having our homecoming dance which is themed casino night and next week our school is preparing for our 5th fth annual Bell game next week that week we will be celebrating with a bunny scavenger hunt no bunnies t-shirts and decorating the school with so much sundevil spirit that Thursday we'll be celebrate with our annual bonfire that will always get us fired up for the big game and the next day we'll be taking the win again this year they will Mark another maybe hopefully 13 consecutive years of Victory against Victorville I cannot wait to see how how Rowdy the student section and Community will be at the game and then our junior senior girls are getting ready for the Powderpuff game on September 25th ASB will start to prepare and organize for our annual colorant on September 28th by gathering food track sponsors for from our desert community to help fundraise for our campus organizations since it is September this month we are celebrating Hispanic culture throughout the month ASV students will be organizing pep rallies lunch activities and food trucks with like tacos and a fesus that and much more to share Hispanic culture to our school community and there's so many exciting things happening in Apple Valley high school and I want to thank you all for your continued support and we couldn't give our students any of these incredible opportunities without you so thank you for your [Applause] time thank you very much board comments Mr Bender attended the football game on Friday it was a good game uh anytime you get close to the ocean the teams are tougher chapparel was loaded congratulations to Granite 25 years you been open I was a charter teacher there in 99 makes me feel old and then I realized I'm old because I was also a charter teacher at Apple in 1967 that's it thank you Mr Bender amand you Canon Mr Bender I had to laugh because when she said it opened in 99 uh 2000 I was thinking oh I feel old cuz I was a senior then I'm sorry okay I'm G to pull mine up I like to write them out so I don't forget anything because I go home so many times and I regret things that I meant to say so okay um I did want to say good evening and just thank you guys um I know last month I think a bunch of us thought we were gonna have students here and then we were kind of bummed because we didn't have students here but it is so nice to have students back in the audience so we're so excited to see students again um but having you guys here your participation is invaluable and it just provides a fresh perspective um to the decisions and everything our discussions here uh at our board meetings um I did have the pleasure of attending back to school nights at um High Desert Premiere Academy and also Granite um and I want to thank everyone involved for the hard work in making those um events of success I did have every intention of making it to Apple um and there is a reason uh so I would like to extend a special thanks to is principal Smith here is girl in here it's his fault um he was so welcoming and showing me around his campus and um I spent way too much time there so I apologize I had every intention of making it but um it was just such a ful experience talking to parents and families and staff there and I spent too much time and I looked at my watch and I went oh no it's way too late I have to go to Granite so I went straight um so I apologize I will get there next year I will start with you guys next year um so but while I was at Granite um I was particularly impressed I um went to a different Wing than I went to last year and I got to go into graphic arts this time and I was just so impressed um with everything that was going on in there and the creativity the dedication um the shirts that they are are creating and things um her senior stuff that was all done there the link crew that she talked about and it was just so neat to see this program supporting the other programs um in house on campus and that was it was exciting um for the board I did have the opportunity to attend a region 16 csba delegate meeting this month um and we did just share each of our district successful startups I bragged about Apple Valley um and although Riverside County will not be spearheading the the fall joint meeting that they usually do um region 16 is working hard to ensure that that maybe we can still pull it off so as of right now it's still hopefully going to happen um but they're gonna try to keep it on the calendar because region 16 really felt like it was vital for collaboration and best practices for all the the districts school boards to get together um but finally I wanted to end by encouraging all the students to embrace the opportunities that this year offers whether you're senior or um even in kindergarten um but whether academics or the Arts um Athletics or any of your passions um I know I see Aquatics and drama and music back there so um just know that we are here to support you and celebrate your achievements so together let's make this school year time of growth community and Excellence so thank you and I look forward to seeing all the incredible things that our students and our staff are going to put together this year so thank you thank you Mr RC again uh like has been mentioned I also want to commend all the students and teachers and administrators for just very um successful startup activities for the new year as was mentioned of the back to school nights were were were hugely successful and very well attended every back to school night I went to the parking lots were overflowing there's cars lined up uh going down the the various roads at at at the various School sites uh the principls the teachers were well prepared and eager to share with parents about what's going on at their school so those thank you for everyone involved in the back back to school nights uh very well attended and very successful again as was mentioned as as Marissa and Eden and um uh Hannah mentioned Al also wanted to commend all the the student athletes and the coaches and all their their hard work for the the Athletics that are starting I was able to ven visit some volleyball matches and football matches and and again our our students our athletes are working hard you can tell that they've been well prepared by their coaches and so on thank you for the parents too we can't forget the parents who who uh all summer long had been bringing their kids to school activities and so on so they're they're starting out very very well and I know they're going to be very very successful this year one thing I wanted to mention too is that one of the back to school nights I talked to a third grade mom and Not only was she so thankful for how how well her her child was doing in third grade how excited her child was but she was also she was new to our district she was uh so excited about the the the quality of the bus service so she wanted to tip her hat to the to the transportation department and the Fantastic thing that our bus drivers do every single day because you know they're they're getting up uh in a lot of cases way before we're getting up and then they're all checking out their buses and they're on the road before we are so just thank you for the transportation department uh is very very much appreciated and uh as as our students were mentioning and all the Fantastic activities going on this month also want to thank all the teachers who are preparing for a Constitution Day later on this month because back in 2004 US Congress passed a law that said on September 17 every September 17th uh all public schools should have a special day of instruction regarding our US Constitution that's kind of interesting because when historians and sociologists have studied National constitutions around the world they have found that the average length of a constitution of a national Constitution is 17 years now our constitution has same Constitution has been in effect for going close to 240 years which uh really testifies as to the uniqueness and and and the wisdom and the success of our constitution so I just want to commend all of our teachers who are preparing for that Constitution Day later on this month on September uh September 17 so I just like I say thank you for all the the teachers all the administrators students you guys are doing a great work keep keep up the the great job and we look forward to seeing you next month as you report that the Fantastic things are going to happen this month so thank you thank you um Mr Raley thank you well it's good to see the speakers again Marissa Hannah and Eden um with Hannah we we've seen you last year so you're an old Pro but for the other two you by the end of this when comes May with graduation time you guys are going to be so confident getting up at the podium and speaking in front of of this crowd that uh and and as a board member we always remember all of the speakers every year and I you know even the superintendent will bring up well you remember three years ago so and so and what she's doing today we all kind of follow what goes on with uh the speakers because we get to know you guys so well so congratulations and uh May will be here before you know it but um we look forward every month to uh hearing from you you guys did really good so and then um one more thing Dennis had brought up that he you know taught all those years but what I don't think people realize is Dennis remembers all of the students even even from the 70s we'll be talking he goes oh yeah I don't so and so you know graduated 1974 and he's doing this today and this and that and so Dennis really made a lot of this is you know we' still got a few more months but the dentist's last time as a board remember he is going to retire out um but he made such an impact on this district and all these kids that went to school here and so um I'll talk about Dennis later towards but he brought it up so I wanted that's all I have thank you thank you and now is is me um I'm Maria okara I I didn't know my name when I called it out uh but now I think I do um I want to I want to take the time to thank all of you for coming out this evening um to uh listen to us do the business of the students um and I need to thank the parents uh who are raising all this amazing uh students and sending them away um thank you so much um this last month or this month we are in I have managed to visit um appoval High School which is my school usually it's my first stop my kids went there so I usually I wander in and then I think oh they're going to kick me out um but I I went to APO Val High School to watch the volleyball game um and I was worse than the kids um because I I was screaming so loud I thought I was going to lose my voice then I went to Granny Hills High School to watch Vol volleyball too and um and also did exactly what I did at gr at APPA Val high school and then I had the the honor of traveling with the superintendent to visit classrooms um this last um week and it was such a a pleasure to see learning going on in the classrooms and to see student engagement and to watch the Super superintendent actually take notes and do observation and give feedback to the staff um that's what I call handson you know she was really handson and the the principals F felt safe enough uh to have the superintendent go into their classrooms um because they believe they have done the best they could and it's now up to superintendent to do a an evaluation of what was going on um I am excited about what's coming down in September the the Hispanic uh culture coming up in September um I'm going to be looking for somebody to Lear me a Hispanic address um because I like to show up and show out thank you I'm ready um my daughter went through model un un and it was probably one of the best experiences she she had and after um serving um as a delegate from apov Val High School and she was representing the country of Turkey uh I felt like I that I knew so much about this country that I didn't think I would know enough about but because she practiced and practiced and practiced uh at the time that she went she had the opportunity to meet Kofi Anan who was the Secretary of the UN um and actually put him on the phone to talk to me she was Fearless um so I am I'm really looking forward to um what the school year holds um I'm excited um I show up at events I had an event of the deack meeting with parents I showed up because it was food that's all I can say and uh and I kept getting up to help myself to food and as soon as my stomach had had enough I left but I just want to say thank you thank you for what you guys do we I am truly humbled to be of service to the children of APO valy thank you again um the superintendent's comment Mrs Nelson um I want to comment also on Marissa and Hannah and Eden and just um welcome back Hannah welcome to the two that are starting um amazing we missed you last month but we knew it was the second day of school and it wasn't probably likely that we would get you here with a lot of information um it's going to be an amazing here and I'm so um sad already that Mr righ was pointing out that I know what happens to all of our um speakers because you are part of our family and when you leave us at the end of the year there's a little bit of a loss for us and a little bit of our heart goes away so I don't even want to talk about the end of the year we're going to watch what happens over the course of the next few few months um I did hear a lot about tacos though from some of your presentations and um tacos are my love language um we'll just leave it at that um I also want to comment on um Miss Buchanan's statement about um the silver anniversary and where she was when Granite Hills opened I um was a school principal at the time so I had a long career already in education um I was not a high school senior I'll point out I also um would like to comment about um Mr bender and um the last few board meetings that we have with him and the fact that um he's an icon Con in this community um he's educated more students probably in the Apple Valley um Community than anybody else and then to serve on the board for as long as he has is just a testament to the commitment and the um the passion he has about education and I'm not sure that we'll be able to really honor him appropriately at a single board meeting I feel like we're going to honor him each board meeting between now and that time and there's probably going to have to be some special roast that happens not on a school property because there's some stories folks and I don't think we can do them in a board meeting room so I'll just leave it at that um uh I also was with Miss Oar when we visited Wendy Temple's um classroom at Granite Hills High School and I'm gonna tell you um the work that those kids are doing in such a short period of time is something else um I don't know that Miss okara asked for permission but she took a few things and she left I noticed Wendy didn't say anything and I'm thrilled with her because I know that she's ready to get those kids engaged with all the other schools and supporting in making and creating things for um student swag so I'm just teasing I know you guys had had a conversation on my suitcase I love those things I like them and I attach it to my suitcase what it was really cute um and and I would like to clarify that I'm not out evaluating teachers I only get to evaluate principles in this district and assistant superintendant and Kylie um but when I'm out in classrooms I am providing feedback back to teachers about things that I see and it's not evaluative it's just feedback what what what was going on when I was there and I like to recognize some really positive things that are happening um Miss beanies I would have sent her feedback that I'm so excited that her children are going to prom this year because that was a big topic of one of her students it was darling so um so on to some really exciting news Victor Valley College had a record number of high school students um be awarded college credit this past year for earning an A or a B in um one of our articulated courses 4,366 students is a record for the program Apple Valley Unified had 1,096 students receive college credit that's something to [Applause] celebrate great last week our ethnic studies um work came back to the table with teachers in the room looking at curriculum we have a series of dates planned with our facility Lauren wild from um sanino County Superintendent of Schools um they will continue the work that they started and they'll be developing our courses that meet the ethnic studies graduation requirement and our board took action in support of a community recommendation to work on multiple Pathways for our students to achieve that requirement um I happened to stop by it was phenomenal work that they were doing and lots of voice and um articulation happening and I look forward to seeing how it all comes together um and then for just because I have to um I'm a parent and I do like to still embarrass my child who won't know this happen unless somebody tells him um for those of you who were here in 2004 um at this very time 20 years ago I was at St Mary's hospital because I was giving birth to my youngest son he's in college I don't get to see him this year but he's with his grandmother tonight having dinner and I just would like to say that I think I prefer being at a board meeting than giving birth so good thank you I'm done thank you Maria was there that's why she wasn't at St Mary's but she was in the office next to me at the time yeah thank you so much and happy birthday to Kyle um Appo valy unified Teachers Association um AA Karen sabers [Applause] good evening I wasn't ready I was thinking everybody would be dismissed and then I would go so all right good evening superintendent Nelson board members cabinet and audience we have officially made it through the first month of school yay last week I had the pleasure of doing first classroom walk throughs with Mr Conrad and I thoroughly enjoyed that experience it was exciting to see the students actively engaged and enjoying their learning I look forward to doing this on a monthly basis and seeing all the great things happening in the classrooms we had our first Community Schools cohort meeting last week where we worked towards finalizing the needs assessment it was very productive and we were able to meet our new our newest members yesterday I was able to join Nelson Lopez our ne new TOA for Community Schools at Rancho verie to speak with the teachers about their school working towards becoming a community school what a community school is and how they can become involved it was a very positive experience tomorrow is our first negotiating meeting I'm looking forward to the new process though where Auda CSA and management come together before um going off into our separate groups and having discussion there we are also looking forward to the new two administrators that are joining our team and Jeremiah being one of the leads remember with IBB we are all one team with two leads one on the 16th the entire EXA board and our two new administrators will be able to participate in a one-day IBB training so that they can understand the new negotiating process so we're excited about that tomorrow we will have our first of three Insurance meetings with potential trust as you probably heard we were not able to obtain a quote from siba again this year although that is very heartening news we have three other prospects to meet with we will be meeting with Cal Pur tomorrow Viva and reap soon to come we must walk away with one of these meetings with affordable insurance that meets the needs of everyone otherwise well we can't think of the otherwise we have to keep putting out positive vibes at the end of this month Auda will be sending 15 teachers to the sped conference in Orange County I will be attending and learning alongside them so that I can better support them with their needs Auda is excited to be able to be sending that many Tim hog grief and I will be running or are running for CTA State Council positions there are four positions available between our district Victor High Victor Elementary in atlanto possibly hisp I'm not sure about that one but we hope to gain two of those positions so that Auda has two votes at the state level and more voice we will also be placed on committees where we will be able to have a voice in that decision making as well to all the teachers here and that are listening please place your votes um and then I want to I I don't know if I'm understanding or misunderstanding but I do want to address um agenda item 27 which is approving scripts to be used for high school performing art shows so bear with me if I'm misunderstanding this um this agenda item but I just want to my job as president is to be here for the teachers advocate and allow their voice to be heard as well and if we are voting you know I noticed that graned Hills is on there for their two play Upcoming plays and I just want to encourage if this if I'm understanding it correctly and the board is voting to approve these um performances then I just want to encourage you to please make the approval that's why I said on my might be misunderstanding I'm not sure um but there's a lot that goes into the process starts back in March where they pick the performances and then um have to order everything um they've already cast the members and are practicing at this point and um as I met with the drama teacher um she informed me that there are only certain things that can be removed from these performances and that um she does remove what she can and other things they don't pay attention to or put a lot of emphasis on but she does make lists and sends them out to the teachers and puts on there what she has removed and what she cannot remove so that there are no surprises when the performances um happen they also do some intimacy coaching which if they have to hug or kiss they want to make sure that all students are comfortable with that and so they do the intimacy coaching to make sure that they are feel safe and okay with that um but if I'm understanding it correctly I just encourage you to please vote for to approve these performances because they do put a lot of work into them and she even has a senior that waited to graduate so they could be in this next performance um thank you for your time and have a wonderful rest of your evening and solidarity Karen thank you so much Karen I I'm not going to release the students because I really want you to listen to the uh presentation from the footsteps to Freedom before I let you guys go I want you guys to know what your teachers did this summer uh so bear with us as we do go through the process um will the clerk please read out any action taken in Clos session sure thank you so in Clos session um the board um approved the following items um approved the proposal settlement agreement regarding case number Civ SB 22272 three and it was on a motion by oara second by RC vote was unanimous the second item we approved was um appoint Joseph kohy as dean of students Phoenix Academy rign 7 column one on the certificated management salary schedule 19 195 base Duty days effective September 23rd 2024 and that was a motion by RC a second by bender and was unanimous votes so those two items and ep's and the audience will you please stand so we'll know who you [Applause] thank you he went from uh if I remember the story he went from a high school dropout to a PhD so you were well well rounded thank you and you are a graduate of alpha Valley well no you didn't graduate from alpha Valley but you did attend for a while for a while yeah now you're back well welcome we we're glad to see you thank thank you real Visa graduate yeah there you go okay the congratulations doctor the board May approve the agenda as is or ADD and or pull items from the consent agenda for discussion and our action um I need a motion I I'll move the item all in favor I now we go to recognition um we need to recognize somebody and the board will need to come out to the front the board can either come forward or they can stand there and he can come along and and shake your hands if that's easier is um whatever you prefer okay we got it we got you Mr Bender looks like others are coming out officer Gotti can you come and join me at the podium this is something new for us and for those of you who um have watched us with our Police Department many of you don't know the process by which we hire a police officer it takes a little bit almost a year to complete all the background checks and all of the things that are required even if they're in another department we still have to do all of those things to get somebody into our department and so when we finally get the approval that they've met all the conditions we do a swearing in well those swearing ins don't necessarily match our board agenda dates and so instead of holding somebody off and not bringing them on it's important for us to get them sworn in and um the board asks that if that as we do this in the future that we bring them to a board meeting and actually introduce them and I think it's a wonderful idea we have not sworn in an officer in quite some time except for a reserve last year that had been with us for some time people recognized her but we are thrilled to start this process with officer goddi and he will be joining us with a long tenure of um police work so we're excited welcome [Applause] wel my [Music] board will I get connected if I could ask uh theeta Smith to join me just briefly thank you um if you'll just wait a moment we'll bring you forward I just wanted to give you a little background and then we'll bring you forward to for this recognition and the next one and so I give you just a moment to sit back down um I'm gonna actually just briefly um ask uh folks in the audience to stand so that you know who we're talking about we'll ask them to sit and then we'll get you together and we'll give them our certificate in just a moment but if we could ask Kylie codell Anna hosy Jessica David and Justin barkle to stand for just a moment I just give them a round of applause and if if they'll sit down I'll tell you why you're clapping well many of you any of you who know them already know why they're unbelievable but um TR and cabinet and I we come up with crazy ideas for summer and then Theta and the rest of our team we fill a board with well first of all illegible writing about all the things we think staff need before they start school and as you heard earlier the startup was great it felt good this year we felt prepared and ready and we're feeling that as we walk classrooms well none of that happens without careful considerations of what new teachers need about how our family reunion is going to be organized and we can dream all the dreams but unless we have these folks to make it happen it just doesn't doesn't work so a little bit of back ground we have kind of two strands going during that really intense two weeks and almost a a half of time starting July 22nd and I know you were there on some of those days to come and welcome new teachers and visit we have we start off with something we call unsung heroes the clerical teams we bring in our managers for this family reunion and then all the while there's a staff strand happening at the same time new teachers and counselors welcome to the system returning teachers coming for training on a wide variety of topics classified support staff coming for opening meetings with the csas and others um all of those aligned to the priority metrics everyone carefully vetted um so Thea helped gather some of the numbers over 1,400 participants more than the number of Staff because some people attended a couple of things but some of the trainings were a week long right sometimes they were there and that's just counted them once over 80 sessions seven different locations all around the district there's three 300 miles driven by these folks as they delivered things handouts coffee snacks so that every time someone showed up whether it was the town of Apple Valley or another school side or here that they had what they needed to make sure that was a good learning experience um which required over 100 gallons of coffee hundreds of trays of snacks with an impressive number of granola bars thousands of books and handouts and the books are in boxes and they're in our curriculum Center and they're Thea and her team are Trucking them and every time I showed up somewhere to help they'd laugh and say where were you 15 minutes ago when I was unloading the boxes they did it with a smile everything was on time and it was just incredible and that last item is so critical detailed signin sheets so that everyone who came and for if it wasn't a workday that they were paid for that time and so special attention was given uh meals were provided for family reunion it was important to us to make sure the people were comfortable there the new teacher meetings as you saw just were filled with joy and uh a really strong welcome and I'll just let you take a look at some of the comments we surveyed the new teachers a couple of weeks after and this was just a snapshot of some of the things they said about that five-day startup it was just a strong way to really welcome them to Apple Valley and get a sense of who we are and none of that happens with without the curriculum instruction dep department and these four individuals and so while you're looking at those if you would make your way to the front front here we'd like to honor the four people who made this happen and we'll call them up one at a time and let you shake their hands come on up Mr Bender you can stay if you want we yep so I just want to point out that I have a set of certificates and Pat has a set of certificates because guess what when Kylie sees something on the board agenda she makes the certificates so she came to me this afternoon and she said TR I didn't know somebody else was making the certificates but I made some so I brought them just so you could see that there this is how she operates she doesn't even get asked she just takes care of business which is why I stand and show up at board meetings because she tells me to and the two people I would have asked I'm honoring so I couldn't ask Anna or Jessica or Kylie but I found a person so they get two let me get mine in order that's right oh my I sure do receiving two certificates tonight please a round of applause for Kylie codell um my absolute right hand who makes all this happen and always thinks of the things I should think of before I forget them Anna hosy [Applause] um even when her truck wouldn't start she showed up with the items Jessica [Applause] David and always quick with a better way to do something in a system to build Justin barkle are [Applause] all right I am going to go out of order for a minute um there will be a presentation on footsteps to Freedom I'm only here to introduce the presentation we had the great pleasure of sending a team to this um wonderful event and so Marana Torres is goingon to come up and kind of give some background introduce the team who's been um preparing to share with you their experience so if Mariana would join me here she's going to kind of guide us through this and um from what I've heard you're going to need to keep t uh tissue handy this is quite a moving experience that these folks have good evening everyone uh you guys are in for a treat today um I have had the honor and and um pleasure of making sure that um everybody got to where they needed to go that's really actually hostess with the most is is is all I got on this one um the board last year gave us a a homework assignment to to send some teachers 10 teachers is what we started with and this was a voluntary immersive uh learning experience for eight days they actually followed the footsteps of the Underground Railroad all the way from Kentucky to U actually Ontario Canada and and even New York this expanded across 3,000 miles and for eight days they they walk those steps they they learn those lessons and I I actually just had the privilege of listening to them prepare this presentation and I needed tissue so I I can only imagine um actually being there person I see in the audience we actually have Hardy Brown I saw him somewhere Hardy Brown the second thank you for being with us he's actually the person who puts steps to uh to to Freedom together and I want to invite up Meritus Killian Tim halt grit Nani Buchanan Ellen Burke Jennifer Love lady Charlie cassada Jeff Rell Louis could not uh Harington could not be with us tonight because she was ill but she actually put this presentation together as well so you'll hear her words as well and then we also had the privilege of having Miss Maria opara our board president there and and I have to say I was also uh surprised to to to see Amanda in some of the pictures I was like Amanda was there too and then I I heard you talk about it last month so I just want to recognize what an amazing um opportunity This was um they have everything to tell you and some amazing pictures to share so I'm going to turn it over to them good evening everyone my name is Marius Killian also known as Louise Harrington uh so what you see in front of you um I'd like to direct your attention to the young boy there's a young boy in that picture to the left and in front of you we're going to start the bidding a little higher with him do you know why because that was his mama we just sold in the previous bid and you saw how strong she was good bone structure so you know that this boy is going to grow up and be strong one day he is an investment never mind those tears though they'll dry up once he's away from his mama and working on your farm now let's begin the bidding after many disclaimers of you will not do this in your classrooms by the footstep conductors we were LED through a mock slave auction with it being one of our first activities we were Jarred into realizing this trip was not a mere vacation for me Louise the situation was surreal some of those being auctioned off during the simulation could not make eye contact with me I didn't know whether to speak up or to stay silent no option seemed right the lawn where the auctions actually took place had a courthouse on one side a church on the other and The prominent houses all around it was loud and public we referred to the church as the church with no stairs as you can see to the right the church with no stairs because it had two doors one on top of the other the upper one required a ladder to enter slave owners would secure a ladder March their enslaved up to the second level then remove the ladder so they could worship without wondering if someone would Escape it was in this square that Harriet beo horrified by what she saw during these auctions was inspired to write Uncle Tom's Cabin as an English teacher stories are powerful to enrich students lives one particular story resonated with me and this is me speaking it was about runaway slave Eliza Harris Harry be Stow found Eliza's story so compelling she fictionalized it in Uncle Tom's Cabin she uses Eliza's story to highlight the devastating impact slavery had on families you'll see that um the picture on the bottom left Eliza Harris a mother desperate to keep her child from being sold into slavery runs away in the debt of winter clutching her baby she escapes the slave state of Kentucky crosses the treacherous Ohio River on fragile ice patches every step fraught with Terror knowing she could easily fall into the icy River awaiting her on the banks of Ohio was slave catcher chansy Shaw not known at all for being sympathetic but upon capture he released her and he said any woman who crossed that River carrying her baby was has won her Freedom we had the opportunity to retrace her steps we began at the banks of the Ohio river and climbed the Steep slippery path through the thick foliage as you can see in the four middle pictures we were caught in a sudden downpour making our journey somewhat treacherous forcing some to crawl uphill on hands and knees as we climbed the stone steps and wooden stairs to Aid us the weight of History was extremely heavy knowing that Eliza and other countless runaway slaves had none of these Comforts so what you see in those four pictures they weren't there some of us some of us not me reenacted the climb Barefoot honoring the unimaginable hardship reaching the ranking house and touching its door was deeply symbolic and profoundly emotional for many of us it gave new meaning to the phrase standing on the shoulders of our ancestors excuse me sorry our freedom was earned by the immense amount of Blood Sweat tears and lives sacrificed as a teacher these stories of sacrifice resilience must be told to enrich students learning in a deeper and meaningful way as they help us to understand each other in the world we share thank you [Applause] at the John Ranken house uh we learned a little more about his life and how he risked his safety and the Safety and Security of his family to save over 2,000 enslaved people through the Underground Railroad um he would he would light a candle in his window letting them know that when it was safe to come and as part of that Town's history many houses have candles in the window sills in remembrance of this and it was astonishing to see elsewhere in the town of Ripley we visited the house of the former slave uh John P Parker which was his dream home that he built himself it is now a museum and like many others he was also sold and separated from his family at age eight to a mobile Mobile Alabama family where like Frederick Douglas's story John Parker was illegally taught how to read and write and what struck me most about his story was not only his dedication to education and to earn his own freedom but how he continued to risk his life to save others at at first John Parker was very hesitant to risk his hard-earned freedom for the service of others as a family man he risked his life by making several trips across the Ohio River to help others escape from Escape to Freedom uh knowing if caught he'd once again find himself s enslaved uh this also put his family members at risk at the John Parker House we also learned the story of uh Colonel Charles young since education was the key to saving Parker's life he made sure to pass this forward to the younger generation he learned that he we all learned that he would have seven local children tutored in his home after school uh one of these kids was Charles young who would grow up to be the third African-American to graduate from West Point and the highest ranking African-American in the US military upon his death in 1922 my lesson from this trip was that history isn't inevitable maybe sometimes we read history and fall into this trap of complacency and Nativity like naively believing that historical forces are predetermined somehow that we forget how powerful the agent for change can be in a simple individual with the courage to speak up the belief that things of politics are out of our control is not only historically inaccurate it could be anti-democratic and dangerous position to take for our future Generations what if everyone thought that way any one of the individuals I mentioned could have just accepted their lot in life that you know their enslavement was inevitable and that is just the way things are since this trip I am more civically engaged in my community I am more motivated than ever to empower the voices of my students and as a lifelong learner I value the courage and promise education has in improving the wrongs we see in society and it is a deep and spiritual lesson that cannot be read about but only experienced [Applause] I'm a former racist drug addict and convicted felon do I have your attention now those are the words that George said told to the assembled Educators when we visited Wilber Force University he told us a story about basically growing up racist and then being addicted to opioids and finding himself in prison while he was in prison he actually met friends of other nationalities and races and he started to kind of get the first inklings of what he was taught as a child wasn't necessarily the way that the world is uh during his time he found out he was a really good Storyteller and a lot of friends he made weren't really good at reading and writing so what he ended up doing was reading stories about black history and telling those stories to his cellmates during that time he was inspired when he got out to take a walk across America to visit HBCU and share and educate people about black history so we met him uh randomly I don't think any other tour did and it was really inspiring to see how he's changed his life and how the how learning about black history empowered him to learn how to be a better person so we want to make sure that we also share these stories with our students because it's really important that we understand that black history is US History all right we also got a chance to to visit the uh Ford Museum in Detroit one of the things I liked about is the idea that there's so much American history there and again that black history is a part of it we saw Rosa Park's bus we saw the the the car that JFK was shot in we saw the share that Lincoln got shot in a lot of people that died ended up getting their uh possessions in this place but one of the things I really took away from this is if other educators are allowed to go on this trip as we were it's a really powerful transformative experience that I really hope that they can experience and take with them because man I don't think any of us are the same after being on this trip [Applause] so okay uh this was our visit to the Charles Wright Museum um our visit to this Museum of African-American history was one of the most emotional experiences for myself and many of us on this tour uh this is a place deeply rooted in the truths of our past the museum is not merely a collection of artifacts but a solemn Testament to the struggles and triumphs that Define our history walking through its exhibits we were confronted with the harsh realities of slavery segregation and systemic Injustice the Museum's displays do not shy away from the pain and the hardship experienced by those enslaved prior to this experience I had heard about the horrific and unimaginable stories but on this day the reality came alive through Vivid images in the haunt ing sounds of voices crying out for help from a top and below the ship deck as we descended below deck bodies lay closely packed in a dark damp space devoid of comfort or consultation it was a stark reminder of the absence of humanity when we reached the final body we were instructed to touch the person's head this was the acknowledgement of not only a real soul but a connection to another human being this broke me and transformed my experience as a human in acknowledging both the suffering and achievements documented here we are called to carry forward the lessons of the path with past with sincerity let us engage with this experience mindful of the real and sometimes painful history it reflects and commit to honoring that Legacy through our actions and our lives [Applause] um what you're seeing here is the Middle Passage and as we previously spoke about um these are the bodies that were um nestled together the ones that were kidnapped from the um Banks of Africa the middle passage was brutal it was a part of the Triangular Trade system and it transported Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas and West Indies the number of kidnapped Africans that depart Ed ranging about 10 to 15 million it's a very vague number um of that amount um between the 1500s and the 19th um Century of that amount um only about an estimated two million make it to the shores of North America to the colonies and then later to the what was what is the United States the ones that make it to the United States um try as desperate as possible to maintain their own um African Heritage what traditions they know or remember and then their Heritage um and their culture gets blended into the United States into Plantation life and what becomes their new culture um there are record stories oral traditions of groups that have come um within those two million uh specifically the igu people that have a deep ancestral belief of um kin folk and family a reverence to their ancestors and are often um talked about and stories that are told about them um walking into the water because according to their oral tradition by the water Spirits we came and by the water Spirits we will be taken home I was oops excuse me um I was specifically captivated by the fact that throughout these um brutal tradition or brutal um parts of their kidnapping that they still try to maintain their culture that throughout everything that they're going through and all of their um desperation they're trying to maintain their culture um in this new place so what you see here is just a schematic picture and then this will bring you to Detroit Michigan um the man that you see standing in the red shirt is the official historian of Detroit um and he was the one taking us around and guiding us through um a few specific neighborhoods so right now I'd like for you to close your eyes and picture life after World War II you've served in World War II honorably and by the grace of God you've made it home this is well after the 14th Amendment and you've decided to migrate your family North to Detroit to start a family you've saved and you want to buy a house in this era of post-war prosperous America you want to take part in this new economy and the American dream now it's finally time to sign your mortgage papers and you can open your eyes what you're being told is that you don't have the qualifications for this loan package and that your loan is risky and you'll be given a 10% loan you'll be able to buy your house but at a 10% loan while your white neighbors are going to be you um given a 2% FHA loan and even VA options this particular neighborhood is known as 8 Mile and maybe you may have heard of it um because it is part of a very popular rap song That Eminem wrote about this neighborhood in the early 40s and 50s this particular neighborhood had um two separate communities one on one side of the wall the white community and the other on the other side is the um community in Brierwood this area was specifically known for um systematic racism known as redlining so what you we saw here with this wall is that um the wall was placed I had to write this down because I knew I wasn't going to be able to see it um the wall was placed to make sure that there were not inharmonious racial groups um living together um and they're worried about that up until about 1950 it's at that point um that this wall is starting to separate not only communities but Society in not only um a a way that's emotional but physical um for me this wall kind of bothered me it got me really upset um and walls are made to either keep people out or keep people in um either way these groups were not allowed to experienced the American dream at the high interest rates nor were they able to move by second and third homes or create any kind of generational wealth so for me this particular um wall is where we all kind of gathered in this park to to look at these two neighborhoods and to be able to see that two miles up the street um there was a completely different type of community that had been built um and that these individuals that were living um just three miles away uh were not really given the opportunity to make their Community flourish and for for me that just reaffirmed my desire to make my community flourish so thank you for the opportunity to let us go so I just want to warn you I'm actually the crier of the group so I'm going to try and hold it together we'll see I don't know what Mar tried so probably I'm not going to be able to do it okay all right so I also I'm going to add on to what she just said and tell you that as I was standing in that neighborhood in Detroit and it was literally we walked through the neighborhood that had originally been the black side of that which is now by the way a huge Community mural but the wall is still there and it it wasn't even a mile or two down the road it was literally on the other side of the wall the difference between the two neighborhoods just rocked me I I was furious and I know we've talked about it all of us we just furious standing there because we had been through so many historical sites at that point and so many things and this was very different this was very Urban it was very current it was literally still standing there not as something that was preserved but something that is literally still there and it was just impossible to not have a really visceral reaction to standing at that wall um so I'm going to talk now now I'm going to make myself cry okay by the time we left Detroit and headed into Canada my heart and my mind were incredibly heavy with so many stories to the point where I didn't think that I could hold much of anything more um as we approach the walls Family Farm which you guys are seeing in these pictures which is just on the other side of Canada but it's kind of off the beaten path and hidden away a little bit you could easily it's a really small unassuming spot that you could easily Miss if you weren't paying attention if you weren't looking for it um and we saw a simple wooden sign that declared where the Underground Railroad had its end so um this Farm is owned and and maintained by Dr Brian wals who's the great great grandson of John Freeman walls an enslaved person who made it all the way to Canada like created a homestead and created a safe place for people to go if they made it across right he and his wife Anna greeted us they told us some of the history of this hidden Sanctuary um they pointed out this large cart that you can see in that picture and then they explained that it has a shallow FAL bottom because it was designed to smuggle a family of four into their area and they actually they have you know they have it preserved there for you to see right and it's parked in front of this old barn and as we walk into this Barn we approached a doorway and there was another sign over that doorway which read Doorway to freedom and for me walking through that doorway you can see it it's the bottom right hand picture was one of the most transformative experiences I think I've ever had it was a literal threshold into something different into this small clearing that was on the other side of that doorway and I felt for the first time since we sat on this journey at 3:00 a.m.

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7 days earlier I finally felt hope and there was this calm that overcame us we had a few minutes to sit and think and reflect and believe me the journey to this place was nonstop and I have Achilles tentis in both of my feet to to attest to it I'm not kidding right it was we were going 14 hours a day 16 hours a day and even when we had the chance to sleep our minds were so heavy and our hearts were so heavy and we had so many things that were going on so that was hope but Canada was not done with us yet because from there we went a short distance to a settlement called buckton which is was built by and for escaped African-American Freedom Seekers who had made it to Canada and in Buxton we had to digest we had time to digest reflect absorb in addition we were also given the opportunity to handle and experience different artifacts from this entire Enterprise and one of them was a large iron collar that was commonly placed around the necks of enslaved people as a form of security as the large Bells at the top of those iron prongs would make a long loud jangle if you even moved let alone tried to run right and I have to say I'm going to leave this because I'm going to cry if I don't but seeing that collar okay the weight of that collar both literally and figuratively is something that I will never ever forget in my life it was so heavy you couldn't let go of it because it hurt so bad it was resting on your collar bones and it was very heavy but for me seeing that collar placed on the next of my colleagues was even more difficult to see their faces to see that experience for them it was hard for me it was impossible to watch somebody else go through it so that that moment transformed me forever um and then I want to say that I think that is one of the moments of many but one of the main moments that bonded us and now we are closer we have an understanding and a feeling of family with each other that I don't know I don't know if I could have with people who weren't through this experience because that's how profound it was and we know now that we have each other we experience it together and we understand and that's something really really precious and it's part of our community as a learning community part of our family as a learning community i'mna stop on [Applause] uh this is where we stopped at um senica Falls um in New York um this was the Women's Suffrage part of the tour um specifically I wanted to focus on the story of um anarie Douglas and Rosetta Douglas um prior to this you know you hear about Frederick Douglas and the amazing person that he was but you don't often hear about the women um in these stories so today we honor anarie Douglas and our daughter Rosetta Douglas two extraordinary women whose lives were intertwined with a struggle for freedom and Equity anarie Douglas born in 1813 played a pivotal role in her husband Frederick Douglas's Escape From Slavery using her savings to support his journey to Freedom despite facing immense challenges Anna supported Frederick's abolitionist work while managing their household and raising their children their daughter Rosetta grew up immersed in the Abolitionist Movement and went on to become a passionate advocate for women's suffrage she worked alongside prominent suffragist and ensured that the voices of African-American women were heard in the fight for voting rights the stories of Anna and Rosetta Douglas exemplify the interconnected struggles for racial and gender equality they remind us that the fight for freedom and suffrage is ongoing and that their legacies Inspire us to continue striving for equality for [Applause] all Harriet Tubman popularized as a movie many of you have seen it she's more than that and I that's what I learned about Harry tman she what a woman I tell you she's a woman um footsteps to freedoms experience revealed more than her just being a conductor on the Underground railroad she embodied resilience of the human spirit and despite having absolutely nothing she made something of her life no formal education uh she could not read nor write uh she lived most of her life with seizures due to a traumatic head injury uh caused by her owner um she was considered the Moses of the Underground Railroad at age 27 she escaped um to Freedom uh but she risked her own life on 13 or more occasions and brought back um and helped uh runaway slaves escape to Freedom Beyond these contributions did you know she has an extensive very extensive resume um she was a military leader during the Civil War for the union she held different capacities as a nurse a spy a scout she led over she LED armed raids because she knew the territory um and to weaken the Confederacy she was a suffragist she worked alongside um most famous suffragette Susan banthony um in order to support Abol avolution of slavery and also women's voting rights she was a homeowner in a time when black women didn't own anything um and she purchased her home from Secretary of State William Seward in 1859 and she was a business owner she opened up Harriet Tubman's home for the agid and that is where she passed away at age 91 har tman believed in the power of every individual to shape history her story is vital to students uh as it shows the power of determination uh and the impact one person can have no matter their Beginnings born as an uneducated slave she became a beacon of Justice equality and freedom her life inspires students uh to persevere and stand up for these Timeless values and this needs to continue um she is like I said what a woman very inspiring thank you [Applause] okay sneak that's why I didn't know all right um so each evening uh when we were back on the buses the footsteps organizers who were amazing by the way but they would ask us to reflect on the approximately like 190 to 200 things we'd done that day and we'd seen and we'd learned and but on this day they had asked us to think about and write about our reason our reason so one of our many stops was at this Cemetery which I believe was in meville Kentucky is that right okay Mayville Kentucky where our entire group spread out and we created this giant ring of Educators right hundred teachers out there holding hands and we read at the Monument of a man who dedicated his life to this kind of education and who we did not get the opportunity to meet because he passed away recently and uh but we were there to honor what he started and what he did his name was Jerry Gore and in doing this as we're holding hands each of us shared the name of someone that we had lost and just the sheer number of parents and grandparents and children and siblings the name I said was my sisters and cousins and friends that we mourned was really overwhelming and for me I want to say the reason that I went reason the reason I went on this trip was to remind me that every single one of my students and my co-workers and my community everybody has a story and everybody has struggles and everybody has conflicts and everybody has pain and that's something that I will remind myself of every day when I'm in my classroom and when maybe I'm frustrated with kids not wantan you to focus and pay attention to what I'm doing or when they're not succeeding at the way that I want them to like to to know that they have stories to take that into account and to honor their stories as [Applause] well it is me again all right I'm not walking away this is the last one though for me all right so I have to say that perhaps the greatest surprise which by the way I don't think he said this almost none of us knew anything about this trip before we got there we showed up at 3 o' in the morning to get on a plane and to go with these people that we did not know and do stuff that we had no idea what we're going to be doing we had a general idea but that was it and one of the absolute the things I will never forget amazing surprises that one of these amazing inspirational Educators Kenneth Morris is actually the great great great grandson of Frederick Douglas and the great great grandson of Booker T Washington W and he was with us on the entire trip and I have to tell you there's nothing like the the and Hardy Brown as well like we had the best dosant we had historians we had real life people guiding us on this whole trip and my I have Goosebumps right now even thinking about the electricity of that we went and saw the Frederick Douglas Memorial with his great great great grandson that's all I have to say about that but actually that's not all I have to say about that one more thing here so this trip was obviously a very profound experience for me I realize most of what I'm telling you is my own experience and I apologize for that but um it was so filled with people and stories that seem way too often to get buried or even just forgotten they just we don't know them and I will tell you that um as a person who was born in California only lived here for eight days but moved to Arizona not that far away raised in Arizona educated in Nevada Arizona and California I have to say that most of the stories most of the places we went most of the things that I saw I did not know I was not taught and possibly that's because my teachers themselves didn't know these stories but I do want to say I think um we don't live a few blocks away from this stuff our kids don't see all of these places these monuments they don't see all of these things around them every day that is not their life here but I feel like they're not walking in history every day this was a walk-in history every place we went but I will say it is a history that I should know and it's also history that they should know and if I as an educator with 25 years of experience did not know these things and we the frequent topic of conversation for us was that none of us knew them none of us really knew so much of this so that's a really important thing to think about I would say right if what we're here for is for our kids and for our community I think that's a really important thing for us to to talk about and and for us as a group to recognize as we were going through this experience okay I'm done now um and then real quickly uh we were talking before that um they used his hand for the Statue so that's that's kind of cool um so first I want to um talk a little bit about the people in the picture this is the team of footsteps to Freedom um great team and the two people in the middle are uh Dr pette Brown and Mr hardy Brown and they are the ones that spearhead this very informative trip um and you know of course and and there was a lot of thought and effort that they put into it and um you know they couldn't make it a life-threatening you know trip right um but they did uh let us live in being uncomfortable and and live in vulnerability um to deepen our understanding of you know all the other things that happened um during this time and so for example even in the itinerary um you know having you know like they were saying we had very long days we would wake up really early and go to sleep really late and we were always on the go there was a new hotel every day we were living out of our suitcase and you know it was too kind of um again you know very small uh small sense of what they might have gone through you know of course you know we had a bed we had food we had shoes but but to to see see like how how on the move you were how constant it was and and it was it was difficult um even being in the in the bus for hours and and having your body hurt and and and just imagine like wow like I'm struggling can you imagine how it was for them like it was you you had a better understanding of it um so it became a lot more real um to to feel that um and then we also had the gift exchange which was kind of like the culminating part of the whole trip and uh you were given a name um and you know like the Underground Railroad it was a network right and so you didn't know who your person was right it was it was about a hundred of us so you didn't know everyone right away right and we're all from different districts um but it was really cool because you know as we talked about you you get to really um know each other and and and almost become a family in a sense um that the people that sat with me in the bus um they were kind of uh helping me find my person and they're like oh we know who it is um so it was it was cool to um have those interactions and and that kind of like chain of information um and then again you know out of your comfort zone get getting to uh know this person you know that you you don't know and and and put yourself out there right um so uh very cool um experience to end end that way um and then the other thing I wanted to mention was um when we when I first went on this trip you know we were going to end in Canada well New York but go up to Canada and you know I had heard of The Fugitive a uh fugitive act Fugitive Slave Act before I I remember hearing about it but I didn't really I hadn't really clicked it didn't click in my mind until this trip um because I I you know I was thinking I was like why are we going all the way to Canada and and to know you know we know the free states and we know the slave states but you know it wasn't until the Fugitive Slave Act that it didn't matter if you were in a free state they would still come get you and you would still go back to the slave state and so that's why Canada became the true north and so that was kind of like you know an aha moment for me and you know I usually teach summer school um in the summer and as you know we have juneenth off um and so I I make it a point to um you know do a little quick lesson with my kids about why we have the day off and you know after the trip I'm realizing that I'm like barely covering the surface like I feel like I'm doing um an injustice so this trip definitely makes me feel that I I I need to be better [Applause] all right let's give them another round of applause because this was a voluntary trip that they took to walk those steps and and I have to tell you I I had goosebumps as I'm listening to all of your stories and and the things that you lived through yes Miss opara because I'm the last you're the last one you get to do that part yes I I just wanted to say thank you so we're going to let you so I'm going to have my comment I'm not sure if I can quite handle it I'll give it a try so participating on this trip is one I will not forget in the short time I have on this Earth it will not be possible if the district did not take the chance to send these teachers to work in the footsteps of these enslaved people but I want to take the time to thank thank Mr hardy Brown his sister Dr pette Brown our tour guys Dr Walker Dr Morris uh Ken Morris and the other tour guides when I planned for this trip I had no idea what to expect or what emotions I had suppressed because as you see I'm from Africa so I don't have that experience a group took different routes but visited same sites it was when we returned that I found out that we didn't start in the same spot we heard and felt the cries of these humans that are my that are ancestors of our black students of our africanamerican students no ethnic group has gone through so many name changes as the African-Americans and yet history continues to relegate their District their history history and their story to sanitize information how many of us will celebrate a when we see a Lost Child on the road and point them away from their home how many African-Americans Cent tray their birth dates and anniversaries of their ancestors I can because I didn't have that history how many African-Americans know their ancestors down to the 10th Generation I can but this was robbed of them what is the fear in giving them factual information about their history and the journey their ancestors took in Chains these Educators who took this trip while giving up portions of their summer to learn firsthand and to share the impact they share a DNA with me and I don't say it carelessly you all share DNA with me let me tell you the impact it had on me and perhaps you will have an understanding I was really quiet through the whole trip because I wanted to get a better understanding of this journey I didn't want want to go but amandam Buchanan selected me and so by selecting me I had no choice but to go and find out for myself because I knew the history what I thought the history was which is very far from the truth I took the trip up ranking Hill and mind you I already heard about ranking Hill from the trainings that we had so I took a real comfortable pair of sneakers so that I can at least manage climbing the hill I thought it was a little Hill I thought it was like climbing yakala road but it was not it was a hill with steps that are not even some steps were made out of rocks that could slide some steps were made out of wood some steps were out of out of the way some of the members of the group were way younger than me I think I was the oldest in the group so I kept saying I'm going to go through this hill because I want to experience it I got to a point on the hill my knees buckled but they did not carry me because they wanted me to go through it I don't remember who the gentlemen were but they literally picked me up and stood me on my feet and I continued to climb that Hill I struggled to go up that hill and by the time I got up to the top of the hill I sent a text to the superintendent that this is the first time I have spel felt what cotton mouth is about because my M my I could not my saliva was non-existent imagine an enslaved person trying to escape to Freedom with people pursuing him or her or their children and they're falling off those Hill and can't make it imagine what would have happened if they were recaptured my Breaking Point happened when we got to um um the right Museum I had locked everything in and did not want to experience it I wanted to just keep going but the leaders of the group decided that I should go in the front so I walked in front and had no idea what to expect and then it came to where I had to touch the heads of the enslaved people in that dungeon and the cries and during that period I sitting in front of you here heard them cry in my language my language and I could not go beyond that I they literally had me sitting down because I'm Eble like it was described we would rather die in an ocean than to be captured so these people were in that place where they are stuck I heard the cries I heard the battery when they were discussing how to sell this and how not to sell this all in my language so my journey to that trip made me realize the importance of humanity looking out for each other because in that whole journey we are talking about what happened to the African-Americans let us not forget there were Caucasian men and women who were also trying to help them out so it wasn't just a black issue there were white people who were trying to save people from being enslaved who endangered their own children and their own wives and their own homes to make this a possibility so as I I sit here and I look in this audience and I think all of you hear me every time on this board meeting and I make sure that you realize that when I see you I do not see anything but somebody that shares my DNA I don't see it and I'm hoping that when we are out of this kind of a journey that we will begin to see people as people and not the enemy because that was great Injustice by Humanity towards another and that is the most painful part of it uh so I am hoping that this District having taken this step and having given us the opportunity to share out our experience that we will never forget and we will continue to send people so that they can continue to come back and see our students in a totally different set of eyes that's all I have to say for now you're all welcome to find any one of those fine teachers and ask them for their experience and you wouldn't miss it thank you so [Applause] much at this time I'm going to release the students so you can go to your homework thank you so much for staying yeah okay thank you thank you uh Educators for allowing me to speak and and that was powerful when I was moving um I just drove up the hill my name is Hardy brown one of the organizers my mom started footsteps of Freedom 30 years ago and we've taken over 5,000 Educators from all over Sano Riverside County that have experienced something just like that um but now we've added Northern California and one of the things we always talk about is historical empathy learning to walk in each other's shoes and what you just saw is exactly what we want to bring bring not just back into the schools but back into our everyday life to find out that there's always been good people who chose been right side of history and so I I wanted to bring something that I personally picked up when we were on the tour this year when they talked about going to Franken Hill that's the story from Uncle Tom's Cabin and there's over 2,000 people that made it there in that town of Brown County Ohio and in Ripley Ohio um that particular area that road is just it's it's powerful and so every time I go I pick up a stone from the Underground Railroad and I wanted to present this to you all to be able to have here for Apple Valley for a keep sake just to remember that it's always been good people who chose be on the right side of history that look just like all of us so I present thank you so [Applause] much than thank you very much thank you okay we're going to go on with the presentation of the superintendent evaluation process in alignment with the board goals designed by the San berardino County Superintendent of Schools district governance Support Services team [Music] thank you I would have leaned over this is a hard um presentation to do after fitsteps for freedom but I do think it's important um one to um just appreciate what everybody went through and um what they bring back to our district and to our community in understanding um the superintendent evaluation process this is my sixth year as superintendent and I've never gotten to do an an presentation about my evaluation and yet this past year we worked on um changing the evaluation for this coming year to align our system and so we felt that it was important to be transparent about the process knowing that um this is while the evalu part is not public the content of it you're going to see some alignment that you're that um matches some of our goals within the district so this has been front and center since I became superintendent um first year we worked on values dignity Community authenticity and service and then of course the um mission that is everywhere all over the district about what we do for students and their unique needs in Behavior academic and social emotional um so that they're ready to support in an everchanging World from the system alignment that occurred the board has always had four goals safe and nurturing learning environment academic achievement which we added um with our adoption of the Cradle to Career roadmap for San Bernardino County um we added a a comment about that the local control accountability plan last year was in revision for a new um a new uh timeline three-year template and so we pulled back and said is there a way to take the five board goal the five goals that were part of the lcap and put them under the three board goals that align with student achievement safe and nurturing learning environment and community and parent involvement and Pat's team took that on and and they rewrote the local control accountability plan to align our leadership evaluations now align with the same four goals three goals that are focused other than the fourth goal which is financial um fiscal responsibility um but you'll see that there is some alignment there now and then board agenda item did it skip to here are the board goals safe and nurturing learning environment student achievement aligned to the Cradle to Career road map family and Community engagement and fiscal responsibility our local control accountability plan has five goals but the first three aligned directly to the board goals safe and nurturing learning environment student achievement aligned to the um Cradle and career roadmap family and Community engagement goal four and goal five had to be written because three of our school sites um qualified for Equity multiplier funds and So within our lcap we have to identify how those funds are utilized um in go four at TI desert Premier and Apple Valley Virtual Academy because those are um opportunity Schools parent choice schools and then the equity multiplier funded School Phoenix Academy is sits in its own goal for the evaluation alignment we started with mine um there's a facilitator from the San Marino County Superintendent of Schools that comes in and supports the facilitation of it we identified what the um areas the of focus would be what the um measurable objectives would be what the action steps I would take as the superintendent the assistant superintendent evaluations are aligned as well same format and the principal line um evaluations match um the co-administrators as well because those are all feeding um School sites specifically and how we support So under measurable objectives for safe and nurturing learning environment we determined that every classroom would have a documented classroom management plan it was a commitment that we made we want our students to know what teachers expect and what the outcome if they don't match those expectations and from a process of systems alignment we always want kids to know what is the expectation have I taught it do they understand it and is it something that I can attain and in 99% of the cases it is there and we see evidence of students understanding but our Target is 100% of our teachers have a classroom management plan that's the expectation and I'm proud to say that our principles um worked diligently to collect those because as students get sent to the office with an issue that is not resolved in the classroom the administration will be pulling out those classroom management plans and reviewing them with students to make sure that they understand how to be successful in the classroom as well evidence of the management implementation plan within the classroom setting means walking through and our expected Target for this year is 80% it's hard for me as a superintendent to say 80% but I also know that we're in a world where we have new people to our system we have people that changes hard and we want to see that at least 80% of our classrooms are meeting that Target of EV evidence that the implementation is happening what their expectations are students know and the classrooms are running smoothly in the other 20% Which is typically a lot of our our newer teachers to the system because they need time to um learn either it's our champ system or a classroom management system they're com comfortable with um we want to give them support to um meet that Target so more on that but by the end of the year our expected expectation is 80% and then student achievement aligned to the Cradle career road map while there everything that we do matters we had to pick a few grade levels that we were focused on and so for our Elementary grades um according to the cradle and career road map third grade reading by third grade is a target that we want to achieve for all students our current readings scores under an I ready diagnostic was 47% of our students were at grade level at the end of last year we have um placed a 5% Target on that for um an increase to 52% as a superintendent I'm hopeful that I'll see higher um uh scores than that but 5% seemed reasonable and appropriate and that it's a Target that we can um achieve and then likewise increase the math at grade level by the end of sixth grade using the IR ready Diagnostic and math is a much lower rate for us at sixth grade um 23% at the end of last year our goal is to get it to 30% by the end of this year for our sixth graders um these are predictors of how successful our students will be in the future and then student achievement aligned to the Cradle career road map in the um process that we were looking at for graduation it's an increase of our graduation rate from 89.4% to 92% by the end of the 2425 school year there's a lot of things that go behind that um but in the process it's looking at our students at the end of the first quarter to see what what are what are they not on track to meet and how we're going to um create plans to support them family and Community engagement we're going to we've already had meetings two different meetings with our administrative teams working to identify what our Baseline is for the expectation around community and parent involvement our schools do a lot of work within the community with their at each individual school but we made the decision that we were going to have some baseline expectations about how many parent nights were going to be held um what types of meetings um principles would hold with families Beyond just the basics and we hit a Baseline and we said imagine you're a new principal in the district and you're told this is the minimum expectation for parent and um Community involvement and we want you to design your um times with your school to meet that expectation um support family and Community engagement through ongoing efforts we have What's called the District advisory committee we meet in the multi-purpose room here on this property there are times where there are a lot of people there and there are other times that we don't have that many people there and so what I um sat with principles and others and had a discussion about is we want as many voices in the room as possible and we know that we're competing against parents that have Athletics for their children are taking them places all the things that happen in the evening but we want the commitment that we're going to have a minimum of three parents from each School site every time and principal said to me that means I'm G to invite six TR I said I it doesn't matter what you what you need to do to do that I want to have parents there and while we love our parents that are also employed in this district and Educators and serving multiple roles within that room I want parents that are not employees of this District also at the table and so I have said that that is an expectation on top of you can fill your table and you can have all the people that are parents and teachers or parents and Par Educators but you're going to have a minimum of three of others and if we don't hit that Target then we're going to figure out what else to do because we want them in the room the voice matters and then you'll notice on the board agenda or maybe not um there is a new addition to our board agenda items every board agenda item has at least one of our district goals this one happened to be one of the board agenda items from tonight um and it's meets goal two from um the board goals of student achievement aligned to the cradle and career road map sometimes you'll see multiples um and in cases like it's a board policy or a board bylaw it will typically say being fiscally responsible because if we don't do those things we open ourselves up to liabilities and so we agreed that that was an appropriate goal for those so back to the systems alignment um I am more energized as a superintendent than any year I have begun um even my first year while I was we were on this pathway covid took us out in March and um to feel that it's your six and this is finally happening I am absolutely energized and um I have shared with the board I've been in 100 in 65 classrooms um I have been on campuses every morning that I am not down the hill at a meeting um as his cabinet we are um all being out on campuses because that's what matters um we are here to support but we also want to make sure that as we're um having these expectations we're also walking the walk and talking the talk so um that's it any questions no question thank you I'm just glad that my PowerPoint came CU it's been a long time since I've stood on this side presentation of un audited uh actuals financial report for 2023 24 he thank you yeah I'll get to give me a moment while I I connect here okay there we go um as uh Miss okara said this is a presentation of last year's un audited actuals so just for the context we are looking back at our budget that closed in June of this year um a little bit about that if you recall if you can remember back to January 23 we get the initial proposal the May Revis come came out in May of 23 and of course the legislature does pass ontime budgets because that depends um that their paycheck depends on that so they're very good at passing the state budget on time uh as we go through our budget year just a quick reminder we have our fiscal year reporting first interim and second interim our estimated actuals back in may now those estimated actuals in May of this year that sets the projected ending fund balance for last year which sets the projected beginning fund balance for this year now that we have our unaudited actuals one thing we do is we'll go back and we'll update the beginning fund balance for our current year both unrestricted and restricted now that we have those numbers it's no longer a projection but keep in mind these are unaudited and when the Auditors come we occasionally do have audit adjustments which affect our fund balance uh that's a quick look at last year's Revenue uh you'll see the line share of our Revenue again is the local control funding formula within that 72% that is base grant that is transitional kindergarten add-on that is 9th through 12th grade CTE add-on that is supplemental Grant funds concentration Grant funds and transfer ation add-on all lumped into the local control funding formula that's a quick snapshot of our expenses last year you'll see our expenses did outpace our revenues um that was on purpose as we were spending down our Esser funding that we had received in previous years on some capital projects that's why our services and our Capital outlay are a little larger than typical um we completed our HVAC project at many of our sites replacing many of our air conditioning units that was one of the largest capital projects that we were be able to undertake with the Esser funds there's a quick uh breakdown of the numbers you'll see on the unrestricted side uh about 195 million in Revenue 160 million 156 million in expenditure so we had an excess there until we make the contribution to the restricted side of the budget you look down there you see the line that says contribution we took a little over 40 million from the unrestricted side of our budget and we contribute to the restricted side The Lion Share of that is to support our students in our special education programs student services our routine restricted maintenance program is also a big part of that uh transfer over to the restricted side of our budget but you'll see we uh ended we're we are un audited ending fund balance about 25.5 million on the unrestricted side a little under 18 million on the restricted side and you can see the combined numbers there in the right hand column A components on our unrestricted side we do have to put a component in there to uh for our revolving cash as we hold revolving cash we have cash Accounts at local banks that we use as clearing accounts so we just have to hold um that amount to cover that cash as it transfers it's kind of like money Lottery ing but it's legal we get money we put it in our bank we write a check to the county they put it in our fund but we have to have that revolving cash set aside stores is what we hold in inventory in our warehouse so we have to have a a component of our ending fund balance to match that um assigned and committed funds we have some prepaid expenditures are the reu is the reserve for economic uncertainties so any funds on our unrestricted side that are not assigned or committed or prepaid or stores are revolving cash we Place those in as our reserve for economic uncertainties you'll see we more than meet the 3% required at the end of the budget year and that's just kind of a a placeholder because they really don't look at that at the end of the budget year they look at that at your budget adoption first interim and second interum on the restricted side that 17.9 million in ending fund balance it's got a lot of different pieces now these are all restricted pieces that come with strings you'll see the first one there is elop that's our expanded learning opportunity program that funds our after school program for our TK through sixth graders um and also our summer school program for our TK through sixth graders educator Effectiveness funds are for professional deel development for our Educators we have Lottery which is instructional and just to remind uh the board we have two types of Lottery Revenue we have Lottery Revenue which comes to us unrestricted that is not reflected here that would be on the unrestricted side of fund1 this is a it's a specific restricted resource for instructional material purchases only mainly that particular resource is used for the purchase of textbooks Community Schools planning Grant you you heard somebody mention the Community Schools Grant earlier tonight that's that's the remainder of the planning Grant that's going toward that that group putting together a plan for to to best serve the students in the community in Apple Valley art music instructional materials block grant that's the remaining of a large block grant that Governor Nome passed out to all the school districts in the state of California um that revenue is always that revenue is booked so you may see deficit spending on the restricted side of the budget as we continue to spend down that particular block grant you'll see prop 28 that's the Arts money that we got on that uh proposition that was passed gosh it's probably been good two two years um uh we have some kitchen infrastructure funding again category IAL um you heard Miss Nelson mentioned the lcff equity multiplier and our schools that qualify for that that's a restricted resource uh we have some other funds and then of course our routine restricted our routine major maintenance fund um he did operate well within budget and has about 1.8 million um in reserve that was all fund 01 our general fund uh our fund that runs the majority of the oper operations of Apple Valley Unified School District well we have some other funds uh fund 11 runs our adult ed program you'll see she did run a deficit uh we did make a contribution uh our fund 12 Child Development ran within budget uh expenses were lower than revenues and she does have an ending fund balance of a little under 1.4 million uh same with Food Services you'll see we booked $1 million in Revenue about $9 million in expenses she does have quite an in fund balance that is very restricted money in our food services program it really can only go to that program to serve the kids meals and just to remind the board we we are still participating in the federal Community eligibility provision at all of our schools so all of our students um regardless of income status you've heard free and reduced lunch over the over the decades a USDA program regardless of status all of our students at all of our schools can get two me a day for free breakfast and lunch at all of our schools fund 14 is a deferred maintenance program uh that currently is showing an ending fund balance of 2.1 million remember this is last year as we closed the books you may recall the board took a resolution in the spring to uncommit the fund 14 deferred maintenance funds and we transferred two million of those dollars back over to our unrestricted side of the budget in this budget year so when we close the books this year that account will be mostly depleted our fund 25 Capital facilities developer funds we have a SE 7.4 million ending fund balance much of that will go to support our transitional kindergarten project which is currently out to bid to install uh classrooms at Desert nlls yakala and Sandia fund 40 Special Reserve for Capital outlay about 6.7 million there um that supports our cop Debt Service um and certain um other facilities projects which that will also support our transitional kindergarten project uh fund 51 bond interest and Redemption I know I get up here every year and say we have absolutely no control over fund 51 that is a result of the measure s facilities bond that Apple Valley the citizens of Apple Valley passed back in 2004 uh the County Treasurer um um assesses that property tax the incremental property tax on all the property owners within Apple value unified collects those funds deposits them in fund 51 and makes The Debt Service payment on those bonds uh next up of course we do have some adjustments uh you'll see the adjustments to our budget at the first interim we'll update the beginning fund balance we'll update any revenue and expenditures and we'll update the assumptions as we go through you can see it just that's a partial list of the um assumptions that we'll take a look at as we get working on this year moving towards first inter room again and just to remind the board first interim is our financials as of October 31st the Auditors will be in District in October to take a look at our books last year um and they'll produce a report that I most likely will share with you either in January or February um and any questions I do yes would it be possible to get like a copy of the UN audited actuals uh you will see the UN audited actuals the actual sax forms is an attachment in the uh board docs if you could like a hard copy I certainly no no I just didn't see it in the yes it should be attached it's on the consent agenda item I forget what number it is but you'll see as we go through the consent list you'll see um the recommended action to approve that particular report and that report will be attached there as a PDF item 29 according to Kylie thank you Kylie yeah this I don't attach it up here because that actually has to be approved by the board any other questions thank you thank you thank you so much uh Kylie do we have any um public comments we do we have five okay as provided on our public comments card speakers are requested to limit comments on a maximum of three minutes if more than one person wishes to speak on the same topic subsequent speakers should limit their remarks to new information only public comments shall be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes per item Mr Koffman hi I'm James caufman I used to work for the district years ago um I think it's a couple years ago uh but anyways uh I'm retired and I had some questions but after watching this particular presentation this day I'm going to request that uh I hold my comments but uh I am requesting that maybe the assistant superintendent uh uh Dustin Conrad and Matthew schulenberg um have a uh meeting with me or something I'll email them to try to set up a time but I would like to make a comment and excuse me for not saying hello to everybody it's been a while since I've been up here um I want to echo on Kylie's achievement during the covid I was the um president of the csda union and I'm not a very good writer but when I would send my emails in to be brought to this board she eloquently and articulately spoke in a way that I would have wanted it to be spoke and I want to thank her for that publicly because she is an asset to this District um another thing that I want I'm not putting any I I know that all the board members work very hard but Mrs opara is the only board member in my recollection that's ever asked to meet with the CA meeting and I want to thank her for that I didn't have an opportunity because of covid to ever get her the chance to be part of our board but it is important for a union to have uh recognition from this board and all the board members have always been gracious but she's the only one that I've ever known to ask and when she says she's in one want everybody to be included and she believes in in the uh uh equity and and things like that I truly believe it so and she she lives in walks to walk and lastly uh I don't know when I'll be back again I would like to thank Mr Bender for all his years of service uh we haven't always seen eye to eye but he's always been a very gracious man and he always says what he has to say I've been here quite a few years and I enjoyed it every moment of him even though I was sometime was the brunt of the action but I mean I have no problem he's a he's a wonderful man I know he's a good person and U thank you for all your years of service and I hope some someday I'll meet you out in the streets and we'll be kicking around or something thank you everybody thank you so much um Mrs Nelson if you can send somebody to speak with him later get that hand thank you uh Eric Schmidt good evening good night I'm not sure what I should say at this point uh hello my name is Eric Schmidt I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of latterday saints and uh some of you may know me as the former mayor of the city of asaria but I am now the government relations specialist for the Apple Valley stake uh here in this region and I'm I'll be attending board meetings and providing updates on church activities throughout the year uh and uh I am your contact if you have any questions or need to communicate with the church in that regard so I thought I would take an opportunity today to talk about what the school beginning um last month I thought I would take the opportunity to highlight a youth program within the Church of Jesus Christ latterday saints that is coincident with the start of the school year so every school day morning at 5:40 a.m.

