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good evening and welcome everybody to the matchup tonight here in East Long Meadow of the boys varsity soccer team against Belchertown Orioles the Spartans versus the Orioles I'm Jeff morno I am here with my co-host tonight Jillian Stevens who's going to be my co-host and we have a no longer Don Mackey production congratulations to him on his retirement now taking over is it's now a Jamie Rook production and Jamie Rook on the camera tonight any high school kids who are looking for a part-time job reach out to Jamie Rook she's looking for some applicants to fill in to do some part-time film making also known as recording sports games for the eastl metto Spartans Jillian I haven't yet seen a game this year on behalf of the Spartans how have they been doing and your thoughts on the matchup tonight you know I'm really happy to be here Jeff thanks for having me um you know the boys I think they're off to a good season right they won their first home game this is mat M Whit got a Strong attacking I mean I think they yeah they got um Nolan Gara in goal he's we second year returning right on Varsity yep he came right right out of the woodwork had never played goalie before and he's been killing it I think yeah I remember him from last year just kind of came out and uh you know they needed a goalie they found a great athlete a good tall athletic guy stuck him in goal and he's actually been it's been remarkable to see you know he was an obviously a natural athlete but then to improve you know to become a real goalie to add the goalie skills along with the athleticism I think a lot of that has to go with his own work on and off the field but also you know the coaching that must be receiving from uh a highly experienced coaching team here Dave sarafino for the Spartans back into what seems like his eighth gazillionth season yeah has coached I think every boy that has come through BL so exactly so here we're off the Orioles have the ball they're bringing it up the right hand side they Boot It Go with the boot it down the field technique it's now controlled by the Spartans number 24 has it Jillian I'll probably rely a little bit on you if you happen to know the players you can kind of call out their names oh yeah I think I've got some of them that's great looks like the Orioles are kind of controlling the ball here in the middle of the field right now getting right in on the attack down the left wing it's like Joe Mogan over there on the left side containing the Belchertown Orioles good stop good defensive stop right there yeah kept his position well tried to clear it there but it kind of took it out of bounds we're going to get a throw in for the Orioles from they're going looks like they're going to bring some in from the defense probably likely to do a long throw it seems like probably to the middle right running from the track this one looks like it's going to be a long one oh yeah right in the Box I'm calling it here we go and nice header from paty DIC to get that out of the box looks like Tyler wrin coming back to get the ball Ryan koua with a breakway yeah got a lot of speed here in the middle it's coming down it's now three on over to Jack Walsh Walsh has it controls it back to him oh controlled a little touch there over to the side gets it still controlling it backs it up good play there still maintaining control sneaks its way through switching sides back to the defense back out to the wing number 24 has really good right here back to Jack Walsh right yes Walsh has it big left foot here coming to the center oh that will be a corner good play there but a kind of a weak kick there by Jack Walsh didn't get that left foot off the sure if he's a lefty righty but think we expect more nice quick low Corner oh almost an interesting header there off of the belter Town Oreo could have gone in kind of misdirected it you saw the goalie slide over to make the save and then it goes off of the Orioles head and over the goal that one easily could have snuck in I believe yes belr toown goalie is a super seven just announced that a couple days ago Jack Manville so I'm interested to see that match up tonight against the Spartans Tyler Wren up top and and Jack Walsh two fast kits yeah I remember from last year you had paty you know paty di scy kind of holds the holds down the fort in the back right oh yeah I think that's kind of paty's job he did a great job last year coming back with a yet another year of experience he's a a senior defenseman number four balls in this one's right out top there yeah I think so kind of a low one just get it in the middle Orioles are going to try to get a clear here and just this could be a dangerous counter coming down the sideline but Earl Earl wakiaga is there to get the ball good control another touchup and lost a little bit off the feet there oh good counter yes so we do we have some brothers on the field do we have a Jacks wrin yep excellent yeah I think Jackson is this his second and this is their sister actually the ball girl right here excellent cover I'm sure they have some family and friends in the stands for sure oh for sure big booming kick down the right hand left hand side control uh that's yeah that's gonna be covered gar is Gonna Come Out get the ball yeah quite easily controlled there by GSA he's got a big foot too if I remember correctly I mean he can he can send that thing a long way but instead they opt for a control game here Jackson oh loses that one Earl rushing back good coverage kicked out of bounds it's going to be another throwin for the belter toown Orioles yeah it seems like the Spartans are doing a good job keeping the ball hitting those small passes and keeping possession not many Big Balls over the top which I think I would expect with the speed up top but they're doing well keeping the ball in the middle just haven't finished it yet but we're only five minutes so yeah 35 minutes and 30 seconds remaining a big throw in right there this is a very dangerous for sure oh just missed on the cross that was yeah they're gonna have to be they're going to have to be very careful on that long throw in in the middle just getting it in the middle is really gotta watch the back post moving him back here Spartans have a big bench looking at that they have a lot of Subs wow yeah they also a long throw these kids can throw the ball yeah should get him to baseball good footwork here by Belchertown good steel oh batted around up in the air ball spinning all around East Low I think is going to start to try to control it kind of a little bit of a back to Nolan gara and then kind of a little bit off the top of his foot oh that could have been a high foot yeah that could have been a dangerous play him his head yeah that's uh not sure there who was going to go get that one but I thought it was a good pass by good pass by Jackson it looked like number nine on that one probably needed to go and get it Jack Walsh Jack Walsh yeah yeah dangerous play there [Music] I can't see number 10 is that Ryan kulia is that his yeah Ryan koua Ryan Jackson rchen over there number 24 yeah some new faces from when Ryan and Patrick were playing back in the day yeah so we got you know I I'm just not going to really have a lot of experience with the ninth and 10th graders because I you I haven't really SE I haven't seen them play yet but clearly you know they've got it clearly good players and this is kind of the nice little flick by Earl back to paty P down the sidelines good ball nice giving go here ah just a little too much but he gets it back good control back Keegan dunan out to Joe Mogan on the outside takes it middle one more one more unlucky yeah that one really just probably need but he wins it back yeah he did win it back good fight for him but that first one there I think the coaches will tell him he's got to swing that one over to Earl right just kind of swinging it around and twoes yeah just tried to rush it can't take too many just tried to rush the offense there big ball over the top but that's gonna roll out wide open on this throw oh just a little bit too much of a touch right there right idea but a little bit too hard off of his foot there for Jack Walsh big throw over the top Earl just kind of Scoops it little backwards header another crash and burn little physical play love to see it some good containing right there by Phillip shck Here Comes py good touch got it keep oh nice turn by Jack W and he speeds down the left sideline oh one more still staying in oh still in that's great hustle right there by Jack Walsh might be yeah but then he just gave it away and he had uh yeah someone's got to support him back he did he had he had number 24 there he had Jackson wrin Jackson Wren they called him little wrin right because you get the big WR the little WR so little if I don't get him as Jack but he had him there but he just you know he just needed to get rid of it I think a little bit quicker here we go now little break here for the or got it covered nice strike yeah kind of a weak attempt right there that might be a corner I thought it deflected off a red jersey but maybe not gonna get our first Subs of the game number six and number eight are coming in I think that's uh cin D again am I right about that oh yeah Keegan dunigan's a little brother got more Brothers more brothers and Dave Monroe coming into the game I love to see Dave Monroe big kick here by paty it's a good ball right to half field goes see if we can win it no nobody puts their head on it n it actually bounces first which is great you don't want that bounce it's actually unacceptable for that ball to bounce oh slide oh that's going to be I think yeah I think that was off white good I call I don't know what you call it I call it back checking right so I don't know I call it backchecking I don't know what you call it in soccer but that shielding maybe yeah just really good job to you know keep with his keep with his person the entire way down the field oh yeah coming back following him walking up but I mean there we you know at least there they got a head on it it's good oh Earl got it come this way come this way one more little I don't know who that is I think Joe Mogan on the right sideline he would have been wide open there yeah just a little just a little rush there in the middle of the field but it goes out of bounds and we're going to get a I mean another sub only about 10 minutes in I think people are still getting those Jitters out you can see it's kind of panicked nowhere no one's really settled into the game yet so yeah and number five comes in the field will Fox very very distinguishable for sure yeah on that left side he's got that bright red ER really good athlete I'm not going to lie I didn't know he played soccer oh yeah he's very he's very fast down the side lines here he is let's see comes on the left hand side unlu away from him yeah a little too heavy there's a good one there another one here we go Jack Walsh is going here comes will almost caught up to it he's GNA grab it nobody open he's going to leave it good play Jack Gretchen to throw it in will Fox going down the sidelines looking for somebody he's got it just a little bit off kind of a kind of a little bit of a high throw kind of got it kind of a weird spot yeah you want to get between the thigh and the knee yeah you kind of want to get it right on the feet yeah either like the feet or the head to flick it over that one goes left footed out of bounds that's going to be a orial throwin so far I think a pretty evenly matched game for the most part for sure I'd say it's about 5050 with possession 28 minutes and 30 seconds remaining in the first half throw in right there kind of flicks it over can't oh they did keep that one in bounds I'm a little surprised by that I think that one probably was going to go out of bounds if yeah that was some good ball control by number 14 on belr toown let's see um Jacob glad here we go nice touch jackon to pressure that ball he's there nobody home good play just sends it out oh oh good touch yeah now it's got yeah it's got to kind of come this way though it's a little crowded over there right now yeah I think the Spartans are having a tough time getting from side to side it seems to either be stuck around half field on the right or left not really connecting through the middle much it's good ball down line Jack Walsh on his horse right now yeah Walsh is fast oh that's a good ball oh I like that play right there cor yeah dangerous corner here yeah I like that by Walsh he really used his speed and his strength and his ability to get that thing down there then kind of hit a reset hit a really nice cross across and then it was going to be a onetime attempt right there right off of the volley and it would have been a blistering shot something very difficult for the belard town goalie to save uh but it goes off of got a calf on it I believe orial and here we go we're gonna get another chance here oh God Lefty no not nice Lefty there was nothing on that at all needed to get up in the air hello Good Golly Miss Molly oh ah that's a tough call there I don't know but we'll take it for the Spartans I guess oh and then he does that he's going to get himself a little yellow card you can't rall right here yeah here we go who so this is an indirect kick for those of you is it a direct or indirect not sure it looks like they're setting up for a direct kick and we're gonna have number 16 right outside the 18 that's a tough spot who we got number 16 I believe Shay McCarthy all right Shay M uh yeah sha McCarthy Captain senior Captain senior Captain sha McCarthy gonna take the direct kick right outside 18 so it's about 20 yards away he's probably to try to curl one into the top right corner tough on super seven goal here Fox oh my God will Fox right in front of the goal had a wide open one there a really good low rider there by McCarthy and it looked like it just went a little bit off the side of his foot for will Fox and it goes out of bounds and we're going to get a corner kick so it looked to me like he had it and it was going to go in and somebody from the beler town team must have stuck their foot out because corner kick but we love to see him having someone there to follow that shot because the worst thing ever is when there's a goalie flexion no one there to tap it in Great play by Will Fox to follow that you know as as as Mr Stevens would always say Follow the Ball theall screaming it in follow the ball head Fox was there to actually follow the ball in and that's a great that's a great play that's good hustle coaches want to see that tough battle here at Midfield Ryan koua oh takes to the gut will Fox again hustling with that recovery low ball of fire yep he's on it right now he's heading down the sideline send him send him let him cook oh just a little bit of a unlucky but is yeah I know just a little bit of a just a Mis Touch by not much though he's got a good Touch Too Ryan Kola oh I don't like that oh lot of back and forth here yeah just hold on to the ball settle that thing down here on the got some time outside yeah just sheld hang on oh good slide from Shan McCarthy slow down the belr town counter some more Subs coming in for btown looks like number 19 will come out 15 and 10 possibly yeah we got some subs going getting some fresh legs offside May yeah could be I believe so it's a good line from the Spartan Defense y good good play holding their own so so far we've got you know what do we have 40 minutes half Jillian we do yes so we're cing up on h a quarter of socer nice lofted ball from paty di scy Spartans have to win these free kicks though that one's going to get kicked out of bounds gonna have a Spartan throw yeah 50-50s are definitely leaning more towards beler town Spartan's got to learn to get a head on it or something that's a w when nice ball across from Tyler R oh unluck here we go well ah got to use your left yeah I think he's a lefty isn't he yeah it was a tough tough one to settle down tough bounce for sure oh probably needed to get that one out of bounds and he does there right there was mad you could tell he was mad at himself for not getting the first one out of bounds and made sure to get that second one out it's good you want a nice composed Center back nothing too crazy it's about to be a long throw I'm assuming yeah it's going to be another those ones in the middle it just kind of makes its way around and see what happens they throw it over kind of to the corner a little bit you got to be they're lost oh that's gonna be a corner kick I think right yeah opportunity here for the belr toown Orioles first corner kick of the G oh no yeah they're calling it a corner kick yeah yeah quite a few Corners so far this game like three for the Spartans I think this is Bel Town's first 18 minutes in eam Meadows pretty spread out here will Fox challenging the ball making sure they don't get the free pass although this guy's wide oh oh there goes Earls gonna cover that slides in and I'm gonna get another Corner kind of thing I'd want to see just a head straight out of the box yeah this is kind of interesting right you see the Orioles here on the corner kicks they're really spread out sometimes you see a strategy where it just kind of buches everybody up but here really spread out maybe Hing for some confusion no there that was a pass to somebody at the 18 and that could very lucky I mean it certainly could have got off a little better shot than that big boot from Nolan Gara super high I would not head that that's got to hurt but you gotta do what you gotta do oh charges in they've got it number one-on-one on the outside here cross right to noan Gara save probably another big boot coming our way let's see if red can get a foot on this one oh and they can't yeah they're kind of keeping their shape here on defense not really pressing out too you can hear coach sarafino kind of yelling out yeah he wants he he wants he doesn't want not any chances yeah not and on and on the goal kicks I mean on the the punts from the goalie he yelling at his players to be first to the ball they're getting they're getting beat to the ball you 100% yeah I mean if you look at it the the goal kicks the corner kicks the free kicks it seems that it's finding the head of a belard town player to control the ball yes uh before it's getting to even these throws here y just like this year right I mean how that this is what he's talking about just 50-50s can really change a game nice touch there little crowded smart play it back like to see that field switch here instead of getting all crowded at the 50 nice ball from noan Gara down to Jack but again you know I mean we did come up with it here at the end I think but maybe that's that might be a push in the back oh and then to kick the ball away on top of it I mean that's a potential that's not good maybe no yeah it's getting chippy out there little bit I've seen there's always a little rivalry I've seen I've seen more physical games than this for sure yeah this one's not too badame at Westfield today got real out of hand how'd the girls do today we tied two two oh ah good strike from Jackson Wren but deflected by a belr toown Defender nice ball outside oh I like the boys sending their outside backs up to act as kind of Wingers especially if belch toown Lindy has one player back there they don't all need to be standing back there might as well get involved in the offense right here with Earl oh unlucky that is not a good pass yeah oh this could be bad this is bad slowed down by Keegan dunan that's a good play from him slow down that Counterattack little sloppy ball handling back there on the defense but they were able to prevent it from being a real true scoring opportunity thankfully nope it hits the ground first also they gotta track it better yeah Nolan's punts go high though yeah but I mean we've gota we've got to do East medals got to do a better job like getting to the they should be able to anticipate it by now you've played with a goalie for oh good win here ah no one there they calling the wrong guy that's number 10's got to go over there and C that's there is yeah that was number 10's kind of responsibility but he comes back and gets it touch it's good hand ball definitely hand ball it's going to give you a Bel Town free kick those are the worst you didn't mean to but arms just in the wrong place the wrong time Spartans better watch that back post looked like belr Town's got a couple of players ready to run in over there yep right to the back post it's a nice lofted ball see what's the call arm fighting yeah lot of free kicks settled in the middle swings it back over here to the right hand side right back taking it up just does kind of a boot down the sidelines that's going to go out of bounds as it be a goal kick nope it's GNA be a throwin oh wow kind of had a little bit Corner yeah had a little bit of a side spin on it Jillian and it stayed can't see around here yeah stayed in bounds nice little flick but unlucky got to win those oh belter Town player is down hit in the head I think or else the Ah that's soft gonna get a penalty there got it looks like he got up under his chin yeah I don't know about that big shout out to the belur toown coach who believe is a teacher at the school in belard toown does a lot of things for the athletic department I've seen him on the other side uh on the tennis courts back in the day Jack siano Battle of head balls here great coach oh Philip catches one of the I yeah not great a little bit they're not East medals just doesn't they're playing def they're not in a good spot right here yeah but they got away it looks like they're going to get away with this one they're playing pretty defensive they got about eight or nine players behind the ball and then just the two Strikers up top waiting so not a lot of pressure just kind of keeping belr toown at the 30 and letting them go down the line which seems to be working so far I mean the defense is kept that zero but not really helping them on the offensive side good ball here from paty out of the back and and again it's beler Town's really getting first to the ball I'm sure coach sarapo is not happy about that no you got to get it doesn't even look like in most of them it's not even really contested there's not even an effort yeah I got to get in front of a white shirt good recovery down the side I think Joe Mogan and then Shay McCarthy maybe or Philip Philip shuek trying to win the ball GNA get another free kick here a lot of free kicks around the 2025 or this even the 15 that's kind of close oh Bel Town's gonna call a timeout I'm sure tried to drop a play with about 14 minutes left in the half 14 minutes left we're going to take a little break here on elcat and we will be back after the timeout we've got a z0 score with 14 minutes and 11 seconds to play e e all right so we have a nil-nil game 14 minutes left in um I don't know is this the second second boys home game third maybe second second against uh belter toown high school so let's see I'm sure belr toown coach Drew up a play at this timeout and kind of all for nothing nice little catch there from Nolan Gara I'd love to see this punt go to a red shirt oh I like it Play Short play out of the back keep the ball seeing as they can't win those punts right now see that seems to be more successful for the Spartans playing it out of the back not too much pressure from the beler toown strikers so it's really not an issue playing out of the back so far especially if they're not going to win those 50-50 balls so they've kept The Possession for like 30 seconds after that free kick pretty good oh that's a nice slide tackle really kept that in between his knees and that's going to roll out of bounds Jeff is back with us 13 minutes left in the half back in the booth just had to say hi to some of the uh old soccer girls and Lacrosse girls that I haven't seen in a while yeah it's a pretty Crowded House we've got you know stands are full I mean beler toown little bit of a cross town rival driven ball there not sure I'd say cross town maybe Cross County Cross County but it's always it's always a bit of a you know yeah is kind of Cross County pretty far it's not Long Meadow nope I love those two-minute bus rides down the street and that is tough just Earl needed to clear that pretty far outside trouble oh man he just needed a little bit of a lighter cross yeah he you know our turf is slick it's short it's beat up yeah but I mean that shot right there they had the numbers I mean he could have settled that ball and put a pass right on somebody's foot he could have open players could have taken a shot but he just jammed it right across the goal I mean it would have been very difficult for any player to make any type of play on that it would have just had have been a redirect type of goal weird bounce too Jackson Wren working with Philip shuek to win the ball back Pat's gonna play that out of bounds smart play there get out of the middle you can deal with the throw in yeah we're going to get a Subs here for the for beler town is there a favorite in this game Jillian do you know um honestly I have no idea tell you that's not good nope yeah I mean yeah personally I'd say you s meow but I I don't know the stats for boy soccer this year oh oh good turn if you yeah we're going to see what happens here be a red ball that's awesome oh that stinks let's see nice ball out the back made sure to stop the ball before he played it smart smart play there and Earl what's Earl gonna do here ball to the middle ah that could have been a nice little one too but belon kind of plays around with it on their own 40 oh maybe a little hip check shoulder check not an overly physical game I'd say it's getting physical now though he just got an elbow to the Head little CH and the refs are letting him play like to see that get a oh what's that belr Town's 0 and2 so you would think that depending on obviously who belr toown played it's early in the season you'd have to think that lamea I mean Isa would have to be the favorite in this game I would assume but Bel toown does have very good goalie I've heard but we haven't really tested him not many powerful shots just some that rolled right to him definitely getting chippy in the Midfield it's gonna go back to Nolan Gara pick that ball up yep there you go Earl's got plenty of time and space down send that right up there L one two that's nice another L one two oh just take it yeah that's going to be white ball I agree with that call it went off of it hit a white uh Orel then into the Jack rchen and out I think this might be a game where it's really going to come down to who wants it more who's going to grind more I don't I don't really see any beautiful goals coming I think it's going to be something kind of ugly but gets the job done unless they Shock Me Out of Nowhere got nine minutes remaining here in the first half have not seen very much offense at all very little on either side yeah on either side really difficult some crosses but nothing substantial a little no ball control really by either team to be honest with you it just seems like at some point eow's been keeping the ball they just haven't really gone anywhere with it they've been playing around the back pretty well but just not oh that might be offside but noan garka is there yeah good pass a right winger here got tripped up a little bit he was open hece throw there keep possession oh heavy touch but he's goingon to stick with it Joe Mogan there forcing a bad pass back be a red throwing as senior Captain Tyler wret and Subs into the game for Jack Walsh and then couple Bel toown [Applause] Subs see a lot of el soccer alumni parents up in the stands tonight they miss it I guess yeah some with parents over here oh this could be danger ah no one there unlucky strikes ball's still gonna stay in love to see red get this back into the box nice Tackle by Jackson wrin uh not a great touch but they'll work to get it back fast counter from Bel toown could be dangerous but I think East Long meow has numbers here uh I don't think so oh definitely lucky yeah only about five beler Town players against like oh six six seven yeah it just looked like Islam meow got kind of ugly they just got disappointed at the last one they had an opportunity down there and they never really got a shot on goal and then they sat back they didn't come back hard to get back yep they didn't come back too late oh might be a Punch To The Head and he's up and they're ready to play Earl is headed down the sidelines honestly I might give him the ball but they're going to play it in they've got well paty's got a big foot so this is their normal play as to paty's got such a big foot and he gets the ball high in the air so they're just going to send that in there and try to get it on somebody's head yeah that only works if they get a head on it and they do first time sham mcarthy is getting beat up it seems holds on to that we're going to get a big throw I don't know if East Meadow has somebody that can make that long throw and no more Dante Bates who could throw the ball about 30 yards but they got a solid 15 East meow getting a corner kick here with six minutes remaining in the first quarter still z0 is the score think they're going to send Jack Walsh not really seen a whole lot of offense here from either team but they are bringing Jack walin back