yes 5:40 a.m. students of our faith from all the major high schools and even those who are on self-study homeschooling or other uh or other such schedules uh Converge on our chapels at Mojave Road uh or tesca road to attend a scripture study program called Seminary the Seminary program of our church is a four-year religious education program for youth globally hundreds of thousands of students and their teachers meet to study the scriptures in Apple Valley around 60 students participate in this faith-based educational program led by eight Seminary teachers who volunteered their time to lead these young minds to give you a sense of scale there are currently over 400,000 Seminary students and over 170 countries and Seminary classes begin each new uh year uh almost every month of the year in countries all over the world um all youth um are ages uh 14- 18 and whether the members of the ldf Faith or not are invited to participate in this wonderful program the program is entirely voluntarily voluntary which means that these students get up extra early every day of their own valtion to learn about the scriptures our Lord Our Savior Jesus Christ the Holy Ghost and how they recognize the promptings or guidance of the Holy Ghost in each of their lives so if you're out and about that early on a school day and you happen to pass by one of our chapels please know of the good work being done to spread the good news to our youth as always I am your humble servant and uh if there's any questions uh that you have um I'm available so thank you thank you so much thank you so [Applause] much hilly Woody [Music] it's kind of high I'm sorry thank you okay thank you good evening my name is Haley Woody I'm a student athlete at Granite Hills High School I'm speaking on behalf of athletes involved in the aquatics program I'm here to address the problems and concerns that we as athletes are currently facing with our school and our Sport AS at the end of the 2023 to 2024 season our coach was let go and the athletics department promised us a coach with his 2024 to 2025 school year as summer ended it came to our attention that our athletic director had never started to look for a coach or put in the effort to fulfill the promise early in the school year we had a meeting to determine how many people were interested in boys water polo 10 boys including the returners were signed up to join a week or two later our athletic director told us us he did not believe that the kids who had signed up for what boys Polo season were actually interested to join he removed them from the list and said we did not have enough players to form a team when we did although we do believe that the lack of interest in Aquatics as a whole is directly linked to the fact that the aquatics program does not receive the same equal publicity as other sports provided at Granite we feel that the athletic director shows a lack of interest in our sport as a result of this the boys 2020 for water polo season was unfortunately cancelled we as a group feel this to be unfair to the students and freshmen that were seriously interested in joining boys water polo along with this year's seniors that are now unable to have their last year of Polo us athletes involved in the aquatics program hold great concern that the girls 2024 water polo season and our co-ed 2025 swim season will be canceled due to the same reasons we've been doing all we can to promote our sport by attending school events and handing out flyers and posting on social media to find people actually interested in Aquatics from these events we have successfully gained a list of about 48 students that have an interest in either doing swim or water polo but we cannot have a proper season without a coach that our school's athletic department has currently failed to provide us we are asking for further assistance in finding a coach because we believe deeply in the value of our Aquatics program and the joy growth and team build building it brings to its athletes it would be heartbreaking to see it end especially when the program provides such a valuable skill set in and outside of school we hope that you will take into consideration our please for help in replacing our Aquatics coach thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak today on behalf of Gran Hills High School Aquatics thank you thank you that is really impressive for you to advocate for yourself um Robert Orosco Robert Orosco hello my name is Robert Rosco and I'm also here for the Granite Hills Aquatics program because of ring con's uh negligence and lack of effort and support this year I have no sport to participate in and me and multiple other students will no longer be able to participate in all four years of water polo ring con even though he has not stated it directly clearly has something against the aquatics team he gives a very little funding and even less attention and somehow even less effort into doing things for us our coach was fired at the end of last year and he almost has put no almost no effort to find an a replacement and it's obvious now that he has a chance he just wants to get rid of us and take us off his plate and to be done with us once and for all he has made two posts on Instagram and nothing more he is clearly putting in the minimum effort for us because we are not as popular as other sports overall the athletic director needs to be replaced for his lack of effort and for letting his emotions take control of him this man ringcon is a fool and I'm done with wasting my time on a fool so I'm asking you to handle this man for me a man that lets his emotions get the better of him is nothing but a child I know children at school and on this team who are more capable than rencon at performing the role of athletic director me and ringcon are truly equals and this means that ringcon is nothing but a child despite his age same as me excuse me for losing my temper right there um what I'm saying is that in three years ringcon has only posted two times about the aquatics team compared to the countless posts about other sports teams it's obvious that he discriminates against us because we are not popular and do not make a lot of money for him but we aren't popular and don't make money because he doesn't promote us like other sports it's a paradox IID like to thank you for your time and I wish you a good day Mr Javier uh good evening cabinet and steam cabinet and board I want to just Begin by saying that I wish to have uh such an illustrious career as uh um Mr Bender I've only have 10 years this is my 10th year at Granite and I just come today to share with you some exciting things that are happening here in the great Academy um first off I'd like to inform you that we were just awarded $40,000 $220,000 for our Tech theater and $20,000 for our recording program as a model technical demonstration site for the CDE um we've also been asked by Patricia kouy the County Arts education coordinator has selected the great Academy to be featured in the October um issue of our countywide Arts newsletter so we'll be hearing more about what's going on in the great Academy through the county in addition something I'm very excited about is the US Department of Education is in a student Performing Arts initiative and they're looking for talented performers to perform Across the Nation uh to Showcase their skills at Department hosted events for the 2024 uh 25 school year and as you guys know um thank you so much for sharing the video of our amazing all girl rock band we have an incredible stable of talent that we're going to be submitting to this um uh on a practical note um I always am available as I've uh come and spoken before you a well as in regards to arts and uh Arts and Music in schools I stand ready to serve in any way that I can in that capacity and then lastly um I'm thrilled to announce that for the third year in a row I will be serving our County the san berardino county music educators Association as the high desert uh honor band uh organizing chair it'll be the third year that I've done it and I'm very excited to see what amazing performances our kids from the county are going to be able to do thank you very much I appreciate your time thank thank [Applause] you board comments Mr Bender Mrs buan Mr Ry is Ry oh nothing thank you and for me um I have to say thank you so much uh for taking the time to um listen to our presentation um I know it was long but it was I I think it is time for us to begin to showcase the things our teachers are doing uh and sir I used to live in Utah so I know about the early morning you know prayer hour I I I tried my best not to you know be counted as one because I don't like waking up early you know so um and Mr Robert arasco um I heard what you had to say but I do have a word of advice um I do know you are passionate about um the polo um the sports uh but when we come to address the board uh it is very important not to address the person by name the the the administrator has a a title so I will prefer that his title be used when you are addressing him and and I beg to differ he is not a child so he does follow instructions that is given to him from somebody who is his he has somebody who is his boss I am glad that you brought it forward to us and you shared it with us and you leave it to us to handle it but name calling will not stand a chance not in this on this board I'm going to tell you I don't I'm not going to discuss it with you any further so I'm done thank you superintendent's comment okay public hearing we conduct a public hearing to determine that each pupil in each School in the Apple Valley UniFi school district has or will have prior to the end of the 8th week of school sufficient textbook and our instructional material for the 2024 2025 school year Mr Scher I'll reserve my comments for the time between the hearing I'll get you to that point okay Alo do I leave the rest since he's reserving it or just keep going okay um Education Code 60119 and um CCR Title 5 Section 9531 require the governing board of any local agency receiving instructional material funds from any state source to hold a public hearing on the sufficiency of textbook for instructional material by the end of the 8th week of school are there any questions or comments from members of the board regarding the pupil textbook and instructional material compliance K12 2024 2025 school year board questions I think we all have books right no question now I now open the public hearing regarding the pupil textbook and instructional material compliance K12 2024 for 2025 school year for public comment the time is 9:29 that might be the latest we've ever opened this particular September hearing I'll just say briefly that we at this moment have already um had our visits from the County of San Bernardino for the four sites that were selected as um sites that qualified for what's called A Williams visit to um walk classrooms that are representative of the grade levels at that school inspector facilities uh Insurance instruction materials and so on so those visits were um excellent there were no findings uh the team uh at each School site did a wonderful job of preparing every classroom the uh curriculum instruction team did a wonderful job of doing previsit so that's all been handled and so U we're very thankful to say that those are successfully complete thank you any other question okay this 9:30 the um hearing no further public comment I now close the public hearing for people textbook and instructional material compliance K12 2024 2025 school year and the time is 9:30 now I pass this on and so I need a motion to adjourn to a public meeting of the Apple Valley Unified um School District public facility operation for and new business as deemed necessary I'll move the item second all in favor I I now and I'll pass it on to the president um Mr RC to conduct this meeting taking roll call and ask him for this meeting of the public facilities Corporation roll call Gary Ry here Rick Raley present Maria opara here Amanda banan here action items for this public facilities Corporation number one authorize the filing of the annual registration renewal fee report rrf-1 and the annual Treasures report ct- tr-1 forms with the attorney general's registry of terriable trusts for fiscal year 2023 24 move second can he do that he's no I will need somebody that's considered an appointed officer one of these one of these four officers I'll move it okay so Mr Ry yeah and I'll second it try all all in favor I I adjournment it is recommended that the board of directors adjourn the meeting of this public facilities Corporation and reconvene the regular meeting of the Apple Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees what time time is 9:34 this meeting is adjourned okay we hereby conven sorry did we get a motion for that it was motion to go back I'll move it that we adjourn okay second I'll second all in favor I I I we hereby convene the regular meeting at 9:32 okay it is recommended that the Board of Trustees discuss and take action on the following items approve the agreement for consultant Services between leadership Associates and Apple Valley Unified School district for the 2024 2025 school year I need a motion move it second any discussion all in favor I any opposed conduct the first reading of the following updated board policies board policy 04110 0410 non-discrimination in District programs and activities board policy 13123 uniform complaint procedures board policy 4030 nondiscrimination in employment board policy lactation accommodation board policy 411 [Music] 9.11 421 9.11 431 19.11 sex discrimination and sex based harassment board policy 514 5.3 non-discrimination harassment board policy 51477 sex discrimination and sex-based harassment board policy 5146 married pregnant and parenting students I need a motion I'm move it second any any discussion all in favor I I any opposed approve the certificated and classified personnel actions as listed second any discussion all in favor I I approve the recommendation for requested leaves as noted I'll move it all second any discussion all in favor I I approve the clear subscription proposal I need a motion so moved I'll second any discussion I'll just interject quickly that there's a at your table and a little bit of information about what clear does and it's essentially it really is about helping us with our residency verification process we want to be very cautious about making sure that uh we're following um only publicly available uh sort of protocols for finding out um where people are living but we just want to make sure that when we have uh seats in our schools we're serving the students who live in that school neighborhood and so we spend a lot of time and energy tracking down residency concerns and this will help us quite a bit and streamlining that process so that we can um really serve the residents of Apple Valley and uh reduce overflow so is this going to reduce uh the home visits then yes it will certainly Target them to the those places where we have um a publicly available database that says there's mismatch between the address that's given to us and the address where it turns out they may actually live we will still visit all right did we get a motion we already we already did that was the discussion okay so now I need a vote all in favor I I any opposed consent agenda it is recommended that the Board of Trustees consider approving a number of of agenda items as a consent list consent items are routine in nature and can be enacted in one motion without further discussion this procedure conserves meeting time for a full discussion of significant issues consent items to be approved in one motion are one through 40 I move that we approve one through 40 I'll second I'd like to pull item number 22 for discussion item number 22 okay I'll I'll um change the motion to approve items uh 1 through 40 of minus 22 so I need a motion I just did give a second okay I'll second that all in all in favor I I okay item number 22 item number 22 is a um um mou for UniCare mobile services and um this is a very positive item providing medical services for our students especially number of our students that are underrepresented um I do have a couple of things I was wondering about though on page one of this mou it says that um this this um service is available for referral to a medical home or other services and I was that just seems rather ambiguous uh I was just wondered what that means on page two item number one says there up other students can be referred to other opportunities for delivery of Health Care Services again that seems quite open-ended um on page two it does say that that they are to obtain um appropriate parent medical consent and my understanding of these Services is that they Encompass mainly preventative Family Care with the the parents present but I was wondering if it would be appropriate uh to reassure parents that all of this has being done with their with their full knowledge and consent I was wondering if some further Clarity was necessary if that Clarity needs to come in the form of a adjusted uhou where we maybe suggest some language and or um maybe offer a an amendment or a couple of different sentences in those sections we'd be happy to to take that back to UniCare and if uh assuming they AG ree bring that slightly changed mou back to you if we' want to do that if we want to either table this for now or I just offer that as a possibility and then I would ask what kind of clarification we would send out to families are you asking us to um do a parent notification across the district so that I understand what kind of um notification for I was just wondering what would be appropriate to reassure parents that they are aware of of the services being that their student is engaged in sure I'm sure between our nurses and our family centers which are usually the ones that are organizing the events to host these that we could do it on the flyer to indicate that these are um parent um approved events for students to participate in with the parent involved so if that would work much like we do for the dental exams we currently do with big smiles this is very similar um it's offered it's only if parents allow it and it's for those who qualify by by virtue of their either Financial circumstances or Insurance status why don't we table it until we get the answers that truste is I agree with that fine fine we'll bring it back in October we yeah okay I need need a motion to table it right yes make the motion I'm going to make a motion that we table item number 22 until we get further information okay I I'll second that in favor okay so we removed item reports we're not going back to close session future items do any members of the board have any future items okay the next board meeting will be wait can I ask a question it's fast do we have an upcoming date for the budget committee meeting that got rescheduled or canceled that's it that's all I want to know I think there was an email there would have been an email with all the dates so we can get that to you I think Matt has it pulled up next Wednesday the 11th thank you 4:30 all right we got that um next board meeting is Thursday October 3rd at 5:00 p.m.

right here in this room there being no further business to come before the Board of Trustees it is recommended that the meeting be adjourned I need a [Laughter] motion I'll second that all in favor I stick around and sign some people

we were out for a second we're substitutions into the game 17 for Minot comes off number 13 goes in I can't hear you you can hear me all right we're good then ball goes into the middle save for keeper viho who looks to counter and I like it quickly get it out punt out of the back Souza who will go up over the top well challenged by anley Holden good pressure from the back by Holden Grace Moore nice step with by grace and minich's off down to the corner Butler tries to close the angle the ball goes middle and missed spark were fortunate there that ball made it through to Runner yeah I can't be letting that happen the girls are marking up on them and get front of them don't let them get a body on it substitutions in Anna Martin for Grace Moore Sabina for Bella white and Addie Jordan for Emma Sosa that was too close for comfort Jeff they gota as you said gota account for those Runners and make sure we don't give any clean looks in that close yeah definitely we you have to get a body in front of that you they can't be having a clean look at the goal minog with a throw in at Midfield Stevens wins the ball and Martin gets it back out of bounds easto throw in nice seeing the East L youth girls out there tonight it's always good to have ball girls out there certainly is we see the next generation of talent that will be filling this field the ball goes through and looks like it will run the distance for an Islam met a goal kick we are missing a normal ball girl that we have every year I don't see her out there I think she's getting a little uh little old for that now uh it could be I'll have to I'll have to have to check I'll have to check in with her uh at a later date I think she may be in the stand here with her friends somewhere there you go could always count on her at the end of the game to uh make sure the ball took a long longer time to get longer time to get in yes I think that was a trick she learned from her older sister perhaps so ball goes up out of the back from Canam Marino and it's out for a minog throw in Holden seems to have moved up to a Midfield position for minog at this point Knack Knack will terrific pressure so fast so strong that'll be an Islam meow throwing Butler looks to throw whitw plays the ball back to Roman Roman looked to have a crack just deep dispossessed as she was about to have a I think a big strike at the ball Ken Marino doesn't win the tackle but does impede the progress of theog player gets called for it that's all right it's a good call out there in the 35 yd line does no damage really slows down a breakway so a good play by Kenna well played smart to reset your defense well done Troublesome ball in the air not won by anyone and not controlled by a real scrum there who cleared that out was that an or Jill Stevens cleared it out goal kick I'm not sure those High looping balls in the air are always problematic yeah especially if you don't get a head on it and it just bounces around and Gabby di scy coming in for Eve Butler Bella white in for Ari Goldman and Emma Sosa back in for m whitw in this early season coach G has shown himself very uh willing to to make those changes and keep fresh legs on the field with substitutions um and a number of spots throughout the field yeah it's good girls are still coming in at different positions trying to get try to get the uh you know right lineups out there and everything like that it's always good when you have girls that can play multiple positions exactly right and with those fresh legs good chance to continue to apply pressure corner kick well done nicely one all right this is where I think Esa meow can be dangerous this year compared to in years in the past we have you know Jill Stevens out there now we have Gabby dcy and Emma Sosa out there so that's three tall girls that are out there hopefully we can get ahead on it see East L meow sends a number of players forward a beautiful Corner goalie there yes enough to interfere with great Try by Gabby well great try sorry that was Kylie Mar know well it's all right strike from mne a bit off but the idea is right to put it back [Music] on minog looks to get the ball back in play goalkeeper Pastrick will play it out good long ball controlled by initially minute shog but Jill Stevens with the head let's keep it down and settle it and play it there we go Gabby there she see emosa turn around have a turn fire slotted a nice pass in unable to unable to possess and turn those M Tru Defenders are tough it's good use of the body to win the ball and then turn by there well done good idea just over the top it's one thing I think we seeing more of our girls do this year they're take you know trying to shoot from in between the 20 and 30 yard line you know hopefully you get a bad hop of reflection deflection off of somebody and that's how most of these goals end up happening ball bounces around or fast breaks can't can't score if you don't shoot Grace Moore back in for Anna Martin that was a big thing the other day in the law medal game is the last five minutes of the game we really dominated with it obviously we came back with two goals to win at Addie Jordan Emma Sola turns back to Gabby nothing and that's what really helped we won a lot of the balls we I think it was just conditioned for earlier on in the season yes it's always good to beat L meow Roman with a beautiful move to turn oh fakes the cross then serves it well done that's a corner kick corner kick good well done nicely played by a Roman let's see if we can have better luck from this side Roman will take the corner sets herself near the flag East Long medal looks to send a number of Runners ball goes in given back Jordan turns who's there somebody's there a to have it good Ball by Jordan nobody was there and not sure what the call was out of the back I think it was a getting a push push in the back well in any event it's kind of a soft call but be a call from there we tell it like it is here tell it like it is here the SL you hey let them let them play on they they've been the other day they're good officiating good officiating they let them play it on they control the game which is what we want them to do ball goes all the way back to Grace who plays it out of the back in the air that's the part that I want to try to stay away from is that pingpong ball in the air back and forth Grace turns nicely nice little move by Grace gets it up to Kylie Marino Y and minog will have a throw [Music] in another shift change score Anna Roman KY Marino and Saina mne are off and I was supposed to be paying attention to who came on usually are good for that there's four of them so okay Mack back out Mack and Addy Jordan up top emosa in the Midfield along with Bella white Eve Butler and Mia petto on the outside half that's expert work at reset by the best in the business Jeff mck balls loose at Midfield no real Possession minog looks to control it still being fought for Angley Holden looks to control nice turn from her slotted through some good interior passing by minog disrupted by Eve Butler Sosa checking back to win the ball don't let her turn well done Bella white denies that turn nice nicely done Addy Jordan tracks back SSA as well ball goes to the sideline and Butler with a good tackle and Kenna Marina with her speed will have room to clear the field and see what's coming keep driving Kenna keep going with it no one stops the ball one more goes through it that Ball's off minog I agree with Kenna Marino I think that ball was last played by minog but the officials saw it differently kenet can be very dangerous when she comes up out of the back like that one of the fastest ones on a team so when she gets going she can clear a lot of space real fast emosa turns whitward looks to pressure back to Susa there and back to Marino we to reset it don't try to force it all the time switch Fields one more back again it's one of the things I'd like to see him do today I'd like to see him switch a field we haven't had a good switch of a field all way through right minog controls momentarily but sends a very long ball which is tracked by Grace Moore who waits as the ball goes out of bounds throws it back in quickly and falls back out of bounds possession returns to minog on the throw in I believe that's Lily Dunn out there right oh who just gone in right yeah I think the Lily done promising ninth grader ball goes through to White to give Chase well done play out of bounds 17 minutes remaining no score here in East Long Meadow three more subs for the Spartans mne Kylie Marino and Anna Roman coming on and it looks like Butler Dunn and petto coming off my eyesight's not good I can't see that far that far side of the field sorry ly D sorry I didn't get you when you went into the game that's all right we got we we we picked her up well done uh this is a very dangerous place for a free kick might be in business here anna Roman I'd like to see her shoot this her sister's at uh Southern New Hampshire City Lizzie one of last year's captains yep she she was deadly last year let's see if Anna can take it over and do the same thing her sister did as last year like see follow this in creates Oh short ball to Bella o and that's why you want to see that ball go on now we have trouble here this could be a no it's a no problem with Kenna Kenna just kicks the ball out of B play it out to reset the defense yeah that's one of the good things that we have this year we have with Ken Marino back there on defense you can send everybody up because not many people are going to get you know outrun kenada this year not the foot race ball goes to Holden in the middle back of scrum there run down by Moore or sorry Stevens plays it out for a corner kick yeah back to that kick I I'd like to see him just take a shot on that yeah they have a good goalie on there but put it in and put in the middle and see what happens for that ball through especially like you were saying with the good defense that they have you don't get you're not going to get a ton of ton of Great Looks in this game so I don't even know if we have a do we even have a shot on that yet um I don't know if Patrick has any saves I was going to none that are certainly none that stand out in my memory ball played in Super Service goes all the way to the far post one expertly that was that Jill Stevens that won St very shooted in the back Bella white plays it just to move it up to Midfield out of trouble and the Spartans will reset goalkeeper Emerson vinho asking for tight coverage in the back Kylie Marino with a through ball Emma Sosa chasing it down make him play it all the way back we got to get up in our positions kind of keep them back there don't let him put it through like that no turn good good job by Anna Roman missed by mne and the ball is out of bounds for waiting for the call oh I guess a minog throwing up nundy not very happy on the minog sideline right now not getting the movement he's looking for out of his girls and minog will shield that one out nundy imploring the girls to Simply go doesn't think they're getting enough offensive push Jill looks to play the ball back to keeper Emerson vinho settles the ball there and distributes up the field to nobody got this is what we did the other day against La medow we had a once we start winning those 5050 balls that's when we can make really make things turn yep oops white and Jordan work together numbers for East Long Meadow as they go forward ball goes to McKenna witler turns and looks looks to put the ball on net have it Mac goes to emmaa she tries goals are going to be goals are going to be hard to come by today so yeah he's going to have to be quick touches and play the ball to open space it's I don't think we're going to be able to dribble through five or six of these girls they you know they're tough so I'd like to see some give and goes play the ball to the corner and you know have that open space well plenty a lot of open space when they're playing stopper sweeper the corners are available and we seem to just keep driving it right into Zariah out there yeah you don't see too much of the stopper sweeper setup it's a vestage of a bygone era back to my day day of the sweeper stopper setup with that Diamond in the Back that's cuz I think they're more talented that would certainly be that would certainly be a true that would certainly be a true statement H we kind of just went out there and hit one or two of the kids had skill the rest of us were just just let's bump this player off the ball that's it voo comes all the way out to the top of her box Waits and collects it to survey the field just under 12 minutes remaining no score vo implores numbers to go forward and B out of the back not controlled by East lamento I know you were saying that same thing Jeff about those 50-50 balls trying to sort of become really assert possession on those 50-50 balls out of the back nicely distributed but no Runner through it's a tough first touch from the mini little Collision Anam rman and then Addy Jordan gets knocked down B white with a turn time to turn yeah too heavy on the distribution see those ones better off if we go to the corner on that B white all the way back to Jill Stevens looks to Susu who does have some room to operate everybody's kind of standing still you got he's got a make a run for givers make some runs and nice turnbo oh that was the what we're looked to do that shoulder drop turn have one yep there you go good idea that's a hand ball oh that ball bounced up near the hand and arm area which she used to control the ball it looked like to me so obviously the official did not see it that way Marino contains contains contains well done delays that run Stevens will turn ball goes to the middle harmlessly harmlessly to the middle take those all day long they didn't have the numbers ball goes right to Ana Roman just clears it out substitutions again for both squads Eve Butler and Ari Goldman in for Kylie Marino and Bella white so a throw in about 25 yards out the referee signals that he is ready for a return to play throw goes to the corner one and played out by kenam [Music] Marino Vino reminding Spartan Defenders to stay with their marks follow them in no open looks unfortunately just kind of bananana off bananana off uh Kenna's foot for that one uh for another minog throw this one does not go to the corner this one goes to Holden towards the middle back to the thrower for a service to the middle nicely won by Grace Moore out of the air and then Kenna as well Holden gets to settle the ball turns well done nicely played there you GOI Mina continues to possess in the there go the offensive third looks but it's a [Music] 1v4 Anna Roman bumps her off the ball she does a really good job using her body to keep the girls away from the ball o that's a nice ball off the side of the foot from the back and rolls through to Pastrick in the back who will survey the landscape and decide where the distribution will be played looks like a punt down the middle it's a nice ball Addie with a good nudge off the ball and she's got some real estate turns to survey the territory gives the ball to mne play to Fe oh Shabina with a nice distribution terrific field vision from mne which is something you come to expect from the junior midfielder Subs Bella white in for Ari Goldman Kylie Marino in for Anna Roman Kylie Marino playing defense now she's playing in the six looks like good it's a good spot for her it's that's once again we have so many girls that are versatile we have our forwards playing midfielders midfielders playing defense it's always a good problem to have yep players that are comfortable in a number of places the ball is served in the air through the middle Jordan keep playing yeah a little bit of a hand ball herself away I think on that one play you hear that whistle kid yeah no worries Pastrick resets it just at her own 18 and looks to serve the ball out just over seven minutes remaining in the half no score well contained ball goes to the middle minog has I think that's Holden Holden as a runner she goes unmarked largely into the box picked up by Mo who then turns her back good defense keep her out there well done contain in the corner ball gets through for a service and played out for a corner looked to be contained in the corner and then minog was able to play a fairly dangerous ball to the middle of the box when they're out there that's why you just keep them contained force them to pass the ball back to the defense so they can't turn around and do that correct you know if you give them five yards and you just force them back let them reset and it's better for us instead of them getting AC cross in like that and that's right into the danger zone minich sets the corner I think it's a Ley Holden with a nice service nicely won Jill Stevens comes out good job by Jill stev CL them out Clos them out ball gets served back in she's off oh no such call so here we go Emerson looks to distribute ball goes roughly to Midfield again won by minog make sure on the same make sure that Spartans are on the same page there on that distribution referee has stopped the time momentarily has a word with Coach Gary and the ball's back in it's off minog and it goes for an East long metal throw I don't know if you know this Steve but I can I can lip read and I think the I think the official was asking Gary for a recipe for southwestern pasta dish very like very very possible very possible so get that have to ask coach about that recipe later uh panck I believe that is dispossesses uh witor balls loose Midfield Jordan looks to reestablish possession minog can wins again again the ball's got the game's gotten a little ragged in the last minute minute and a half yeah I think on both sides of the the field where neither one of them are passing smooth they're just more or less into the panic mode of just kicking and running and not playing the feet Kenna plays that well defended I believe she was pulled down there but no such call shielded well shielded that's expertly defended o o that's not what we wanted good save by can good save oh that almost went from a good Shield to a corner kick real fast you don't you don't want to give up any unnecessary Corners certainly this late in the half either well shielded by minog to get that ball to the middle got to pressure her too many clean looks Vio saves and looks to counter ball goes up pushed forward mat on her way there we go pressure suu with the ball we've got numbers go back to M it had McKenna for a second get down oh well it's you take those keep shooting and that up that balls you know that's the ball that you might beat her on if you get Pastrick pulled out a little bit and go over the top that might be a ball you can beat her on Sosa hits the ball pretty hard a lot of times it might get that little knuckle ball and might drop down like a Tim Wakefield type uh pitch excellent excellent cross sport reference you like that you like that analogy I try that was very well done for all the kids they probably don't know who Tim Wakefield is yes a great former Red Sox pitcher recently very sadly he and his wife had both passed away within a number of months of each other from from cancer but yes a long time Red Sox stalwart and one of the few knuckle ballers left in the game y somebody I can relate to McKenney with a nice turn looks to distribute goes through to white back to McKenney back to White good combination passing pull it kid well done beans and it goes in but the shot is the right idea see that's what I'm talking about right there that's three quick passes you keep the girls off the hook hopefully next time we get the little through ball and O trouble Midfield s can get that Stevens wait and contains well done good job that's well well done by Jill Stevens to force that bad pass official time kept on the field in the last five minutes I've got about two and a half minutes gone I would guess about two and a half minutes remaining depending on what the official has for the time down the line got Bella white back yes let's go let's keep it going yes let's get a little switch easier sometimes if that switch is on the ground and that ball stays on the carpet easier to control mne with time and room to operate faces up against Holden looks to play the ball back to Moore who will play it all the way back to Vino in the net yo plays it back out Holden wins it it looks like only momentarily as Roman has a good touch can of whitward shields drops the ball back is that M Shadow okay well well done nice step by Bella white keep going with a kid have it turns distributes have at M have that oh almost getting those opportunities put it to the corner Ken with a nice ball through that's a good ball that's a corner those are those are the balls I think we have to keep doing more of not straight up the middle going off to the sideline on the 18 that way there keep keep McKenzie in the net she where she can't come out and Zarah away has to stay home so this this would be in the way in the waning moments of the first half this would certainly be a nice place to knock one in and Roman with the cross turn fire ball played again back out under a minute remaining want to try to have that balance between a good offensive push forward but also not getting pulled so far up that you're caught in the back this late in the half Marino o and a crash with Stevens that's the kind of problems you worry about when you push those it's always hard you push numbers forward and then recover ball goes through to Pastrick and that's the half after one half of action here in East Long Meadow minog zero East Long Meadow [Applause] zero e e e okay here we are back ready for second half action both teams on the field looks like a similar formation I didn't note the entire starting lineup but one change for the Spartans looks like uh keeper Emerson Vino off and keeper guju godet on and the Spartans possess goes back to Jill Stevens both teams at opposite ends of the field as is customary in the soccer World to play the second half looks like East medow switched it up we're playing a still four in the back but 433 keeping it Emos out wide so we looks like we're going to keep our three Strikers out wide for this the beginning of this half which is which is good well noted create some more space for our girls ball goes down to the far corner and it will be an East Long meow throwin coming out of the back again no score in the first half we are just underway a minute into the second half zero to zero here in this home opener for East low and I believe the season opener for [Applause] minich Spartan faithful making some noise here in The Stance below us godette with the save and the punt out well done Soo with a head Again difficult fre slow meow to maintain possession off of those clearance punts by the goalkeeper headbutt to the back of the head whitw looks to distribute the ball back to Marino outside to Moore intercepted by minog as they work down the Left Flank ball goes inside or outside in rather an AR Roma with a good dispossession and with some room to move Sosa with a nice ball forward o that's a good match up shoulder toh shoulder I'd like to see more of that matchup this game let's get Emma solo one-on-one with Zariah that was a very that's two that is a Clash of the Titans Spartans oh these were not Spartans these were some minog infiltrators coming through [Music] well it's good to see Kevin McGee doesn't just throw Eon medal kids out of the games he can throw minog kids out of the games as well so good job Kevin McGee Roman possesses in the corner and drops the ball back into the middle controlled in the back as minog builds out stepped on but not controlled opportunity to get the ball wide for minog with some space Kelly Cronin takes it in gets a shot on that just wide things had opened up a little bit there a little bit more open field than the minog offense had seen in a while and it looks like Jill Stevens will send the ball out of the back on this East Long Meadow goal kick Bella Shields off and the ball goes through oops misplayed by minog controlled by m witor who's now working her way out of a double Team trap ball is still loose in a scrum at Midfield controlled by minog pushed outside and then back in Well Done off sides could have been a little bit of trouble on that one we're now with a four flat back with Eve Butler and Grace Moore on the outsides and Jill Stevens and Kenna Marino in the middle Jill plays the ball out of the back one by minog on the head room to turn still room to turn probably too big a cushion for some of these minog attackers nicely contained by mne oops move there by two the ball goes back to the middle and played out of the back by Roman ball goes back in off of Angy Holden's foot saved by godet who collects the ball to play it out another ball controlled well this time fought for possession s goes through Sola Works Holden two terrific players there she beats Holden gets to the inside slots the ball through oh a very cheeky shot tries to put it near post and almost got it well done to cover that post like that get the ball out wide to Emma SOA Let Her Go one-on-one with a Defender Addy Jordan with a steal oh almost I like it putting a lot of pressure on the minog players making things happen man that is a tough place to stay home on near post on when Pastrick had that to because you don't think anyone's going to try to sneak it in in that tiny of a window and she almost got it nice shot from s and well played by um Pastrick as well Zarah Ray with pressure from Addie Jordan who causes a m tou good pressure good things happen as Ray plays the ball out under pressure from Jordan referee stops the action delays the throw in look like we've got an East Meadow sub coming on Anna Martin for Eve Butler referee gives the signal to resume action minog wins the ball and plays it out possessed by minog but really not any numbers forward for them Kenna Marino checks it down and kicks it out of bounds played back in quickly the throw in was a quick throw by minog well defended by I believe is that Ari Goldman not was that Bella white no Bella white the later it gets the worse my identification of players is white has the ball again there go the ball through Mack wins it controls cut back well done Zoe pinck I believe with the stop there Bella white steps [Music] up and ball won by minog in the Midfield field but played harmlessly threw as a long ball like that nundy stalks the minog sideline and looks less than pleased at that wasted Opportunity by the Falcons Gabby disi and Kylie Marino in for Anna Roman and Ma whitler ball is turned and one by Susa good fight for that ball Jordan checks back mne has it in a tight window distributes to sosu who steps through again more play at Midfield unsettled Bella white wins the ball I believe that's off minutes shog believe that's a red throw indeed it is Spartan throw in just just short of Midfield long ball sent in the air Jord won by Zoe penck good pressure from Bella white more Midfield possession through ball could be dangerous Marina locks it down and kicks it harmlessly out of bounds hopefully those don't keep going like that they keep getting these nice little through balls [Applause] and hopefully one time it doesn't get through I like we're having a little bit more possession this half which is a lot of possession in Midfield yes and it looks like you said it does look like minich has made a concerted effort to try to send some longer Balls to the corner try to stretch the Spartan Defense out a little bit further ball goes up in the air played by both teams and out of bounds Spartans it'll be a minog throw in 25 yards out K Marino plays it out Holden has time to look and operate nice cut back shoots saved by godette godet plays the ball out bounces it Midfield and goes by Kylie Marino Susa goes through the play at herself got a in a foot race with with Holden plays the ball to the middle dangerous ball crowd looking for a hand ball there certainly look to be bouncing in the midsection area no such call forthcoming from the official once again that ball we got to get a at least a body on those balls even if you don't get a a body on the ball but at least some be there to Shield the ball don't give minog an easy opportunity to just get the ball going in their Direction back to the other way Roman wins the throw in by playing that ball off of uh a minog player here Grace Moore waits for a ball for the throwin and one of the ball girls gets that ball to her half an hour remaining here in East Long Meadow still a scoreless tie z0 at this point between East Long Meadow and minog Kylie Marino with the ball in the corner has a chance to turn it nice cut back turns and serves Jill Stevens play a high line to win that ball back plays it back in and minog looks to push numbers forward again playing that outside ball on that far right side of the field their attacking right going down a lot of balls it looks like they're feeding to Cronin down that right hand side one of their veteran players here in minog she's pretty she's a quick girl so I would think they just want to keep funneling it down to her and get across everything that they're doing so far is pretty harmless which is good let's keep it that way great ball just a little too wide maybe not the idea was good the idea was Spartans win the ball out of the air continue with a playoff of witor's foot looks to go back to Mareno who plays it to mck who plays it all the way back to godet godet Waits settles the ball get out for an opportunity plays it out wide plays that ball out wide to Anna Martin I couldn't tell who that was plays the ball out wide to Anna Martin and the Spartans play the ball out minog with a throwing in about 30 yards out ball goes in one by mne who plays a nice ball to Kylie Marino who then plays a ball a little too heavy and long to uh Zariah Ray in the back for minog counters quickly nicely done and dispossessed by Bella white got a step through almost Sabina does make that step through gives an excellent distribution to to the goal beautiful one two that's more like it that's what we need to see more of emosa with that one touch and just rip it she can shoot that from 20 30 yards out just keep doing that eventually hopefully one will fall because her father won't shout her out we'll say that that was a beautiful shot by Souza but it was wonderfully set up in Midfield by a possession and a perfect distribution from Sabina mcky every once in a while a m a m Mouse finds a piece of cheese a blind Mouse finds a piece of cheese spoken spoken like a dad that's exactly how it goes um momentary trouble there was avoided um with some good uh some good back check play by uh Ken Marino minog throw goes to the corner stepped in front Again by Marino souvenir that's how you get more people to the games say with the balls that's it ball goes into the crowd you get a souvenir I like it to speak to Mr McGee about seeing if we can factor that in and budget in a few of those souvenir balls hey we're getting a new school for hundred and something million dollars you can turn around spend couple hundred extra bucks on them balls balls out of bounds there would look to be some question about whether that would be a corner or a goal kick but the referee signals that it will be a goal kick from the back three substitutions on for East Long Meadow uh as Kylie Marino Bella white and Anna r come off Jill Stevens plays a good goal kick out of the back an a Roman controls and looks for emusa nice touch way to bring the ball down nowhere for her to turn finds mne turns the ball forward distributes to Jordan in the middle hand ball hand ball going in I let that let that play out a little bit and see what happens but perhaps wait a second to see if there were an offensive Advantage well doesn't happen that way so e low will have a chance to play a dead ball reset free kick set piece from about the 30 yard line looks like it's G to be Anna Roman again now last time she played this ball short to Bella white it looks like this time this Ball's gonna go on Jeff I like that much better just put it on that and crash it there it is through Nice Shot saved cleanly by Patrick who builds out of the back with a roll out minog breaks out of the back nicely contained by Grace Moore Stepped On by m Stepped On by Sabina mne looks to find Sosa just misses the connection that'll be an East meow throw in Grace looks to get the ball back in Saina looks to turn gets the ball to Roman good s yep nice touch by what a beautiful turn ma stay with it mac oh oh contact just outside the box the referee signals to play on oh almost whitward has some absolutely devastating turns when she touches the ball settles and goes to goal she's quick with that too she's real quick when she gets that ball she takes one little touch and tries to go right by the girls Mia petto in for Emma Sola [Applause] Kelly Cronin out for chog and I can't see I didn't see it who went in I didn't see any glasses 25 I don't even think there's 25 on it we'll get some information we'll have our uh we'll have our extensive staff in the stats Department get on that momentarily that could be a 28 we'll continue to work on that as we're going through balse uh batted back and forth in the Midfield sent deep Zariah Ray looks to control plays an uncharacteristically high ball out of the back and Isa will go quickly on the throw and a Roman gets it back in again some of this back and forth ball out of the air nothing settled and contained for sustained possession want to try to bring that ball down Spina Looks To Win It Battle with Holden she back checks to get the ball excellent well done and kind of plays the ball forward 23 minutes remaining no score uh here at East Lomb high school ball goes through Jordan puts all kinds of pressure on Ray looks to Shield Jord the ball beautifully done have it petow is that Mia that's Mia to go back to Grace Moore with a I don't think that's exactly the touch Grace wanted time for E medal to settle nundy uh from the minog sideline telling Zariah to come up and play a higher line not to hang so far back Goldman continues to be the ball Menace and wins the ball back very good goes to mcky in the middle no time for subena to operate Roman with a hit at Midfield that the referee said was a bit outside the rules of play so the ball will be left at the minut shog 45 to be played forward by Angley Holden back to Holden looking for a seam Grace Moore mcky this time has time to turn gives the ball to Roman S field those are the ones you're hoping it gets through the other side and then Mack will be off there we go back to back plays a nice ball to mne who goes through to either ma or Addie Jordan last 10 minutes we're definitely winning more of these uh 50-50 balls in the middle and you can tell now we're getting a little bit more possession with the ball which is good theek to O whitward who goes right to Jordan o that's a tough tackle I'm not sure she played the ball first referee obviously thought that she did Jill Stevens looks to distribute down the sideline Wht were as she always does gives Chase and makes it difficult for the minog backfield Jill with a couple of touches to control indetermined possession at Midfield at this point minog comes out with it number seven comes through as a runner from the back drops back to Holden who is nearly dispossessed by a quick charging hard charging petto but the ball comes up along the outside corner Stevens disrupts play in the middle Roman misses her first touch but wins the second looks for a long ball no one on the other end of that one the ball is out of Harm's Way and minog will start with a throwin from their own defensive [Music] end waiting for some substitutions here looks like Ari Goldman coming out Eve Butler coming out I paid no attention to who was going in so that is poor announcing on my part Bella white and uh that's at least one that's good Kylie Marino very oh nice ball from Sosa Addie Jordan fights goes through to Bella white who goes forward has a shot the ball goes up saved by Pastrick ball tailed off just a little bit at the end but it was a good idea and it was a good strike that ball goes off of gr Moore's head collected by Kenna who then plays it forward to Jill Stevens back to Bella white goes back to Stevens in the middle who plays a little bit presses higher distrib nice ball through to Sosa who Shields to possess and keep it goes to M Witwer looks at goal dis possessed by Ray but one again good pressure by the Spartans as Bella white wins it back ball pinballs around a little bit and is up in the air taken out by Kenna Marino who goes to Emma suu who looks to turn on Holden she does slot that through plays the ball through for a save for Pastrick punt goes to Midfield countered by Anna Roman who sends it right back to Pastrick and net that punt not as good as the previous one but still one and controlled by minog pressure is there however Bella white forces that ball forward sees Addie Jordan goes outside amusa who looks to take the outside Defender we're definitely stepping up our game right now winning a lot of these balls passing the ball good I think I think we're gonna get one we're do up right here I have a feeling we're gonna get one this Defender from minog number seven Lily serenko I watched her play in a scrimmage against mson last week she's she's only a ninth grader according to the roster she is a very very smart player yeah it looks like they switched her up with uh anley Holden looks like earlier on they moved Angley Holden the Midfield Grace Moore comes up for the throw in East lto continues to press a very high line with their back uh with their backs perhaps trying to force the issue and see if they can get a goal shielded out by number 15 Zoe pinnick and it'll be a goal kick for minich other than the first in the first half where they had just missed wide on our net there really hasn't been too much uh danger as far as shots or anything goes you know everything's been you know we're getting shots from far out but nothing that either keepers have make have to make a really tough uh like I said maybe the best maybe the best opportunity of the game was that one that one that Sosa almost slotted near post um but that was about that was about it forgot about that well that's but because that was really about it we haven't been tested this half I just hope something doesn't slide through well that's the worry that you have in foot on that one there you go well called by chairman of officials Jeff mne from the booth I would have pulled multiple muscles if I ever tried to do that multiple probably muscles I never knew I had Jill Stevens on the restart sends people forward ball goes up and just about gets to the 18 Sosa looks to control turns outside continues to take the defender outside gets around the corner gets her hips around it play a corner I don't think so I am not sure if we went back to the truck in Bristol and had the replay there I think that I'm I'm not I'm not I'm not certain that not certain that that was a goal kick but we'll see in any event all that matters is what the referee saw no V so there we go I don't think too many fans seem to upset so it might have been just us maybe it's just me the longer the game goes that can be how it goes 15 and a half minutes remaining oh good head ball by Jill Stevens to get around the body get a head on it through ball to Soso doesn't quite get there that was Kylie Marino playing the ball long and a goal kick ball goes to Midfield and we'll wait for a referee's call says it's a minog throw minog throws it in quickly on the restart looks like another minog throw as well isto continues to retreat and reestablish defens positioning one out of the air by Jill Stevens and now played out by Kylie Reno I believe minog takes a little more time on this throw in waits for not quite so quick a restart it's the ball back in ball bounces around Loosely and goalkeeper Juju godet calls it makes the save and sends people forward minog plays the ball to the outside nice one-w touch although is that Touch Too Much nicely maintained on possession there minich goes forward but offside in this two-man referee system that they play in Massachusetts high school offside is a very difficult call much easier when you have the system with the center referee and the two assistants with the flags in the sideline but not so here in Massachusetts high school ball no but we do get them in uh fifth sixth seventh and eighth grade eigh grade team with playing tomorrow will also have these yes they have three of them okay a throw in from very very deep in the corner for East Long Meadow look like Kenna Marino Emma sua checks back ball out again for another minog throwin this game doesn't seem is physical as the game the other day against Long Meadow I would agree with that no that's correct foot on it from Anna Roman fight for possession Bella white plays it out for a regroup magnet over here ball once seems like once the ball goes out of bounds it just stays continues to play right back to this side throwin over over and over again I know you had talked about seeing of those switches of fields Jeff we just haven't seen it have not seen it enough probably in the second half here really from either team [Applause] probably Lily serenko looks to throw the ball in waits for a good run leads her forward into the corner off of East lto for another minog throw talk about packing the Box we like 10 bodies right here right within 10 yards of the ball correct ball goes back to the middle godette tries to make the save can't get to it wow we got away with that top we got away with that one fortunate to come away still with the scoreless draw at this point least SLA will have to regroup and play on from here it's important to counter and take advantage of something like that and try to then capitalize and see if you can quickly counter with a goal white looks to play long TOA doesn't get there we need to get the ball back the other way momentum seems to have shift now with chog keeping the ball down in our end of the area serenko looks to get the ball to number 12 mcken aako trying to seal off Canam Marino but is unsuccess oops unsuccessful timeout called by someone not sure if that was a minog timeout or an Islam timeout so with 11 minutes and 21 seconds remaining score remains minog zero East Long Meadow zero e e a okay we're back in Action momentarily after the timeout uh just over 11 minutes left a scoreless tie between the minog Falcons and the East meow Spartans the East meow throw to get things restarted the referee winds the clock and we're back in business back whitward Looks To [Music] Go played out off of uh off of Addie Jordan and minog looks to build going forward Ken Marino collects and plays the ball out for a better look as we reset defensive numbers the ball last five minutes has just been tucked in this corner if we can somebody either way either side just gets a switch on the field uh that could that could be a deciding [Music] factor Kye Marino sends one up field it's going to be one-on-one between Ray and plays aform Techni can get there good touch by Zarah Ray with a nice headball ball goes outside to the far side of the field for minog contained by Kylie Marino play to the middle number 20 a nice rip pared and saved by Juju godette Juju throws out to build to Sabina sa mcky looks distributes to Kylie Marino out of the back doesn't like her look turns and goes back Joel Stevens pushes the ball forward kind of to a space there between two East Long Meadow players pastri comes all the way out plays a good ball down the sideline it stays in well done good Shield by Bella white yep Bella plays it back Stevens looks distributes to Grace Moore get out wide girls there we go that's off of minog some of the fans aren't happy with that call Addie Jordan gets little how you do not nudge Grace Moore throws a nice ball to the corner Addy Jordan makes a good move that's well played serve so me there oh finish oh ma just kicks it just over the net what a great job that's what happened get the ball down the corner nice Cross by Addy Jordan yep Kenzie comes out with a nice nice uh punch out didn't quite get it out far enough and M witw A shot just went High yeah that all started with that quick throw in that Grace threw the corner and then got Addy free for a good ad he was able to get her hips around the ball for a nice cross it was well done Jill Stevens sends one up into to McKenna whitward who looks to turn and press she gets held by Ray goes just wide hey keep it up mat keep up the pressure that's not his job the referee has to do the substitution there hasn't been a horn in the whole gamees that sorry I just was giving nundy commentary from the booth coach nundy gonal looking for a horn which has been non-existent for the last 50 years 72 [Music] minutes we don't have the new school like minog does and EV you know what we'll put it on the bucket list of things to have for next year we can't get our horn to work for our basketball teams never mind soccer teams so here we are regrouping uh throw comes out of the back East Meo controls goes back to Marino who serves to mne ball goes off for foot to 30 for minog Midfield little TI oh oh minog awarded a free kick there they elect to have a quick restart serve the ball back in quickly 7even minutes and 15 seconds remaining um no score between the Falcons and the Spartans Sosa looks to turn right idea just didn't get quite all the way through ball gets played wide Grace Moore closes out nicely done Lis lenko comes up to look for the throw for minog looks to try to find McKenna Saka is that 17 McKenna Saka no that's Kelly that's Kelly crony 12 theak sorry thank you be another minog throw now you'll never see this call for an illegal throw in for this spin on the ball but if jko gives the next one that ball is totally not as bad as the last one but ball goes up high no pressure and coming down with the ball and short-handed is Juju godette H white looks to play the ball through good offensive pressure there by minog to win that ball hold the ball here wait for numbers look for a place to distribute [Music] but that tries to collect it before it goes out an unfortunate bounce for a minog corner kick five and a half minutes remaining by the time the corner comes in this is a place where you really want to make sure you're well marked and tight because at this point yeah this is this could be dangerous any goal could be could be the game here so you might want to look to counter if EA wins the ball the furthest the deepest defend for minog is Zarah Ray at the offensive 40 yd line so win it and counter ball is played out out Kylie Maro kicks it out there we go let's go see if we can get some numbers here Sosa looks to operate got Jord coming through Jordan coming through it goes through to Jordan she'll get there she'll get there she'll get there Jordan collects serves it back oh through to oh lock in thre yeah right idea I like that it's a good through ball started in the back with Kylie Marino moved its way up Osa had a nice pass it's exactly the kind of Counterattack you want on a deep ball like that well done Grace Moore with the throw goes to Addie Jordan back to Grace sends it forward to between Sosa and whitler who has a touch on it Shields it off beautiful ball oh what a great pass by Ma a great shot by stri by white and that's a corner that's a corner official is down there close look close wow what a great save by McKenzie that was a great save wow terrific save what a beautiful one-w combination The Settle and pass McKenna so we have an injury out on the field oh terrific Set uh set and serve by McKenna whitward a great great strike by Bella white it was as you mentioned it was a terrific save by Pastrick to keep this a scoreless tie that's two times in this quarter that we had a close opportunity with Edie Jordan streaking down the sideline getting a nice cross off the minog player who was injured is now up and standing on the sideline so we're happy to see that we hope she's okay ball comes down from minog down the middle of the field Sako looks to distribute she does ball goes through saved by godette I believe that was Kelly Cronin that had the shot on that one ball goes through again opportunity for whitward but she's held again not called that ball is off of a head so God Dad could pick it up and play it with her hands and she does about three and a half minutes of course official time will be at the discretion of the official so we'll have to wait and see but certainly we are in crunch time here oh ra back whitler on it she can't pick it up oh good Hustle by m wh good pressure good pressure here by Grace Moore nicely contained by minog Sako looks to play up by kenam Marino but she cannot of a minog throw in here for from serenko who goes to controlled by Sako back to Angley Holden MW gets a through Ball but offside luckily we got an offsides call on that one Ken Marino quickly gets it in gets away with a rolling ball white with room to turn well I guess you can nice ball well losted to Sosa steaming through has a chance can she get her hips around it oh great opportunity a good ball from Bella white who is the recipient or the beneficiary herself of a terrific serve from M Wht earlier she's the one with the distribution there to Sosa almost we had 70 minutes of pretty quiet parts of the game and now both teams are just coming down taking shots left and right it's good to see high intensity play on both teams good step by Eve Butler who plays the ball down the field believe that was off of Addie I think that's a white throw the official will keep the last two minutes he says no no no bring it back serenko goes to Holden Holden looks to distribute Sako is unable to control it cleanly but then then turns to find it B white applies the pressure pops back up Emma Sosa coming back to the ball to win that ball that is a huge Advantage for us if Sosa checks back to win that ball a little too heavy for Whit were on the [Music] touch minog throw in again inside of two minutes with no score here in East Low between minog and your hometown Spartans minich has a chance to serve to the middle ball goes to mcken aako she has a chance to get her hips surrounded but nothing dangerous ball is long out of play for a goal kick we have you what minute left I have under a minute at this point again that's of course at the referee's discretion but I have under a minute have Sabina giving excellent pressure on Holden is pushed down probably should have gotten the call that looked like a little more than shoulder to shoulder Bella white tracks back good work by Bella white way to come back hand and it certainly looked like it mne with time if she can get the touch unfortunate unlucky good pressure for minog as well Kelly good what a great play by Kylie Marino Kylie Marino yes great play by the fresh corner kick he's not calling the PK on that is he he I believe he stopped it just in order to stopped the clock I think he stopped the clock with 12 seconds remaining in order to get the ball in this corner kick will probably be I would imagine there'll be a corner and then a clear to decide the game East latoo has to win this corner kick they have to win the corner send it out and I would imagine go White your game five clear it clear it clear it there go final what a hard hard F VI Tie by both teams get to play them one more time and it'll be a good matchup last time we see them people got their money's worth today uh for the home opener your final score here from East LA Meadow is the MOG Falcon zero your Spartans Zero thanks for tuning in everybody we'll see you again next time have a good night you

[Music] hello welcome to calling all kids I'm your Storyteller Mrs Temple I'm so happy to have my friends at home here watching and I hope you'll enjoy our stories with us today I have some very special guests with me here and I'd like to introduce them to you now we have viven and we have Alexia and we have Donovan and I'm so happy the three of you are here today joining me this is such an exciting time of year because it's back to school time isn't it did you all just go back to school and meet your new teachers and you have classmates from last year in your class and I bet you're making some new friends did you have some friends from maybe kindergarten that are now in your class oh I'm so excited for you and I'm happy that you're here today our stories today are about school and before we begin I would love to know what is your favorite thing about school or one of your favorite things Vivian what's one of your favorite things about school you like piz from Pizza day having pizza on Pizza day oh that sounds yummy what do you like to do Alexia something about school that you anything you want art you like art what do you like to do in art make stuff out a Clay Ooh very exciting and Donovan do you have something special you like about School PE you like PE have you ever played kickball in PE Donovan no no well guess what today we're going to read a story about recess and the kids at recess love to play kickball so after the story you might think oh maybe I could play kickball tomorrow when I go to school what do you think all right let's see what this story is All About it's called Ella mcken the Kickball Queen what do you think that means the Kickball Queen do you think she's royalty she live in a castle do you think I don't know let's read and find out what this is about and it's written by Beth Mills she also did the illustration she wrote the story and the pictures so let's find out what this story is about and it looks like she's kicking the big ball there really far I wonder if that means that she's really good at kickball what do you think would that be a good guess maybe let's find out all right when Ella mcken steps up to the plate everyone knows what to do move move back move back Ellis Smiles at Kyle Santana the pitcher Ellis Smiles at her classmates on the field her kicks have never been caught so do you think this means that she's really good at kickball that's why she's the queen oh no mutters Kyle as he winds up for his pitch here it comes kapow look at that do you think they're going to catch it the ball arcs through the air higher and higher until it is lost in the Sun the outfielders grown it's a home run for sure but then what do you think I've got it I've got it I've got it Ria Patel the new girl is racing towards the falling ball oh no thinks Ella but nobody can catch [Applause] Oops fep she caught the ball she's the first one that has ever caught Ella's ball H I wonder how Ella is going to feel about that wow wow what a great catch yells Kyle everyone starts cheering even Ellis's own team ell's stomach drops to her feet her hands clunch into fists she feels a twisty turny terrible burning in her chest her cheeks get hot her eyes filled with tears and is she happy about her ball being caught and are you ready at these Pages no that's not fair that's my best kick nobody can catch it I don't want to play I don't want to be out I want to do over I'm not going to play anymore I'm supposed to be the best one I am the the best one I don't want to lose is she being a good sport not at all what do you think her classmates are thinking are they going to want to keep playing with her if she's yelling and screaming like this let's find out Ella suddenly stops it is very quiet there is no more cheering there is no more talking there is no more noise anywhere and everyone is looking at her they're all staring at Ella Ella feels like crawling under home plate and staying there forever why do you think she wants to hide under home plate you think she's a little bit embarrassed yes that she acted that way and look at their faces do they look a little shocked yes sorry said Ella nobody hears her over the end of re the recess Bell so recess is over and now she's feeling bad she acted that way do you think they're going to want to play with her tomorrow let's find out the next morning Ella is pretty sure everyone is avoiding her and she tries to tries not to look look at Ria because remember she's the one who caught the ball but on the way to recess Ella's stomach starts to drop she will have to see Ria on the field the captains start to pick teams Ella knows she has to say something because do you think they're going to pick her now if she doesn't apologize or say sorry or are they going to want or not to be on the team you think she takes a deep breath and she jogs over to Ria Ria's not too sure about her is she is she GNA scream and yell again look I'm sorry for yesterday that catch was really good but I'm the king the qu the queen of kickball nobody's ever caught my kicks before well okay says Ria but you should know something I was the Kickball Queen at my old school definitely the best and I can catch anything so You' better watch out uhoh can we have two queens of kickball yeah I think so too Lexi I agree uh let's see so you'd better watch out really replies Ella will we'll see about that Ria Smiles straightens up and says challenge accepted she's ready to play one against the other at the top of the second inning Ria catches the bouncer after only two bounces and tags Ella out as she rounds second base uh-oh do you think Ella is going to start screaming like yesterday let's see she doesn't look too happy here does [Applause] she good catch says Ella is being is this being a good friend and a good sport yes I love it as Ella runs back to the bench she thinks H I wonder if Ria could catch the Zinger the Zinger is one of her really strong kicks do you think she'd be able to catch the Zinger too yeah and that's the end so I love how they end it up working it out and playing nicely together at the end what do you think do you think you're going to want to play kickball when you get to school sometime I bet you'll play that in PE in your school sometime is that kind of a fun story what is something you like to do at recess Vivian um um play with my friends play with your friends it's great what do you like to do Alexia do talk great and Donovan play basketball oh play basketball all these fun things to do and now you can add kickball to the mix what do you think all right we're going to read another story about school called school is more than a building what do you think that is do you think school is more than just a building you think that that's interesting I wonder what she means by that school is more than a building and it's written by Kelly Donner and she is also the illustrator of this book so let's see what this story is about and I bet some of the things in this story you will be able to make a connection to for things that you see at your school at the Warren school so school is more than a building my school is made of bricks it has many windows and two big front doors is waren school made of bricks no no I don't what do you think Don you think it's made of bricks concrete wood you'll have to investigate when you go to school tomorrow but my school is more than just a building do you think Warren school is more than just a building let's see what they mean by that it is a place where I feel welcome do you feel welcome at your school MH yes I hope so in the morning my principal greets me with hello my teachers ask how I am the librarian gives me a huge smile and my friends are excited to see me does that happen when you go to school does a librarian say hello and Mr rean say hello when he sees you in the hallway and I bet your friends come running over and give you big hugs right they're so happy happy to see you I saw my brother today in the hallway awesome so that's that's fun not you're not just seeing friends but you get to see your siblings too right your brother and I bet you're a big sister helping him out yeah love it my school is more than a building it is a place where I can be with my friends just like you were saying you left to play with your friends I learn with them together in our classroom we can play on the playground I smile at my friends and make them laugh do you like to make your friends laugh yeah and I hope they make you laugh too my school is more than a building it is a place where I can learn my teachers know how I learn best they help me when I'm frustrated like if something's really hard do you know the teachers are there to help you right and it's okay if things are hard at first but the more you practice as it get easier absolutely there have happy for me when I learn something new have you learned anything new since you've been back in school what have you learned Vivian um I learned each other's names and last names and my teachers names that's a lot right when you have a lot of kids in your class that's a lot to learn great have anyone else learned anything new since school started any math Donovan because I know you're like a math expert you haven't learned any new math yet probably doing some review right of what you learned last year I did ST Math you've been doing ST Math this year great so you're going be moving doing the second grade re um ST Math now wonderful are you seeing the sentence that's over and over again in the story my school is more than a building it is a place where people listen my teacher comforts me when I'm having a bad day the nurse is there for me when I complain of a tummy ache the janitor the custodian and laughs at my jokes the librarian listens to stories and reads stories and takes us on adventures there is always someone who will listen do you feel that there's someone at school that will listen to you oh I'm so happy to hear that ready this sentence says again do you want to read with me the my school is more than a building it's a place where I can be creative Lexi you like art right of being creative with clay I can use my imagination I can create new things I can play pretend I can paint and draw color and build things with my friends look at all these awesome things at school my school is more than a building it is a place where I can learn how to be healthy look at this are you eating do you eat peppers like that no I can run Run and Jump I can sing and dance I can play tag with my friends we love to laugh and have fun I also do my best to eat a healthy meal at lunchtime do you all like to bring your lunch or do you like to buy lunch at school both you like both of them Donan you you like to bring it yeah and I remember you like to bring Framingham Bakery piz yes yummy my school is more than a building it is a place where people care about me and you my teachers make me feel special my friends care about me the staff are there when I need them most at school I feel safe and loved I hope you feel safe and loved at school great my school is more than a building it's a place where I can be me can you be like a superhero there at school if you want sure I can be independent and do things all by myself my friends and teachers know and they understand me I feel proud of who I am I am unique everyone is unique aren't they at school everyone has something special to bring school's a very special place my school is more than a building it is where I am part of a community we learn about each other and what makes each of us special I bet you've been doing a lot of that right learning about how everyone is special and what things people can do and can't do and maybe you can teach them how to do something we learn to be kind to one another my school is a big family and we are part of a global community so not only are we part of Warren school we're also part of Ashland right Our Town great my school is so much more than just a building did you know that your school is so much more I love my school I hope you do love your school too I know Mr Regan and your teachers would love to hear that I kind of a fun story school is more than a building very fun I think we have time for One More Story and this one's kind of a fun story that goes through a school following a line it's called Follow The Line to school and don't you have lines on the floor at school that you follow to get around the building right to make sure everyone's walking on the right side great and I bet you're the role models what do you think okay Follow The Line to school and I bet you're going to see many places in this book that you see at Warren school let's see Follow The Line to school so did you see the black line there we're going to follow it all the way through the book here we go school is starting how exciting music reading math and writing lunchtime recess art and more follow the line and let's explore so we're going to follow the line right into school do you ever ride your bike to school no no that may when you get a little bit older right you can do that okay say hello hello hello to your friends and go to your classroom so we're going to follow the line right into the classroom do you see some things here in the classroom that you might have in your classroom put's something you see Vivi in um a white board a whiteboard good Donan you see something crayons yeah crayons what about you Lexi pencils good and pencils now do you see right here this is a class pet do any of you have a class pet at your school no no and do you know what kind of pet it might be do you see part of the the pet what do you think what you think it might be a bunny yeah me too okay why what gives it away they're only showing these two little pointy things sticking up the long ears the long ears do you think Donovan do you agree with them let's see so follow the line to the Science Center Do you have a Science Center in your classroom no not yet maybe they just pull it out when it's science time you're going to learn about animals and the different places they live in in the world look at all the different animals that you might learn about do you see an animal on here that you might want to learn about what do you see a butterfly good yeah a pig yeah and actually I think you might be raising butterflies this year and there's penguin okay let's see follow the line to the library one of my favorite places you're going to pick out a book and hear a story isn't it exciting to read stories CU they can take you on So Many Adventures you can if you want to go to Hawaii you can go read a book about Hawaii and off you can go look at all the books do you have a comfy chair like this in your library no I have a library in my classroom you have a library in your classroom I bet you all have libraries in your classroom right no no library in your I do you do this has a very large Library awesome so you can go to the library at school or you can go to the Ashen public library or and I bet you have a pile of books at home I think I have a library okay that's going to be your job when you go back to school I want you to check and see if you have a library in your classroom cuz I have a space of books on shelves okay so I bet that's the class Li awesome so that's your job you can go and figure that out tomorrow let's follow the line to the art room love the art room have you had art yet this year I like art yes let's see art yesterday I had art yesterday did you and is it the same art teacher as last year yeah Mrs coella good and when you get to the art room you can paint draw and create look at all those self-portraits pretty fanc Follow The Line back to the classroom are we heading back to the classroom and look at because we have to feed Fred the class pet they named their bunny Fred and they're going to play a game so good predicting you were absolutely right seeing the big long ears and look at the games you're going to play have you played any games yet and during indoor recess or we did haveo but I played Four Corners today oh so that's a type of fun game to do in the classroom any game Donovan have you played yet no and bet indoor recesses when you'll play a lot of the games I play Four Corners outside we made it at a chop very fun so that was was that during recess time or just your teacher just took you outside for fun recess time wonderful let's follow the line are you ready to the cafeteria oo so you can eat your lunch but don't forget to wash your hands first chicken look at all that yummy food I don't see any Framingham Bakery Pizza in there do you yeah yeah do they serve ice cream at your school no wouldn't that be cool let's follow the line to the playground where we have recess look at this playground so you can run and play at recess see the line you keep following the line around look at all the different things do you play popscotch I do line up and then you have the climbing all the structures there to climb on I don't know do there a tire swing at your school no wish they had one that would be fun wouldn't it follow the line to the math area Donovan is this where you are I know you love your math to learn more counting and shapes look at all the different math things I also like math I know you do like math I like ST Math and you like ST Math all these great mathematicians we have here let's follow the line to the music room I had music today you had music today in the music room and you get to sing a song and play instruments have you played any of the instruments here I seen one of those drums and and yeah I seen one of those drums too I seen a piano yeah so we have the piano there seen as many instruments she can hang in her room I bet you'll be pulling out the instruments once the school year gets going Follow The Line back to your classroom because it's time for show and tell and if you had Show and Tell in school what would be something you would want to bring to share with your classmates do you have something special I do what would you like to show Vivan a doll oh is she have a name uh I know yet doll I have cuz I have so many dolls oh there that's a great idea to bring one of your dolls in Lexi what would you bring in a stuff animal great do you know which one yet no I was going to wonder maybe you bring in your teeth that you're missing you're all missing your teeth you could come and show them Donovan would you bring something special in my bunny your bunny oh is it a real one you could play with Fred follow the line out the door because it's time to go home at the end of the day what time does it say right here 3:00 3:00 and that's about the time when your school ends it's so much fun to learn new things at school I wonder what tomorrow will bring do you wonder what will happen in school tomorrow oh you've been wonderful guests with me today my friends I'm so glad you could join me and I'm so happy my friends at home are able to join us today for our books about school I hope you all enjoy a good book and I'll see you next time on calling all kids byebye can you want to wait everyone and Say Goodbye [Music]