off the bench for this particular purpose here on the corner kick they were trying to rest him get him a little bit of rest here before the second half as he does a lot of sprinting uh you know from the 50 yard line on down whenever they get on offense but they're bringing it back in here because it's a real goal scoring opportunity and Jack is a goal scorer so let's see what they do here and this one another really bad corner kick really bad never got the ball Bel player slips could could benefit the Spartans you got to keep the ball Jackson wretching in good place at a good time ears facing some pressure turn that ball good little through Pass from Phillip Joe mogan's gonna recover play it back to Keegan dunan and it's just getting back to a white foot y just getting booted around all over the place there's no no control right now from any team little panicked for sure that's some good defense from Earl on the right side line goes out of bounds again wide open there in the middle Subs coming in nice control kind of it was a nice pass back first touch wasn't great but it happens well it's four minutes to go it is looking like it might end up a scoreless first half here love to see East Long Meadow goal to finish the half but not sure with the way the first half has been going that that is in our future but who knows Spartans do have the ball little crowded over there on that right side five players within like 10 yards and that could have been dangerous but it is going to roll out of bounds yeah there's not a lot lot of control of the soccer ball no it seems like they're moving it you know between the 20s both sides a little bit but it's not control final third is not coming to be what either team wants right now no interested to see what happens at halftime if we have any formation changes moving players around trying to find that goal for either team really yeah this is looking like it's going to be a one-goal game at this point there's just not there just hasn't been enough opportunities here no in this half definitely not pretty soccer more just kind of grinding mucking it up I mean just like that there I mean it just got kind of kicked up and then it's like okay are nice turn there from Jack Walsh that's a good touch right there I was gonna say he's got fire good tackle from Bel Town's number four I really like that play there by Jack not sure how to say his last name Gavin B lot of counterattacks but again they don't really lead to much a lot of players down Sidelines little chippy over there nice head to get it out from oh Earl and paty's gonna clear that parents are getting kind of heated in the stands complaining about shirt pulling it's on honestly just part of the game at some to some extent oh oh ouch refs do need to get some control over the game they're doing good with the calls I'd say though letting them play but calling anything too [Music] serious nice ball over the top and little flick from Tyler Wren but no one there to follow it goalie falls on it little over a minute remaining each side maybe he's probably gonna get one more chance of some sort this one gets kind of swung out to the right back playing up the right hand side over to the wing Earl covering kicks it out of bounds good defense there you saw it on the left side Earl he saw this coming it's over sore it's over the top oh oh that's going to be that's not the ball no I really want to see both goalies tested I think it's a pretty good goalie matchup from what I've heard about belton's goalie and what I've seen from n Gara but neither of them have been tested at all really with any High Shots Out wide shots so I'd love to see that in the second half make it interesting good pressure here in the Midfield from Spartans trying to win the ball back with 20 seconds left in the half that one just makes its way out of bounds they're trying to get one last kind of go here it just gets bombed up oh good touch from Jack Walsh that's good ball control that was a high could have been a bouncing and again see not bad now seven seconds left so we it's gonna end the first half z z Jillian thanks for taking care of the first half as an announcer we're going to have a different guest announcer in the second half and we will see you in about 5 to 10 thank you for having me e e e all right ladies and gentlemen elcat fans from all across western Mass here back in East Long Meadow for the start of the second half Spartans of East LA Meadow versus the Orioles of Bel toown with me in the booth for the second half is former East Long Meadow Spartan star and super seven goal scorer currently playing for the College of assumption in wiester Joe prel welcome to the booth thank you thank you thank you happy to have you here Joe checking out your uh former team nice of you to come back and see your Old Coach sarafino some of your old friends and players that you've played with and so what were your thoughts having watched the first half Joe you know um I think it wasn't bad I think we got to just settle down on the ball and we got to play to feat more it's a lot of kick and run yeah Joe that's what uh you know that's sort of what I was saying in the beginning is that the ball's kind of moving not really efficiently but it's moving between the 20s and the 30s from side to side but there's no action whatsoever from inside about the 25 yard line we've yet to see maybe one I would call half decent shot but we haven't seen any offense yeah there hasn't been a lot of uh quality shots on goal yet but but I think I think we'll see a lot coming both teams looking for this win Tai's not ideal here no I mean I I think that we were talking earlier I think the Spartans are favored to win this game I'm not sure the Orioles are 0 and2 I think the Spartans are 1 and0 I'm not really sure you know which team you would say is the favorite or maybe it's an even matchup I I'd say definitely Spartans are have a little bit of the edge here they just beat they beat a big team minog and they just recently lost to West Springfield but I know W Springfield's a Powerhouse this year yeah that's great and you know we've got as I said before it's a really well coached team for East laow they certainly have some new players but they also have a lot of returning players I mean paty in the back's got a lot of experience back there yeah and he's just a stalwart back there so you know on the defensive side of the ball they're strong and on the offensive side I think they're trying to find their Rhythm a little bit Yeah they definitely are uh a lot of the K this team's really young still mostly Juniors and sophomores there's only I think three or four seniors team this year a very young team yep yep so a lot you know a lot of work lot to work with a lot of talent I'm seeing you know some new faces a couple of you know older brother younger brother combinations which is which is always nice to see um but it's just like plays like that right I mean that's got to be it's a that's basically a turnover on a throwin but good hustle back there and now the Orioles are going to get a throwin down here and they seem to bring a guy from the back to do the super long throw to the middle which so far has really been the only offense the Orioles have created yeah it's a really good uh really good Strat here when there's not a lot of offense to big throw try to get a little lucky bounce in and then uh shot on goal and here it comes the big throw to the middle off the head of the orial off ahead of an oral and then boot it out go Tyler Rin it's covered here and a little bit of a bad touch but he kind of snuck it across there and it just gets booted up on the ball Walsh has it dancing with it and maybe be a tough pass there but see if they could settle down on the ball and connect a couple passes yeah this is what we were talking about right there just no connectivity it seems like it's just like a Weeble wobble ball Bing Bang Boom Boom Boom until ping pong ball right yeah until it's settles down and then something happens but you never know where it's going to settle down there's not a lot of ball possession and control in the middle of the field yeah it's a lot of kick and run right now ball is just bouncing everywhere need them to just settle down here hold teams and I would like to you know I would like to see it get you know get up uh up front and get on the here we go big chance here good defense by Earl scooped up by goalie sends it out M Hogan oh kicked out of bounds by an orial what stays in interesting play passed back sends it over boot it up and right to the foot of an orial again you see it's just no control Walsh on the ball Walsh has it you know I think Walsh is I think Walsh seems to be clearly their their most offensive player yeah he's their big weapon I think that a lot of the team just looks for him to get the ball up to him and let him do what he likes to do up there he's very good big chance here with molan oh no no there's no tripping there that way he went through the leg and just kind of fell over yeah oh see and you saw right there sarapo he's screaming at number 20 I don't know who number 20 is uh I'm trying to look at the do give a little coaching moment here to number 20 that's Keegan dunan I mean the ball was all the way up yeah and coach sarapo was screaming not screaming but you know really trying to wave dunigan up to keep the ball on the offensive end and dunan was just kind of back too far and that let the Orioles I think Escape that that little mini attack by the Spartans oh yeah definitely there's a lot of uh space in between the Midfield and the defense and even the strikers and that has to be close down start playing as a team and Jillian Stevens was here covering the uh covering the booth here in the first half and let me know that the Belchertown goali is a super seven yeah he is a Super Seven I just saw that today too uh I don't I don't even remember playing against him really I don't think think yeah so he's got to be you know a very good goalie I mean I I'm not oh just a tough one there tried to turn it quick if he just could have had a little better feel right there there would have been a great opportunity for the Spartans that was a good chance right there we go Keegan on the throw in gives him a second chance a little spinny ball hand in that's a that is a handball yeah good call yeah I'd like to see SP really set down here and connect some passes and really get the ball moving here Tyler Wren had a chance there right right in the middle kind of had it and just kind of turned it quick it just does seem very rushed from inside the 20 yard line everything just seems everyone gets a little jittery like they're in a hurry to score as opposed to just kind of waiting and holding the ball shielding it a little bit and waiting creating an opportunity yeah it really seems that Walsh Jack Walsh and Tyler rchen are really isolated up there they need their midfielders to get up quicker give him support especially in those scenarios good Header by [Music] Jackson oh here's a chance for the Oriol yeah for good trip paty's there to clean it up yeah out for a corner though yeah but that's the right play it was a three-on-one right there py had to absolutely boot that thing whereever he could Boot It snuck its way to the left of the flag and out over the end line it's going to be a corner kick opportunity here for belur toown and this is really like the only chances that Belchertown has had is off of a free kick or a throwin down here they really have not created any offense at all from inside the 20 from either coming in from the outside or getting it to anybody in the middle to try to do something yeah this has been their main chances here but paty's been very good in the air to clean it up I don't think no one has his size out there right now and as you predicted it goes right gets he finds it right on his head he tracks the ball really well he's one of the tallest players out there another black shot by oh miss there off the shin that's when you want to clear that ball wide not right back into the junk of everything that was a potential hand ball makes its way out of bounds I'm not sure it looks like it's going to be a Spartan throw yeah and I think we lost our ballp person maybe on the other side so for the second half we'll be chasing oh we just a little hard though just a little too hard I think this is a very open game right now keeps going back and forth here's a big chance for number seven good defensive play there good back checking to go back and try to make sure that there is not a high quality shot taken great defense by Mogan right there yeah Number Eight coming into the game for the Spartans and Joe as you can tell I have a hard time Joe's laughing because I can't see Coen done again comes in for Ryan Kula my 53 actually 54 year old eyes are having trouble here at night in the poor lighting in this spectacular Booth though for announcing I'll tell you really high quality stuff here very cozy I like the you know high quality video the bathrooms here are spectacular in East Long Meadow nobody has better porta potties than Elam Meadow here we go here's a chance we got going oh not not sure about those decisions there kind of had it had some open space to come down the sidelines and and he's fast he's really fast yeah he's fast with the ball he's fast without the ball I just think there's you know no need to send bring that one backwards especially in that type of traffic yeah Shane M uh Shane McCarthy's been holding down the midfield for the Spartans been doing a good job here we go connecting a couple passes now that was three four that's the end of that and now they' got a Counterattack for the Orioles oh good save there save by Nolan you you know the great part about that save it looked simple and it probably was to save it from going in but to no rebound it off of that hard shot that's what made it a great save really good got down low kept his body right in front of it didn't let it bounce off of everything and really just kind of hovered right over it no rebound no Second Chance opportunity there and Nolan Garo very impressive only playing for a year now he's a very good goalie very athletic and he has a size and everything for yeah being a goalie big kick here from paty no one up there to challenge it for the Spartans yeah you know we were saying in the first half what I noticed is on a lot of the goal kicks and the free kicks and on the goalie punts it it's all belter it's either nobody there go opportunity here Jack Walsh is just going to take this himself I think one more not a bad attempt on goal no not bad nothing he can do there much really looks like he's got a little bit of a weaker left foot for sure y seen him they're kind of forcing him to the left they've done that a couple of times making sure he kicks it with his left I haven't seen yet I've seen some great moves by Walsh good but good foot control good ball control good moves but I haven't seen a powerful shot off of the left foot yet no yeah definitely he's been uh he's been keeping yeah like I said they're just they're trying to get him the ball and let him do what he does best yeah I mean you you saw oh that's going to be no that is a penalty I thought so right from the start I I oh and then another push down here that could be a yellow card for delay a game potentially they're gonna just a warning I guess yeah yeah don't do it again yeah so this is what I was saying like on the on the punts it's all Bel head theast need togive I mean we have players we have athletic players they got to track it better and just be a little more aggressive get their body in there and get their head on it and control those that's been a consistent problem for East Long meow over the couple years past couple years here we go paty again to clear everything up oh there we go Keegan did not like that challenge on Nolan no I usually when the goalie has the ball like that you're not supposed to challenge that no definitely not slide into a goalie like that it's gonna be a little warning there for sure but I do like to see this game actually having something yeah yeah because it's actually I was talking at halftime this game needs something because I'm not you know no disrespect to any of the players coaches whatever but it is a actually a pretty boring game all in all there has not been a lot of been a lot of action not a lot of excit in terms of like what's going on on the field things are happening but nothing haven't seen anything exciting I think you need like a little yeah you need some bang bang you need some physicality you need something going on out there it doesn't look like there's like highly competitive like fire in anybody's belly I know being z z especially for both teams after coming off a loss I'd be I'd be pumped up for this game and try to get the win really push up get my numbers up here it just looks like they're playing yeah you know what I'm saying they're just playing the game there not like a lot of here we go Bel town has been having most of the dangerous attacks here the second half shot easy for Nolan to save yeah probably not a great decision there by the Belchertown Winger to just kind of take that shot there was no had no angle had had players in the middle could have dribbled it could have kind of move around tried to do a one-on-one done something but that was just completely covered with no angle yeah definitely could have went for a cross there he had players in the Box yeah or back or do something but I think he tried to psych out the goalie look away and then shoot on goal but I mean the goalie was really standing right there easy save for a high quality goalie like gska some more subs I think Kula came back in for Phillip 26 minutes and 24 seconds remaining in the second half we have not seen a lot we're hopefully going to see something exciting soon here we go this one gets cleared to the middle Belchertown picks it up the left back comes forward sends it out to the left wing number seven taking it down the sidelines a wide open pass to number three taking it down cuts it back going to try to pass it to the middle and does oh not a very good clearance right there no just out of bounds for throw in as they say back in what will we call it like travel ball Boot It Out of Bounds it just gets booted out booted out and they do heast meal throw in I think heong meal's problem right now as they're relying on Jack and Tyler there's too big of a gap between the midfielders and the strikers they have no support up there and it's a two-on four most times or two on three like to see the midfielders get up with the strikers to really help out yeah I will say I I will say though I mean even you know you get somebody like you or Jack Walsh with that type of speed and those type of Foot Skills you can take on the two players no definitely could and Jack has had some success doing that where he's gotten some open shots but they are forcing him to his left yeah and making him shoot that ball on goal with you know what I think anyway is his weaker foot and that's therefore not creating as good an opportunity and I don't know maybe you know maybe if Jack gets that one-on-one or one on two opportunity he's got to try to take like here we go right so he's going to have to try to take one at some point to the right field here we go Joe Mogan on the ball oh Joe Mogan with a not a great pass there but a great catch by Will Fox on the sidelines I have to say that was a bullet backup goalie maybe will Fox plays the left wing and maybe backup goalie showing some skills there goes out of bounds see this would be a good chance if we had a long thrower I don't know if we do yeah I don't think we do here we go I think Walsh is gonna play it m Hogan really this is this is what I'm talking about like that can't happen no definitely not especially just rushed it was just a rush throw not a good pass you're all the way down there you finally made it all the way down in the offensive zone and look what happened it really looks neither team has a desire to win this game doesn't look like there's a plan no definitely not like a a full-on plan of attack I mean defensively both teams I think have been pretty solid because the opportunities haven't really come through but yeah you know defensive soccer is boring I guess unless you're winning unless you're unless you're winning unless you're winning one nothing or you're winning but Tai's z z is uh you know paty there there again to clear it up here we go Shan McCarthy on the ball yeah there we go foul going that way wow I thought they had Shay's Jersey [Music] tugged oh here we go this has got to get popped in Nolan there with these looks like Jack Walsh here we go got Jack Walsh oneon-one right here got the first one by another one yeah good challenge by number four yeah really good you see Jack Walsh using not not just straight on speed but you know he kind of has that hesitation move where he gets the ball hesitates then speeds up really really fast first couple of steps let's see if we can keep the ball down here get some get the ball thrown in well get it at somebody's definitely looks like they need to work on their possession after the throwin goal kick goal kick yeah and you know right there good throw in you're down on the 20 yard line 15 yard line and then any kind of an immediate turnover no yeah definitely no possession they need to kind of work in a box work in a little triangle do something down there where they can you know maintain possession of the ball I think they just need to connect passes like I said and just stop a like pointlessly kicking the ball up the field and there it is again there it is I mean there's no way that on a goal kick the ball should be hitting the ground there's way too much of a gap between all of this that's that's the Spartans defense really needs to push their whole back line up here we go now there's a Counterattack for the Orioles coming down the left hand side no numbers in the Box kicked out of bounds again goal kick yeah it looks like no ball boy no one's going to have to go chase him for the ball yeah and it's a long way back there for those of you who haven't been to the East Long Meadow Stadium it's a long distance behind the soccer goal to go get the ball if you don't have ball uh ball boys ball girls ball men ball women um behind it's a good it's a good thir you know it's a good 30 40 yards to go back there and you know good 30 yards anyway to go back there and get the ball it takes up a lot of time I mean there it is again though right same thing I mean somebody tried to back a back kick I mean put your head on the ball you got to be first I mean I think if you go back and you count the number of times that it's gone uh in the direction or to the control of the Orioles off of a free kick you'd be I don't think yeah another opportunity here seems like for the second half Orioles has had all the big opportunities Walsh get to it nope oh he does but another this one's going to get stopped by the ball girl saves a little bit of time she happened to be in the right place at the right time although I see some there's some ball kids on the other side now so that's good got a couple over there so we're three quarters the way through this game we've got 20 minutes remaining in the second half and here we go let's see who's head Walsh got there Walsh got there except it was a push back in the back by number 10 sarafino calling out the famous hold your line call on every free Crick from anywhere that's a double header there easto got that one and it gets bombed away there by paty see this is where you got to bring that back line and that Midfield up that's where everyone has to come up they're just walking up you got to be at half field at this point pull everyone off sides oh I mean they can't win anything in the air today that's what I'm saying and that's off sides right there you can't win anything if you're not trying to win it no seems like they're a little timid at the ball in the air yeah it it really does yeah that's one of the first things I noticed see this is where you need the whole East long metal backline to be at half field yeah you're just not seeing a lot of um I don't know what the right word is energy but you're not seeing a lot of like okay let's go let's go let's go and they're there it seems like if the ball goes up front yeah the front people are moving the Midfield and the back is staying still when the ball goes in the back the Back Field is moving the Midfield is moving a little bit in the in the front you know the front is staying still yeah that's a big struggle that they have right now they they need to start playing the like a team and uh really bringing their numbers up together really changed the whole the whole outcome of this game Earl with the header paty to clean it up dula no oh man just you could see it he put his head down and there you saw the guy running back he never took his head back up to see that player going and now oh paty's going after it yeah he got it I mean and yeah what a great play by paty right there I mean that's just high quality defense uses speed size strength gets back there controls it and then kicks it off the defender for for Spartans to keep possession there yeah I mean just really skilled how about throwing it to Pat he right there no interception boot it there we go and it gets booted Oh wrong way oh Mogan up for it wins it there we go go beats another now that's good play good for a corner yeah good play right therey up right now oh wow I don't know about that call right there yeah I will say the referee was right on it and what he called was the double right so red kicked it off of white off of red and then in I don't know I mean it's the referee was right on it so from up in the Booth I think the natural call would have been to went off white but referee was in a good position there coaches are giving him a little little heat for it yeah here we go let's win this one no right over the heads no I mean there is way too big of a gap between their Midfield and defense and even up top too well it's kind of interesting because I saw one of the coaches came up here before the game Joe uh and was asking elcat Jamie Rook here to from the the way she records the game which is typically to have the ball in the middle of the camera the coach was actually asking if there was a way in which she could try to keep the ball on the right side or left side of the camera depending on where uh whether eel was on offense or defense because I think they want to coach that up yeah and when they're showing the video they weren't able to really show The Players exactly what you're talking about filling it you know where they're supposed to be in terms of filling in the gaps and so hopefully they'll you know hope there probably will be little different video angles but I think that's something when the kids go back when the players go back and watch this that's something that you know you're noticing from up here the coaches were clearly noticing and we're we're see you know you can see it from above a lot easier I mean that'll seriously make a huge difference we could uh win the balls in the air better and we could play more as a team they have numbers up so Jack Walsh and Tyler wretchard aren't alone up there yeah the throwin are a problem too the throwin are a big problem right now I mean we're we're getting throwin and then if you look at I think if you go back and you watch it the amount of times where we've had a throwin followed by any turnover within three seconds yeah maybe five seconds and you can't have that a throwing is supposed to be your team's possession you're gonna possess the ball belter town has a big thrower py once again here here we go now we got some numbers up three on two Tyler to Walsh up in behind good speed by wals but just couldn't get there yeah good idea let's see if we can keep this throw in here we go and we boot it it's a good ball off the back oh he turned around oh no yeah that's not an ideal shot right there no that is not an ideal shot from sideways 25 25 yards out maybe 30 yards out if you count the end zone which you have to when you haven't really had a lot of opportunities you finally got people up there you're taking a possession and I know you know you haven't had a good shot you want to take one but that's a time to settle that thing down and then maybe fire it in but that had no chance of doing anything except going out of bounds yeah off balance on the side here we goes a big chance for the Orioles right here Pat's there to clean it up once again yeah I mean he's really holding that defense down really the whole team down he is great anticipation back there he's getting every ball in the air he's the only one winning the ball in the air right now going to get another big throwi in with 13 minutes and 30 seconds remaining big throwin coming to the middle see if this can get on an East Long Meadow head it gets kind of on a head and more of a kind of a body blow I'm not sure sparn have had one clear shot on goal the only one was the free kick in the beginning yeah in the first half it was a free kick by the captain and goalie saved it a a little bit of a rebound and actually uh will Fox had a good opportunity put his foot on it and it probably was gonna go in and at the last second a belter toown player must have got their foot on it and redirected it because it ended up as a goal kick here we go there a big chance right here oh G get there no me that's a hard play terrible but it's just too difficult left footed you gotta go all the way across the field man this game is really kick and run it really seems to be right now I mean that was just too far to go I think not a bad idea but not from that far away a complete whiff here we go Walsh on the ball Tyler ring with that yeah this is a good ball here shoot that okay that's going to be a goal oh goal kick I thought it took a deflection I'm not sure I I tend to agree with you it seemed like a deflected Ball but I think that was our best chance this half so far is saying a lot also known as the only yeah and somehow this is going to be okay we're going to get a goal kick here let's see if eam meow can get it's they got to get aggressive yeah they need that spark in them right now get that come on come on be first no second third there we go there we go Walsh with the ball oh here we go little little Keegan on the ball sending it out wide wide numbers in the Box to rechen okay not bad I I I think they got I think they got some momentum coming right now yeah that was nice right there everybody was kind of up and in the right spot little better of a ball there than that we would have had a shot on that a it here we [Applause] [Music] go oh come on they're just kicking it in the air and oh and then just heading it to the open space where nobody is I don't really get it why they're kicking it so high up in the air we can't even get the head a head on the ball here we go Nolan gar is going to run it out smart play here see if we could settle down on the ball and connect some passes yeah referee was calling for the clock to stop he's trying again and we're having a little bit of trouble here with we're we're going to call a timeout and we're going to call a timeout with 10:35 was remaining in the first half the CL the clock is still running and so we're gonna have to go back and do a reset here on the clock at some point but Joe we're gonna take a two-minute break we're gonna get a little sip of water and some stuff from the concessions and try to get this clock situation worked out before somebody gets fired e e well Joe we had a timeout there I think it was by belard toown they called a timeout in the first half as well I think you get one per half right per team yeah I believe so I thinks so they called the timeout kind of resetting here a little bit we got our clock situation resolved maybe we're about to find out but we have 10 minutes we're going with 10 minutes and 50 seconds remaining in the game see Kevin McGee eam Meadows athletic director down on the field surveying the landscape making sure there's no Shenanigans going on tonight's game keeping the crowd mostly under control I will say Joe that it's not quite the same crowd as last season and the season before from what I'm used to so far um and not nearly as rambunctious usually honestly you see more belter Town kids here you'd see more of the East Long Meadow student body out here for this game it'd be nice to see just a you know it's a beautiful night nice to see a little more support get a little more energy in the stands and then maybe a little more energy on the field a little more school spirit Spartan Spirit bring it back it seems to be every year the school spirit keeps going down and down and down yeah we had some great spirit I think last year some great games some good rivalries Earl takes the ball up it's now over Jacks sends it over into No Man's Land Walsh on the ball good move there out wide to Shan McCarthy back to Walsh oh no that's not Walsh that's Mulan out for a corner here we go let's see if we can capitalize bring paty up here opportunity is knocking and even on the last corner kick it was I'm not going to lie was a little bit of a pathetic corner kick the ball never got in the air y we need to get this thing in the air get it up towards py some of our taller players get it into the there we go that's what I'm talking about there right that's a good one there at least it's an opportunity good chance by py right there absolutely good corner kick got it to the top of the box somewhere between the penalty kick spot and the 18 and an opportunity was at least I wouldn't say it was knocking loudly but it was knocking yeah just a little bit more power on that corner in the sense of more speed on it then would have been easier for paty to get a better hat there it is again though beler Town first to the ball right I mean Earl to clean it up paty there once again he's really keeping the SPN in this game great one two right there and then just a littleit too big of a Touch goes out for a belter town throw in here we go belter town just boots it to no one I don't know what they were hoping for there a bad bounce and then go in behind GSA see that's where Nolan s should that was a good punt by Nolan yeah but look at look at this I mean there's not an East medal player within five yards of that ball where it landed that's when Nolan needs to wait until tell the team to get up there really get numbers up big chance here for the Orioles goes out for an or oh it's going to be a corner kick corner I mean every time it seems like paty just there to clean everything up yeah he's been really dominant see if he could bail him out been really dominant on these Corner kicks does it again here we go oh Orioles has really dominated [Music] oh yeah this one's I think a little more dangerous a little more of a danger spot I think than the corner need py again to bail us out see what we can do here it seems that [Music] Oriel good play Pure Town didn't have a lot of numbers up there looks like they're playing for the draw now kep three back oh why not settle that one Joe yeah oh Jackson's there here we go yeah oh that's a soft call I mean they both went up for a 5050 ball I don't agree with that call I don't think I mean it's not like this game has been aggressively played by either team and you finally see some aggression and you you know you call a penalty I guess that's how it's going to go but oh here it is again though right direct kick and no and it really goes beler Town's way at the end of the day he's gonna have he's gonna have to kick it out of bounds yeah I don't think that ref really knew what he wanted to call there he was waiting for the reaction of all the teams changes he got talked out of that yeah he did no that referee called it I think on the other side had a better look at it the coach from belard town are not happy with that I'd bring paty up here try to get a goal here it's been holding him down but oh it was an illegal throw too oh fter Town player looking for a foul there ah great turn by Earl see if he can connect the pass now one one yeah somebody say one I mean where are we offsides yeah came from offsides position did he did there we go this is where i' played Walsh right now it's not settled was trying to get their numbers off I think just shoot it they're such a big gap that's what he did played it to Walsh Too Short now ear here on a little little Counterattack right here Tyler will get on the end of it here we go bad touch though just a little too much oh that that's yeah I was going to say good call by by the referee once again same thing the throwi wins are a problem right I mean it's just look at this immediate turnover of possession it went it's gone from the 10 yard line it's gone 90 yards and then Clips them might have been looking for a penalty there yeah that was a little dirty play right there step on the back of the ankle not something you would have ever do Joe I would never I don't think I don't think I ever saw you do anything like that no dirty playing up front no elbows no pushing no shoving all clean Joe all clean see if we could win this one there no no why why would that happen here we go I mean you don't want to you don't want to Ru a good streak you know what I mean Joe like when you're on a streak of being nowhere near a ball that's in the air you don't want to ruin it oh oh that's a foul there should have been a foul right there Spartan took him out from behind right there double concussion there it is again though on the throwin immediately goes to beler Town's way here we go Keegan on the ball let see what he could do with it sends it out wide here to Walsh good defensive play there Walsh tried to just do a little flick over the top we got two minutes and 30 seconds left this could be the last opportunity and there it is again an immediate turnover off of a throwin all right this is it don't shoot oh no just got stuck on his foot there great Touch by paty py wants it Let It Go he's I think what a ball by paty [Music] oh this is it he's got to go to the right he's you see just nothing on I mean yeah there's just not a lot on the left footed shot right there I I just would have liked to see him get one of his hard shots off off of his right foot or at least move you know do a little fake left and then come back to the right or something Joe yeah defin I don't know either that or he's just going to they're I think otherwise honestly it just looks like the other teams are just going to play him to go that way if he let till he fires one on goal oh this is a little dangerous yeah that was a little scary right there here we go one minute and 20 seconds remaining this I mean keeg cannot let this go out we got to get it he's letting it go out of bounds I think you needed to save that I mean we haven't done very well on the throwin in the first place I not sure SAR I'm not sure sarafino wants this ball even thrown in but he does anyway and there's a little oh kicked it off of himself yeah I think this is where we could see a long throw in right here time out no oh Sub in kind of an interesting sub call with 47 seconds remaining and the clock running it's the last big chance I think right here we'll see yeah they're going to do a long throw there's now down to 35 seconds remaining throws it in nobody home it's I'll call that what do you call that booted yeah get oh no that was the last chance for the Spartans we're going to get one more no chance left we are likely 15 14 13 12 11 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 it looks like we are ending in a draw here at East Long Meadow 0000 Spartans versus the Orioles and we will see you next time thank you and Joe it was a pleasure anouncing with you we'll do it again sometime

uh welcome back everybody and thank you for joining us tonight and appreciate your flexibility and changing the schedule a little bit here um so let me just pull up the agenda real quick and we will kick this off um we have four things on our item on our items tonight um we'll start with the summer highlight recap I assume that Dr me will go over that yeah Ann and I I'll sort of tag team it I've got a few and uh ex got a few thank you so much uh and do you want to go first sure sure good evening everyone it's great to see you back and yes we're into a wonderful start of a new school year absolutely so our you know during the summer we ran lots of different summer programs Sensational summer had uh just over 130 students in it that were there for the um six week program loved by everyone they got to spend time on on a working farm they went on assortment of different field trips we used use the lit Camp math and reading program uh to stop any summer slide that we might experience with the kids um or with the students overall absolutely wonderful summer that program was held a great plane we then ran our 21st century program which was a WAP program for those students that were at um Ellsworth School for summer school we were able to complete the day give them a full day on Friday and go for five weeks with that programs so that um was a nice program had some family components with it and things like that um what we're can I guess that's the rest of it um that I'll talk about will come in the next section of the meeting but I think Mike you had some other summer highlights as well yeah just a few things just you know summer school we had a great summer school year um we ran uh three different sections we ran our our our high school um we also ran our special at extended year we also ran our K through Elementary and those ran um pretty much all through um through July and uh special ed preschool handled about uh worked with about 325 kids the Elementary uh component had about a 100 um and then we are were our registration Center was open all through the summer uh we had families coming in we had late nights we had some Saturdays for working fam so everybody was able to get in um I think and it's probably just about now calmed down hasn't it a a little bit it has today there were five free chairs at one point today which is great um most you know we have like 30 chairs and often during the day we'd be moving chairs around um so that everybody could have a seat whether they were there for um you know registration or the food pantry that we have or just to uh Grace um my assistant director spends a lot of time um helping families um get on to parents square that may not understand it um and then um you know we ran over the summer two sets um each month of our um partnership with richal VNA health and saw 12 to 15 students for each one of those clinics um they provide a full physical immunizations height screening blood work and your analysis um Eyes Ears everything that the students need provided by a doctor um to start school on time so um well worth it if you're ever around come see one of the clinics that's going today we had 15 students enrolled today um and then they come back uh two days later to have the uh time test read for TB and any other followup we also work very hard at making sure the students are signed up for Husky and the parents are signed up for Husky and for um snap which is our food programs that's great thank you and I just got some um year-to-date enrollment numbers um so the as as we've talked about I think in here and then also probably in finance in a few other committees uh the the early weeks of the year the the enrollment really sort of takes these breaths it expands and contracts and expands and contracts and a lot of that is because um the number will start high well it'll it'll tick up in those first couple days because more people keep coming and within those first couple weeks we start to learn that there's kids on our roles who maybe moved away and uh didn't notify us and then we figure that out and then the numbers start to tick back down more people come in they tick back up um and then this year of course we had the uh unique situation with that kindergarten age mandate where we expected to see about a 200 to 250 student decrease just this year and then next year of course we'll catch that back up because those 250 kids will arrive next year with the other um you know with the other cohort so right now we are at uh just south of 12,000 at 11,965 um and this really tracks perfectly if you add that 250 we're right at about uh you know 12,200 uh right about where we would have expected to be in um in a normal year so uh we're right on track uh more or less and um you know if if you take out that kindergarten you know we're we're you know probably just slightly above where we would have been at this time last year so thanks very much um questions from committee members any questions comments oh yeah I do M on the change in in the kindergarten date are we still expecting that to have a negative effect or do you think at the end it'll turn around and you'll be bombarded with uh I do think we'll see a few more but I I don't think we'll have a full-size class like we did last year um but the thing is those are three kids here five kids here 10 kids here so it's not like you actually shut down a section it's just a tiny little bit off a Ser you know off a bunch of different sections so um we see it in the numbers but in the day-to-day you you probably don't feel it a whole lot thank thanks Rich any other questions from uh any non-committee members uh I would just like to uh ask Dr me uh the student that she was talking about and I didn't get the rment number are those new students or students that are already here that's going through uh the the clinic so um it's a mix of both we work very closely with the nurses if there's children who need what we call catchup facts so on that second day we may have a couple extra students that come in for um vaccinations that they can't get readily through their doctor or timely enough through their doctor but the majority of those 12 to 15 children are all new children to the district new children to the city yeah yeah okay okay thank you very much you're welcome any other questions all right goad Michelle um I was just wondering one question maybe somebody an could maybe answer if there is a student like you were just talking about the catch-up vaccinations if there is a student that and this I don't know if you know this answer has like an autoimmune um some sort of of autoimmune disease i''s say and they're struggling with getting one of these vaccinations or it's in question how do we handle cases like that as it so the Richfield VNA has three nurses on site with us and a doctor when these clinics are done and so just like going to your regular pediatrician and Urgent Care or to uh a general practitioner they use the same protocols in determining what the child has what's safe to give and um May consult with you know another doctor if they need to but it's the same protocols if you were seeing your regular physician um in order to determine whether it's appropriate for a child to get um a vaccination or not so is that more of a case by casee kind of a situation or yes Michelle you're muted muted thanks sorry in other words is that a case by case situation typically like I'm just we haven't had this conversation and I'm just wondering about that yeah if if the the child comes with medical they have to come with whatever medical records they have from wherever they're coming from okay um we work with those records um at least two weeks ahead of time the VNA brings them into their board and they sit and they go through exactly what that child has and has not had um for vaccines they look at the child's medical history they work with the doctor there at richf in Richfield and then Case by case they work with the family on what the child needs we also have a fair amount of children um that come in that don't have that aren't on the schedule and so we have to provide the doctor provides a catchup schedule for those kids to be able to um receive the vaccination so they can be um enrolled in school okay so they are are they allowed to I guess what I'm asking is can you be attending school without necessarily having the full so I don't want to interrupt but I also don't want to get off track too much because I just I'm I'm looking to I I'm not sure that this is the right meeting for that conversation I guess um that that probably is better directed to our health Team um so if you wanted to pick that up with them um maybe reach out through Cara Dr casmiro and uh see if she can put you in touch with somebody in the health department okay I didn't know you okay great had a health department okay I will later yeah Carrie Burke head of nursing Services could answer those questions yeah great thanks I'll look into it further appreciate that all right so um any other questions before we move on all right let's move on to uh item number two the superintendent wants to meet you which is happening September 21st at bro middle school that's correct uh so we are uh planning this event for it's a Saturday morning at Broad View um it will be for parents and kids um an can jump into and share some of the details but the idea is that will everyone will arrive about 9:30 there'll be a snack for the kids and then about 9:45 parents will head into the auditorium for a Q&A with Dr casmiro and uh we'll have a group of of teachers there that will take the kids and to a variety of activities we're still working out the scope of what they're going to be there might be some robotics might be some sports might be some um some stem learning there uh just activities to keep the kids engaged for about 45 minutes um the parents will be in the auditorium from about 9:45 to 10:30 um of course board members uh will be joining us we've actually ordered your shirts um so uh it'll be an opportunity to you know not just talk with Cara but obviously you know meet meet members of the community answer questions and and let them meet you as well um at about 10 uh 10:45 um 10:30 10:45 the parents will come back into the cafeteria be reconnected with the kids we'll have some coffee in Danish um and then everyone will will depart from there so that's sort of the the broad scope of the day um in order to get ready for this we're going to be putting out a video in fact I I saw the parent Square come in just as we were starting I think that might have been it from Grace I I had no chance to look at that that I think that's the early dismissal tomorrow Grace was working on as I left yeah so either tonight or tomorrow you'll be getting um an invitation to this event with a little RSVP um and at that time uh participants will have an opportunity to put a question through um you know we'll you know consolidate the questions and and you know I'm sure there like whenever we do these we get a lot of this same question so we'll you know figure out what those sort of top five or 10 questions are for Cara um we're also planning to have um a note card system in place where if people didn't write questions in on the RSVP they can jot a question down on the Note um we will have translation devices there we will have Spanish we are working on Portuguese um in real times those will be just like we do at the board meetings it's uh you put the little earpiece in and then Lori will be translating in real time what am I forgetting an I think you got it all yeah should be a a great um opportunity for our families to to meet Dr casmiro as well as board members so wonderful my understanding about after the Q&A the board members from 10:30 on basically would uh be there to mangle and and get to know the parents and sort of answer oneon-one questions yes exactly is is there any high points that Carol wants board members to stress this year or just sort of wing it based on what in other words is there anything that she would like to to emphasize if in a conversations with with parents I yeah I I won't speak for carara um she hasn't she hasn't given me any talking points but but if I had to venture a guess um it probably connects very closely to our our fourth item on the agenda which is um just getting the messaging out there about the academy what it is and kind of why it's a transformational change um but I can certainly have Cara send out some notes in advance if there's you know specific things that you know questions that we're Fielding that we feel like just need to get clarification to parents um and whatnot so we can we can certainly get some communication out about that yeah you know I think it might be good because if there are general questions that are in say in the atmosphere that people know about it at least speak we're on the same very page how to answer it you know rather than you know put our little emphasis that one Personal Touch on it sure if she want to do that that would certainly be good to help us with some talking points so that we're all consistent yeah that's a great idea so we're all singing from the the same sheet of music yeah yeah thanks Rich any other questions about this event so I'm hoping we'll see a good turnout from our board members there um and I will make an announcement at the board meeting about it go ahead Terry um can I arrive around 10 as opposed to 9:30 is that okay of course yeah whenever you okay yeah thank you that's all I needed to know yeah that that first 30 minutes or so is really just going to be kind of getting kids in the right place and people getting their seats and and all that so I I wouldn't worry too much about being a little late um may I ask how this is being um marketed in uh to parents how we're reaching out to them yeah well the the first we're going to be primarily using parents square but also all our social media channels so it should be on Facebook and uh Instagram Instagram and do we still have a WhatsApp Channel an we do we do y yeah so it'll be on all those channels and then we plan on sending out a few different pulses um as the date gets closer just to to get a reminder two weeks out is still a little bit you know um you know long for folks to plan so in the days leading up we probably send one a day that's wonderful thank you uh go ahead Teresa uh are the board members going to be on the stage or no no no you'll just yeah you'll be in the seats you can if you want to be um I just want to clarify ify one thing Dr shley you mentioned that uh folks will be able to submit questions in advance um are you doing that through parent square and through uh it's through the RSVP form yeah okay perfect thank you all right any other questions from board members committee or non-committee at this point all right so seeing none we'll move on to the next item on the agenda thank you very much for the recap there um and that is the community events update sure so I'll start off with that um as many of you are aware we received a um acceptance into the farm to school um initi uh Institute which we're very excited about so there's a a team here at Danbury schools that went to Stonington in June to learn about what it was the whole purpose of the program is to um purchase and use more local defined within our greater Danbury area of fresh fruits and vegetables to be served in our meals um and at snack time anything to um continue good health with our with our students uh this week will be our first um activity in the schools of a tasting at mil at um Ellsworth and at Moore Street um and then in October you'll get all invitations for this to come out and help um at our October taste testing um uh um e or daytime activity uh during lunches with our second and third graders so we're really excited um to see the kids eat try different foods um the food this month will be a gingered apple cabbage salad and so I'm excited about that and then in October we're looking at a Butternut something something not too sure exactly what that menu hasn't been uh totally um isolated and what it's going to be you know it's we're working with local farmers so we're at their um you know whatever they can supply us enough to be able to do those taste testing with so we're very excited about that initiative um the next initiative is danre collective we've had a really really uh busy summer in our different groups that are meeting mental health early childhood and chronic absenteeism um I can't speak too much for the other groups I do know mental health is doing a mapping of what is out there already for mental health services The Early Childhood group is um working on some policy um items that need to be taken care of and really looking at some newer regulations that are coming out as well as a parenting Ed component on the needs to have um good highquality child care when children are young and then The Chronic absenteeism group um has done a just a marvelous job on um developing a toolkit that um then has a brochure that goes out to parents and so we will be running um many different trainings we piloted the trainings um before school ended in early in the summer but now we'll be expanding the groups that we want people to take the training to learn how to use the toolkit and the brochure that goes along with it to help parents understand uh what what is chronic absenteeism why children need to be in school all day every day and what resources are there in the community to help them so we're really really excited about that on September 23d in the evening will be a parent meeting many of you attended last spring the first collabor uh um Dan Collective meeting and now this one is going to be for parents on the 23d um and family members so you'll all receive invitation to that so um there's all kinds of other events that we're going to be at um besides those taste testings we're also been at the farmers market here in Danbury spreading the word about Danbury public schools helping with registration um getting that chronic absenteeism information out and we will be at um a couple farmers markets coming up and other community events as well so a lot going on in our department to um really bring in the community um help them to understand what dber schools are and then what what this whole uh change in teaching pedagogy is going to be about and yeah is there a chance of Mrs Cooper that you can get to together again with Cara and bring the board some information on the work that the collective impact organization has has been doing in their three their threee phases you absolutely but I think they're far along where you know like you said they have some sort of a graft to some some thoughts these things and I think it would be good for the board to have a good understanding on it since it's one of the you know issues that that it's plaguing