[Music] hi and welcome to another edition of all politics is local I'm your host John feon on tonight's episode of all politics is local we're going to remember a local I don't want to call him a politician uh let's call him a public servant David teller unfortunately passed on August 14th of 20 24 and our guest tonight John Kerwin had the honor and distinction of serving with Dave teller my words a local Legend on the board of Selectmen for eight years so welcome John great to be here well it's it's a Bittersweet moment that you're here I mean because we are going to remember our friend and I think as Paul Bowden even said as we were setting up the cameras here tonight uh he was a lot of people's friends in the town of ashin that is true David uh gave his heart and soul to this town whether you agree with them or disagree with him there one thing it was always always for certain that he had Ash and his best interest in his heart yep so let's talk a little bit about you like I said you served eight years on went to the board of Selectmen uh he was on the board of Selectmen uh for what a term before you were there yeah he was he he got on in 94 I got on in 98 and we served eight years together so Dave served 12 years um he got off in ' 06 I got off an ' 07 so Dave and I sered went saw a lot of things did a lot of things really starts the boom of Ashland you guys were on the board a lot of building so we did the library the high school the community center um we did a lot of sewer work and Dave was involved in a lot of that Dave was on the building committee for the Middle School the middle school was done in in the mid99s Dave was also on the building committee for the high school and um you know and he did a great job on on those on those two committees and you know he's really was an asset to the town um you know Dave if Dave used to investigate issues he drive around town to see what things look like and how they were going to look and you know what we can make of it and he was very very involved he did a lot of work behind the scenes and I think a lot of stuff he did was very underappreciated but um you know he was great to serve with you know I was a butt of a lot of his jokes you know he could come up with anybody knows Dave he can come up with a oneliner um you know and over time you know you know when I was younger and you know didn't know him that well and I got to know him and we really became great friends and uh it's it's was a sad day for that uh we lost him he told me a story uh one of the many times I had breakfast with him at Sunnyside over the years uh I guess evidently you had sat in his seat once and uh oh yeah he wasn't too Keen to that no tell that story real quick well what happened was they put the name plates out back then they have name plate they have real name plates now they do paper paper tents I don't get that but anyway uh someone put the name plates on they put my name plate in with he his his seat was and they put his name plate somewhere and I was just trying to give him a hard time cuz he was always giving me a hard time so I said no I'm not moving no I'm not moving and he was having a bad day so so we we both left the meeting room we had a discussion outside it was the way the way I remember he tells me I think he grabbed you by your neck or something like that no well no no you know how the stories get exaggerated over they got exaggerated that was exaggerated but uh so were you guys on the board together when Town Hall got renovated then too we were that was a very controversial time yeah there was a lot of things going on with that um they thought there were some people in town that thought that there was some selectman had some various different motives uh in their own interest that which was ridiculous yeah which was another ridiculous thing but um but at the time you know there was a question what do we tear it down do we renovate it what do we do uh the town hall and its prior condition was in very sad shape it was a glorified even though from the outside it looked okay from the inside it was like a glorified trailer you know the creaky floors very very narrow hallways the second floor was was basically storage with poles on the roof it was it was a nightmare and reality was you know the town employees were all basically shoulder to- shoulder trying to work and it just wasn't a very very um conducive atmosphere for positive work environment so now you know now it's we're at 15 years actually almost 20 years later um you know the town hall to me I go in still looks a little czy r m you know um a lot more employees in there than when you and yeah a lot more employees and you know the meeting rooms have kind of shrunk a little bit but uh you know that's what this gener that's what the next generation's for they need to they'll come they'll come to bad and figure that stuff out but Dave was a very distinguished looking man very you know good-look friendly you know man and the thing that always just struck me with him is he was just always so nice to me and everybody else yeah they we used to call him the some people used to call him the GQ selectman uh you know always always very well dressed hair you know Nails manicure perfect hair um you know good everything but you know but you know don't forget this is a guy who cared a lot show and it showed he he fought he he fought for his convictions you know um you know the funny thing is he did so much work for the schools in terms of the building committee and all that his last year in the Board of Select when he came out against an override and rightfully so and uh there were a lot of things that the schools could didn't know I think the school superintendent of town couldn't tell us how many employees he had all all kinds of things and um so rightfully so he came out against the override and uh the school people voted him out but which just too bad because you know he really wanted to serve a one last term and I think that would have been a fitting way for him to go um off the board but you know he gave everything he had so uh it was a pleasure to serve with him you know looking back he taught me a lot you know taught me a lot about town government taught me a lot about you know representing a town uh I grew up a lot during that time because I was a very young man when I got yeah you were matter of fact when I got off I well I wasn't the youngest I was the second youngest Maybe by like a year so um but I served yeah after eight years yeah after nine years yeah so so so Dave also owned a local business in town yes Ryan uh Ryan insurance uh right downtown for the longest time and agus Elli and Teller insurance which has moved to town uh the offices emerged and they're out there in Front Street um you know so he's always in the center of everything in the center of everything always in the center of everything I mean you'd walk into Sunnyside he'd be old in court every there every morning with his friends and I give him credit though um one time when I was on we were on the board together was I wantest say it was like 2001 Town made international news okay and and Dave's downtown and you know NBC you know dine NBC is there CV all the major networks are there tell the story boat parked up well there was uh The Story Goes there was a a woman in town who uh they thought had passed away so the police yeah police and fire went up and they brought they brought the the person's body to Mes in a body bag four or five hours later John mes goes down to uh do a start you know embalming the body he unzips the he unzips a bag of the person you know the lady starts coughing and turns out she's alive so uh I remember hearing the story she still lives in town too she still lives in town for What from what I understand so I remember the town manager telling me the story and I'm like oh boy sh this time it gets out this is going to be this is going to be a nightmare M two nights later I'm watching TV at 11 o'clock at night and I see somebody from Channel 4 out in front of town hall I'm like oh no can you imagine in today's world where social media was what it would be like yep the next morning I went into town hall just to see you know dexas say you know how's it going it turns out he was on a uh he was on the phone with a radio uh radio station in Ecuador or someplace but uh yeah but so Dave stayed away from the cameras which was very smart uh as a matter of fact during that time they didn't interview the selectman at all huh they the fire chief the police chief maybe a couple of others but no they left us out of it good thankfully good so what else does the general public need to know about the legend Dave teller you know Dave teller um you know he's 71 years old uh love golf mhm golfed any chance you could get um and you know for his 50th birthday he had his 50th birthday party we had at the old Legion Hall and um I think Judy had commissioned a drawing of him taking a swing oh really yeah oh it's a great drawing looks just like them it's really really nice only this one thing is it's a full swing but the ball still between his feet to get Dave I say Dave you missed you missed but I'll say this Dave you know Dave teller um as many know he suffered from Parkinson's disease and for a long time for 15 years and um one thing I will say is that you know um he didn't in my mind he did not lose his battle to Parkinson's disease he beat Parkinson disease by the way he lived the whole time he lived a full life you know he worked he worked up until he couldn't um he sold his business and you know he still went to the cape a lot with his family uh he used to brag about his kids all the time Jessica and um Jennifer Jessica and Matt he used to brag about them all the time uh but he lived the he lived his life to the fullest and uh you know and I'm very proud have known him and proud to call my friend and I'm very proud of the way he fought and fought and fought and lived his life and that she' be an inspiration to anybody I agree and you brought up Judy his wife behind every great man is a great woman Judy is a legendary in the town of ashon as well yes Judy yeah yeah Dave and Judy were married I want to say around 1999 2000 do married about 25 years um great lady um a lot of Grace uh very caring person and um you know it just my heart goes out to her yeah I mean you had inform fored me unfortunately it was passing and uh it was it literally sent chills down my spine because as you said you know we knew that he wasn't well but uh we didn't think that this was going to happen so I mean uh that's why I thought it was important that we get together tonight and uh unless you have any closing thoughts oh I just um you know just hope that family just continues to heal um you know got you know got to you know talk to a little little bit at the Wake um you know great three great kids and great family you know he's going to be missed yeah going to be missed you know you drive by as you know if you if you drive by where he lives or if you drive by um agus Elli and Teller and Sh it's it's different now it's you know right it's just different it's just different so on this special edition of all politics is local we'll just with all politics local with everybody just observing a moment of silence for the great Dave teller you've been watching all politics is local here on waca TV and we will be back again with another episode shortly

un States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all good evening everyone and welcome so we have the addition to the agenda on okay so agenda move to approve the consent agenda motion second any discussion vote on computer on you can veral vote I'm sorry guys we have Ronnie on while you guys are voting we had two wonderful donations an anonymous donation for school lunches and we also had a $5,000 donation from ever for the Burlington Early Learning Center that was absolutely wonderful we will send them thank yous also we will probably look to do a photo op for the newspaper and get that uh story in the paper because anything we can get is wonderful motion carry 6 how about we are to the public comments section we are no we are there are no patrons that are signed up but um there Representatives here from NC that's what I was I was getting ready to so next movie we have NRC presentation welcome folks all right good spot I think all right all right I'm just going to do a quick introduction I'm Chris Henderson I'm the senior resident at Wolf Creek uh we also have Cody seagull he's the resident inspector he's not at the site right now he's actually in training this week and next week and then Susan Gilmore is our site admin assistant so she makes sure everything runs smooth in our office um from there so we just go ahead and get quick started here I'm just going to give a basic quick overview of the interc mission overall objective kind of a history our uh reactor oversight process uh give a quick plant performance assessment and really what I'm going to do is open up for any questions for us so let's go ahead and get started all right I'm not going to read it but essentially all this is is we ensure the health and safety of the public and the environment that is our ultimate mission is to ensure W Creek operates within the regulatory framework to ensures it's operating to ensure the public health and safety that's our mission in the NRC and protect the environment so what we do we regulate uh nuclear reactors so the commercial bik Wolf Creek nuclear materials that are involved with the fuel cycle itself nuclear waste including transport storage disposal of and then also we look at nuclear security so how they ensure the protection of the plant from anything from sabotage from asort or stealing any of the materials from the plant all right what we don't do uh we don't regulate any of the weapons military reactor space Vehicles that's done by other federal agencies so my on PRI Navy that was all done internal for the Navy and Department of energy well we don't own or operate reactors that's all right we don't own or operating reactors and then we don't uh regulate Rial such as natural occurring Ron x-rays material proded particle accories once again that's taken care of by other agencies or departments in the state or federal agencies all right so actually we are going to be celebrating our 50th Anniversary next year so we've been around for 50 years prior to the NRC was the atomic energy commission uh they did both the regulating and the publicity for nuclear power so some individuals in Congress and stuff thought that wasn't a great idea so we came about in the energy reorganization Act of 197 we're actually an independent agency we have five Commissioners uh three of which can only be from one party so it can only be three Republicans or three Democrats at one time on commission they are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate and staggering fiveyear terms and then the president selects who is our chairman or chairperson or chair however they want to be reference all right so we were broken up to four regions uh Wolf Creek operates region four which is basically everything west of the Mississippi and then you have Region Three which is the Upper Midwest region one's the Northeast and then region two is the southeast we have a training facility in Chattanooga we have multiple simulators there that actually provide us training get ready to become resident spectors and we have roughly about 3,000 people that actually work in the nuclear Regulatory Commission right uh this is just showing all the reactor sites uh there's about two residents of signs at every s uh there are some exceptions POI aone have three a has three but the majority of us have at least two residents assigned at all times to the station so we live in the community and are assigned for our seven-year tours all right our primary responsibility as residents is words it's responsive something happens at Wolf Creek we're the first ones to get the phone call we're the first ones responding to the site providing information to the agency itself through our res Regal and headquarters and then they coordinate with State officials and local officials for the response ultimately all the uh protective action requirements and everything else and requests come through the station itself we just verify that they're making appropriate uh recommendations all right so daily activities stress um we live in the area I actually live up in Lawrence um the the resident lives over in uh Garnett so we come in every day go through the St Security checks uh we walk down plant material we have meetings with the station we observe everything that goes on from meetings to activities out in the field to Startup shutdowns you name it we're there we watch train so we're pretty uh Serv of all the activities going on at the station and then our react oversight process this is basically how we look at performance for the station uh we've got the big cornerstones so we look at initiating events so that' be like reactor trips shutdowns the mitigating systems that's basically how every all the systems used to ensure safety uh for the station that they would have one of the design bases events barriers making sure all the bad stuff stays within containment and then we look at how they control occupational Public Health from radiation safety standpoint and then we look at emergency repared this so how they prepare to make sure they train for the events and then ultimately we also look at security and then we base everything on uh whether the issues are risk significant or not we'll cre is actually license response so it's just Baseline inspections as you go down the response column you get the station gets more and more inspections and they also get more and more oversight from us and Communications uh on a daily on a basis so um I think the next slide will help out on us so basically what happens if Wolf Creek let's say they get a white they go to the next column they get repetitive greater whites and yellows they start moving down at columns and more oversight and eventually if we can G them too unsafe then we will actually have them shut down and not operate so everything we do is available to the public inspection reports our assessment letters all the inspection procedures we have all the licensing actions are all available on our public website so that's our contact information so look for any questions for any so do the residents do they have to be licensed operators we are not now I I'll C out that there are some that are were licensed operators whether at research or test reactors or in the industry itself they can't work for us uh there's also like myself I came through the Navy so I didn't have a license I had a qualification operator reactor um so that's made you smar okaying over there between the two of you have heard plenty about your guys's da Carew um so I will say you know we come from all different areas we actually have people brand new from college that come in we go through an extensive training program itself um it takes us normally about two years of qualify now experience it's pretty fast um Cody is actually in training right now at our Weston House course which is three three weeks of systems two weeks of Tex speex and plant transits and then two weeks in the simulator so he goes through all that they go through for that and then he has to do finally after all he gets all the questions and kind of like how the Navy did it and then he has to go to a board and then he gets said yes you're qualified to be a resident so thank you very much thanks for coming thanks for the information appreciate it you're welcome welcome to stay board later we'll be on the later than for coming in yeah he had class earlier and he's got simul T lastek okay just written items we received a thank you from car got a chance to read that move on administrative reports please question what our en look like compared last [Music] year know it's I was going to pull up the report but I last coming up on the 20th we have September C see it's like a great start like clown yeah I do you guys have your own mop costume I mean know it's not real right scare preschoolers I just I was not aware that whenever you talked about having a wild cat I assumed it was the one that you see at the high school and yeah yours just a little more need friendly cat what's that I need some I know what you're [Music] James so any questions for yes sir question for mat that's quite the in a that's quite the female male disparity there I saw that too wow okay no questions for mat I was glad that you shared about Lily and Lincoln fter getting yes recognized that's awesome she has things for her me she do great things for her community but how they listed her and because of it is that she's an employee for linon high school so our district is getting that recognition that she puts and she does we know that she's a a phenomenal employee for us so we're we're very lucky and proud to have her our kids are very lucky um the only thing I think probably has gone on since and I think you guys been reading is that and Taylor can talk about it is that Thursday is going to be a very busy day for us because we're going to travel to to play some football and so our our staff has stepped up because we're to have a lot of coverage and so transportation and you name all that because there's middle school stuff going on as well so um so that's kind of a a new thing that we're have the opportunity this is I didn't hear about this till today um somebody at work was talking about it this is all because of otomy yes so where what is the where's the makeup game at Miller Missouri I no between Jin and Springfield like 2 hours and 55 minutes or so but yes this is a is a result of osami they forfeited their season one week before the season started so now that was because they seniors and Juniors were all or whatever they didn't play they had a full team of freshman sophomores and they didn't feel prudent to play a varsity schedule and I thought I read online that they because they forfeited varsity they were not allowed play JB either they are playing JB they they had canceled their JB season two weeks earlier so we all like we filled that game with Opie because they canel their JB season then they uncanceled their JB season and canceled their varsity so they don't have any Pioneer JB games because we had already filled all those Open dates previous their JB season yeah I there was a lot going on L 11:00 and they'll be at school on Friday yes we play at 6:00 so the game will be done by about 8:30 okay we they will all be expected to be a school on Friday um I did have a question for all all the buildings the lunch thing did we get the oh yeah static chicken chcken nugets chicken has that got better just got the vote today all the votes today got okay and we'll be unable still or no everybody we were un we were chicken nuggets now everyone wants chicken nugget the board everybody enjoy the elementary okay I just want Dar said we still chicken [Music] nugget you started the trend kids leeping away from there I just want to make just a quick enrollment count real quick from last year end of the may end of the school year in May to now we're like it's like two or three students variance we're very similar to to last year which September 20 is the official day so anyway like any perspective students Lindsay how short are you on and there's going to be a couple additional moving cards I do have an interview tomorrow applications have slowed um sub substitute ones though for 244 because each district hirers their own Subs so um I don't see any of the other potential sub Cates but um things are going okay what we're really seeing I mean why we really need more there's no wiggle room so one person absence or things like that and then it's really that but the teachers are doing a good job not to survive like I said we're our numbers are a lot better right now than they were I mean when you figure in um June and even Late July we were at 30 I was going to say if I remember right the last meeting or maybe at The Retreat you were in double digit still yeah so to be down to you know five or six is not bad okay question oh speaking of I'm going to go back to because Craig told me it wasn't him great job on the tickets by the way the mobile tickets oh just yeah we're trying to ease into it to see I thought was fantastic I actually had several people walk up the gate and everybody at the gate wasn't quite sure how to do them but that was I was like don't matter they bot of Eng where they come or not they just made for exactly so I was like so that's what I saying and uh we probably should do a season ticket thing yep and that's going to be kind of our our next phase to be able to buy them digitally online we'll have digital tickets for every event for the rest of the year and we're going to I handed it over after the first game gave all the stats of how many we sold in cash versus how many we sold digitally to our Sports Marketing class and I said before we play who was at Prairie View on the 27th figure out how we can sell more digitally than we do in cash just to increase we sold like 57 tickets digital this last time but we' only sold 11 before the game like in advance so that means however many people came up and scanned the QR code and bought it in the moment which is cool so trying to just I see how it works was completely full so I told great well we should sell parking space start it sell them out people will do that you can charge High sure So speaking of I don't know this something we would ever consider but we were at udora over the summer for A's dance recital and they have spots that the seniors can buy for the year and they can actually paint their parking spots and then I mean they pay a certain amount to do it and then they have a reserve spot for the year it was kind of a neat idea I just want you know that Craig gave you all the credit him I did too you did okay I hate to say it out loud but we've had a really smooth start to the [Music] year went but uh you know it really has it's been a very smooth start to this year uh you know we've got a lot of new staff they are just really jumping in um technology wise and uh we are getting ready to uh can't believe it but we're getting ready to uh start signups for parent teacher conferences uh next week uh we're going to work with like um the high school at inservice day on Monday and hopefully all three buildings not told you yet all three buildings uh put it out on the 18th which will be two weeks to the day before uh conferences so um utilize parent Square sum with this and uh as well as our Skyward signups okay along great I just have two quick uh items there again action planning form for the superintendent some of the goals that you guys have talked to me about set in past uh they are on the action planning form you can review those at your convenient um if there's things that you would like to see added to that i' be happy to add those and put those into a list of things just add into that list of things that You' like to see me do um so it's just a a working document again U you can read that send me emails if You' like to or just let me know however if you want to add some things to that list and then you have the superintendence evaluation that's done once a year before November board meeting get that to James and you guys will most likely go to Executive session in November to discuss and then we'll do administrator contract renewals in December at the DOA meeting I think Christie has sent that out to you guys so if you need anything don't hesitate to ask me or to ask her just a really good start to the year uh good things happening in our buildings and exciting time it's not too early to get those evaluations done because they come with the last little so anyways as soon as you can and we can always adjust if something yeah you know what that was from uh appre there's no motion needed okay I don't I forgot to Del that I apologize it was a memo of understanding with the yeah so anyway I just took care of that sorry guys that's board reports anybody have anything specific speak about did we talk to I'm sorry I don't know the name about possibly moving forward with the thees talk to architect yes so he's got you mean about the construction and all that yes yes um yeah we actually tomorrow Darla and I are meeting with her her staff Elementary School to share some information uh we'll do two different meetings we'll do a 7 to 7:30 meeting and a 3:15 to 3:45 depends on when you want to come the meeting will be the same meeting so it's it's you don't have to attend both um I I do have some I are you talking about some rough estimates on what we would be looking at or what help me out which well just like moving like you know like we're going to meet Gathering the renderings and the cost they will they will see meeting and all that yeah they will see that tomorrow and I'm going to look to set up meetings not only at middle school but also high school for staff that would be interested in in hearing and knowing then after we get done with those meetings what we're going to we're going to do is probably ask our staff for input are you supportive yes or no we're going to share we're going to share with the bond possible Bond I say what what it would be Financial and financial implication if you own a $200,000 home $300,000 home we'll share that information we have the rendering that we will share as well and then have some rough uh numbers that rough pretty accurate numbers actually of if we are doing some like the repair renovation piece of Burlington Elementary School um with some things that we talked about like LED lighting carpet um playground yes all those different things new Elementary School eventually will be needed in the next four to six years so there's a lot of different things we talked about but the the and tearing the pillars down in front so the cost analysis approximately again is about $1.3 million and that's not touching any electrical or any Plumbing any infrastructure type um type information so we will be sharing that information tomorrow at the Elementary staff we'll have a setup meeting for the middle of high school and then that's when we'll come back or two and try to schedule with you guys to do some uh Community advisory or Community open open Forum type scenarios okay so yes thank you for reminding me but yeah it's in the works and I'll send out I'll send out some information via Friday Friday months probably October before we do the public yeah it could be into of September 1st of October you have a hour point or slideshow or something put together to present the elementary we do is there any way you can send that out just see exactly what's bu out to them sure yeah that way you questions we know what I will do that I'll share with you what we sharing with them tomorrow right thank you any other questions [Music] thankfully okay moving on so we talked about the budget earlier on so we need to tion motion to adopt the local option bu budget resolution at 32.00% you want me to read it read the resolution okay sorry yeah I'll read your resolution and then okay sorry about that res uh s 244 Cofe County can resolution be resolved that the above name School Board shall be authorized to make a local option percentage an amount of 32% for the 2024 2025 school year and this certificate basis this certified the above resolution was duly adopted by the Board of Education of USC 244 C County canas 9th day of September 2024 by board members no okay make a motion to adopt the local option budget resolution 32.00% and to establish the 2024 2025 Capital outlay fund at 5 Second motion second discussion vote on your compter Ronnie you can roll call vote he he voted [Music] Goa car 6 okay now motion ad the 2024 2025 budget as presented second Mo second discussion no discussion v as you're voting a remind like I say we do those building needs assessments we Factor those into the budget figuring out how we going to do the budget but she also has certified teacher linkage meetings which gives us input on what we need to do in terms of budget so we do that uh year than okay with all this discussion with the um building and all that stuff there is some p and all with all that so we have to move forward with that so this is on architect uh this is we have not approved the building project per se yet we got to get the information so this is a so Quark has done a projection of about somewhere between $960,000 what he expects the addition renovation of the BHS boag shop welding area between 960,000 and 1.1 million somewhere in that neighborhood so what we're looking at doing again his fees are about 5% typically our Tex fees are somewhere in that neighborhood of 5% and what the project would cost so that's his amount of 54850 he takes us from start to finish he makes sure they're using the right steel the right block the right you get the idea concrete you know he takes everything in place and takes it make sure that that that they're all taking care of whoever we end up doing business with for the welding shop um addition renovation so with that being said um I know this separate for the school yes yes and uh we uh like I said we will be looking at after this is approved hopefully we'll be looking at doing a construction management at risk company to do our project so they'll come in and they'll basically we'll interview construction companies that are interested in working with us so we'll hear from them they'll give us an idea c will have the plans they'll give us an idea of what they think it's going to cost to do the project so we interview them we get references from them we uh find out what they believe a dollar amount would be and uh then we can determine who we want to work with you ready do this in September then uh we'll get the approval here we're probably going look to do interview somewhere into of September 1 of October more likely I'm going to say it's going to be October that's just most likely it's going to be October because we have to put this out for a certain amount of time to allow interested construction companies to um to come to the table and want to be considered and this will up into the classes that being currently held right no uh the the addition part will most likely be done or be worked on it can be worked on by not bothering the classes the summer work for the renovation of the inside of the current welding shop will be be done in the summer so it works out well they can do the addition let's say January through May hopefully have that done and then May June July be ready for the renovation so I presume it wouldn't be tied building then till summertime yes yes they won't most likely will not they won't cut the yeah perfect good good question any other questions you have Clark will be here during the process the interview process for the CM with us so entertain a motion for this motion propose proposal for architect fees not to exceed $548 for the BHS Bo shop addition project [Music] Bob got you motion second forther [Music] discussion motion carry 6 motion recess ex session for 20 minutes to discuss matter non Personnel exception under job performance return open second any discussion e e e yeah yes I'm sorry motion recess into exective s for 10 minutes for matters which would be deemed privileged to the attorney client relationship regarding moved on next James do we need to take action oh I'm sorry I'm sorry let's back up yes thank you okay we're going to move back to the executive session and was it do oh right above all oh oh okay I'm sorry I didn't read that you made it so big and bold exactly I can't read the Bold stuff yes okay sorry apologize folks um Mo terminate S A CL as of August 23rd 2024 following action of executive about Seth September 9th I'm sorry yes excuse me thank you all second motion second discussion sub your VES motion car 60 now moving on executive session motion recess in the executive session for 10 minutes for matters which would be deemed privileged to an attorney client relationship regarding potential litigation under coma to include Craig Marshall and Luke SOA by phone second discussion for e e e okay de briefing anyone have anything okay very good so nothing else uh for the board turn thank you

e e e [Laughter] that okay we will call the revenue neutral hearing to order so for our Revenue neutral hearing we published that we were were in the process of exceeding the revenue neutral tax rate the tax rate that we were given um from Elsworth County was 18.74% um I don't know if you guys are familiar with the neutral tax rate uh the revenue neutral rate the revenue neutral means that the tax rate from the current year um they give us a number that would generate those same tax dollars as levied the previous year but using our assessed Valu assessed valuation so to raise about the same amount of money because our evaluations overall went up a little bit our Revenue neutral rate is actually below what Ellsworth County gave us um our hope is that we can always keep that Revenue neutral rate lower than what that number is that's our hope with inflation and price costs and things that we need to have in the district looking forward we can't say that we're going to be able to do that every year but our hope is that um we would be able to stay close to that Revenue neutral rate that we get from Ellsworth County so with that being said um I'm recommending not exceeding the revenue neutral rate if the board would like like to exceed the revenue neutral rate by raising that M Levy number the motion would need to be made at a regular at the at the regular meeting time whenever we call our agenda to order is there any comment from the board or public comment at this time in regards to the revenue neutral rate motion to ad the revenue neutral right here motion by Allison second by Josh all those in favor say I I any oppos say sign motion passes we got a few minutes to wait yeah we should wait till 6:10 I didn't know as that was going to be so fast I could the regular hearing will start 610 y regular oh I think you just pressed the middle button e e e there you go okay I will call the budget hearing meeting to [Music] order okay I'd like to take a little bit of time to go over our needs assessments for um our buildings our first one is Wilson Elementary the needs assessment at the top we did gain two students so our number is actually at 78 right now on our document that's posted is 76 when this was turned in a couple of the highlighted items that I want to turn your guys' attention to one here we have a lot of curriculum needs that we're working on um we're working with the at risk list that we visited with you guys about at the last meeting on some items that were on that risk at risk list to use sorry so you'll see in the purple section 4 area that there's um some different curriculum needs of that building that we are already diving into this semester and then as you scroll down to our facility needs you will you will see that there are some repairs that we've talked about as well as our HVAC system um in our building and I know we've had some discussions on that that are going to be needed to repair or some existing some new existing a HVAC systems that are going to need to be replaced at some point as well so that is a a big need for that building on our needs assessment and if you'll keep scrolling down on there it even goes to our 2425 Central Plains Elementary School our needs assessment there you're going to see a couple items and uh you guys are well well aware of the space needs that we have at our Hol root facility our head count for kids there right now is is 227 is what we have on this document there have been a couple of new enroles since then miss oer is she in here yeah 230 yeah 230 is our number now so our space needs we're definitely going to have to look into some space needs um with our kiddos there at that facility you'll also see um we do have curriculum in that facility as well but we're going to have to do some updating to that as we're moving on and miss oer and Miss Murphy and Miss Moore have been already visiting with some different parts of their building and some different different compartments to make sure that we're on the right path path there scrolling down to our Junior High in high school our head count actually right now there is at 150 in the building we have 153 enrolled so we are getting to the point where we do have a space need at the high school middle school too for our 8 through 12 we do have one class I believe it's one of our Middle School classes that we only technically have one teacher for so all that grade level is group together all day so that's going to be a big need moving forward for some staffing issues at the high school middle school we are working with some different inspectors to develop different mitigation plans for some some ASB bestus items in the high school as well um we do have some hbac needs too that we're working on as well as like different Carpeting and updating throughout the building those were some of the high points of our needs assessment and our accountability you guys have any questions comments I do yes ma'am the uh where it says section four for the elementaries on the curriculum about sufficient knowledge kind of like the last few goll points on Wilson we have no but on Central Plains Elementary we have yes do they not learn the same curriculum on which one on point four four on point four um sufficient knowledge of economic social and political systems for students to make informed decisions onor Wilson when we have no uh governmental processes no self knowledge and knowledge of his or her mental and physical wellness no and then sufficient grounding in the Arts to enable students to appreciate his own culture we have no on our Wilson site and then we have yes on our Central Plains Elementary School site so I think what what the question is is do we have the same curriculum in both buildings throughout we using it Wilson and Antiquated um curriculum that needs to be replaced so teachers are filling in but there's it's not an adequate curriculum so we're not using the same at both elementary schools no I think the answer is no that is a goal that we would like to see happen we had a great conversation about that at our last admin meeting too as far as our math curriculum goes um and then also our um language language arts and then seal social emotional learning across the board so we have the same SE last year but then that came off the at risk list so we're looking now at a different one that we both will share the focus in the future is for us to be to be the same to be the same okay on that same document we have our capital projects needs assessment this is something that we have went through each building with our principles and our maintenance directors highlighted a couple of um more of our capital projects and needs assessments moving forward Central Plains Elementary School a couple ones we have highlighted are more space for students roof repairs and then drainage problems in the cafeteria um are a couple that we have highlighted on there and then at Wilson Elementary School one we have highlight is our air conditioning hbac system moving forward entry system um talking about either weing the locks or a keyless system in that building and then we have multiple places that we have leaks that we're looking at highlighted items to get um a little bit of a direction on to get a good grasp on those and then at the middle school high school continue to mitigate the different parts of the building that's out of date with ceiling tole floor tole that could contain asbest and then AC units in classrooms and office area and then more space for students were some of the items that were highlighted as high needs on our capital projects with our custodial note that if we do do any of remodeling or stuff here at the high school that might trigger the ADA compliance law okay definitely look into that and then we have our state assessment quick look information that's broken down into level one twos threes and fours we have it broken down with our Wilson Elementary School in Central Plains Elementary and then our high school as well with the grade levels out beside so you can see kind of where our percentages fall within those levels one two three and four and then you can see the grade levels out to the side that took those tests last year we've talked a lot about aligning curriculum and aligning standards especially with some of the new standards that are coming out so our hopes is to get a good curriculum in place across the board that can kind of help us in that alignment not just building alignment but also standards alignment moving forward is that the percentage that is effici or what's the percent that the percentage is the percentage of kids that fell in that that level yeah so normally the way you look at that is level one is is below you want to be in the level three range it's really where you want to be um and they say they talk about those levels as college career ready especially when you get to the middle school and high school with the different levels that are on there level one level two level three then you'll see some of this continue over some of these same the same verbiage into whenever we look at our numbers for our budget hearing again the numbers represented in our budget is our Authority to spend it's not necessarily what we're going to spend but that's what our Authority that's what we would propose our authority to be to spend so um looking on of some of the high points through the budget if you turn the first page in our budget item is our Revenue neutral the next page is a notice a hearing which is um the form that was published in the newspaper I do want to call your attention to a couple items on the 2024 2025 proposed budget to go over one of the items is the atrisk education fund you're going to see that one um up a little bit on the expenditures just because of that curriculum that we're talking about that we know we're going to have to purchase to align across the board and we're we're going to try our best to make sure that that's something that we think is going to fit our population of kids to um hopefully also be something that's on that at risk list as well the next item on under that is a flow through with our virtual education I wanted to touch on this a little bit more so our adult education we usually um budget about 2,800 credits is what we propose in our budget when we checked in that at the end of the summer that number has gone up and they've proposed us to be at 3,300 so 3,300 credits is what our proposed budget is for our virtual education for our 38 sorry 3,800 credits for our um adult Learners and that's the one we use graduation Alliance through in the district so if you scroll down a little bit on our gifts and grants we have budgeted a little higher than we've had in the past we're still hopes that we're we still have high hopes that we're fortunate enough to receive a couple gifts a couple grants that we have out there so we did want to make sure we had the authority to spend that if we are fortunate enough to um get the Patterson grants that we've talked about before then if you'll scroll down a little bit more to the middle section on our assessed assessed valuation you're going to find the first line that's code where it says code line 99 it's number 128 and you'll see on there that from where we were at on our actual 23 24 and where we're proposed now you're going to see that down about 2.5 mil the reason that is is because they passed that new act where the um ex the ex tax exemption went up from $40,000 to $70,000 for homeowners so they're able to exempt the $70,000 and dead of 40 so that did go down a little bit on our valuation but you're going to notice the next two lines on our funds and our Capital outlay those numbers did go up about 1.7 in each category and that's due to gas new construction oil items like that that were within our district so um our Val our valuation did go up overall from last year to this year on the next page that on there we did have to adjust as we went on this summer our head count for our students I believe we were going to turn in right around that 460 number is what we were going to turned in and then whenever we started doing headcounts for our enrollment it went up quite a bit so we went ahead and turned in that third number which is 475 for our head count and right now our headcount on power school is 463 so we're really fortunate that our enrollment in in some of our buildings is heading the right direction so I'm having trouble getting that number by all the numbers that have been reported I don't even get close to that 460 number yeah so in in in Wilson on Power School we're at 478 and then at Central PLS Elementary School through Power School no just 7 sorry 78 Central PLS Elementary School on power school we have 232 and at the high school middle school we have 153 includes the preschool preschool which in these numbers you can't part of it you can right so when you when you go into these where it says exclude the preschool and fouryear old I don't get nearly What You Get It 4 63 well again you want that number inflated some because you want to be under you don't want to be over still but 60 cuz like we reported 403 last year we grew by 60 kids we had more than 403 well on the report on this report it say 403 and then we're going to do 463 we grew by four for by 60 kids where I tried doing all the numbers and I I can't get close the best I can get is 411 well the 403 excludes three and four year olds right so so should the 460 yeah I'm going to say yes that we've gone up okay so when you look at the number that everybody reported where's that have 60 kids then from last year well we have to go by the threeyear average but right I'm just saying though but if you look at the just strictly these numbers we're saying we jumped 60 kids well again whenever we're able to use that average number this year compared to what we've been able to use in the past it's going to inflate that sum right but I'm not talking about the average number I'm talking about this number that you put in here that 463 number what's the percentage of that you can use for three years CU you go back in and put those in later on so I mean that's on a different line item yes so I'm looking on that at table one even your 78 your 230 and you're 150 and that doesn't 46 that's 463 that's 463 that includes your three and foury old that includes three and four year olds your three and foury olds I believe half they're half credit right but you take it out here and then you put it back in later on you can't Double B those numbers does the 463 does that include like the ones that you get extra for for like your free and reduce lunches and the ones no that's a separate waiting sear that goes down on form 150 it goes down further you can see the waiting on those kids that are free or reduced at risk kids Transportation those are all extras so we did we graduated a pretty small class and our fourth grade or our four-year-olds that came in to first grade was a substantially larger class so I mean that probably would have been picking up close to 20 kids right there yeah which how many did you graduate 10 still that's not 60 yeah but then we've had I mean just by the numbers that have been reported from the principals um taking out the uh four-year-old and three-year-old preschools that they reported the number they reported total is only four six the only thing that I can say is you want to have it padded even if it's 60 even if it's 60 and the defense is that then you don't have to republish if you're at risk goes down if your special education goes down if you're you know your title kids so there's a lot of War a lot of variables doesn't hurt us to be over no no you don't want to be under you're under then you'll have to republish you don't want to be under so if we do it this way the 463 I can see where you're saying it's 60 kids higher if we do the 463 um then the auditor comes in and says has the count on September 20th it still hasn't even happened yet but on September 20 if he comes in and says you only have 453 then we then we don't right then we don't lose right they make you adjust anything as the year as the year goes on yes as the year goes on I adjust down matter so how much is I mean how much are we looking at we would have to adjust if we reported it by that much but then that also probably throws your whether you're going to do the average or the current year which get is current year in taking that we're doing yeah so if you look at table one on but this isn't our enrollment this isn't what's reported as our enrollment right but it's the current year that you have to use on your table is what we're doing you have the threeyear average if you look at table one on 10 11 12 we're using the current year the 463 we're not using the average here least on this in that I see because the average it's 439 but we're using the 463 which is current year I don't think you want to go any less I just I think this is awful High well if it doesn't matter I mean if they don't care if we report 46 403 then or whatever that number is 406 we just we just want to make sure that it's over budgeted and not under under budgeted if it's under budgeted we have to republish if it's over budgeted we get our legal Max letter on what they're going to give us monthly I mean that's about and it's about 30 30 in difference if we because if we use the correct number 406 you're looking at your threeyear average to be 435 your twoe average for 434 and then your current year is 406 so we're looking at 30 kids that were inflating it by is that is that normal we've done that before yes inflated it by 30 because that 403 number is as of what date so I said 43 that was last year's this year it would been 406 okay off the numbers that they have reported to us just recent yeah yeah okay and that does include the rise in the ele Elementary and the rise that we just got in the6 is um without the preschool it's just K through2 okay I think with the preschool it's like 477 or somewhere okay so our preschool enrollment is basically 45 kids at Central Plains and 10 kids at Wilson m okay so that gives you 45 kids okay so if you take 463 minus 45 what do you get four be 55 is the high school 150 or 153 we're at 153 now our original have more okay that's what I had okay yeah so that yeah so you get 418 right 4 63 minus 45 55 55 sorry you get 408 408 yeah so out of those 55 you get to count those as part-time okay is half so that puts you at 23.5 right so that puts our number at 4 31.5 a half of 55 would be 27.5 27 yeah got so many numbers on here so you'd be at 43535 so' be at 435 yeah comp to so we're we're saying that we're what 40 if that you put your waiting in on the other side at the 460 number that's a little bit closer than what that 406 is yeah CU then when they added in their preschool they didn't add in as many as they know they have preschool yep so you have the so we're 28 difference 28 difference which you you want to have that cushion on there when when we visited with Mr lry he talked about being within that 2020 range so we're not far from that so connect I'd rather be closer or a little more expanded than too close and then we have to re do it what is that buffer what did they tell you when they decide no you're too far off you have to redo it what is that buffer period what is that it goes throughout the year we'll get we'll we'll get our first legal Max letter in November based on on the numbers that the principals turn in by October the 4th it's like a building report and then when you put in all of your numbers on that report and then they'll give us an estimated number in November and in the past if that's been lower then I just automatically just lower the budget automatically on the computer so I match the legal Max letter then if they come out an audit they say oh sorry we forgot about this and they can make it go up again so it fluctuates throughout the whole year and every time I get a legal Max letter when I can get those from the state department up to three or four times a year I make sure that fund accounting matches um that letter publish the budget each time you do that no you only have to republish if you want to go higher than what show that's why you want that buffer in there so if you do have an influx of kids that you have that you don't have to republish we don't want to yeah you don't have to republish unless we gain a bunch of kids by the 20th and we have this published and then they're going to say oh we could get another $150,000 then you definitely want to republish but if it's taken away that's a little bit easier to take away than to republish every time no you do not have to republish every time we know that we're kind of inflated in our right okay um and then the next Pages you guys will flip through your you'll find form 155 that has our local option budget that we'll also have in the regular board meeting that'll the max that we're at is 33% you'll see that on there that's pretty consistent looking back through our on our it says form 155 at the top page one at the bottom so and then the rest of the items on there are budgeted items and you can compare kind of where we were at in the past few years to where we're at now um again it's just the authority it doesn't mean that that's what we're going to spend it's just our Authority that we're going to get from those numbers I'll give you guys a second to look through that the general fund fund 06 and the local option budget fund fund 08 those budgets you do spend to zero and so at the end of the year like last year we had money left and that's how we got to pay off the lease purchase agreement through the capital outlay fund and that's how we had got to put money in contingency because we didn't spend it all so the general fund and the L you want to spend to zero that's the only funds that you do spend to zero y then on the very back page on our unencumbered cash balance you'll see that in federal funds um we still have the the last part of our Esser funds coming out for our AC unit um that's in the gymnasium so you'll see some unencumbered amounts there and that's what that that's what that number represents and I did have an email out on that and I don't didn't get a respond to I think they're still on task with the end of September that being middle middle to the end of September that being done because uh that money does have to be out of there by is it September 30th yeah September 30th yeah is there any any public comment from our budget hearing any other questions from the board okay I would to entertain a motion to adjourn the budget hearing motion by Allison second by Josh all those in favor say I any oppos same sign motion passes 60 I will now call to order the regular meeting and I would entertain a motion to approve the amend Ed agenda adding item number 14 the Wilson facility usage and item number 21 donation of shoulder pads I move to approve the amended agenda second moon is second by Josh all those in favor say I I any oppose same sign motion passes 60 and first item is the approval of the budget that we just had the hearing over after review of State assessments and the needs assessments I move to approve the 2024 2025 budget as presented motion by Allison and second by any further questions or comments hearing none all those in favor say I I any oppose same sign motion passes 60 the local option budget resolution approve the resolu to% local option motion by Kayla and a second by Allison any questions or comments all those in favor say I I any oppos same sign motion passes 6 and then approval of the minutes from the meeting any comments questions changes also move as presented motion by Josh second second by Allison all those in favor say I I any oppose same sign motion passes 60 and approval of the treasurers [Music] report is presented and has been there for you to review any questions or comments from Kayla second from Josh um the Midwest Energy Capital credits was that for H or what um it came to our office and there was probably 10 or 15 checks from Midwest Energy for their credits so it's all locations that use Midwest Energy and I got one at home so yeah it's after 20 years or something they give those credit they pay out those Capital credits so that's what that is so we just received that in capital outlay fund okay sorry that was a motion in a second so motion by K second by Josh all those in favor say I I any oppose same sign motion passes 60 and approval of invoices did you have anything that you wanted to yeah so on on the invoices a couple things number one the first one on there is the um new vehicle that we purchased to put on our sped route so you'll see that one on there and then I did want to call your attention to a couple others on the second one on our um Imagine Learning on our Edgenuity that's the one we're using for our virtual education for our students that are in the virtual program and then we have some students that use that here at the high school uh to supplement their classes that they can take so I did want to turn your attention to that one as well for then there was one other you'll all see the cooler the cooler condenser on the third doc M that's on there down kind of towards the middle as well so that was um one that we had to redo over at the elementary school this summer for our condenser it was a pretty big and then our vehicle maintenance repair uh you can kind of see that on that same document was about $22,000 this year for our bus and our vehicle maintenance um that'll kind of play into when we talk about our um Tech our vehicle rotation that um director zinc and I talked about this past month as well so you can kind of keep that that total in your mind too as we move forward with the meeting today so those were the ones that I wanted just to point out to you guys any other questions for [Music] entertain a motion to approve the invoices and the amount presented so mov motion by Allison second by Josh all those in favor say I I any oppos same sign motion passes 60 and then the documents are attached for the reconciliation and cash balance report yeah the cash summary uh matches the cash in the bank which matches the treasures report and I have attached the budget summary of funds to that and that's with this budget that we just approved all those numbers are recorded on here so I match what we're going to put in we put in the newspaper so this is what I keep track of every month to make sure that my numbers match the budget which matches the state department so this is where I make an adjustment if I need to if they come back with a legal Max letter and it's lower then I lower that total budget First Column there because I want to match all the time all year long so we know exactly where we are every month sign no all right so administrative reports is going to go first Cas say do match the Reconciliation Report and I just listed our enrollment numbers there again to show you where they are on those classes um beginning of the year testing we're almost finished with um the math and the ELA a few that have been absent that will get caught up and then the social social emotional they're still working on but we'll get that done this week our fourth graders went to the Barton County a day on September 4th second grade is going to go to the great Ben Wetland Center that's October 9th all second graders in Barton County are invited that day and then our fifth grade will start going to Star base in Salina five Fridays starting in September October and then I think there's one more in November we have our book fair next Monday um and then profits will go to purchasing more books in the library that's all that profit goes there on the 18th we have picture day and then on the 30th we have inservice day and that's where we are going to begin looking at the changes to the ELA standards that occurred um that will tweak the state assessments a little bit um begin reviewing the social emotional curriculum and then putting together a math curriculum committee to begin looking at different math curriculums and uh the sixth graders and Brent wmer and Darren Marcel and I'm myself decided we try and put the Gaga pit together uh we raised that um money through the our raffle last year and all and I tell you what I need two of them um I mean we have to schedule groups in it because it's non-stop um a lot of fun and then um and then that that was 80 by 40 feet not 40 Ines sorry but I am would like to add another concrete pad out there where we have the lake when it rains um we did have somebody come and take a look at that just for the drainage purpose and and he thought where we were looking at putting that concrete pad was perfect there's not much work we would need to do um and then have him come back in I'll try and get an estimate from me to get that drainage that water to travel maybe to the creek instead of staying there on our playground I'll try and get some prices and stuff together and like I said we're going to work concession stands probably have another calendar raffle I think the PTO is willing to help us out and we'll see where we I know concrete's terribly expensive but we'll we'll see where it gets us so any questions all right thank you afternoon everyone I'm mat Wilson um our calendar events are that on Monday September 16th at 5:30 we'll have our site council meeting on Tuesday September 17th we'll have our first parent information night which will cover um information from OCC and also from um tanen to talk about um chronic ABS andm and the Autism Services that are available in our counties um that are separate from the Lea um on Thursday September 19th is our school picture day and on Monday September 30th is Jane said there's no school teacher and services our Focus will be on um making sure that we are looking at the new standards for ELA and also looking at all of the different things that she talked about we have a school field trip on Friday September 20th on the sixth graders will have a Le leadership day they'll be traveling to the great B Air Show so they'll be going with Mr Murphy for that um we started a character education program this year at our school and so we implemented uh a cop being good um card system and so the kids are really enjoying that they get their names called on Fridays and so that's been really a lot of fun we also um started a character Bo of the month and using the pillars the character Pillars and so our word this uh month is responsibility um our fast Bridge testing is completed was completed on Friday our after school update is as of right now I have 19 although I did find out today that we have moved to 20 but we're going to lose one part-time so that um that might leave us at 19 although I am going to be I'll talk in just a minute adjusting some things um we are working with the KSC research and extension office to provide some after school activities as well as the utilization of the Cosmosphere activities which the district um is partnered with and the Kansas Wetlands program um homework assistance groups are for are forming as of today I began that process and so that should add about seven to our after school program however I'll be I'll be the third person so there won't be a need to hire that third person yet now if our numbers get any higher than we might have to but as of right now we're good our reading assistance groups have already started although there'll be some adjustments made from our fast bridge data uh daycare update we are full with the exception of one toddler opening and we're interviewing for that one as we speak and we have one additional um we're going to do a fundraiser on November 2nd and have a pickle ball tournament in hopes of being able to purchase our own GaGa ball pit so that's kind of where we're at are there any questions than I afraid goaga ball would be lethal at the high school well they did it after did they yeah um they their favorite thing right now is to kick the volleyball as hard as possible um I just wanted to share a couple of updates um with the build from the building we had a great start to school with our school and Athletics our enrollment is at 153 so our enrollment last year at the end of the year was 137 so we are up a little bit there um our our lunchroom feels it it is very full some of our students who bring their lunches are actually eating in the gym because we don't have enough room right now in the lunchroom for everybody um just a curriculum update the principes um travel to Hayes on Friday for a meeting and I just kind of wanted to let you know this was from ksde um and this pertains a little bit more to the elementary schools but there is a lure teachers H um at the elementary school will have to do letters training which they've probably told you about that does not pertain to the high school uh Junior High um but our teachers are going to be required more things um for their licensure um the state is paying for that right now but um only until 2028 I believe um so that's just something that was kind of on our radar uh they talked about dyslexia reporting which we report um and then all the way up until freshmen they're tested every single year um and then their freshman year they're tested if they are tested proficient at their freshman year we do not have to retest them unless we find a need or see a need um the other things that was kind of interesting in that uh curriculum was they've got new state standard checklist which those of us that taught a long time ago um they used to have flip charts for us which is really nice and so they're putting those back together I'm kind of excited and encourage ened by some of the things that they said as far as State Standards go um in my building will'll be working on Curriculum maps um so that the teachers know um you know from this grade level to this grade level what is taught so we're not overlapping too much and we're not missing the boat in other areas um we do have new uh Ela curriculum I'm sorry yeah new Ela standards so we're trying to make sure our teachers in our nexton service have time we've we've scheduled time for them to meet um as an Ela group to make sure those standards are being taught from top to bottom or bottom to top um and we're going to do the same thing as we're looking at math curriculum to make sure that as a district we're okay with our curriculum and that our the curriculum we choose the standards are being met um by that curriculum we'll continue to do career interest inventories um at the high school to strengthen our IPS which we've kind of talked about in the past um just a Kissa update we will have a meeting with Amber um from ksde we'll do a check-in with her in September and then we'll I'm sorry in October and then we'll meet with her in November for our Kissa review day um we do have a a flyover planned for the September 20th game um I'm really excited we're going to have two or three airplanes come um Christina Hayes has been great about uh communicating that with us so um the band will play and the flyover will happen and then we'll get started with the game I included in my building report just some information about Athletics and how many participants we have um so at the junior high we have 33 students who are participating out of 47 47 students so that's about 70% participation in the junior high high school's a little bit different because we have a couple of kids who are dual you know dual sporting so um if they if they're cheering they might also be playing volleyball so it's kind of and dance is Cheer and volleyball and um so about 65 participants out of 103 students um that are here um so about 63% participation there and then just from a counselor's perspective we've kind of mentioned this we'll be working on anal curriculum that meets the needs on that at risk list um and the counselors have a scheduled for that on the in service day coming up so does anybody have any questions for me Wilson site counil okay so per our Board of Education policy our site councils have to be approved by the Board of Education and Wilson is starting theirs up uh the site Council proposed members are Susan Thelen Kelly Kelly thielen Ted long Kim chriswell Allison Ford Aubrey P pachic hope I didn't butcher that that's pretty okay Jennifer Dalo Karen Moore Michelle brokish and Terina Templeton um again per our policy they do have to be submitted for board approval Michelle Michelle Allan or Tony's Michelle Alan Allan okay I'll motion to approve the Wilson sight Council as presented for the 2024 2025 school year second it's been a motion by Kayla and a second by Alon any further questions we don't have to approve each individual do we every time it's just the council itself okay that's I thought yeah you got it any other questions all those in favor say I any oppos same thing motion passes 60 and item number 14 the Wilson facility usage we had a facility request brought to Miss Moore and I this past week um from the Wilson wreck department they'd like to request use of the gyms weight room and football facilities at Wilson Elementary School throughout the year for various practices and games games uh they also requested use of the gyms on Sunday nights from September to May for adult league activities PR board policy it does have to be brought to the board for approval I guess one question I have as far as anybody using the facilities any of the facilities how does that work with overseeing keys to like we're talking about re keying or doing electronic keys and things like that logistically I mean are we still restricting usage says in our board policy that whenever we have facility usage that it has to be uh supervised or there has to be supervision um permission granted from the principal of the building um and then it also gives the principal permission do not also have somebody there if they don't deem that they need to have somebody that's a School employee there as well MH so I don't know if that answers your question or not but that's what our board policy says um would he to like say the may I speak yes um Ted long will be there okay because he's part of the parks rack so Mr long will be there perfect and Miss more did they give you an amount of days like during the week when they visited um for the for the one is just the Sunday that's just that day and then the other they wanted to have the ability to access it at any point okay during the week so it'd be Monday through Sunday basically all like in the evenings which is something they've done before this is nothing new you issue a key to the city or are you saying Mr W is going to be there yeah t has a key every time every time yeah he's part of the parks some rack most of happen in the evening right or in the I the they issued a key to the city but I could be wrong yeah there is one at the city at the city level yes um there are also several keys that shouldn't be out but which I think the city they have they restricted chees only by the whoever is their representative on so they just have for that person you get it yeah that affect our insurance at all's that sign we they sign up the liability okay they do okay now football facilities what are they looking at on their just the field yeah they're just wanting to use the field as all they're wanting to okay but again they're signing release yeah are they going to be turning on the lights it'll be during the day they yeah I mean as as the weather goes as we get darker earlier they probably W turnone answered your question I would assume so yeah I we ever had in past remember I remember that being an yeah that uses a lot of electricity you put that in writing or something well see I mean if it's that much like we pay the wreck here to have daily practices and stuff and we pay bution to have prct you have practices at that Rec so does it work both ways so does the policy state that anybody using our facilities like our Rex we have to come to the board is that what our policy says because I have a Rec group going in and using ARG for volleyball after school they have for years yeah it says facility usage has to be approved by the board each year each year I would has it been brought to the board before guys but we don't she's saying I I think she's [Music] saying I think in the past the principl just kind of okay them haven't they the use of facilities yeah they as me they've asked for you know volleyball wreck and yeah if our policy we have to approve it di policy Mr Murphy is there a usage facility fee at that point it says the board can grant one if they if they would like because Mr was charging $150 to who but I'm not sure who the $150 we would have to clarify that Char they P taxes [Music] yeah I didn't I didn't know of any fee that was ever charged but I would I could always ask Susan about that but the the question was asked about the lights for the football field and those are expensive to operate right but in the past they've never used them so yeah that's it's typically been on the weekend do you know it has Claflin wck ever been charged to use the facility for volleyball practices or anything I know we do use correct me if I'm wrong but it's my understanding that we do use the wreck for some volleyball games we have an agreement for that okay so like if we have a certain volleyball tournament or something then we could use their Rec for the use of facilities pay to resurface the floors annually and stuff like that so there there's a contract in writing that we have financial responsibility to help with that just like we're renting the facility in bushon for games over there there's there's an agreement in place we don't charge if they if the rep would use this m yeah other places I've visited when they have stuff kind of like that where they're doing a wck league or whatever some of them have taken like donations up from whoever plays like everybody throws five bucks in and then it's donated to the school to help cover the expense of the lights you're using and things like that but that was not within our district that was other places but I'm not opposed to am using it I just have concerns about if we're working to get to more secure I want to make sure that we're not shooting ourselves in the foot by having extra keys running around because then you're kind of wasting your money to secure it if you're passing out keys that was one of my no keys can leave my building without my permission and with Mr long there that's perfect is there too so the city does have a key I'm just kind of think that the city does have a key how do you manage it Jane with your keys and your facility Well if it's a coach that is not on our staff I do check them out a key for the season and we document it and they must return it at the very end yeah um now we have had a group but they haven't been in there in a year so there was a uh some guys that would come in and play basketball he would come in that day get the key and then he left the key in the gym for us to take back but they haven't been doing that lately right now I just have a wreck volleyball group in there so it can be easily managed to and they've used our facilities for years I mean I hate to charge them when it's they're paying our tax they're paying taxes I mean I mean I think it's a good Community relationship we have have to manage ex they talking about is the grade school not key card you guys still use key yes but the old gym I know you're not Wilson is key right we had the key cards but the old gym when I check out I don't want them to be able to get into the main part of the building when they use the gym we lock those doors so I give them a hard key that just gets in one door in the building I was wondering even up at Wilson like where the double doors are and stuff I you could limit at least could you limit to a portion of the building yes well from what I understood from Angie you can no not right now you cannot because of the way that the system is set up we we try cuz we have an escape issue with one of our students and the doors won't it'll lock if there's it's kind of a weird deal so that's something Mr Murphy and I have been talking about is looking into that to see what needs to happen to make that happen but here's the thing on that far side we can shut that gem door I mean it can be secure looking ke in the whe can we go to so the thing with keys now anybody can go to wherever and copy you can't copy a card or you can disable a card if it doesn't come back and you can surely set up each lock to use only this key at this door and you can live at hours we just we just had this conversation last week about where we're at with the cost to Rey the building as opposed to maybe waiting for another safe and secure Grant to open the half that we can maybe go straight to the keyless entries we just had that conversation M more and I did just last week so there's there's a tremendous amount of concern for the Wilson to keep it s you know keep us safe so basically what I've done is take as many keys as I can find that I know and get them back because at one point we were you know not giving keys where we should be but the bottom line of the story is is that we do need to do something and because I don't feel like I'm G to it bothers me I think at one time I was told there were five different keys for the gym like that you can different doors different keys that for the gym well at one point this summer I had 11 keys out yeah this would be like actual key blocks at five different key blocks the gym so You' have five different Keys yeah okay so we're facility usage right okay Mr Murphy and I was talking about this facility usage and that this could possibly be every single day from September to May so I was we were concerned about the cost of the electricity and because and that so that's why we kind of put that on there that's do you need to put a time I mean like am to pm time on it on usage so not out going in there at midnight I think mainly it's for direct practices so I mean I don't anticipate like the wait room yeah the wa room's always been different the wait room that could get there anytime okay I was not aware of that waight room would bother me because there's a very high risk there um and I don't you know we have we have a um liability you know release of a liability but I don't know how Iron clad that releas liability is going to be and it bothers me for more than just that I mean it bothers me they did ask for the weight room yes they they requested use of Jim's weight room in football facilities yeah how because right now there are keys out for the wa room right I've gotten as many but yes I've gotten as many as I can back but yes but we normally let people use it right now I'm only allowing one person oh so that's changed we don't allow people to use it anymore um right now until we can get my building secure I'm not comfortable with that it's not that I don't want people to use it I just want to do it in a way that we know who has access to the building was used quite a bit by community members is the wait room here used by the public or is that just by students right okay I mean it the one thought that we took Bobby and I talked about was um opening it up to the public and charging like a fee for usage you know to kind of help with some of the costs associated with cleaning it and all those different things and they would and it would have that money could go towards so we did talk about that but it that opens up the building to right now to anybody can get in the building are you comfortable with doing this right now with doing having the fa yes because Mr long is going to be invol included in the wait room yeah I'm okay with that because Mr long is going to be involved if you guys would like us to get some more information on the times the amount of usage is specifically going to be in each location um this is something that we could table until next meeting I would like to see some hours like some ironcloud hours maybe I don't think anybody's against it it's just like a little bit more are they waiting on us for approval before one of their activities can begin um yeah they are I think they were too yeah I mean I can when I give this back I can just tell them if you just tell me what hours you're feeling like we should utilize the facilities I I don't know what are logical hours but I would think like from you know from 4:00 in the afternoon when school's over you know during a school day would probably be adequate from 4: to 10: maybe at the latest or 4 to 9 something like that and then on the weekends we could set it up well and what what um activity are they waiting on I mean what anticipate that they probably are trying to get volleyball practices and game schedule just with with the wreck I don't I don't know that but I would I would anticipate is that right I wouldn't have a problem with the whole thing the weight room I I know how that is a high risk you know when we Bush and wck is dealing with theirs Insurance wise it is terrible I know in the past that the kids didn't use the weight room it was always adults I I agree but I so that kind of surprised me when he said he requested it so um but yeah I mean but even as an adult insurance is is very stickler on that or she you know liability waivers are signed but and even if what liability waivers are signed we still have an issue um right now the my primary concern is is the security of the building and I'm not a big you know I've talked about that too the security and the safety of people and we had kids in there utilizing it over the summer and so I shut that all down and said can't do that and I like I said just have one person right now utilizing it and I have a liability release a liability but like he said that's only you know I would be okay with just kind of limiting the weight room facility it's right now get more information from our insurance and DEP and allowing them use of the other facili football field the gym and the football field more information you want more information we can get more information from our insurance and I also think that um Mrs Moore needs to have a firm schedule of when they will be in the building so that for her peace of mind she knows when somebody's been in there or know there's not supposed there's nobody scheduled to be in there tonight and I think there needs to be clear communication so that she knows what's going on in her building even if it's as simple as you know at our rec they have a calendar on a clipboard and you sign up when your practices and when the games are it doesn't have to be a major ordal just even something as simple as that that that way there's communication that way you feel like you know what's going on in building you're responsible for so we do need to make a motion on this and I don't know if someone if at this time there wants to be a time limit does this need to be more of a district motion than just a building motion to give each building principal the ability to determine that already Poli well I don't know it says that they have the right to have somebody there but the principle does the principal does to supervise or deem whether they don't need supervision if there's somebody else that's going to be there but with what I'm hearing from the other buildings with letting the wck use the other buildings if that's never been something approved I don't know if we want to make that across the board where um they're all covered they're all covered or if we want it something that bring individually for each building they sign a waiver for you Jane like we do anything I've never seen one so right now I have um a flag football game on a Sunday afternoon because it's our two Clin teams that are going to play each other and then there's a volleyball date in October um is what is all that the wreck is asked to use our facilities here but I don't have any sort of waiver signed by any and are we asking for a waiver to be signed by every single every participant person that comes so the parents sign off for every participant or does the Recreation Commission do they have the ability sign a waiver when you do any of those yeah anytime You' sign like you sign a waiver through the wreck or like our little Oilers they sign a waiver when they do that and then the W just signs are okay I'll have ma potentially it's not every year but I'll sometimes have an mab group that'll want to use the gym for basketball practice no games just practice and that's the same I would have a basetball yeah this the day in age liability is just so crazy everybody wants to sue everybody that just scares me to death I mean I want them to use it but I don't to be our fault they trip over [Music] Rock so honestly I mean I don't think it's something that anytime any group wants to use one of our facilities we don't need the group or the building administrator having to come to a board meeting to ask [Music] so I feel like we should leave it up to the building administrator and I would entertain a motion to leave facility usage up to the discrepancy of the building administrator change policy change policy to reue that policy would have to be so I think maybe for tonight we need to give a blanket approval for the usage that we're aware of and that they anticipate and then we can discuss a board policy change at another meeting if that's the route we want to go but that way people can keep doing what they need to do yeah so Diane how do we word that I just have leave the building usage up to the building principles that would change that would change the policy though I think it's got to be worded a recomend you tell me Well recommended motion to allow Recreation usage at all building sites in the district that all all gyms and football fields in the district with coordination with the building principles you just put facilities it still includes waight rooms so allow recreational recreational usage at gyms gyms and football fields in the district but that that that's that's just you do you want something in the motion that you're going to review then the board policy or not in the motion okay allow Recreation usage at all gyms and football fields in the district at the discretion of the building principal oh yeah and I would make that motion okay there's a motion by Alison second second by Chad any further questions comments discussion hearing none all those in favor say I I oppose same sign motion passes 60 and just to be clear that does actually leave off the weight room at this time right we I just put there football fields and gyms yep okay so no waight room no thank you s just Mak okay appoint a KB delegate so we need a voting Delegate for the convention in November in the past I've done this I would be fine doing it again o I think that's just an appointment so you don't have to do a motion and then I'll report I'll turn that in tomorrow because they've been emailing me saying who's your delegate who's your delegate okay yeah it number 16 substitute pay okay a couple items on this um we've had a couple conversations talked with Mr lry a little bit about um his Envision with this whenever he left um currently our substitute pay is $15 per day and you can see we compared that to another four districts with Ellsworth being 125 Hoisington 110 elenin 130 and then Russell 120 um we're recommending to update this to $115 per day we anticipated costing the district about $4,300 more if we use the numbers we used last year um for the amount of Subs we used in the building so uh we are recommending that substitute teachers um move to the pay scale of $15 per day for the first 10 days and then 125 from Days 11 through 20 if that's for the same teacher that they're subbing for in a row and then per what we already have in place the 21st day forward if it's for the same teacher will be a percentage of the base salary of the current current year salary schedule um that puts us kind of In Contention with some of the surrounding communities for these substitutes that have licenses um to make sure we're doing best by what doing best for what our kids need in their in their classrooms and then adding to that one um we have substitute cooks and substitute Paras that they're at $1 per hour We're recommending increasing those substitute cooks and Paras to $12 per hour um this would put their pay um this would put their pay to what we have for our substitute custodians which is already $12 per hour and they put them at the same rate for our substitute custodians so our recommendation is to move the substitute pay for the Paras and the cooks to what our substitute custodians are at which is at $12 an now as well questions concerns on that thoughts anybody the 43 $0000 increase in cost that also includes the pair of Subs increase as well we just added them all together and it came to $4,300 if we would raise substitute pair rates too and to be you know so you know for substitute teachers it varies year to year with babies and you know maybe somebody got hurt or had have surgery and some years we get by don't have hardly any and the other years's more so it's it's it's a variable thing but we want to be competitive so we don't these calls to districts that are close by I move to approve a pay increase for substitute teachers to $115 per day for the first 10 days Days 11 through 20 $125 per day for the same teacher and the 21st day forward for the same teacher will be a percentage of the base salary on the current year salary schedule I'll again motion by Allison and and second by Josh any further questions or comments hearing none all those in favor say I I I any oppose same sign motion passes 60 I move to approve increasing the hourly pay for substitute Pairs and substitute Cooks to $12 per hour second motion by Allison and second by Josh any further questions or comments hearing then all those in favor say i i i any oppos same sign motion passes 60 and the first reading of kasb policy updates so this one's a big one and we wanted to give you guys time to get this document in front of you and read through it um for the next month so on the document that's downloaded it it does have some review and adopt from kasb updates um then in view um that have some different components to them with sample motions for executive sessions also the use of consultants in the district our cardiac emergency response planning as well um some food management uh food manage Food Service management that's revised as well and then some parental and family marital St status and parenting for employee information so we wanted to get this in front of you guys to give you guys time to read it for the first reading to come back and ask any questions at the next board meeting before um we put it on the to adopt our KB and review and adopt our KB policies so we wanted to make sure you guys had time to read over that before any action was taken item number 18 Transportation rotation so yeah at our last meeting we talked a little bit about our transportation rotation and the amount of vehicles that we have in the district so had the opportunity to sit down with our transportation director um and we have a proposed shortterm rotation for your guys for first reads as well no motion is necessary for this one get this pulled up on here so the first item that's on there goes over basically what we have in the district um as far as vehicles and the vehicle flea the years and the mileage including the Ford Transit van that we're still waiting on and the Chevy tracks that we recently purchased for our sped route to Salina the next document that you'll find on there is a short-term rotation to try to get down um when we started the 23 24 school year we had 21 vehicles in our Fleet our goal right now is trying to condense that down to about 15 Vehicles the next few years with adding newer vehicles and less mileage so we have um our rotation does involve some items for the October board meeting meeting that would be selling the 2012 Dodge Caravan wheelchair accessible it uh vehicle that we have now at this point right now this van's not usable at at all um due to needing new tires new batteries Body Work inspection by the highway patrol um it's our recommendation to look at selling that moving forward and then uh our hope is that our new Ford Transit van is going to come in and at that time when that happens we're going to recommend selling our 2004 Ford Freestar that has about 15 50,000 Mi on it now the cruise control on that vehicle doesn't work nobody really wants to take that vehicle cu the doors are extremely hard to open um so that would be a recommendation that we would have as well and then um in January our 2008 Chevy and Paula is going to be estimated to have over 200,000 miles after talking to our transportation director this vehicle is used as our driver's ed car as well um and then we have an art teacher that uses that to travel back and forth to Wilson uh we'll move another vehicle in place of this vehicle to let that art teacher have a vehicle to drive and then at the April March board meeting we would look at making a recommendation and taking bids for another vehicle that we could put in that rotation for our driver's ed vehicle if the budget allows at that point this should give us enough time to get that equipped um for everything we need for driver's Zed then at the end of this year that'll put us at 17 vehicles in the fleet 2526 um we don't anticipate at this time that we're going to need a bus for 2526 6 we're going to recommend selling the O2 suburban and then the ' 06 Town Chrysler Town and Country and then recommend buying a new or use Suburban or Transit van to replace those two vehicles that's going to put us at 16 and then um talking to our transportation director we anticipate we could need a bus um 26 27 but we are going to recommend selling a couple of our Suburbans and then uh buying a new or used Suburban or Transit van to replace that two vehicle that those two vehicles um and depending that'll be depending on if the budget allows us if we need a new bus as well and then that'll put us at 15 vehicles um at the end of 26 and 27 I just wanted to give you guys some time to look over that and think about that as a first read moving forward and again all this is going to be if budget allows at the end of the springtime so then on the next document on there at the end of 2728 if we're able but budget wise to follow our plan that would kind of be what we would have in the district at the time for our vehicle Fleet again this is a first read so no action needs to be taken um if you guys have questions or concerns I'd love to hear them moving forward um into our next meeting as well do we know what we want to try to be at like transits to Suburbans to vehicles kind of had that conversation you know the more people we can get in a vehicle without having a to have a CDL driver is going to be beneficial to us so I think you know we would still like to be able to have our Transit Vans but the Suburbans are good usage too you know with the driver's ed vehicle that's something that's very important we have to have that in place moving forward as well so um we didn't really talk about the percentages of Transit Vans to Suburbans to veh to cars but that is something I could definitely look at and get back to you guys on you know because what they're showing is Suburbans are nine and their transing Vans are 10 yeah you know that one person is it going to make a big difference you know and is the price of the vehicle you know extreme amount right you know or if they're both the same pretty same close then you know yeah let's look at that extra yeah yeah yeah Transit and so that's why I was asking on that if if if we needed a a certain number we usually take five yeah that number usually ranges I mean you don't really know you need that one extra seat until you need it you know we talked about Transportation with our with our sixth graders to get them to be able to go together to um the Great Bend Air Show thing on that Friday and you know it's if you can get to the transit van number to have it and like you said the price is comparable that's the route you want to go if you can you know get to the point where you don't have to take a bus and take a Transit van but if that number is extremely lopsided then that's something you definitely got to take in consideration so and you know whoever has the state bid at that time for that year it's going to play a play a part in what the cost are going to you know costs are going to be as well so any other questions or thoughts on the transportation item number 19 the classified handbook proposed change so we'd like to this as a first read as well we're exploring the idea of looking at maybe giving our uh classified employees till December 31st of the following year to use up any of their vacation time from the prior year our current policy states that they have to use that up by July 31st just a really busy time for a lot of our custodial staff and our secretaries as well to try to use that time by J July 31st or they're going to have to use lose it um you know we're getting ready for school and activities and budgets and things like that if they had a little extra time to use that once school started then they could find the time to use their days and not lose them so we've kind of had a couple conversations about that um I said we're running into a few of these employees having to take their vacation times at the busiest time of the year right before school starts to use their previous year's vacation days um and again this is no rec no recommendation here this is just a first read as of right now so you guys have any thoughts on that questions comments I can see where that would be a big challenge when you're trying to get all that stuff done you can't bring in a substitute to cover that kind of stuff yeah and it only affects those of us that get vacation which is the all of the 12mon con 12month classified staff which would be all custodial staff and district office step um so yeah the last couple years we just could not get our vacation in in time in July and you know how the district office is in July and then with especially the year we moved the district office there was just no way that we could get it in and so I just felt like it should be in the handbook that we could go ahead and extend that out because by the time maybe the end of October rolls around I can try to maybe take some time off you cuz it's just crazy busy and so that cut off would just be very helpful and I have a little spreadsheet that I keep track and so I what I do is what they have as of July 1st or as of June 30th their vacation time and then July 1 they get two more weeks so that was in June needs to be used by July 31st you just can't get it in so that's my thought if we could just extend that out and we had some of our custodial staff run into that this year they had they got right of to the end of it and they had to use it or they were going to lose it there at the end yeah so are you it's not creating more work it's just extending how long you maintain your spreadsheet okay yeah are you opposed to us going ahead and taking action on it I'm not I just don't like to throw things at you guys without giving you information first and we haven't talked about that so I didn't want to just throw it at you without you guys thinking out thinking about it I don't have an issue I would go ahead andain a motion to approve motion by Alison and second by Josh to approve extending the time frame for classified employees to utilize their vacation time from the previous year any further questions or comments hearing none all those in favor say I I any opposed same sign motion passes 6 Z thank you uh donation of the boys basketball uniforms we received a donation from an anonymous Patron that looks that wishes to remain anonymous for the purchase of Home 35 uniforms in away 35 uniforms for men's basketball for Central ples the amount of Their donation be 9, 27 I believe on our document it does have a mockup of what those look like in case you're interested in that um to accept the donation for the purchase of new men's basketball uniforms for Central PL High School motion by Allison and a second by Josh all those in favor say I I any oppose same sign motion passes Z Item number 21 the donation of shoulder pads hey we have a high school football player that's bought his own shoulder pad pads him and his family they would like for him to wear them during football practices and games and I did we did call and get some guidance from Casa on how this needed to work because it's not technically school property for a high um impact game I guess is the best way to put it uh this would Des uh so the guidance from Casa was for him to donate the shoulder pads to the school so they would become school property um this would decreases school's liability if we allowed him to play in the contact sport with the equipment that was not official school property after the student graduates the coaches could give him the shoulder pads back if they wanted to at that point or they would still be school property as well so that was the guidance that we received from qua um parents wish to remain anonymous for the shoulder pad donation as well so our recommendation is to approve the donation of the set of shoulder pads um for that student to wear and the shoulder PS comply with all the they do yes ma'am they do prove to give them back I'm assuming after they don't the school does not have to because and the parents are aware that our school property and if when the kid graduates if he wishes to have them back then they can give them back they want them back we have to approve it like I don't see a problem but no because at that time after being used for the amount of years it would be underneath the amount that it would be worth for our board policy to have to approve it to give it they also are only good for a certain amount of time shoulder pets have to well and re um inspected so we would just not reinspect will the time period that the student is here will that cover the time Ma I move to approve the donation of one set of shoulder pads to the central PLS high school football team from an anonymous Patron second motion by Allison and second by Josh any further questions comments all those in favor say I I any oppose same sign motion passes 60 Mr President I move that the board go in executive session to pursue to the Kansas open meeting act to discuss non-elected Personnel for the topics of substitutes resignation classified staff supplemented staff to protect the privacy of individuals to be discussed and return to open session in this room at 8:00 with superintendent Bob Murphy to be in attendance Mo by Josh second second by Allison all those in favor say I I I I any you oppose same motion passes 60 you just go across toon room e e e oh so you did it your that okay Scott are we live yes we are okay we are back in Open Session I moved to approve Charlene zanka as a substitute perah at Wilson and Kylie Schmid as a substitute perah in holud and Jolene Hindman as a substitute cook at Central Plains All second is a motion by Alison and a second by Josh all those in favor say I hi any same sign motion passes 60 I move to approve the resignation of Harley Smith Cook at Wilson effective August 30th 2024 second motion by Allison and second by Josh all those in favor say I any oppos same sign motion passes 60 I move to approve Margaret kennet as assistant cook at the kitchen at Wilson Elementary School I'll say mo by is second by Josh all those in favor say I I I any oppos same sign motion passes 60 I move to approve Sarah Burkhead as dance line sponsor for the 2024 2025 school year at Central Plains High School second motion by Allison and second by Josh all those in favor say I I I any oppos same sign motion passes Z you go I moved to approve Aaron Gonzalez as assistant Lead Teacher for the 2024 2025 school year at Central planes High School Middle School motion by Chad and second by Josh all those in favor say I I any oppos same sign Diane I'm abstaining motion passes 5 to0 to one I move to approve Jessica Murphy is professional development committee chairperson for the 2024 2025 school year at Central PLS usd1 12 I'll say motion by Allison and second by Josh all those in favor say I I I any oppos same sign motion passes six to zero Miss president I move that the board going an executive session pursued to the Kansas open meeting act to discuss non-elected Personnel for the topics of superintendent evaluation and return to open session 8:30 with superintendent Bob Murphy to be on call motion by Josh second second by CH all those in favor say I I any oppos same time motion passes e e e e e e back in Open Session superintendent report right board member uh 24 I have super switched okay okay so uh super Ender report I want to give you an update on Patterson Grant I did contact those guys last week to see I didn't hear anything from them at all um they are still waiting through everybody that um had put in an applic from the sounds of it they received many applications for that Patterson Child Care grant their Hope was at the beginning to be um acknowledging who received that Grant at the end of August and now they pushed it back to the mid middle of September so that's kind of where we're at with that one right now uh hollyrood location whenever our architect came in the walls that are there that split the apartments are not considered firewalls um related to what the specifications to the fire marshal the the architect that came in is having a conversation they are in talks with the fire marshal um about those walls and I have not heard anything back from those two yet that happened I believe it was last Wednesday um whenever they came down when the architect was um in the district so maintenance updates fencing is going good out here at the football field we did have Ray Roofing come in today to the district to look at our roofs um we do have District in service coming up September 30th and then we'll be working on standard alignments Perkins CTE pathway Kissa 2.0 at that time uh guess I did want to turn your attention to this this is something that's pretty important that could be coming down to the pipe and I want to be out in front of this rather than behind it so our high school enrollment right now that we have uh sorry 9 10 11 12 is it 106 students okay last year I believe we turned in 87 to Casa which put us at 1A 108 was the break for 2A and we're at 106 right now and with open and enrollment they don't really know how that's going to play out until count day so there is a chance you know we could be bumped up to 2A instead of being at 1A now here's the kicker for our baseball and softball Cooperative with Hoisington they add our enrollment with Hoisington enrollment I did talk to their superintendent today their enrollment is up and if you added both of our enrollment numbers together based off of last year's numbers it would put them at 4 A now are they have a problem with that they're supposed to be having that conversation tonight the vibe I got is that since that's a drastic um change in enrollment numbers that there is a chance that they would not be okay with that we are on the second year of the agreement when I talked to a couple of uh ads today they said if there's basically big change in enrollment that's going to boost them then that that two-year agreement really doesn't mean anything so we're going to be having conversations about that I did reach out to a couple other schools to see what their numbers were just if they had any baseball or softball players just for if this thing went South on us we had something for our kids um I got some information back from one School uh that that co-oped when they did have some kids at Chase talked to their superintendent a little bit about that um so just exploring some other possibilities if this does not go the way that we wanted to go um whenever I talked to our athletic director today anywhere from four to six kids baseballwise four to six kids softball wise um is kind of where we had expected to be going into this year so I just want to keep you up to date on that kind of where we're at numbers wise and I'll keep you guys informed on what that's going to look like when I get some feedback from from Hoisington they're doing that tonight they're talking about it tonight I don't think they're going to make any decisions because count day is not till September 20th I would venture a guess that if our enrollments added together and it still keeps us at 3A probably no problems I would guess um there but if it bumps them up to 4A that's a big jump so that could possibly I mean if if we stay the same ha negotiation for the next two years might be different because I'm afraid we're going to definitely bump it up Sir because that eighth grade class coming up into the freshman and right seniors graduate y so just wanted that to be on your radar nothing has been confirmed or done yet they're going to have some conversations about it tonight and then um their superintendent supposed to get back to me on that so we are in the middle of our virtual audit our open meeting for that was last week um this Wednesday is our first formal meeting with the dist our district team and our audit team for our 21 and 22 virtual audit um that we're having to do this year with four other districts in the state of Kansas and then um we're finishing up all all that we can with the EPA request for plans and mitigations here at high school um we'll turn that information into them on Friday um I did talk to them a little bit today and make sure that we're online with our EPA request to turn in all documentations for mitigation plans &m plan and that sort of thing moving into next week and then we have our KB conference coming up um November 15th through the 17th so have a lot of lot of irons in the fire but we're moving the right direction I think so questions comments concerns do you know you already have me down for registration to go for K Kayla sent an email just yesterday or yesterday and or today I can't I'm lost the dates today that she's going to go but but we've got rooms for all everybody CU I had emailed a while ago that I was planning to go okay which hotel I don't know put me down she couldn't she couldn't get the host Hotel it's booked uh it's booked but I want to say it's something downtown I don't know the name of it I'd have to check okay Allison Kayla Tamara okay so we all got rooms I got find out first that's okay the registration for the Hotel you can cancel like the day of or the day before but the conference if you decide you're going to go then you can't go there's a certain deadline or else they charge you and yeah so we'll go Allison Dalton Kayla Tamara for right now and you guys can just let us know I'll let you know tomorrow that's fine and then I'll make sure that you guys are in when she registers so I think we can register up to a certain day without an increase so we got time but she wanted me to just double check so but you guys all got rooms and they I mean even if we are doing playoff football um I know there's people that come in late of course yes yeah I forgot about that there's a conflict there isn't there could be yeah but there's usually people that come in afterwards okay board member reports anybody have anything um so I did went to the legislative committee um meeting that was good went to a couple listening tours went up to blit with Brendan and um a representative I can't remember his name was up there and then I went to Great Ben the next day um couple board members and um another gentleman that was running and he wasn't my representative and so I didn't pay a whole lot of attention but um it was good it was kind of cool the guy from wakanda some interesting facts not even this totally on legislation but um wakanda replaced all of their buses that run routes with electric buses and he said the only issue that they've really had so far is that the air the fresh air intake for the AC or the heater I don't know one was pointed down and so on the dirt roads oh it was getting clogged so he was having to deal with that but he said all the like the brakes and the lines and everything was being taken care of by local mechanics and then if they needed when they needed anything done they actually had somebody come to them to work on on the buses but they haven't had anything done yet but he said it was so cool because each kid has a fob that they carry and so it lets the parents know when they get a text when they're one stop away from their home and yeah so when they'll be there and he said it's an electric bus it makes a sound when it's in idle mode and said so right now it sounds like an ice cream truck but he's having having the band play the School fight song and then he's going to upload upload Lo that onto the bus I was like that is so cool and he said actually the aisles are a little wider and it has Wi-Fi so the kids can work on their homework or whatever on the way home and he said that it has a 60 M radius so the drivers go run their route and then they return and usually he said it takes about 2/3 of a battery so when they get back they just plug it in and then by the time they go run their afternoon route it's fully charged and I said okay so what about activities he's like oh no he said we have diesel for all of our activities and so they have a diesel backup for all of their electric buses but they got a grant to replace all the route buses is this their first year with it yeah okay so cuz that's when I was talking to somebody else they're like yeah so how much does it cost to replace the batteries I didn't ask him that so I was like that's kind of cool what school is that wak interesting that would be interesting how it does in the winter with he said they didn't um because that was one concern um like the extreme temperatures he said it did suck a little more more power a little more power but they were still okay yeah um one of the other issues that came up it did come up a little bit um during the legislative committee too but then we also talked a little bit about it in beloy um was like a state cell phone policy uh and I know that they're having a committee get together to just look at overall electronic usage by students and everything else and so the legislative committee the policy is to leave it up to local boards is KB's you know official stance on that um but heing some different school districts that have implemented policies over the last couple years um have really had some positive feedback and kind of some unintended effects that they didn't even really expect like one of them said yeah you know what I really noticed I'm writing a lot less bathroom passes I was like yeah cuz kids aren't going to the bathroom to check who's texting them like oh oh and someone else said yeah like there was a lot less um decreased Hurtin or decreased um absenteeism and I thought that you know since that was kind of one of the things that we T talked about was chronic absenteeism anyway it's just U Brendan actually said to when we were talking to the representative um because the representative was leaning a little more towards making a Statewide policy and BR was like hey hey hey what about just like dangling the carrot what about you offering to buy the bags you know you buy the bags for all of us so that we don't have to pay $30 for every student to buy these bags and I think it was wakanda that also um like some school districts you know every school district does it a little bit a little bit different um some of them let them let their students have them back during passing periods or and Wanda said nope they don't let them have them even during passing periods and stuff because during passing periods and lunch was actually when more cyber bulying was occurring so they're like no you can have them back when you go home when you're not seeing all the other teens and it's not not Forefront in your mind you know to do all the cybering so I thought that was kind of interesting they did a lot of um like preventative stuff or upfront um prior to even their electric buses and also before implementing their cell phone policy because like they were talking to parents and you know putting out all a information and they went ahead and had said Hey cuz I know your parents are going to say but I want to be able to get a hold of my kid so they have text the email so the parents can text to email to their kids's um computer school email so they can still get a hold of them and that doesn't disrupt you know their classroom stuff so that was how they kind of got in front of that um and then for their electronic presses they had them at like their conferences and stuff and were given rides around town but he had a lot of good stuff I was like oh that was cool did a lot of things here so I mean even it was really good not just for the legislative stuff but even to hear what other districts were doing um another thing we talked about was the 4 day a week thing and how it's losing a little bit of its recruitment because a lot of districts are starting to do it so it's not quite as enticing when there's more and more districts doing it to be able to do it um and there's still not solid evidence that it's the best thing to do for kids um one of the things that I heard somebody say Dr Watson said okay so is a football team only going to practice four days a week and if we're practicing Athletics 5 days a week we need to be educating kids 5 days a week I was just like okay yeah it got me I've never been a huge fan but I know it's a Hot Topic so um one of the other things they've talked about is free and reduce lunches um because one of the things uh that is a Hot Topic too is trying to move towards um free launches for everybody but that changes um you're at risk funding and so they've talked about using like the census indicators but but that's actually one of our legislative things so I mean that's just a topic that's out [Music] there I think that was the main thing um from all that that kind of spurred on a thought that I had that I just kind of wanted to bring to the board um so I know know some of the boards in the area have like bonly meetings not is that what I want to say two meetings a month um biweekly biweekly thank you I'm like that's not right um and I know an additional meeting is not by anybody necessarily want so I don't know if it's something we do every month or not or if it's even something we do but but I know some people um other boards have talked about trying to increase communication with teachers and um I know increasing communication with all stakeholders is a way to build trust and it's been a topic um for our board for years um just open honest communication with everybody I mean teach teachers all stakeholders uh one thing I had considered calling it was like opportunities for growth so you know whether it be a teacher bringing a thought to us or a group of teachers or us going to businesses and you know seeing how we could kind of increase our CTE Pathways or whether it just be a work session for us discussing some of our facility needs or whatever but all of that is opportunities for growth so wanted to see kind of what everybody else thought of having like a working lunch just a work session so there wouldn't necessarily be any official action ever taken but just work session every other month [Music] or I I think that's a good idea especially for our buildings are [Music] 34 we have a regular meeting two weeks later the only thing we had on the agenda was staff presentations or student presentations M so if something was happening in a classroom that teacher would come with her kiddos and did a demonstration or whatever and and there was no action taken yeah and maybe not we did it every month but for a while there we did kind of got the kiddos involved too yeah well that's another thing that's on like our is it Kissa or Civic [Music] engagement you probably remember the time when I don't know if you all know when Taylor S did her presentation with his little robots and the kids had the robots and they did the thing that might have been at a regular meeting that was at a regular meeting yeah that was over in the Hollywood cafeteria that's right but yeah having like a working lunch I mean you could move it and may could go the ability to have it at the different buildings and hear from the different teachers and students kind of meet them where they are a little bit I'm kind of heing that everybody kind of likes the idea okay maybe like was the WR word is it something that we want to schedule like three times throughout the year to do a working lunch in each School building I think it's a good start yeah you want to schedule it in advance or do you want to wait and I mean kind of depends on what's going on can you guys let me look at a calendar and talk to our principles a little bit and then I can come back and shoot you some dates at the next board meeting yeah I mean you don't want to schedule one and then they don't have anything Friday okay working lunch let call it working lunch are you guys okay with that okay I think that's all I mean a work session if you I me even on agenda you just got a work session okay so any sorry I'm good okay open Agenda items okay items for next month's agenda so we'll have the KB allc updates should have some Hall of Fame review I'm hopeful that we'll have some of the auditing reports not only from our normal audit but also maybe some from our virtual audit as well hoping to have some of that at that time to give you guys some feedback on what that looks like Adams Brown will be here this Thursday to audit internally audit so hopefully they'll be finalized and ready to go then she can come and do a presentation at the October meeting on the open Agenda i' like to curriculum for the two elementaries I don't know anything about curriculum how it works but is there reason we shouldn't have them on the same so the teachers can always talk back and forth if they have questions or anything you know normally when you're trying to to align those vertically you know in the buildings and horizontally that's best practice to do and that's something yeah that's something that we're working towards they're working towards having a math committee and I think they're actually unpacking the new language art standards so we're going over to what son on September 30th hope I told you the right date September 30th our fifth grade and downs all going over to Wilson for the professional development that day and they're having they're uh unpacking the language art standards the new language art standards and also talking about some of the math curriculum as well at that time um talked to one of the um businesses there that's uh coming in and going to cater lunch for us that day so I'm really excited about them coming in to do that so if you guys are around and want to come eat lunch with us and the teachers on that afternoon they're doing a pasta bar for all of us so be some good food up there that day so yeah I I don't D did I answer your question yeah I would just curious I said I don't know anything about how it works but that' be best if everybody's on the same page yep would be and then we'll probably have the transfer on the next month too y we have on there the final handbook approval but we just did that but I believe that there's going to be a u there might be one change in the faculty handbook facy handbook we'll still bring it principles are discussing as well so okay I would entertain a motion to adj motion byis second M all those in favor say I I any oppose same sign motion passes 60