our district today absolutely I I will Melissa hanquin is the executive director I will see what materials she has worked on and um we'll get those to the board members yeah absolutely any other questions for um I have a quick question are we planning on doing something for B National borders registration this month because I know the um National bers registration I know um I know that um a few institutions are doing like the women voters League um the um library is doing as well many organizations are trying to promote the voting registration are we taking any steps like I know in the past um The Women Voters League used to do something at the high school but I just want to know if we are getting involved or not I do know there there is a student Le initiative at Rogers Park if I recall um beyond that I I I don't believe there's anything happening out of the district um you know if if if another organization came to us to use one of our facilities we you know we' certainly be open to it but I I don't believe there's anything being led from the district level oh okay because we I mean I know this is independently but we are registered as organization for the national voter um voting date on the 17th so if you guys have not on the high school I can help around to see if we can get some volunteers to register people on the at the high school okay thank you we can check to see if Mr Donovan is planning anything at the high school I know there's been some stuff on the PTO website um but we can check and get back to you on that I also have another question and I don't know who might be able to um um give me some information when we pass information on um uh what was the website for the uh informational for the parents um parent Square par Square what do we take in consideration because I have a few programs that could be very beneficial for the community such as uh one from chafa which is connectic housing Financial Association that is regarding people who might be getting um get Ben benefit from these programs on housing depending on income how can I get to um the flyers or something so uh families get to this information on their own so they can take advantage of for um these programs yeah so what we do in the district um you can send it to Mike or myself we um look at to ensure that it's coming from a nonprofit group that it directly affects our students and then we approve it or disapprove it but and then it goes out in our Sunday morning lits to All Families so what we've done is you know back years ago think about you brought brought home lots of stuff in the book bag okay and then we were H schools then began to send it out and so what we're looking at is not having all of these constant parents Square things go out because then parents start to um not pay attention to them and there and it's all important information so we take all those flyers we put them into one PDF on a Sunday morning and we send that out I do believe we have one scheduled um for not this weekend but the weekend at after we'll be the first one to go out this school year again we're trying not to inundate all the families with too many parent squares right now we realize the schools are sending out lots of information on their open houses and things like that so um we're I'm pretty sure Grace said we're sending it out the following weekend on the morning of the uh 21st or 22nd yeah just go ahead and send it to us we'll make sure it meets the guidelines and and if it does we'll include it in that packet perfect thank you and I have one last question before I forget who um where do we refer families with kid homeless families so that comes to the face Center um you can send them whenever um but Wednesday is the best day Lisa Basher is our person that our social worker that handles everything um mckenny vento or homeless family she's there on Wednesday plus she's there two other half days a week um or her time is dedicated to the homeless and often she's out in schools at that point I'm sorry my apologies just say Lisa Lisa Basher b a s h e b okay and on Wednesdays is that's the best date yes perfect thank you very much but but anybody working in the registration Center can connect a family very quickly absolutely yeah perfect thank you very much um I do see a question in the chat Dr silly about when the event for voter registration at Rogers Park is if you can about that yep I will share that out okay thank you so much all right uh anything else that falls under the purview of community events update for for now Terry you have a question yes uh football game tickets do we still get to go yeah I think you do yeah there should be that little orange pass that um chip gives out to uh VIPs like yourselves so I haven't gotten one in a long time we typically get those at the start of the school year um and they're passed out to board members at the usually one of the first board meetings that we go to I'll follow up with make sure they're they're waiting for you guys next week thank you tomorrow Wednesday all right any other questions okay we can move on then to a discussion brief one I hope about planning for the November 13th meeting yeah so the November 13th meeting is a Wednesday and it will be live uh in person right before our regular Board of Ed meeting um so we had talked last year uh coming up on one of our last community relations meeting I think it it might have actually been June already might have been May I'm not sure um but we had planned a a working session for about an hour 90 minutes where we were going to sit down and come up with talking points uh I think we were calling them an elevator pitch um you know where when you bump into somebody at the deli or you know Stop and Shop or wherever and they say hey you're on the board of ed what is this new I keep hearing about everyone will just have a sort of ready to go couple talking points to you know you can just kind of roll off some of the greatest hits and and you know kind of to say why it's going to be amazing so uh we we were never able to have that meeting last year so what we wanted to do was bring that back H for our next meeting and use the hour or so to sit down review some of the copy that we have on hand uh some of the things that we've put out already through letters um and on the website um and then that we've sort of sent out through other you know media channels um and sort of just work on consolidating that down to some digestible pieces that we can all just kind of keep on a little note card you know in your back pocket or you know wherever and just kind of have them at the ready so I uh you know Kate I I I think you know that would be a really effective way to use our our next session um and then we have them all ready to go and you know in the six seven months here leading up to the opening of that of that new building um I think we're really going to start to see a lot of discussion and you know Buzz around the Career Academy so um everybody in this group and certainly the broader board will you know will have some things ready to go to you know to respond to any questions they get in the community I think Mike too to that point one of the questions that I've been asked a lot lately is why did you change the name from the academies that talking point yeah we can put going to add that one yeah uh committee members are there other things that you'd like to uh put on the agenda for the uh November 13th meeting that you think we should be discussing or working on between now and then we can certainly email your is there going to be a meeting in October uh we don't have one scheduled right now and I think that's in deference to the fact that we have so many different committees um and so many different meetings that are happening um if it turns out that you know there's an appetite for that um you know I'm certainly open to revisiting that and possibly scheduling a date if if that's something that we want to make time for I just want to make sure I nope you're on the same page typically we'll always put two committing with the exception of policy two meetings before the holidays two meetings after and then you know we can sort of slide them around and add our track but at least we've always got those four placeholders all right um any other conversation any other questions from committee members non-committee members any any last uh information you want to share or um questions you have all right well I think that wraps up our first committee meeting of the 24 25 school year for community relations I will look for a motion to adjourn please I'll make a motion Thank you Rich may I have a second please second thank you Julie all those in favor please signify by saying I I I I thank you all right we are adjourned thank you

and 12:00 p.m. to have brunch with the bilingual parent advisory committee BAC if you can make it bring a dish to share and be ready for some great conversations who doesn't love custard ButterBurgers or cheese curds head on over to our local Culver here in asigo tonight even though it's getting late so uh if you want to go you better get there quick I don't know if they're going to be open by the time we get out of here but there they're there still now don't forget to mention when you purchase that you are there supporting East View Academy Pathways and goal programs so they can receive a donation of 10% of your order subtotal We Are One Community supporting the great work of these special programs and schools thank you Culver and all those please join as we go High please join okay ASO High School invites the community to join in the fun at their homecoming parade on Sunday September 15th the parade will start at 300 pm.

operations is right at 8 million which is about 88.4% of the budget which um the state puts a cap on that amount at 15% and so we're we remain well below that cap I know this part can be one of the most confusing part of the budgets the parts of the budget any questions on that transfer between those two funds I've beat it to death in previous budget hearing so I understand so The Debt Service fund is where you're going to see the biggest change um and that is actually part partially as a result of the um the decrease in the tax rate on the operations side that I mentioned earlier as well as the operating referendum side that I'll show you here in a minute um and so the we eliminated um paid off some debt in 2024 by the end of this year we make our final payments um of somewhere about $6 million in payments that we're making in 2024 that we won't make in 2025 because we pay off those old bonds and then um we anticipate we will have the capacity to make a nearly $10 million payment on the first phase of the Envision 2030 projects um with still keeping the tax rate flat um and again that's because of the fact that the operations fund and operating referendum fund rate will go down to the extent that this uh saves us some money in the long run the larger payments you make on the front end of them mortgage for example the less interest you pay in the long run and so that should be helpful so those are that's the only significant change the lines that have a dollar amount in 2024 um and Don in 2025 those are bonds that we're paying off and then the um 20124 lease rental um Envision 2030 phase one a payment of just under 10 million is the net total difference between those two those two lines what questions can I answer for you on The Debt Service fund so my assumption is the reason of going 10 million on The Envision 2030 versus trying to pay off the others is the interest rates were less favorable to the most recent correct and and we uh making additional payments on the old bonds um don't benefit us because the payment schedule the ammortization schedule is already defined the rate is set you know we pay it as it's determined they do have different periods when those old bonds can be refunded at a lower rate and we almost always take advantage of that but we don't have one of those coming up for a few years fair enough all right the next one is uh almost exactly like the previous year this is the high school uh two 2010 High School renovation project Debt Service fund it's separate because it was passed on a referendum back in 2008 I believe and so that payment will continue through 2029 when it is paid off and then the last part of the um tax supported budgets that we're asking the board to approve the board has to approve um before November 1st is the operating referendum fund um and the operating referendum fund is also capped at that 4% increase in the levy regardless of what happens with the assessed value um you can see the salary and benefit increases for uh teachers going up by about $1.1 million and that's just a continued result of more and more teachers qualifying for those payments because they're staying it's a it's a evidence that that is actually working because we have more teachers that staying till their fifth year and their 10th year and their 15th year uh when they get those uh larger increases the rest of the budget is essentially the same with the exception of of the bottom line which is an elimination of that $250,000 transfer for curricular materials so the the question I had on this we talked about sro's earlier the the numbers here for safety security mental health look like they in total are either flat or lower and it doesn't follow the trend with the teacher salary at at the top for the Safety and Security are are the costs captured for SRO in what we talked about earlier or here because this this number I wouldn't expect it to go down it's both and so we pay for some of the um SRO from the operating referendum fund and the rest from the operations fund um but we put out a budget for the eight years of the operating referendum that's on the website and so I have not varied with the exception of the teacher salary line because it reflects actuals I have not varied from that budget in the operating referendum side just for transparency sake so we said I'm going to make up a number and say that was a $200,000 that we said we would spend in 2025 on sro's and so I kept it at that level um and then I think it increases 5% each year um there is um the ability to do that and revenues would support increasing that line but again I just keep continue to keep that line the same because that's what we put out there when we pass the referendum okay so the 345 to the 311 what that's in particular what I just don't understand why that decreased especially when earlier it was talk about the cost for an Sr increase so does that 345 to 311 does that mean we have fewer people no or we're just taking the money from some other account it's actually the Professional Services line for SRO since they're not employed by us we pay we pay the city and the county that number also went down though by $53,000 yeah um but it's not the SRO portion of that it would be other salaries um for um therapists um we part we uh contract with family services to provide some therapists in some of our buildings that's the portion that actually went down from the prior year yeah and it's not I'm not trying to make a big deal out of it because it's not M much money at all it just didn't it didn't seem seems counterintuitive that it does others go up and that goes down both of them and so maybe we can talk about it a little bit deeper when we get the the full budget to understand it okay yeah I'll send the so as we usually do we get through tonight and the end of this week or so the budget we'll send the full budget book to the whole board and put it online so everyone in public can can pour through about 120 pages of line items in the in the budget so the the operating F referendum and the high school referendum those are funded by obviously referendums there's streams that are associated ass with that The Debt Service fund is that just from Surplus property tax revenue so everything but the education fund up here the revenues come from property taxes and then the associated taxes with those it's exi tax and financial institution tax um the operations fund has some other revenue streams um like if we uh the ffy pays us to use our buses to transport kids every day there's some more in there but the two Debt Service funds the operating referendum and the operations fund those are all primary those are the ones that property taxes pay for and drive that tax rate okay um summarizing then this is the slide with the the total budget um last year12 $2.2 million and then proposed for 2025 is $1 168.5 million total increase of um about 10.7% um but I do want to point out that the about 6.1 million of that is drawing down from existing cash and so if you take that out you would say that we're going to increase revenues from other sources about 6.7% and then the last slide I usually like to show you to is just a a reminder of where we are from a cash balance history um and so in the education fund you saw at the beginning of the year we were just under 6.4 rainy day fund hasn't changed um in a in a few years uh operations been right around that 14 million for the last couple of years the operating referendum fund was just over 3 million and then the debt funds are the ones that we have seen an in a decline every year and I remind you each time that that will continue as new debt replaces old debt because that's the one that's the one fund that the dgf says you can only carry a certain amount of cash based on the next year's payment and it's 15% of the next year's payment and so reminder the next step is two weeks from tonight when there'll be a public hearing um and then a month later we'll have the vote on the the final advertised rate Levy and budget go back to this slide and ask if there are any other questions before we move on I've just got a quick one Dr Phillips that I think it's the following slide after this one that's got the uh yeah is there kind of a rule of thumb or a recommendation for for % of total budget that should be kept in the rainy day account um so everyone uses the Randy Day Count a little bit differently we don't touch the Randy day fund in our district some districts budget it each year and then carry over the balance from year to year but so we generally look at the the dollars that are available for us to spend are education fund rainy day fund operations fund and operating referendum the debt funds we can't touch for anything else they make payments on existing debt um so when you add those four columns up that's generally the cash balance that we have in place um and the the general recommendation for public entities is between 8 and 12% of expenditures is what you would want to have on on hand and so on a $160 million budget you can do that 12 and half 26 uh just about 30 million on a $160 million budget you can do the math there we're a little higher than what you would recommend or what the general recommendation is which is why we're moving to draw them down responsibly and if I recall correctly we I think it was a couple meetings ago we had the cash balances up there and operations fund was set to have a fairly high jump is this I'm seeing this is January 1 so this doesn't account for that jump that was planned for this year correct okay yeah it's just going back it doesn't have estimates for this coming year end okay we will send out the the larger budget book um within the next week and look forward to the hearing on the 23rd thank you okay next on the agenda is public comments so I'll remind everybody of our process here um if you ever want to speak at a board meeting when you come in the door here at the admin building there's a blue sheet on the table uh you just put your name on here we ask for your address make sure you're a resident um and then you can put the topic that you'd like to speak on you will get 3 minutes it will be on the clock over there so you can see that as you speak I ask that you stick to the 3 minutes and and I'll have you wrap up um you can defer to a spokesperson if somebody before you has spoken on a topic and they said exactly or very similarly to what you would have said you could say I just agree with so and so and and decide not to add to that uh please don't use names as specific individuals staff members specific positions it's the same thing um we want to make sure we keep this professional and talk on topics not people and um no cheers and geers from the audience it can be intimidating for people to come up and speak in front of this group group on YouTube and so I want to make sure that everyone feels comfortable doing that and we maintain a professional environment here so with that I have Brenda Clark first my name is Brenda Clark and I wanted to speak tonight on bcsc's policy 5516 we have members of my family that have been traumatized humiliated embarrassed I have put in 18 phone calls since February to schools and to this building to speak to people I have had one phone call returned my grandson which I have guard ship of received death threats and in today's world and what just happened in Georgia I have read your policy 5516 none of these children are getting even a slap on the wrist for what they are doing to other children and I think it is something that needs to be addressed even though it is Bartholomew County it can happen here we pulled our son out of our grandson out of bcsc and put him in a private school because we feared for his life shouldn't be that way schools should be a safe place for every child every teacher every employee and it just saddens me it breaks my heart when my grandchild come running to me they're afraid to go to school they're embarrassed it's not right and something should be done all I'm asking enforce your own policy I I don't think that's asking too much and I'm sorry this is off what you're talking about tonight you're talking about money I'm talking about safety for our children and and workers our children are our future please do everything you can to keep them safe I I don't like it that I have two grand two other grandchildren in the school system and they do not want to get up and go to school at all because of what they have to endure thank you it's okay thank you Miss Clark uh Mark NE Muller Mark niller of South Gladstone Avenue about my book complaint against uh push the Review Committee and principal Parson's denial of my complaint are based on Indiana codes codes that are in bcsc's book complaint policy the committee's letter goes into great detail arguing how the book complies with state law but since my complaint does not allege that the book violates the law that argument is moot Indiana Law does not apply here let alone require that the book remain in the school library therefore the basis of my complaint has not been addressed let alone ref uted my complaint is only that pushes large amount of extremely profane and vulgar descriptions of sex acts organs and situations is not changed by a good overall message push has far more OBS sinity than any other book in East Library a reality that is not changed by a good message or state law pushes degree of obscene content makes it unsuitable for the School library excuse me this position is based on the most fundamental standards of our community while the book does not violate the law it clearly violates our community standards while it's true that push has push has some good messages no amount of good context whether literary artistic or scientific can magically make the obscene Parts suitable for the school library or comply with community standards for example our local paper never publishes obscene language in its educational articles if anything represents Community standards it is the local newspaper also the student handbook of East High School apparently follows the same Community standards in multiple Parts it strictly forbids students or teachers from using profanity or vulgarity in school also the movie version of push is rated R and cannot be shown to minors without a parent even though the movie Precious is a toned down version of push a school library cannot legally have it in none of these examples does a good message justify obscenity in fact if a teacher at East were to use profanity or vulgarity to teach in class he would be subject to disciplinary consequences and if a teacher were to read parts of push allowed in class he could be fired there are countless other examples showing that good messages do not make the degree of obscene language in push suitable for minors All In All State law is an invalid basis for denying this complaint and in no way prevents this board from choosing a higher standard of reading for its students and voting to screen this book Thank you thank you Mr NE M uh Samantha is hello um today I want to address the issue of teacher safety being at the top of the Department of Education staff attacks by students report should be embarrassing to this Administration and board teachers are the backbone of our educational system they are individuals who edicate their dedicate their lives to educating guiding and inspiring our youth they take on the profession with a passion of commitment going above and beyond to nurture the minds of our Future Leaders any threat to their safety can create an atmosphere of fear and distraction which can affect the ability to teach effectively and connect with their students over the past week I have had teachers who have fled the Beast CSC School District reach out to me explaining the chaos they have been told to work through testimonies of teachers being smacked punched kicked tackled and strangled expected to come to work the next day and work with the same students I have also had concerned community members reach out with the similar events while I have watched these School Board me meetings over the past few years there has been no stress on safety if anything our schools are becoming less safe due to the attacks on these teachers but also the lack of the security and structure this board has created we must stop with the it never happens to us mentality and recognize that it is happening to us we must be proactive instead of reactive and stop with this and I quote if someone wants to hurt you they will mindset we have a massive issue that needs to be addressed immediately not only at school but at home our teachers deserve better our students deserve better and our community deserves better and our core belief should also say learning is most effective when our children and teachers are safe thank you thank you Cole Bennett good evening bcsc School Board my name is Cole Bennett I live on the North side of Columbus and I'm also here to speak about student safety but from a different angle looking through your agenda I'm pretty disappointed that there has been no mention of the mass shooting that occurred in Georgia this past week um were four innocent people two children and two teachers lost their lives and honestly I'm not surprised because we become so desensitized to mass shootings in the United States um but as someone who grew up learning how to hide under a table before I knew all the names of all States I think this issue Bears um some recognition and I I remember when I was in sixth grade over at Parkside asking my teacher after Sandy Hook in 2011 asking her are we safe here and I think about this grandmother whose grandchild asked the same question I know kids are asking the same question they're scared to go to school and while I'm thrilled to hear that there's been a $2 million investment in according to the operations budget for Safety and Security I think there needs to be more you can't tell me in a $38 million budget there's not some room for cutting back I mean we need metal detectors in all schools one exit one entrance policies we need more SRO I was at the citizens UK Academy through the Columbus Police Department learning about sro's there can't there isn't one at every school all the time they have to transport to different schools there needs to be one present at all times this is the ity that we live in and have been living in ever since I was in elementary school I feel like little to nothing has changed and we just don't even recognize it anymore we just gloss over it like it's not important I think children's lives are important because children deserve to feel safe at school and I read the Republic this past Saturday talking about how DCS is enthralled especially here in Bartholomew County they've already had 117 substantiated cases of child AB abuse and neglect kids deserve to come to a safe school and I think this is the future of America and what are we teaching children when they're not even feeling safe in their own schools where they should be I hate that we're here I hate that this is happening across the country but this is an excellent opportunity at the local level and I'm not talking guns because I know you guys can't legislate that at all I'm talking about common sense solutions that you can support and I'm not talking four-year plan 5year plan I want to know something that's being done today this month this year to protect our kids and I applaud the SRO that already work they do excellent work and you know liberals will say that we're milit militarizing schools conservatives will say that it's too expensive number one I had a great relationship with Officer Stevens and number two like I said $38 million in an