Mr Hopkins here uh Mr K is absent uh Mrs Rodriguez here Mr Guth Miss Olson here Dr suo here Mrs Aron con here and I'm here no so we've already appointed Acer have a motion to all those in United States of America to the okay it is public comments we have no public com before even we go into the first of the informational items which is the certified employment for 2425 school year teacher Mr President members of the board M who was a teacher at a schools from 2015 to 2021 has been interviewed for a position as a reading intervention teacher no board action is necessary at this time this is a study session item only have any discussion or questions on that on to the next item certified employment of substitute teacher ad do Mr President members of the board ad Dominion has been interviewed for a position as a substitute teacher no board action is necessary at this time this is a study session item only okay anybody have any discussion questions on that it okay and we will go on to item C which is the classifi hour increase teach Mr President members of the board PR the board approve 2425 classified hourly salary schedule classified employees can increase hourly wages by completing college and professional development hours on April 19th Candace Mor gave notice to the HR analyst she intended to complete the final two college classes to complete her bachelor's degree Candace has completed these hours and is eligible to for pay increase uh the amount right there listed starting 9:16 202 before no board action is necessary at this time this is a study session I well that huge rise 10 cents an hour we have any other discussion on that one or questions not we'll go on item certified classified employment for fall intercession Mr President of the board eight teachers and four PA of professionals from K12 will work with students who need additional support and Nath during the break from October 7th to the 10th for 5 hours per day teachers and AIDS will have expressed an interest in teaching working for intercession you have the teachers listed there and the par professionals no board action is necessary at this time this is a study session item only that's question typically what is our student turnout for these fall sessions summer sessions spring sessions Mr Mr Mr I can have Miss go and give some background information on that I'm just going to go by the last intercession in the summer but anywhere from 6070 to 8090 but I'll let her talk more about this about about like that it starts usually about 70 know 70 kids and at some point it down though but the good thing about it's just four days and it's just for four hours so it's not very long in the past we had a whole month during the summer that was not effective that's why we got it shorter and about yeah 60 to 70 kids participate that's pretty good turn out can we do any testing after those intercessions to measure the impact it's had um what since last year I believe we are more focused on the benchmark assessments okay so it's per standard and then and then when they come back or at the end of the I can't remember fully Mr Mr Case is the one that's leading the intercessions and if I remember right at the end they retake the test like that portion there five questions first standard okay thank you any other questions on that are the is it mandated for some kid to come to no we highly we want that to come but it's not strongly encouraged right calls to parents teachers ad anything F and the next item e is volunteer position employment for football coach Nicholas a Mr President members of the board Nicholas aary is interested in volunteer coaching for the boys football team his volunteer employment has been approved by the co-head coach and athletic director no board actions is necessary at this time this is a study session IEM moment I'm ass you still need to get a background Che I believe so I believe I believe he's I believe he should I think he's been approved of he good okay I thought I knew I wasn't capacity figure he had to get some background check for he's also working for theadi the radio station during the games yes yeah yeah yeah yeah I also figured his job is reg job in John probably require background check to okay item F business approval of the prek solicitation letter Mr President members of the board if you guys can go into a board docs I'll just as I'm reading this you can kind of look that over uh just and give us your feedback in an effort to increase funds for the AL prek program a solicitation letter has been drafted by the prek director who happens to be here today in attendance and approved by the district's attorney the district's attorney has suggested the letter be approved by the governing board before public issued since it is a solicitation of public funds no board action do necessary at this time this is a study session item only um we have it there on on the Whiteboard any information any feedback please let us know uh what do you guys think the heading Stu shows Dr No that's I just that right now off before the wede okay because the the hard copy I have here says Mercy don't but that one is different the one thing I'm curious about is I think it's important I mean the main reason that Tyler is suggesting such a big jump is because it has not gone up at all in eight years and to me that's that's important information for the public to know because they know that minimum wage in our state has gone up and they know that expenses have gone up but if they're not realizing that oh this Tosh hasn't changed in eight years they might think that's an incredibly big jump whereas just doing the math in my head the other night I realized if we had just increased at $25 a year for those eight years we would be at the 475 level and it wouldn't have been a shock to the individual wallets so I I don't to me that that would be valuable you put in there part of you know part of this is hey this hasn't got up in a while an expensive path and that's why it might that's why they're looking at this but I'll take other feedback on that as well who this being who's this going to well we just want we want to make a list between Miss Mrs C actually took the lead and just gave us a a number of of uh in fact you're okay with it can ask her just to give us a quick little back yes I have come up with the list of different scholarship organizations that we have in town and some business owners um yeah we we need we need something official to be able to get things going the F yes this eligible for tax reate money on federal taxes yes on state taxes no like so you donate to football you can't donate to preschool correct because it's not it's not extracurricular it's it's technically Child Care is preschool so the individual if I had a kid and they were going to pres school and I was paying tuition then I use that that what I paid as tax credit money but the school the individual school or donating if I'm donating for the prek program I can't individually give tax credit if I'm paying the tuition for my kid then I can use it as tax credit but we can't um if if I gave to to the actual school or whatever then it's just a donation that I can get off the end it can't be used as big syst anybody else have any suggestions on the letter or you know feel free if you if you need my idea of including the lack of increase for years you Mr can I say something just a reminder and of course you guys will make the final decision but just so everyone knows and Mrs C correct me if if I'm wrong I believe we have 15 students right now yes sir and we'll go up to 16 in November not all students will be paying this increase in tuition I believe it will be seven the other nine right um the other nine have scholarships or the scholarships are worked out six are under scholarships six are under scholarships and then two two for special education funding I think um when we had the meeting back in August we only had four tuition based students so after everything was put on the paper and the announcement um we still continue to get involvement for tuition base so some of the families are aware from then on we have three additional families so now we have seven tuition B from the meeting in August to now three have joined and tuition and there's one more coming in November and they are aware of it when the child Burns three then that's the eth student memory sech from last month you actually let folks know that the tuition might be increasing already so the fact that we're still getting students so it's seven of the total 16 yes that would be basically this incre not all six okay and that's who the funds we're asking we're going to be asking for go to help those to be able to pay that increase yes sir I put in here seven tuition based maybe should I do eight since we're going to get another one I would yeah it does matter and the new is paying the 275 not the new nothing's beened so still the 275 they P yeah it's next month that we have Ted it until the next month so it's 275 time8 kids times how many months 10 months 10 months I think you know if I I'm trying to see where you're going here Mr President Mr Jey I think the deficits at 37,000 with adding those three tuition have joined since August to now just an estimate if it stays at 275 with just those three not counting the fourth one it's maybe around 31,000 to $30,000 deficit if it stays at and just those two those those families keep paying the same tuition if we get additional it's going to go below 30,000 stay at 275 now we can have for you uh for October um we can you know that that's just an estimate if it stays where it's at we don't get no more students which you we have to do a conservative estimate 16 students four more paying 275 a month more or less 30,000 would VI the deficit more or less stays where it's at and we get no mo so only problem I see with this is this going to be a perpetuating problem you know what I'm trying to say it's not going to be like a onetime shot make we're going to make this $35,000 goal this you know and then next year we're going to turn around and say we need another $35,000 I'm just saying that that it's pretty difficult all right that's where I I think the situation would have been helped a lot had there been that maybe $25 a year increase over all the years I said since 2018 when it was last gr the price of everything is gone up but not the price of this program and it's a valuable program we want students in it so yeah if we if we do vote to go to 475 it's not like that's the last increase we would vote at but hopefully by then we can come up with a predictable system of expect giving out the expectation that hey every year it's going to go up a small amount you and I'm completely aware of how much the jump of $200 a month could have a negative impact on students and their families that's where I'm thinking if we do this increase we also do it and make clear that we have the understanding that it will keep increasing but we want to have it increased in smaller steps so that it's not a barrier any other feedback you guys can on the letter just on the letter or on the whole situation just mostly on the letter yes what you can always maybe more uh elaborate more on what you're thinking about on the vote in October what you guys decide to do yeah we'll have that full discussion that can take that can go over anything and everything with the program the letter look good yeah okay there's nothing else on that we'll go on to item G the 2425 proposition 301 plan for performance Mr President members of the board a committee made up of teachers representing a variety of grade labels 3K 12 and subjects taught review and revised the attached prop F1 plan classroom s from plan 100% of teachers voted to approve the attach plan on Wednesday August 28th 2024 no board action is necessary at this time this is a study session item only you can look on has it up on the white board in front of you I'm just going to go through my notes Here uh very focused um teachers must be certified with the standard of provisional Arizona Department of Education certificate um 301 money will be prated to Wi teacher certificate is received CE if they are not certified at the start um documentation School provided forms phone calls emails direct messaging emails printed for positive parent contacts prek through sixth grade 80% of the parents The Home Room class have to be contacted with proof of of the contact attempts grade 7th through 12th grade specials teachers uh PE art um music um 80% of of of uh of of the designated class has to be contacted uh smart go specific measurable achievable rigor and relevant time Bound for the teachers also for the As far as the uh student rate of improvement as measured by the smart goal uh that's very critical uh at on the second page at the top the first paragraph provide positive feedback something in there really is is directly related to our mission uh generating relationship with parents is our mission g g g if you remember game that's the whole focus of making sure the content different parents to gain as many parents as possible each time um smart goal is very rigorous per based on the performance quity performance assessments the benchmarks um Project based learning the rigorous the rigor maybe it's not the performance quity performance assessments what are the teachers coming up with what kind of r uh assessments are they using and just to uh a reminder Miss has to approve all of the goals so um if there's anything else she wanted to add um anything else you could I think he said it all I know the smart is the smart go thing new this year not necessarily but they did at the start well before the start of the school year like they started they rote their big go you just have to revisit it and and see if it's still the same yes they so the teacher sets the goal and then if the kids meet the gold the teach for their fund question Sor how much how much are we talking per per teacher more or less how much the money yes I don't know that that uh Mr Hopkins Mr Dey um the the performance for this specific part the performance pays I believe 5614 the total classroom site fund was 14,35 and if you remember what Tyler mentioned earlier and a few months ago 8420 8421 that was collapsed into the base salary for every teacher this 5614 by Statute has to be through some kind of performance so and this will be they'll be F this in May so for each teacher is $ 5,614 for this specific performance plan for each teacher the certified mut reement and one who gets certified partway through is pro somebody get certified way through the year bonus pay for the amount of the year that they were ceri yeah the maximum pay up6 and last year was the first year we started doing that 2324 whereas in years past it was awarded the year after the goal was met uh few of our teacher leaders specifically our our CT director Mr Ji met with Mr Mo myself and this I'm going on Dr sholz and made the adjustment to where the teachers get their performance P for the year's goal before that year is over before they for the summer May which makes sense that's how District do to me it's you want you want the reward to come soon after the action you don't want to earn it and then wait a year get it me want to make sure that the goals and everything that we set are attainable enough so our teachers can get this money because they need this money to survive right and so want to make sure that they they every teacher goes over the go direct they're directly both they they preliminary wrote it already except for the primary they made their last Wednesday because they just got their div data and then they're going to revisit it before finally submitting a effort just to make sure that okay is this is this attainable yes you know that's that's the C you want everyone to get the maximum okay okay we're on to the next item item each donations to the office Mr President members of the board and response to the request from Miss sssen donations on a school's website I believe I'm gonna turn this over to miss valuel who has a really really nice presentation for you of how this applies to us here in our Unified School District so I work with our our P sale contact which is clover that's the machine that lets us yeah take cards cards Apple pay all that kind of good stuff um and they uh they work with our website people to add um a donation button at the top um I didn't want to make it kind of colory or flowery but it's it should be right at the top as you log into aqu schools like yeah yeah so um it should be where the intern it's going to be slow um and as soon as we click it it'll send you to Clover it has a direct link to our our point of sale and everything is is masked under their um secrecy privacy log on I did test it um earlier today I um or I should say a certain person gave dollar um to uh and this is the process that it comes to you go to their their website the person can put in their their contact information their card commission and then they um hit donate on the bottom um instantly they get a screenshot that says that the the receipt which received the donations received and they get whatever email address that they give will get that separate second receipt um at the same time I as the the the district Treasurer um I get an email saying that you've been paid you know so much money by this person and it gives their email address and and that and then I checked our bank account and it shows um that the dollar was deposited into our bank account so everything happens within seconds of each other and I can um because I get this this little email that says that we've been given a I can email them back and say you know contact this and that thank you very much you know um is there any more information that you wanted to give me on because the only thing it doesn't really have is a like a notes category specifying where spey where they wanted or where they needed I I talked to Clover and they said um without us upgrading like our platform for so much more a month or whatever and I said well we'll try just right now just to if once I get the the automatic email because it it it happens everything happens within seconds I can always reply back to them hopefully they're still online or on their phone or whatever and say can I have more information on where would you would like this donation to be applied or you know this or that or whatever and then when they get the donation I I didn't show it um because it's a screenshot of my email um but it gives the School's contact information inform um on the receipt of the donation given so if they wanted to follow up if um I F enough um they could always email and say hey this is you know blah blah but I can't get that extra extra little notes or specification without going to a whole another you know so much a month for for the process or the whatever so um for right now we're just going to see how this works out and then um you can still do Apple pay Google pay you know all that kind of stuff but it is on our website and it is live and it is so you can be emailing every donation to find out where they want this I'm kind of stuck because like I said unless we leave it's a a couple you know 100 to upgrade our our point of sale um system is that for month is that per month or is that just in general I believe we pay they take every month they take a certain percentage off of what we bring in from our from our Point sales so like if we're doing um uh football t-shirt sales basketball you know entries or whatever it's going to be more the percentage that comes out is more than like baseball softball where we don't have those point of sale tickets but I am doing a lot of like yearbook sales so it all depends on what typ of the year they don't want to say okay we're taking you know $500 every month or 100 every month so they say a percentage of everything that we collect is taken out and then the bigger the amount that we collect the bigger the percentages or that they do it as a percentage instead of a dollar amount so then that way my low sales you're not pulling into the red and and the high sales then you're coming out kind of you so the percentage would go up so it's not really a dollar amount for coming out each one okay well think I Wasing the same I think it was kind of the same thing you were on which was do we know if we were to upgrade it to that we have an idea of what like the yearly cost would be estimate you had said 200 and don't know that was just off the top of your head it was just off the top of it's a percentage Okay so thinking if it's $200 for year that makes sense to do it because the time you're going to spend working emails is more valuable than that $200 a year right and it you that and it just makes it more efficient to the system but that only works if we know what have a really good idea of what the increase would cost the school right because if it comes out that it's going to be a wash I know that the point of s system is is convenient people come in cards um hardly everybody car around them but um if it ends up being a watch then I mean there's really other than just having it to be a convenience it kind of GES itself and I I I argued until we got this we've only had this probably what three years four years before we didn't have any P system but when we started it at the time three or four years ago the card at the premium that we wanted to start at it would have been a wash and we would have made no money and for a school district where if you're paying for yearbooks or this or that then that money is going back into the the point of sale system it didn't really worked out at the time so we went down to the lower system so I'm not sure how it's going to be now but that's when we started the the level above it was taking away from those those areas instead of giving to them so as a school district I mean if it were a business and we were just selling stuff like t-shirts or whatever then I mean it would be a wash and it would be fine but because kids are raising money on certain things or were were replacing certain things then a wash isn't a isn't a good idea for school district were you saying this is the first time we've had that on the website so that by itself might actually increase the number of donations we're getting now it's right there people can see it without having to call the office to find out um I definitely would be interested in kind of revisiting this after we did it going if we approve it Wednesday to see if it makes Financial sense to upgrade because again you know if if you get 10 donations in a day and you're sending out 10 individual emails eventually that winds up not being an efficient use of the district's money to be paying you to if it's if it cost less to just have the automatic line on there where would you like this donation I'm excited about this notna lie so my L I'm excited about it okay we have nothing else on that the next item is the report on JB basketball and track Mr Hopkins uh members of the board the uh want to just go over the information you have the attachments and board docs I'm going to read over the notes I have are the same I just have some some side notes but this is for uh in response to Mr guff's request for H JB basketball and track so we actually broke it down into a junior high junor high school basketball because we have a number of our freshman and sophomores that play on the bar SE so we're trying to trying to be as diverse as we can here so you have Junior High School basketball you have a head coach there the cost basketballs uniforms a subtotal uh some other notes just for you to have um High School boys and girls practice 4 to 8:00 pm daily in the gym uh Pima County Parks and Recreation does offer sixth to eighth grade basketball the high school team to use the white activity bus for their away games one uh key element we'd have to focus on is we would need more Transportation Drivers so I've talked to say about this about trying to get more of of our other employees of their CDL license so that would be the challenge um High School tracking field there's the head coach cost uh now from what I uh you have a Canyon State athletic association cost per athlete uh we want to have at least 10 athletes you see the uniforms at least 10 times the amount and the reason is as you see in one of the attachments and board dos and just doing some research I believe uh 10 students is the amount to have at least a have a competitive team this was for March 5th 2014 there was an extracurricular Cur extracurricular extracurricular activities guidelines minimal participation of interner Scholastic this is passed by the board previously to try and have at least a good number of students versus a team of four or five students go to an away meet maybe the other team has 15 20 25 30 I'm just making up a number so uh I believe also uh in doing research the this was made in 2014 when AO was still in the AIA Arizona inter Scholastic Association hour with CAA um track and field February 28th practice would start May 4th regular season ends uh other notes of Interest number six Transportation will take place during the same season As baseball and softball so once again uh we would need to really focus on having more trans more drivers more people SC CDL any of our staff or how we could go about getting additional drivers for another wanted to to always be well if I if I understand correctly we um we might we might be able to do it with what with what we have we just we need we have Jose is our main driver like for example he just drove Friday to Saturday to and you need him to do it because he's the one who has the CD out but he also does the county so that's why Mi mention of of having additional drivers um try and just to see if we can get more feedback last time we we only put up a sign a signup sheet at the school office uh we should also probably address this with student councel to get their feedback see what what ideas they have um Melissa razio is the director of track and field all meets are on Saturdays so that might address the challenge of not having enough transportation drivers that for track and field the meets are on Saturday CLE so that is for your information and um com sure sure so if you call JB basketball which I don't know how much there's even a JB league in the CAA that you can bring up your seventh and eighth graders and then your high school kids your freshman sophomores that will never see the court they would be able to play on a JB level with your seventh and eighth graders and it would give those kids a chance to play some basketball if you called it JB right if you call it Junior High then you can't bring little freshman sophomores down to play play with them right as for transportation we'll never have so many kids that you got to send a bus driver you don't send a bus driver now with with the cheerleaders or whatever you just have the coach drive and so the coach would drive the white bus with with those kids in the bus right you'll never have more more kids than you do have space in the bus for those for those kids so you wouldn't have to have a bus driver am I right or wrong that's that's an option right then in high school to start off with huh to trct to start off with we don't have to start off with Disc Shop Hut long jump if we just entered kids in running events to start off with to start off the program to get kids interested even if it is five kids six kids then the the program will build on itself year after year after year so you don't have to go out and spend all this money to start off with if they run sprints distance relays participate which is what they did before we had a track team before we didn't have long jumpers discus I mean we were a lot bigger when we had all that right so you could you can do that without buying all that additional equipment again the coach can drive the white bus to your meets on Saturdays so you wouldn't have to have a bus driver if anything I'm saying is wrong just tell me I'm wrong those are options you know and and so I just we have a group of kids they can't they're no good at baseball and they're no good at softball and so they spend the whole spring doing nothing because they're just not good enough to to play you know those years in softball they have 26 girls out there you know and and 13 of those girls are never even going to see the field but they might go run on on a Saturday right and participate in in something and be busy and make grades so they can you know and so I I think the reason that they're looking at those ones is because our track is not up to code and wouldn't be not going to have here I know but if you're talking about them practicing they'd still be practicing they don't have to practice in the field though they don't have to practice on it they can run around the town too as long as they're running together because that's what they used to do at my high school well I'm thinking too if you're doing finished if we're running track events we'd have to have them set measurements we'd have to have the hurdles set at the specific lles Donnie I'm still speaking if we're talking about track events there are measured distances that have to be R so we could have them practice by running around town but if we're going to say okay now we're doing 100 yard dash then fine we can do it we'd have to have somebody go out and measure out 100 yards and somebody starting it and somebody stopping it and yeah we don't have to do hurdles but that is another running event like I'm saying if we can't practice if the field isn't if the track itself isn't up to the code of our conference to me I wouldn't be comfortable having students practice on that track all we need is one kid hit that curb and break an ankle and the school's liable for so make differ respectively you can take a drag pull it behind a tractor drag the track and the track is smooth enough 100 yard dash still has a curve those are the things that because again if somebody running in the outside line and they take a fall and they hit their head on the side of our bleachers which are right there I had talked with Eric about this at one point and he mentioned that we have enough he said there is a possibility down the road of just replacing the track and we could do that without moving anything because we have so much distance between the bleachers and the football field but like I said just for for practicing even even though we know it's not going to be running meets there on our track but again we wouldn't want our I wouldn't want our students practicing on a field that is not as safe as it needs to be to qualify to be a Conference Track oh Mr Hopkins um if I what what if we what if we focus it looks like that option of of The meong Saturdays I think actually help us with the challenges that we have what if we really really focus on let's really focus on uh High School track and field just give it a shot I mean we have enough time in ADV event right now it's not till till the spring to really plan for it and even if we get 10 I mean it's it's a start I I can think of already one staff member right now could be a potential track and field coach works here on a regular basis he's he's done running and all the other schools he's worked at around Arizona if he would apply and then you know we go through a process and he's the best person selected um but Saturdays opens up an option of that maybe the first option would be a little a little too challenging to get into this year because it's in a few months but maybe we can focus on that High School track and fail start honestly I'm in agreement with you an I want to have as many sporting events our students to do part of but I want them to be up to the standard that they need to be and that's why when this has come up before I've always wondered if we've thought about cross country because there again we don't need a track for that and there's minimal equipment I just don't know what interest are on I just don't know what the interest of the students is the logic you're using right now respectfully right we couldn't play a softball game go walk on that Outfield go see the amount of rocks and things that are on that Outfield right if you're going to talk about something to be complet and save you could never play another softball game on that field you could never play another football game I me we played football you you saw how the football field wasn't better now but you saw how it was well look at the baseball field look at the goer holes and things that are in that field yes using the logic that you're using we don't have a safe field we don't have a safe anything other than a basketball court so it sounds to me like you're saying since these ones are already not as safe as they could be it doesn't matter if we add something it doesn't matter if we add something else that's not as as could you saying we ran track on that for 50 years and I never heard of a kid falling hit in their head on the concrete slap and standards have changed over the last 50 years what this an acceptable track I know that from completely different standard so yeah I agree we want to have as many options as we are and if you're pointing out the fact that we have facilities and sporting that needs more more maintenance to it then to me it would make sense to spend the money fixing those ones than investing in another one that's not going to be up to the Safety Stand and again I agree with you I want to have as many sporting opportunities for our students as possible I know that there are many students that that's what keeps them in school I don't want to be sitting at this table finding out that one of my students broke an ankle on the track that was definitely not up to the standard of our can I ask a question now um did we not put up a sign up sheet last school year for cross country in the office I thought we did for track and fill oh track and fill and how many did we get any people that signed up only had a few students but I think it was probably try and have a little more active campaign this year it's so it's probably at least what six five months ahead five months before I think that's something where if you do have some sh signing up and then showing up some interest generates among their friends more people because they see it happen a lot more competition for kids in the fall than there is in the spring because in the fall you have leading and football and so you almost bring in almost all your the majority of your kids and volleyball and so you have the majority of your kids involved in those Sports in the spring L you're competing against baseball softball cross country in the fall try spr I believe I believe the parks also does run a cross country they didn't do it last year but they did do it the year before yeah so I'm wondering why they did last year was there an interest what happened there but I mean there's definitely kids participating in these events so I don't think they did it for the older kids though really I don't I think it was just the younger kids yeah and there's no track at all how Parks no they ran they ran the football fi or the field the Little League field I think cross country is part of the Sor desert um Sports Le so hope they do do that I I don't know why B didn't participate but the other schools do participate and I believe is right after football and just before fo this next four yeah yeah they do have it out this morning desert and really I do think if we did go a little bit for some of the shorter sprinting competitions we wouldn't necessarily need the track we could measure that out when we have yardage markers on the football field already they could do 100 yard dash running from don't believe it's actually because of confence discuss anything else okay and if there's nothing else I'll go on to the next item which is the report of the school Mr President members of the board we have our Dynamic move on reading Co coordinators they are very dedicated um I'll take them seven days of the week and twice on Sunday so this lines up actually to a governing board go governing board goals goal one the governing board will receive beginning middle and end of the year student data with a focus on reading scores demonstrating growth on the D's reading benchmark so we have Miss C and Miss badis to share some you know this is critical I just remember teaching first grade for three years and our our our our mission at the school was if a child can read if they're safe the child can read they can do anything if they're safe they can do it even better so if you can read you can do anything that starts here so got hello again and good evening um as Dr sh have mentioned Miss marar and I are your moon one reading coordinators this year and we have the DBL beginning of thetion so just a quick review what is tibles it stands for dynamic indicators of basic early literacy skills so your key wordss here are early literacy skills in order for a student to be able to read they need to have good foundational skills in reading and that's what dibles assess all right more information about DBL here it's a literacy assessment collected by teachers interacting with students one in one when they are tested they are not tested as a group they are pulled out from the classroom one at a time in a different classroom to be tested um and then we do this three times a year the beginning of the year the middle and end of the year and that's what we call the Benchmark assessment more information here um Theos school has different subtest so these are the different subtest that the students took letter name influency when name ex segmentation fluency nonsense word fluency word reading fluency oral reading fluency and Maze for kindergarten they did the letter naming fluency until word reading fluency for first graders they did the letter naming fluency until the oral reading fluency and for second graders and up it's from the letter naming fluency until me so the higher the grade level the more subjects um these are our colorcoded indicators red in the next couple of slides you will see the numbers the figures the data um these are the indicators if you see red it means well below Benchmark that also means the student is significantly at risk for reading difficulties the yellow stands for below Benchmark that means the student is at risk for reading difficulties green is at Benchmark and blue is above Benchmark this is where we want to see our students now remember this is only the Baseline we only establishing the Baseline um we did the beginning of the benchmark test last month August 19th so we're barely in school for about two weeks when we started collecting this data um Miss bagar will dig more on this data okay so good evening everyone I am misses I am the kindergarten teacher so as you can see here oh before telling you about the data I just want to share it to everybody that our beginning of this uh beginning of the year Li assessment was conducted earlier this year than last year so for as teachers I I think we believe that it's better because you will be able to see the students who are at risk already especially students who are already in well below Benchmark and Below Benchmark so that we will be able to group them according to the to their level and data and then we will be able to give them um differentiated instructions so when we go to our um kindergarten data so as you can see there we have five students who are at well well below Benchmark and nine students who are at below Benchmark we have three students who are at Benchmark and we have one student who is above Benchmark I ask a question yeah sure are are any of those kids English Learners yes later I will show you that we we will show you the number of students who are em yeah I can tell you some of the ones at Benchmark came from the oh yeah for kindergarten we have the else because um only from first grade to third grade we being pulled out by our yes so as you can see here just like what M goate uh shared to us we have here the different um sub tests for kindergarten so from letter names bonic awareness letter sounds to coding word reading vocabulary and brand so for kindergarten um the strength that we have there is word reading fluency and vocabulary so as you can see we have there our um word reading fluency and vocabulary we have 12 students or 67% of our kindergarteners are already at Benchmark and for vocabulary we also have 11 students who are already at Benchmark so for our areas of focus we have letter naming and we also have letter sounds I have one question on the previous slide I just didn't know the ones where it's got White Stripes going through those were students are yeah no I think it means if they are starting to be assessed and they miss so many consecutive it just continues the test and doesn't let them finish so those are our risk indicators to so um we will now go to first grade so first grade we have six students who are at well below Benchmark four students who are below Benchmark seven and lastly we have seven St students who are already at Benchmark so for first grade we have um their strength is in decoding which we have um where is it we have nine students who are already at Benchmark and we have one student who is already uh at above Benchmark so I'm sorry to keep I keep so first grade we did have English Learners right there's no El in that group and any of these any of the Devils so Kinder yes the E is mixed up there the first grade group no second no third grade no yeah and then they'll they'll show it okay so for this data we don't have El students here um uh we will have another um data for them later okay so if you have if you have English learner kids this test a lot diff a lot more difficult for them than a than a kid that is not an English learn yes so then this would be screwed in that that's not the word I'm looking for it but it it it would be screed screwed thank you into into people thinking while these kids aren't doing very well but the reason why the statistics are are down is because we have kids that are English Learners mix into those groups so in kindergarten they are all mixed up uh those data in kindergarten they have uh all mixed up like uh English uh Learners and also so so in the in the first grade you take those kids out of out of these stats yeah from first grade to third grade are they are those kids tested anyway though yes different SL we have we also have their teacher for the n program so for um just like what I said for first grade their strength is in decoding and their area of focus is in letter names and word reading fluency so let's now go to second grade then again this data we don't have El students here so uh we have six students who are at well well Benchmark six students who are at below Benchmark five students who are at Benchmark and we also have five students who are already above Benchmark so for second grade their strengths are in Reading uh reading accuracy and decoding so as you can see here in Reading accuracy we have 16 students out of 22 who are already at Benchmark and for um decoding we have 16 oh no no 17 17 11 no 16 students who are already at Benchmark and we have one student who is already above Benchmark so for their area of focus we have reading fluency and we also have reading comprehension for third grade we have here four students who are already at who are who are at 12 below Benchmark and eight students who are below Benchmark four students who are at Benchmark and four students are already above Benchmark so for third grade their strength is in Reading accuracy so they have 15 uh students out of 20 so 75% of the class is already at Benchmark and we have there their area of focus we have letter sounds and decoding so here for the next slide we will show you the El students so as of the moment we have from first grade to third grade we have 16 students who are um El students so um I put here in my note we have from first grade we have four students second grade we have 11 students and for third grade we have one a total of 16 students for E so we have 13 students who are uh well below Benchmark two students who are below Benchmark and one student who are at benchmark all right what's our plan so our data is only as good as what we do with it so this is the plan that we have um for each classro to have whole group instruction that's strategically adding routine that addresses the foundational skills and we know the foundational skills are phone phonic pmic awareness you know some vocabulary in their comprehension and fluency um for identified theer two students you know um small group instruction according to D's results and provide differentiated instruction normally um theer two instruction would happen during Center time when they do their Center rotation small group um instruction um theer three um start progress monitoring every two weeks and additional daily small group instruction so the students in the two if the teacher met them in the morning there's an allotted time again during seventh period they will be met again during seventh period to provide that additional small group instruction so those students are like getting double dose of instruction one in the morning and then one in the afternoon and then we hope that when after school school shooring starts um we can offer that to our students who needs help inter session can also be an Avenue for that and then reaching out to parents and families um we have an upcoming parent teacher conference in two weeks so we can use that platform to share the dles res as well as resources for the families to use at home our kids that go are they able to do after school tring yes they have time to do that um there's a bus we do arrange for bus once that starts we're hoping to start in November you have any questions how will the reading intervention teacher be utilized to address well right now we just first we need uh intervention teaches be here so so the three intervention we have embedded in the schedule right aside from that we're thinking of um doing that so not during math instruction not during the core instruction for ELA um we still have to really look into it but at the same time we have to pull them 20 minutes a day but depending on the data and depending on our results and who our Focus withing I know it's easier to close the gap for first grade so maybe one of our targets will be first grade and then the second grade too and we I find our third grade um score seems like it's a strong group based on that data I'm not sure if um they'll need a lot of extra support but that's what I was thinking of the intervention but again still have to sit down and really nail it for for the timing and I don't have all the timings yet so are they going to be mostly in the primary area or are they going to be providing reading intervention and I don't have I don't have all the answers yet um I know a number of our kids are doing what is that thoughts study smart tring so those that are doing study smart toring will take note of them because they they see the teacher every day four times a week a number of them and then for those that do not have then then you really have to collaborate closely because we talked about really sitting down and to go about this and then from there because our our reading teacher is also has high school kids so this teacher has is doing uh call that the specials period three and period four and then period five or perod I can't remember who also has because this is a SP teacher as well so she have um 9 to 12 SP kids at one point for ELA so the other times then we will tap for for the intervention I don't have all the answers that's what I'm saying but we're going to use as many teachers as possible including our four teachers because we have that embedded in their schedule we just have to make sure because I don't we need to revisit it I've heard feedback about the afternoon maybe not as effective and you may need to move it a little earlier so so those things so again like you know there's basically no one best solution in everything we try not working and hearing feedback and we have to go back to the table sit down and then adjust the schedule that's one thing that I've heard that that the last year is is not as effective so we definitely have to revisit and from there her schedule will only have two periods of that for intervention she has two three she'll have three periods you'll use her for intervention what FS I don't know yet and then for our math teacher Soo Crossing finger so that you'll also be able to join the other times that should be available will also be t for intervention so so I said more the more people the better maybe just for the next time for you know since we are separating our general like English speakers from our El students I'd like to see data like broken down data on the El students because we just had the bands I want to see specifically where they're having a deficit because then I want to see where reading intervention is going to basically all of them is read but we're not getting the we I I recommended not to put it up there because we only have like they have the third grade data only one student I like I requested for as as much as possible if it can be just you know one data as a whole so it's not identifying anyone student but yes in the future we'll we'll have that I know it was there it was not comfortable this afternoon okay so maybe next time don't segregate the two I want to see them together as a whole class and at a full grade level what do we need to do for each I did recommend that but we didn't have a lot of time okay well we have time now for the next one yes we now have time for the next one it's just better to see all of them together so we'll see the whole Cort we did this so the same slides but just additional slide for E well you separate I want to see the broken down data where they're showing their deficit is it the letter meing is it the you know nonsense words different sub unless you're just going to combine them into a grade band I want to see all of the kindergarten data all of the first grade data not segregating e from your English speakers because I think you know yeah yeah yeah we talked about that earlier but the very short time frame that we had to turn around and submit and said you know what get it next time we will make sure that we have that get it's just better to have the whole dat then segreg right because then when you're providing your reading instruction and your intervention and your differentiated groups yeah you know what I mean you have to take that into account agre but one thing for sure interventionist will focus on the well below Benchmark of course yes not the below Benchmark but the well below kids they usually the [Music] ones absolutely there anything else thank you I think it was a great presentation thank you very much I think we're lucky to have you guys than item um mine is going to be pushed to October okay is that us no it's the uh um um jrc oh yeah yes we're going to move that to October yeah yeah okay if there is nothing else I will ask I make I will second all those in favor pass [Music]

want e welcome to tonight's um school board meeting I almost said Advisory Board I just came out one of those uh welcome everybody for those visitors that I've never seen before or anyone else that hasn't been here if you wouldn't mind signing in so that we can have an accurate description of everyone that's here tonight and an accurate accounting so again welcome thank you for being here if you are able would you please stand and say the Pledge with me Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the rep for it stands one nation God indivisible withy and justice for all item number four is adoption of our agenda I would like to make a motion to move item number 12 which is our executive session to become item number five right after um our adoption of the agenda and then subsequent agenda item numbers will be would Advance one by one for example call to the public will be immediately after that and everything else will fall into place thereafter I'll make a motion second second thank you motion on the table all right so then I would entain a motion to go into executive session I'll take a motion to go into executive session fantastic thank you all in favor I ladies and gentlemen we'll be just a few minutes I believe do we have snacks this I puts and water bottles fantastic we have some granola bars and water bottles if you want to hang out a few we'll be back nobody's [Music] what e e e thank you all let me just get all my notes put together all right so we're going to reconvene our regular meeting thank you all for your patience and thank you for sticking with us um so our next agenda item is item number four five call to the public six six because we moved executive to five I need to change my numbers or we're going to be doing that all night so item number six is call to the public I do have two call to the Public Notices just need to read a quick little statement um the board invites the viewpoints of citizens throughout the district and considers the responsible presentation of these viewpoints vital to the efficient operation of the district the board also recognizes its responsibility for the proper governance of the schools and therefore the need to conduct its business in an order and efficient manner the board therefore establishes the following procedures to receive input for from citizens of the board any individual Desiring to address the board shall complete a form and give this form to the superintendent prior to the start of the board meeting when you come to the podium oh you're supposed to give that when you come to the podium but also when you come to the the podium please state your name and um if you live within our School boundaries the board president shall be responsible for recognizing the speakers maintaining proper order and adhering to any true set time limit questions requiring investigation shall be referred to the superintendent for later report to the board questions or comments on matters that are currently under legal review will not receive a response if considered necessary the president shall set a time limit on the length of the comment period our policy is three minutes per speaker that's to ensure that each individual has an opportunity to address the board the president may also set a time limit which is our three minutes personal attacks upon board members staff Personnel or other persons in attendance are absent by individuals who address the board are discouraged policies K KB keec and K are provided by the board for disposition of legitimate complaints including those involving individuals the upon conclusion of the open call to the public individual members of the board May respond to any criticis criticism made by an individual who has addressed that board member specifically so first up we have a Miss Kimberly [Music] sapco thank you hi my name is Kim zco and our family does live within the Chino Valley School District I'm a mom of five kids um we've lived in Chino for 10 years also a registered nurse and I want to address the board today on a decision that has been made locally and throughout gapai County to disallow Esa students from participating in extracurricular activities throughout the school district once I became aware of this decision I began writing to superintendent Daniels and Cindy and asked friends and family and other affected families to do the same asking for the opportunity for ES Esa students to try out for these Sports and programs it wasn't long before it became clear that the position of both superintendent Daniels and Carter was that there was no provision in state law for Esa students to participate in these activities including the sports teams so in a response from superintendent Daniels written to my father-in-law on September 3rd she stated unfortunately this is a decision that cannot be made at the district level quite simply state law does not allow it I have copies of that email exchange as well response to both myself and my husband superintendent Carter and Daniel suggested that their legal counsel was on the same page but denied our requests to provide legal counsel citing attorney client privilege I have copies of those emails as well you may be asking yourself why does this lady care so much why won't she just let the decision be in short I do not believe that you have been provided with all the necessary facts to make an informed decision and that is what I would like to present to you today before I cite the specific law that clearly allows Esa students to participate in these activities I would like to dispel another misconception regarding Esa students and families specifically how those funds are used we all know that a few bad apples can ruin the whole bunch including Esa parents and even in our Public Schools however that doesn't make the whole system bad when in fact the overwhelming majority are using those funds exactly as they're intended for both my husband and I attended Public Schools growing up and we've always believed in the public school system it is a necessary component in our society we also believe in school choice and understand that not every student is going to thrive in a public school environment a great example is our oldest son Hudson who started his freshman year of high school this year a few years ago he was diagnosed here at Chino Valley Unified with dyslexia and multiple processing disorders His official IEP written by the school psychologist states that he needs a quiet learning environment with onetoone instruction it was the recommendation of that school psychologists that we continued to homeschool and we were provided with various contacts for individual tutors most of them being helping School teachers here in our district he has been part of the esa program prior to Universal Esa and we use his Esa funds to pay for those tutoring services our son is also very active in our community in baseball despite his learning disabilities this sport has been an extremely positive activity through for him throughout the years and something he's excelled in we have been involved in the Chino Valley Little League since moving here and Hudson has displayed exceptional playing the culmination of his little lady exps was this summer when his team most of whom are students here at Cho Valley High voted him as team captain for his All-Star team where he helped lead them to a district Championship stco I apologize it is it has been three minutes can you summarize pretty quickly oh my husband's going to read the second half there you go good teamwork way to plan and this I'm guessing is Mr joseco that's correct thank you Joseph sap and I live in Unified School District um so we're sharing this story about our son um to help you understand the decisions and actions of this board have an impact on real people and your community as I mentioned a few moments ago Arizona law does allow for Esa students to participate in extracurricular activities contrary to what superintendent Daniels and Carter would have you believe after they began to use the term legal counsel we knew this issue was going to be Beyond us and we began reaching out to other officials throughout the state something just didn't seem right especially in light of the fact that it is well documented other school districts such as Mesa Tempe Flagstaff and others have all voted to allow Esa students to participate in these activities if these districts are allowing it how could it be illegal I received a letter from Jenny Clark member Arizona State Board of Education that cites ars1 15242 b4k which allows Esa students to use Esa funds for services provided by a public school including individual classes and extracurricular programs she also cites the ad Esa handbook which must comply with state law and is approved by the SBE which clear clearly shows on page 22 that Esa students are allowed to participate in sports the handbook actually provides instructions for schools on how to categorize and charge Esa students should they choose to charge them I have copies of this letter for you as well and including this letter and is an example of how school district and Flag Staff charges for these programs we also received a letter from Bethany Miller uh Bethany Miller legislative Council for for the center of Arizona policy she cites the same laws as Jenny Clark and says that public schools May legally provide inter Scholastic and extracurricular activities to Esa students the law is clear and specific lastly we also received an email from Dr Jim Dean associate executive director for AIA in which he States the AIA has provided consistent guidance to schools and school districts regarding statutes since the Inception of the empowerment scholarship account opportunities in Arizona the AIA has allowed schools and school districts to make the determinization as to the participation in athletics there are several school districts Statewide that allow Esa students to try out for athletic teams in compliance with the state statute we also have copies of this email um to summarize um superintendent Carter stated that Esa provides funding for sports clubs cities and recreational leaves travel teams but it does not give you the right to be on a school team and you say we all know that living in a rural community does not afford students the same opportunities that may be found in larger cities and while our son is involved with recreational leagues and travel ball teams they all stop during the regular High School season we don't expect participation to be a right all we are asking for is the chance and despite what we've been told and uh what superintendance Carter and Daniels have stated um you as a school board have a right uh to make the decision that you feel is best for the community knowing that you would be in full compliance with state law should you decide to allow Esa student participation thank you for your time in under three minutes good job Mr and Mrs Saco thank you very much for your comments and concerns brought to us I am going to direct our superintendent Miss Daniels to continue to do research with our attorney and legal is there any other call to the public I do not have any other forms anyone want to fill one out real quick go on once go on twice thank you very much for your time uh we're going to pause for just a moment while miss Martinson takes her leave thank you good Lu it all right moving on right along to item seven is our information and discussion items first off is a business and business office and it update that is our um presentation 78 it's actually seven remember I had to change it all and we're all messed up tonight okay title is right yes that's our presentation this evening is our business office and our it update I guess I could love to see that is Mr Livingston and Mr Fulmer there so you can be in the hot seat this evening that's okay thank you madam president members of the board um here tonight to talk to you a little about uh the technology department and what we're doing uh now what we goals are for this school year and moving on uh one of our main uh goals lately has been cyber security as we know we have student you know school resource officers and school security officers to protect us while we're here but the IT department has to protect us from all the bad guys that are across the globe that are trying to impersonate our leadership as we encountered on the first day of school with the false fishing email trying to get people to click on it and take our data we're trying to educate our staff ramp that up um along with that we want to make sure our dat is backed up um and you know again we've got the training uh to to go along with that there are certain requirements that we have to do to be in cyber security insurance anymore so we we're kind of forced into this this um into this world whether we like it or not because if we do get hit with a breach it's very expensive so we want that insurance um with that one of the uh requirements is the multiactor authentication one of the things that we've set up um and then we're actually going to be changing not many people know this yet but the Department of Homeland Security that provides us with these tools for Z to us comes from State funding they're forcing us to switch to a different platform so this month we will be transitioning everybody over at Mr F's wife she got to be one of our gu pigs so I don't know if she to do it so but we got her on so we're good so we will be throughout this month we will be transitioning everybody current system to the new system board members will be included so Peter you'll have to give up your little fob and want to get you something else I know but we can't beet the price when when the Homeland Homeland Security Department of Homeland Security gives us these tools and many other tools we get a lot of tools from our insurance companies as well um to to do to make this happen so otherwise I don't think we have the budget to to handle that so cyber security is one of our main ongoing things moving forward and who knows what that will bring as technology advances um other technology upgrades we're we're constantly trying to keep uh newer equipment on board uh we're going to be implementing our new web filter that will'll hopefully get rid of some of our technology bugs that we've been having since the second week of school with a lot of usage that's ramped up kids all logging in at the same time it's kind of been bogging down the the internet and bringing it down at times and it's becoming very frustrating for our our teachers our staff because we rely so much on technology now so we're trying to get rid of bottlenecks um with that so we'll be we're upgrading the equipment um and we'll continue to do that using federal funds to give us discounts moving forward because technolog is not going anywhere it's just it's growing gr um uh another uh item technology is working with is actually trying to help with the security initiative I know we're we're really ramping up on reunification various things through that there is a technology role we're g to be using technology to make sure the right parents are with the right students um there might be different apps cell phon we may be using so we want to be part of that also with that with with security we have our all of our security cameras throughout the district are all Technology based they're plugged IND door Network and that's how we have our eyes on our offices our open grounds and so we work with the security staff to identify those areas that we don't have good visibility so then we can work with vendors and purchase the cameras and get eyes where we don't have them so in the case of an emergency from our phones or from our computers we could see uh our campuses from anywhere so that's that's something we're working with so there's a a bigger partnership between security and cyber security now that we're doing and our last kind of thing that we're just diveing into is this thing called artificial intelligence it's a buzzword it's kind of all over the place and uh we're dabbling a little bit we did buy some limited number of Licensing for Google we've got some staff that are going to be playing with it we're trying to through the county through yapay County we're trying to get some training out there because there's a lot of questions and has a lot OFW so that's something that we're working on another one of my hats um the president of the Y Tech Consortium and so we're trying to work with the foresty Management Group to get training throughout the county and get some of these questions answered moving forward so that's kind of technology in a nutshell so can I ask a question are you still dependent upon Sentry Link for the your internet access and communication within the district we use sparkl which is the old Cable ONE for internet access through through the technology Consortium that I just mentioned all schools purchase well all participating schools and libraries that can use a federal program called eate purchased their internet as a bundle about six seven years ago they did a big project that brought the internet costs for all those members down by about 80% throughout the county there was federal funds to build out to some of our more rural areas and so we grouped together did a big project um schools could get it already were great other schools they had to do construction projects to get out to there and so that brought that down so sparklight ended up being the the vendor that we use for that um between the schools we have dedicated fiber optic cable and that's that's subas through another company where we get again Federal reimbursements on so we have our own fi optic cable that goes west to the north on on one West then crosses the highway Again by Safeway goes over the territorial so we have our own links if those links get cut which we had happen when Sherwin Williams was being put in and they dug up our fiber and poor Brandy was out internet later that day they came out and fixed it so we have contracts to keep that going so that that way we have highspeed data between the schools and we're just focused with SP BD capacity yes from them we're trying to Future Pro so what we experienced this year was foreseen but unexpected this soon so that's why we're trying to to get on board you want to trust technology a little bit of silly question starlake you know musk satellite internet uh and I know he has done a lot with education Believe It or Not uh have you had any communication with with see if they have a like a deal because I mean that that's like a th DPI starlink does not provide the speeds that we need as a district I know Starling does provide um some of our smaller schools in y County with internet access because of their locations the Kirklands some of those out there on the western side so they do for smaller districts but the the throughput that they could provide would not be sufficient for school district yeah currently we have a gigabyte where where we could ramp it up to 10 Gig if we if the de was there with what we have in spark so I know it was a real issue 10 years ago so it sounds like it's a lot home it's been good keeps my family happy so thank you any other questions all right okay president Thomas members of the board staff uh just a quick update I'd like toite my comments kind of between approach and philosophy and then implementation and practice so I'll read from my little goal statement here there's four goals that we think in our business office if we follow this this uh philosophy of these goals then the practice will be leading to more financial stability and predictability and transparency and the first of them is completely compliant uniform system of financial record Capital Asset Management this is something that we've been working on I've I've done since the year started last July of 2023 I've been in each school three times checking our Capital assets and updating them and that led me to replace 740 of these little orange tags they're 12 for a dollar they're Avery labels 12 for about 8 C a piece and we upgraded those with $4,000 worth of blue tags we got a th000 blue tags and that's for Capital assets under 5,000 and we got a th000 red tags for Capital assets over 5,000 I put on about 740 of those and we leave the orange tags because we like as many items to identify that asset as possible and when we had our Auditors here August 5th they took us to heres middle school check nine of these tags and they all aligned with our software so that's a big step for us we always come close to having them align but now they're they're pretty much compliant and they don't come off these ones were $140 a piece the blue ones are40 a piece for steel red ones are $140 a piece for steel once you lick and stick and peel and stick they don't come off so when we have things that need to be cleaned or maintained they they last so Capital asset management is the first one lodging compliance I think the board got a letter back in maybe May the district was cited for some lodging irregularities we went over those with our Auditors they're having a hard time documenting what exactly they thought we were deficient on but we really have put a lot of emphasis on making sure if there's a Arizona Department of administration rate of $112 for a certain County in or out of the state for this time of year we make sure that the traveler gets that room for that amount or they get the conference hotel either way those are what we want we don't want that going over that $112 if that's the room rate without a hotel for the conference so that's still putting a little more burden on my office but we we don't want any of those findings to come back again third one would be usfr procurement compliance and the I've heard other districts do this I've never really got it in writing that they do but if you look at things like buses and flooring and window replacement and even carpet a lot of that can be bought off a state or another Cooperative contract our goal is to move most of our purchases right now I said back when I did these goals back in May uh we had about 60% of our contracts as far as the volume amount we're on state contracts we're trying to get to 80% because you get so much better service if you get a state contract because they've already bid sometimes a profit for the compan is a little bit lower but just case in point uh both of the contracts with peblo we have 23 million contracted to replace hbac and Progressive Roofing about four million to do roof ceilings and penetration ceilings after the HVAC goes in both of those were on mam contracts which are cooperatives they're on state contracts as well so it' be really difficult for a smaller HVAC company to handle some of these projects the state sometimes takes five months to pay and smaller local contractors may not be able to hold payroll off for five months whereas weblo is a multi-billion dollar company that I really wanted to have if we could get them so for me it works out really well it's not maybe best for local contractors but but we just went with the the bigger contracts and state approved it and we try to push as much local business back to the local vendors that can handle it but not very many of them are on state contractors so uh the last one is uh fund balance we made a motion or the board made a motion back I think it was at the July meeting to approve our 4% carryover from year to year and our operating Fund in our Capital fund and I think that's pretty self-evident we're trying to do that every year so if we've got a $10 million budget we want to spend in this case I believe it' be 900 well if it's if it's 4% of 10 million it it only be 40,000 that we' have to bring forward but anyway that's it' be 400,000 there we there we so that's what we want to do because we don't know what the next year's going to bring so 4% is what we're after from both of those so I appreciate that support uh and so that's our philosophy take care of compliance and then we're able to do things uh one thing that we're able to do recently we were really concerned about some growth the territorial school so we ordered these portable classrooms we found out we had some sight issues over there territorial school over $600,000 worth of site issues to remove things like blue Clay and other soil compaction issues 600,000 didn't think we could afford so we are repurposing that to a school bus and a trailer and a Truck a box truck as well as a nice s deck clwn mower if you've ever seen a s deck lawn mower in motion it will be quite the quite the facility uh upgrade for us so if we can do that we would take that funding that's already in place $388,000 and simply repurpose it and once the finance company American Capital Finance knows that that's our intention after tonight's board meeting hopefully the board sees the value of doing that and approves that then we can reassure them that all these P purchases will be secured mostly purchase from State contracts and we can just shift the finance from the purchase of two portable classrooms for territorial or the Childhood Center over to these four pieces of equipment which is what they kind of specialize in anyway is equipment but they did help us the same company with the $658,000 track purchase the $930,000 small housing purchase so they do things that they think have collateral have some security we just couldn't afford the rest of it which would have been on us to to replace in in compact soil I I read that about the soil problem but I'm I'm I'm curious are we simply not going buy then the portable classrooms or we find a different location but we don't have that soil problem we just we just didn't think there was another place to put them I guess we just we're stuck doing it that's why we're trying to repurpose it I understand the repurpose of the money so in fact what we're saying is that we're not going to get the two new portable classrooms at territory I didn't think I mean our maintenance department did some surveys and I think we had some other soil surveys I don't think there was another location that would work what we come up with I have an issue Peter there too our Transportation Center is there right and we have um so there's limited space to put anything one of the spaces that's open is a retention Basin and there's no alternatives for that I presume either because G you know gravity goes where gravity at wants that's I I appreciate the civil engineering so that was really what we were up against is once there there really wasn't other space that didn't include that way we are bursting at the scenes well that's right be talking about the needs for it and you know what kids are going to be in there and all like that and all of a sudden the way I'm reading this it's not going to happen have to come up with another alternative if territorials enrollment is squeezing us to the limits and we have a couple special programs there that are districtwide programs that potentially we could relocate to a campus that has some open classrooms because we do have some campuses with open classrooms it just I I saw that the problem I didn't see the solution amen so thank we're struggling with it thank you so it would have been really nice to just have the same soil types that we had at Heritage Middle School where relocated these two buildings and the south end of Del Rio where we relocated the buildings they've been there since I believe July of 23 they've been there there's been no settling there's been no problems but we assumed we get the same soil type Territorial and I guess it's unque yeah I understand unique conditions and yes you can excavate everything and replace it but then that costs more than classrooms do then they're done there so that's that's unfortunate but I think because we we know where this is and we got the approval from the board back in April we wrote a check for 138,000 at the time that means we Finance 250 that means we can still pay from their money in escro 388,000 so we'll just repurpose it that and the last one then is a sheet that I gave to you just before the meeting you should be able to see a two-page sheet it's got a big one in the lower right corner and a big two on the back side in lower right corner I wanted to and this is just tremendous news the support that the state's been given us for the last three years I think you all have one like this back and the first page is is a little bit of history and I put a few out there in the audience uh first page starts September 7th of 2021 in the middle for approval date and it's got an award number for the state school facilities board uh it's called High School hbac design so we paid an architect back at that time September 7th $146,600 funded completely by the state and that just started the ball rolling you can see every purchase on page one ended December of 2023 those projects that were awarded and paid including the 1, 187,000 for the new gas lines at the Chino Valley High School it's on there 4.2 million and that's history from September of 2021 till December of 2023 two full years then you flip the page two and you see well what's going on now and if you go to about the middle of the page and you see number 36 there you see that uh Gina Valley High School installation 7.3 million anded in the middle of the RO that's what that is is budgeted for and we spent to the far right 2.3 million go down to the next one Del Rio in the middle 3.9 million that's quite a bit less hold your breath for but just maybe half a second because the reason Del Rio is 3.9 million and the high school 7.3 million is because a big part of Del Rio the entire South Campus I call it building 101 wasn't done at all right all those classrooms at the Southside so thank goodness for our school facilities board now you drop down to number 44 on that page and you see that there's a change order in place for guess what 3.4 million because now they have all the information apparently there was a a chiller providing the AC the chill has failed they had a double loop system in there that's failed and corroded they've got 20 this 3.4 million has 20 the carrier gas Pack Unit some of them are two ton chillers I think the biggest is a four ton Chiller 20 of those completely repiped completely installed and the state is at this point in progress of approving that one 3.4 million so that would that would complete it and then you go down to the two totals here page page one total you see the 4 to pop there you added to the page two total for the awards 31 m819 th000 awarded and paid to date as of today 16.8 million absolutely I never thought I'd see this actually happen this is wonderful Capital money coming into this District million our credit goes to John lumingon and Chris Sheriff who have been absolutely tireless and making sure this came to fruition that's amazing thank it's it's been great to get this and then you see the other 4.2 million down below that's in progress and we hope get those fund you that's that's really all I alrighty then well with that good news we'll move on to 7B Miss Daniel superintendent report okay so in your packet you have um two pages of report I last month it was one and I thought oh I'll stick to one and then there was so much good stuff to say I couldn't fit it all on one page so now you have two pages and there are a few things that I wanted to highlight one is that when our Auditors were here last month we had five minor findings that is the fewest we have ever had and they told us that literally nobody has zero findings and to have only five is unheard of so that's a huge credit to Mr Livingston's Department he's got a great group of ladies back there who are they're fun and they're great at their job so and I also wanted to say as a result of teamwork between our special ed department and our business office we have our Medicaid reimbursement program underway and our projected um projected income for the district on Medicaid reimbursement could be about a quarter of a million dollars year so kudos to special ed and to Mr Livingston's office for getting all of those pieces and parts it has been an arduous process to say the least but they could not have done it if they weren't working together which as you know is part of our brand um safe schools students prepared for the future and teamwork and I would tell you the special ed department and the business office really exemplified teamwork so um I also wanted to point out since Suzanne's here helping us out tonight and she is a marvelous person in facilities that facilities has applied for and we will be awarded $30,000 in rebates for our first little tiny piece that relates to HVAC so they are pursuing every single rebate because we all know we've been running swamp coolers for years and you put air conditioning in what's going to happen to your power bill it's going to go well it's going to go up and so we are changing you know charging after every rebate we can get and I know that Suzanne is putting a lot of work into that too so thanks to your thanks to I'm gonna say your department thanks to your department Suzanne um we also have and you'll hear more from Heidi tonight we are deep in the process of examining overtime um cell phone usage reimbursements we are looking at um like how do other districts do it seeking advice from our legal councel and so we are making some important changes in the district to help us be efficient consistent and fair with all our employees another thing HR is doing um you heard about this several months ago for the first time they're slowly working their way through job descriptions job titles and pay structures because we have not Revisited job descriptions or titles in the district for 15 years and what we know is we've had employees leave us to go work at the following entities town of Chino Valley Yavapai College Yavapai County humble district and Prescot District so Heidi's working with all five of those entities to align our job descriptions and our pay structures to fall somewhere in the middle of where those are we know we can't be you know up here at the highest right the County's probably always going to be the highest but we're trying to make sure that our e our employees are what they're doing they're being compensated equitably for um because is we have someone leave a job in transportation to literally go work for the town doing something not even as demanding for $4 more an hour that's a lot of money that's a that's a lot of money for folks $8,000 a year so wanted to share that so HR is working on that Transportation um you'll hear from Mr Livingston a later agenda item about purchase of a new bus um we need to increase the sizes of our buses that are going to palen we have two things we either we need buses that hold more kids we need more bus drivers and probably a few more runs because not surprisingly the most affordable housing in the area is in palen and so we are are finding that we have more students to pick up it's taking longer to load so the buses are getting in late um they're coming back late to load other schools so transportation is working on adding all those things special ed is seen an increase in students this year you'll be hearing from um Miss Heidi and maybe Miss Brandy about the need for increased staff our our autism program at territorial is about 60% higher enrollment than we were anticipating so that's a pretty big jump and we have kids that have a lot of very very unique needs so you'll hear be hearing about that during Staffing um we have our newest school safety officer with us back there tonight that's he's getting used he's come he's coming out of the corrections system and he's finding that kindergarten is a little different than Corrections maybe not a lot a little biter stier so um but one thing we did to um as part of our brand and as part of the goals that we have for the board is increasing safety at our campuses so and Peter you'll you'll be like smack your head say duh but we have common signage at all our campuses now so common drop off signs common safety signs common video surveillance signs so anywhere anybody goes in our district it's not confusing well it might be but at least the signs are all the same so um and we have been having a lot of fun at the coffee with the superintendent events um Heidi's been joining me and I think we're rope and Julian because we need more entertainment um so it's a little boring right now it's not really boring at all but just saying um that it'll be even less boring the um so our next event is this Thursday morning at cbhs and I get up at 4:30 in the morning and turn my 50 cup coffee pot on and fill coffee crafts and put all the fancy creamers in a rubber tub and Heidi meets me at the school at quarter to 7 so we stand outside and pump coffee and talk to people and answer questions and it's it has been wonderful so far and the feedback principal's going to tell you I it's been very positive as far as what we here so um you're always welcome to show up if you want a free cup of coffee at 7 in the morning on a school campus um we've had three teacher resignations at Heritage which is going to make you go what the heck is going on at Heritage but the truth is that two of them they were all for personal or health reasons so we are the good news is the two most crucial positions which are in our science department we have hires for we have certified hires for um and we are in we will be recommending at our October board meeting um a cbhs graduate who wants to come and teach science for us so thought you might like to know that um I've been asked about our English language learner population and we have seen an increase um again this year we have over 50 language Learners at our high school our numbers are up a little bit across the district but we in our community one through the Chino Valley Education Foundation and one through another group in the community will be at the request of our Spanish-speaking parents we will be offering English classes for Spanish-speaking parents and community members so we're rolling those out the foundation received a grant to pay for some of those and the other entity in the community U Foundation classes will be on Wednesday evenings the other group in the community they'll be on Saturdays so people could do both if they wanted to um and E in each one of those there will be three levels sort of a beginning intermediate and advanced language learner but I I want to make this point we are offering English classes to Spanish-speaking parents because the parents asked if we could do that and the school district can't pay for it because it'd be a gift of public funds so the foundation isy where are those being held here or in public they are being held at Territorial and we are providing Child Care through our Community Fund um we have a fund that's been sitting with a bit of money in it for quite a long time and because we'd like to use School District employees for child care because you know everything's fully vetted right um we're going to be using our Community Fund for that which is specifically for the purpose of teaching adults well the reason I asked is have you considered having it at the Poland Community Center which make get people more interested because it's in their most of them be in their Community rather than having to come in to so um yes two things number one the group that is doing them at the church on Saturday afternoons used to only offer classes in presca Valley and they were finding that Mo once they ran through all the Vietnamese nail techs they found that the most most of the people were um coming from Chino and palen so they moved it here but the reason so two reasons why we need to do at school they need more than one room space so to divide the courses up and they need space for child care with things that kids can use to play with like playground equipment and things like that there one single room it's not going to work for that's too bad so anyway that's we've got that going so it's kind of a cool thing and I was like it took me a hot minute to get it off the ground write the grant blah blah blah but Arizona Community Foundation of Yavapai County actually awarded the grant to Chino Valley Education Foundation to to give this a world so um I also want to point out that Heritage and cbhs have rolled out positive incentive programs for student behavior and citizenship something we've been doing for a long time at territorial they're not going to be getting cute little paws like brandy gives out they'll be getting things that are middle school and high school you know appropriate and um but they'll be rewarding citizenship attendance academics other kinds of student accomplishments to try to encourage good citizenship among middle school and high school students um and this was in Brian's report and I wanted to highlight it we are adding another CTE program Dental assist that's starting in January so we are so excited about that you have heard more than you ever want to know about HVAC um and just so you know we did have draining drainage proba Peter probably wants to know all this stuff but everybody maybe like y k the um or warmer in the winter um we had a drainage issue as you might expect on the east side of the Del Rio multi-purpose room because it's subgrade and so we have cleaned out the French drains there membrane has been installed we're working on um rerouting to maybe a dry well or something like that because otherwise it would put water into a parking lot which would turn into a sheet of ice and then it would P beautiful newk so we're working that one we're coming right along with um regarding attendance and enrollment um an update I have an update for you when we get to our um open enrollment and uh I just want to remind you that the county um asba round table so if you wish to participate as board members it will be in Sedona on October 24th and you can just let U me know if you're interested in participating in going over Sedona for dinner and participating in the county meeting um I went to the law conference it was informative it was um they covered topics um super State superintendent horn has enlisted his family members to sue a school district in Arizona um about bilingual education um the lawsuit is stalled out because there were errors of fact in their filing they said they had a student enrolled at Scottdale high school and there isn't a Scottsdale high school so um that one stalled out a bit but just so you know our State superintendent is not above suing local school districts in Arizona um and the other thing that I wanted you to know is that on December 9th at 4:30 um we will have a board session that begins 30 minutes prior to the meeting for the purpose of signing paperwork for newly elected board members and doing the official swearing in and then at 5:00 we'll do the ceremony swearing in during the regular board meeting so I would tell you we're off to a robust start it's been fun we haven't had one boring day yet although we're all Holding Out for that so those are the updates all of the individual goals are in there um in their celebrations columns you'll be able to see the things that are being accomplished like our participation in breakfast and lunch is up significantly this year and so that is a super good thing too which means kids are getting fed and as a reminder because of the program that we run kids are eating breakfast and lunch for free so there are lots of things sprinkled out um throughout the report there but that's what I wanted to highlight for you so any questions anybody has I was gonna ask the housing about the housing yeah thank you I did put it on the thing so about the housing so the um the duplexes that we were considering partnering with cfma and cvpd for housing as it turned out we were told that the grant would be a 9010 match so we would only have to pay 10% and that we would split our 300,000 between you know cfma and the town okay the grant ended up being 5050 so yeah not a good use of our money and we had to have our project completely done like everything built and ready to live in by December 31st okay well I actually heard Justine laugh out loud so that was my response so I emailed um superintendent carterra and and you'll remember that we um had we have an open purchase order for John schul to work you know with all those entities so I didn't have to fiddle with it truthfully and um as it turns out I just said thanks but no thanks good luck hopefully somebody else can use the money because like for example presc get unified put Park models like uh single wide you know kind of mobile homes on the campus at Taylor Hicks they have some Prescot PD living in theirs because those don't require building they might be able to do more of those quickly and because they already have intergovernmental agreements with presant PB so they have some pieces and parts in place so I don't know whether Prescot is going to move that direction but because ours aren't because ours would be siteb built um there is absolutely no way we can go from even through a bidding process and build something and then plus it would have cost us about a million and a half dollars well and even the the manufactured housing alternative doesn't work either because you still have to do all the same site work uh water sewer pay ways like that so it's still no matter what you're doing above the ground everything else is the same yes so thanks for bringing that up Mara because that was an important piece anything else I do have a curiosity that I want to ask about here from the list or from something else it has to do uh with the reports from all the schools and all the various departments Etc um and I I I was curious that there is one in and I by the way I really like the sheets they're the way they're organized and it seems to me that that um monitoring would be something that is constantly ongoing unless it's resolved unless it's resolved so I noticed there was one school that really didn't have any reports regarding monitoring so everything must be resolved right all the goals are already achieved yet so any rate it's just kind of a curiosity because I think that's for me shall I take it up with that school I will well or just an explanation okay simple I don't know who was it I think it's Del oh baloney I put the report in saying there was nothing in the monitoring wondering the the principal was showing up regularly and he is but he's going uh I mean I may have put something in the wrong column I tell you that we we've um especially our academic goals um that we've tested every student with both STAR testing which is a test of reading and literacy and I SE testing which is a test of uh reading fluency as well as math um therefore we've created benchmarks so that we can subsequently at quarter level and at the semester level um continue to monitor them in conjunction with um what we call daps which is our Del Rio you know educational proficiency um Del Rio academic proficiency testing so that we can use that as a benchmark for growth as well and all of those are in a format that is similar to if not exactly like our state um assessment the ASA which we're going to take in April which is actually earlier in April this year not a fan but whatever um and so students are obviously then subsequently being prepared for the state assessment as we go throughout the year and we're able to articulate where they need that growth because especially I but Star as well gives us a breakdown is it a computational issue is it numeracy issue and so we're kind of looking at what they're doing as I may have put that in the wrong column sorry so I did want to say this because I was wondering if you're gonna ask about this Mr Fogle um when might we know about school letter grades patient the State Board had a work session regarding um cut scores I think they'll approve cut scores at their next meeting then preliminary um letter grades will be announced to school and there will be opportunity for appeal window I would tell you in looking at the preliminary data that we know that there is an error in the percent of students who tested at cbhs they only use the science data not all of the data but I can tell you that that will not impact the outcome of the letter grade so I'm trying to decide whether it's worth it to like you know fall on the sword for an appeal over something that wouldn't change the outcome but I will tell you this when we get to share with you the preliminary grades which I have already computed I think you're going to be pleased nice okay so that was my my curiosity was more idle than anything else so he's just basically throwing down the gauntlet and just but I do want but I do want to comment that um I feel that uh I am uh I am being extremely well informed as to what is going on and the goals that everyone is working on and um I'm impressed with all of those reports um and I feel more so than I have at any other point in time on the board um I'm really really confident about the amount of work that is being expressed here it is extremely impressive it's them that's kudos to our administrative staff I agree they're doing a great job very much so all right anything else from Miss Daniels all right seeing none let's go on to agenda item 7 C1 Mr Livingston great final snapshot pres Thomas members of the board Financial snapshot for the day August 31st of 2024 our M budget that we adopted in July 19.3 million expenses two and a half million that's kind of where we're at this time of year that's where we want to be I'll just go through these four pages budget summary some cash funds and then we've got a cash flow and then we've got act cash for both years last year and this year so budget for M right now 19.3 we don't have a lot of data on on student counts I've seen some that shows this year student counts are definitely lower than last year but we've also got a revision that we're going to bring to you probably in December it won't be at the October 2nd meeting tell you that a little bit more student data uh and then we'll revise this year's budget it could go above that 19.3 slightly it could go below slightly um do have contingencies that for from the4 year into this year 610 capital budget 1.1 million expenditures year to date at the end of August 230,000 encumberance is 312,000 so we're r at 50% spent encumbered that's kind of in play if you will we've used that the last couple years we've been able to take capacity and budget from the m&o fund and secret it away so to speak at 610 and we brought some of that back this year um and so the the state has really taken the restrictions off of doing that it's not the best practice to take money from your operating fund and put it into the capital fund and it's not the best practice to go back either way but because we had people coming back from Co funds we wanted to have a really sure place to put some funds aside so we could bump up operating last year and again this year so it's it's something that we watch really carefully we like to say that a million we get every year for our Capital funds should stay there and stay there only but this year when we're coming back with Co folks if we need to transfer some of that back to operating fund we we kind of say we reserve the the right to advise that we do that because we want to get through the year as much as possible and meet all our obligations 620 fund uh our adjacent ways fund we brought in 250,000 last year that's exactly what we ended up with this year 251,000 we're going to add 350,000 to it we took Levy up 100,000 so that'll give us $600,000 and I'll work closely with our facilities Department we'll have some projects scheduled hopefully for that last week of May of 2025 so by the time the end of July rolls around we'll have some either some slurry seal coat or some chip seals done and just start working we've got about 10 areas identified that they're going to need this maintenance so that's a quick look at those main funds of operations capital and 620 Capital it's one thing that I put on my goal sheet here in actually in the monitoring column since we mentioned that uh and it's a 5-year Capital plan and I put on there it's underway and and that's the best I can say right now it would be nice to say here's our revenue and it's secure and here's our expenditures that we need and our projects that we need and that secure and maybe we'll get that pushed out by the end of this year so June of 2025 we'll bring that to you for the next two years that would be nice um and that's that I just don't know if we've had one lately the last couple years we've just said here's the cash available what's at the top of the list and then we've been able to do certain things in fact we did spend 65,000 to get air conditioning on this building back in June July and it was it was mission critical so we do have some funds for a rainy day as it were so and then just to take a a quick look on the the cash page it's got cash for some funds it's called the cash fund balances which there some funds that the county won't let us worry about a budget and those are called budget funds uh there's other ones that are strictly strictly on a cash basis if we don't have cash in the fund the county won't let us use that if we have negative cash in our operating fund the county doesn't care because you know eventually have so two I'd like to highlight on that page it's got a nice big spreadsheet on it there it actually is a vertical spreadsheet called Cash Fund balances as of August 31st it's back one page Mr back one page it's vertical and it's got a few funds I'd like to just call out got that one right there so if you go go down to fund 580 teacher it we've been bringing I think it's 550 a month rental for our teacherage apartments and we've got 10 of them we just finally got 10 fill and we've got 10 fills so if we had a full year $550 a month you know $5,500 a month for all 10 a little over $60,000 all year uh we didn't have that quite in the 23 24 year because I think we opened those up about October 5th or something so we were first two or three months short but we did end up with about 54,000 cash in the fund which we then use some of that cash to pay the debt service on the 930,000 that I mentioned earlier that we've got from American Capital Finance so it's not what we call Revenue neutral but perhaps after 21 years right it will be because because we'll be able to take those proceeds and use it for The Debt Service we know there's 930,000 of Finance total cost on the finance is going to be over a million so 50,000 year 20 years from this fund eventually we will make that in the meantime we've got a decent place for our staff the bottom fund there 959 we had some problems with the uh the dees Representatives that's a special program we have at the high school we were about a year behind on revenues and they just weren't responsive they weren't taking our reports this is a cost based program and we've got some staff delivering services to some special needs students at the high school but now we're caught up now we ended the year with 130,000 in the account so we even got our payment for the first last quarter April through June we got that booked about a month ago so we're right on track with that so that really helps this is an m&o offset we pay the staff all year long out of M at the end of the year F the expense into this mon right about seven funds just like I think we're right where we need to be this time of year but otherwise that stud count because that is going to drive our operating and our Capital budgets up and down and we'll just informed any questions that's all anything for Mr Livingston Mr Livingston just said lost over something that we don't know the full impact of yet but we're working on it and do um very very quietly like a tissue dropping into a pillow we got a little tiny statement from school Finance without any rules accompanying it yet that we will be docked income for chronic absences that would be Statewide yeah but it is so convoluted and lean Weller who is our student data manager um is I asked her to obtain the business rules that they were basing this on so she's working on that and then I um she's worked with Kathleen little they were able to prepare reports last weekend um from our old student data management system so we're trying to project like if nothing changed what might the financial impact be so we're in the middle of that study because ADM of course drives it all not quite sure what the other's going to look like and and they we got no heads up about that this is every District in the state's going to get hit yep with no heads up no business rules no can they legally do that without legislative Authority it existed before long time ago yeah I remember that actually the old the old threshold was 94% and if you hit 93% now it's the 10% The Chronic absence so we we are doing a really super thorough study and I'm hoping that we'll have some numbers for John to present to you next month what that impact would be meanwhile admin are working really hard on um cleaning all that up Del Rio especially made really good strides last year and SOA territorial um and that's part of the positive incentives program for HMS and cbhs is to help address that as well so because we don't know because enrolled kids is one thing enrolled kids who don't show up is another anything else thank you Mr Livingston item 7 C2 Student Activity fund report please yes we have a pretty quiet report for tonight for Student Activity you see the high school has I believe it's just over $1,000 wrapped up there in Student Activity and after talking with the coach I believe that's equipment for the team and it was purchased with du and other than that most of the amounts are quite small had a fundraiser that's what decid fastic any other questions or comments all right seeing then we'll move on to our consent agenda so item 8 A3 a through L I would entertain a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda I will motion to approve tonight's consent agenda and a second second thank you Peter all in favor I I item 9A new positions required for our aim program Madam chair U board members I'd like to request um the addition of one additional teacher and two pair Professionals for the aim program we have grown exponentially and those students as um Miss spoke about have have needs and um we need the help in that particular program and how many kids do you have now 14 last I knew it was 12 it started was six two or three days to quit running such a successful school yes she does it's not and that's the program we were talking about that has gone up by 60% well that's actually over 100% no it's over that was compared to what it was before okay yeah when I can I share something just real quick so this that this program we started because asend where a private program for students with autism we used to contract and send them there for the high needs autism students they have become so full and they can't fully staff that we needed to create a space for these children so we brainstormed this got it started and it's just growing um and so that just shows you kind of what's happening in this whole Tri City area the number of students with significant autism is growing unbelievably and so and are they all children in our district I mean did we accept any outside oh my goodness they're all ours okay I I guess then the question is now that there's not going to be a new portable classrooms there where is this program going to be ANC it's it's on our campus you have you have classroom spaces I do at this moment you're not gonna have toide the gym up or something like like that don't e used as a classroom it's already being used as the classroom right okay any other questions or comments all right this is an action item if we could have a motion to approve item 9 through I'm sorry 9A the new positions for the thank you Peter and a second all in favor of course all right item 9B go ahead Miss as part of our ongoing analysis of Staff compensation that Miss Daniel's talked about and compare it to the um PR City area um I went ahead and focused on human resources because that's one I could do by myself and Gathering and um because of the other ones I will be working with like the transportation director the facilities director and that stuff so in looking at what we had in place and um and what the other um organizations are doing around us I came up with a a three levels because that way up to what happens in um HR and in the district in the upcoming years we would have three levels of jobs that um we could offer to um people that were interested so we start with um the resource support specialist and that would be somebody more at an entry level that would come in and maybe learn about HR and do more clerical stuff um the next position is the human resource specialist and that would be somebody who goes ahead and does um the reporting because there's a lot of reporting to do within HR and they would go ahead and monitor all of the functions prepare compensation and benefit packets and so on and then if for some reason the district decided um they could also move to a human resource specialist senior somebody with a lot of experience would be um expected more of and then um um be compensated different ly and have more experience and then finally I went ahead and just updated the human resource director position so that way there's a we don't have to use all four of them but we have something that we could know where to bring people in in case there was a human resource director at one time and maybe they would have the human resource specialist or um the support specialist and um with this um I've also included the new salary structure um and that um for your approval and then also the only um will'll change just one employees not my um salary uh because of the change in responsibility so you'll also see in there um those three levels so just to clarify I know I know the answer but just to clarify we are not asking for all four positions not even intending on having all four positions anytime soon that is correct but building a career ladder so that we could move on up bring the job titles and descriptions yeah thank you any other questions comments suggestions again this is an action item if we could have a motion to approve um I'll motion to approve the 2425 human resource job descriptions and the 2425 human resource classified salary schedule and a second second thank you Peter all in favor I thank you very much of course item 9C it's the Heidi wolf show you're good schedule our cbhs so during our ongoing analysis it's we stumbled um upon the fact that currently um the scheduler position at her middle school and the register position at Chino Valley High School um are not administrative assistance like the other people that perform register our for our Tech and Del Rio so we want to make sure that we're fair and consistent so we went ahead and we're requesting that um both those positions um are compens at it on the administrative assistant um salary schedule and that also the scheduler title goes to registar because that's really what they're doing they will do some scheduling but it's really during the school year um it's registering new students so the regist is moving to the admin assistance instead of secretary de instead of secretary so they were on the okay yeah broad their build right responsibilities yeah makes sense and we don't have just a regist we have it all the all it's SEC it's um it was secretary to but we found that those responsi were done by admin assistance so we went them to be all in the same classification as admin makes sense okay thank you anyone else have any questions for this seeing none then I'll entertain a motion a motion to approve the approval of a schedule and register position for both HMS and CV HS to be classified at administrative assistant assistant and the schedu or title at HMS be charged to be register second second thank you all in favor all I item 9d is our Personnel report so we have a supplement that you should have received and overall we have um One new certified staff member or four new classified one new classified sub four resignations one retirement two certified changes 10 classified changes five coaches seven extra Duty and six time sheets not much happening over there in the HR department waiting for the partition all [Music] right all right does anyone have any questions on any of the information provided do we have um people to fill the vacancies right now or that's good yes yeah we're um the principles and myself and Shelly are working very hard to make sure we build positions well I guess in a way the one we always hear about so hard are the bus drivers uh so are we doing we got a wait list of people want to drive our buses no no but we're pretty transportation is pretty we we um leave no rock and turn that's what I say I hadn't heard anything about vacing position so I was we always need bus drivers so anybody out there we need bus drivers and classroom AIDS yes you need all right then I will proceed with accepting a motion along with the supplement this evening I will approve um the personel Report with a supplement and I'll second thank you all in favor thank you very much course item uh oh where are we on nine okay so we're still no we're on 10 10 a Capital Equipment Finance repurpose from April Mr okay well this is this is one of those things uh president Thomas members of the board one of those things that was pretty clearly identified at the time time we applied for so we've got a 29 page document that has I believe schol signature on it my signature on it American Capital Finance US Bank all to give the district $388,000 to buy two portable plastic document may not have to be amended at all you're getting information back from American Capital Finance that want it approved as long as they sign off on the items hopefully the four items that we've got in line instead of the two portable classroom will just pass through and be funded you need more signatures and documents we may call upon uh this this to be done at the October 2nd meeting but first indications are we've given them bids for a bus for $217,000 a s deck lawnmower for $98,000 little box truck for $57,000 and trailer for 23,000 and American Capital Finance uh representative the loans director and finance director has indicated he believes that US Bank will approve those so we'll be able to order those as soon as possible the long long wait I think is on the seven deck mower it be up to six months so we'll start this with a purchase order had a meeting today with our Auditors and Flag Staff and this is quite unusual however they've run into it before so as long as we make our debt service payments of 72,000 a year in the screen of 25 26 27 and 28 they should be they're not so critical on how we use the money just that we pay them on what it comes through each month yep and if you if you really back up and really take a long look they like collateral so what they help purchas they want to have some collateral in case there's a situation that comes along and then really what collateral does the track provide $68,400 it's not really something you can turn around and sell and salv but but yet we were funded so on the face of it we have to go forward with anticipation of what they're saying they can provide and we don't have to refinance because we asked first of all back in May when we realized we couldn't spot these two portable classrooms of territory can we just cancel the award they said no we don't do that have money whether you want it or [Music] not so I believe there's there's value in doing this I can quickly read this paragraph if you want information and supporting data I think we're okay it makes sense fantastic this is checked as discussion but I believe this is an action item yes thank you all right then seeing this is an action item and seeing no other questions I will once again entertain a motion for this item well I'll move that we approve repurposing of the American Capital Finance approved the classrooms two equipment purchased for the attachment with the agenda thank you second I'll second thank you m all in favor I thank you thank you of course item 11a determination of exess capacity for open enrollment for the 2425 school year Miss so each year we come to you and we say these are how many students we have enrolled by grade level when we come to the 9 8 5% capacity um we ask the board to close that grade level or program to open enrollment what it means is that any student who may reside outside the district would not be able to come and join something that's at capacity and the reason is we're reserving space for students who move into the geographical boundaries of the district um typically we do this either at the August or September meeting depending when school has started and when the meeting Falls and all that business um our August meeting was only one week after school started so we had not even accomplished our 10day drops yet or no shows things like that so all that's been taken care of we're solid with our enrollment numbers so what you see before you is this using our current enrollment numbers grades 4 67 9 through 12 would be open well grades Kinder 1 2 third and fifth would be closed to open enrollment and I think I left e8th grade off there which is open eth is open as well and special education programs that are remaining open would be EDP at Tech Del R and HMS so just to kind it's on the back of the agenda item it's in a little tiny print I don't know why it's so small um sorry I just have a question sure hit it or you can finish your thought I'm done thinking so since we're already more than at capacity with as I mean theoretically we are leaving the EDP program Open do we have the space it's a separate program right but just seeing the space at at Tech do we have the yes so on the back of your agenda item are the enrollment numbers for the different programs and you will see at territorial right now we have four students enrolled in EDP so we definitely have capacity in that room okay um at um Del Rio we have five so we have capacity there HMS is eight that's the one that's a little closer to capacity but we don't gener we aren't generally feeling the we usually don't have a lot of influx of EDP at that level so okay you're good so anyway that's where we are the chart shows all the open and closed grade levels um runs again Kinder through grade three closed four is open five is closed all the remaining above that are open and then you can see for our special programs where we are you can see that as is definitely closed um because we are like holy smokes um we're super duper full so EDP remains open at all the campuses all the others would be closed and this is only for open enrollment not for students who move to the district just gonna say ask that yep okay so it's because we can't we don't have the capacity to accommodate students from outside the district we are yes ma'am so I would ask that you approve the um capacities as presented in your agenda any other questions or comments all right once again seeing none this is an action item I will entertain a motion for item 118 um I will motion to approve the U determination of the excess capacity 242 school year and determine that children of employees current open enrollment students enrolled in 23 24 and the siblings of current open enrollment students students enroll 2324 are subject to the open policy not subject are not subject to I'm sorry good a second thank you and all in favor oh all right item 12a is our second reading of revised policies that we discussed last month does anyone have any additional questions or concerns about these silence is wonderful I I I already talked to Cindy about asking a couple questions about and you got your answer your questions answer fantastic all right then this is also an action item if someone would like to make a motion I'll motion to approval of the second reading of the above policies and regulations in a second second thank you all in favor I I good night everyone thank you for your patience this evening

e e e all right I'm going to call the meeting to order Julie will you uh call the role please certainly Cara Caston here Ken Dawson here Chris Espinosa here shro Fuller here Jenny hagstrom here Terry pavich here Don Runner here re rahan Hashim here and Jason tro here thank you all right having a quum let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right uh let's turn it over for uh tonight's student perspectives yep all right here right I'll give you the clicker since they whole good evening everyone um we are really excited to kick off student perspectives um with a presentation tonight um that revolves around things I never got to do in high school um and so once again we are so absolutely amazingly lucky to work in a district like this that supports um students who travel all around the world and that's what we get to hear about tonight so I'm going to introduce my kinds um who is our staff member he's our science department chair and he got to take 20 students um 19 from North and one from South um over to Europe this summer and they got to attend the Global Leadership Summit and um he's going to talk about that and a little and the students are going to come up and talk a little bit about their wonderful experiences they had this summer so uh please welcome Mike H um I'm going to lift this out here just so we'll put it back down later um first of all uh I want to thank you for your support of travel and District 99 and for having us here tonight I think this is a Unique Travel experience for students because of this Global Leadership Summit and that's why I asked Dr D if she would allow us to come present to you tonight we know that kids travel to Spain Peru travel all over the world right but this was something different that I hadn't seen I've taken students to Costa r four times um but on this trip um we're going to tell you a little bit about the difference why this was a little different trip um as you can see we went visited four countries in Europe in 10 days uh we started in Berlin Berlin Germany ended up at car or went to Carlo very Czech Republic then to Vienna Austria and Budapest Hungary along the way we stopped in Dresden Germany uh which was actually bombed during World War II by the Brits and the English and or the Brits and the Americans um and it was just fascinating to see um that and how it's rebuilt from that era compared to other things around there that are still uh in progress we also got to visit the United Nations uh in Vienna an hour and a half tour there and what they're doing with their uh initiatives around sustainability um we everything we did was based on water and Humanity you'll see that in just a second we got to walk a pipeline we walked from one town to another Through The Vineyards uh and the pipelines underground there that pipeline runs water right from the Alps down to Vienna and they don't treat it with any chlorine they don't they really don't treat it with anything they're they're amazed that we treat ours with chlorine um so those conversations that we had so what was NE neat about this we spent three days in Berlin Germany at a conference center at this Global Leadership Summit that is run by EF Tours um and as you can see the rules are are different here when the students walked in they were greeted by many flags of all the nations by the EF people welcoming into this conference Hall what the students did here was they talked about water and Society water and its impact on society they were given a problem to solve in their rooms around the idea of water and they had to work with teams at tables uh in different rooms over the three days and come up with a product if you think Shark Tank right the idea that they had to come up with a product that they got to present in their rooms the winning table in each room then got to go to the larger conference and present to you'll see here in a second and present to these 800 students there were 800 students there 300 adults at this conference and so you talk about a a real authentic audience it it was there for this so they got to present on stage there um and they got to give the impact of water on site let me just check my notes here cuz a couple things at this conference whoops I don't did I do that at this conference the keynote speakers of of were two big ones one was Molly kawaha Molly was the featured speaker Molly has written a book called the uh the scale of hope she was President Obama's climate adviser in the white house so the students got to meet and hear from her another guy is Gunter paully Gunter is an entrepreneur and um Economist and he actually built a solar panel boat that actually has traveled around the globe now uh the first one took a long long time the second version of that now has made it I think it was 98 days or something a solar powered vessel that can travel around and so he talked about the nature of that and he wrote a book called The Blue economy um the students got to do oops sorry the students got to do design thinking as you see there they had to know about empathize these were the steps that they took as they designed their products they had to understand the nature of their um audience they had their purchaser their consumer and they went through all these steps as they did their design thing and the students will talk about that in a second uh the teamwork you can see them here um in the teams the upper left is Ben uh that's sitting down that was his team from around the country there were 28 countries represented and 30 States and so our students were split up among all these people in the different rooms so they got to meet people uh Aqua guard you can see down there that's the students presenting in their classroom one of our students that's in the middle of the leftand corner was going to be here tonight he couldn't make it Matt Matt was on one of the teams that were selected to go up on the big stage the winning group that Coral cuff that's right there that uh presentation got to go in the Nobel Prize museum for a year now so it's on display at the Nobel Prize Museum so that was what the students were shooting for okay we'll let the students talk cuz they're the important ones here and what their experiences were at this uh Global Summit and on the tour this is Mega uh I'll let Mega introduce herself hi I'm you're good it should be good hi I'm Mega can I turn it off no might slow hi I'm Mega I'm a junior at dgn and the EF tour Leadership Summit was an incred inredible experience for me it pushed me to step out of my comfort zone and it introduced me to the design thinking process the summit showed me that there isn't only one correct way or right way to solve a problem or find a solution and one of the most valuable parts of the trip for me was during the summit when we were presenting our prototypes my group chose me to be one of the key speakers and I believe that experiences like this are important for stud students because it exposes us to new environments and new cultures these experiences help students grow in ways that go beyond the classroom and help prepare us to become better and more creative leaders in the future thank you hi everyone my name is Leela I am a senior at ders Grove North um and at this past EF Summit we were all really thrown into this really new and unusual kind of um scenario area we were working with kids from all around the globe who were all complete strangers to us and as you might expect it was kind of a daunting environment you know it was never really something we'd experienced before and I was admittedly a little nervous going into it but walking um well looking back and I can say that this was really my favorite part of the entire experience I met some really amazing people and I think I learned a lot about myself along the way for one I learned that I really do enjoy these kinds of things I like working with other people and problem solving especially about things that are really important to the world again um as Mr Hines touched on this Summit was about water sustainability which with in our world right now is a really important topic and something that really needs to be talked about and to feel that we are kind of part of that change that we are part of something that is important to this world is just really meaningful and I think that was very important to me during this trip um in addition I love to travel and we got to see some really incredible cities in this whole trip this particular picture up here is from Carlo which is a city in the Czech Republic this was one of my favorite cities that we visited um this particular picture was taken right after we had gone on this tour of these under underground water Springs um Carlo very is a city that's kind of surrounded or not surrounded by but kind of run on water everything around there is kind of like sorry I'm braing my words everything around there is kind of based around water and these Springs are really integral to the entire city as a whole and overall I just think that this trip was really incredible and something I'm very grateful to have gone on hi my name is Tanya and I'm a junior at Downers Grove South and the the leader Leadership Summit was a a huge eye opener for me as I got to meet a lot of different people from around the world you can read your sheet she had more than that on her sheet I sent this over before her slide was should have been updated so go ahead T the summit has taught me how I can apply my leadership skills to different situations such as collaborating with my peers I truly got to learn about many different cultures and the impact water has on them which was a summit's theme this year apart from the educational aspect of this trip I was able to form connections with people from different parts of the world and within my own group I believe travel is definitely important for students because it gives them the opportunity to explore different cultures while learning more about themselves along the way this trip has definitely left a huge impact on me I want to give Tanya credit too because she was the only South she didn't know anybody on the trip she came to our first meeting and and she they it was to build those Partnerships Ryan couldn't make it Ryan has a um had a actually was not in school today cuz he was not feeling well um so Ryan here got to meet one of our featured speaker that young man in the middle um is from the California area the the the where our boys are gathered around him um and one of the student leaders of the of the trip and then rayon I thought someone would familiar one I just want to point this out we were in uh right here by the Brandenburg gate the night before for the Euro Cup Final and so all the Hooligans from Britain were out having their pep rally um and that one in the middle that doesn't have a shirt on was not one of our students he was he was a British soccer fan so it's definitely fun to celebrate with those um for me the EF trip was a big eye opener in the sense that it helped me see through other people's lenses kind of um coming into the trip I was curious about the conference and like you know what how it's going to be and stuff like that to be honest I wasn't going on that trip for that main reason but it turned out in my opinion to be the best part of the trip by far you know there were a lot of interesting people I got to me whether they were from the States or other countries collaborating with them also helped me learn new ways to work together on a single goal now looking back I have friends in California Atlanta New York and even Poland um so this type of networking and being able to meet different types of people is something a high school student normally doesn't get the chance to do right so it's an experience that's an important life skill not to mention only did we be not only did we get to be educationally immersed in a lot of knowledgeable speakers and cool activities EF did an incredible job hosting us but I think the main takeaway from this trip is um the people that we meet and the experiences that we had with them you know it's an important thing that I don't think a classroom setting could teach us overall right so yeah that's my experience and just you know to finish up um that was actually we ended up in Budapest um just some more and there's dresen we got to go to the Berlin Wall um that's dresen again and then um I just want to thank the d99 board of education for your continued support of travel I think if we're going to build students who are part of the global Network um what's better way than to get them out into the globe to to meet this so thank you for your support thank you students and parents for letting your students go um and thank you for allowing us to present this [Applause] evening really quickly um I know some of you may have some questions but I do want thank Mike and all of the adults who traveled with our students I have traveled with students before and it is kind of stressful um and so to all of our staff who take the time to do this because it's a lot of time um and it's a lot of patience and a lot of just knowing how to navigate through different difficult sometimes situations um and I just commend Mike for always wanting to do that with our students um and all of our staff members who do travel with our kids it's it's an incredible experience um and it is really cool to see how our our goals as a dist really Foster all of this travel and Foster this interest in uh students and we want them to explore all of these different things so thank you again for supporting our students and our staff to um take these amazing trips so thank you yeah I I was going to say I totally appreciate that I had the thank you Mike and for doing things like this I had the opportunity to talk with a younger student in a um restaurant recently and they talked about um he talked about the importance of learning going to different places and experience in that and the how it broadens your um educational Horizon so it's super important for our children to witness things like this so thank you so much for you know taking the lead on this and making it happen and I fail to recognize the two chaperons with is were Kate Troyer um who teaches AP environmental science at North and at South High School and Alexis Domina um who teaches math and and is in the El program and so having those two along with that wealth of knowledge that they have was fantastic to have them I forgot to say how do I I become a shoer own name on the list bring six students I'd like to also commend Mike I've had many conversations with you and I know the passion that you really have about doing this so my hats off to you for what an incredible opportunity that you students had and a question for the students you met uh kids or students from all over the world which um students had the biggest impact on you and from what countries let me just real quick we also were paired up with another Travel Group from California that had five boys and one girl and you know my passion so forgive me for just a second um we got off the plane we walked out our five girls walked over to that one girl and introduced themselves without any push from us whatsoever and they welcomed her into our group so it was the California group was part sorry that I just like I was just I was I got goosebumps right now thinking about how they welcome that girl into our room so great Annette Annette yeah we welcomed anet soorry but now you can answer like if there was something else or I kind of answered for you I'm sorry yeah yeah sorry um well uh overall in my group I think that everyone really made an impact on me I personally I really loved my group we got along really well we're still all in contact now so I still talk to them regularly um but the majority of my group was from the us uh but there was one girl from Greece so her perspective and just how water was a part of her life was really different she grew up in this very small um Coastal Farm like farming town which was obviously very different than Downers Grove being close to like a very big city so I thought it was really interesting to see like the differences um both just in like our overall lives and then especially in how water affected Our Lives since that was so Central to the overall conference cool that's awesome awesome for me there was a 13-year-old boy from Greece in my group and he was just he was really funny and he brought a lot of like light when when we were making our prototypes it was we didn't have that much time to brainstorm and like build and all so it was a very stressful and we only made our like prototype in 30 minutes and like did the whole script and all that and I think he just brought a lot of like positivity and joy for a group great great for me my group was like we had like a really big group and it was a like eight people in my group and one of the things that stood out to me was how inclusive they were and how like open they were to like any ideas coming from any member and we we all try to somehow like um put all their ideas together to like form a good product fantastic for me it was um this uh there's a kid from Poland and his ideas were absolutely phenomenal even though he couldn't speak English that well and couldn't like communicate with us that well he would always you know when he had an idea he would take out a piece of paper draw it out for us somehow make us understand it but I think almost a lot of the ideas that we had were really focused around his kind of First Impressions on like the issue and stuff like that and I thought it was phenomenal the way he handled the the idea making process so thank you what students are eligible to travel on this type of program do you have to be a certain you know student that's progressed in science Andor math courses or is it just anyone who's interested the H the history of my welcoming kids is any student in d99 that's interested in traveling and um we try to plan it out well enough in advance that it lowers the economic impact on families because it really is a big F Financial um decision for families um but we open it up to anybody that I have over the past I'll take anybody that would like to go it doesn't have to be science um it really is across the board um and so that's that's how I look at it the Freshman too like inome well I I've got to if we think further ahead about what travel is going I got to lean on Gina zardi for this is what does that look like for a nth grader to try to travel you'd have to tap into them when they are in eighth grade and there's no mechanism for doing that yet I just don't I don't see I don't know if a ninth grader might be ready to handle this um our bus broke down at the border of Germany in the Czech Republic on the way there for 3 hours in 92 degree heat um and don't get me wrong but I've never taught freshman in my life so I don't know like if I want freshman in that situation these guys however were fantastic they were like they were perfect we made it to the next rest stop and uh we got through that situation but uh I don't know what that mechanism looks like when I retire my goal is to build a travel Foundation where maybe we give scholarships to students like we build a foundation of travel because a lot of these students travel and like they always like they're always around the globe if we get students who haven't traveled to see the world then you make a difference in a person's life I think even more than this that's that would be a goal for me I would support that y there go living near the Great Lakes uh we certainly are close to an abundancy of water um traveling with a group from Cali California that they may have a very different perspective on water and usage did you have any conversations from from that perspective I know there's a lot of talk in the media right now about states in the western um portion of our country who want to purchase water from you know states that border the the Great Lakes did that come up in any of your conversations our Focus was primarily on um well I I I kind of use the Great Lakes as an examp examples so one of the examples that we used was um the Chicago River right and um on how not like Great Lakes but like you know channels through the Great Lakes but we use that example as um the way how it's Chicago's Waste Management kind of thing or it used to be at least um so we use that example as an idea to like you know try to solve that issue so our our main thing was trying to figure out issues that we could solve so we kind of used these great lakes or Chicago Riv for example as as an issue we could solve but you know um our group ended up using I think an example of again is a kid from Poland that he brought up uh a lake at his home with um issues with bacteria so that's the issue that we chose to solve yeah that's the way the students designed their products was they came up with one person's problem in their particular area and then the product was designed to solve that student's problem um me the one that won was a band that goes on your ankle that if you get close to coral reefs in the ocean it's geolocated so it starts to vibrate um and then it tells you you're close to those and what NE is in the teenage brain the first part of that that fell on The Cutting Room floor that they didn't present at the big one that's not going to be in the Nobel Prize Museum it's um and if you get too close it'll have some rockets on it that will shoot you away from because they're unencumbered by some of the baggies that we as adults bring with that and so they had open thinking that way it was fascinating to watch that design process zap you at the bottom of the ocean there and did you have the people the California were from San Diego so they had some a little bit of water back now sure and did you did you have any did you have any uh control over the groups that you were assigned to or was it just random random okay interesting thank you for sharing tonight appreciate it job [Applause] all right students you're welcome to stay for the entirety of the board meeting there's a story about a girl from Canada all right student board members Jason or Ron who wants to go first took a sample from it and then tested how much looks like Jason you're up cuz Terry's got Ran's cornered over there sounds good yeah all right so um it's been 3 weeks since I believe I last saw you and a lot has happened in the 3 weeks so to start off talking about more like uh the sports and the activities that are going on we had a fall Sports spectacular at um the large stadium and it was honestly amazing I think it was a huge hit it was amazing to be able to see the community there and all the parents and the students just coming together and um basically what it was it was all the fall Sports uh just showcasing like what they're about and it was honestly just amazing basically our whole school coming together and next activities um a lot of activities have started up I know speech team has started up Deca had 87 members at their most recent meeting applications have begun for the principal student advisory Council everything is starting to kick off and it's amazing to see like what's been happening in the last 3 weeks additionally uh through the access periods we're beginning to be able to introduce the like what you're going to be able to do on Choice days so if you need to go see a teacher or you need some extra help on those Choice days you're going to be able to sign up and I think that's amazing to be able to reach students like that and that's basically it yeah than you um so uh for in the last few weeks it looks like you know most classes are started up and running in full swing you know workload from what I've heard from students is steadily increasing but most teachers are very helpful and giving ample time to complete work um we recently had a activities fair and at North and showcasing a lot of the cool clubs we have to offer and it was cool to see everyone finding their own Niche and clubs and meeting new people picking up interest is important and I'm glad North is setting up opportunities um to find the vast amount of clubs that there are um we had our first home football game of course on Friday and um dgn won against DJs in a decisive manner um everyone bring that up yes thank you put that in um everyone had a good time you know the the creative themes um the school spirit was at alltime High um from a senior perspective college applications are looming a lot of students are looking for college recommendations and trying to figure out a steady timeline to complete their essays from the students I've talked to a lot are conf kind of confused on the recommendation and transcript process and how to do them but I think that with the upcoming um counsel lessons and access those concerns will be uh sorted freshmen have seen to settle in well most of them have found their way around school and start to be more comfortable in the new environment and fall play auditions take uh take place towards the end of the month lots of excitement about that as well as two home football games uh Glen Bard West and oprf back to back yeah thank you all right thank you can ask you both a question that it's the same how's the whole transition to school Ls going you personally and just for what you've heard I for me uh I think it's a better than navian from what I've uh just us it's easier to organize and stuff like that especially because um I can like look at all like I can immediately connect to Common App and then look at everything in one list so which is nice um yeah that's just my I think the exact same thing yeah it was introduced to Spire consols like a little bit at the end of last year and we ALS also had um an assembly during one of our access classes where all the seniors got in the auditorium and we got taught it again and I think it's just a lot more smoother than audience so they more integrated in the full of your work school yeah so with common app you can just press a button and then it'll automatically transfer over all the colleges you were looking at on common app which is I think is really nice and useful I thank you all right any other questions thank you gentlemen okay Hank I'll turn it over to you for item number four and I will turn it over to Gina to come on up as our title N9 coordinator all right well good evening good evening we invited Amy Dickerson who I work closely with from franic um to speak tonight about some of the changes to Title 9 and share those changes with you and address any questions you have about them so thank you Amy great well thank you Gina um and thank you everyone for having me here tonight um so I'm Amy Dickerson from franic um I've got the great pleasure of working with your um title N9 team here um and so really appreciate that that opportunity to do so and that opportunity to talk with you this evening um if I'll move my little slides here um so as Gina said there have been some updates to Title 9 so I'm going to be spending a little bit of time tonight providing you um with an overview of of what those those updates are are um Title 9 generally is the federal statute that governs the process that school districts have to follow in um responding to reports or complaints of discrimination based on sex including sexual harassment um back in 2020 um for those of you who may have um been on the board at that time you may recall that the board's policies specifically policy 2265 which is your board policy that governs Title 9 um was updated in response to amendments to the regulations to Title 9 at that time um so four years ago and at that time um the regulations really were revised to narrow the definition in some ways as to what constitutes sexual harassment under Title 9 UM in a way that was defined differently than how we Define sexual harassment under our state laws and title 7 and it also for the first time put in place very specific procedures that school districts have to follow when responding to reports of sexual harassment as it's defined under Title 9 so that in turn um resulted in reports or complaints of sexual harassment that may have been um some would be F falling under your Title Nine policy and some um would be falling under your other policies that also apply to harass assment but outside of the federal Title Nine context in April of 2024 so just um last spring the Department of Education revised the regulations and issued amended regulations um that did go into effect on August 1st and these regulations um in many ways really broaden the definition now of sexual harassment to more closely mirror how we Define sexual harassment under our state laws and under title 7 and in turn updated um the procedures and the procedural steps that school districts have to take when responding to those types of reports so I'm going to provide um just an overview summary of what those are and what they really mean for the school district and school districts throughout Illinois and what you can expect to see in the coming year so when we do talk about Title 9 I have this statute up here it's a very broad uh prohibition against um any it protects students employees from experiencing any discrimination based on sex in any school that receives Federal funding there were no changes to this statute um what changed were the implementing regulations and so that's what we're we're talking about um So within that broad definition um and prohibition against experiencing discrimination or harassment based on sex um a number of um issues fall within that umbrella so um many people especially those outside of the education context when they think of title n they think of um gender equity in athletics which was largely the focus of Title 9 when it was um inact initially enacted um but really Title 9 expands um and and really spands the the scope of protecting students employees from experiencing any discrimination based on sex in any aspect of a school district's programmer activities including the ious aspects that I have up here one of the main focuses of the regulations that were put in place back in 2020 and then have been recently amended are really on School District's obligations and the steps that they have to take when responding to reports of sex-based discriminate discrimination and especially sex-based harassment or sexual assault so that's one aspect of um of title n's you know farther reach so some of the main changes of the new regulations one is that they now explicitly provide protections for students employees from experiencing discrimination or harassment based on gender identity sexual orientation sex stereotypes sex characteristics pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions and marital status now your board policies as the board policies of districts throughout the state of Illinois already provide protections for student employees when it comes to um protections against experiencing harassment or discrimination based on these protected characteristics and that's because both our state laws provide those protections especially the Illinois human rights act as well as us being under our federal 7th circuit jurisdiction already has interpreted Title 9 to provide these protections but this is the first time that the federal government has actually explicitly provided these Protections in the regulations another big change that I alluded to earlier is that the way we Define what constitutes a hostile environment based on sex in a school district has broadened um and so I'll talk in a moment about what how that is broadened but in turn um while that is broadened to really um have the effect of probably any reporter complaint that um does have an allegation of what would otherwise constitute harassment based on sex would likely now fall within Title 9 and under title line scope but in turn the process that school districts have to follow when responding to a report or complaint of sexual harassment um those specific procedural steps that were in the prior regulations a lot of those are no longer there so um there's still a process that school districts have to follow but a lot of the very sort of procedurally heavy steps that were in the prior regulations are not in the the current process um as well as um there are some new training requirements so while in the prior regulations we did have to train all of our administrators who are implementing our Title Nine policies under the regulations now that training has to be done on an annual basis and all employees have to be trained as well so your administrators who are charged with implementing your Title Nine policies and procedures have already undergone that training um and then your employees will be going will undergo that as well and then you will see that on an annual basis so what I have here is really the Crux of what a school district's obligation is under Title 9 so when a recipient of federal funding a school that receives Federal funding has any knowledge of conduct that could reasonably constitute sex discrimination in its program or activity that's what triggers its obligations to respond under Title 9 to follow its policy and its grievance procedures um and really what this means in the K through2 context is that when any K through2 employee has knowledge of an allegation or report of conduct that if true would constitute sexual harassment as we defined it under Title 9 that that's what triggers its obligations to respond and those obligations are to respond promptly and effectively and largely what that means is really governed then by the title 9 rules the new amendments and really then what's going to be outlined in your board policy that you'll um be reviewing and updating so what do I mean when I say sex-based harassment under Title 9 um we still really Define it in one of three ways so um first any conduct that would be considered to be unwelcome conduct that would be both subjectively offensive as well as objectively offensive that is so severe or perv Ive that it has the effect of denying or limiting someone's ability to access your program is what we consider to be hostile environment sexual harassment it's so severe pervasive that it creates a hostile environment in the school Community the definition that I went through is that new definition that really again mirrors how we Define sexual harassment under title 7 and under our state laws it used to be um for context under the prior rules that only conduct um that was severe and pervasive and objectively offensive um would be considered to be what we call Title n sexual harassment um so it would have had to have met all three of those elements to trigger your title 9 policy if you had a report that was alleging severe or pervasive harassment that would have fallen under another policy but again now we have a more broader a broader policy quid proquo conduct is conduct that might be it's this it's this for that if there's any sort of um educational or employment benefit that is conditioned on someone engaging in some sort of sexual romantic act that's considered to be quidd proquo conduct so just one report of that type of conduct would trigger your title n policies as well as any just one report um of conduct that would be considered sexual assault domestic violence Dating Violence or stalking would also trigger your title 9 policy and fall under Title 9 upon receiving a report of conduct that if true would constitute sex-based harassment under Title 9 one of the first steps that's required under the new title n rules and in turn your policies and procedures is that the title n coordinator or someone who the title N9 coordinator designates must meet with the complainant the person who's alleged to have been experiencing the harassment or discrimination and have what we what we call an initial supportive measures meeting they meet with them to offer supportive measures let them know that you've received this report um discuss what supports the school district can provide let them know about the grievance procedures that the school has explain to them the process for filing a complaint and let them know that there's also an opportunity to resolve the complaint or the report informally if that's something that's particularly available for that type of report so I think that's helpful um to especially call out um in terms of you know understanding that that's the first step there really is a um great importance under the rules on providing supportive measures um for the parties um and that is a a first step that that does have to to happen when there's a report that's made I have here just an overview of what the response is that's required under the new title 9 rules and under the policy and procedures um that the district will be rolling out when a complaint is filed so very briefly when a complaint um is actually filed under your title n grievance procedures either because um a complaintant has filed that complaint or because the the school district the Title Nine coordinator has has signed that um based on the the allegations um what is required to take place generally is that the parties must receive notice of what those allegations are as well as making sure that all the parties have been offered supportive measures there's there's uh the title line coordinators required to assign an investigator to investigate that complaint under the new rules that same person could be serving as both the investigator and the decision maker um the investigation process really just has to entail um you know what you would what would be required to conduct a thorough and prompt investigation which typically would con include conducting interviews with the parties any Witnesses Gathering any information at the conclusion of that investigation the rules do require that the parties um have access to the evidence the relevant evidence that's been gathered or to be provided with an accurate summary of a description of what that what the the evidence is that's been gathered under the prior rules there were more specific steps that had to be taken um with very with longer time frames that had to be applied during the invest at the end of the investigation's um steps and some along the way so now under the new rules what I just described is is what has to um to take place for the investigation and then it can proceed to the determination stage as long as the parties have had that opportunity to um understand and respond review and respond to the evidence that's been gathered and then with a determination um a written determination does have to be issued that just explains what the relevant um or what the decision is and the rationale for that decision so again under the prior rules there used to be a process where the parties had to um be offered the opportunity to provide written examination questions through the decision maker um that no longer is a requirement the decision maker just has they have to have the opportunity to ask questions of the parties um if they have any and then they could proceed with making the determination and then there's the appeal process um so there's certainly when you go ahead and take a look at your updated procedure and your polic policy you'll see more specific steps but generally that is um you know is the process and some of the changes that you'll see so um in terms of what to expect going forward I believe you already are um in the process of updating your board policy 2265 and related policies as well that are affected by these changes um the your administrative procedure will be updated as well um as I explained your staff have already um been trained under the new rules those that are helping to support and to implement the um the policies and then your employees will be as well and then it will really just be about implementing those those policies and procedures so I'm happy to take any questions that you have I got one question does the formal complaint have to be made by the victim or can a complaint be made by say a third party another student who witnesses it because in at the High School level many times the victim will be too scared or ashamed or whatever to bring the complaint themselves initially yeah absolutely and we see that a lot so initially the report can be made by anyone um so any any report that comes in whether it's made by a friend um a teacher or the the person experiencing themselves or a parent um that would be as as long as it's a report of conduct that if true would constitute harassment as it's defined under Title 9 that would trigger the school district's then obligations to respond um by first having that initial supportive measures meeting with the person who is actually experiencing the harassment and then explain to them the process should they want to actually file a complaint um talk with them what that process would entail and then it goes from there cool thank you yeah thank you any other questions all right thank you am for being here thank you for me thank you so much oh yeah sorry all right uh our next topic for this evening is the annual climate survey uh as the board knows from our prior conversations each fall we've been using the five essential survey for our state mandated climate survey um however that survey as I've shared with the board in the past is a difficult one for us as it's designed for small elementary schools in an urban setting so for the past several months um a group of us have been looking at uh the different climate surveys that are out there Jill Browning's done a ton of work at looking at the different ones that are out there and researching them so that the entire leadership team could evaluate uh the different options that are out there it's really five Essentials or two others uh we've already decided five Essentials is not a match for us so after reviewing the two others uh this comprehensive School climate inventory survey is the one that has risen to the top between those two tools um I've shared information with the board on that decision and how we got there um at this point uh Jill and I are just waiting for this conversation with you to make sure that there weren't any concerns that we needed to address before moving forward and as soon as then ISB opens their window that we can declare a survey this is the one that we would like to declare uh for the next year so with that being said are there any questions I can answer two questions sure could I just ask a little bit about between two and what kind of LED you to sort of go yeah let me pull up my notes real quick then well you do that the second question was right isn't whatever survey we choose going to be used for those um strategic measures that is this going to be the source this will be the source of the data for the Strategic measures yeah um so really what uh the leadership team so this is administrators and chairs across the district felt that this survey was more easy to discern the data that uh the questions were direct and appropriate for the students that we had that it was very userfriendly uh that's a term that comes back many times uh and that the categories and responses that they feed back to us are more in lined with the things we see in our strategic plan and our values and reflect the district more okay thank you did I get both your questions yeah the second one you answer while you were looking it up I knew that one off the top of my head all right any others all right my last question and so because they meet the criteria of the organization we don't have to do five this replaces this replaces five Essentials yes yeah so the state mandates a climate survey and then offers like a I guess a group of survey tools that we can utilize but we cannot create our own surveys correct uh the five Essentials it comes at no cost from the state this one comes at a cost of chill what was it ,000 $2,000 per school um so this one is at a a slight cost right uh but the data we believe will be much stronger uh if we want to just go with five Essentials we don't have to do anything with the state it just rolls out and moves forward um there's supposed to be in August but now we're in September there's a a window of time in which is being provides us the opportunity to declare one of these other two surveys um and then once we go through that process then we'll start interacting with that company and that data uh rather than the five Essentials data but this will be the primary source for measuring our success on the Strategic plan yeah around school climate yes okay around school climate yeah that that one indicator that one measure that's on there so this year will be the Baseline data and then from there we'll look at what based on we don't know what that'll say yet but based on what that says we'll design strategies for trying to improve and this is the survey that's referenced in the school report card it is yep okay so instead of five Essentials being on the Illinois school report card the csci data will be there instead are there other neighboring districts that have switched to this as well yeah there have been ones that have ebbed and flow through it so I believe nutrier uses this one yes and there was another uh District 87 yeah Plumb guards used it uh for a while so um it seems as though school districts have flipped back and forth between this one and the other one in five Essentials as they've worked through looking at the different ones that are there okay other questions I think it's great that you found a a tool that more accurately reflects kind of what we're trying to learn so kudos to you y thank you Jill thank you Jill all right so we'll start moving forward with that and then really we don't see anything more with it until that survey goes out and the spring I think is when that window goes so uh we kind of just sit and wait for that window all right uh budget update um Tre and I and the entire administrative team have been working closely on the the budget since we last met and there's been a few variables that came forward if you remember when we last met uh we talked about proposing a budget that's about $300,000 uh in the red and we told you we were coming together the next week as an administrative team to try to identify reductions to get that closer to a balanced budget we did that we met we have made $200,000 in reductions across the administrative team uh we believe in this conservative budget that was a really realistic spot of us being able to hit a balanced budget by the end of the year that I think same day we met or maybe the couple days before we met uh Illinois released the corporate personal property replacement tax figures which the last time we met we were projecting a 14% decrease um the numbers came in from the state at a 32.6% decrease which is a about a $400,000 impact on us a $400,000 reduction in revenue for us so right now we're kind of staring at a $500,000 deficit in a proposed budget that we would bring you in at the next board meeting is the superintendent I'm recommending that the board adopts that budget with the $500,000 in uh in the red uh for a couple of reasons one we were really close to a balanced budget until the state dropped you know a poison pill on us at the last minute through fluctuations that could happen with the budget between interest rates and out placements and expenditures and transport there's a whole bunch of variables in here with uh literally a few students uh not outplaced or a few students with different Transportation over the course of the year we can make up that half a million dollars right and just smart uh choices that we make this is a budget this is a guess this is a plan right this isn't uh for sure what we will be seeing will happen next August I feel like you're hearing about how we have a wonderful smooth start to the school year to definitively bring you a plan that would reduce half a million dollars and I could guarantee you that would happen would start with things like hiring freezes would be like elimination of travel for professional development elimination of like food at different events where we traditionally have provided food to our sta like those are the easy things that you immediately just start cutting the impact on our climate as a school district would be significant if we entered into those types of changes at this point of the school year it's unfortunate that the state doesn't release these numbers in a timely enough fashion that we can incorporate them into our budget when we first start developing it um it is my recommendation that the board trust the administration enter into a budget in the red that we are efficient that we are careful in our expenditures that we look for efficiencies everywhere that we can and try to eliminate that deficit uh by the time we're sitting here in August um but with the board knowing that our plan is if things don't break the way we expect them to and the worst case scenarios happen things like interests and expenditures and out placements and transportation and insurance that we would end up in a potentially uh a half a million dollar deficit that would still leave us well above our thresholds in board policy for deficit reduction we wouldn't be hitting that 3% uh we'd be well off of it um but we feel like that is the responsible way to approach uh this last minute change that in revenues that was dropped on us by the state so with that I'll take questions or concerns and I'll kind of just get a straw poll of where the board is feeling with that recommendation so that Jer and I know um if we need to really uh start implementing some more drastic Cuts here over the next couple of weeks uh I'll start um so $500,000 is a lot of money um but I think I have full faith and confidence in Hank and in his administrative team especially jeree um I think they've demonstrated that uh they're extremely responsible um with uh the fiscal aspects of the administration of our district um over the last year they've come to the board with several different ideas about how to uh responsibly uh cut our costs I I have full faith and credit that they would do the same thing over this fiscal year um to touch on a couple points that Hank raised uh first we're going into a negotiation with our teachers and the upcoming summer we'll be starting that negotiation this fall um to do anything that Hank was referring refering to about you know implementing a hiring freeze or placing limitations on expenditures or travel would send a pretty terrible message in my opinion to to the teachers that would uh potentially jeopardize um how those negotiations would be handled um so I'm not in favor of doing that um second um even if we do uh end up in the red this year to this extent and and we have ended up the red in past years uh maybe not to this extent but even if we do as Hank pointed out we're still not going to be anywhere near uh broaching the cash reserves that we are mandated by board policy to maintain so even if we do have a year where we have uh you know a $500,000 shortfall um we're not going to be in any way shape or form leaving ourselves in jeopardy with amount of cash reserves that we have in place so um while $500,000 remains a a lot of money um it represents you know less than a half percent of our budget roughly um so I I feel pretty confident that our administrative team knowing where we are uh is going to do everything that they can to uh make certain that we we end roughly flat if you will so um I'm in favor of of pressing on with the original budget and not making any material adjustments to you know our our proposed budgets that we had previously reviewed um yeah pretty much in alignment with that can you give us a sense of where the $200,000 in reductions fell like kind of in what category technology um decided to postpone some more projects and then um Lisa took a a look at our outplaced students and we saw some Savings in there because we've had some students that moved out of the district so we identified that okay that's two I know a lot of the costs the high costs were some util you know the electricity and you know oh heating so I just no but I mean some of that may or may not come in true exactly where we think it's going to come in Wonder the areas that we potentially have areas for savings or increased Revenue include electricity if you know we're we're making some changes to try to contain those costs transportation we have a whole team across the district that's looking at especially special Transportation uh and efficiencies there and have already made some massive changes that should impact us there we're looking subbing and sub costs that could impact things uh and then revenues uh it it's just hit or miss we're projecting very conservatively on interest rates but if those don't fluctuate as quickly as we think they are that could make up the difference almost entirely there but it's it's we have to guess conservatively I mean so these are the things where just a few things swinging there could make up that half a million very quickly but we need to bring you like worst case scenario as we build a budget right right oh I think you and Don both that this given what we know today this is the worst case scenario of the half a million dollar yeah this is a conservatively built budget yes I mean I won't say worst case you know a building burns down or something like that that would be a much worst case scenario but but in inside of normal budgeting parameters this is a conservative budget I think given what we know yeah so since we've been here in in the past in those years does it make sense or do you provide more frequent updates so that the board and the community is just up to date on where is that something we'll update quarterly that's about how it takes a little bit for you know a coun come in to be able to so Dre will keep the quarterly although if we see something that's drastically fluctuating one way or the other we will definitely bring that to your attention sooner than there I also like the thought of U the perimeter things right of course everything's important but looking at it from a standpoint of not taking away things from who the staff is extremely important for me yeah absolutely do you have an idea of the last time um a budget has gotten either this far in the deficit or or farther uh yeah the year before I started so 10 years ago we had a budget reduction plan oh right M but we've also had a budget deficit probably three four years ago or so yeah during the ending is always something different than what you present at this time of the year because there's so many unknowns but yes a little fluctu in almost any one of them would pretty much cover it so if you take a look at last year we had a balance budget we spent an additional $250,000 in activity buses right and then we ended up with a deficit of 23,000 right so through over the course of the year we like had we not made that purchase we would have been ahead by $225,000 right so you can see those fluctuations can happen uh within that ballpark easily over the course of with uh open enrollment coming up do you anticipate any we're still working through the insurance uh process uh but yeah we'll be bringing you insurance rates in November so we'll have a better idea of of those the health insurance rates and that those impact one half of the budget right it's just from January until right June of next year but yeah we're working through those that process with the insurance committee right now yeah it's why we have the policy that we do so that when we do have fluctuations like this we don't have to cut Services yes and I think that's important and I think U we've maintained well above our mandated policy cash reserves that adopting a budget of this nature is not going to um diminish that that ability to maintain that type of Reserve so I I feel comfortable moving forward with with a budget like this does anybody feel opposed to that we've heard multiple kind of Thumbs Up I want to give the board board members an opportunity if somebody felt the opposite of that they had time and space to provide me that feedback all right well jury and I will work with the team and with Tammy on getting this finalized and uh presented uh at the next board meeting and then there'll be a public hearing at that meeting and then ultimately we'll ask the board to approve that budget that's final finalized and presented so thank you for your feedback all right I'm going to uh turn the remote over to Lisa and Ryan here hello everybody it's been a while um so summer school we had actually more students than we've had in about 10 years um except the co summer Co summer we kind of spiked up you know around 600 students uh we had 329 students in person this summer and 55 students with online credit recovery most of the increase is around enrichment courses so driver's ed we were up 21 students this summer uh we had the AI Inspire class um with us this summer with 28 kids um also AP chem prep um over more than doubled this summer um mostly because of the shifting with kids being encouraged if you met or exceeds that you were pushed into that higher course um that Megan Mars and Mike hints really um and Karen Eder um really did a big push with our kids um trying to make sure that they were ready for AP Kem um also we had more elel students participate this summer um and also uh with our Bridge students so for online credit recover we had 55 students taking about 28.5 credits um at the bottom you can kind of see that the more courses a student is enrolled in the less likely is they're going to complete those courses so we are trying to encourage kids to take them during the school year sometimes a student will take um an online Credit Recovery course uh for a variety of reasons either they arrived at us at our school in April um or they just could not um keep up we're really happy to note that uh eight students were able to graduate um this summer um after making up those credits over the summer so this is our grade distribution it is really consistent with the school year um over the summer we have a slight increase days especially this summer uh because kids are enrolled in enrichment courses so um you know driver's ed um or uh doing um our APM or our uh Bridge classes that those uh that shows a little bit of increase also it takes a little bit of the distribution out of the rest of mostly B's C's and D's uh because audit passs are incomplete is what falls under our um online courses uh we did have a couple of students audit um this summer which is unusual um they felt like they weren't going to be ready for the next Math course even though they passed the math course um they decided to audit just to sharpen their skills um that is the first time I've seen that in a while um which is uh great that the the chose to work with a student to come with us um if that student had earned higher than a D they would have been able to uh or those students had earned higher than the D they could have done um a sort of a grade replacement um but if the great St is the same we choose to do it as audit um rather than having it on their transcript twice and then uh reason for attendance so you can see most of the summer um School uh kids are coming to us for credit recovery um enrichment um I just kind of broke out with the classes there this is the first time enrichment has surpassed uh driver's education also it's usually a pretty tight race for repeat for an improved grade um uh we've already been in touch with AI Inspire they um have asked to come back we were excited um with how it went the first time it wasn't just d99 students 22 of them were d99 students we had a couple of students from d58 um a student from NE Central Hinsdale Central and I can't remember the other school um but we did have a sixth grader from d58 and his seventh or eighth grade sister um they had a great um opportunity to come they're really in they had just moved here from another state I believe and so they saw this is a great way to kind of get involved um so another great thing was that we were able to negotiate um a free and reduced lunch scholarship for every 10 d99 students so we were able to have two students um to attend for free um that wouldn't have been able to um do it otherwise so um that was exciting thank you good evening everybody um I just have two slides here um to really represent our extended school year program uh for those of you that don't know extended school year we often just refer to as esy but it's for our special education students largely in our multi- needs program um that is the purpose of summer school is to maintain those skills that they've earned during the year and not have any regression occur um this was actually our highest year um of our in-person um instruction as you can see a little bit of a historical perspective there i' like to put that on there because prior to covid um our students did attend if they chose to to attend um esy through sassad our special education Cooperative but we always had pretty low numbers um students who attended sassad programs obviously attended but then District 99 students also had the opportunity um and we had relatively low numbers for that I think largely because um they were not the students actual teachers right um that they would be going to for summer school opportunities um so you can sort of see there um just how we um Grew From the virtual that we offered during the summer of covid um and then this last year was our fourth year um offering it in person at District 99 and this was our first summer that we housed it at the transition Center because of the larger footprint um and we were able to house everybody Under One Roof and it was um our best summer yet so that just gives you an indication of what the summer what those numbers look like since um 2019 so we topped out at 93 students this summer we utilized all eight classrooms at uh the transition Center but what was great is you know we have access to both of those kitchens over there um and just a lot of other opportunities that make it a little bit more difficult to do in each of the buildings um what I think is PR pretty cool stat here is 85% of our staff that are involved in our esy program are our own staff um and that's not typical of a lot of esy programs um teachers want their Break um uh we purposely uh do our esy program right after school in June so we can give folks that break um all of July and the beginning of August um to encourage our staff to continue on with our students this year um we did had have to utilize one sassad um member for our OT o occupational therapist but then we also had we have several d99 substitutes that are special ed certified who came on as teachers for us who frequent actually the transition program during the school year we had a student teacher that actually started as a par educator in District 99 um in special ed decided he wanted to become a specialed teacher then did his student teaching at doners Grove South and then um worked with me um during esy as a teacher um and a couple other pair professionals that are are working through to their um special ed certif certification and then two regular Ed teachers one social studies teacher at at North and one science teacher at South both decided to spend their Summers with us um in parac capacities which was awesome um for them themselves to get a different perspective but also for our students um that was really fun to see um and so we topped out at 93 this year and I can only imagine if the trend continues we be above that this year wow fabulous any questions Lisa how many students do you normally have at t99 during the school year during the school year um this year we have 71 so and how did the building handle 93 it was it was tight it was tight um but um we were able to uh utilize different different Furniture sort of configurations in some of the classrooms um where we were able to take some students who previously during our normal school year students that are in wheelchairs or have other sort of larger um physical space needs um we we just configured those spaces differently within different parts of the building um to not confine them but it just opened up other parts of that building um we also utilized our Open Spaces especially in the that new what we call the blue kitchen on the new side um because it's rather large for a lot of Swing spaces for larger things that we wanted to do that required some more space But at the end of the day a large part of what our focus is during esy is are those community experiences so we are trying to get out and utilize those vehicles and get out in the community as much as possible it's nice out the students don't want to be inside either um and so it's not as if everybody maybe in a typical summer school setting is coming into one classroom and sitting for three hours that's that's not at all the experience there's a lot of moving around um but I would say um that 93 is is a is a nice number for that building so we'll see um but I think too that a nice experience for our multi- needed students is as they experience the programs at North and South South then they get to come and have an experience at the transition program every summer because that's where they're going to likely be coming um when they're done in their respective high schools so it's just I think people were like oh maybe maybe that's why we went from 82 to 93 you know oh it's going to be at at the place that I'm going to be in a couple years um and it's obviously as everybody has seen here a beautiful facility so but um I I I've been the person who's been the administrator overseeing it the last four years and it's it's been the smoothest best run esy since even with the number of 93 so I was very happy with how it turned out very good yeah this is fantastic yeah I had uh Hank and I took a tour of it uh is it earlier this spring I think spring um and I think it's great that you have the ability to have all the students in one place at the same time and like even just walking around when it was like almost freshly uh renovated fantastic space I'm I'm thankful that you had the opportunity to give these students the educational experience there and I think it's such an invaluable resource to our students and then the students that come from other districts so thank you so much for everything you do absolutely thank you and we do have um two students that are tuition based with us at t99 this year for this school year can I just ask Ryan I thought I read in here you said something about this was our first summer with busing we did I read that correctly related to summer school we offered maybe confusing something um we offer busing every summer um yeah um I would say though um when we're at South for summer school the bus routes for some of our kids like it's like 20 minutes shorter um than when we're at North and so I like Lisa we I had far fewer kids missing the buses turning the buses back all that kind of stuff because kids that live at at 3 or 55 and like Beyond 83rd Street instead of having to catch the bus for like 620 for an 8:00 start they were able to get it at like 6:47 or 651 and and so that was a huge difference for us um I didn't realize that that was the reason until I like compared the bus at like a week into summer school I'm like why aren't we having more kids miss buses um and it was timing I think so you mentioned two kids that are students that are um tuition based M tell me about that yeah so um other school districts around in the area um frankly don't have the transition program that we have um and so um they find that sometimes their students might need more of a structured program like we would provide that their District doesn't have and so just like we send students to like let's say a SD program for for their school day they send their student to us at transition for their transition experience and then pay tuition for their student to attend with us since they are not part of the District 99 Community anything else thanks Ryan thanks Lisa yeah I was gonna say all right uh I've started bringing this to the board each year and especially in the year when we're watching the budget this is an important thing board to review and take a look at one of the goals that the board set for me last year was being active and involved in both local and national conferences and trying to uh both learn and share uh what we're doing here in District 99 so uh this a little a couple fewer experiences than last year knowing that we were adding into a tighter budget this year um the ones that don't have a dollar amount really come at no cost uh to be part of um and are either conferences or leadership experiences so like DuPage superintendent collaborative that's uh a monthly uh group of superintendents in DuPage and I co-lead that group um then a couple of board of directors uh the board knows I've been on iasa I was just named I Illinois High School District organization uh board of directors as well uh there's two of them there iasa which is the Illinois superintendent conference and aasa which is uh the National Conference uh for superintendant uh Rob and I have been asked to to present at the Ia annual conference so we'll be presenting on our morale work with the staff and with the administration at that conference and then I'll be taking the show on the road for a tabletop conversation at the aasa uh conference um The Joint annual conference is the conference I attend with the board each year as part of our professional development as a team and then I also go each summer to a board of directors meeting for iasa and that's at no cost to the district um so the key one that's on the table where I'm not presenting or attending with the board is the suburban school superintendent conference that is an expensive conference um this is the conference that is just uh Suburban schools right and you have to be nominated by the group to be in the group and accept it in and then you have to attend two of every three conferences to maintain your membership I have attended the last two uh so if the board would like as a cost savings measure for me not to attend that conference uh we could reduce my travel budget by two $2,000 by doing that however this is the conference where uh it really is the peers that are most similar to us uh that I'm in the room with so that would be the tradeoff uh that has been a a very good conference for us and for me uh over the years but I'm I'm happy in a year where it's tighter if the board feels like Hank reduced this budget that's the one that I would kind of jettison from the list um so with that I'll I'll open up to questions or conversation and kind of get your direction as to whether you would like this slate or you would like this slate minus the suburban school superintendent conference I think this slate is fine yes I do too I don't I don't think taking out the suburban school superintendent conference is going to be that big of an advantage to our budget I think it's important for you to be um out there in our conference and uh getting feedback from other schools that are similar to us and keeping us in the loop I just think it's important so that that's just my opinion but yeah I think the return on investment for you going to a conference like that is greater as a value to the district um even you know let's say you run into another school in a similar situation as ours and you find some new way to save us money as a as a result of it so uh $22,000 for a conference that's very valuable to you um I think is a good investment for us yeah I I think those of you that are on the board during uh the book challenges this was the conference I was at when those came in and I was able to like pick the brains of all the superintendant that were there that charted the path forward and how you know we should manage that and follow our policies and procedures and so I mean it's it's very tangible and that's a group that I reach out to throughout the year as well so I appreciate the board's support of me attending that I I do feel that it has brought value back to the district and being part of that group but you know I did want to at least bring it to the floor here all right so that's the plan for the year okay Julie do we have any uh slips for uh visitors no sir we do not okay then item number six can I get a motion from the board uh to go into close session for Collective negotiating matters between the district and its employees or their representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees so moved shell moved second Ken seconds very much shelle Fuller hi Ken Dawson I Chris Espinosa I Jenny hagstrom I Terry pavich I Cara Caston I and Don rener I motion carries and for the members of the public the board will be going to close session as we come out of close session the only action the board will be taking when it comes out of Clos session is to adjourn thank you all right we'll take a quick break and I just want to say thank you to North for