operations budget there's some room for cutting for safety thank you thank you Mr Bennett okay that's all we had for public comments today next on the agenda all right thank you we have old business the minutes of the regular school board meeting from August 19th the work session prior to that on the same date and the minutes from the executive session on September 6th of 2024 I move that we approve uh item 7 a through C is presented a second thank you we have a motion and a second to approve items 7 a through C all those in favor please say I I all those opposed please say nay motion carries thank you on uh request for approval under new business we have the supplemental contracts regular supplemental contracts uh field trips and professional leaves as well as school fundraisers and claims and payroll the claims for September 9th 2024 and through today's date and also the uh August 11th 2024 payroll I will uh we'll come back to other new items and I'll request approval for items 8 a through 8D I move that we approve items under new business uh under number eight a through D is presented by Dr Phillips second thank you Mr Grimes and Mr Schultz a motion and second are there any questions or comments on items 8 a through D before we go to vote none from the team okay all those in favor of approving items 8 a through D please say I all those opposed please say nay motion carries thank you and then I'm not sure how you all want to approach um items the other items on the agenda if you want to take them one at a time or I think um Dr Phillips why don't you just go through the entire list and then we'll let the board make motions as they see fit sounds good uh the remaining uh new business item M items e through I included a determination regarding the contested library book push from Columbus East High School approval of the reorganization of board policies the first package that went through its first reading at the last board meeting um permission to uh donate uh excess equipment from Columbus East High School uh from Dr boseman's materials sent to the board before and then also um closing out the field lighting at Columbus East and Columbus North uh high schools a reduction in the final um change order for that project as well as the same for the north side Chiller replacement both of those are final closing out of the contract and both result in a net reduction of the contract so I do request approval of items 8e through AI I'll ask that e be pulled out okay okay do I have a motion from the board I have a motion to amend uh line item e to where it changes it from providing General access of the book push to access requiring parental consent prior to second okay so I believe and I'm looking at my good friend Mr Mr mcgyver over there we have a motion in a second to amend item e which would require a parental consent to um check out the book push do we vote on the amendment or we have vote on amended e because those are two slightly different things I just want to make sure we're doing this correctly you are obl ated by your policy to make a determination on the book challenge so I want to be clear what Mr Schultz your amendment is so the last line says that the book shall remain on shelf I believe if I recall that is being recommended to be amended to requiring the parental consent prior taxes something to that effect I'm pulling up the document real quick you're good so I think the first step so Mr Schultz included in your packet was a proposed document proposed findings for the board to be considered under item e the request requested proposed amendment um in front of the board is that those findings would be amended so that the conclusion that the board is making as part of those findings as it is prepared today it says the decision of the evaluation committee is upheld and the book May remain on the shelves of Columbus D high school media center the proposed amendment is that that finding would be that conclusion would be modified to say with a parental consent to access it so Mrs wield into your question I think the first step for the board would be to vote on that amendment is the board willing to make that agreement make that Amendment okay okay and what is needed in order for that amendment to be made as a majority correct that is as in the past when we have looked at like amending the words of a policy that is that is in front of the board a draft policy effectively that's where we're at at this point is is amending that proposed finding that's in there okay okay so the motion and the second that we all need to decide on is whether we want to amend e to include a step for there to be parental consent in order to check out the book push all those in yes discussion discussion discussion thank you than you Mr Stenner Mr want to say something I appreciate it Mr Stenner and again right is I I know it was kind of misunderstood in the last one um whenever we're voting on one of these things there's like nine or 10 items and if you don't agree with all of them you have to vote no and the last item is essentially General access right and so that's what I just motioned to amend I want to make sure it's clear like no one is act no one is recommending the term Banning books or removing books from the library the the argument and the discussion here which has been a gap I think on the political rhetoric is whether or not the parent has the ability to consent prior to the general access I think it's really important that we lower the temperature of this concern just given the act the issues that we've had locally um but also the issues that we have nationally across this and uh although the book has a great message I mean I read it and reviewed it um it's 136 Pages it's got nearly 400 obscenities and vulgarity it's got hundreds of usal uses of racial slurs and derogatory terms that I would never want my children um to use or consider used in everyday language um and it also has several accounts of detailed sexual abuse and child rape which I don't find appropriate as I'm sure this camera is staring in my general direction to detail those accounts especially as we hope the children are uh you know getting involved in the Civic minded process and watching this um I just know that if this book was given as classroom literature as I've talked with teachers across the district when they hand out stuff for literature it would require parental consent um as I believe Mr ner said it's an R-rated movie on a toned down version of the book can't really get it into the classroom without parental consent and it's really the same content same children and I'm just not understanding the different outcomes but again right that's what I want the board to see is a clean motion um around parental consent not around removing Banning or restriction sections or anything like that of the book and really the question here is are the parents going to be afforded the ability for consent prior to this adult content reaching their children as the father of daughters that have taken and had that same abuse done to them I would like that ability and I don't know why we're not affording the parents that ability and I know the options are going to be you can review everything in the library catalog and go line by line and request it I just don't think that's a a what we call you know accessible options to people that are barely making it by and are working in a lot of cases two jobs to scroll the of our library and especially now that I mean as the father of uh elementary school children finding out that now there's a self checkout option in the libraries which is a new thing to me I don't know how it would even be policed in the first place so I'm just saying as a father of daughters that took on that abuse I would like to be able to give afford the ability to have the consent before that would make it to my teenage daughter's hands and so that's why I'm making this motion okay any other comments or questions from the team yeah this is this is never easy um you know I I've done this once before um again read the whole book I I probably had a slightly different count of bad words I went through and highlighted Every curse word derogatory word in the book I counted 363 of them and 36 Pages for 2.7 per page I mean just me trying to go through this right now makes me almost want to throw up right I mean this is just it's from a standpoint of having these books challenged the parental approval takes the challenge away right so in the words of the author in the afterward too often controversial texts are not taught regularly in the classroom because teachers themselves are not confident enough to engage engage their students in discussion of the recognizably challenging and sensitive subject matter I the the words I mean there's there I'm not going to even say them there's so many of them um but this I'm going to just read this because this is what I found to be the most abhorent portion of the book and I get you have to tell a story but this isn't even an autobiography or a biography it's all fiction so the author can use whatever words or stories that they feel to be appropriate so this is this portion has the mother the father and a baby in part of this Carl got my titty in his mouth nothing wrong with that it's natural but I think that that's the day it started I don't ever remember nothing before that I hot he sucking my titty my eyes closed I know he getting hard I can see without my eyes I love him so much mhm I was raised by a psycho Maniac fool he climbed on me you know you understand no tell us some more you stupid so he on me then he reached over to Precious now precious is a baby start with his finger between her legs I say Carl what are you doing he say shut your big ass up this is good for her then he get off me take her Pampers off and try and stick his thing in Precious you know what tripped me out it almost can go in Precious I think she's some kind of freak baby then I say to Carl stop I want him on me I never wanted him to hurt her I'm shaken reading that and you know as far as I'm concerned I'm sure you understand how I'm going to vote this this should be something that a parent can give approval to their child to read Because I bet most everybody in this room right now can't even look up probably without shaking their head and thinking what the hell did he just say and so you know we all want to sit here and talk about all of us being adults I'm 49 years old I don't understand this right I don't understand why it's necessary to tell a story I think there's so many other ways to tell a story and I would challenge any real doctor to come in here and say that we fight trauma with reintroduction to trauma so I this is beyond the pale any other comments or questions from the board before we go to a vote on the motion to amend sure I I'm wondered if uh Dr Phillips or somebody from the administration could remind me I think we've talked about this in the past if a parent is concerned about a book and their child having access to it or even a a style of book or a book that addresses certain topics what under the current system what what do they do to make sure that their children don't see a book or a book that deals with certain subjects with any concern including one like this the one that you described the step we always request parents to take is reach out to your child's teacher first and then um the building Administration or person closest to the issue if it was a library book it would be the the librarian or Media Center Specialists so contacting the school and saying making a request that their student not have access to the book and are you aware of teachers or Librarians not being willing to do that no I'll go ahead I this may be I I was going to speak a little later but now seems like an appropriate time so as a high school educator for the past 34 years and and currently having four grandsons all attending bcsc schools I I do feel compelled to provide just a brief statement on uh that explains my stance on the book push and I can say that I did read push in its entirety twice in an honest sincere effort to understand both sides of the issue of which I think both sides have very valid very valid points and I can also say each time that I read the book it it was a very emotional experience for me and so I'm not sure that anybody could argue that parts of the book's contents aren't extremely graphic horrifying and raw a as they describe the the sexual physical emotional abuse that the book's main character precious had to endure I can tell you after 34 years in education most of those spent working with kids that would be considered at risk I have heard remarkably similar or and believe it or not even worse stories than that depicted in push and so I as Mr Bennett alluded to earlier um you know we don't have to look far to find cases of devastating C circumstances that today's youth are exposed to um as he stated you know the main headline in Saturday's Republic was child well welfare cases soore in the county and the article went on to describe several heartbreaking cases of what children in barthol County have been put through in the recent past and so all things considered to me push isn't just a book that describes often in very Vivid detail the atrocities that precious had to endure it's most importantly at least in my opinion a book about hope it's a book about a girl coming to realize what happened to her was not her fault it's a book about a girl realizing she's not alone in the world as she met others that had also endured unspe unspeakable abuse which helped her to feel alive inside it's a book about the power of education and the positive impact a teacher or any other caring adult can have in a child's life and as precious gradually learned how to read and write her confidence and self-worth also took a positive trajectory it's a book about resil y connection and the incredible power of positive relationships and lastly I'll just say again I believe it's a book about Hope and it's my hope for those that have endured terrible distresses similar to that as precious in the book that if they might happen to read the book that they can realize that they're not alone and it's not their fault as for others that might happen to read the book I hope they may develop a heightened sense of compassion for others and a willingness to do what they are able to do in order to help so many of our youth that are that are currently hurting and struggling that's it so I was going to save my comments for later too but I guess I'll throw them out here now um so I read it last summer because I decided to proactively read some of these books and it was one of the most uncomfortable books I've ever read um I looked up about the author and and it's it is fiction but the author was a remedial reading teacher in New York City and it's actually a compilation of many stories that she heard from many students um and that made a difference to me but I think whether we remove it from the shelf or whether we somehow label it as controversial I would like to think of it from the perspective of two different groups of students and one is students that have experienced one or more of these traumas if we remove it or we label it somehow a a controversial book that sends the message to them that their stories and their experience es there's something wrong with them and it's it's not what people did to them but there's something wrong with what they experienced in their life and I that's not a message I want to send to kids the other students that I think it's important for is students who have never experienced that um as as difficult as it is to read I hope that one thing our um students get out of their bcsc experience is um is empathy for others that have experienced things that they have not experienced and and that's one of the things I got out of this book and the and the other big thing out I got of this book to go along with what Mr Grimes said um I'm a retire teacher but I'm always a teacher and and to see the impact that a positive relationship between a teacher and a student can have on that student when I got done I wanted every teacher I know to read the book because um it's an inspiration in terms of the impact a teacher can have when a teacher sees potential and value and something to respect in a student that didn't see that in herself thank you anything I get to speak now yes if you'd like to I understand Logan I understand what you're saying with my past experience in law enforcement I seen all of this happened to people and everybody wants to push it under the carpet they don't want it to be brought out some way we have to bring it out and let people know that this is happening to our kids period not just this book but people need to speak up and speak out about how things are happening here in beamia county in the state of Indiana and in this nation that book is not going to it's not going to poison a person's mind but it's also going to help some kids speak up for themselves and that's what I feel the book does done thank you Mr Bryant I do have one question in response to Chad or Dr Phillips to Mr Center when you mentioned that there's ways to you know obviously work with Librarians and teachers how does that work with the new self-checkout process across a lot of the schools cuz like so for example my daughter explained her process of going through and she was in when there when there was no librarian so how would that work if there isn't a person present in the library I would have to look into it but between the child's teacher um and the librarian knowing if a class was coming with that student in it um just to put those safeguards in place I'm making assumptions there that that's how they would approach it particularly yeah school from a fourth grader's view there could have been someone in the room for all I know but that was her description of the process and and Mr Brian I know you would use Pat but I really appreciate what you said and although I I I I brought this more from a heart right because I do experience this for my own two daughters and I've had more DCS therapists in my home that I have fingers and toes like no therapist has ever said you solve trauma with more trauma that just creates PTSD and triggers what they they always give is how do you get to the proactive ways like how you mentioned to break this out and that's proper education of sexual abuse and that needs to be the Forefront of any mitigation plan for those with sexual Abus is and that like I actually just consulted with three therapists before I came here and they're like the number of people that will start you know expressing their risks in that second to third grade window when they start saying you know the Good Touch Bad Touch conversations that's the most critical element of a proactive mitigation plan and so I appreciate that bcsc does it a book that I believe has been checked out less than a half dozen times over how many years I don't I don't see it it was it was checked out 15 times since 2009 the other book that they had because they had two copies was purchased in 2010 checked out 14 times it was marked lost in 2015 so since 2015 it's a handful of times once a year it's never been required reading by Any teacher um and that kind of ties to the media resource you know it's to sport School curriculum student learning student interests so and the movie Precious has never been shown which is rated R okay and would require a parental permission thank you Mr major um so I'm going to take us back to the task at hand for the group to remind everybody there is a process to um request a book be removed Mr Nea went through that process once a request is made there's a committee form to review that request that committee makes a recommendation their recommendation was to keep the book in the library Mr ner then has 30 days from receiving that in order to petition that it be escalated to the board for a decision once we receive that request which we did formally in our July 15th meeting we have 60 days by which we need to make a decision and then and then go back to Mr ner with our final decision which is what is happening tonight in this meeting so we do need to make a decision tonight I think the motion in the second that we need to decide on first is whether we would like to amend item 8e to include a requirement that a permission FP in effect parental consent yeah parental consent would um be required for anybody to check this book out so in this vote if you vote yay you would like for that to be a requirement added to 8e if you vote nay then you do not is that is everybody clear with that it's a little different than normal okay so we are voting on I'm I'm sorry the I don't know what the audience is doing okay we're asking if we can do aoll call something so um I think it will be notice we can raise hands but yay and will raise hands would that be okay it would decision any someone from have to request I I was just distracted by the Motions in the audience sorry we'll write down your Nam okay that's fine that's fine no problem um so so real quick yay is we do want parental sign off nay is we don't yes okay so the motion that has been made is to amend the proposed findings as they were written it just said remain on the shelves this first question is do you want to add to that available with parental consent right that's what that's why I said and are we raising our hands or are we what's the plan here make sure ra my hand okay we'll raise our hand okay I I if the members of the audience if we have a time for public comment this is not it y go ahead and call the vote the way you think Y and we can see mouth's move you can you can see us I okay yay or nay from the team if that's okay if th vote yay if you would like item 8 e to add parental consent required okay yeah okay two yays all those opposed say nay nay it was a 25 vote that motion is denied I now need a motion from the board regarding item 8e I would move that we approve item 8e as originally presented to us in our board packet I second Mr Gres thank you Mr n all those in favor of approving item 8 e as presented tonight in the packet please say yay y all those opposed say nay motion carries okay we have items 8 F through I still on the table for the team I move to propose l in items 8 f do I as presented second thank you Mr Schultz and Mr Bryant we have a motion to approve items 8 F through I all those in favor please say I I all those oppose please say nay motion carries 70 thank you thank you president won Dr Philip and members of the board of school trustees the five Human Resources recommendations for this evening consist of two appointments two resignations and one leave of absence I request that you please approve the Personnel recommendations as presented in the board packet I move that we approve the HR recommendations as presented by Dr stal Bal second thank you Mr Grimes and Mr Bryant any comments or questions okay all those in favor of approving HR recommendations as presented please say I I all those opposed please say nay motion carries Dr stom there are two additional Personnel recommendations for this evening and I request that you please approve the additional Personnel recommendations as presented in the board packet I move to approve the additional human resource recommendations as presented second thank you Mr Schultz and Mr Maj all those in favor of approving additional Human Resources recommendations please say I I all those opposed please say nay thank you motion carries Dr stom okay board input and review Miss Jan Allen would you like to start please I don't think I have anything okay I'll render myself speechless today okay Mr Schultz hey a a thank you to Mrs vogle Mr Finley Miss dwire Mrs Meyers for uh your presentation on Unified sports and activities in bcsc that's much appreciated um also thank you to do Phillips for taking on his old role tonight and providing yet another thorough well explained um taking us through the budget and then lastly a a sincere thank you for the four community members that spoke here this evening and for all others that were in attendance thank you for taking the time to be here thank you Mr Gs um it was mentioned earlier I just want to point out in two days it is September 11th so I just ask that everybody find a police officer a fireman Emergency Services somebody that takes really great care of us and appreciate them this week that's all thank you Dr Phillips Mr Stenner do you have anything um great comments made already I'll just ditto thank you Mr major anything yeah from uh you know I'll Echo the Unified sports comments uh I think one of the things that I've been able to observe as my daughter went through high school was just the leadership that several of the high school students were able to uh show just with the the excitement enthusiasm and engagement that they had within Unified sports the leadership they were able to to develop along with giving many young children young students and teenagers uh opportunities to go out and do something that is a little bit harder for them to do than the average kid and uh be successful see success and understand that uh that there's opportunities for them to you know do a lot of different things in their life that they might not have thought they could so great job to everybody that supports that uh hopefully we see those numbers Rise um you know postco obviously there's a dip but hopefully we can see that number continue to rise so thanks to everybody that works on that uh committee and initiative Mr Bryant if you haven't been to a sports event like the UniFi you need to go that's all I have to say you need to go thank you Mr Brant oh thank you so officer Sam I'm sitting back here Mrs won can I just add a couple of notes yes of course I I'll start with one sad one and then move on to to happy ones I want to thank Mr V Bennett for bringing in front of us um a reminder of the events that happened down in Georgia from last week it is a sad commentary that they very quickly Fade Into the background of Our Lives um when we have another school shooting and so thanks for reminding us um that those things cannot become common place and then on a more positive note I promise to not always just recount my weekend in front of you but this this weekend was tremendous so Friday night the Indiana Department Department of Education honored uh a number of schools and Educators from across the state but um Veronica buckler who was our top 10 teacher from last year top 10 teacher in the state last year was honored as well as um uh twanette Miller at Schmidt who was the state's rise Award winner for classified staff so it was a great event downtown everybody gets to dress up and have a fancy dinner um and then on Saturday morning speaking of athletic events if you haven't been to an El cross country event to watch to watch those kids uh it was 550 or so kids plus a couple parents so apologies to everybody in the Richards area who couldn't get out of their driveway this weekend at the beginning of Saturday morning but it is a terrifically fun event to watch um all of the kids Sprint right off the bat and then they're all walking within 200 yards with the exception of those that have learned how to Pace themselves but um those those poor third and fourth grade girls I think about a third of them by the time they finished they were crying including the winner she was crying and she was dominant she she won by a lot um but then on Sunday Columbus North had their first play I don't know how they memorized and performed and produced a play in the first month of school but it was really really well done um and so congratulations to them and then the last thing I will mention is that I attended my first ever Ganesh Festival on Sunday evening um and so I want to thank Dr Cole hutar who invited me to that event and then and let me uh smash the coconut on the ground to start the procession to the river um it was it was a tremendous experience next year is the 21st year of that in Columbus and it's one of the biggest uh in the state of Indiana one of the biggest U Ganesha festivals in the state of Indiana was a terrific um learning experience on my part for you know a culture that's really important to our community so thank everybody for a great weekend and just point out all of the amazing things that our kids participate in every given weekend of the year thanks for Ling thank you Dr Phillips okay our next meeting um is on September 23rd at 6:30 that will be the public hearing for the budget um and I'd also like to address another comment that was made tonight regarding the Department of Education report that came out last week regarding um injuries of staff there have been a lot of conversations um since that report came out and we're providing the administrative team some time to to kind of present that data to us and help us answer some of the questions that we have regarding that information so just be on the lookout for that agenda if it can make it into the 23rd I think we'd all like it to um or it may be a different session altoe but um I think we all agree we need to respond and understand that information better so that we can have a good plan going forward we're just not sure exactly where it fits so um so next meeting in here September 23rd at 6:30 p.m.