president pres please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pled alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all good evening board I'm uh excited to be here this evening we've got some important updates and information coming this evening and uh we are going to go first into I think some really important strategic work that the board committed to this past winter um and thinking about how we reflect on our continuous improvement process um in this in June of this year the board approved the equity and rightful presence policy and this policy call for us to really rethink and envision a place in our district where all students are thriving and we move from some are thriving to all students thriving and in that policy it called for continuous Improvement well how do we know if we we need to improve there are lots of different ways um if you have have a you know often our our our wives may tell us or our partners may tell us or our children may tell us that we have to improve but in districts there are lots of ways we do that and one of the best ways has been known is really getting a third party that's really benchmarked to give us honest and feedback and really to give us both our strengths to think about what are the strengths of our system what are the highlights what are the other things we're doing really well and boy in 308 we are doing a lot of things really really well um and also those opportunities or exceptions you'll hear about where we have to we have to arise and how we do that and so tonight I'm thrilled to welcome K Coleman who will be leading us through a presentation and also Dr Kade and we alsoo have with us and com Bogan who is here who is a consultant a strategic partner in how we are approaching the results and thinking about the results to this work so K Coleman welcome to the mic thank you so much madam president is it on almost can you hear me yeah okay Madame President members of the board Dr katti and all of the senior staff and other staff in the district thanks for being here it's thank you for inviting me to be here it's my pleasure to come back to this district and do a bit of a presentation we've worked all all dayto day with various groups with principles and District leadership and Union leadership and uh a variety of different populations and our purpose my purpose today and tonight is to spend a little time with you uh really looking inside the audit we're not this is going to be a very brief presentation I think you all have an executive summary I see them around the room um and so we'll the executive summary is the piece that is really um a summary of all the information that's in the full audit the full audit is a huge report it's about 420 pages so we talk a bit about process and how this uh how this how this has worked for you the important thing I think to remember is what the audit's central question is and that is what you see on the screen to what EX extent does sd308 have they EST have you established a coordinated valid and comprehensive curriculum and the organization to support and guide teaching and learning in the classroom so bottom line this is about kids learning and I suspect that's why everybody that's in this room right now is in this room it's about how do we support kids learning the foundation of this model is the alignment of the written taught and tested so when you see this triangle curriculum at the top is the work plan it's the definition of student learning what it is we want our kids to know and be able to do and being very thoughtful about that this isn't purchase materials this is that what is that curriculum you have state standards and then at a at a district level making the decisions about how do we lay that out for folks teaching is the work it's the delivery of student learning and assessment is the work measure determining if learning has occurred and what extent that's kind of the core of the curriculum audit and what we look for quality control is alignment the bottom line is alignment is the key to being sure that we have improved performance and approved achievement alignment has to be supported and facilitated at the district level alignment has to be realized by teachers and principles at the school level everything taught in classrooms prepares kids for anything they may encounter on any assessments or in real life we believe in no surprises so that alignment piece is going to determine whether how kids are doing and what the overall effect is the relationship between curriculum the district part in that alignment is the relationship between curriculum and what's assessed curriculum and the test that work is defined at a district level it's the I hit the wrong thing here alignment and Delivery at the school level is what is taught the curriculum that is taught and what is assessed so that's that piece that critical piece to being sure that what what is being taught is what is assessed and also those things that are Beyond assessment beyond the regular assessment assignment and alignment and delivery is as much about what to is taught the curriculum and how it's taught combined with cognition so we talk about three things content context and cognition the cogn cognitive demand those of you that are Educators or have been in education know full well about Bloom's taxonomy which is a really came out of University of Chicago I believe uh years and years ago um really looking at the levels of cognition for kids if what we do primarily is Stand and Deliver and we just expect factual Knowledge from kids the learning level is way less than if if we expect serious application so thinking through that is an important part the audit examines how well different departments within the system and different levels of the system are working to manage and support the curriculum design and delivery to achieve and maintain alignment in those three dimensions content context and cognitive there are things that in our world we say should be held tightly at the district level that's the ends that's the vision that's the mission and philosophy the goals the standards the priorities and and student objectives that's the curriculum piece what students are walking away with to Mastery the learning that is happening and student assessments so student objectives and student assessments go hand inand as well as program goals vision and Mission the flexible part we used to call this tightly held in your audit report you'll find tightly or loosely held um now is called flexible so where we get more flexible but at a school level that's that addresses the means not the ends the ends are defined at a district level the means are defined at a school level that means instruction that means strategies and approaches and groupings so if I'm a teacher te in this classroom and that same and the teacher next door to me is teaching the same content it may look different but the learning outcomes are the same in both classrooms so strategies and approaches are in the in the hands of teachers to say what do I need to do different because this little group is not getting it what am I going to do do i group them differently do I teach them differently what is it I need to do Staffing can be needs to be flexible processes need to be flexible resources and materials although within I want to caveat this within written curriculum there is an expectation that resources are defined but there are also there's not any one set of resources any place in the world people frequently will call that curriculum it's resources curriculum is what we want kids to know and be able to do the resources are the materials we use used to teach kids there's not anyone set any place in the world that will answer will be appropriate for every learning outcome for a student's coursework so there has to be some flexibility there and program implementation audit looks at five big areas the first one being vision and accountability we call these Focus areas and vision and accountability is in that in that area we look at policy we look at ad admin procedures we look at planning we look at the organization of the school system how does that all support teaching and learning and when there's mismatches we will talk about them in our findings the second area is direction or curriculum what is it that the what are those clear and valid objectives we have for all students what's the the um say kids are going to walk out of here knowing boom boom boom and being able to do that the third Focus area is internal consistency and equity in programs it's a big one and it's a big finding for you all we'll talk in about that in a second the fourth one the fourth area of focus is feedback so as a system do we use the results of our student assessments do we do program evaluation to improve adjust or sometimes terminate programs do we use it that way and the fifth one is productivity how do we continually improve in organizational productivity and in that area we look at budget we look at technology we look at facilities so pretty much touches audit pretty much touches every area of a School District with the understanding that what we're about is teaching and learning and kids being successful here's what we saw or this is what we did while we were here I had a team of 10 of us that visited the district between March 4th and 7th last spring we did 310 individual interviews analyzed over a thousand not during that week but during the weeks before and after of your documents collected for review we did 574 classroom observations across the district 2,639 surveys were responded to by parents teachers and administrators and 1,031 student work samples we call them um artifacts that were collected and sent off to an offside auditor briefly well let's start with strengths here's the strengths we saw very clear in this District there's an emerging Vision to service all kids there's resilient and committed teachers do you have a darn good developmentally appropriate child Early Childhood Center um strong working relationship with your unions and the district leadership and a variety of engaging programs for kiddos I want to say that what we do in the audit is we re we do an exception report it's not an attaboy report it's a report that says here's the standards and we measure you all as a district against those standards we only preent triangulated data so if we think we're on the path to finding something and we can't triangulated it will not go in your report so given that we're going to look just at the area of findings and I'm going to do it really fast because you've got it all in there but and then we'll talk a little more on the other Grand on recommendations that Focus area One Vision and accountability we talk we looked at board policies and we looked at admin procedures and there board policies have recently been redone I think within the last two years maybe maybe it's two and a half now um but there is in the area of comprehensive guidance for Effective curriculum management and quality control there's some needs there the the organizational St chart organizational um structure that we we saw when we arrived was in motion moving changing and we would say that I'm sure it's changed significantly I today from where it was and it needed to um it didn't support efficient and effective deployment of your of your human resources and job descriptions didn't provide adequate Direction and the other thing in that finding in those that Focus area is planning and plans are not fully coordinated and need greater Clarity and focus focus area 2 curriculum the key takeaways there are number one you don't have a curriculum management plan a curriculum management plan is a plan that says this is how we do curriculum work the scope number two the scope and quality of the written curriculum is not sufficient at some levels it's sufficient in some areas you'll have to go into the full report to see what that is there are some pockets of adequacy but when you don't have a full scope and a full um and good qual high quality so there's two things we look on we say is it there that's a scope issue is it any good and that's a quality issue there's four questions we had to ask but those the first two so you've got some curriculum that's been developed the qu the qu the issues are around quality and scope so you don't either of those areas are not sufficient when that's the case it leaves teachers on their own to decide what to teach we don't necessarily want that to happen we want to and teachers don't want that to happen teachers want tell me what I what I need to teach and I'm going to teach it you know the audit team a was asked a third question in this area in Focus area 2 and it was around analyzing the recently adopted Elementary and Junior High Ela resources I think they were adopted last spring maybe while we were here or right after right in that time frame and so we don't normally do that but we were asked to do that and so we did that analysis in relation to the Common Core State Standards and we found some inconsistent alignment so it's something that I think people are already working on I think that's the important thing to say here transposition period we came in midye with a new superintendent new administrative team things were popping they were already happening but it wasn't all finished and so when we did this report we were able to say okay so this is an issue and I know that Dr cancade and her staff are working right now on that that third piece there um and I know that um Bri do Doctor Brian let's call you Brian that's what I've been calling you so I like I don't know how to say that name Brian how do you say your name and I know they've been working on the organizational structure and job descriptions are in motion I mean that's exciting really thinking about the work that's already being done and uh that makes my heart go bitter better just cuz I know you've already you know you're taken off it didn't you didn't wait for our report area three there's quite a lot of stuff there there's five findings in area three it's about building a system of equity uh and by establishing this department of of equity and engagement it's a fabulous beginning um that was happening about the time we were here so that was that was a needed thing some student populations across this district and within schools are missing learning opportunities due to the lack of access to high quality curriculum and instruction District expectations are inconsistently reflected in instructional practices and you have you'll go into the report in areas of differentiation cognitive rigor engaging instructional practices strategies and US of high quality instructional sheltered instruction practice I'm going to skip right over those key and in addition in this Focus area you can see it gets long professional development plan is missing and not coordinated are delivered in a systemic way systematic way and in the examination at student work samples is that piece that we I think we collected 1,031 work samples that were sent off to our out of another uh an auditor off site and there was evidence of alignment issues in those and the this is a Yahoo for the district most of the artifacts demonstrated and expand for higher order thinking most demonstrated that that's a big statement to say most of that those student artifacts demonstrated that or higher order thinking and engaging context with the exception of mathematics so there you go you got a you got one of your goals right up front difference is were noted in how teachers interpreted Mastery we found literary selections that did not represent that diversity of the district so a lot of stuff in a lot of important stuff in Focus area three Focus area four key takeaways there are relative to not having sufficient planning for district assessment and program evaluation the overall scope of assessment being not adequate so when you do curriculum work you also do assessment work and this the third one that's got that little piece underlined students in 308 perform above State and National averages on sum of Assessments that's a good statement right but not all groups of students are performing at equally high levels something that has to be really explored and you use something called Fast Bridge results from that formative assessment called fastbridge do not predict performance on state assessments if we believe in no surprises for kids that's important productivity you all know I don't have to tell you that the district has gone through some tough Financial stuff uh but the financial health of the district is improving but you need that program evaluation piece that we talked about in number four to help in budget decision making you need to be able to have program evaluation so that budget Department CFO is able to say okay why do you need more money help me understand let's see what the effectiveness of what we're doing right now is you don't have program evaluation you're a big old system I think you went from pretty small system to pretty big pretty pretty fast and um so that's a that's an issue there's no longer change technology plan and we spend bazillions of dollars there and the facilities plan needs to needs to have a long range look at it you've got bits and pieces of things but you don't have the whole thing okay I could stop right now and say that's just the F but I'm going to tell you there's a bunch of recommendations and and we're going to fly through them really fast but you have a summary in your executive summary but we're going to here's how we make decisions about recommendations based on the findings what needs to change systemically to get better what changes the overall organizational structure need to improve to be more effective what changes to the written curriculum what changes to the taught curriculum what processes could be improved what goals and expectations could be more clearly defined that main focus of all of this is do we how do we improve student learning and engagement as major by assessments folks you had undertaken in this District what I call a really gutsy thing to do doing a curriculum audit the curriculum management audit takes guts it takes for all of you where you are at any point in time in this process is an okay place to be but you can stay there you have to move on and our goal is to provide you with the data that can link to the work that you're doing in strategic planning which I find very exciting because often new superintendant will come in and say well we need a strategic plan let's get a strategic plan and a strategic plan gets written without all the data and then they'll come and ask us to do curriculum audit like it's almost a little backwards you know this is great because you've got a ton of data now that can help guide in that strategic planning work okay let's talk about recommendations continue with the Strategic plan make clear linkages with the findings and recommendations of the audit address plan planning in all areas of the district we never put the plan I I have done about 40 audits in this country and about 20 of them I've LED and I've never put this recommendation as recommendation one recommendation one is usually around policy and admin RS or admin procedures but in your your District it was important to put it here because of the lack of plans so as you move forward that's why it's in one that's why it's in that position because that says to you this is a priority we need plans in curriculum management and professional development and assessment and program evaluation in facilities and and and learning environment and Technology that's a lot of planning but it's is going to be come under that umbrella of the Strategic plan and then those pieces but it's all doable and it it can be done in an orderly Mash manner our second recommendation is around revising simple board policy work and doing adding administrative procedures to provide Clarity to board policy that work that was done a couple years ago it needs Clarity and your current Administration knows that well and they'll move forward with that continue the reorganization of the admin structures and revise the job descriptions complete the scope of the written curriculum I'm sorry I have I know I some people are feeling very affirmed he told me today when I walked in do you know that it says job descriptions 124 times in that report like oh I guess that was a point we wanted to make and D gum he's already doing it along with his staff complete the scope of the written curriculum and revise the existing curriculum uh for curriculum quality and specificity it's recommendation three and we say our recommendation is to start with a core and then move to non-core the core courses design and Implement a coordinated system of professional development that's differenti iated supports the written curriculum and is focused on producing effective research based High uh instructional practices and high levels of student engagement establish and in institutionalize a system this is critically important number five for ensuring equal access for every student to every student group to eliminate barriers to and to access for kids critically important develop and implement a comprehensive high quality plan for the design and delivery of services for English language Learners you call them English Learners just adding my own lingo English language Learners develop and Implement common align formative Diagnostic and summative assessments for all courses starting with the core k12 and working on the newly aligned curriculum with that area and begin to organize and create program evaluation because program evaluation is going to help not all all of you as you consider what is it we keep doing and tweak and adjust what is it that we say why if we're spin if we're doing all these things and not evaluating and how do we know if it's working how do we know if it's working we don't if we don't if we don't have program evaluation going in a system and it really helps the budget dep Department think about return on investment for the district budgeting process I have just thrown a ton at you really fast um and I want to ask this next questions so before we jump into the questions we just want to make sure that as K has mentioned you know we have the audit kicked off in really January with collection of documents um then we had a series of interviews and observations in March um so there has been a lot of work done across uh the district since then I mean we're uh approaching nine months since the beginning of the audit um also connected to what Kay said we've had the establishments of departments um Dr Waller was a department of one until the start of this year Dr Paul's Department did not exist so we have definitely prioritized a lot of what um K has presented through the findings from prioritizing the reorganization um collaboration with our Union Partners um we have a new board policy with our equity and rightful presence as as well as our call to action so there has been some specific work done in some of these targeted areas um through the work of Dr Waller's Department we have a new aligned School improvement process around the eight foundations so as we look at the work of our strategic road map and we ready the system for a new strategic plan this spring we have had enhanced mentoring we've had extended new teacher um orientation we've had our nextg um in teacher residency so you have seen mtss we have an mtss handbook for uh the first time again not that everything has been fully implemented we're moving into that next phase of program eval connection to budget which I'm sure is music to U Mr oba's ears so while there's a lot of work still to be done there has been a lot of work aligned to the curriculum audit aligned to our strategic road map um really through the work um also in partnership with an cumins Bogan with our strategic plan our DLT our district leadership team um with our OA members is kicking off next week um so we're really excited about the work that has been done um we're seeing um a lot of alignment between our strategic road map and the curriculum audit um so we're really using both both of those as Foundation as we move forward in our planning and preparation an is there anything that you would like to add above and beyond that absolutely uh good evening everybody I'm just uh here uh in support um I'm just going to sit down now if okay um yeah I just would Echo um what's already been said actually and just uh want to be a resource if I can um add any Clarity to the current process but this is a system in motion um and I think that um I think that you know it's it's just exciting to be a part of it so I'm just just here as a resource if I can answer any specific questions so oh you want to go go ahead well just quick um so I'm thinking about Kay what you said about this audit not being a part it's not a pat on the back it's an exception report report yes and I just want to say thank you to the board for the direction and the guidance that we were given because a lot of what Dr katti for the first 90 days we asked him um to go out into our world and explore it and find out what is this happening um what needs to be done and we gave him that time to do that we didn't ask him to come in and give us a strategic plan right away like you said that is a that is the that the tail wagging the dog right right and so I'm I'm Dr katti I think if you think about six deges of Separation I think he's touched everybody in this community everybody in our community has either heard from him directly sat with someone who who has spoken with him all of the different town halls and the meetings that he's had with so many people that gave him what is essentially what was in this report so we knew from you know a year ago what what the situation was and what the diagnosis was so I'm very pleased that the data is just backs up what we what we already knew but then now to have um you know our our the policies that the board has created around equity and rightful presence which was a huge lift but took a lot of Courage on our part to say to our community that it's not acceptable that some of some students um succeed but not others and that we want all of our students to benefit from the way we're educating them and so we we're we're courageous enough to know that this is the direction we want to go we've hired a superintendent now we have a a CFO who who brings us the data that we need in order to be successful because we knew we needed to handle that right away getting a CFO who could help us understand our numbers which is you know so vital and so important and we've just done a lot of things our our our board said to Dr Kel you know we want we want staff development and we want um student learning to be addressed and so this here is just a a um a product of where we need to go and a lot of it we're working on and um I'm just excited and I thank you Bor for like-mindedness and being able to just um hang in there with us as we know there's a lot of work to be done but that we're going in the right direction well I think I'm going to take one step back and I hate really like beating a dead of hor on the past but I think that especially between the transitions of boards with the current board and the past board we were constantly yelling into this like black hole of we need this everybody will tell you that I am the job description Queen it frustrates me to no end because that's my HR background but we had former administrators who said we don't need to do job descriptions so everybody yelling into this hole because we had no systems and so everything was just falling down and one of the things that has happened in I personally would say record time is that we have put at least a scaffolding of systems together so that when these recommendations came in there was a place for them to go there was no place for them ever to go and one of the things that really um I've seen such a just metamorphosis in the district is the committee work that we're doing now it it was it is when you talk about the tech we had already talked about that in our finance and Facilities meeting and knew that was something that we had identified before we wouldn't have even known where to even you know funnel those questions or those suggestions and those ideas the board comes with you know their own set of expertise and we know these things are missing whether it's Finance processes or administrative processes or HR processes or curriculum teaching so now just even having these basic systems in place and really building those systems has been truly like transformational just within the year so while it's hard to digest that audit it's very long it's 400 and some pages took a lot of sit downs but it's not for weenies it was also very you know and I told Dr K Kade and Dr katti we've been working so so hard because it you don't it takes a long time to get this stuff done and so just the amount of work that's been done in the last year is truly I mean they say a lot of times about education it's a tugboat not a speedboat and I'm like no we go to we got to move forward a lot quicker so I'm really excited about that and a lot of this TR too was validation that the board wasn't asking for for things that were ridiculous or out of the question it was truly and we identified this I think the the thing that the board identified at our 30,000 foot view was strong people and strong systems and when we put those in place things really started to roll so um it's been um exciting to see good any other questions so I initially had a question but I'm going to turn it into a comment um and and I will go off your point of a tugboat not a speedboat um I I think it took I I mean not to toot our our own horns or whatever I mean I think it took a lot for the district probably one of one of the best things that we did was to hire outside people to take a look at our organization and how it works to get kind of a to get a to get a clear eye on what we're doing right and what we're doing wrong and and I think this is this has proved it um my my question was going to be why should the community think that things are different this time and and maybe someone would like to comment on that but but before that you can before that you can already see that some of as you said some of these things are already in process and there are already green shoots that we're hoping are are starting to appear so I guess rather than asking the question that the comment that I would make would be to the community to um understand that these things take time um I think that uh trust is a big issue because there have been many starts and stops over the years um just kind of just kind of hang with us and know that we are we are slowly making progress and we all have the same uh we all have the same goal in the end so thank you for all the for the work that you and your team have done absolutely I think the time issue is is an important consideration you will find in the written recommendations some estimates about how long different things will take by people that have done that work doesn't mean it's totally accurate means that somebody that's done that work is saying on this audit team that the various levels of exper this is about how long it takes we know that anything in we know curriculum is always ongoing in a school system we know assessment work is always ongoing we know that professional development is is just ongoing we're doing it all the time but when you have it within the structure that says here's how we're going going to do things we don't just randomly do professional development we do it with thoughtfulness around we have a new curriculum for whatever the level is and we're going to do work on some professional development for that Etc all the way through in the various content areas so yeah and you were saying creating a process for curriculum development that's right that's that whole which isn't necessarily something that we're yeah it's called a curriculum management plan and they've already begun that work and I'm sure that'll be clean you know worked on this in these coming months and really tightened up because that's that and you basically that will go ultimately in the uh administrative procedures so that's the way we do things here that's the way we do things so you want that normalization to that's how we do things when we write curriculum and if we need to change things along the way we change them but we do it in a document that stays because people change positions and often in education that means we throw everything the baby and the bath water all go together as opposed to saying wait there's some good things that are happening here let's hold on to the good things that are making a difference for kiddos and let's add to what we need to add to to make this work more efficiently and effectively so that's we're defining detailing our policies um with the administrative procedure and that's where so it doesn't get lost and it's doing going to be an important step also through admin admin procedures because you've got basic board policy that meets the legal requirements that's I was saying yeah so there you're certainly going to want to be involved in some of it and and the administration will come to you on on the development of curriculum but I think the uh on development of policy but admin admin procedures need to be clear because it clarifies for everybody it says here's what this board policy means and how it impacts you as a School person I'm I'm I'm excited about the um this will help in prioritization yes um it'll help developing rois um to make sure they're getting best bank for the buck and not necessarily that it costs money it could be a reorganization like you were saying it could be um an adjustment um but it's uh this will help um oh that's and um it's what you know I've been i' I've calmed down about it but I definitely was very uh adamant that we need to start prioritizing appropriately so appreciate it Jared Amy I just have a couple comments um just a couple comments like I I know that this was something that we needed to do um so um there wasn't a ton of surprises for me in the audit although it's very thorough and I appreciate the kind of you know map to get to where where we where we want to be and I know that a lot of work has been done since we initiated the audit and so I'm glad that that's being recognized um I think this is just just another in so many cases with curriculum this is still this is all systems work it it's putting together the systems and the structures to make the work happen uh in in an equitable way and I'm glad people today are mentioning our policy on equity and right ful presence because curriculum access to curriculum how kids get T like all of that is connected to those um pieces of our policy uh so um I just wanted to uh highlight that uh and say um I think we're moving in the right direction so thank you sure and I'll have a different a little bit of a different take only because I'll you know I always have to remember the historical context and I you know quite frankly no I wasn't surprised by any of this but maybe from a different lens it's not like any of these things haven't been goals or Desires in the past but um I I want to remind us that it's it's virtually impossible to put these things in place without proper resources so it might differ from your comment a little bit where um having the experience I've had uh on the board in the past you're not going to be able to do these things while you're making cuts you're not going to be able to do these things when your finances are in limbo we don't have some of those plans in place because um it was you know triage it was triage for years uh and it was uh reactive that doesn't mean we should accept that uh it doesn't mean we shouldn't move past that but I do think it's something that we honestly need to make sure that we appreciate and really Hammer home to our community which is if you return us to the big bright lights and give us a list of things we cannot do um then we need to understand that there are ramifications and they last for a very very long time and having instability doesn't help either uh and so investment's important stability is important I'm pretty sure that's pretty much a private sector sentiment um out there so um I I I'm not saying like we should dwell on the past we should absolutely not dwell on the past I don't want to go back to the past but that's kind of the point and none of these things uh we're not making progress without being in that better financial situation and so um I I just want to make sure that we reiterate that piece because all of this is an investment in the end and it doesn't you can't invest if you are you're sending thousands of dollars tens of thousands of dollars to another school district next to you because you're taking out loans just to make ends meet so um I I'm not surprised I'm I'm I'm very content with where we're at right now and we need to continue because nobody wants to go back yeah and thank you Administration for all the hard work that you've done um we it doesn't go unnoticed we so appreciate it um one thing about this uh District was even when we were struggling um and having all sorts of challenges we had good people we had good people people and so um we want to keep those good people and so making investments in our in our Administration and in our district leadership in our all of our unions and the the um the ratifications that we did over the past year or so I mean we I think we and I hope that we're sending the message that we want um we want this District to to thrive and we can do that if we um just show our people how much they're valued um and I hope that that message is coming through loud and clear can I make a comment about what you don't know what you don't know until you know it I'm going to I don't know where everybody else stood on this because maybe you've been through it before I thought a curriculum modit was about curriculum just about curriculum and when I sat down for my personal interview I was like I'm sorry what are we talking about so I was very hesitant as a single board member to approve this cost because I had no idea what it entailed so I just want to kind of set the scene that in in a very positive way your te team came in and took over the district it was quite impressive um but you literally took over like a lot of space and a lot of time and your people really like came in and dug in and so it's very hard sometimes when you don't know what you're paying for or what you're getting but and I'm not one to want to spend money but I don't know how why we don't do this every year because this truly is the the this is what the board really needs to understand and I remember um one of the first things that I would always like say is why are we not tying our goals to our budget like I just don't understand because we didn't have any way to do that there was no mechanism in place and I Dr conade will remember where we're like why aren't we doing this why aren't we doing this and it's really hard because Administration is like a duck they're like we're swimming but below the water they're like trying to you know make up for the fact that none of this existed none of these structures and mechanisms exist existed and now the board truly has a way in which to be able to do this and so this is just this is I nobody could you know the administration can't sit here and say well we don't have the systems or the people or the this or the that you know and so we couldn't figure out why are you not doing this why do we not have job job descriptions why do we why are we tting tying our budget to our goals why can't you give us an Roi and it was just like on the hamster wheel all the time so this definitely paided itself off in Spades and then I have a specific question when you and and and I'm sure it's just I need more context around it but the audit team was asked to analyze the recently adopted Ela and Junior High Ela resources in relation to the Common Core State Standards and found in consistent alignment we were very proud and excited of that and you should be so can you just give me or give us context about the alignment so we so I understand that from a like a lay person not an educator the auditor actually did that analysis taking the state standards and and it's all laid out in finding 2.3 so go write that down and go there and you can read about it and see what was done and and the deal is you should be proud of the work that was done but take that work and Notch it up yep so if we take a look at that finding in actuality the alignment is fairly high in terms of the percentage but no resource will ever 100% be in line with the curriculum because the curriculum that is written is based on our needs align to State Standards so because we knew of a pending curriculum adoption we wanted to make sure that we had that information as a proactive approach typically what happen happens is our teachers spend a year utilizing a new resource and as they go along receive that information about it's not as aligned or we have some gaps so we had asked Kay and her team to look into this proactively so then Dr Paul and her Department can use that information as they are working on scope and sequins some Summit of Assessments and resource alignment so not only can Dr Paul but Dr Waller and Dr dubiel um because we're looking at our Ela curriculum which is what finding 2.3 looks at for K5 and 68 from the lens of both special ed and El and um jenet so Dr Paul is there anything else that I miss and I just want to make sure we said said that out loud because I'll read it and the board members will read it and the admin will read it but when you read it and if somebody's listening and they're like oh great you know just adopted that I just wanted to make sure we said this out loud for context for everybody thank you go ahead um we're currently working on a District 308 curriculum map and scope and sequence that we're implementing within our system that's aligned to not only content standards but addressing culturally responsive standards as well as social emotional learning standards so just as you heard today the resource supports the learning and we're looking at unpacking that with our teachers and doing that work alongside them this year a can you speak to how that's align for our strategic work plan that we've been um our road map that we've been working on Dr Conor and terms of a response yep so the ELA work and the umal work with the inclusion of our Universal screener is one of our top priorities within our strategic road map so the work that um these three departments are doing um almost on a daily basis is very much aligned and looking at this uh curriculum um adoption and implementation through multiple lenses so um these are success indicators and uh High priorities within our current strategic road map I it's important to understand that anything we can do you can do any it's just an analysis it's using tools and helping you really look hard anything that we can do you can do better probably I just think that's important to understand and I want to go back to your point upfront where you said we should do this every year now you shouldn't do it every year it's too intense no and honestly more a reflective practice than you guys coming in and like taking over I don't mean that District No districts will uh districts that really are working it and really TR making the effort to follow the recommendations and move forward we'll look at this in maybe seven years six years 5 years I don't know what that year is going to be to say we have done this ton of work can you come in and do an abbreviated form of the audit to help us see through that lens but it's very intensive for a system I realize that I I know we're a lot to deal with when we come in because it's a lot of few people that have run districts and um and have done this work for many years and um districts and schools so I know we're a lot I always want to apologize when we leave I'm so sorry I'm sure you're glad we're leaving no no no I didn't mean that at all just that you don't know I didn't when you say a curriculum audit I think you're going to come in and do exactly what you did with the ELA not that we were going to do a full systems top to bottom Inside Out ex the whole you know I just had no idea what it's called the curriculum management audit and so really it is it's a systems audit relative to teaching and learning does does everything in the system support y what's going on in inesss so and I just want to close by saying um that when we talked about it taking some time right yeah um and then Mary Mary Joe talked about um you know building the trust and how do our staff and teachers see this as you know okay is this going to be here or is this going to be around and the one thing that I think our board did and we sent a message to our community that we put Dr katti in place for five years and that should speak volumes in terms of how much we trust him to lead us to lead this district and that they can be assured that someone's going to be here to see all this stuff through so I just want to say that I want to just say a few final thoughts if you don't mind recognize people's effort people are going to work really really hard and I've heard you kindly doing that tonight but keep that up at all levels of the organization because this is going to take take a ton of work communicate and be transparent there's nothing to hide here there's nothing to be ashamed of this is a point in time analysis factual analysis of where the system was and is was and in some cases is still remember process is sometimes as important as the product taking care of the people in the process note that progress celebrate that progress celebrate those milestones and benchmarks because it's being a team that is going to make this thing happen over time and time it does take time a lot of time it's not this isn't a flash in the p this is we're committed to doing this work over a period of time and this is being reinforced by the strategic planning process as well so it's not like we're just doing this to do this to be an activity it's is serious stuff and I wish you well in the whole process thanks so much thank you K thank you Dr K Kate can I just any additional thoughts from either you or an before we go forward or no okay first do we have any public comment okay we are passing um public comment 5.81 there is no public comment and so then I would move to 6.1 and invite Dr katti to give his superintendent report good evening board and I want to thank the board for this opportunity to highlight a couple important things and also um it has become our tradition where there are so many things in a district this large that I invite both board members to join in opportunities to reflect and share news and up news as well as um Reflections together so I want to thank the board for that for joining me in those comments um so before tonight's meeting we welcome four interested community members to learn more about what it means to be to serve as a board member um of the Board of Education this was an informational meeting and as you know the uh four board terms will expire in the spring of 25 and require elections in April we will host additional information sessions uh to provide resources from the Illinois Association of school boards and the Illinois State Board of Elections to interested individuals and offer them the opportunity to speak with congr board members as well as District leaders we hope that through this open and accessible accessible learning opportunity opportunity we can be a resource of information to anyone considering um running for this important uh service opportunity um and we want to thank our current board members for all of their leadership um today September 9th is fetal alcohol Sy awareness day this day was chosen that on the ninth day of the ninth month of the year the world will remember the nine months of pregnancy and the importance of abstaining from alcohol this day serves as a reminder of the critical importance of understanding the risk associated with alcohol consumption during pregnancy and lifelong impact on the child fasd is a complex and preventable condition including a range of physical behavioral and cognitive disabilities this is a widespread problem and the CDC does estimate that one in 20 children are impacted um we want to join the nation and bring an awareness to this issue and we want to thank all of our partners and our resources in the community who help bring awareness to this um Tomorrow is National Suicide awareness day um it's really important for us to reflect on the resources that are available um I don't take a lightly in bringing this information but unfortunately it is a significant issue in our world where we have over 700,000 suicides per year worldwide we know that we have to work to break down the barriers and raise awareness and create a better culture of understanding support and resources for mental health in our district we have a variety of information regarding mental health available on the homepage of our district website as well as printed on the back of student ID card s we engage students in conversations regarding mental health activities such as the Coalition and Ascend and amplify our ways in which we want to promote awareness and inclusion and a sense of community one particular non-for-profit that I do want to highlight is Alisa's Miss Mission and their signs of suicide program it's important that we understand what those look like and really be vigilant in our community vigilance can really save a life in this instance um in our district we do also have on our website again and we also have some key factors around that Mr Bell would you want to highlight a couple of those resources around action uh one of the things it's important to note is every student ID um for grades 6 through 12 has information um for suicide awareness and and mental health on the back of that ID card if anyone is feeling um that they need that extra support Alyssa's mission in particular is assigns a suicide program um that is available at every level hope squad for the elementary um and then signs of suicide for our 6 through 12 students um and so they have the ability to kind of early intervention and prevention um for students who may just need that extra support um and so it's been a really good resource for us to use um and surrounding districts um engage in that same uh non for-profit organization and it's been really impactful I would say not just for our district but for all of our young people in the area and my final thoughts this evening I want to um thank you Jeremy um in my final thoughts this evening I want to acknowledge the ongoing improvements that are being made by our transportation staff to alter roots for greater efficiency uh we know that there continue be to there continue to be significant um opportunities but also that there have been significant improvements I want to thank everybody for r in around to increase the problem solving required I also want to express our appreciation to our Transportation uh director lesan mosy who's here this evening and uh we want to thank her and her team uh for all the work that's being taken to diagnose this issue um for example we know that we have quite a few we have a high level of writer ship that um aren't even slated for spots on the bus and so we are working with a system that hasn't really been examined fully um which presents a challenges and costs given we are still in a position where that department is definitely um struggling in terms of financial um the way in which it's run requires a lot and M has actually only been here less than 30 do we hit 30 days Miss Mosley we hit 30 days great and you're here it's smiling thank you so and it's not fixed yet it's not fixed yet no we appreciate everything you and your team and all the district is really taking a team effort so we recognize that so want to invite board shout outs now really quick though can I just add yeah you can call or text it's 988 at any time if you are an adult or a student and you need help it is the easiest and quickest way to get on the phone with a mental health crisis um to speak with someone 988 988 thank you thank you for that okay starting off National arts and education week is underway research suggests that the integration ation of Arts into educational curriculums naturally lead students to interact with academic content who wrote the sentence in ways that promote long-term retention particularly those who struggle with achieving success in conventional or non-arts integrated teaching approaches our district celebrates our Arts this week and is always thorough and we are always thoroughly impressed by our students and staff talent and commitment to engage in Music Theater creative writing and visual arts across all School levels y yay for shff your choice of color to fund teacher wish lists care closets scholarships classroom enhancements and more order online by September 13th for delivery on September 28th orders can be placed online visit the oehs web today this Saturday September 14th you can stop by pray 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e e it is past 630 so we will go ahead and get started with tonight's meeting for those that are able if you wouldn't mind standing for the Pledge of Allegiance please Al to United States of America stand na indivisible Justice thank you all board members are present so I will call this meeting to order [Music] Dr Phillip turn on my power here good evening everyone thanks for joining us today we' like to start each meeting by reminding ourselves and others of the Mission Vision and core values of the district our vision is for bcse to become the choice to learn work and play our mission is to develop expert Learners by partnering partnering with our community to invest in people and our core beliefs are that we can all rise we all can rise to the challenge of high expectations learning is most effective when we have Choice flexibility and see relevance we Thrive when our physical social and psychological needs are met our community and School District are stronger when we partner with one another we flourish because of the diversity and variability in our community and our democracy and Democratic institutions are strengthened by civic-minded citizens I'll emphasize that both we started with the pledge and that last core value there mean mean a mean a lot this week as we observe uh the anniversary of 911 thank you Mrs vogle thank you for the opportunity this evening to share with you some of the um exciting programs we have in bcsc that promote inclusion and help create me meaningful friendships among students tonight I have with me Brett Finley principal at CSA Lincoln Elizabeth DWI special education teacher at Clifty Creek Elementary School and uh the unified track coach at Columbus North and Peggy Meyers special education teacher and unified track coach at Columbus East and I'm going to start off by letting Mr Finley share with you about young champions thank you uh so young champions this is when you look at the unified uh track system it's it's the youngest of the uh of the of the crew so I get the little kids and we're going to kind of go up from there and uh I'm a part of a committee that uh oversees um just the process uh for for the young champions meet and while these are the committee members it doesn't take into consideration uh the teachers the special education teachers the teaching assistants and of course the students who put a lot of time and effort into uh this experience so the program for young champions is 12 weeks in length uh each School handles it a little bit different um this was Lincoln's first time um this past year being involved in it so um our view might look a little different than maybe Schmidt or Clifty Creek who has now done it uh for two years and so it involves the special education teachers uh the speech therapists the physical therap therapists the classified staff members uh and in many cases High School volunteers and It ultimately ends in a track meet and that's what we're getting to and so and it is a track meet that includes hurdles relay races uh those types of events but also some other activities to keep the kids engaged during the day uh during the three-year transformation um in 2021 2022 it was just the prek program was involved and um uh I was involved last year for the first time and so um there's some things that took place and we had some great things so they used to wear t-shirts last year was the first year we said you know what let's put these kids in the cross country jerseys and nothing's cuter than a kid in a cross country Jersey and um we wanted them to look good we wanted them to feel great about representing their school and um it was a real positive bcsc funded transportation uh we all went to Columbus East yesterday uh last year and there were eight elementaries that participated so two years ago um it was just two elementaries plus the prek we had eight and then uh excited to announce that next year all 11 elementaries plus the prek are going to be involved in the meet as we continue this progression so here you can see quickly in numbers and um and that's actually um Mrs vogel's daughter uh in that picture who's uh working with an activity at school but in 2023 we saw 155 students in 2024 there were 355 and we expect with three additional elementaries um those numbers are going to continue to increase so as you can see it's a really uh big event uh we're excited about it we'll be back at Columbus East and it takes place in May and uh Josh Bernett does a phenomenal job as we all know with videos and he put this together and it kind of captures the whole uh uh meet last year so I'm going to turn over to Josh welcome to a special celebration of Youth and sportsmanship today we're taking you behind the scenes of the 2024 young champions Field Day held on Sunny Stafford field at Columbus East High School this year's field day is bigger than ever with the participation of several bcsc elementary schools young champions continues to Champion inclusive play and athle atic development for all children regardless of ability young champions isn't just about sports it's about creating an inclusive environment where every child gets to shine from the first practice to today's Field Day these young athletes have been honing their skills in running kicking and throwing embracing healthy habits for the future and it's not just the kids who are involved families teachers and the whole Community have come together making it a collaborative effort that enriches everyone involved each athlete here tells a story of perseverance friendship and learning it's about building life skills and friendships that last a lifetime as we wrap up today's event we reflect on the growth and success of the young champions program great job to all the students staff and families of bcsc today you all showed what it means to be a true young Champion every child deserves a chance to play learn and grow together welcome to thanks thank you I mean it's hard to put it any better than that um I can't stress enough the uh incredible hard work by the special education teachers the occupational therapists the physical therapists who put a lot of time and effort um I was just lucky to be a part of the the committee the last couple years and helped connect dots but the the bulk of the work were were done by those individuals so as we look forward uh just we want to increase participation we want to continue to strengthen those relationships and we want to instill a sense of accomplishment within our children and about to turn it over here but our next step is obviously creating a foundation for our unified track program thank you so um you know Brett talked about um the foundation for the unified track program and so um you can see here um this is a picture uh that was taken this past spring at the unified track meet um between east and north um unified track is a ihsa sanctioned Sport and the students and a or the athletes who participate in that um participate in long jump shot put 100 meter dash 400 meter dash and then there's a 400 meter relay for both the boys and the girls um in addition to the Dual track meets the athletes compete in a sectional meet and then from there qualif for regional and um State meets so if you haven't had a chance to attend one of these um unified track meets I really encourage you to take the time to do so the sportsmanship among the teammates and um the competitors is definitely inspirational so looking at our numbers from previous years and 2014 Columbus North had 13 students and Columbus East had 20 students in 2024 our past season Columbus North had 33 students and Columbus East had 27 our pre-co numbers are significantly higher than what they were this past season um but we still have some great students that come out for the team and they put forth all of their effort in into the team and make sure all the students have a great time I've been with the team since 2015 which was my sophomore year and um it was one of the reasons that I went into education specifically special education so all of my Fondest Memories of high school were with UniFi track and then now I've been the head coach for now four years in the spring so I I absolutely love the program and it's just done amazing things for not only myself but also a lot of other students that are within Columbus North and I know Columbus East too okay all right so earlier I mentioned the sportsmanship that um I observed when I was at at several of the track meets this year and you can see from jerrick's quote that not only a sports manip something that he values in unified track but he's also learning how to be a leader um through his experience and Peggy Meers asked students um and athletes this past um earlier this past week to share their thoughts on unified track and here's what one of them had to say finger my name is meley my f f track is Lum I listen to my coach do my best and I can tell you from uh being at the track meets that meley is definitely one of the students who's out there cheering on um both her teammates and the the teammate or the the competitors from the other teams it's it's really great to see um let me see here there we go okay so the other Unified sports activities there are a variety of activities and ways for students to get involved many of these activities um were actually started because of or are continuing now um because of students um senior projects so the unified basketball game if you've been to um a girl's uh East North basketball game you've probably had a chance to see at halftime the unified basketball game that's played and then this year the unified bot ball um and unified EG those are new and uni or the United sound is in its second year it was new last year so students participating in United sound they learn um to read music through visuals and then they're also learning how to play instruments as well and they participate in the concerts um throughout the school year with the bands um the unified a is a program that's through the Future Farmers of America and students participate in quarterly activities as well as a unified uh horiculture con contest and then finally best buddies um it really does pair nicely with the other unified activities um as it promotes inclusion and um and friendships among um students with disabilities and their non-disabled peers and so um what we're really hoping is that we see an increase in the number of students participating in this just because we have a variety of different activities that are available to students and then also because we have the younger students coming up through Elementary School Our Hope in um the next year or two is to get a program started at the middle school so that um kids can come from elementary through middle school and then on to high school and participate in those activities any questions from Team y What U would you suspect are the relationships between participation in programs like this and academics academic progress uh progress and life skills is there a tie is there a tie between the the academic outcomes of the students who are in life skills and and their participation in this yes yeah would you like to answer that sure while I haven't taken any data I um would suspect highly um in our own classroom we see increase in Social social skills um and increase in determination and self- advocacy all of these uh clubs and sports are with me not for me so the unified track kids are also all of them are competitors whether they are typically developing peer or a student with a disability so we see a increase in their self-concept their uh and their self-determination uh because they see their friends doing the same thing thank you in looking at the numbers that you presented what barriers do you may have for this board and trying to get back to the preco participation is there any barriers that we can help with barriers barriers to to getting increased participation that they can help uh increased partici participation amongst the uh the unified athletes so athletes who have disability is transportation that's the biggest one um and as far as the athletes without or the Buddies the peer buddies it's that they tend to be involved in so many things um but I think we've done done a really good job especially with best buddies this year of recruiting students who aren't involved in everything and uh our best buddies president has done a really great job with reaching out to everyone across the board uh at the school thank you so my question you already answered it was can be what about middle school but I just want to say I'm glad that you have that in your radar looking forward that that we would expand this to their opportunity for them so thank you absolutely awesome program Elizabeth you have some fans in the audience good job thank you thank you okay Schoolboard member reports can I start with Mr Bryant if you have any committee Mees no you're good Mr major no Mr Stenner uh we have a districting and Facilities committee will participate with [Music] uh um planning committee for the new Westside School uh meeting is this Friday I think so nothing to report tonight but we we'll have something soon good thank you I don't have anything to report Mr Grimes uh two quick items from the school Foundation just another reminder that in just a couple months Sunday November 10 uh mark your calendars for the Wizards at Columbus East the school foundation's uh biggest fundraiser of the Year information to be scattered about soon regarding that and then lastly um the Mrs Cunningham the school foundation's former executive director um left to take another position in the middle of August and the foundation is now at a point um where a new executive director has been found I will not name names at this point but uh they will be starting in the near future that's it so we've had no meetings lately but ccic meets I believe on Wednesday um and then also Hall of Fame nominations have been opened they are due Sher November 1st I believe is the deadline so um for being able to get those nominations and they are due November 1st for consideration and my committees are starting up again this week but I don't have anything tonight okay thank you cabinet reports Dr Phillips all right thank you Mrs Welden so um I am actually going to do the budget workshop for you this evening um Jamie Briner our new Corporation Treasurer um I talked him into letting me go ahead and just walk through this first one and I'll explain why in a little bit um so I get to go back into my CFO role for a little bit tonight so I'm going to probably go for a good hour and a half so I apologize ahead of time I have the gavl Dr that's right and somebody over there can turn off my mic I'm sure so this is the beginning of a process um that really lasts between now and the end of the calendar year and so tonight is just a work session as we go through the budget in its current form that will be then posted 10 days online in advance 10 days before the public hearing on the 23rd so we'll go through a little bit more refined version of this same presentation on the evening of the 23rd and then members of the public can also chime in at that time the vote is October 28th and the B budget has to be adopted by November 1st um and then we will submit to the Department of local government Finance after which they then issue our um our debt rate our uh property tax rate I apologize not Deb Rate Property Tax Rate sometime around the first of the year and so um some of the highlights of the 2025 budget um the as we've spoken about for for the last few years there continues to be a significant investment in our staff both through salary and benefit in increases um on the right side there this is new we haven't put this in there in the past um probably because we haven't been able to be this proud of how much we've been able to invest in salaries for our um teachers and classified staff both um and you can see going back to 2021 you know classified staff the average increase was 9% for classified staff in 2022 we did a large comprehensive study and adjusted many different employee groups in the classified staff group the average raise there was 11.1% but that was also the point when we raised the the minimum salary hourly salary for any um classified staff employee to $14 and it's gone up since then 6% 8% and then 3% uh next July 1 teaching staff average raises in there sometimes those are flat dollar amounts across the board but the percentage average was 6% 6.1 8.3 last year and then 3 % to begin this school year that we're in now we'll bargain next year administrative staff there you can see the percentages uh average again average sometimes those were also flat dollar amounts but the average increase was 2 six 2.7 and 3% so um that is the biggest part of the school district's budget it always is um we're a very labor intensive organization and we're people driven and so it's always where you're going to see the the biggest um the biggest investment from our tax dollars so that's the increases in salary we also saw this year I'm trying to think of a year that we added more positions to the education fund than we have this year there's a lot of different reasons for that but we added um total of 12 full-time positions to the education fund this year those aren't all new positions but they're new to the education fund so it was a total of two at at grades K through six we also added four literacy coaches as part of the I 3 um strategy to really dramatically increase those fundamental reading skills at the primary level um and we only pay a third of those salaries in year one twoth thirds in year two and then 100% in year three so that was an equivalent of a 1.33 FTE increase we added two and a half positions at the secondary level those are at the core positions uh math science English and social studies about one and 2/3 positions to C4 and that's um just pointing out that the dramatic increase in demand for the CTE courses in C4 we have added eight FTE to C4 in the last two years and so there just continues to be more and more kids who want to take those courses and um so we do everything we can to try to fill those positions we did add uh position at each High School in the cohorts the team uh the teams at the high school level one was an admin ministrator at East so that each cohort had a um assistant principal and then one was academic coach at North and now at North because of the size of their cohort cohorts each of them has two academic coaches added two special education teachers and one elel teacher to the education fund so um really large investment in people for this year some of those positions uh it's it's seven or eight were actually a result of the end of Esser funding and so they were all being funded by Esser which was our federal covid relief program that's been in place for the last three years that concludes actually this month we will spend every dime of that through the end of this month um and so some of those positions we looked at and said those are truly needed they're not additional and moved them over the education fund you'll also see in this budget uh in the educ OR sorry in the operations fund side some really significant investments in um capital number one is Safety and Security infrastructure there is a $2 million line on the Appropriations for um Safety and Security equipment um our plan initially was to put a $500,000 um line item for the next four years but after talking um And discussing here for a while we made the decision to go ahead and put the full 2 million there because if in the middle of a calendar year the technology advances such that there is some really strong U we'll just say metal detectors for example that aren't intrusive and kids can just walk in and it doesn't really result in a long line of people outside the door um we could choose to invest in that in the middle of the year and and purchase those get ready for the next school year without having to wait to do an additional appropriation so it may take us four years to spend that money or it may be done into but each of those Appropriations will be brought before the board uh in your board packet each time uh we do have uh ongoing facility maintenance um as is always the case in our operations fund budget and then um some in investments in co-curricular programs particularly baned I'll get to some details on that um and all of this we because of assessed value increasing by uh almost 11% we anticipate that the tax rate will not increase and fact May decrease just a tad as it has the last few years so one of the things that's really important um to understand about the way that we have to budget at the school level is that we are required to make a whole lot of assumptions going into the year we are budgeting for calendar year 2025 when we don't know how many students we're going to have in the spring we don't know how many students we're going to have in the fall and we don't know how much the state is going to appropriate per student starting on July by one so there are a lot of assumptions we have to build in to um to the budget to to build it so our assumptions are that we will have about just under 97 million in education fund revenues that's up just over 3% over the previous year and we know what the per pupil support is for 2425 but that only goes through June of 25 and so um we have made an assumption that the state will increase State funding in 25 fiscal year 26 by 3% we're hearing um lots of chatter that it'll be a tight budget season but that's the assumption that we plugged in so our ADM estimates we also have to make estimates of where we're going to be from a student count standpoint we would normally be uh right at the ADM date but they moved it back to October this year so um right now we are estimating that our October count will be flat uh as of today it's closer to about 50 up which is really a surprise because we have a a small kindergarten class which everybody in the state I'm hearing has a small kindergarten CL class coming in um and we had a large outgoing senior class so you can see there we had 91 kids graduate last year and only uh right around 800 coming in but so many of our students have stayed compared to previous years and we have a lot of students coming in at the high school level for example from from the private schools in town that are our partners um so anyway um I think we'll be up probably somewhere between 20 and 40 by the time ADM day comes around but from a budgeting standpoint as you know we always do we budget low and conservative when it comes to revenues uh we also think we'll have about 230 students in CVP this year that's only significant from a budget standpoint because we only receive 85% of State support for students that are in CVP for this spring we are estimating that we'll have about be down about 50 students um some of you will remember that for the last few years I've budgeted that at 100 or 150 but um our cohorts are doing such a good job of keeping kids connected at the high school level and keeping them from dropping out that um that number was really low last year and and so I have good reason to believe it'll be low again this year and then for the fall of next year we're also estimating that ADM will be flat from this fall I should say so line by line on the education fund Flip Flip my notes on behind on just going line by line the um overall revenues we expect to be up 3.2% um and let me go back actually there to 2024 I want to remind you so this is why um I told Mr Briner that I would do this presentation tonight because I stood in front of you with Amy London last year when we settled the the contract in October and we said we believe this contract is a good contract and it's contract we can afford and it and it got us to a really competitive starting salary um but we anticipated will take an additional appropriation in 2024 the current year but that additional appropriation will actually be um supported by revenues and so you can see that um in 2024 there we started the year with just under 6.4 million and even with our anticipated additional appropriation that we'll bring to you next um we'll bring to you next board meeting um we think we will still end the year right at about that 6 point 6.4 or a little more but I also told you when we stood there that in 2025 we anticipate that we will eat into our cash balance a little bit it's called deficit financing um but our cash balance being somewhere between 62 and $7 million allows us to U spend about $2 million of that cash balance in 2025 again the vast majority of that going towards uh teacher salary increases and classified staff salary increases so the 2025 column there shows total revenues of just under 97% and total um expenditures of just under $99 million sorry not percent so 99 97 coming in 99 going out about a net of $2 million decline in our cash balance that does allow us to still meet our goal of being able to meet two education fund payrolls um just in case something happens from a revenue standpoint we can still handle two two payrolls plus we have the uh rainy day balance to lean upon so I want to go down the the lines here really quickly and just explain any of the increases um over the prior year um first two there are obvious salaries and benefits those are both due to the increase in the number of people particularly teachers um but mainly the salary increases that we passed last fall um going down to the professional service line that decline there is because often times we are Contracting for a position in one year and then we are able to find a person to fill that position in the next year year and so it moves to salary and benefits and then the next year it'll move back this just happens to be a year we were able to fill most of our positions so those are almost always um speech therapists occupational therapists school syes um visually impaired we have one uh visually impaired I think that we're um Contracting with a service for this year just really difficult positions and so the only reason for the decline in that line is due to the fact that we move some people over to salary and benefits on the comm's line that increase is um due to the increase in the in the cost of software for students so that one's all student used software in the classroom on their uh on their Chromebooks on the supply line that one is also due um to computers but mainly because we needed to increase uh I'm sorry replace the the laptop or desktops in the labs that are mainly used by C4 and so we had some really old computers that run some pretty high-end programs that you can't use a Chromebook for so even though every student has a Chromebook there's a there's a desktop in some of those labs that really needs to be a stronger machine and those labs are really old and Mr hack has been begging us Dr hack excuse me has been begging us for a while to upgrade those and so Mr Williams included that in the budget for this year and that's on the supply line um going down to dues and fees is is obviously just a very slight increase there um so the down on the transfer line um the State Board of accounts had us start putting the the transfer to the special special ed Co-op for our portion of that down in transfers but the transfers to operations as you remember we transfer costs that used to be part of the general fund from the education fund to the operations fund that amount is actually declining um by about $600,000 for this coming year and I'll get into that detail on a slide here in just a little bit so this is just one that we' like to to put up there just to remind folks that our education fund budget which is the largest portion of our budget um 95.2% of that in 2025 will be for salaries and benefits are there any questions from the board on the education fund budget before I move to operations yes Mr Stenner um if we had another column uh titled 2026 and start the year with that uh New Balance uh from operations in 2025 are are we good to go for 2026 that's going to um rely on three different things that are coming up that are unknown the legislative session which they'll do the budget for two years so when they when they pass a budget this coming late April we will know what that's going to be for the 25 26 school year and the 26 27 school year our ADM student count will obviously Drive um drive that Revenue stream and it'll also depend on collective bargaining this coming uh fall a year from now and so those are all three things that are to be determined and as long as we are continue to um be concer conservative in you know underestimating our revenues and overestimating our expenditures and making sure that we bargain a contract that's both um fair and keeps us um keeps us well positioned from a financial standpoint then we should be in good shape for 26 and Beyond Mr um the CVP numbers that you showed us are those full-time online students as opposed to I know we have some students that do some courses online and not others those are students that are 50% or more of their time is spent online that's what the the criteria the state uses to determine whether or not they're a virtual student or not and so some of those students you know may be exactly half they may be taking half of their classes in C4 or a band course or a calculus course but they're taking their other ones online the number of students taking one class or more online is probably more in the 450 range for the transfer to operations um I know the numbers going down you mentioned specific items are you going to cover that and operations okay I'm going to the detail of it yeah question okay okay so operations fund we also have to um make some Revenue assumptions but they're they're not quite as uh as flexible as the ones for the education fund we anticipate revenues in the operations F to be about just under 35 million in 2025 and that's about a 10% increase and it does include about 2.4 million in tax cap losses in 2025 which is actually down we show you a table here in a moment a graph um and so the maximum Levy that the dgf in the state of Indiana imposes upon school districts is usually a moving Target based on the average non-farm income for the previous six years I know you guys are just riveted by this conversation six-year rolling average of the non-farm income the last 3 years the legislature has capped that um and said it it doesn't matter what that goes up we're going to say you can't increase your Levy by more than 4% and so with a levy increase of 4 point uh 4% and the assessed value going up more than 10% that means that the operations fund portion of the tax rate will will Decline and so you'll see that on your tax but when you look at the operations line that part of the tax rate will decline if it were the opposite and assessed value had only gone up 2% you would see an increase in that here's a just a graph showing um the history of tax cap losses to the operations fund over time you see that 2025 estimates are actually down from a previous the previous couple of years and that's entirely due to assessed value increases so here is that line by line detail for the operations side of the budget and let me get my notes and go through this one so again you'll see revenues um of just under $35 million and estimated expenditures down on the bottom of just under $39 million and so this is our fourth year at attempting to spend down some of the cash in the operations fund but revenues continue to out pay expenditures um and so we're not going at 2 million this year we're going at 4 million to attempt to spend that down a little bit so we also anticipate that in 2024 we'll end this year somewhere near the same cash balance that we started the year with somewhere around that $14 million Mark but on the expenditure side some of those Investments that you'll see um again salaries and benefits on the operations fund side there are much smaller propor of the operations fund budget um and those increases are mainly uh almost all classified staff and so those are all of our custodians technology staff uh bus drivers and so on um on the Professional Services line um that line increase there is actually mostly an increase in the cost of um school resource officers so some of you know that the city and county both had to increase pay dramatically to just to keep Pace with the state state troopers to make sure we didn't lose all of our our local police officers and so we're we're happy to to do that to keep our outstanding SRO that we have assigned to our schools on the repair and maintenance line um that increase is really mostly due to the the cost of external services like prevented maintenance on HVAC systems and other labor driven work that we pay other entities to do for us um there is also u a new line in there it's about $100,000 for um the lease on the CVP property we were using eser funds for the CVP lease but um we'll be using operations fund for the next year and a half that is set to end in June of 26 uh at the end of that period of time we hope to find another home for CVP um it is down that 230 number is down from 400 where we were three years ago as we came out of Co and so we expect demand for those in uh virtual programs for full-time students to continue to to decline on the communications line um that's a increase in property and liability insurance which I think everybody is seeing um and then also some increases in software and network costs on the on the technology side uh the supply line You'll see that's a that's an increase of $1.3 million right there that's actually a large increase in uh our expected utilities for electricity and um also custodial and maintenance supplies so 1 million of that is actually an estimated increase in our uh electric utility bill part of that is because we under budgeted last year we don't expect to see a million dollar increase in our electric bill but we um under budgeted last year and used some leftover unexpended Appropriations from prior years during last year um the property and Equipment line as I mentioned before um that's that's where we're making our largest investment in Safety and Security um there's some trade-off there we actually see a decrease in the number of buses that we need in order to keep all of our buses at the um you know under that 12 year old range and um so you'll see a decrease in that but then a $2 million appropriation for that Safety and Security uh equipment line and then um there's also a onetime appropriation in there I mentioned co-curricular programs earlier one time appropriation for some band equipment um we have a unified band now as you know between both of our schools the sound and spirit of Columbus had a large Invitational on Saturday night anyone lives around the North Area heard it until 9 or 10:00 that evening um but um they're in some they're in need of of upgrading some of their equipment they have some of the trailers and we'd love to see those trailers decorated with the sound and spirit of Columbus um as as opposed to what they what they were before and so the total um in the Ops budget increase is about um 12% um but this one you know the operations fund budget is a little bit different than the education fund budget Mr Stenner to your point a lot of these are onetime expenditures and they're not ongoing and so to see that draw down of a $4 million amount on the cash balance that's not an ongoing thing that we would see year after year any questions on operation fund budget before I move on which line items is the transfer from education covering for operations that is on the education fund side because it comes from education fund toer operations and so that's in the um other line on revenues there the 13.1 million yeah but if I recall you mentioned that this was to cover stuff that priorly was covered like what's like can you give an example of what that would be so all custodial costs used to be in the general fund um actually all a superintendent's office and all the assistant superintendent some of the technology so if it's not classroom technology then it went over to the operation side so um any software or Hardware that's related to District programs like board docs for example comes out of the operation side but a student who's using um learning software on their Chromebook that's coming out of the education fund side thank you yeah a real quick question uh you mentioned the buses are not buses but trailers for band um are we paying somebody to do the design work on that all that is still to be determined the band directors are probably sitting at home right now watching this online saying what you're you appropriate money for us well they haven't had those discussions with them at this point the reason why I ask is is it would be a good opportunity to use C4 graphic arts department to give them an opportunity to kind of put themselves into that so it's not about solely saving money I'm assuming the design cost is probably a minuscule compared to the cost of actually doing the artwork and everything on the trailers but it would be something cool for a possible senior project or something like that so thanks for that I was going to ask um so at the end of 24 the projected ending balances you know 14 million here I think 6 and a half million on the other um when does the dlgf start to say you've got too much inbalances at the end of the year and you need to make some adjustments I mean obviously we're we're moving to shave that a little bit in both of these funds but have we gotten feedback from them um they only do that formally on The Debt Service funds the the amount of cash you can carry on The Debt Service fund is limited by law and if you even if the board um approved a budget that had a larger cash balance when we got our budget order from them they will just reduce it um because what the board approves is a maximum um I know that Folks at the state have looked at Cash balances they're publicly available anyone can run a report online and find out what all the district's cash balances are there um but I think there's an understanding so we were this is is the only time in history at least modern history that I've seen this at bcse when you look back at our books but we also we came out of covid where we didn't drive buses you know for the better part of a school year we didn't use as much electricity and so some cash balance built up on that time obviously but then it was followed by Esser funds coming in to help us with HVAC improvements Personnel all those other things those two things combined to see basically almost every District in the state see their cash balances increase um and knowing that is not going to last forever um I would expect to see Statewide the trend of what we're showing you here let's make sure we put some of that that cash balance towards responsibly drawing it down and investing in place that we places that we believe in our people and Safety and Security and Equipment that's that are valuable one-time Investments thank you you're welcome yeah I was going to ask a similar question and I know that was mentioned about putting 2026 up here but if you're going from 2024 to 2025 and you're reducing your cash balance by about 4 million you're looking about 30 to 40% reduction so it would be nice to see where does that go zero or negative because I I never expect a budget to decrease but I didn't expect it to increase 11% so um just thinking about that it would be nice to see where that projects out to zero because at some point then there is going to have to be discussion around tax rate I uh I understand completely um and and that's a natural instinct I I will point out that on really the only increases that are ongoing you know they only total up to that you know somewhere under a million dollar total the other things are all one time um you know you spend the money on the equipment and then it's and it's purchased not to say you won't have to replace it in 10 or 15 years depending on technology um but my predecessor used to say um we can do all the projections that we want with school budgets and then the next legislative session all of that is changed um and so we will do um a projection U but it's it's likely to change three times between now and the end yeah and and I'm fine with it Chang in because we'll be able to tell a story but if we don't look at it and we don't take into account that inflation could rise we don't know what's going to happen at the end of this year right there's an election coming up we know that businesses change their minds on how they want to do things depending on who's going to win and so that will end up having an impact and we if we look at it today we can plan for it tomorrow if we wait till tomorrow it might be too late that's all I'm getting at thank you hey Dr bosan I'm sure we've seen this at some point and I've forgotten but with all of our facilities projects we are doing a lot of electrical work we are improving HVAC we're doing a lot of things to become more efficient um I wouldn't expect to see it in the budget here but in 2030 do you think all of your design from Power could explain to us what we should be able to see in a decrease in electricity usage water usage those types of things from an environmental impact perspective uh yes so we work towards those things now um similarly I'll mention um Dr Phillips mentioned the the increase in utilities here because of a little bit of catchup but we've um as you recall over the past six or seven years put substantial amount of funding into those items that you're citing already in solar and LED lights across the board um so interestingly our our expenditures have only increased slightly during that time although um the utility companies and water costs and everything have uh those rates have increased dramatically so we've been able to tread water um so to speak and manage uh Duke for example having um two rate cases during my time of you know 15 and 20% um increases that our expenditures have been have been the same so um so yeah we've been able to maintain expenditures now because of those improvements but um to your question with our long range facility planning um all those are definitely being considered and and we can provide a review to you as well thank you all right thank you so here is the slide that goes into the detail on the transfer transfers between operations and education um the expenditures that moved to operations from education total just under $14 million so those are all the expenditures that would have been in the old general fund before this law changed the expend that move the other direction that moved from operations those are almost all technology um that total 4.8 million so the net between the two would have been 9.1 million when Dr Boseman and Mr berer and I sat down and looked at the the um education fund fund versus the operations fund our recommendation to you this evening is to reduce that 9.1 million to just about $8 million um because of the cash balance in the operations fund and the only other Factor taking into account which was a a large amount of conversation last year you'll remember was the $250,000 transfer um for curricular materials we had budgeted for it in the operation ref operating referendum um but there was a lot of discussion about what the best place for that was and we said let's just pass the budget and then we'll look at it at the end of this year before we make that before we make that transfer and so this accounts for that $250,000 for the next four years basically um and would result in it coming from operations instead of the education fund and so when you look back at the uh I keep using my keyboard and that's not working because it's not attached when you look at the education fund budget our recommendation down there in the right hand corner for the transfers to operations is just under 8 million instead of the 9.1 that would be if you if you uh transferred all of those expenditures and so um the recommendation is for 20 25 transfer from education.

e e e thank you we'll now go ahead and move to item A3 I'll call the meeting to order and then A4 I'll ask for a roll call of members who are present this evening Mr Allen here Mr mclen here Mr meler here Mr Roth here Mr jger is absent Mr wall here Mrs Helm here all right we'll move to item A5 Mr trout are there any revisions to the agenda this evening we do not have any this evening Mr Roth okay we now move on to item B1 core values discussion this is always a great part of our uh board meeting that we can recognize students and staff that have out have um been outstanding and uh exciting part of our our time together and uh I'm excited to be the the one that gets to read this uh for Lauren hog so Lauren if you would come on down tonight we are proud to honor Lauren hog a dedicated teacher at Andrews Elementary School she's been there in their district for five years who truly embod embodies our core values Lauren has consistently demonstrated high expectations high achievement and accountability in her work her commitment to focus on the future and continuous Improvement for all is evident in everything that she does recently Lauren had the honor of presenting at the 2024 model schools conference in Orlando Florida where she earned the prestigious title of Epic educator the model school's conference is a renowned gathering for educational professionals showcasing schools districts and Educators who have achieved remarkable success this event celebrates excellence and innovation in education and Lauren's participation is a testament to her dedication to these ideals in her presentation Lauren shared her expertise on how to use data to differentiate instruction and form skill groups based on NW assessments she took the initiative to create charts to help staff organize and interpret the vast amount of information we receive from these tests by turning complex data into an easily understandable format Lauren has made it possible for her colleagues to make evidence-based decisions that directly benefit our students her leadership in this area is a shining example of shared leadership within our district Lauren's work not only enhances the learning experience for her students but also empowers her fellow Educators to to achieve their best Lauren on behalf of the Huntington County Community School Corporation we thank you for your dedication your Innovation and your unwavering commitment to Excellence you're an inspiration to us all and we are honored to have you as a part of our team congratulations Lauren we're proud of [Applause] you and that is the only core value that we have this evening all right we'll go ahead and move on to item C1 one items from visitors this is an opportunity for public comment usually on matters that we're addressing this evening um so if you would like to address the board you can come forward to the microphone there and uh we'll bring the sheet over and you can sign no one signed up in advance but if anyone would like to address the board uh now is your opportunity to do so all right no one having come forward we'll move on to item D1 um Indiana works and hccsc Jag memorandum yeah board I present to you tonight our annual agreement with the Jag program at Huntington North High School it uh each year it is also reviewed by Mr Wy very successful program in our high school and this is our annual request for uh renewal thank you Mr brimberry would anyone like to make a motion regarding the proposed m memorandum of understanding make a motion that we approve the memorandum of understanding between Jag and hccc is there a second second any questions comments or discussion um just personally I think this is a wonderful program that started I believe uh Mr deits kind of started that here at Huntington North and U it's it's really been successful uh Chief Blair in particular um great group of students so it's a good thing that we're continuing this excellent program benefits our kids uh greatly so I'm I'm always pleased to bring this forward all right hearing nothing further we'll vote on the motion to approve e all right motion passes six to zero we now go to item D2 alive and well and hccsc agreement board I'd also bring a our annual Middle School alive and well agreement for board action tonight has been reviewed by Mr Wy has been reviewed by our Corporation nurse mag FR both Middle School principles as well this is truly an outstanding program uh information has been sent to our parents uh as well as uh all stakeholders on this and uh Meg will be also having a with our Middle School principes a optional parent meeting on this topic if anyone were to choose to come again it's a mental health and mental uh awareness um program and curriculum that we've done for many years at Huntington and a very valuable program very important to our district so I recommend uh your action tonight on that okay would anyone like to make a motion regarding this agreement well agreement with hccsc is there a second second any questions comments or discussion there will also be a letter going out to the parents if they're not able to attend that meeting too correct that's attached I'm sorry Ryan could you a little out yeah there will be a parent meeting you have you talked about the parent meeting but there's also a letter to the parents as well yeah what letter parents have went home electronically and otherwise um and uh Meg is available as well as principal Whois and principal jger middle schools parents have any questions whatsoever reach out to us we're glad to help uh there will be uh a parent square that goes out for the Middle School parents for six and eth uh if they'd like to attend an optional meeting as well thank you yep well and I'd like to thank Administration we did receive a parent email asking about the informational session and whether one would be held because initially we weren't going to offer that because the materials that go out to parents are pretty thorough and there's a lot of information online uh but I'd want to thank admin for checking the other box and now we do have a parent information session on September 12th so uh thank you for accommodating that request certainly if there's no other questions or comments we'll vote on the motion to approve this agreement all right motion passes 6 to zero we'll now move to the consent agenda items E1 through eight yes I will highlight a couple of these for you this evening the first one uh for your consideration is the English language uh learner program coordinator uh Mrs Gro has happens to be with us this evening um Angie has done a Yan's job she's been incredible she has worn many hats uh over the past couple of years and and um not only has served in this capacity but it also has taught um any of you who know Angie knows uh what a tremendous person she is a consumate professional but our English language program is growing isn't it and um we are uh in need of and we're in in your personnel reports you'll see some things being done today where we're adding staff and so Angie thank you um I appreciate you I appreciate your coordination this program um there is this is a heavy lift if you look at her job description um we're asking a lot and I have no doubt that someone of Mrs gr's Talent skills and disposition will do this and do this extremely well so Angie thank you um I am grateful for you and we're and our students are the benefit of that um with our English language learner population growing like it is um Chuck and Jay and I along with Angie will be we'll be talking about how do we continue to accommodate the tremendous needs um of our community in this area so Angie thank you I I sincerely appreciate that um we have uh for the for your consideration there too uh another uh officer uh for your consideration security officer for that uh sometimes I feel questions in the community this is not an SRO this is just someone who comes in from time to time to to help us with uh supervision issues at ball games maybe at lunch maybe at whatever you'll see that this is a lunch position for that there too um requesting donations uh Lincoln Elementary is requesting permission to accept a donation the amount of $474 from donors choose for Mrs sp's class for students vocabulary and background knowledge and then the hccsc food service is requesting permission to accept a donation the amount of $100 from Valerie Stout to be used to pay for students paid lunch accounts across the district so uh in number eight you have the accounts payable and all the payroll recent payroll vouchers so I'm requesting your permission for consent agenda from items uh E1 through 8 all right thank you Mr trout would anyone like to make a motion regarding the consent agenda motion to approve the consent agenda is presented is there a second second would anyone like to pull out a particular item and vote on it separate from the full consent agenda all right then does anyone have any questions comments or discussion before we vote all right hearing none we will vote on the motion to approve the consent agenda items E1 through eight for all right motion passes six to zero and the groove family is welcome to stay for the budget Workshop if you want to or not so now we'll move on to uh F1 budget Workshop okay uh this evening um we are thrilled to have Mrs Smith here as our virtual CFO um who not only does a lot of Pres presentations for us but a lot of training so Becky um I continue to be grateful for you and your support of us in this school district um I I continue to learn a lot from you and so I am grateful for you and everything that you do for us as a district um this evening what we're going to do and what she's going to present to you is a 25 budget tip it's the budget Workshop um there's a few slides here we're going to go through this evening um please make make sure that if you have comments or questions on any of these that you do not hesitate to ask Mrs Smith but Becky again thank you welcome glad you're here thank you superintendent trout U members of the board uh thank you for this evening to be able to present this budget workshop for you and we'll move right along like Mr trout said we have several slides for you to um look at some Trend data and um the budget information you'll see the agenda here where we just go over a couple of objective schools Mission Vision the budget calendar and schedule uh the school corporation and major budgeted funds stakeholder input um data Gathering review the comparisons and then the next steps so our objective um of course for a budget is to maintain the expenses within the revenue streams um provided and our goal is to focus on programs for our students and services for achievement while providing a competitive compact um compensation package to obtain and retain empy employees next you'll see on the screen uh the 2024 2025 budget calendar deadlines by the department of local government Finance this information is um dictated straight from that um agency that gives us the parameters that we must meet each year for instance it tells us um what our last adoption date can possibly be or hearings or Workshop or permission to advertise those type of um criteria that's required by law so what we do is we take that information and then we work backwards from those dates so then we develop this um budget preparation calendar just for Huntington um County Community Schools and we work backwards with your board meeting dates and um to be able to uh adhere to all the the mandatory requirements for building a budget for each district and then you'll see here um just talking about about the school corporation and the public funds we work on a cash basis there's a handful of school districts in the state of an Indiana that um do work on a cruel basis anyone that has over 15,000 students is required to um go buy a cruel but here at Huntington we're able to do the cash basis we go by a fund accounting where we have different funds the the regular funds that you'll see across Indiana are the education fund the operations debt funds some have referendum funds art and historical Food Services Grants other other ancillary funds um throughout the district donations and such and then the budgets of course um the major funds are approved through this this um process that we're doing uh these next three board meetings and then um other budgets through Grant funds are through the federal government or the department of ed through um State resources this is just a a a slide uh indicating the major budgeted funds if you recall back in 2019 a lot of people still say general fund just want to kind of explain that in the past it was a general fund then there was also a capital projects Transportation operating and then bus replacement back in 2019 they took the four buckets that used to be in the general fund and they split them out two buckets moved into what we call now the new education fund and the other two buckets got moved to operations along with the capital projects fund Transportation operating and bus replacement all those moved in the operations so the state uh looks at it as quite our education fund is all the education straight aimed toward students that's from the building levels and anything that's curriculum related so that's our principals all the staff there our teachers all that is coming out of our education fund the operations are uh departments such as a superintendent office the business services um department and such so those are the overall operations facilities those type of things and then um our sources between each fund I'll go through when um I review those individual funds themselves so our Revenue our main revenue for the district comes from um two different main sources and one is the state tuition which is also called basic Grant and that's based on our student enrollment it's it's called ADM average daily membership and there's two counts per year uh for that one is um in the fall and one is in the spring one is October for fall and then February for spring and the other funds are our local property taxes and other miscellaneous um revenues what type of um expenditures are allowed with within each of the funds it's what I just described between the education and the operations fund the other uh ancillary funds is our debt service fund that is above and beyond what we could afford through our operations fund and that is to maintain our buildings through different um General obligation bonds and Lease rentals uh through uh different Bond sales and such and then referendums of course we do not have referendums here but some of the other districts do that hold um an additional tax for um more items throughout their um School District a building a budget takes all different Avenues of of input of data Gathering and of course goes all the way from the superintendent the school board all the different departments within the um School District along with uh it has to do with of course negotiations any kind of bargaining agreements that we've had in the past technology um special services uh all different uh directors of Elementary and and secondary education so it it includes a lot of different variables for to build build the budget for the district and all this data Gathering wanted to supply some um historical data for you and uh the the known variables that helped with the data Gathering and the budget projections for 2025 here you'll um see a a slide of our history of enrollment this is our average daily membership for our fall count that fall count provides our revenue for the first six months of the fiscal year which is July through December M each year and then you'll see the the um the trends with our enrollment and uh our enrollment for this year of course we do not know until we do the count in October and then we also show the trends of the spring enrollment which is in February and you'll see that history for the district also from 2018 all the way to 2024 and just an estimate for 2025 so Bor this is what we talked about at the very end the last meeting Uh Kevin asked this question um when we're going through this you'll notice that our estimates are lower than what I stated um at the end of the last meeting this is done intentionally this is done quite frankly on purpose is that we're building a budget very conservatively um if something would happen to our student enrollment between now and Count Day October I think it's October the 1 I mean October the 1st is that we haven't built a budget on students that we do not have exactly and so if you're looking at this and going why is this number different than what you told us at the end of last meeting is strictly because we're hedging we we want to make sure that we're building a budget on a very conservative number now above and beyond this will be absolutely fantastic right and we're anticipating that but we can't build a budget on that does that I hope that that's making sense of what I'm trying to say and and the community understands that because that is different than what we quoted but that's what Becky and I are trying to do here absolutely and and to re remind you that this budget for these major budgeted funds are January through December of 2025 so just think of that that's two different school years it's an end you know of one school year and a beginning of the next school year like Mr trout said it's hard to um look into that crystal ball to see what our enrollment may be so on the revenue side we're always very conservative and then on the expenditure side of course is the opposite way where we do worst case scenario so then we um don't get in trouble with our budget then you'll see we take that information and we have um a tuition support worksheet that we do through the Indiana Department of Ed so we take those estimates and then we run a formula based on what the legislative session approved for funding for schools and it lets us put in those uh estimated enrollments to get an approximate number for our basic Grant tuition support for the future so moving on you'll see the tax rate history for Huntington here and wanted to show you that from 2019 to um present year and you'll see the difference column there and of course you can tell by the uh The graft so you'll see in 2020 it went down 12% we went back up up in um 2021 and then went back down in 2022 down in 2023 and then down in 2024 so um just wanted to kind of I mean the difference just the change but you'll see that variation between um looking at the graph of um not exactly a stable tax rate so when we look at these type of things we have to try to um project out what our assess valuation it's a form you'll see that little formula in the green box there and how you determine uh what the the rate will be and with those formulas it's uh General um algebra if you know at least two of those variables then you can predict the third variable so that's why you have three different uh formulas there the next slide you'll see our assess valuation and our assess valuation is um as your assess valuation goes up up your tax rate naturally goes down because it's a formula based on that so um there's different means that you can do through budgeting um process to try to stabilize that tax rate that's what we're trying to do if you remember over the last couple years that we have um communicated to the to the board and to the public that we're trying to keep that tax rate stable so then our community can rely on that and be able to budget their own families within that rate uh um for the future so this is you'll see here the trends for Huntington with the cess valuation it has um gone up ever since 2020 you'll see that was just one% then 4% then 5% then you'll see in 2023 across the state you'll see that big spike of 15% then most of the state in 2024 kind of leveled off we still had an increase here in Huntington at 3.8% and then in 2025 before everything came out the projections were um that they projected anywhere from four to 6% then we got our um net assess valuation for Huntington and we had a 133% increase so um we're still looking into that to see what variables uh are known for that Spike this information was just released in August so we are looking into that with our financial advisers to see if we can um narrow down on the spike that we did receive this year the others I would say from um middle of the state on down south averaged between four and six% three actually three and six perc so um so that is a significant um increase that was not expected for Huntington in for 2025 so Becky if you could if we could jump back to slide 15 there um this here is what we're talking about so for our community that's watching at home and those in the audience tonight you know our some of the trainings we have done with all of you some of the conversations we've been having is is to talk about the importance of a flat tax rate um what we're going to try to do here over the next few years is to flatten that out okay and so that we're not sending this message to our community that the tax rate is all over the board here so to speak so just please know that um this is a really important slide in this whole presentation here and I want to draw your attention back to that but what we're going to try to do there in the left column is the actual tax rate is quit that variance from happening there is to have a consistent steady um flat tax rate and so that's what we're trying to accomplish here that's what she's talking about U within that that's some of the previous discussions that's some of the training trainings we have done is the importance of that and then if you look on 16 the variable that makes this so hard is the assess valuation piece and so many times the community does not understand the connection between these two slides here between AV and tax rate but how that plays into this bottom line so I think I said that correctly didn't I Becky so yeah and then we'll expand a little bit on that um when we come to our debt service slide and um some other uh information that we'll be able to share so then we're going to go through the review comparisons for each one of the funds and um what we came up with for the 2025 budget so this is looking at our education fund remember the the main uh source that we get is from State sources and that is our tuition support our basic Grant and it's based on our enrollment so you'll see there um our 2024 budget order that's our certified budget for this current calendar year January through December and then what we're um asking later in this uh this board meeting for advertising purposes and the difference between each one now the difference of that is just that um the estimate from our enrollment and you'll see uh that wasn't a a huge increase for that uh so we wanted to kind of maintain uh that information uh for the future to like Mr trout indicated to be conservative on our Revenue side then next you'll see the expenditures our expenditures we have um divided out by what we call Objects objects are the types and I like to put in that percent on the right hand side and show everyone how over 96% of our education fund is what salaries and benefits these are directly aimed towards students these are Educators that are um educating our students that come out of our education fund so you'll see the majority of this fund is all salaries and benefits and then you'll just see the the comparison with the budgets and what was certified as the budget order and um our previous assess valuation it does not have a levy or a rate the levy is property taxes and of course um like indicated that we have um our Revenue comes from our our basic grant our tuition support based on our ADM uh just to go back to if I can get on the right slide uh slide 19 uh with the expenditures with the um combining of textbook funds going back into educational funds where would we see that in this expenditures line item you'll see that in the supply line item there 586 th000 yes thank you MH yes and thank you for that reminder um it is changing our curricular materials currently is in a separate fund 0900 and it is moving the state has moved that where after December we're moving that into our education fund they have um provided some separate account numbers for us to use but it will be embedded in our education fund so you'll see the difference in the revenue that we've projected has to do with that state um Support also so that wasn't just um a plain line item just for our ADM enrollment but it also will be for our curricular materials dispersement I remind everybody that it's not a reimbursement like it used to be it is a dispersement based on a Statewide formula and um we received that in December of each year but now when we go to do the expenditures in for calendar year 2025 they will actually come out of the education fund so that is another reason for the increase in the expens in the proposed budget for Education fund cool and that 586 th000 is not the entire amount that we currently have in our curricular funds right that's just what we no it is not so our curricular materials fund has over $2 million in it and um that Revenue will be moved into education fund for January 1 and then our expenditures average around this 500 and some thousand dollars per year so um we're able to if we would have a different adoption year and um Elementary or secondary has a larger amount then we would have the cash to be able to come back to the board for an additional appropriation if needed we went on the base um the trend of what we usually spend per year you answer my next question so thank you awesome thank you so here was the comparison that we talked about moving on wanted to talk about our debt service fund this is one of another major um budgeted fund and then you'll see here the difference between 2024's official budget order and um advertised for 2025 now for 2025 we um are averaging um a would like to advertise a little bit higher um property Levy but that does not mean that the tax rate will go up to remind you earlier that we talked about is keeping that tax rate stable so we advertise high so when they go to calculate our budgets and based on the actual Debt Service amortization schedule it's just like your home mortgage so your home mortgage you do a 30-year mortgage and you get that schedule that it shows you how much is going to the principal and how much is going to your interest every year it's the same exact thing for our debt service fund that it does once we sell um General obligation bonds and Lease rentals for our debt service and those type of um fundings fund our overall uh repair and maintenance it can be Roofing it can be Renovations here at the high school can be all kinds of different things that we do through our debt service fund so we uh advertise those projects we sell those bonds and leases and then we uh go ahead and do all of our construction and then we pay back those bonds and leases over time so this Debt Service fund is where we pay back that money through here is what we call Long Range debt service plan so this schedule it shows all of our current debt um by type you'll see in the yellow or orange color General obligation bonds you'll see in the blue lease rentals and then some ancillaries that might have um fees or common School fund loans those are in the purple along the top there you'll see the years and every time that we sell or um purchase sell bonds and leases we get those amortization schedules and we put it on this long range Debt Service schedule and then it shows how long and what our payments will be for how many years also what we build in there is any anticipated future debt so you'll see that on the last line in each category you'll see that um statement in there with uh some future estimated numbers and then along the bottom you'll see those formulas that I talked about where you take um the assess valuation times the tax rate all that good stuff to try to estimate what um we would like our tax rate to be so you'll see there highlighted at the bottom our goal that we've had over the last two years is to um maintain or stabilize that tax rate and not go over um 39.5 cents so that is by Design and that um the board and Administration has made that decision that they will not go over that rate so when we go to publish our our um budgets we actually put that rate in because whatever rate that you advertise for you cannot go over that rate so we put that rate as um a safety net to make sure even if it would calculate over the state will only maintain that rate that we advertise through you the board to the community next you'll see this where um we talked about the the the budgets the assess valuation the property tax that it would approximately raise and that rate that I was just talking about you'll see here um 2024's budget order was approximately 3898 for the rate and that was due to some debt falling off before that the rate was much lower and that's where you saw that um roller coaster in the rate in that um graph and then you'll see in 2025 the advertised uh is that Max that we said that we would go as a district now that doesn't mean we have to go up to that that doesn't mean that we you know might or might not sell um bonds to um keep that tax rate stable but that is our goal is to come back as uh debt falls off to be able to insert new general obligation bonds or at lease to do major projects that we need throughout our district you know that what we've done here at the High School we're doing some things at salamony and there's a lot more that is needed throughout the district that we plan to do as debt falls off that we can do within our limits of our um maximum rate for our debt service fund our operations fund you'll see here the difference um from this fund it the most of the revenue um comes from our property taxes and this is a a maximum Levy fund and I'll explain that on a couple more slides that we that we get to so the state does a calculation for us and gives us a maximum amount that we can raise in property tax for this operations fund that is another reason why we utilize our debt service fund is because this is um it does our different departments our superintendent's office our business services office our technology all those different departments throughout the district General Repair and maintenance but not large large project items so as you know here with the project that we're doing at the high school and some other projects across the district that that cost a lot more than what this 11 million shows here we um in 2022 we did over you know $30 million uh lease for to be able to do some projects and we have a lot more on our um building envelopes that we have to do across the district that we haven't been able to do in a lot of years so we've set ourselves up financially to be able to insert those throughout all of our um Regular major budgeted funds without having to go to the public for a referendum so this is the calculation that comes from the state where they give us that maximum um Levy calculation uh for our operations fund and this is just an estimate at the time that's why when you see that uh property tax in the budget it's higher than this amount because like I said this is an estimate so you have to make sure that you advertised high enough because if they recalculate this and there was any kind of error you're stuck to whatever you advertise so that's why we always advertise that amount a little higher for our operations fund so when they do the final calculation they will change it to the maximum calculation that they can do for the operations fund okay so a couple times I get asked about why the numbers are so different from the previous year and I I just want to rehit this again exactly you keep using the words advertise versus actual okay yes and and and I don't want people to think that we're not being totally transparent through this process because even though it's advertised at this level the state will make the adjustments and it will come down yes it's a protection for the district in case the state would uh would calculate higher then we protect oursel to be able to utilize that Revenue that they calculate at so I want you to know you've heard from her a lot this evening about actual versus advertised absolutely and for for community members who may not deal with this on a frequent basis that can be enormously confusing it is through the process and so when you see the variances of the number people may come back in a in a month and say well that's not the same number you you did at your budget Workshop well exactly because in the 15 years I've been a superintendent this is all it always the state it always brings it back down yep and am I saying that correctly yeah 100% okay and then what we do at the end of the calendar year you'll see that later in the presentation on the steps is they certify our budgets and give us those final budgets we come back to the board and the public to let you know what those were calculated at and then here we don't want you to forget about the circuit breaker impact the circuit breaker is a limit of um what taxpayers can pay on their properties so when this was established years ago we used to get a certain amount whatever the formula calculated and then that's what the the district received in their property tax when the circuit breaker when legislative session changed and they instituted this circuit breaker and um helped the taxpayers that loss of Revenue hit the school districts so this is a history of this amount that we have lost as a district of what was originally calculated and then what they take off our Revenue calculation because they do not charge the taxpayers over their certain amounts there's one a two and a three% that we could go into a whole another work session explaining how that is calculated but this you just um would like to see as anywhere from 1.6 million to the 2.4% which is very is High um for this this District uh the another District that that I do the budget for um ours used to be two million now it's down to 600 some thousand do and double the size of this District so you still have that maximum Levy that you get in your operations fund then they take the circuit breaker and take it off that Revenue that you would have received so this is a direct impact of a loss of dollars for the school district but it's one of those double-edged swords that then it's there to help the taxpayers not have to pay above and beyond what the state um calculates for their taxes so then what we're projecting is is that about 2.4 million loss okay in um in this tax cap yeah and I I just want to clarify where that usually is taken out of that is taken out of the operations fundations fund so when you're looking at the different funds it's not the education fund it's not dead service it's all out the operations so another reason you have even less money in the operations fund to do the things that we need to do with the corporation because of tax absolutely that's correct yep thank you then you'll see this spread out um here for operations fund by the type by the objects and you'll see there a little over um 42% for salaries and benefits and then you see all the rest of the stuff we have anywhere from utilities to General supplies which that's our repair and maintenance and those type of things that that might come through other purchase services and then capital outlay and Technology um you'll see there uh also listed so just to reiterate we're budgeting 21 million but we know we're going to be two and a half million less than that absolutely that is correct that's why we budget high in case that calculation for that um circuit breaker tax comes in lower than they anticipated of that 2.4 million and that's why we advertise a little bit higher to um be able to give us that leeway now remember we will not spend over what we get um from our property taxes or any other ancillary um Regular Revenue that we receive so you'll see that here where um those comparisons with the budget order versus what's advertised like we talked about and same thing with the the tax rate the state will adjust all of the number 20 um the information in that column 2025 advertis they'll adjust that once they um finalize those that circuit breaker uh impact and then also the maximum uh Levy so after that then that's what they'll certify and we'll come back to the board um later December slash um January because sometimes it's right at the end of December then we bring it back to you in January to explain the actual uh certified budget order that we receive and then also part that were required to do is a capital projects plan a three-year plan now what this plan means you might look at and go wait a minute we're doing way more than this Becky well it's because this is gives you the opportunity to purchase these type of things through the operations fund so this isn't what you do out of your debt service fund or those bonds or those leases that we talked about if you want to use your operations fund you're supposed to come up with a capital plan and that's what this is so it's comprised of two different uh sections and that is capital acquisition and this is any kind of equipment those type of things that's over $10,000 that um you might want to utilize your operations fund for so it is a three-year plan the only plan that you're held to is the current year that we're doing which is 2025 so each year you have to do the three-year plan but you can change the other two years once you come to that year so next year when we go to do the 2026 budget if we have different needs and want to change our plan we can change it at that time when we do 26 27 and 28 those threee plan but um we're held it's just to give the the the administrators the school board and the public an idea of what might be be purchased uh out of our operations fund the next thing is um projects in nature over $110,000 so so this has a large scope you'll see things like uh regular Landscape Maintenance or HVAC repairs or Replacements it could be um these are usually little projects so to speak um that you wouldn't warrant uh a bond or a lease for so these are usually under a million dollar projects that's what I talked about um for needs in your actual operations fund and then all the higher uh projects in that are usually a million more so these are things that doesn't mean that we're doing all these it depends on funds available and timing for these but this gives us a an envelope to be able to use as a guide when we go into 2025 we also are required to do a bus replacement plan a five-year bus replacement plan and this is usually any buses that are over 12 years of age now there are times that you can do replace a bus earlier than 12 years and we keep track of the mileage we keep track of repair and maintenance we could have a lemon that comes that's what I call a lemon that you know one that could be eight years old and it's just given us problems for some reason it's it's not a good vehicle we've all had that personally in our lives unfortunately where we buy this vehicle we think it's the greatest thing on since sliced bread and then all of a sudden it nickel dius but um so every once in a while you'll see one that might be replaced earlier than normal but our general guide and that we do with this bus replacement plan is our 12-year replacement so this shows you the next five years of what um we're looking to do this screen shows three of those five years and then this screen shows you the last two years and then uh the totals that are anticipated so this is a guide this doesn't mean that if the money does not come through that we'll still do nine buses in 2025 that's our goal um if we have the funds available uh so this is our best case scenario and then if for some reason all the funding doesn't come through then we still use this as a priority of um the first so many that are listed on the list so we are if you've known for the last couple years we're back to our regular replacement uh for our buses so that is our goal each year is to do this approximate amount um for the next five years so you answered my first question that we're back on schedule but it looks like over the next five years we're planning on replacing 44 buses how many buses total do we have in the district do you know oh gosh um trying to remember you remember how many we have 80 I say yeah I couldn't remember my apologies more than okay yeah I knew that but I was like oh what's the other years so um and that's why we excuse me 62 62 so that's why we look at each year and we look at the mileage too so depending on the routes we could have one bus that you know has a lot more miles than another bus that is 12 years old and that one's acting perfect so we could flip-flop those two and replace one and wait another year or so for the other one that had lower miles so that's why we record all that you may not know this but May at what year do they require a second inspection for number of years is it 10 or 12 do you know uh I don't have the Year Vanessa handles that Ryan but I do know that our percentage when Mr trout and Becky and all of us arrived the percentage of buses that were at the 12 years or higher was extremely high in this District so getting uh catchup as Becky said has been extremely important um and so our buses um do a great job and are expected annually and inspected regularly and do a great job but just the mere age of them alone uh this is a uh an outstanding need for Huntington schools absolutely and I'm going to say um it has um maybe not been prioritized in the past and it needs to be yes thank you and we are required there is a state requirement that they do come in annually and reinspect our buses annually yeah and I know that there's an age at some point where that annual gets turned into tce a year that's that's the number I was looking for and I think it's quite around that 10 or 12 year yeah I and I whether it's 10 or 12 R I do know that the bus inspections go well here but uh again the the mere age of them is concerning so this will get us back in uh in the good graces uh they're safe they're excellent but they are old and uh the bus replacement plan will take care of that for us you know we are we've we we're waiting on two orders as we speak yes and so this is something that still has not caught up since the Pand M exactly um so many other things have but for whatever reason in this industry it hasn't so literally we have we have placed two orders that we're waiting on uh to still come in to this day so this fall once you approve this we'll be making the third order and so Chuck Vanessa and I have to continue to remind ourselves now where we at in this process because if we don't get our names in the backlog just continues and so it's just really important that we stay up with this at this point and that's what's really helpful with a bus replacement plan that they can do this since this is started so what the the U manufacturers require is what's called a letter of intent so that's what we've been doing is sign in this letter of intent based on this bus replacement plan so that guarantees that we're setting aside this money for the this bus replacement in that aspect so hopefully I've heard this across the whole state of Indiana that there a minimum of two years behind the manufacturer is not not Huntington but the manufacturer yeah thank you okay next steps so um talking about the steps uh through the the budgeting process the budgeting process consists of three major steps one is this evening that we're holding this um budget workshop and then later in this um board meeting we'll ask for permission to advertise what we talk about during this budget workshop and then next is um a budget hearing that's at the next uh board meeting after we've advertised and then the last uh process for the board would be to adopt the budgets and that's in the October board meeting after we um put all this budget projections together then of course our work doesn't stop so there's more forms that we have to fill out and um and this is a flow chart that shows what we have to do in the Indiana Gateway site and um it has all these different forms that actually create the form the form three that uh we are utilizing this evening uh for and asking the board for permission to advertise and we'll go over some of those figures um that summarizes everything that we're talking about this evening so this next slide is that is um a portion of the form three which are the budget estimates that you saw from the other uh summaries so now on top of this I want to show you and remind you this the transfer that you see up there on the screen where it says transfer to operations fund remember when I talked about those four buckets and two of them were moved in the new education fund and two of them were in the operations fund well when they moved those buckets of expenditures they didn't move the money that went with those buckets so the money that comes into education fund is still that Master amount that we used to get in our general fund so the law um allows districts to transfer up to 15% of that money to um cover those expenses from those other two buckets that were moved in the operations fund um why they didn't separate that I can't I can't explain I I don't know I thought after this many years that they would have done that by now and um separated out for you but they still have not so um districts can do up to 15% around here we um Aver um average anywhere where from I think 11 to 13% depending on the year and the needs um from our education fund to our operations um fund for those expenses from um 2018 of those buckets that were moved into our operations fund and then you'll see the other ones listed that match uh our our projections that we had on the previous sides per F fund and then the estimated levies these are your property tax these are also the the summary from those previous slides for our debt service fund and our operations fund um you'll see here of course we don't have anything for our education fund because that's based on um basic Grant tuition support so there is no property taxes and then rainy day if we were going to advertise in rainy day that's just from um cash balances that um from rainy day savings savings um fund that we have and we we do not have any um property taxes in that f either so then what do we do with this we we need to advertise after this this evening's um meeting we're required to advertise um our bus replacement plan and our capital projects plan so on Gateway which is our Indiana um uh State website for government units and on our our actual website for our school district and then also for our form three that we just went over is what's considered our notice to taxpayers to um notify them of what we're advertising for our budgets and letting them know that uh we will be holding a public hearing at our next board meeting which is on September 24th so there are requirements between each of these three steps that we talked about uh there has to be 10 days in between from advertising and holding the public hearing and then again from the public hearing to adoption so do we still have to advertise it in the newspaper or did that get changed in law the Indiana Gateway superseded that cool thank you so that is the public um means to be able to um see the budgets for all uh entities in Indiana that that goes for schools libraries all that so this talks about um next board meeting what we'll have is we'll conduct three budget hearings and one is um for the major funds that we just talked about and the other is the capital projects plan and then the bus replacement plan and then at our October 14th board meeting that's when we'll ask for um for the board to adopt the budgets and if you recall that one's has different forms that you look at that has um different resolutions that we are required to uh adopt along with the budget along with the capital projects plan and the bus replacement plan so other different um requirements we have things that we get um from the county after we've held our um public hearing and adoption that we have no remonstrance against our uh budgets and we get that certification from the the county and then also we have to upload all the sign forms that goes through the board those resolutions that I talked about that the board um has to sign off on and um we upload all that that's when they take that information over the next three months and they C do all our calculations they do that across the whole state of Indiana and then they issue what's called a 1782 notice and that what I call that is a draft budget order so they they give us that draft budget order we have 10 days to respond we go through that like a fine tooth cone um I would say at least 30% of the time there's an error I would say that um in my 20-year career um doing this that uh we might notice that they left one of our debts off so if they forget something in your budget of course that does the calculation completely different which we wouldn't receive as many dollars with that calculation so we check everything um with that 1782 notice and then we either respond with yep everything's correct hunky dory go ahead and certify or know wait we we find this error or we need you to um look into XY or Z so um after after all that goes to back to the Department of local government Finance then there there um there is a legislative Indiana code that says they're supposed to certify by December 31st now that doesn't always happen sometimes it goes into January but then like I indicated earlier after we do receive that um certified budget order then we'll come back to the board and um present those to you and go through those numbers with you at that time now I know that's a lot of information it's everybody's favorite topic talking about finance and budgets but i' would be happy to answer any more questions the board may have at this time it's my favorite topic as you can tell so that's why I'm a CFO but I love budgets it's my favorite Becky I'll say again thank you um I appreciate the detail uh appreciate working with you this closely um the training you provide for us the education you provide for us as a board is also enormously helpful uh in a lot of settings so thank you um board you've had this in your board packet you've had time to Che it over I've talked to a couple of you about specific details within that if you do have any questions between now and the next board meeting she's laid out very well what we're going to be doing next please don't hesitate to reach out to her okay all right we'll now move on then to item F2 permission to advertise so um Becky you want to talk a little bit about this I know you you're going to feel like you're going to repeat yourself here but I think it's important that we go through this one more time absolutely so what this is the um part of the first step that we talked about that's required so we we just held the budget workshop for you and the community and next we're asking for permission to advertise that form four that we that we had um those numbers up there that um give the budget estimate projected estimate and the um levies estimated levies to be raised that notice to taxpayers also shows um the public hearing dates for the public and also the adoption dates so um that is an official notice to the taxpayers that will be posted on our website tomorrow and then also on the gate Indiana Gateway website so we have the form three of those numbers and then we also have our capital projects plan and also our bus replacement plan that will um advertise the same exact way on our website and the Gateway website and we're asking for permission to advertise those as presented this evening all right thank you uh would anyone like to make a motion regarding the proposed uh budget advertisements for the 2025 budget make say capital projects right yeah I covered all three okay y all right hearing nothing motion passes six to zero and thank you very much Mrs Smith we appreciate your help we now move to item G1 items of discussion by board members um just so everybody knows um what's coming up here in the near future U mentioned this to a few of you before is that um we will be board informational evening um I hope to get letters sent out to current board and board members running uh for this evening this will be broadcast to the community um topics to be covered um that night um will be the roles of the superintendent and the roles of the school board uh District finances academics uh we will cover quite a few topics that evening there'll be a free flow of questions and answers throughout the evening but um you as board and people running for board seats coming up will'll get a letter for me hopefully uh by the first part of next week you will get a letter from me inviting you to come uh to that evening so you can learn uh I know we give this current board even an opportunity to ask questions too but we'll be covering variety of topics that night and giving everybody a chance to do Q&A and that will be broadcast to the community just like we do the board meetings the um the second piece um on here too is that um I've been in contact back with our Teachers Association I think they're going to set up a question and answer session um for board members running for the open board seats and that'll be coming up at some point in time I don't know if they've set the evening yet or not but just so the community knows that that will also be broadcast when that when they determin when they'd like to do that but they've been in contact with me about having a Q&A session with all board members running for the open board seat so between now and election um those two evenings will be we'll get that broadcast out to the community so they can see that and to the participants also so I just wanted the board and the community to understand that those will be upcoming here over the next few weeks okay I just had two things uh we've talked about it in the past but the isba's fall conference is September 23rd and 24th down in Indiapolis I know I'm going I didn't know if anyone else was going to attend uh but the other more important one I think to have on your calendar would be November 4th is the fall conference or the fall information session uh that is going to be November 4th up at cudes um I think that's the place uh that's where we'll be covering uh the legislative priorities that we're going to go into the fall uh budget session for uh and just a couple other topics that coming up as we prepare for next the budget year or the next budget cycle coming up um so always a good night it's a short meeting it's a short program but it's good good educational experience and a great opportunity to to network with other Schoolboard members uh from around northeast Indiana like to also thank Mrs lochmire for Pinch hitting tonight job well down over there Tanya all right anything else all right we'll go ahead and move to H1 and I'll entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting so moved is there a second all those in favor say I I opposed all right the eyes have it

um tonight we have our our public hearing for the 2025 budget this is part of our uh statutory requirements that we go through every year uh to have a reading at this time and then bring this back at our next board meeting uh for approval um Again by State Statute the uh budget has been shared online uh through the dgf State website as required by law and on our Township District website again as required um again we will bring this back I will bring this back to the board uh following this reading tonight on our meeting on Monday September the 23rd at our 7M meeting uh for vote and approval the um the budget approval also encompasses our annual bus replacement plan and our Capital Improvement plan which are uh a part of the budget approval process um in front of you um you would have a full copy of of the budget we just um we actually uh received our uh annual AV our assessed value um notification a little later than normal this year uh our want to share with the uh with the board our average AV increase uh for Lawrence Township this year is 4% um and the the average across Maran County uh at 5.4% this year so those will be uh in effect in 2025 um as in the past and as is our as our tradition and the way we um the way we operate with our budget approval process we submit our proposed budget to the state um after it is approved um they uh run it through their processes we do have a debt uh a Debt Service rate and our operations rate our operations rate encompasses our transportation fund our bus replacement fund and our operations uh um funds our capital projects funds the um our debt rate and then we of course have our referendum bond rate um and each year we advertise that we have to take a worst case scenario really really worst case scenario look at when we uh advertise our expenses as being over over overly High over what we exp expect them to be and our Revenue to be underestimated the reason for this is to protect our cash balance at the end of the year if we um advertised exactly what we thought um on either expenses or Revenue we could be leaving uh dollars on the table or uh a deficit in Revenue coming into the district so um if there's money um shown in our balance at the end of the year the state's going to expect us to expend that next year before we get new revenues in so uh first and foremost we want to protect that um which is what we do so we um from a from a 2024 tax rate standpoint we have a current tax rate of 1.68 to or $16 uh per 100 um our proposed rate uh we we actually show an advertised rate again that absolute worst case scenario which the state would not approve uh anyway uh but we do show it out there uh as a do 58 um with an actual projected rate which is closer to what we anticipate at a334 um there is one other unknown this year that um we're going through the process of bond approvals right now as uh we've gone through with the board um with our Geo bonds and off Al our um 2024 First Mortgage bonds for the construction projects that are underway we do not yet know what those payments will be in 25 so again we've taken a conservative worst case approach um presentation for um the 2025 tax rate to Encompass again a worst case scenario once we know what those are we will know that at the end of the year we can report back to the board um but is anticipated that we will have a level or basically a flat um tax rate here uh within the district um Mr miles um the assessed value uh going up you know on average about four point some percent throughout the whole District um how does that compare to years three prior yeah good question last year the actually the last two years we've had um High increases in our in our av um we were uh I don't have last year's right off top of my head I should have brought that with this but it were close was closer to double digits okay um okay and so this year is back to we're we're kind of normalizing um which is which is a good thing um it's still I would say where we're at this year is is higher than it traditionally has been by a little um say over the last 10 years okay and what does that mean for our um stakeholders who voted for the referendum what does that mean yes a great question so as as the um assessed value goes up meaning the the property values across the district the rate actually comes down because we're targeting uh an actual dollar amount for the levy so just the way the math works on that um as a percentage of our total assessed value uh the percentage that the district is it has an our rate decreases so since 2019 since the referendum the rate has continued to come down it has yes that that approved rate uh when the referendum passed U was up to 25 cents uh per 100 um we are now in the 17 cents uh per $100 uh so it's it's continued even from year one um we never actually achieved a 25 cent rate which is a great thing and and uh again that has yes that's come down with the uh the increase in AV our total AV um across the district now the referendum um AV is just over 7.5 billion or do you have questions so just to make sure that we're clear for members of the community this budget is not inclusive of federal dollars that we would receive through title three Title One um title four title two so this is just State funding that is correct thank you Matthew to be more specific you mean local tax base our state funding will not come through until when the state funding uh we are anxiously looking forward to October 1st which is our count day um our state funding our basic grant that we get per pupil uh is calculated twice a year based on enrollment um and our ADM which is our average daily membership again we'll count that uh October 1st and then again the 1 of February so uh Al those those numbers are reported to the state when we when we calculate our budget there's really nothing that we can do to influence or change the per pupil amount that we're going to get this drives our local property tax rate Mr miles I know we do some projections on count rate um I I've heard rumors that we are steady and or growing at least per could you just address that yeah as far as the ADM yes yes so as it as it has implications obviously absolutely so I like to say cautiously optimistic um we do uh our student count based on um every day from from the start of school up through that really up through October uh 1st and we're seeing uh numbers right now in excess of 100 new students um again those could that could change we could have an increase or decrease between now and October 1st um but generally speaking um per student uh per pupil uh we're looking at in excess of $7,500 per student so um every one of them is is very important for us so we need all of our students at school on October 1st we we want them there every day pump pump them full of Tylenol absolutely um the big part is we have to improve we have to approve uh that they are enrolled and active and that they've been attending our district and so if for some reason they were sick on that day we still get to count them but yes that's we we want them here we want them we want them uh in a part of our count and that's uh that's what's important here in the state of Indiana as the dollars follow the student I think a point of clarification is that that's not the only time that we're counting students in terms of that is for all of our students but for students like our language minority yes there are different reporting periods and so being at school every day all day every day all day super important because not just because of but the financial implications especially for a growing District like Lawrence Township that has so many so many language um Learners I think many people do not understand that there are other times when the district is um indeed keeping a close eye on who is in a district and those funds generate quite a substantial amount of money especially um for those level ones and twos so they they sure do we're not we're certainly not here to turn away any federal dollars um so and there are to your point uh Madame board member there are several days throughout the year year that we have to report on certain uh certain attendances or certain membership um so all important and all make the budget go round and round thank you very much I just I had one um I guess question well not question really um when I get a question from the public this the notice again to the taxpayers is publicly available at budget notices doi.gov correct I just wanted to that is correct I had to check my website there but that is absolutely correct um yes www.budget.com bus replacement plan is that correct that is correct we um yeah we show again it's a plan um and basically once a bus reaches the 12year Mark we want to ideally we want to uh trade it off thank you absolutely do you have any further questions for Mr miles about the budget um are there members of the public attending this evening that would have any questions for Mr miles not we'll go ahead and close out the budget hearing the public hearing now we'll open our uh work session our first subject is the Blue Ribbon update Mr Smith Madam president Dr Smith members of the board again we're pushing pushing hard for the two high schools to uh cross that finish line here soon uh we continue at LC with the pool deck uh being installed actually the tile work will start uh this week Wednesday um multi-purpose room we're finishing up the stair rail and some flooring and soon turn that back over to the building uh Ln casework is going in new North End the media center there and some other classrooms and Specialty areas with casework uh again North uh a lot of ceiling and a lot of flooring going down bser middle school work finishing up the lighting and the sound checks this week and I was assured that that would be turned over to the building um tennis courts there at beler uh have been demoed and now the uh drainage is going in and soon to place the asphalt front canopy continues on we're nearing the the Finish items both around the outside and underneath vreek art rooms and hallway are progressing quite well and uh soon I believe fall fall break we'll equip these classrooms and turn it back over to the building site work continues in the softball tennis and baseball areas here at L LCC final Landscaping going in all concrete is finished uh we'll start asphalt on Wednesday uh I was assured it'd be done by the end of the week hopefully weather permitting and uh the bridge demo has actually it's going in and uh it'll take another four weeks to finish up new LEC still continues to go up and site we site utilities uh going in do you have questions for Mr Smith on the Blue Ribbon update I just had a question and a comment um from some Ellen alums I I know um I got my invitation for the the uh open house coming up which is exciting and so I know have lots of folks who want to come back so there will be tours correct as part of the high school dedication correct so they can see okay thank youed oh after the dedication be that two hours worth of open house for the community okay thank you there are no further questions we'll move on to Mr notor and our student achievement part three thank you Madame President Dr Smith and members of the board I bring to you this evening the results of I 3 2024 and just as a reminder this is our board goal that is driving I 3 June of 2024 an average of 80% of all third grade students who've been enrolled in LT for three years will be proficient with accelerated growth and underperforming subgroups so this slide is the slide that shows data from 2021 through 2024 and you can see the subgroups on the leand side and then the number of testers and percent proficient each year between 2021 and 2024 and we're modeling this report after the state report with 2021 being the first Baseline year after the covid years the columns on the right hand side you can see the change in the number of testers you can see the growth from 23 to 24 as well as the growth from 21 to 24 so some highlights to point out you can see um just from a demographic point of view the increase in students that we've had um overall in third grade and then specifically the increase in our Hispanic subgroup the increase in our free and reduced subgroup um as well as our elel subgroup um and that one-year growth for El's 37 those were level all levels one and two in terms of increase um in terms of proficiency you can see some negatives um some red for our one year we did have a uh decrease of 1.8% in our overall and this is all students so this is not yet the the board goal piece but this is all students while we did see an overall increase when you look at the data from a 4-year perspective 2021 through 4 with um considerable increases in our multi-racial and our sped subgroup of growth of 4% for one year and 9% for four years the next slide then breaks out just um relative to the board goal students who'd been in the district for three years and this is a 2023 comparison to 2024 so all students who've been in the district for 3 years and that could be first second in third grade it could be K13 um any combination that equaled three years in the district um you can see that we're flatlined with our black students and that's of of great concern um as that's our largest subgroup um and so um on the next slide when we get to that point we'll talk specific about um uh measures that need to be taken in order to increase our black and our Hispanic subgroup you can see in terms of number of testers our his Hispanic subgroup is right behind our black subgroup for third graders and so those two subgroups in order for us to move as a district those two subgroups have to be moving um we do have growth in in other subgroups but without Black and Hispanic subgroups moving we're not going to see significant increases at the bottom line um which is is what we're after is growth for all of our students with accelerated growth in our underperforming subgroups so overall um 70.8 uh% for students who've been with us for three years with uh that represents a growth of 1.2% on the next slide then we get into the specifics of what the the next steps are um so continuing our science of reading professional development and coaching support so we have a partnership with the Department of Education that provides a full-time literacy coach um at the schools that are listed in these are schools that because they've had less than 70% pass rate qualify for the literacy coach from the Department of Education and it's jointly funded between the state as well as the the district the the next bullet is um professional development that we began last year with taju educational uh Solutions partnership and this is focused on our bilingual students and we have many many students that are being educ educated in a dual language program and so doing all the work that we need to do both in Spanish and in English to ensure that those students are um doing the very best that they can in an on an English test in third grade that continued training and support for our reading specialist um we have reading specialist um some buildings have two reading Specialists but providing the support that they need in order to take that back to their classroom teachers and then of course our Core Curriculum um Core Curriculum is where the um gains are made a strong core instruction with a strong Core Curriculum and we're utilizing the state approved um building knowledge curriculum through core knowledge language arts and we'll continue our implementation of that Core Curriculum um the second bullet and and the categories underneath it really are building on the lessons learned from the 2024 assessment um even though as a district we saw a slight decline um we did have uh schools that showed increases um and schools that showed significant increases and so what we're proposing is to replicate the processes at those schools um that have produced academic achievement and so an example is the urgency and priority for third grade from a staffing point of view if you don't have strong third grade teachers and they're not the strongest in your building then you're going to have issues when it comes to third grade IAD proficiency and so um replicating that model of Staffing that one particular School used uh to ensure that we've got the the very very best that we can in third grade and then implementing a district support team um that will focus around Staffing master schedule core instruction and intervention support um that will meet with every school multiple times throughout the year um and so we did that for one school last year saw great results and so now it's time to replicate that for the rest of the district and and part of that process um it's a supportive process but it's also a process of accountability and that accountability comes through the data monitoring for students and so we'll be going through the data for every single third grade student our principles will be leading the conversation but we'll go through the data for every single third grade student um and hold ourselves accountable to the monitoring of that student and then intervent making sure that appropriate interventions are in place for those students who need that uh the other piece that we have not done as a district that we um need to begin doing more of is test prep around um I 3 um we have focused as a district asure board goals have focused for several years on iearn um we've seen great results um significant growth with I learn um but I3 is a different test it's a different type of test um and we've got to do a different preparation for students um in and for our second graders it's the first time they've ever taken a standardized test third graders it's only the second time that they've ever taken a standardized test like that and so it requires a different level of preparation um in terms of test prep than what we have done in the past and then the last piece is um all hands on deck um and all hands focused on third grade um with our entire teacher Cadre that we're able to continue for this year um that was previously funded through our eser dollars same with Huntington tutoring um continuing that partnership with the focus on third grade um not that we're wanting to ignore four grades four five and six but this year is absolutely critical for third grade because of the new retention law um and so Stakes are high for students and so we've got to really help our principes strategize and prioritize third grade pass rate on this test in order to not retain students for next year and then tutoring offered by our own teachers um our own teachers are the the best tutors that students can have because they know the students so well so those teachers who are able to stay after school to support students um we will utilize them certainly and be able to pay them a stien to to do that um so I'd be happy at this point to entertain any questions or discussion can I ask you something can I piggy back you I just mentioned about well I asked some other questions also but I'll just start here the test prep for I3 do we know what that would look like right now and do we know the like resources that are needed because I'm thinking of the teaching cadres and the what what would that look like so it's um very specific um uh worksheets and drills so to speak that um creat some automaticity for students when it comes to the types of items that are on I 3 um that is not necessarily align with our rigorous instructional framework and so that's the reason it's not been a focus um but we have learned from um not only our buildings that have been successful but other districts as well that showed a significant increase that that was a significant component of what they did to increase proficiency rates thank you let me finish writing that down I'll can back to me let me write that I had a couple questions um thank you for this uh first of all uh so this was all of our students correct and then looking future forward based on the the new um laws about retention um with third graders let me collect my thought here okay with the third graders um I know some students qual will qualify for a waiver is that correct based on certain special needs circumstances or English Learners do you by chance know about the percentage currently of our students that would qualify for a waiver in third grade so it's called a good cause exemption okay and the good cause exemption can be and we're still waiting on um final guidance from the doe so I'm speaking um to what it's been in the past we don't have this year's guidance yet but students who have an IEP through special education services um could be eligible for good cause exemption based on the case conference committee um students who are receiving English language learner services so our our enl services um students who have been served um for less than two years would be eligible for a good cause exemption the piece that we're waiting on for clarification from the state is how do we Define two years so this test takes place in March of the Third grade A students who's with us second and third does that count as two years or is it actually two calendar years so we're waiting for further guidance from the the state on that um roughly in terms of of percentages we're looking at about 35% of our students who are either El or um special education and then we would take out the students once we have the the timing rule on exactly what two years means for our El so I would say roughly um in the 25% range okay wow okay and then my second question I guess point that I'm leading into also because one of our roles is um you know working with our state legislator advocating um so in the realm of advocacy and eliminating barriers which goes along with our Equity work um what are some barriers that you've identified in the groups that were um a little behind I mean when I think of it off the top of my head obviously language is one yes but what about access to to prek absolutely um and and we've looked at that data as well that students who are with us for preschool um and then kindergarten do much better than students who are not um so that's one data point I would say another point of um legislative advocacy is around the timing for the retention um two years of language services um is not enough for a student to be proficient in English um the research says it can take up to six years for a student to be proficient in English and so to retain a student after only two years of language Services doesn't seem in line with the research so that would be in my opinion another point of legislative advocacy thank you thank thank you Mr notor I've taken Spanish for six years and for the record I can barely order dinner in Spanish so I I agree with you on the two-year piece the the question that I have is um pertaining to what do we feel that these interventions that we've identified in the next steps are enough or are there additional things that we should be thinking about that may that maybe are limited only by funding or um other other intervention points that we as a board could assess given the potential outsized impact to our students sure um I would say that the the interventions that we've identified our research-based interventions have achieved results um I think adding in the test preparation for I 3 will benefit our third grade students I think in terms of resources there's always a need for additional resources particularly um as we look at the Department of Education kadre um will need to be able to sustain that into the future and so it's a two-year grant that we've been given for partial funding for our literacy coaches um two years is really not enough to retool teachers um we need we need more time and so from a resource point of view I would say that's something we need to to make sure we're looking at as a district that was actually a good segue into the question that I had about the full-time literacy coach so those literacy coaches are at all the elc's they are partnered with an ELC in an elementary school so would Amy beverlin be part of that yes our our elc's function as one entity and so yes right but I guess I'm just so I so but Amy beverland is not getting a literacy coach but not Amy beverland El but the ELC is even though it doesn't it's correct it was just I guess my clarifying question so all the elc's spite like obviously whing Ridge is in Brook Park or right on the same campus Mary Castle also has one okay perfect press view okay thank you and then also um the question so the reading Specialists those are those individuals are at every building yes what is their primary role their primary role came out of the dyslexia legislation and so um their primary role initially was around compliance with the dyslexia legislation and the processes to identify students with dyslexia potentially with dyslexia and so the the data process that occurs with the assessments um as an example would was their primary um responsibility at the beginning now we've begun to morph into them also being experts in core instruction um and Core Curriculum and so they've taken on more responsibilities for our core than what was initially part of their job description it's absolutely outstanding I mean absolutely incredible that's wonderful that uh there are reading specialists in every single one of our buildings tremendous um I think just the other question is a logistical question we know that students who do not pass the irate assessment on the first try are given another opportunity is there been any decision about when that would be given um when will that be happening so um we looked at our data this year um those students who um and there's actually two opportunities they can take it they if they don't pass in March they can take it before school's out or they can take it as part of summer school and so we looked at our data this year and it was really compelling um our students who attended summer school did much better then and and sometimes that's counterintuitive we think students are going to be focused and they're going to stay focused and um in May um and do better in May than they might in in the summer but that didn't didn't turn out to be true students did much better as part of summer school so that is outstanding and that was one of my wondering is if we were going to do it before school let out or uh during summer school so I just am curious I think one of the things that we need to continue to Advocate too is for parents to understand the importance of the I three assessment and the importance of attending summer school yes especially because I know that summer school may not look the same where all family members have the same opportunity I don't know we're in the infancy stages um however it is imperative that our families understand that the importance of absolutely summer programming absolutely um and I'm sure that our district is doing a tremendous job of sharing that but um especially if that IID testing is going to happen critical Mr notter um I do have a question um regarding teachers moving to the third grade or out of the third grade have our building leaders and our teachers within the schools embraced this plan already we're in the process of implementing the plan um so I would say that um time will tell in terms of the conversations we're getting ready to have with our building principles um it it's challenging because every grade level is important it's challenging because I learn are our accountability grade grade levels in three four five and six uh but it's a new level of accountability with for a student to get retained and so those are individual conversations and Mrs Johnson is part of that support team from an HR perspective to help our principles make those decisions when do we anticipate moving teachers um that'll be an individual principal decision uh based will it be in the middle of the semester will it be some some principles have already made that decision over the summer um others um it'll be and it may not be about moving it may be about what additional support for example from the literacy coach would be needed in order for this is teach for teachers every teacher to be the most successful that they possibly can so it may be a co- teing situation um it may be um for instance we had a school last year that had two third grade teachers that went on maternity leave um that was devastating to their third grade data and so if we have a situation like that how can we ensure that that school has the coaching capacity to have a co- teer in those classrooms to ensure that our students are successful thank you do you have any other questions I do I have a um the questions that I sent to you earlier um which we already kind of asked Mrs D you had asked one my questions you had asked one of my questions um because when I was looking at the data the thing I was thinking of was the the intervention aspect so um just letting just for public knowledge of what I had asked um what does intervention time look like for our students um students are scheduled into research based reading interventions based on need um I also ask is this schoolwide or just focused on students with reading challenges schoolwide students who do not have reading challenges are offered are offered enrichment activities or iearned aligned practices I thought that was important that it's just not a focus just on our on our students that are having reading challenges but for all of our students um also do we have additional interventionist and support staff outside of our Cadre specialist I saw um that we have the retired teacher Cadre the Huntington tutoring and the LT teachers and so we also have uh title one interventionists resource teachers English learner teachers and in and instructional assistants um I just wanted to make sure that that was noted for the public of just the amount of resources and the intervention that our district has for our students so if I'm missing something or to add to that but those were my questions thank you thank you I have a question about that so the El teachers the El Services though are not the intervention correct no so I just want to make sure so I just want to make sure when we're talking about the El teachers we're talking about the El teachers that if they have time within their schedule after service might do a small group they might do a small group with intervention but El services are not considered no that's during coreu thank you never make I'm sorry if I didn't state that yeah sorry thank you well thank you very much Mr notor thank you for the hard work you do for our teachers um I do look forward to um watching this meeting next year um from out there and seeing all green and lots of lots of numbers so thank you I know we can do it absolutely um um we'll move on then to um Dr Brown and Mr kusik and the 2425 2526 early enrollment window update please evening Madam president Dr Smith members of the board believe it or not it's time to CL for next school year already so tonight we bring to you the dates for next school year non-resident applications as a reminder currently for the current school year non-resident applications are open through May 22nd 2025 that's the last school for this current school year so looking ah head to next school year for the 25 26 school year those non-resident applications will open up on March 3rd 2025 before spring break and that will continue through May 27th 2026 which the last day of school next school year as a reminder just for informational reasons in District registration for all grades for the 25 26 school year will be in Tuesday January 7 2025 seat of information at this time board do you have additional questions about that um we will move on to the approval of our Personnel reports Miss Johnson good evening Madam president Dr Smith and members of the board we bring you this evening's board report for personnel to be approved so moved second properly moved and seconded is there any discussion all those in favor I I oppos we have approved our Personnel reports which finds us already at our um administrator and board comments um I will like to start on my left tonight Miss Lawrence thank you so much Madame President um for members of the public I would just like to remind you to please follow uh the instructions that your building administrator has has provided when it comes to pickup and drop off of students um as a mother who is dropping off frequently at Fall Creek Valley occasionally at Forest Glenn and also at Lawrence North I do see some bad behavior fairly frequently and it puts students uh it at risk and um potentially the district um um in a a a ten a tenuous situation so I would just ask that you respect your building and you look out for the safety of your students please follow all instructions that's all for me thank you Miss son Miss Norman I'm gonna let Dr Smith elaborate on it but it was an honor to see two of our schools get honored on Friday at the Indiana Department of Education Gala um congratulations to Indian Creek and Lawrence Central it just showed the work that our entire staff does on behalf of students M puffet here we go um I have a comment yes for laptop Insurance just a reminder that fam still have access to laptop Insurance uh Dr gagin I'm sorry I couldn't pull up the tell is it today's the last day of course it's the last day Lord okay well move quickly yes I saw it that's what brought back to my memory was seeing that in parents Square well parents we have till tonight um and my second comment is can I say I love my Township I have been out and about and so one of the events that I was at it was for one of my peers she has a or that basically focuses on Grief and when I'm at these different events and functions I'm looking for okay what can I bring back to my district there have been a couple events where it's literally been like hey you know I'm asking them different uh things and they're like Lawrence has already reached out to us and it just makes my heart smile especially when it uh pertains to tools concerning youth violence um we are out there and it just makes my heart smell so I just wanted the public just to also know that it's good to go into a space and know that you guys are two steps three steps ahead of so much and so I just want to say thank you thank you and thank you that our our Township does an amazing job at making sure that we have the right the resources for what our students need to provide or what our students need to thrive and so can I say it one more time I love my Township you guys are amazing so that's it for me well that's a lot and I appreciate all the board comments and I would just like to remind everyone that Lawrence North homecoming is this weekend Friday the 13th and um we will honor our distinguished Alum as well so um be there and enjoy the game uh if the weather holds from what it's been it's going to be a perfect evening for for football so um en enjoy your high school football it's it's really it's fun it's a fun day Dr Smith board just remind you you will be with the Wildcats appropriate colors please have those on we will be front and center and this is probably uh Dr nesby this is a live game are we on television probably so we'll probably have to start early so meet me no later than 6:30 board and we'll assemble with the administration and go through the entire process to honor our distinguished alumni so please wear your Lawrence norf colors on Friday okay Madam president I've got great news but I don't want to spoil it these individuals will be back at our board meeting uh October 23rd we were stars on Friday with the Department of Education no other District in the state of Indiana received two recognitions as we did so heads were turning in the room as we did last year we did last year we did and so if you wouldn't mind I will invite Lauren Central High school who received the Student Center award for the state of Indiana and then our good friends at Indian Creek Elementary that were honored for stem education and they got to go first so it was beautiful so we also have another star in the room today at the administrative Color Workshop put on for the state superintendent Association Shan Bush she's hot off the press had to stand before everyone and be recognized by our colleagues around the state of Indiana as one of our upand cominging leaders Sean is a Whisperer when it comes to student services in the state of Indiana she's got a strong Network we all know my colleagues know it and they recognize Shawn Bush this afternoon with that award so congratulations sha Bush thank [Applause] you she will be back board on September 23rd we'll properly honor you at our regular board meeting and uh we'll have others Madam president so we will see you again at our at our board meeting um September Monday September 23rd at 7 o'clock um see you then do we have I guess we it's as a work session we don't necessarily need a motion so thank you for your time this closes the meeting hey I hear you ma'am I hear that's a good question may have been I've been known to make random random