so set your de VR yeah and that should be an exciting game whand has that outstanding running back max dressen I believe and uh he is committed to play division one football with I think it's Bucknell really yeah I think he had an offer to play division 3 but he wanted to go to a division one School uh Bucknell I think it's Division I think that's what I had read so Tackle by number zero K Kelly rudil took the kickoff there and was able to bring it back to the 22 12.5 seconds to go looks like Grafton still got their starting defense on there maybe let him run out this play and see if uh the reserves get some playing time in the fourth quarter back to the gun formation yeah Guan Amaral well they able to push the pile a little bit yeah four yards that'll do it for the quarter all right thanks guys I appreciate it uh yeah I uh I didn't know what to expect but uh it was pretty good this was fun pleasure me you Carri thanks for com yeah please come back will you come back yeah we'll be back you have you have my I I have your number you're in my phone now let us know okay Ser all right guys thanks I appreciate it okay all right and if you're board just walk up to the field don't even let us you know if we're here just come on up okay I will all right techniplex flexible techniplex what do you go what do you prefer to go by we used to say techniplex flexible did they rename that division yes we are now techniplex Healthcare is that the whole company or your division the ash is the well I could go deep into we were various Solutions now we're B I don't know just call us Healthcare Easy Tech it we appreciate that we appreciate you thank you thank you very much guys okay thanks great Carrie Turner plant manager ashlin's techniplex Healthcare so we got a quick break here we'll send it back to uh quick quick commercials and uh we'll start with the fourth quarter you're watching ashin High School 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 teor Flex ashin is once again proud to support the 20124 Ashlen High football team and its coverage have a great season and go 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 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 third and five third and five second play of the fourth quarter [Applause] lot of misdirection the only one not fooled was Grafton as they shot them down they get no yards and it's going to bring up fourth and five as we're just starting the fourth quarter with the Grafton Gators leading 25 to nothing dominating on both sides of the ball Ashley really struggling on offense they may only have one first down that sounds about right yeah but again we knew coming in that this Grafton team was very very strong Ashland is going to get their share of wins before the season's over and they got too many men in the Huddle so they're going to throw a flag it's going to be fourth and 10 illegal participation if that grafting coach had gotten any further out onto the field he would have been on the line thei well as ashin resets let's give a quick shout out to the clocker club the official booster club of ashin high school sports their signature fundraising events include a golf tournament which was held at Shining Rock in Northbridge earlier this week and a pancake breakfast on Super Bowl Sunday if you'd like to get involved they meet here at the high school the first Wednesday of every month at 7:00 p.m.

advocating for all of these projects I I as s McGuire mentioned there's been positive conversations about this um so I I do feel that that our projects are going to be considered seriously um in this process so I I'm I'm happy about that for sure um and these are things that are certainly in need the high school track is original you know to to the construction of this building probably a high a high school track at best should last 15 years this this one's well past that um and it's in pretty rough shape we patch it we cut sections out and um and then replace them but um that's that's not a not a long-term fix um you know all of these things are things that are really just minimum requirements to kind of keep things going um my my expectation is there won't be $5 million out there for stadium Renovations I don't think that's probably going to happen but I hope that the rest of the items on this list will will have strong consideration be happy to answer any questions you might have thank you Mr Kylie questions for my colleagues Mr Nunes thank you uh Mr chairman appreciate this uh I don't have anything on my calendar Thursday I may join you it is a public meeting you're welcome to plus I can always use a friendly face um but yeah so it'll be at Town Hall I I think in the select Board Room last one was yeah somewhere on the third floor anyway I'll find it thank you but um I was you know kind of jumping ahead here uh and that and and just looking like you know I remember getting we got the letter from the fire chiefs about the fire systems and and that type of deal and you know notice that you've got it on in 26 type of deal you know there there's money in 26 and I think 27 to to get it going along with a whole bunch of other things and this is this is a very concise uh report in listing in the explanations attached to it are uh fantastic it you know was helpful to me to see what what it was for and what we need and such so I thank you for that the only question I have and I know that schools are somewhere down the line going to have to come to fruition the decision is going to have to be made and I noticed that you had U uh Potter and Demello I think with the windows you know just because of their age yeah pot and you know that's that that I would assume that's an iffy depending where we're headed that's right yeah yeah I I think the you know the overall direction of the of a new school uh in the district would obviously impact that and if if it were to be an elementary school then then yeah obviously I I don't think it would make sense yeah to to do that um you know we do have a new school listed on here um I've been actively participating in the long-term capital planning process with the town and um that's a that's going very well um now we are not actually advocating for any of the major projects yet so we're not at that that far in but we have identified them understand the cost understand the capacity of the town to borrow um so it's it's exciting and and I think the intent is to inform the the the populace of you know what's going to be needed over the next 40 years and um this is how you might pay for it so um I think a lot more is coming including we anticipate a presentation at least a summary presentation at the October 15th town meeting regarding the efforts that we've been making so so it's that's moving in a positive direction too thank you sir you're welcome anyone else no I guess I'll just add that I while I certainly appreciate and I look forward to the long-term capital planning committee uh continuing to do its work I I've been saying we've we've got to do something about a new school for the past decade um and the prices aren't going to get cheaper they only going to get more expensive this District it it just it just becomes very very frustrating um we see I I see what other neighboring communities are doing with their school systems and I think I think the community owes it to all the all the kids as well as their own students that probably went through here at one time or another um I just hope that uh this isn't just something that just continues to be prolonged I I appreciate while I appreciate the work of the long-term planning committee it's just we need a new school we needed it 20 years ago um and I'm I'm just tired of of beating this drum so hopefully something can be done so Mr alliv our we need new schools right so we don't just need a new school we actually thank you for that direction we do need schol um and one of the things that you had suggested a bit ago is that we actually take you know identify a group including select board finance committee those folks and bring them out to our schools um maybe take a Saturday and do a tour of our buildings to actually show some of um again the the maintenance crew here our custodians I just want to say they do a fabulous job when I walk through schools the past couple of weeks they are sparkling they truly are despite their age and at the same time there are some things that facilities and custodians that they they're not able to really address um in a way that brings us up into what you were saying uh School you were saying Mr Oliver about other schools around us who really have some Modern facilities that are really comfortable and create amazing learning spaces for kids um so we have wonderful staff out there who take the because it's not about the building itself it's about what goes on in the building we all recognize that wonderful things happening here and at the same time look at the new configuration of the library and look at the way the space has been organized in a way that really is conducive to student engagement and collaboration we had a group of adults sitting in the corner when we came in in a nice little sort of Cozy Corner where you could Envision how kids could be using this space our students could be using this space in a way that really does encourage that kind of collaborative environment that our students are going to leave Dartmouth High School and that is going to be um sort of the world that they're going to live in and so seeing this itself is just this is great yeah and it truly is and we just love the way the space is used creatively to actually allow more opportunities for students to engage and this is just one small example of what can be done no C certainly agreed uh and thank you for the correction on schools plural um but at the end of the day it's doas infrastructure it's no different than the B and Sagamore Bridges going over the cape they need to be replaced and they're just about as old as those bries well they are just about as old and you can pay the piper now or pay them later and it's going to be more money later so I just hope um staying positive yep uh next up superintendent update great this is always my favorite part so I am I was thinking that I hadn't all that i' had already shared with you how wonderful the beginning of the year was but I realized when I thought back last time we met we had just had convocation which was wonderful and now schools are open um and I have to say that even that uh feeling that I had that first day of convocation and the energy that the staff brought into that space that day is truly evident in our schools um they've returned with such great spirits and in turn have welcomed our students back to school and with I would say a way to characterize it is with warmth and enthusiasm um can't say I say it all the time but how impressed I am with school district leaders teachers everything that all have done to ensure the successful opening of the 20242 school year um it's really amazing to me to think that you know that's the actual year that we're in when I think about inviting uh some of our new teachers and certainly some veterans were here with us but we see the long career that they'll have ahead of of them uh this past week I had the opportun well last week I had the opportunity to join principal Shay and Associate principal chavier in a meeting with the superintendent advisory this is a group if you remember that we started last year um a group of students that are real randomly selected so we have two freshmen two sophomore two Juniors two seniors and I want to say that I think that's a really important group to meet with um and I'm pleased to see how diverse the group is and how much they even in that that you know monthly meeting have been able to support each other and what I mean by that is we have a senior who was so welcoming to the two freshmen and think about like what uh sort of intimidating experience it can be for a couple of freshmen to walk into a space with upper class people who are pretty um I would say well known in the school and that's the kind of of climate and culture that we have here at Dartmouth High School I'm also really pleased to say that despite some of our hiccups our transportation has our buses our folks Lauren py Jim Kylie have done an outstanding job making sure that our students get to school and get home safely because after all that's what it's all about the safety of our students is our our primary purpose we understand at the beginning of the year that there can be some hiccups and that we have to make some adjustments and we expect to do that and at the same time we also want to recognize that our primary import our primary purpose is safety safety getting students to school safely and getting them home safely we have had some challenges at the middle school again the beginning of the year the middle school is probably on the busiest or busiest Street or one of the busiest minus Route 6 in um in Dartmouth and yes there is quite a bit of traffic that can get backed up there um and again just a reminder last year uh the police department we did have our police officers who were at our schools and helped to do some of that Crossing and that traffic work that's no longer the case and that's because they simply couldn't staff it and at the same time the police department is supporting us in front of our schools in monitoring traffic and taking action where they think it's needed so we just want to remind people that it's still the beginning of the year and that means there are still some students who may be getting rides that won't be soon and vice and so we're still working through some of that it's um September 9th and so hope hopefully over the next few weeks we'll see that there's there'll be some relief from some of the traffic congestion that's happening um but thanks to our thank you to our families and school-based folks for patience and support because when there is a challenge we're working it through together and that's what's important too about recognizing that there are sometimes going to be challenges that we have to work through together so um just on to the teaching and learning piece normally we'd wait until probably after October 1st because that's when we have to report our official enrollment to the state but I thought I'd take some time just to update you as to where we are and then after October 1st give you a more formalized uh presentation that would be something that we'll do through a PowerPoint but I wanted to give you an idea as to where we are with the recognition that we we are actually still registering students for school um it's definitely slowing down uh again Jen masado has done an amazing job but I think we are at the elementary level we made some changes as you remember uh we moved the kushman kindergarten to the Dello um that again we're so pleased to have our kindergarteners at the Dello where they'll be spending really the next six years of their school life um and so we're so happy to have them there and I've seen how again the staff at the Dello has welcomed as they call them the the the littles to school um so happy to have them there and if you also remember we did move um three classrooms out of the Dello to make room for not out of but we elimin this goes back to budget and did have some impact so that's why I think it's important for people to hear what was that impact um let's see what that looks like so at Kinder the kindergarten level across the district at the Dello our average class size is 18 at the potter it's 19 and at the Quinn it's 16 so for a district average of 17 students um at the kindergarten level at the uh grade one level at the Dello we have 17 students at the potter 21 at the Quinn 21 and that gives us an average of 20 students in our grade ones across the school district for grade two at the Dello we have 20 students at the potter at the potter 20 at the Quinn 21 and that is a district average of 21 grade three we have 23 students in grade three at the Dello 23 at the potter 22 at the Quinn for a district average of 23 students in grade three in grade four we have 22 students at the Dello 25 at the Potter and 19 at the Quinn for a district average of 21 at in grade five we have 24 students at the Dello 22 at the potter 24 at the Quinn and that gives us a district average of 24 so um at the middle school we currently have 801 students and at the high school we currently have 900 students um and again when we do our more formal presentation we'll talk to you more about what that looks like and break down the middle school and the high school and give some ideas about what class size look like but I just want to remind people that there are times where you're going to see higher class sizes in some grade levels due to the birth rate that year um there are also going to be times where one school may have a few more students than another again based on where what where students are moving um but at the same time the district is paying excuse me paying attention to uh making sure that there is some parity across the district in terms of what class size looks like and I think from what you heard and again I'll give you this more formally so that you have it at your fingertips but that we do have a average class sizes that are reasonable and that across the the especially at the three elementary schools you can see that there's some equity in terms of the enrollment of those schools so that is under there under under HR or Personnel um I mentioned this last uh last at our last school committee meeting uh districtwide we're still in the process of recruiting for a behavior specialist the bcba that's an important position for us in the district you approved that for us last year and although we haven't filled the position yet we are already seeing quite early on uh the need for that position and the service that it will provide to our school district our teachers our students our families uh we are looking for a 05 PE health teacher um and then again at the district level a nonin under non-instructional we're still looking for somebody for our maintenance department but we're working on it um you know I'm happy to report that at the high school we are we have identified a World Language teacher we haven't unboarded them yet so I don't want to jinx us but I think we have a really wonderful person who will invite here to meet you since we weren't able to introduce her yet quite yet so we think that we're close again to we are on boarding that person this week uh we still need an El teacher elll English language teacher for our our high school and our middle school that's a shared position between those two buildings and three esps um we're still hopeful but we're close to filling both our custodial positions we filled one and we have one in hopefully again um that we'll be on boarding soon at the middle school I mentioned the El teacher we still need an ESP and we need somebody in Food Services at the Quinn um we're in pretty good shape at the Quinn um we're looking for an ESP and we're also looking for a full-time custodian and then the Dello again in pretty good shape we're fully staffed for our certified staff um and we're still looking for uh part-time custodian and food services so kushman we're in really great shape so we're fully staffed at the kushman school we're always looking for monitors though so when I say fully staffed please know that that is something that that particular position is one that we value and we're constantly looking for folks to fill that role um so Potter fully staffed I mentioned a couple of things that they're looking for but uh overall and you could see from um from Dr tibo and Mrs pavo's pres uh presentation that we have pretty good retention and that I think shows itself when you start talking about positions and what you what you're still or who you're still looking for um you know I always have to say it monitors substitute teachers esps uh Food Service workers always needed in the district so uh you'll constantly see that those positions are advertised and we just want to encourage people that think they may have an interest in one of those positions to apply um as far as climate and culture I'm kind of going to switch gears here a little bit because you know I want to acknowledge that there was a terrible tragedy that took place in Georgia um undoubtedly devastating to hear of the Educators and students there who KN needlessly lost lives and it's just an unimaginable Act of an individual our thoughts and prayer go out to the families of this school community that was impacted by this and at the same time what I'd like to do is reassure folks that in the Dartmouth Public Schools we pay a lot of attention to Safety and Security we are partnered very closely with Dartmouth fire with Dartmouth police and we do work closely together with all of our school-based teams to ensure the safety of our school Community um already if you and I read all the daily notices that our school leaders are sending out to their staff they're already you can see established routines uh what are the precautions that are there are precautions firmly in place across the school district and our staff and students are well-versed in safety procedures I brought this just um book the booklet I should say which is a comprehensive emergency plan now I mean a book itself or a packet doesn't have uh a lot of impact but what I can tell you is that this is something that I know leadership out in our schools is is sharing with our faculty and they're spending time going over this and it's been recently updated and it'll be something that we continue to remind people of um but at the same time again recognizing that there was a terrible tragedy that took place in our country uh just last week uh very obvious viously devastating for the community but here in Dartmouth and at the same time I should say in Dartmouth we do pay a lot of attention to Safety and Security measures and it is always our primary purpose to ensure the safety of our staff and our students and we'll be doing as a matter of fact we we'll be meeting with our safety leaders within the next week or two uh to talk about and update each other on some of uh the processes that we have in place um so I think though Switching gears back to it's been a positive real honestly a positive start to the school year I'm so excited to see you see we had our seniors here tonight a few of our seniors so you know that um they're going to be out there uh doing um just amazing things that we'll be able to share with you here at school committee I read Mr chrisa fi's morning Monday minute this morning our sports teams are off to a great start I'm looking forward to getting out there and seeing them I know that Mrs emal's daughter May qu her first goal her first lacrosse goal as a fresh as a field hockey oh did I did I say lacrosse I'm sorry I knew it was field hockey um I confuse them though to be fair they're very different they are different but I still get confused um so but I'm so excited to be out there and see her playing and Mrs Amaral I know you were so um proud of her and how excited she was to be able to to have that sort of moment as a as a freshman so looking forward to seeing what the sports season does Mr Nunes I am not going to say anything about the band I'm leaving it to you that's fine I'm super excited to see what what I have and I'm looking forward I did commit with Mr Shay that we are going to be working one of the games the Patriots games in the concession stand and The Patriot looked pretty good yesterday so let's hope that that's going to be a positive experience so that's all I have for you well thank you very much Dr Sab Maguire I thoroughly enjoy your uh super your superintendent uh updates that uhk you all-encompassing I I will like to I would like to take just a quick opportunity in a moment to since I wasn't able to attend the convocation I do want to uh recognize all the um Summer Staff the Dartmouth Public Schools maintenance department uh Administration uh the administrative assistance all of those folks that uh take the time and um you know work extremely hard over the summer to turn these buildings around um so I think it's important uh that we I I would just like to recognize them for all their dedication and their hard work and I also like to wish our um educational staff teaching staff a a wonderful year we hope it goes well um and we're very uh grateful and uh you know appreciative for all you do um for the dmouth public schools so thank you ever so much um that's really all I have um I'm going to turn it over to Mr Nunes for the band update thank you Mr chairman yeah the band is going uh doing quite well in all seriousness um we've got our first home football game Friday night uh against against Brain Tre the band will be performing part of their uh their field show their competition season starts the uh 21st of September I think we're in Blackstone type of deal uh we have our home show uh right now Tena Lively scheduled for October 19th our us band's uh home show here October 19th uh again at the moment scheduled to uh start at 3 o'clock um at the moment again we've got uh 12 bands signed up so it'll be a you know I don't have any times that won't get posted until you know the first week of SE first week of October so I'll have that for our October 7th meeting type of deal but uh they're good to go I know I was watching the volleyball game before I came stuck my head into the volleyball game and we were ahead one to nothing and I had I don't know 22 to six or something in the second game so sounds like they've had they had a good night which is good and the rest of our teams are doing great so really thrilled for that which is what it's all about agreed thank you for that update anyone else have anything to share out I don't all right the next a regular scheduled meeting of the Dartmouth school committee is currently scheduled for Monday September 23rd 2024 right here in the Dartmouth High school media center uh at this time chair we'll entertain a motion to to adjourn into executive session for the purpose of an update on pending legal matters and not to reconvene into second by Mr Beck I'll give it to I'll give it to Miss Beck with on the motion any further discussion okay roll call please Chris Oliver yes M coflin yes yes yes yes meeting is adjourned everyone good night thank you [Music]

from asgo high school and go through downtown asgo the parade route will include Garfield Jefferson Maine Tyler Ashlin Washington and Franklin streets do asigo East Senior Cooper Carlile has been cast in the Illinois High School All State musical the prom oh he will perform during the yearly Illinois High School theater Festival at the University of Illinois on January 9th through through the 11th as a key event of the festival Cooper auditioned with hundreds of students from across the state and was cast he rehearsed over several weekends up until January's performances Cooper is only the fifth student in high school in in asigo East history to achieve this honor [Applause] hey and with that that concludes superintendent comments thank you okay we'll move on to 6.3 I'm sorry 6.2 board committee reports we'll start off with the equity and teaching and learning who has comments about that I can go um equity and teaching and learning we met this week uh we talked about a couple things um including some updates from teaching and learning we're going to talk about today the e-learning learning plan um and um those were kind of uh the highlights from our um teaching and learning committee there's one other thing though updates to the board yes updates to the board and then um the screening oh yeah Universal uh Universal screening uh was also part of our agenda at that time so um that's all I just learning yep and they highlighted um that there will be some monthly board updates coming from their Department uh on our board agendas so and we looked at some of the possible topics for that aligned with some of the work that we'll be doing in the committee so and I just want to add that I know we'll probably get to this but I don't care I want to re or I want to emphasize it before we get there that the uh e earning review that was in the works before like that's something we were we were already going to do before before it got hot outside yeah yeah we talked about that a little bit Yeah okay next the finance and Facilities who would like to report out on that oh um the document is well done so on September 23rd basically uh we're going to be coming uh to the board with an opportunity um to call back bonds potential um to set parameters around when we would do it and how we would do it and what the advantages would be um four new bus leases that's coming tonight right yes yeah and that's um to handle to help handle um any breakdowns um as well as to increase capacity um something we've already touched on today so that'll help uh with the overall operations and on time and helping kids learn um aark so far has gone well um with the um quality of the product and the reporting um more to come I think they're I don't know help me you know they're they're going to be doing yes yeah so the participation rate has gone up a lot this year compared to last which I think it's a boat of confidence by their customer our students on the choice of food that they are we student participation yes student participation yes and we've also asked aramac to come quarterly and present to the board provide update to the board provide the board an opportun to ask questions about food service so then uh the first uh presentation for this school year is September 23rd okay that was the part that I couldn't quite recall a big day September 2 um and then uh looking at opportunities to save in custodial Services radio and repeaters um repeaters was I forgot I forgot what it is it's uh we have radios now that are outdated that we need to update and we're doing RP so it's a way to be able when you communicate to to be able to go around that District which is big and be able to have radio access that's just and and standardized paper standardized um ways that we're ordering things instead of oneoff type of uh um um processes so um kind of uh standardized and convenient instead of just convenient right you know so that all right finance committee then policy legislative I can't pull up my notes so I will do this from memory um and and Dr Mario you can help me um we did go over several policies that I think are up for um up for review again today um we will be continually reviewing uh more and more policies as we go on um on the legislative side uh we we're kind of at the point where I think monitoring is where we're is where we're at um monitoring looking for updates we had originally talked about actively pursuing um elected officials I don't know that we're going to continue to pursue that at this time I think we'd like to keep more a breast of uh current legislation how it affects or doesn't affect us and uh what our position would be on those policies yeah the only other thing that we talked about was um there is possibility um that um we can work I'm going to say this the wrong way so I'm going to read it from the notes the committee discussed that ISB is now again offering to work with districts to update their administrative procedures the same way we did with our policies so if that is something that we pursue it would come likely through that same committee um yes so that is on the horizon very good okay we're moving on to 6.3 board member comments who would like to start uh so we have coming up a very celebratory month so Pur Viva Mexico right uh GTO de Dolores is coming up Hispanic Heritage Month nine Nations I believe celebrate their independence uh during this month so um super excited about that there's uh it'll be fun you'll see people with um Flags out and all kinds of stuff so um only other off comment I'll make is awesome uh um for OS and their their parade they do a great job and all of us over on the east side look forward to someday seeing an OE parade so let leave that out there just putting it out there just saying anyone else so I was at a uh collaborative PE course today um the school had invited the you United States adaptive golf Alliance in um there were four gentlemen from that organization um who are actually retired teachers and coaches and apparently pretty good golfers too uh to come in and um go over golf with the Stars and life skills students so it was pretty uh the the instructors were great and and by the way I would like to thank um Robin Smith and John Harrison for the invite um teachers were great I would encourage you to go and check it out if you get the opportunity um it's really amazing what they can get some of those kids to do when they kind of let them do things at at their own pace oh yeah um and the only other thing and I had asked if this was the only um outdoor type or or bringing in from the outside activity um and I'm just throwing this out there they did say they used to take them they used to go bowling as well but that Wasim ated because of budget cuts so just saying um they really had a good time so but but overall um you know kids were great like I said instructors were great it was uh good it was at oh oh okay okay um anyone else um so several of uh Jared ploger our board member our superintendent Dr Kel Gotti um Dr dubiel and Dr swimy attended the um Midwestern Plains Equity Assistance Center um conference this year um the the map Center we've been in relationship with them and in in Partnership for like the last maybe eight years taking off a year or so because of covid and some other things but um they're they're funded by the US Department of education the Civil Rights Division and um all of their services to us and I we' probably had over $100,000 worth of technical assistance provided to us um at no cost to us because of the grant that has been provided and so they um they showcased our district this time when we were there uh we were able to um they wanted us to share with the participants the work um how we've mobilized our community and the work that you've heard a lot about today and so that was um it was something that they came up with um during the conference because people wanted more uh more handson um understanding of of the work and so because we've had such a longstanding relationship with them and the work that we've been been able to do around uh rightful presence and Equity has has has been very substantial and last year when we went to the conference and um Dr Waller was in attendance that's where even though we knew we wanted an equity policy it was literally born in that room because of our understanding of rightful presence and rightful presence is um a concept by which you know this is taken taken up at the highest levels of education and so we are at the Forefront um of what is happening in education around um equity and rightful presence and so you can we can thank the map Center for their knowledge and for us bringing that back um so um the money you know just you know the travel down in the car is that gas is well that gas money is well spent because of what we're getting uh from that organization so just wanted to mention that okay we're moving on to 7.1 the consent agenda can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda please yes uh make a motion to approve all items under consent including 7.1 minutes from the Board of Education meeting on August 19th 2024 7.2 to acknowledge a foyer request received by the district 7.3 to approve the field trips for overnight and or more than 200 miles and 7.4 to approve the following policies section two School District organization 2 col 70 2 160 section 4 operational Services 45 section five general Personnel 580 5 colon 290 5 colon 310 section 6 instruction 6 col 110 6 col 150 section 7 uh students uh 7 colon 170 second are there any questions on the consent agenda okay Dr Maria I Miss Johnson i mrone i m s i Mr i m i motion passes 60 action item 8.1 approval of District administrator contract can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the district administrator contract as discussed and presented second Mr hi Miss Johnson hi Mr hi oh I Dr Maria I miss I motion passes 60 Dr duel Dr dubiel all right so tonight we welcome the candidate recommended for program administrator is Michael Shapiro with over 20 years experience as an educational administrator Mr Shapiro has served as an assistant principal and principal in several school districts including Anchorage Alaska in his leadership roles he led professional development elevated inclusive practices collaborated with various stakeholders and advocated for high quality instruction Mr sharo brings a wealth of diverse leadership and collaborative experiences needed for this position welcome Mr sherel thank you action item 8.2 approval of personnel report can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the Personnel report as discussed second Miss hi Miss Johnson I mron hi hi Dr Mar hi Mr hi motion passes 60 action item 8.3 approval of resolution authorizing notice of dismissal can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the resolution authorizing notice of dismissal to educational support staff employee Eric freeze second Mr pler hi Miss hi mron I miss s i Dr Mario I Miss Johnson I motion passes 60 action item 8.4 approval of bills for payment can I have a motion please make a motion to authorize the payment of bills in the amount of 7,287 716 and 29 cents as presented second Dr Maria hi Miss Johnson I Mr hi hi Mr hi M hi motion passes 60 okay board AGS all right good evening board this evening is an opportunity for the board to review um the board agreements um this is an opportunity to discuss uh as we know board Agreements are were decided were voted upon last June let say June 14th I going to say of 23 uh these agreements serve as an important um resource for the board um so I wanted to uh provide the board with an opportunity to see if there's any further discussion or Reflections relating to the board agreements and um it it serves as a great um resource and I would just say it's been very helpful I just have um a comment about this you know um and you know for for for those out in the community we really do hold each other accountable when it comes to um you know making sure that we're staying in our lane we're staying in the governance role this doesn't happen um I don't want to say it a at a lot of school districts but there are a lot of school districts that these kind of things don't happen tragically um and if I'm being honest and completely transparent here um there's a there's there's quite a few taxing bodies out there that operate um not wanting the general public to see uh the business done in in the light if you will and so this is definitely an example of us um showing the community how we're holding ourselves accountable which doesn't always happen um this this reminds us but it also gives a lens to the community to realize what standards they should be holding us to right we we really have no power as individual board members they're not supposed to um except for when we call these meetings uh and this is the place where we are supposed to really um conduct business that that isn't sensitive right there are things out there that we have to certainly go close session for um you know and those can certainly be reviewed anytime in om but there are a lot of Boards out there that have people who they'll get on a taxing body or they'll get on a taxing board and the first thing tragically they're looking for is how the position can can work for them uh and I applaud this board and really um my time here on us weo I I would say the the vast majority of board members the vast majority of time um have certainly um held each other accountable which is great um it I have seen some things though that definitely um I haven't been uh very comfortable with um but I I would say again this board has gone above and beyond when it comes to reducing those things um we are here to serve nothing is here to serve us and so um I applaud the board and I thank you because this doesn't happen in all districts and please take a look at this community because you can see how we're holding each other accountable and we do right we do so um our board agreements we have a review annually um and we are scheduled to have a review coming up um as soon as we get our calendars um synced up and um a couple of ways in which we hold ourselves accountable is um our board meeting monitoring form so after every meeting whether electronic or or in this hard copy form our board members are asked to evaluate the success or lack thereof of the meeting based upon our board agreements um and then that information is compiled and we get to see it um pretty regularly as to what is the feedback from each of our board members um and where we may need to make some adjustments in our own behavior or um you know maybe someone is making a suggestion as to how we can do things better so we we do hold ourselves accountable in um in both of those ways and we are you know continually looking at our board agreements to see whether there are things in our board agreements that may be too prescriptive and we we no longer need them in our in our agreements and as we and and as as a board we may say you know we no longer need that we're doing really good in this area um and then we may see there's some areas in which we want to add um additional bard agreement so this is how we keep each other accountable this is how we have successful um meetings and um this is how our building our relationship with Dr Kel goti continues to um it can be a successful one if we are all adhering to the board agreements so just wanted to share that anybody else yeah you know um I don't I don't see any need to I don't have too many concerns um the one thing that i' I've learned um I don't know whatever the past year and a half or two years whatever it's been um is yeah we don't we're we're not experts um so we lean on the administration to give answers to a lot of the you know questions that are coming our way so kind of number six here engaging the community and staff I don't know how to to um put this in here but I would like to know um if we are if that administrator assigned to that isn't following through so that would be one of my concerns because that I think is something that the board should know um to keep our administrators accountable so it's not necessarily um how we're handling internally but that's something that I want to figure out how to address yeah I'm wondering if you you believe that that's our role or is that Dr katti's role to hold them accountable like we're holding him accountable because he's our only employee I just wonder how you think about that point help me are you referring to follow through on Communications that come in follow follow through yeah follow through on communication that come in um because it's um yeah it's it I I expect you know um that community members are acknowledged and our he so when they got a question so a couple great great point and so a couple ways that we can if I'm hearing you you'd like more information so this is helpful one of the things I can do that if they're specific I have a weekly meeting with ltin and Eugene so if there are specific things that come through we can ensure that that's noted in our record so you can have access to that right so I think that's that's number one right so if there are specific messages or whatever we can make sure that that gets flat I don't I don't I don't know if I need more information I just want to make sure that concerns are addressed yeah yeah yeah so absolutely absolutely and that is my responsibility and I take it and I'm happy to as things come up make sure that we are ensuring that every board member is getting that information um and if there's places where we can do better to make sure you get that information I'm not even suggesting um I just you know over the years it's uh um yeah just basically I feel that it's a that's something that I want to make sure that we're doing is following through okay thank you I just want to say this reminds me of the first time one one of the first times we sat together as a board and reviewed it it felt like we were in a um very different spot like we were just getting to know each other um and some cases um some of us had just been you know U brought on you know elected to the board and we're going to have that same instance likely before the end of you know uh the school year and so these board agreements are going to live on past um past this board um and they'll be reviewed again but I think they they have been a good starting point um for me as when I was a new board member um they were a good starting point starting point for me to understand how to comport myself as a board member in certain situations so um I think they're they're really helpful they might change and be tweaked uh and things like that just to um make the board you know the best working board uh possible and based on the board m MERS at the table but I think they give us a really strong starting point yeah we we developed this with uh the help of IB so I mean this is using best practice as well I mean it's so true yeah okay that's it um nine your turn Okay so next thank you for the feedback and I would just say that on on the in terms of the District administration we really appre appreciate the support of we are led by the board and your governance has really shown through and our ability to do and your trust and your faith in our work has really come through and uh um we we know that this is continuous Improvement so we know there will be mistakes and we appreciate the feedback or I specifically appreciate the feedback along it's not about perfection it's not about perfection but we sure as heck want to try striving towards striving towards um next 9.2 I want to invite Mr oemi to speak to the budg report thank you Dr katti I know uh board member Mary Joe asked uh this question just to get an idea of how we did at the end of the fiscal year now I want to point out that uh we have um um we're not cash bases we don't have cash bases accounting we have a cruel so all our financials are actually in the process are being audited right now so what I'm providing you is a snapshot of what expens were at the end of June uh 2024 and what the revenues are there will be adjustment made and so if you look at it what you see there is we actually got more Revenue than what we estimated I will be honest in saying that when it comes to revenue I'm very conservative in uh in estimating revenue and I'm more aggressive in estimating uh expenditures so they are no surprising so as you saw we got uh more Revenue than we projected and some of the areas on the expenditure side we actually spend more than what we budgeted and that was there's nothing uh unusual about this as far because as you know as I noted here part of this uh increase was the uh OA uh agreement that we signed as well as the agreement that we signed with our oosp uh partners we signed a comparative agreement with them and we know we have to pay for it now the one area that I want to point out though that continues to be a stress on the district's finances is transportation and I did a a flash uh projection that I will probably share with the board uh once the uh CPI that will be used for uh for the upcoming Levy comes out and from what I'm saying transport ation is dangerously bad on the district's uh finances and we have to restructure our transportation and make sure that we only transport kids who are eligible to be transported and the state is very clear about the requirement for district to provide transportation there three different categories of kids who are eligible for transportation students who live 1.5 miles from their school student in designated hazardous route so we're in the process cess of getting proposal from three firms to actually do a hazardous route analysis we haven't done that in a few years and what we we're using right now is data because some of those hazardous rout designations were done when subdivisions were just built and some of those subdivisions are different from the way they are and then the third category of kids who are eligible for transportation our students with special need with the i specifically call for them to be transported somehow folks believe incorrectly that if a child that uh an IEP that child is eligible for transportation and that child is not okay and uh so we need to yeah aut not automatic yeah yeah yeah that's and so what we do over the years what we're finding out is we bust just about every child who wants to be bused whether they eligible or not and that cost is is putting a dent on our finances and I cannot be I try not to be an alarmist but I can't say it any clearly if we continue through the path of you get Transportation you get transportation we will go broke as a district we cannot afford it so the three categories of kids the eligible for transportation all the other kids of One Transportation they have to pay how much it cost us to provide transportation so I'm talking about the cost of uh Leasing busers driver's salary fi depreciation I mean all the actual cost so we can no longer subsidize them if you remember last fiscal year we transfer $8 million that we borrow from working cash and we also Levy differently $5 million that we should Levy in the Ed fund we Levy in the transportation fund so $13 million extra even with that we still at uh a deficit and and the projection that I've done going back to 2030 we're looking at a deficit that by 30 uh 2030 we'll be looking at close to $26 million in deficit if we don't do anything differently about trans wait wait let me in the fund not not as a district but is related although I know yeah it's an offset of every yeah yeah yeah I get it I just wanted to make sure that I want to understand the scale yes it's it's a big scale and the interesting thing you cannot have a fund end the year and a negative so what it has to mean the money has to come from somewhere else so Transportation has been subsidized in this district for years with funds uh with money from other funds we can no longer Contin to doday we can't afford now if we're a wealthy District where we have a huge fund balance we can afford to subsidize Transportation we're not in that position and I can't say clearly enough if we continue on this path we without shifting we will be in big trouble so when was no I appreciate this flavor um I don't think I've appreciate the flavor yeah but uh flavor um when was the last time we did this hazardous when was the last time a hazardous Ro I want to say five 2015 so years ago now if you imagine some of the D subdivision that were built almost 10 years ago some of we know how they develop sub Vision some of them have no sidewalks of them now all those subdivisions now those kids have sidewalk now and those areas are probably no longer as us but we continue to provide transportation so part of what um thank you for this and I think it's completely re it is completely relevant to our budget fund update particularly when what the board we we're bringing to the board's attention is that we will bring bringing you some more detailed information about what those exact numbers are because as you can see if we haven't evaluated those numbers since 2015 consequently that means that all the ridership that has essentially come into the district since and whenever has essentially been grandfathered in to that and so there are individuals who are on the buses now part of this is that we are we have to address this um because as Mr obia shared has a significant impact on the overall run and you know I was at um one of the village zoning meeting meetings and I tried to actually kind of stress this point that impacts on us are going to look different than they have in the past because if and I know Dr katti you and I had talked about potentially maybe a maybe a a um an addition or a an amendment or whatever to what the demographer might tell us next time but based off of what was said last time right um and based off of the national fertility rate the the budget or I'm sorry the the school bus driver um shortage I said this is going to look very different because all the open areas are primarily south of our schools and all of our schools are up here and so if everybody up here doesn't go anywhere and doesn't have kids these schools are going to sit up here and in some places it's already happening some areas that really don't support um you know a large enough Ed uh a large enough pool of students but we sure are going to get them from away from here now one person wanted to take issue or whatever with that committee what I said but um and I understand their point about what impact fees are supposed to go for but at the same time like it's going to look different in this District I mean you're talking like I think 25 mil south of here is from this point I think is where we extend to it's a very large district and it's not like the the busing short or the shortage of bus drivers hasn't magically gone away since last year or the year before that these things still continue to be things that we face and I appreciate that you bring this but I I really encourage like the community because there's going to be elected officials out there will'll say hey we saved you money we didn't we didn't Levy but if they don't have sidewalks in those in some of those places guess what okay they didn't but now we're busting and this is costing taxpayer money anyways so it's it's a scary picture we will we we made the decision that we need to focus specifically on transportation to make sure that it's solving what it should be is the revenue that we bring in from Transportation should even out the expenses