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bombs buring in [Music] way the of the and a [Music] [Applause] good evening everybody the sun is about to set on the plateau here at ashon high school but it's a new dawn for clocker football as the 2024 season gets underway tonight on waca good evening everyone and welcome to this week one showdown between the Grafton Gator and your Ashlin clockers sponsored by techniplex Healthcare alongside Rob silver I'm Josh Abrams now Rob summer went by too quickly again it always does it always does put on the plus side football's back yeah we're looking some re for some Revenge we came off a mediocre season last year and uh a lot of talent it's just uh we'll have to see how it plays out tough start tonight they're playing against an always tough grafting Squad uh Super Bowl two years ago I think there semi-finals uh to the Super Bowl last year and um we'll see but they're big for strength of Schedule R yeah and the one thing I do know about Grafton is they are big they have 10 players listed at over 200 lb nine players at 6 feet or taller and uh one of the you know uh stars on their team big and tall Connor Shepard 333 lbs there clockers are set to kick off and the season is underway bounces spin towards the Sidelines and the uh Grafton Gator that's the Zealand Youngblood forced to uh jump on that ball Ashley and almost got a little break early there Josh absolutely looked like a bit of a short kickoff but uh almost worked out for him and by the way techniplex time and temperature game time 69° at 658 oh God an early start here tonight okay wow somebody's got to be somewhere so taking a look at the uh defensive line for Ashley it's Mark meralin number seven number 52 is Gavin Jones 54 Alfredo Netto and on the end there is Dante Marone pitch goes to Finn Gilmore gets a healthy chunk of yards five yards brought down by morone [Applause] so I caught the scrimmage last week you know they were they played Welsley in the scrimmage last week um they didn't try anything too exotic I think the you know coach McKay didn't want to show his hand but more like the NFL is it yeah they weren't playing full full pads but uh it'll be interesting to see we have some really explosive players back on offense this year oh a tackle Miss in the back field and some another big gain there by uh number two Finn Gilmore yeah it was Patrick St Peter who broke through the line just wasn't able to wrap him up yeah one of the things we we did talk about is you know when I was speaking with one of the coaches yes they're really oversized and overmatched you know from a uh height perspective weight perspective so they're going to have to execute it's going to come down to technique and do the things that they know they have to do and just do it cleanly obviously it always we talk about penalties turnovers all those things okay first and 10 at the 47 Quick Pass different quarterback there it's uh John Peeler quick out five yards is that Finn Gilmore again yep absolutely right somebody cover that guy seriously and they're into they're into clocker territory five yard coach Anders excuse me athletic director Anderson walking the track here mixed mixed emotions he's got a lot of friends and he refers to them as friends as they run the sweep they get the corner some good blocks Landry into open space a flag on the play probably coming back for a holding that was one of the areas of weakness I noticed last week was Welsley really had their way getting outside really getting a good push on the end line that one obviously because of the flag so it'll come back and it's usually I think it's 10 yards from the spot of the foul blocking the back block blocking the back good call Ren looks like it was at least a 10 yard penalty moving it back to the Grafton 45 second and 12 that's going to make it Landry in motion hands off again to Filmore from peeler that one goes nowhere Patrick St Peter again in on the tackle this time I say nowhere relatively speaking year short game thank you yeah yeah I mean relative to their other plays so far that was practically nothing exactly I get you I complete you well it's not go too far not not in the first game Jerry M not first not first quarter yeah the you know these teams have had two three scrimmages each this is our this is our first game of the year so it's third and 10 fakes the hand off rolls right over the middle [Applause] intercepted that's Jake linan returns it to the graft and 32 and a huge play on the first possession Jake linahan comes up with a stop on Third and 10 takes it back to the 32 runs it back 23 yards so Rob being very preent right you said they're going to have to execute tonight they're giving a lot away and height and weight and there we go Jake linan stepping up on that first possession forcing a turnover and great opening field position for the clockers yeah it was a good job by the offense uh defensive line getting some Pursuit forcing the roll out they knew we had to pass and uh three players kind of ill advised and that's actually one of the areas where I think uh my scouting report whoever already talked to said was one of their weaker points was the quarterback back and a poor decision when it comes down to it right there triple coverage so here we go Ashland first offensive possession they're going to use a couple different quarterbacks it's going to be oh was Soderberg Soderberg to start hands off to ozal lumba gets hit hard he is T bring down look at this great effort pick up about five yards maybe oh alumba J A Jr had a huge season as a sophomore really carried the workload last year both sides of the ball uh scouting report he uh bulked up a lot over the sum put on about 20 25 pounds over the summer so as good as he was last year we're hoping to see him even bring it up to another level yeah I mean he was a tvl Allstar last year and was included in the Metro West Daily news's preseason 32 players to watch He's lined up in the back field now and this time it's Ben Aon under Center well on a not you on a shotgun snap yeah and they will use the two quarterbacks Soderberg and Aon Aon being the junior Soderberg the senior both very talented each one does something a little bit different and better than the other but no but they're both fairly equally uh talented BR up a third and and also coming back I I don't know if he's been in the lineup again but uh player to watch is number nine Quan Amaral mhm he was uh a lot of very very high Prospect as a sophomore got injured early same thing as a junior injured again so be nice to see if he's healthy as they throw out to the flat and immediately picked up they sniff that right out as Robbie rudisel was the receiver but he gets dropped for a loss yeah looked like John scoffield on the tackle for the Gators of Grafton six John Shield also got fourth down nice to see Robbie rudil come back he was uh on the fence he's you know highly committed to basketball very uh excellent player basketball-wise um just didn't know if uh if it was going to do it but it's good to see him out there hopefully they can leverage his height and his uh leaping ability get some good passing yardage to him Soderberg and shotgun here o Aluma beside him and you folks at home easy to identify Kevin oala he's got the orange cleats in case you can't see that big 23 on his back and we're taking a timeout so 614 to go uh somebody stopped the clock and they're still running the clock well it's funny and I did ask Uh Kevin Anderson pregame if they could do a running clock so that uh I can get home for that 8:00 Eagles game tonight against the Packers okay the clock is now stopped with 553 to go want to take a moment here to give a shout out to uh one of our one of our other sponsors we certainly mentioned Tech techniplex Healthcare quite a bit so far and uh we'll have a special guest from techniplex flexible coming up here at the beginning of the second quarter but want to also say thank you to Mr Handyman of Central 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yeah rudicil was the target two receivers down there Hugo Rossi was down there as well it's interesting r i mean I don't know who called that timeout but uh entirely different formation from before the timeout to the one they actually executed breaking up that pass was number three Jake Robertson I spoke with athletic director Uh Kevin Anderson before the game that was one of the players he mentioned he's that's my guy wow I said what do you mean to say he's known him since he's been a kid he's grown up with him and uh he's really excited to see him play quick handoff a burst through the line still trying to wrap him up that's Brenda McMahon all 205 lbs of him those look like Lan and O alumba in on the tackle for the clockers but it was a big gain down the right side for a first down and there's two Lin hands their brothers twins supposedly uh well fraternal twins one's tall and lanky the other is a version of myself but more athletic that myself put it that way yeah it's Charlie Charlie lenan uh number 62 and uh Jake lahan oh no they're they're not uh fraternal twins one's a sophomore so a pitch to the left and there he is uh McKay calling for a hold let Cory paddleford on the tackle here on the near sideline take him out of bounds Finn Gilmore just kind of having his way with the rushing Ard coach McKay still pleading his case with the refs to uh keep an eye out for those holds M he is a master at work in the refs so first and 10 here on the clocker 35 for the Gators the thing he's very polite about it he's firm but polite Filmore again and another 11 12 yards they're just chewing up Turf right now too easy too easy Finn Gilmore they're going to have to fix that speaking of fixing things if you need anything fixed around the house reach out to m handyman Central Central Mass Central Central Metro West Central Metro West he throws a curveball it used to just be Mr Handyman but you go Mr handyman.com and then put in your ZIP code it's going to pull the pull up the uh the local based right here in ashin 437 to go in the first quarter no score Gator driving another pitch Finn Gilmore handoff excuse me and uh another 10 yards just Waltzing his way through this deep defensive line and into the red zone so I don't think they've attempted a pass since the interception to end the previous possession I think they've only run three or four plays big chunks big chunks but they're in the techniplex Red Zone first the ash 14 y see if the Ashley defense can stiffen up here keep the Gators out of the end zone [Music] peeler under Center hands it off to a different Runner this time and he gets another uh good chunk of yards Owen Banger Owen [Music] Banger another first down and they're knocking on the door down to the three yd line it looks like yep first and goal under four minutes to go here in the quarter Grafton clearly using its advantage and height and weight just pushing that uh that clocker defensive line backwards I mean you got to bring up more guys and force them to throw yep force him to throw there's a pitch to Filmore uh Gilmore Finn Gilmore for the touchdown gets into the end zone first score of the year regular season and the Gators are on the board here in clock look sorry Rob they look like they were running out of like a straight eye formation there nothing fancy about it exactly two backs give it to the Deep one yeah so uh Finn Gilmore has been carrying the offense finally puts it over the goal line and in to kick the extra point looks like number 15 Jam melow senior good snap good hold and it's wide well wide yeah okay so clocker catch a little bit of a break there after uh giving up yardage by the I don't know what by The Bushel yeah almost by the Dozen [Applause] y yeah so uh if you're just joining just tuning in it is the Grafton Gators facing off against our Ashland clockers Gators just got on the scoreboard leading 6 nothing 316 to go in the quarter I'm Rob Silva with my partner Josh Abrams going to be here all season Up on the Roof high at top Plateau at William CIS field I always like to throw in the William I feel he he deserves absolutely absolutely and of course one of our mind folks those of you watching us live here on YouTube um we are we do have a copy of the feed here up in the booth and uh happy to uh do any shout outs if you want to share any comments any uh constructive feedback for us whatever you like it's a it's a great fall Friday night here on the plateau and we'd love to hear from you so again Gator up 6 nothing and about to kick off clockers will be starting with their second possession of the night Finn Gilmore to kick and it's Kevin oala and Robbie Ruda still back deep for the clock this one heading towards rudil FS it cleanly on the [Applause] five not able to shed the first tackle great special teams coverage by the grafting Gators by number 22 going to give the uh clockers a 85 yd field to work with like a seven yard return on that on the kickoff yeah I think that's new I don't think rudil uh was was returning last year brings up a first and 10 for ash from the 17 yd line the game time return something you got to get used to sure if I'm Grafton I'm looking at Robbie rudil I'm looking at tvl All-Star ozal lumba I'm gonna kick the rudil no offense to Robbie he's a great athlete yeah all right so who's under who's back there this is uh Ben Atherton Junior flanked by a couple backs gives to oal lumba he got met immediately not brought down immediately but he was met immediately he's just he is just what you had said earlier Rob like he is strong he's built and he's tough to bring down yeah they didn't really have any big gains in the scrimmage against Welsley was a little different format like we said quick whistles they you know didn't really have any hard tackles and once you get tied up a little bit they blew it dead just got to get him into some open space somehow aen stays under Center Here Again flanked by Amaral and oal lumba thrown over to Rossy right through the hands Rossi also a junior Aon had a great leane to throw in there clean Lane it was a nice throw ni throw no excuses there Rossy just missed it but opening night Jitters yep so third and nine here from the uh clocker 18 217 to go in the first quarter so Rossi wide out Devin O'Brien in the slot Kevin o alumba up top that's a little different middle screen executed well but just shy of the uh first down Mark and maybe by a yard that's Quan Amaral Aon was under heavy pressure there from the uh rushers Yeah by Design they let him let him through let them through what was that uh Remember the Titans y can't call you're on fire tonight already got like two or three movie references it's not even the end of the first quarter oh and they might be trying to draw them off sides Grafton has seen this before MH just running looks like they I thought they Deon O'Brien has popped his head up but looked like he was under Center yeah on the uh when they run the gunk you'll often see him under Center hard count and do you burn the timeout do you just just uh take the delay game penalty apparently you burn the timeout well I do like to call the reason you take the timeout if you do get a 5 yard penalty on the uing kickoff well uing play or whatever then it's a first down so oh Rob the best way to keep up with clocker sports is the Ashlin Athletics Instagram account by the way did you see I I know you're big on the IG did you see the uh the opening week scavenger hunt included a photo of ath Cl a photo with athletic director Kevin Anderson I did not yeah they worked it right in there yeah you missed that one on the IG huh I don't I don't do a lot with Instagram I I'm going I'm going to have to yeah yeah I mean it feels like they've moved off of Twitter almost entirely it's it's all on the IG all on Instagram and yeah I checked it out today it turns out that students wearing neon tonight got in for free oh yeah so I'm I personally I'm glad I'm glad to see neon clothing is coming back I'm going to have to dig deep in my wardrobe for my 80s Neons ' 80s neon CL I kind of feel like there was a dad joke bad joke coming somewhere I was sure you were going to go M me Vice for me there I did have one of those white for whatever reason my mom bought me one of those I never wore it I never wore it oh I wanted it and I wore it oh yeah absolutely nice boot see if we get a friendly roll sideways roll and backwards and still sideways and it's ultimately down by Cory pedford so Grafton will start with excellent field position just shy of the yeah 25 yards on the uh or excuse me 24 yards on the punt 30 yards down to the 46 okay so 108 to go in the first quarter Grafton with their third offensive possession of the first quarter they're showing a different look right now shotgun here and once again Finn Gilmore this time he's limited with his gain nice Tackle by Marone picked up four yards on that one Quan Amaral also in on the tackle 45 seconds in counting till the end of the quarter I do notice all the neon that you pointed out in the uh student section I saw somebody I thought like he was working a detail or something but uh that we got a healthy student section behind us as well up up on the wall behind the fence that makes me nervous I love the inflatable Gator across the way there's a pitch good blocking and it is Owen Banger just gliding through the block all all the way to the uh first down marker and more who's on the tackle that was Alum and um Amal combined first yeah they just got and that's going to be the last play of the first quarter as we are at zeros that brings up the end of the quarter okay so with that we will take a quick break for place and bills word from our sponsor and when we come back an interview with Carrie Turner techniplex flexibles coming up next you're watching Ashlin boys varsity football on waca techniplex Healthcare leverages its worldclass Material Science knowledge to deliver better patient outcomes by designing and Manufacturing products that allow for less invasive procedures reduce pain enable faster healing and safer drug delivery techx Ashlin is once again proud to support the 2024 Ashlin High football team and it's coverage have a great season [Music] and wac ATV's coverage of tonight's game is sponsored and part by Mr Handyman the Home Improvement professionals they're your one call solution for a wide range of Home Maintenance and Repair needs performed by fully insured technicians located right here in Ashlin at 200 Butterfield Drive give them a call at 508 231 4639 or request service at mrhandyman.com has it it's okay all right Carrie Turner I should know because but Carrie W welcome to the roof so to speak and uh thank you for always being a uh a proud sponsor for Ashley and Athletics well thanks for having me I appreciate it uh no we uh at techniplex we're happy to sponsor uh all the community stuff and uh you know I'm from Ashland so I played on the football team so so you were you were telling us earlier you you go way back how how long you've been in Ashlin since since when my family moved to Ashlin in 1968 so I've been here since I was 5 years old wow class of 81 class of 81 Ashlin High yeah all right so and you played football now was I worked with a gentleman who's still coaching to these days is over mil Dave Tupper oh Dave was my coach my senior year yeah I I work with Dave he's still around he's assistant coach over at Milford he coached at nitb a few years so oh yeah I know Dave very well and insurance guy too so yeah yeah was it what what was he like to to play for cuz he's well you know back when I was playing Dave was young so so it was a little bit different but uh you know I originally um my coach was sco jari and Dave and Dave was the assistant I think they went to Maran together that's they did they went to Maran together so uh I played you know I played all four years at Ashley and Dave Dave was a good coach Dave uh you know he thought I was a little too skinny and didn't go in the waight room enough but that's okay most of the coaches thought about that really quick J sorry to interrupt you guys Jake Robertson with the reception there for Grafton it's going to be third I an update the scoreboard yet so it's they're moving the chains first down third should be third yeah third and short and by the way on the previous play it was number 44 on the clockers your old number Boomer that is my old dig call that one out and old is right I think I was asked by my wife are you going to weigh your old uh High School shirt I said I don't think so we'll see what they do on this third down play O good stick really good anticipation of the line let's see where they mark this one number two just got it that's uh y they're settling first down Gilmore again little progress there on that uh stopping these 10 12 yard runs so now techniplex yes you're in Ashland they've been in Ashland through an acquisition so tell us a little bit about the plant and and what you guys do there well I could tell you a lot about the plant I've been at the plant for 43 years I started working there after high school and uh we used to be Gothic house and we were several other names um most recently amcore from 2003 to 2019 when we were purchased by techniplex and uh the good thing is uh since Tech nlex purchased Us in 2019 2020 we started um what tlex calls Techni gives which is a uh a charitable uh um thing all through techniplex techniplex is a global company um they provide uh material solutions for uh for science for uh still going uh for for science for uh for medical and there's also a consumer group so they make cups bowls all different types of things for the consumer but since uh since they took over um they were they were really into giving to the community as opposed to amcore and you can go ahead for this play sure this is a second and five this is Finn Gilmore on a long run before he's brought down around the five yeah another uh 20 yard pickup they just can't figure it out like am was in on the tackle very aggressive team is uh grafted they might call you into action Carrie well they're going to be in trouble if they do that but just one play One play car right you might be able to do one play and be out for a year but yeah you'll have to use your own products to recover yeah that's right that's right what are what are some of the product so in Ashland uh we're we're basically a medical converter so what we do is we take uh we take a medical grade tyvec which uh tyvec some people would know as house wrap or whatever but it's this medical grade we uh we print it we die cut it and there's a heat seil on it so what happens is if you if you've ever heav forbid you have to go in for surgery in an o there's a uh tray with a uh device in it and a sealed device we make the lid for that device and that's what we I've been doing that since uh probably the mid 80s I started we started doing that so uh so we do that it's a good product it's uh it's been uh tried and true for over 40 years and uh we continue to make it and uh so we're a kind of a small shop um how many employees at Local 23 emplo employees um uh you know we hover between 23 25 employees and uh it's mostly printing so think of printing die cutting they did get into the end zone Gilmore again I was trying to distract you from yes all right this a good distraction for the viewers at home yeah the Gators go up 12 nothing extra point pending and Carrie where's uh where's Technic Plex based here in Ashley uh in the uh telecon building okay right uh so we've been in the telecon building as you know other iterations of the of the business since 1984 so yeah it was uh it's been uh it's been quite a ride for me um you know 43 years I'm almost ready to start doing it but we'll we'll see see how long it goes is there news that you want to break here on the show uh no no no news I don't I don't think it's news for anybody that knows me and have been around but uh they go for the 2 conversion quarterback keeps it and he's think he's short short yeah they just able to trip him up and KNE hit the ground if they gave him the roll then yes but yeah so the Techni gives program um has been uh you know was established uh back in 2018 with techniplex but they took us over in 19 and 2020 uh because the pandemic struck and uh I I was able to talk uh techniplex and to give the ash emergency fun $10,000 so check for 10,000 um and we thought you know let's get this roll and let's do it and then and every year since then I've wanted to sponsor the fall Sports and the football team and uh I have my whole group do their their little ad every year and then you do the Thanksgiving we we do the Thanksgiving thing you guys yeah so I think it's a it's a pretty good it's a pretty good thing um you know it's it's not something that we have have done I mean we've done Community stuff over the years we've also done you know clean up the street those types of things but uh techniplex has really been great with giving I I have to say I I love when a business does something like that because you you don't do it because hey you know we're going to run out and buy your product you do it because it's the nice thing to do and you you want to your community and uh do nice things correct we're not selling products to the consumer we're uh we're selling products to medical device companies yeah and what goes around comes around oal lumba on the return and [Music] he a little little bit of a fight yeah I [Applause] mean just can't seem to uh get it all together what would coach Tupper tell the team right now T would say turn I get off the field but but uh no uh I'll tell you this grafting team is pretty good size that one of the things I was mentioning when I was going through the the roster on uh one of the websites it'll show but they have 10 players over 200 lb listed you know nine players over six feet they go to the gunk offense right away and uh obviously this is a non league right oh yeah exactly and I did see that uh I was checking out Hollis schedule Grafton is on the hollison schedule as well so Grafton is looking to make another run they're not taking uh they're not taking any weak opponents they get some I guess not looks like a two three yard gain there for Amaral on first down it's always interesting to see how the teams deal with this Gunk offense can be very confusing somehow they just got to get it to the outside they got to get some open space the bodies are too big to just go up the middle up the yeah that's what it seems look like oal lumbo like kind of started stopped and then he ended up with the ball and then he got just caught in the middle of that giant pack right so 622 to go in the second quarter it is third and four I mean if they get three yards of carry that's okay car by the way you know waca we're going to be an open in the fall like I think in October we'll talk about more more about this in upcoming broadcast and uh but we hope to stop by and be a part of that oh yeah great that would be great uh I look forward to that it's an opportunity to show folks youch qub no you faked the pitch kept it get pushed up for two yards Deon O'Brien third quarterback under center tonight not quite as smooth as the Red Sox but pretty close have O'Brien one of the three captains on this squad the other two being Quan Amaral and Kevin oala Grafton has seven listed captains whoa I like I like them going for it so it's Fourth and fourth and one and a half a long one huge play here O'Brien keeps it runs it up the middle he got it [Applause] this is good we got to keep the uh keep the defense on the field maybe Tire him out heading off the field number 77 there that's Connor Shepard lifted at 6 feet 333 lbs I believe it he was pushing people around on the offensive line so he plays both ways so guys I'm ashamed to say I haven't been up here to see a game um I only know the old Walker field because that's what I played on but this is Bill cunis field right yes who was my uh seventh grade social study teacher and uh my seventh grade basketball coach wow You'll have to share us a story too cuz we being so new to the community and young don't know the legacy of him other than what we read on the nice plaque keep going yeah sure game yeah able to evade the tackle in the back field and trying to find some open space close yeah it's interesting I I graduated with uh Bill's son Michael so um I knew I knew uh Bill cunis very well Avid Runner of course he ran ran ran um and then he then he biked biked biked and he was he was an accomplished athlete in college is that what I remember well that's before my time but okay yes he was he was a very good and uh you know coached a lot of different sports how many sports did you play I've heard basketball and football um I ran track I did run Spring Track I ran some winter track when I didn't play basketball my last couple of years in high school so you're bringing back those athletic days I don't Amal gets up ended for a loss I I I will never comment on somebody's uh physical I was telling a story at the office two days ago and the guy my buddy who was tell he's like are you out of breath from telling the story just climbing up to this here yeah so no but it's uh it's really good to be here and it's a it's nice nice you guys got a great View and it's a nice feel anytime you want to come up and hang out and watch and just seriously you're more than welcome you know it's fun I used to around used to run around these Woods when I was a kid so what what was up here like before was it just it was all Woods here and they just cleared it out and yeah yeah so third and six third and seven Atherton evades one tackle couldn't find any receivers downfield it's now going to be fourth and four fourth and five 221 to go clock running with Ashley trailing 12 nothing here in the second quarter a guy who owned this land had this crazy idea about breeding pine trees yes cadra I believe those was the name of the I was just doing it back to the future reference but they did own the land he knows it you know I know I love a little little bit history don't don't get me going too but too much well you talked about uh Carrie Griffin yeah family friend I used to know his family they're about 10 years older than me from Old Orchard Beach where we used to go they lived around the corner from there and I grew up in framing him so um well the fact that I knew the name right away because when we moved to Ashland I actually met him and he was surprised that we both had the same name so oh so I'll never forget that because you know weren't many carries no yeah good family clockers called timeout with a minute and a half to go minute 28 to go here fourth down I think they're just trying to do everything they can to keep the ball away from Grafton for this last minute or so yeah want to thank you for uh the t-shirts oh yeah yeah we got t-shirts yeah t-shirt you got a little swag here boys techniplex swag there three t-shirts is a nice I don't know what size you wear but uh other one other one is going to be handed out later I I I think I put in for an XL yeah I'm sure we can work out they're all here blue it's it's a good color for me it accentuates my eyes I think there's a there might be four there might be a long sleever in here too so okay perfect have at it yeah thank you hey you're setting the bar high for uh for future sponsor visit well that's right I I hope to I hope tooh so fourth and four they are going to go for it they got Hugo Rossy and Robbie rudil down at the bottom of the screen here fakes the throw and he is dragged down from [Applause] behind yeah there's just nothing there for Atherton and uh clock stops with a minute minute 20 to go let's get through this half and regroup and come back and right yeah exactly if it I mean the clockers will start with the ball in the second half so if we can keep them off the board here it's a two-score game the fans are off the Rocks that's good yeah I makes me nervous I'll give him the five bucks to get in you're not a believer in the darwinian all right all natural selection not on my but not on my watch I don't want to delay the game oh almost broken up heck of a throw oh and there's a late flag definitely used a size Advantage there right yeah what do you think that flag is like he was grabbing his arm from a that's Jake Robertson with the catch the grafton's moving backwards that's a good sign yep it is against the Gators hold it it'll be first and 16 maybe 17 we're at a minute 11 to go looked like a dangerous pass I mean great job by Robertson you you you said uh M was the player on the reception he went up there and got it yeah yeah if he bobbled that he had that thing was going to be picked off could have been a pick six so they're really bringing the pressure sett center screen little middle screen not handled by Gilmore see merone trying to time the snap we're going right up the middle yeah he's a baller I think I know his dad Jamie yeah a lot of them are I don't know the relationship of I don't know if that's his d right aren't I think there's a lot of and I don't know the uh I think there cousins there's oh related to Lou of course yeah exactly give me Ashley and trivia I can we had well we had Jake morone on the Super Bowl team back 201 now that was now I know that that was uh Jamie song y so second and 16 56 seconds to go just can't give up the big play no you can give him 10 yards and there's the big play 101 coverage [Applause] oh I'm a little speechless I I just it's OA Lumber got turned around on the on the coverage look like it was Griffin Landry with the reception got some separation looked like he initially had good coverage yeah exactly and then when he got turned around he just looking for the ball maybe lost in the lights or something who knows but it's not easy to play that uh defensive back what are some of your highlights were you were you uh offense defense anything I I played I was mostly a tailback okay we uh longest run from scrimmage I think 80 yards wow I think I against me I think listen to me I remember it like it was yesterday you car you just don't you won't it like we we're we're not going back to fact check later it was 120 yards if it was I would never I would never embellish I think the waa uh Library goes back to 1997 1987 so you're clear yeah there there was some film maybe game you maybe Dave Tupper house film on me but uh I do remember Midway an 80 yard run that was probably I do remember a lot of games that's getting uh you know beat up pretty good so yeah how how were the teams what was your were I think uh my junior year we were like s and three which wasn't bad and my senior year we were like five and five okay I actually played as a sophomore too and I can't even remember what our record was in 47.4 seconds to go as the handoff gets yeah there's the flag that's going to be a hole Yeah he he just tackled him basically tackled him and Coach McKay threw his arms up and he's been been working the ref on that so good timing that was just on so that'll bring him back to uh maybe the 20 21 yd line keep out of that end zone right mhm okay 19 yd line 18 yd line 36 seconds to go first and 18 the thrown of the corner oh that's going to be pass interference and he didn't even have to now right the uh the receiver cut the wrong way well and then he got T I'm laughing at our reaction not at not at the foul like just yes exactly so I the three of us and I think two or three flags all thrown simultaneously got 10 yards right back it's half the distance cuz it was at the 18 so it'll be nine yards if they mark it off right yeah half the distance so be first and goal from the nine 22.4 seconds to go now I feel now I feel guilty that I had the guy put 7 Seconds back on the clock and first qu all right dig deep clockers drops back to pass shoots through that's could be it broken up by o OA yeah huge play the clockers had some good penetration there in the back field forc a quick throw and even so it still needed oz alumba to come up big just to be able to just tip that ball out of Harm's Way still 16 and a half seconds to go looks like they schemed something up for that one to try to try to get out the QB there's definitely at least one guy on on the line that is trying to time the snap like get a running start Sean Griffin in a quarterback now great protection oh nice that was clean yeah and good coverage there by Hugo Rossi yeah that's a both times the last two times that quarterback has gone toward the corner light to on that post he's looked at that receiver the whole way right it's like there's no deception whatsoever he's locked in on that receiver yeah but gave him a lot of time to throw a lot of protection MH and when you think of protection we think techniplex protecting consumers all over the world right at the end consumer is the uh is the issue and uh you know our CEO always says that what we want is for the best outcome of the patient right pretty good out for blockers very nice Gavin Jones time out Crafton yeah a quick timeout this could be this is the last play 3.8 seconds so uh see yeah so Tech tolex has uh has plants all over the world um they've been doing a lot of Acquisitions over the last five years uh picked up uh a bunch of different companies in uh Latin America uh and over in Europe and a bunch in the US so uh one of the big things that Tech tolex healthcare does which what I'm a part of is uh tubing so they do a lot of different types of tubing for a lot of different types of medical devices and uh I had the the uh pleasure to go to our our Global uh Innovation Center if you travel to any of these other Lo um in Holland Ohio and uh they actually showed us some of the tubing that they make and it's amazing some of it is so small I mean it's like a it's like a thread but it's an actual tube so it's used in what type of uh uh a lot of different medical devices don't don't ask me I mean I've only been I've only been doing this 40 years I don't know no I only know I know die cut Lads and I know but uh but it was it's very interesting the stuff that they make and uh you know I never knew that uh all right you call this play Carrie oh no all right tell us what's happened what a back back to pass and oh broke it up very good very good so good way to end the half is the clockers withstand a uh a goal line attempt 12 nothing still in the Ball Game 12 nothing you're hanging out you want to hang out I hang out a little while yeah hang out we're gonna we're going to take a break and um getting a word of the from our sponsor they going to run pay some bills run some ads you're watching Ashland varsity football here William cunis Field I'm Rob silver with Josh Abrams our special guest krie Turner and we'll be back for the second half in a few techniplex Healthcare leverages its worldclass Materials Science knowledge to deliver better patient outcomes by designing and Manufacturing products that allow for less invasive procedures reduce pain enable faster healing and safer drug delivery techop Plex Ashlin is once again proud to support the 2024 Ashland High football team and its coverage have a great season [Music] and waca TV's coverage of tonight's game is sponsored and Par by Mr Handyman the Home Improvement professionals they're your one call solution for a wide range range of Home Maintenance and Repair needs performed by fully insured technicians located right here in Ashlin at 200 Butterfield Drive give them a call at 508 231- 4639 or request service at mrhandyman.com and welcome back to second half coverage on waca I'm Josh Abrams with Rob silver and a special guest we'll get to just a moment joining us for the third quarter uh not a lot to talk about in the first half the clocker down 12 nothing but a terrific defensive stand there at the end of the at the end of the half Rob yeah exactly uh keeps it keeps it in range we get first possession second half so hopefully we can March down the field cut that lead in half or less and uh we'll see what happens but just this crafting team is AD as advertised big and strong and they kind of pushed us around and we'll see coach McKay is uh one of those coaches that is able to make halftime adjustments so we'll see what he told the locker room told the team in the locker room and hopefully they come out all fired up okay let's hope that works out and uh joining us as he did in the second quarter Carrie Turner from techniplex Healthcare Ash longtime Ashlin resident Ashlin High Alum be helping us out with play byplay and observation and we'll hear a little bit more about his experiences as well as everything techniplex healthcare does for the ash community and it's Finn Gilmore kicking off to Robbie rudicil I believe rudicil misses one tackle still on his feet see much better return than the last time though got got some progress yeah definitely had some space to run that time and uh got up a good head of speed before he met his first tackler and shook that one off yeah it was a good run back yeah and uh just overall looked like Ashlin definitely tightened up on defense a little bit Finn Gilmore was having his way just 10 yards 15 yards a carry 20 yards a carry he must have been close to 100 yards in that first half so hopefully they figured something out and they can leverage that here in the second half it's a hand off to ozumba goes nowhere and then backwards the middle has not been the place to go not tonight they got some big guys in there somehow they got to figure a way to get to the edge throw the ball maybe kind of yeah I think throwing the ball is a as an option for for sure and I I kind of feel like the the quarterbacks are accurate they had a nice throw to Hugo Rossi who just uh unfortunately let it slip through his hands see if uh they target him again down here at the bottom of the screen number four in motion that is fumble and it's picked up by the grafting Gators Brendan M McMahon able to uh pounce on the loose ball by miscommunication there behind the line a costly costly turn over here for the clockers as Grafton takes over deep in clocker territory well I guess it's time for me to talk about tech the yeah um no they uh yeah that was an unfortunate play but uh no but from a uh just from a community standpoint uh you know we always want to be a good Steward to the community and help out when we can so any time that's possible and I want to pass that on when I'm not even uh even working at the plant so yeah and you said that's through the uh techn gives techic gives program the charitable arm of techniplex yes and and techic gives not only gives to communities and they also give to the employees saw that um you know during the pandemic was was uh you know it was very difficult we you know as a as a plant Tech Plex we went to work every day we weren't locked down but uh our CEO at the time Paul Young he paid every every hourly employee an extra 250 an hour for about 8 months during that which which didn't have to do but uh but actually uh but actually uh did that for us and uh it was big for the employees by number one Brendon man well subterfuge on that last play is uh little misdirection and again yep marches right down by the goal line first Y Line first and goal drafton yeah I saw that the uh the techic gives a lot of they help with the food banks and a lot that emergency fund yeah yeah um you know I was really proud that we were able to give uh give $10,000 to the emergency fund is another score Gilmore untouched into the end zone well maybe I'm the Jinx guys I don't know touchdown draft inflatable Gator getting some action out there in the far bleachers yes like I said so my daughter graduated from Florida this past May Florida Gators oh I just was joking around with Coach McKay because he mentioned how bad the Gators played last week I said I know you guys are probably better up playing them than the grafting Gators they did the Florida Gat took a heavy beating uh you're a big sports fan outside yeah I watch every sport but I I watch you talk about well no that's that's all I do that one is close and they stopped them again so if every play could be an extra point or a conversion we'd be in business we'd be good no good make them kick all right so we're still uh three score games exactly two touchdowns and a field goal good news is still a lot of lot of time 9:38 to go here in the third quarter you mentioned uh Carri you mentioned you ran uh track indoor the 100 yard dash I'm going to put you on the spot I don't remember come on they used to say I was fast but I don't okay I I don't remember the times really how many so I'm assuming you came in first of a me or two I I may have uh did pretty well in some of my track stuff but not all of it uh did a little long jump yeah jumped I think I jumped 20 ft really yeah and not and not down that was straight I could jump 20 ft down once yes once all right going to do this again Gilmore this time O A lumba on the receiving end gets down low tries to break a tackle drags the defender the flag coming in at the end not sure what that was could be could be a face mask yeah came from behind the clocker line see how this plays out anytime you get that scrum the fans wait with baited breath while we sort this out now Carrie you and and techniplex have been a a longtime sponsor here at waca uh we're welcoming a new sponsor this year uh Subzero ice cream have you had a chance I have not but I certainly will cuz I know exactly where it is and I look at it all the time but ice cream but I I am I will do it well it's a great place you know I've been there several times my son Chase who's now graduated high school he was working there last winter last spring and uh just a really good operation over there and a in a little science experiment for the kids while they're getting their ice cream made you that liquid nitrogen hit in the liquid it's pretty cool so that call went against the uh the clockers pushing the back he steps back and Tober throws just beyond the reach Mark Merlin good zip he was open mhm second down for ash see we're anyway sorry Rob Carri we're hearing from Subzero there's a new flavor coming out called clocker crunch oo so we're starting to wonder you know we only he the name we're Wonder we don't know the ingredients yet we thought we might take some guesses and see how close we get well I know there's a thing going on this weekend through town the porch Fest uh thing the cor yeah so maybe I'll take a little mosy down there and see what's going on mhm you come out for those uh like Ash and day oh yeah well I I lived on estd street for many years so I was right in the middle of Ashland day actually for quite a few years so yeah yeah I do dropping back to pass he tucks it away it's almost like he ran into the Defenders there seemed to be room in inside I mean out whatever it's just it's easy to say from up here car I'd say you know Corner Spot ashon farmers market or two like the more recent developments that have just made such a difference in town in Staples in town too and now everybody counts on those right because those are those are great places yeah looked like they're running a movie night tonight as part of this uh Corner Spot weekend Oh is are they I didn't I didn't know that I just I I had read about that uh you know the people playing on the porches the ashop yeah ashop porch hop whatever it is but I thought that was pretty cool mhm oh it's third and nine Atherton tucks it away again has a little room and this Grafton team just does not miss and that's Brendan McMahon on the tackle been all over the board one tack by number one calling his name everywhere yeah definitely going to be a punt I say that and then you real I it's coach McKay so there's always a chance so car I'm not sure if you're considering this an audition to become a waca announcer but want to let the our viewing audience know that we are always looking for announcers for tech crew editors camera operators if you or if you have a child in the Ashen School District who's interested in learning more about it you can uh certainly contact us at waca for more information uh easiest way probably is to just email me at Josh aat.com and the clockers get a friendly roll and a nice kick by Olie Loro punt by number 12 OE loo this might be grafton's worst starting field position of the night it might be I'm glad you said that Josh because you know you guys probably have a few extra viewers and listeners tonight because they heard that I was going to be on I don't know how many people did give a shout out did you post it on Instagram my family is big enough so W well mention them on the air tell who do you think's watching oh they can watch the replay I'm not going there because then if I get it if you if you miss one post hey I set the bar really low by calling you Kelly [Laughter] [Music] so right up the middle five yards maybe six yeah looks like it's six yeah again I mean the clockers had such a great defensive stand there at the end of the first half but you got to wonder at what point here in the second half that that you deficit in height and weight is going to catch up with them yeah and they need to you know they need to get downfield score some points right yeah and from the outset to to win a game like this you can't have those inopportune turnovers oh turnovers are generally an opportune but I mean at that point you couldn't come at a worse time in a worst spot so very tough to overcome just great execution by Grafton yeah when you have holes like that it's a yeah you know Rob with all this extra time we're having with Carrie you know we almost forgot we really need to uh give a shout out to our crew tonight we got one of our biggest crews in quite a while and they're doing a great job for us so I wanted to say thanks to Luis Miranda Mackie cob Nick Cunningham Brady montesino who's um somewhere he's down on the field cam tonight Jeff Hall po Paul Bowden guys we really appreciate it and uh Daniel vetstein thank you helping out as well he's doing some shadowing we're getting him ramped up to do he's doing some uh some basketball last year right yeah he did some basketball we'll definitely do that again but we'll get him on the mic here and hopefully maybe some down onfield interviews uh in game we're queuing them up for some uh soccer later in the fall as well R by number seven Owen B so again now that uh Chase Abrams has graduated from Ashlin and moved on to URI we do have uh some holes in our broadcasting crew and uh I know Logan Abrams eighth grader at ashin middle school is eager to uh take his spot on behind the mic but again it doesn't have to be all nepotism we're happy to open this up to uh other folks in the community heck of a recruiting job I uh well I'll wait till this play but this is uh this Sean Sean Griffin he been taking a lot of snaps back there Telegraph that oh man number 44 where were you if he could have just shed that block he might have had a chance shades of 1981 don't go that far but uh no my friend uh making plans with tomorrow her son is a senior at URI you're going to move in she said uh have him I think he's in the tap is the fraternity I think that's the same fraternity my dad was in at you Mass way back well I understand it is a National Organization yeah but I just I don't know we never talk much about it that was so third and five hands it off and just blasts through the arm tackles I don't think you got the full five no four yards Carrie any chance you know a tamber McKay oh Tammy Mackey yeah okay yeah it's Mackey yeah well she's she's on the feed and gave you a shout out Tammy thanks for thanks for posting we appreciate it unfortunately Tammy you were the 13th viewer the 12th viewer got the car oh what was the car this time was an 81 Buick saber 81 that's nice right probably not did you have a car did you have a car in high school what did you have I did not have a car in high [Music] school time out Gra time out think this through on fourth and one with 420 to go 420 in the third quarter okay Rob we do need to do a quick shout out to our another one of our sponsors Mr Haney man of central Metro West want to give us the Spiel for for Mr Handyman other than mrman yeah absolutely Home Improvement professionals there your one call solution for a wide range of Home Maintenance and Repair needs performed by fully insured technician located right here in Ashland at 200 Butterfield Drive give them a call at 508 231- 4639 or request service at mrhandyman.com and make sure you go to the Ashland area code location if that's where you are CU they're a few they're uh Central Central Metro West Central Metro [Music] [Applause] West you probably want to go with zip code instead of area code yeah that that too that too the 508s a pretty wide range I wasn't PL planning on reading it I thought that was all thought that wasn't in my job description and they Forge ahead for a first down on that fourth and one by number two Finn Gilmore T by number well I really appreciate you guys having me on tonight uh I uh I wasn't doing it was Friday night I wasn't doing anything anyway so I appreciate no this is great we're glad to have you I I love all the connection and tying it in and getting to know more about you and the company [Applause] and I had no idea before tonight gr that you were this you know longtime resident and Alum I mean this is It's been fantastic has the uh techniplex facility there oh another huge game has that always been the same size 20 you said 23 employees now for the most part right so back in the 80s when we were uh when we were uh Gothic house we uh we were a little larger because we had you know most of our stuff is centralized down like customer service and sales and you know AP so now all that stuff so we we've shrunk since probably in the 9s we we probably shrunk down to the 30 range and then a little bit lower as we got into the 2000s but of course we make more money and we make more product now yeah it's more efficient econom is a scale mhm and I became the plan manager well that that being the key well I can see the kry Turner fan club is is making its presence known told you you'd have a few yep so Lauren Turner that's my sister she's down in Georgia yeah oh really okay yeah I know our broadcasts do they do go Coast to coast up and down we've even had viewership in Canada nice so uh Lauren welcome we're glad to have you with us show some of my brothers are probably well I don't know how technical Savvy they are but we'll see any family in the area oh yeah my my brothers live live here um I come from a uh I have six siblings um Gilmore again 11 yards on the carry well over 100 yards MH yeah six y go ahead no it just had an injury probably a cramp I think meral team number seven came off with a cramp just uh on the play before that and that's uh Isaiah early I believe number 89 but he ched off so that was a good sign I'm out yeah I come from uh I have six siblings I have four brothers and two sisters and uh um um my sister and my niece live in the house that I grew up in on Myrtle Street and uh I bought a house on Elliot Street my brother lives on Elliot Street a pterodactyl I know something was going out my neck uh my brother Doug lives down in ashle and common so all right yeah yeah surrounded by Turners oh yeah we're everywhere that was an oblique Spaceballs reference I don't know if you caught that what did you say surrounded by Turners it was oblique no it was oblique okay well I'm a big Space Balls fan I you know so I'll have to tell you I'll have to tell you off air what the what the specific reference well I'm going to be out of here in Ludicrous Speed oh nice SC you're you're welcome back anytime definitely if you need to get in the uh in the booth there it's uh 1 2 3 4 5 is the combination you guys are on fire you missed it was right there touchdown no they didn't make it it was it was another space balls ref when will then be now just now all the kids that haven't seen that like I just feel like there's so many movies they could go and watch and well well I mean they really need see the Star Wars in order the original Wars get the you know yes and into the end zone I believe well gra the Grafton players are signaling touchdown we haven't seen from ref referee second and goal clock runs now under a minute to go in the quarter yeah Brenda McMahon I don't know if he scored yet he definitely based on the chains he recovered the fumble I believe line third down and one looks like Brady is uh is mentoring Lis on that on that handheld camera at the field level so see if Griffin hands it off to McMahon again no they pitches it to number seven oh just missed the tackle came up empty on a sh tackle beler into the end zone for the fourth score of the night 24 to nothing with 18.2 seconds to go in the third quarter not the home opener that they had drawn up no for the fans we'll have to follow this scfed team see how they do this year yeah yeah like I said they they were in the Super Bowl two years ago and last year I think they were one game away from the Super Bowl can't kick it though made the extra point good pressure from Nick Boomer just miss getting a hand on that KCK very close carry seemed very a little disappointed that they made it were you did you have uh Ashley and plus 24 a half or something no no no just hurts me to see them go down like this yeah yeah I don't mind the extra point that's a good play on their end you know that is a good play but uh I know it's the overall it's tough to watch I think they they'll bounce back I'm trying to think who they have next week I think they're in Bellingham next 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all right so I'd like to call us back to open session all right so we uh discussed a contract for our new Director of Finance and executive session and um what we decided is that we are going to allow Al to work with dandi to negotiate the contract we came up with a salary amount and um and then we're gonna take a vote right now to allow the chair to sign up on this contract after uh legal council reviews it um in negotiations with yep in negotiations with Aaron okay so can I please have a motion to allow the chair to approve a contract between bbrsd and Aaron Osborne as will be negotiated um by our interim superintendent and interim Finance director um we have time to have someone appointed that's fulltime we'll have in in front of his name all right all in favor I I'm and I as well that motion passes thank you thank you all right great can I just have a motion to adjourn the meeting La Lisa all in favor thank you thanks everybody a good night thank you

[Music] for [Music] for [Music] all [Music] committee to order we're just experiencing a little bit of feedback there we go let's try this again good evening everyone I'd like to call this meeting of the doou school committee to order for Monday September 9th 2024 would you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all please be seated well good evening once again everyone we like to welcome you all to uh Monday night's meeting the Dartmouth school committee uh like to remind everyone that this meeting is being uh videotaped for rebroadcast on uh DCTV as well as our own Dartmouth High uh media channel and we always thank Mr parate and his uh students for uh their dedication to the uh to the uh this program a roll call please Chris Oliver here Elizabeth Coughlin here Mary Beckwith here Kathleen Amal here John new Yep looks like everyone is here this evening thank you very much just a reminder to please silence any cell phones if you have not done so yet this time we have a lotted 10 minutes for anyone wishing to speak on any of tonight's agenda agenda items uh if you if you have anything you'd like to uh comment on we ask you to please approach the microphone and keep your uh your comments brief uh no more than three minutes going once going twice moving on from public comment thank you everyone at this time I'm going to uh turn it over to Dr Sab Maguire for some exciting information yes we are happy to welcome our new teachers to the uh Dartmouth Public Schools I'm sure they are super excited to once again U be highlighted publicly we did ask them to stand during our um convocation and I have to say in having conversation with them and knowing what it was like back in the day can you believe I actually remember that that first day I had to stand up in an auditorium as a new teacher um and have all eyes on me but I want to say that I hope that they recognize that they're joining colleagues across the school district who have had amazing careers here in the Dartmouth public schools and that we're so excited to welcome them to the Dartmouth School Community as as new Educators and so with that I'm going to turn it over to U Mrs Pavo and Dr TBO who are going to going to talk to you about project time they're going to give you an overview and our um new educators will be introduced so thank you hi everybody ready to roll ready all right here we go so um project time is actually an acronym time stands for Teacher induction and mentoring experience um and so it is a program that's designed to support our Educators as they transition to Dartmouth Public Schools we are um obviously aware that some of our educators are not new to the profession but new to the district and so that induction piece is really about acclimating our new staff to the district the um kind of ways of doing things that we do them here um and for our new teachers um there is so any teacher who does not have a professional license there is a requirement to do an additional 50 hours of mentoring in year two so induction and mentoring is a requirement by the state of Massachusetts along with licensing um when you renew your license to go from initial to professional there's a requirement that you have done an induction in a mentoring program um but beyond requirement it really is one of my favorite things that we do it's a great way to introduce our staff um to make sure that we are welcoming them and to set them up for success and Dr T was going to talk a little bit more about the why it's so important so project time is extremely important um as a support for our new Educators who are transitioning to Dartmouth um you know we certainly strive to recruit the very best U Educators we can but recruitment uh is not enough right we want to retain our educator force and so Dartmouth uh public schools has had um success retaining Educators and a major part of that is because of the project time and because of all the mentors um who support our new uh Educators when they come to the district and we're going to thank them by name a little bit later on but again I just want to highlight that you know our most recent retention rate is 92.2% last year was 92.4% so it's right around that 92 993 % which is is um is is pretty high um and so especially given the way that the um profession has changed over the last 15 to 20 years where um Educators don't always come and stay in one District um there is a lot of movement uh from District to District so you know can't highlight that retention rate enough and thank our mentors enough because really they're the Cornerstone of making sure our new Educators stay with us for a while and we saw that at the new convocation um Dr Sabre guire asked all the Educators with 5 10 15 20 25 years to stand and it was amazing how many have been here for 20 to 25 years um already so it speaks to that for sure so just a little bit about the logistics about how project time runs um as Dr tibo said we have experienced and trained mentors so there our requirements to be a mentor in the district um you have to have been a teacher in the district for 5 years you have to hold a professional license um and we do a training with our mentors um around what makes an effective Mentor um we pair them as much as we can with a job alike person who's in their building and so both of those things are important right someone who knows the job you're doing but also someone who knows your space and can tell you where the copers are and where the bathrooms are and right all of those things that kind of going to a new space and feeling like you belong we do a lot of work with our students around creating a sense of belonging we do just as much work with our staff on making sure that um Dartmouth is a place where they feel like they are wel and they feel like they can be successful um and then in addition to that um our we have a monthly project time meeting with M Dr tibo and myself and we do all kinds of introductions again to sort of Dartmouth things to Global things we review teacher evaluation we review reimbursement we do some really just general good practitioner pieces and really we have a small group this year but we're trying to tailor it to their needs we shifted our practice a little little bit where we have Dr TBO meets with just the secondary folks we meet with the whole group together and then I meet with the elementary folks and we really try to tailor it and make sure that um you know we're using their time effectively as well as uh Mrs poo referenced already the role of Mentor is really just that it's to serve as kind of a sounding board someone who our new Educators can go to you know um we're very fortunate in Dartmouth to recruit uh Educators who have experience in other districts so the the role of Mentor is more about how do we do it here in our district and who do I you know putting uh the new Educators in touch with the right people um and again I can't stress enough how uh thankful we are to our mentors um because they really serve as The Confidant and first line of support to our new Educators so we roll through that quickly because we are not what tonight is really about um and so I would like to invite our mentors and our mentees up as we introduce you to our school committee and to our community at Large and I'm going to start with my elementary folks so um I know Elementary folks are good at a good line so if my elementary folks want to file up here I'm going to start by introducing you to uh Miss Logan jro and this is where they get to just stand and listen to me talk about them so Logan earned her bachelor's degree from Bridgewater State University and her master's from Emerson college she is entering her third year providing speech services with experience in both private and educational settings and in her first year a speech language pathologist at the kushman school one of the things that we asked all of our new Educators is why Dartmouth and so Logan said I wanted to join a community of related service providers that is truly collaborative and cares about the students that they provide services to dartman Public Schools Fosters a unique and supportive Community we welcome Logan and Logan's Mentor is Mrs Marian Sorenson a speech language pathologist at the Quinn School we'd also like to welcome Mrs Linda Hamilton Mrs Linda Hamilton is something that I think you will uh has one of the characteristics of our new hires that has become also one of my favorites she is a Dartmouth graduate who has come back she earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth she's entering her first year as a third grade teacher at the Quinn school but has various teaching roles in education including several years as a middle school math and science teacher in New Bedford Linda's why Dartmouth was I've lived in Dartmouth my whole life it is the school system that my own children go to I've always valued the experiences that I had attending Dartmouth and want to instill some of those experiences into other children in the community Linda is being mentored by Jessica CER a third grade teacher at Quinn school who unfortunately had another commitment tonight so with that we can get to our secondary folks the first um you you guys can thank you can't see the TV here so if the secondary folks could make their way so our first uh new educator is Mr Jeffrey um Jeffrey Carrero and he's a special educator at Dartmouth middle school and we very fortunate uh to have Jeffrey Jeff earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts amher he is a Dartmouth High graduate which is again a common theme amongst many of our new Educators um and he's entering his eighth year in education it'll obviously be his first as a special educator at Dartmouth middle school and for why Dartmouth um Jeff's response was to support the community that supported me when I while I was growing up and so um Mr Carrero is being mentored by Mrs Lisa Katz T tjon sorry about that Mrs Sarah duy is our second uh new educator at the secondary level she earned her bachelor's degree or bachelor's degree is plural I should say from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in English literature she also has a bachelor's in Humanities and social sciences she has a master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling which she earned from assumption University and a certificate of advanced graduate study in school leadership from American International College uh Mrs du's first official day I think was today um you know so we're very fortunate to have her she's served in a variety of roles in education including as a social worker a guidance counselor an attendance counselor and most recently as a call officer um and this will be her first year as a school guidance counselor at Dartmouth middle school and for why Dartmouth um Mrs Dury said my own children attend Dartmouth schools and have had an amazing experience I want wanted to be part of the community so we welcome uh Mrs duri um who's going to be mentored by Mr paulan at Dartmouth High School uh we have Mrs Erica thibo who is uh school guidance councel here at dmouth high school um Mrs thibo is entering her 20th year in education um having served previously as a World Language uh instructor World Language teacher at Bridge reham um this would be her first year as a school guidance counselor here at dmouth high school and she comes to us having earned bachelor's degree from Wester State College and her master's and uh her Meed from Salem State and Cambridge College for why dmouth uh Mrs liido said uh when I interviewed in Dartmouth the first time I was welcomed and I knew I wanted to be part of this District I am so happy to be here in the one Dartmouth Community to support this wonderful group of students um Mrs tiido is being being mentored by Ms Nicole Heath in the guidance Department here at darmouth high school our next new educator is Ms um Kristen Rose um M Rose is also Dartmouth High high school graduate and I should just share that um two of our new educators are also graduates of the Mrs poo elementary school classroom sharing that which I was planning on it oh so so um true yes um so M Rose uh earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts darmouth and has a master's degree in social work from Boston University she's entering her fifth year in education she has been a school social worker School adjustment counselor um for the past four years at uh the for in the Fall River Public School System for why Dartmouth um M Rose said I am a 2012 graduate of Dartmouth High School I enjoyed my experience in darmouth public schools and wanted to give back to the community I came from and so we welcome M Rose back to the darmouth community and she's going to be mentored she's in great hands with Mrs Kathy Thomas one of our social workers here at darmouth High School Mr Thomas mayol uh is also a Dartmouth High School graduate uh Tom actually joined us a little bit around the halfway point last year um and so this is the first opportunity for us to introduce uh him but uh Tom earned his uh bachelor's degree in business management from Bentley University um he's entering his second year as a computer science and business teacher here at darmouth high school and for why dmouth he said um an alumni who spent the first 18 years of my life in Dartmouth and you only get one Hometown so we are happy to welcome uh Mr Mayo back to uh Dartmouth um he is being mentored by Ms Jamie O'Neal Who unfortunately is a little little under the weather um and could not make it this evening and finally uh and certainly not least by any means we just want to thank the mentors again uh it is a commitment on the mentor from the mentors to really invest their time energy um and support our newest Educators and without them um you know we wouldn't be in the position or be the strong District that we are so I want to we want to thank Mrs Jessica CER Mrs Maryann senson Miss Jamie O'Neal m Nicole Heath Mrs Kathy Thomas Mr paon and Mrs Lisa cat sturgeon just once again for all your efforts in supporting our newest me uh newest Educators so thank [Applause] you turn over to you well thank you very much Dr tibo and Mrs uh Pavo and thank you to all of our mentors and mentees for taking the time this evening to come out and uh be introduced to the Dartmouth Community uh it's always it's always great to hear about those Dartmouth alumni coming back and as well as uh all the new folks that want want to make Dartmouth their home so I'll turn it over there any of my colleagues have any thoughts or I just Echo your sentiments and add uh some parents and also slash holding the two roles I know you're not I see you back there um really excited uh because it just seems to to me me I I presume sort of an extra layer of just increased engagement and and just wonderful to hear all the reasons why you you chose to be your why to be here so look forward to a successful year for all of you yeah congratulations welcome aboard uh it's always great it's one of the nights I do enjoy getting a chance to meet and Converse with some of the new teachers and the mentors and as I kind of always say you know lean on your mentors because they know what's they kind of know what's going on and somewhere down the line if there's something they haven't come across they may know somebody that has so they're you know they're here to help we're all here to help so welcome aboard and have a fantastic year I too want to welcome you all aboard I'm so glad that all of you are here um I do want to also commend the mentors because I know it's a time commitment and um and I know how critical me mentors have been in my professional life so again like John said use your mentors uh in this first year uh and the other thing I would say is that all of us have uh Dartmouth School email if you ever have any questions for us please don't hesitate um really the same thing um welcome back to the community those who are coming back and and welcome to the community those who are new here um and we hope that you find this community as great as we do thank you very much everyone would it be possible uh should we bring up the the first batch of mentors and mentees maybe for a for a photo opportunity yeah oh and we I think that we even have some help to take a photo with somebody here from Dartmouth week I I believe Dartmouth week is here oh there we go we go and I also want to say don't forget um Mrs Pavo has a photo um from 2004 and one of you may or may not be in it I did catch a glimpse of it today think maybe we want to come in a little more scooch in as they say yeah you guys could just get like a significant bit closer get friendly get know each make believe you like each other there you go that's good on the right there just one just again a little closer thank you took a bunch you guys are good thank you everyone and as always you're all more than welcome to hang out with us and uh enjoy the rest of ton Mee agenda thank you Mr L but feel free to uh head on out it's always great always good always always good all right at this time chair will entertain a motion for the approval of the regular session minutes of August second on the motion I'm sorry I made the motion Mr noon second best best okay thank you on the motion any further discussion all in favor I I opposed motion carries unanimously thank you very much if I could just uh indulge the committee for just one minute uh if I could take uh other matters that may not have been anticipated from the bottom and bring it up uh we have some uh student Representatives that Dr Saba Maguire would like to introduce uh to us this evening if that's with everyone and I'm actually going to intro I'm going to invite Mr Shay up to the podium as well um and our students thank you so much for being here I know you all have super busy schedules um so we have three of four students with us tonight and I'll have Mr Shay introduced them but I just want to say um to the students thank you so much for being willing to step into this role we know again that you have incredibly busy schedules and that this is something that takes time which I was really excited to hear how you kind of thought it out and thought between the four of you you could figure it out in a way that allowed the school committee to have a student representative here with us so when you come you'll have a seat right here at the table with us so isn't that exciting you'll be right on camera so something to look forward to um and so with that I'll ask Mr Shay to introduce you uh thank you everyone I I'm have the honor to introduce uh four candids actually one of them is auditioning right now now so um that's arbrey Kutcher she's not here she's in the auditorium I believe getting ready for Elf the musical first week in December quit promo um um but to here we have um Jordan Rosenberg um Elizabeth O'Neal and Haley zexter they are three of our four that have um been elected to represent um our school student our schools they wanted to split it up four ways to make sure that we can always have representation that was uh something we we thought about after last year and the year before where students had a hard time coming to every single meeting so we're going to work on a calendar for you all that will'll describe they're going to go by season CU um I'll let them tell you a little bit about themselves in a second but you'll hear that they're all actively involved in the school community so we want to make sure that it's fair to everyone that we have representation here by our student body but at the same time we can fluctuate who is there and we'll make sure you have that information as needed um that's great I know if you have any questions for the the do do you want to say a couple of things what did you warn them that they were going to be saying I said you might have to tell a little bit about yourself and why you're what you do at Dar with ey well I'll go first um I'm Haley I'm the secretary um student council um I think I just want to say it's a great opportunity for you guys um to be having us I really appreciate it um we're probably all going to say this and Mr Shay said it we're all very involved um I do multiple Sports and I'm very involved in like extracurriculars and believe in his school doesn't end at 203 um but honestly I just think it's a really great opportunity for us to come up here and also be involved from the student perspective um because we are student council and we've likeed to sit in and we've actually listened to these meetings um online and watched them but it's a really big thing to be a part of it as a student too um and have a little bit of a perspective or a say in kind of what goes on or just even just pitch you guys some things that the students are going through so I just want to say thank you thank you hi I'm Elizabeth and I am vice president um I want to also thank that the this is a really great opportunity for having us here um I think this is a good opportunity for us to express like the students feelings which they can't go to like say teachers about this will help bring voice to the students and yeah great and I'm Jordan um I also want to say thank you for the opportunity as well um like haly said I'm also very involved with school I just think it's really special to get give back and like work with all of the PE like teachers and students after school hours as well so I think this will be a really good opportunity to see kind of what goes on behind the scenes and just get to know more of everyone in dartman thank you so much great that's great thank you to all three of you for coming out this evening and we look forward to uh having you on our board with us uh I'm a firm believer in student voice and I would hope I would just ask uh this goes for the fourth person that's not here uh that please uh you know tell us what you think you know you're we understand you have commitments but we'd love to have you here as long as you can during the meeting if you have to leave early we also understand that but we we'd love to hear what you think on a a lot of topics that are discussed here uh so thank you all do does anyone have any other comments welcome welcome so looking looking forward to it and we appreciate you taking the time yes they're a great group of students I'm goingon to brag about them one more time we're really lucky to have their voice and you know their special group crew of students that's great thank you Mr sh all seniors right yes okay thank you excellent love it love it take him uh next up we have a consent agenda item for the Dartmouth High School PTO fundraising request for the 2425 school year I I just I mean I looked over some of the submissions and it looks like the um PTO at Dartmouth High School have lots of great things planned throughout the year to help support the school and the students the teachers and I have to say it's always a somewhat small group but it's a mighty group and they do such wonderful work in raising funding to support um the really a lot of the extracurricular opportunity that the students here at Dartmouth High School have so I want to thank them for that and again recognize as I say small But Mighty group of people who do so much great work for the community I would certainly agree with you Dr sa McGuire and thank you for all your work uh any comments or questions on uh this request just let me know when the restaurant fundraisers are if I don't have the shop cook or clean I'm golden you know where to find me motion to approve Mr chairman second motion by Mr noon second by Mrs Amaral on the motion any further discussion all in favor I I opposed motion carries unanimously thank you thank you next up under old business preliminary FY 26 budget standing agenda item to update the committee on budget discussions and anything that has transpired since our last meeting uh and so I'm going to turn it right over to Mr Kylie but just with the preface that this is an item as we say we're calling it old business but this is St really standing business for us in the Dartmouth School community and Mr Kylie is as you know um doing his due diligence to prepare uh a budget earlier than ever and not just one but really two budgets uh in order to work with the community to ensure that we have the funding needs of the school met and that we're all um on the same page as we go through this process together so Mr Kylie thank you thank you Dr s Maguire so um as we discussed the last meeting um I'll be preparing a draft budget projection for the September 30th budget subcommittee uh meeting um we had some discussion at the last meeting about um possible sources of funding um I I think given where we are in this budget process I would suggest that we um hold off until we have a draft budget to begin that take that discussion to the next level of um potentially funding a deficit so um you know the the plan would be at September 30th to have a draft and it's definitely going to be a draft because there's going to be a lot that we don't know at that point um pretty hard to project with so many uh so many Loose Ends but I'll do my best and it'll be close anyway as close as we can get and then um that will really sort of set the stage for what has to happen after that um I I'll say that the U Town side of government I'm encouraged by um the discussions that I've had very prelim Ary discussions not really talking about numbers but talking about the willingness to consider the needs and um openness to starting this discussion and um trying to solve problems so so been encouraged by that so and I've been really focused on getting school open at this point uh but but I'm going to shift that Focus to the budget PR just um we did have a subcommittee meeting um just a couple weeks ago and again I want to thank uh finance committee members who have joined us uh quite a few at least the last two meetings and so I think that's helpful I think that speaks to what Mr Kylie is saying about having those conversations on an ongoing basis with all departments and all of our standing committees here in Dartmouth no I would I would certainly agree and I think the more open communication that we have with the other uh committees in town uh we will go a long way uh because I I think there's there's no easy way around this um and I I look forward to continuing the budget discussion um at the next meeting Mrs amarel um I just a tactic that I'm thinking might be helpful as we are you know revisiting this each meeting uh you we say we're we're constantly saying and and you and you just reiterated on September 30th this is so early this will be a draft um and maybe youve done this in the past I just don't recall is there a way to sort of Watermark anything that we're putting up with the draft like the old school and you know word doc that way anything that's get screenshot that there's no going back to say why did you say $10 when you're saying $15 and that sort of thing where it could be watermarked until we have that final proposal that visual cue AB absolutely we could do that yeah that's a great idea to yeah to support the the verbal que is a good ide yeah y y perfect thank you for that M anyone else no I said my piece at the last meeting so I'm good right now but again it's it's it's just a matter of putting it together seeing what it looks like and then waiting for everything else to drop into place it's you know it's a you know it's Mr Kylie's best guesstimate that he can give us at the moment and it's all contingent on so many moving Pires s that and you know we're five months ahead of doing anything that we normally in not so much last year but in previous years that we've done right so but we you know the effort is appreciated I just wanted to ask what um what are the next steps the initial next steps after September 30th yeah so um I think that there's multiple steps that sort of have to happen at the same time so certainly the budget subcommittee is an important step and um I think that we'll have a robust conversation about okay this is what this looks like and um at that point then I think we bring it to the school committee for discussion but we also try and um you know begin the discussion on the on the town side of the the town's operation um to figure out okay what are we looking at um you know our our budget has averaged approximately a 3 and a half% increase for for um over the last 10 years um so last year we were you know told that we had to settle for 3% um that's a big difference in and of itself um so having those discussions and understanding where the fle what flexibility the town may have I think is important um so I I think we'll you know go in those two directions and try and uh move on from there in terms of okay how big is the problem and then what are the possible solutions um you know we've talked at length um about well we solved in some way the the fy2 budget with the use of reserves um that is a possibility that could be a a portion of the solution perhaps um maybe all of the solution for a short time but um you know I think that those things I I feel like without an actual budget proposal um or a draft um I think it's a little premature okay thank you um and I I think it's amazing that you Mr Kylie are doing the work to get a budget draft out there so early I'm wondering are there other Town departments that are also working on early budgets so we know where they're going and what their needs might be it plays a big role it's a good question because obviously we are um while while we're a significant portion of the the town's operation and certainly um as it should be we we're not alone and we have um a lot of other departments that have significant needs in town um the the we had a town Department head meeting this morning at which time there was discussion of moving up their portion of budget preparation I don't it won't be as fast as what we're doing but it will be in advance of when they would normally do it um so they're they're aware they're prepared to start that conversation on the town side and um hopefully by the time we have some of our preliminary conversations with them based on the drafts um you know that there'll be some more information from the from the town departments as to you know things that are out of the ordinary on their side so great thank you I guess I'll just add that my Hope from the budget subcommittee subcommittee meeting in the 30th Is To Come Away with some some sort of um idea as to at least where I want to move towards and uh you know make that pitch at the next school committee meeting I can't speak for my other colleagues that's on the budget subcommittee but uh I think you know after listening to Mr Kylie's presentation um and having some open open conversations with some of the members there that uh I would hope to at least uh shed some light at the following school committee meeting on you know where the school department should be going from my personal opinion Mr Nunes yeah Mr thank you Mr chairman just sitting here thinking uh um at the last meeting you talked about uh having you know have inviting uh the select you know members of the select board and finance committee to one of our meetings yes you know for a discussion and that type of deal and I'm just thinking about it now is well the finance committee normally meets Thursday night but that's so that's fine but the Selectmen are kind of almost on our meeting schedule in other words you know we're meeting tonight as is the Selectmen they'll be probably meeting the 23rd which is our next so we may need to figure out a a different tactic Andor uh you know move one meeting a week ahead or a week back to in order to accommodate everybody I'm just thinking of that now so and I could be I could be dreaming but wasn't there something that got put out about a joint meeting an executive session that's right thank you one of the things that we did talking about I'm sorry in executive session right but one of the other things that we talked about in response to what you're saying Mr Nunes is the idea that maybe we could start earlier but then again that's about whether or not the committee is a every Committee Member is available um because remember what and I think it was a great suggestion to have select board here when we present the actual District strategic plan um that we could do that earlier in the school committee agenda yeah if we if we were a if you were all able to be present earlier and I know that some of your work obligations might not allow that but we could think about doing it that way yeah good point Mr nin thank you no problem anyone else thank you Mr Kylie as always uh next up under new business Capital Improvement planning update so again a segue this a great segue right because you can't separate Capital Improvement planning from from budget and so I know that Mr Kylie does have some updates for us this evening and again I think that points to some of the positive conversation that you've had um with members of the Town yes thank you Dr s Maguire does I I think I definitely am encouraged obviously um so the current capital Improvement plan uh exists you you actually voted it as a committee back in January the site the capital Improvement plan Cy is typically that um we create a plan we created it earlier again than we ever have before usually that's voted you know a little bit later um but we we got that done we did receive funding for several projects at the Jun toown meeting just for to to um to refresh everybody it was technology infrastructure improvements Vehicles flooring replacement and fire system upgrade design at the June annual town meeting so that was a positive step considering the prior year we had received no funding for anything um so I I had provided you with some information and in the right hand uh the right hand column on on the the summary page the first page um represents the projects that are up for consideration by the capital Improvement planning committee for the October 15th fall town meeting so first they um they need to go before the capital Improvement planning committee um they will make recommendations which will then be considered by the by the finance committee um and then by town meeting so um the timeline is pretty tight that's a month away you know just slightly more than a month away so the things that we have on the list right now that that are up for consideration are high school track reconstruction $540,000 bathroom Renovations $150 ,000 interior and exterior painting $75,000 Energy Efficiency projects $120,000 music equipment $65,000 generator replacement that's the Quinn School generator $150,000 and Stadium Renovations estimated to be $5 million the other item that is was on our list and was not funded um was technology Hardware replacement it was on our list originally for $200,000 we've revised that to 300,000 uh as you probably remember that during the the the budget process um not last year but the year before uh the $200,000 technology Hardware replacement that we had received for at least 12 years um had been removed from the schedule a and is a critical part of us maintaining current uh technology um so that was removed uh this request is going is to reinstate that and make up for some of the Lost funding and hopefully lead to ultimately to a restoration of of that funding of what is an annual need there's there's no way around it um so I will be meeting with the capital Improvement planning committee on Thursday morning at 10:00 a.m.