and that's the way every fund should be minimally and I don't think it's ever been like that in this district from the records that I've seen other funds have always we subsidize transportation and we cannot continue to do that we bleeding money we have to stop the bleed okay so the next page includes uh of the end of the fiscal year what we have in the we of fund balance and the conclusion is that when we the budget was developed we were looking at uh Revenue over expenses of $5.1 million so we actually before adjustments we did better than that 10.6 million but there will be adjustment some of those Revenue will be booked prior year some of there Revenue so there will be adjustment so the updated uh Financial as relates to this I'll present to the board once the audit is complete our Auditors are doing the uh they've been with us doing side visits this would be the earliest we've done an audit in a very long time let's just say that but we we going to do it on they're doing it on time we should have the draft completed by next month and it's supposed to be done by December we' never completed in December by Statue we're supposed to have a completed file by December we've never done that so we had doing that for the first time this any questions no but thank you for these numbers it helps thank you and then if you look at the other Pages what I then did is I went into the uh the financial analysis uh software and I I presented it a different way you can see what the uh the budgeted amount is and the current expenditure which ties in to the uh to the summary page that you saw and then I did it another way we looked at expenditure and we looked at fund balance this is uh be it and uh how it shapes out and then we looked to revenue by picture to you know some people do better with pictures and graphs and that's what we try to do here and so if you look at the I did all funds and I also did uh revenue on expenditure so I know I want to point this out if you look at the L funds you see a negative transfer of 6.8 million what that is is when we did the re when we did the refunding remember we did a bond refunding back in August of 23 the uh we have to transfer that money out the refunding out to an esro agent to pay the bond holders debt that's what that's 6.8 million transfers any questions what I've also included as part of our financial so we plan to include information like this on a monthly basis once a month as part of a budget report and something else that I've also included is the CPI report the CPI rep is important to us because it's the basis for the largest source of our Revenue property taxes if you remember the CPI for December which comes out in January of the following year is what determines how high we can Levy for so I think it's important for us to keep a breast of the CPI this data is released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics every 3 weeks after three uh yeah three weeks after the pr mon uh uh CP so what we see here in July was the last data that was uh that was released this week we should be able to get uh August which we will put in for next month's uh Financial what you was saying is as you've been hearing inflation is actually softening uh for example in June we actually had a negative CPI increase of uh Nega .1 basis point now uh in July was 2 and in May it was flat so of to date from July to July the cumulative CPI is actually 2.9 which is one of the reasons why the feds are saying they will start cutting rates right now because CPI is cing so we monitor this for our benefit because as I mentioned before it's the largest source of our Revenue property tax any questions Mr can you talk about when you talk about the food index rows how does that influence does that influence our overall expenditures is this is different than inflationary cost when the law was passed when tax cop law was passed back in 1991 and it impacted the cola County I believe in ' 94 or 96 what then happened it used to be before the tax cap law was passed when a school district needed to to increase property taxes they can increase it to how much money they need but what the tax cap did is it restricted the amount to CPI or 5% whichever low so so the CPI really is a measurement of the key basket of expenses that in urban area people spend money on for example we spend money one big factor on food we spend money on utilties that would be gas we spend money on eating out so that's what you see here so for example uh there was uh there was uh if you look at what I laid out here here the uh the index for for food went up by a certain percentage prepared food as well as eating out so all this does is necessary for us to know this information because that is what is going to determine how high a largest source of Revenue which is property tax levy is going to be for the next Levy that we're going to do that comes out in January thank you does that make sense I'm trying to oh no yeah um to break this the only thing the only I know I've I ask this all the time never remember the exact numbers but do we use in the projections did you use three and then 222 or I can't remember exactly what you Ed so what we know we know the next uh the December CPI for this December we know it what that is that's 3% right for the levy that we're going to do in December for the next for for the ones for the unknowns for the projections right for the unknowns what I've done is actually backed it down to 2% 2% okay so because I see three and then two and then going yeah million initially it was 2.5 but then I reduced it down to 2% because in real time we see that interest rate is coming down okay and the other part I want to point out in this too is one of the reasons why we did so well last year as far as Revenue was concerned interest rate was high and for the first time in a while we actually have money in the bank so we actually got bigger yield uh because uh the Investments that we put our money into we getting 5.3 5.6 which is pretty damn good if you have millions in the bank but what we know is with interest rate going down though it's going to hit us we wouldn't get the same level of uh investment income that we got oh yeah so what we looking at it we're not going to do anything crazy we going to within the municipal investment policy as well as the board policy but we're going to look at opportunities for us to try to get as close to that as possibly without doing anything crazy that's the plan as yields start coming down so we've been in conversation with a municipal advisor PMA to try to come up with a strategy for us to use for investing the funds we get the second biggest a second installment of our property tax in September and we are have to make that money last till June of next year so it's important that in addition to being prudent with expenditure we also have to invest it in such a way where we can get as much yeld as possible without taking any on Deal risk so to explain this to myself to make sure I understand this so basically anything better than two would be would be an increase a net increase um for that particular factor to our absolutely F absolutely okay now as we stand today is 2.9 so do I think it's going to come in at uh 2% probably not uh between now and December right it's not going to get to 2% no it's not going but I like being it might go 27 26 I like been conservative with Revenue yeah which is yeah okay very good okay any other questions okay I'm the only one thank you Mr oemi thank you uh four new bus leases and I know you have a that's on the agenda this evening do you want to speak to that I think uh Mr board member Sone mentioned this a little earlier what we have right now because of the fact that we bust everybody I mean we bus everybody whether they eligible or not all the buses that we actually have uh in our Fleet we're using it so we have no redundancy so if we have a breakdown if we have warranty work that needs to be done we have no bus that we can use so in order to create some redund redundancy because we know breakdowns will happen that's why we wanted to uh to lease for buses to provide us with that redundancy that we need in case of a breakdown do you want to invite Miss Mosley up do you want to come you want to come up come on up no you did say that every year they were just leasing 10 buses just because without any evaluation of what we really needed so now we have an idea that four buses is what we're looking at right yes to the tiles over for the rest of the year and do those buses have air conditioning those four will have air conditioning okay mhm and how many buses in our Fleet don't have air a conditioning there's about 40 in our Fleet that do not have air conditioning okay I I I think I think that's a really important question because as we have this discussion I I it seems like we're probably going to have one or two of these days every year as long as we're starting school in August and and I hear this all the time in the old days we would start on Labor Day and then right and and I always say the same thing I know this a little bit of a tangent but I always say the same thing it's people want to get finals done at the high school level before they go into second semester and that's how we got here but I do think it's important for us to have this conversation with the community that we're probably going to get one or two of these days in August moving forward and that's another expense I'm I'm going to assume that the school buses with air conditioning probably run us a little bit more than the ones without yes go out on a limb and say that and so we also use more gas MH I yes yes what five miles a gallon so I like at some point like no pun intended but rubber meets the road and you got to figure out what's your what you're going to do so thanks for how many buses in our Fleet total we have 56 156 156 okay that include hours or how many how many that is District owned that's not an outsourced buses yeah wow I know that's a lot of so we we're looking at all kinds of things that we can do to make sure Transportation has to be efficient and uh I just have to be clear that some of the things that we'll do will not be public because folks who are getting transported will not eligible for we can't can't continue to do that I can't say that enough we cannot we cannot afford it and oh and and there are sorry kind of the back topic but sort of there are districts that do this already right where they're saying hey we we're we're Char if if you're interested in paid Transportation because you're because you're within this uh area here's how much it costs I know of one that I know does that uh every District I've work for does that so we actually we do a cost analysis of how much it cost us to run a bus and we pass that on to parents who opt to use Transportation if they're not eligible for it so we not losing money subsidizing that because most people believe that uh uh they uh their property tax pays for transportation actually in a given year we ly $2 million in transportation and uh transportation if you look at the data that I just shared last year we spend about 16 million so it doesn't even come close and the state when it comes to reimbursement up up until the last two years this state Pro rates based on appropriation which means we never get dollar for dollar even though we supposed to be to be entitled to it but we never get there were time before Co it was 30% it's of the amount that we eligible for the state only paid us 30% out of that they do better with uh special a they pay us an average of about 80% but now with regular transportation in the last couple of years because of covid they've actually paid us about 60% which is still not 100% so we start up from behind the air is it just sped or is it sped in e as well uh it's mostly sped okay we we will come back to this so This has come tonight for information and then it'll come to the board at the next board meeting for Action so if there are any followup questions in between or any wonderings definitely please reach out um we want to thank you Miss mosy for being here and as you just ask did we did we try did we get multiple bids or did we only get this one bid so we didn't get multiple bids and I'll tell you why at this time of the year there's a shortage of buses and I'll tell you something that happened we were actually talking to to a a vendor about uh doing a bus lease to bring to the board 60 of their buses a company as uh School District came in from Canada and put all 60 buses all at once so they had no bus to uh to actually lease to us so we have to beg and and and borrow and cheat for them to be able to commit this for buses to us and another company that we contacted they said they wouldn't have a bus deal to us till December January so there's a shortage just like shortages of cars there's actually a shortage of buses that's worse than cars can we when we're working on when we're putting together the proposal though can you include that why it doesn't show multiple bids and include that there is a bus shortage just for posterity so it's captured in that sure we'll be happy to do that be happy to do it yeah thanks John thank you I I agree you um policies for first read Dr concade yep so in addition to the policies that we reviewed as part of the consent agenda we also looked at six policies um the first policy 2 125 um was based on new per DM rates um as part of when we uh realigned our board policies we had committed to um this policy aligning across our systems so any travel prium reimbursement um would be aligned if a teacher administrator or a board member went to a professional learning opportunity um so we discussed uh potential new rates um in 470 um which is resource conservation the change that is being recommended by isab is instead of a specific um percentage goal related to uh resource resource conservation is that the district be able to establish their own goal um for 480 um in terms of accounting and audits iasb is recommending um the revolving fund accounts go from 500 to 1,000 the remaining three policies are legal reference updates but placed in this section because it's the additional um either reference to school code or uh public X so it's not just changes to the actual legal references there are additional legal references within that okay questions okay thank you Dr k um next I want to invite Dr Waller and Dr Paul and I'm sure Dr Kate as well uh welcome you all to speak to these updates regarding uh the board's requests to really think about our our profile in the direction and so we want to bring some monthly information did you have a yeah I just had a really quick question about that last policy oh policy I apologize um when it comes to periodic review of procedures on reduction of solid waste generated by academic blah blah blah blah it says establish the goal by the district where have we ever done done that and to even create a baseline yep so my understanding is that we have not so that would be have to be part of that procedure and working with operation and the schools in terms of what is even a potential right Baseline and goal so that was the discussion within uh the committee was where would we start and would it look different at different levels because the feasibility might be different in K5 versus 68 versus 912 so um the alignment to establishment of the goal within the district was actually more well-received than an arbitrary number existing in the ball right and and every huge need 50% looks very different in a district depending on where you physically are as well um the reason that I ask is because I obviously as J will always say is this one of our priorities you know we have a lot of priorities you know and where does this fall but can we make sure that this somehow lands intentionally in our strategic plan because I think it has a lot of um I think energy resources when it comes to conservation when it comes to saving our saving you know come to savings with the district if we don't if we're not intentionally setting goals and figuring it out then we're just using our resources and stuff so um if we could make sure that's part of our you know establishing a Baseline and then you know year two is setting a goal year three is setting a goal you know so we just have somewhere to start because I we've looked at this policy before and I'm like but we never talk about it so sorry Dr kotti you didn't see that I had a question but go ahead in addition right now you have an additional question or no no no I no this was very helpful I'm glad you raised it so thank you um Dr Waller and Dr Paul all right um so actually this is including myself uh Dr Paul and Dr dubiel um so we're going to provide our first update for equity and engagement so as an equity and engagement Department we will consistent ently provide updates to the Board of Education demonstrating how we are creating a foundation throughout our system that is rooted in equity and rightful presence as the equity and engagement Department continues to have interde departmental collaboration to embed Equity resources lessons culturally responsive strategies and professional learning opportunities we will provide updates here so that there is Clarity to the board on our Department's alignment and commitment to lifting the three foundational practices additionally we will provide updates on how we are building opportunities to connect communicate and collaborate with our community Through parent University superintendent advisory groups School parent organizations and additional opportunities as we are developing for this school year so I'm providing an update from learning and Innovation as a learning and Innovation Department we will provide the board with monthly updates highlighting our commitment to foundational practices of equity and rightful presence as well as high quality instruction grounded in culturally relevant teaching practices these updates will serve as a means to inform the board about the ongoing interdepartmental professional development efforts aimed at the building leaders and staff ensuring that our educators are equipped with the tools and knowledge necessary to Foster inclusive and effective learning environments in addition we will provide insights into curriculum and instruction strategies aligned with these principles supporting our mission to deliver Equitable and culturally responsive education to all students do we have what you're reading no Okay can as a diverse Learners Department we are committed to effective systems and teams high quality instruction and equity and rightful presence we aim to provide updates that Encompass how these foundational practice practices are embedded in our decision-making processes for the purpose of coherence timeliness feasibility and fiscal responsibility while upholding quality pedagogy and practices that are suit and Centered for our diverse Learners that include Early Childhood multilingual Learners and students in special education further these updates will build upon improvements and new highlights that demonstrate collaboration communication and strategic approaches for the VAR needs of diverse Learners can you guys send those to um Ursula so she can put them in the board board docks y so essentially we're committed to what we started to discuss this past summer so monthly updates related to a variety of data across our system both academic uh behavior and attendance to provide updates and information related to our school Improvement plans our three foundational practices our professional learning and under that umbrella as Dr juel mentioned not only for all students but also looking more indepthly at our um different subgroups and student representations thank you are there questions or feedback um regarding more generally we've heard this evening kind of in terms of the board's governance role around student achievement um as you listened a little bit to what you heard um these are just some general thought points around the direction we will go regarding the updates um anything specific that emerg as you listen um this was really more to initiate the conversations you will next month you will get a formal more formal presentation um we wanted to just start with just kind of some general updates or ideas and then move into any more specific things things that would want to hear more about you heard the presentation around the curriculum audit this evening you've heard you know you you drafted the board policy there's Direction you've given me um as you listen are there anything that came up specifically and uh and of course whether it's tonight or following the meeting you don't have to get right now but I think that's really the intent so I I'm just not an audio learner I'm a visual learner I just don't understand where this fits into I'm just feel like go ahead I no please I'm going to I I think what the I think they commitment statements right like these are their commitments to report back to us uh I agree it would be good to have them in writing just so we can see you know what they what they look like but they're like committing to bringing us monthly updates and the work that's going on in in their different departments at um our committee meeting we did see a little bit of like a draft of what those updates would look like or or topics I guess um and my first initial impression I think of the updates or of that that visual was well that seems right that seems right like those are the things that we should be thinking about but um or that the board should kind of be aware of like there was one month where was like update like on curriculum stuff I'm like okay cool we're going to see that then and we kind of know what to expect uh but one of the things I think we talked about at the committee meeting was that that's a living document right like we don't want to set out 12 months like it's good to think ahead but there might be times where we need to bring uh other stuff forward within those updates but I I hear what you all said as commitments to time and space for for you all to come to the board and update us on those student achievement items that are obviously so so important some of the stuff on the original calendar that was shared at the committee meeting made sense like when we're looking at like the state data because it comes out at a certain time we're going to look at a certain time right but there's other stuff that's a little bit more influx you know it could happen here it could happen here and so um I'm hearing this is a start to their commitment to bring U monthly reports back to us thank you we will we will have all this in the weekly update from the my meeting with uh Lan and Eugene um that calendar and those overviews and those commitments will be laid out in there so you'll get those then so this is like um Jen you know how we took the um Finance report or not really the finance report but the finances and we wanted our community to hear more about the evidence-based funding and all that and we found how successful that was by continuing to bring that to the board um and thus to the community and so this is kind of like the same concept around student achievement okay yeah yeah yeah yes that helped okay and then how it ties the student inch yes yes okay can you um tell me the acronym I lead innovate Learners Equity diversity I know that it's somewhere in that R yes you're so close it's Innovation learning Equity adversity or advocacy and diversity okay so all those part all departs under this umbrella yes it's all of our departments together so is that our little acronym it is our little acronym I love it love that I'd like a t-shirt i' like it oh good we need another t-shirt I think it needs to be we I saw pictures barrier Busters we already did it back there I love that Equity advocacy ADV vacy and diversity all right yeah you guys got to come up with a t-shirt thank you all for for the update um next I want to invite um Dr K to give us update on the updated e-learning plan that will be brought forward absolutely one second so um what we had done is we in response to discussions last spring uh we wanted to revise and relook at our current e-learning plan so we currently use the e-learning plan um in lie of emergency days so kind of postco the state did allow that in place of emergency days that we would be able to um if we had an adopt e-learning plan sorry um we would be able to utilize um an emergency day through the e-learning plan for inclement weather or unforeseen uh circumstances so the timeline that we have been following um with consultation with oea it's moving by itself I can see it moving and we have is it my is it correct we have to every three years resubmit this to is correct okay so are we doing this early or is this we need to do this so um kind of both so we did submit in 2021 so we are trying to submit it earlier than when we were approved but um in light of the discussions that started in the spring of last year we wanted to be kind of on the Forefront of resubmitting um so the timeline that we have been following is consultation with both oea and oesa because we are bringing recommendations for some change to our current e-learning plan um we did discuss this um at the last Equity learning and Innovation meeting we are coming here today for information um in order to potentially change our e-learning plan we do have to hold a public hearing so we would then hold our public hearing um on September 23rd the start of our next meeting and then potentially uh go to action for approval of the updated plan at that point we would submit to the regional Office of Education for approval and then distribute the plan to students staffs parents and the public um we cannot implement any changes to the plan until it has been um approved by both our board and the regional Office of Education and then distributed to our families and uh School community so the two main principles is that we have to ensure access for all students and that we have to have a minimum of five clock hours of instruction or school work so at this point we are not recommending any changes to our early childhood uh plan because of the um access to devices um we are not Ono one with take-home at Early Childhood so we are looking to focus on the student work um our teachers and related services will be available for office hours at the designated time and then those Choice boards um will be sent home and also available um online similarly our elementary is not um one: one take-home K5 um so we will be following a recommended schedule but focus on student work um we will have a variety of office hour opportunities for students to um join and ask questions through Google meets and then our teachers are also available uh by phone or email um our choice boards with um lesson materials will be sent home um and have actually already started to be sent home and then are available also online so the changes that we are recommending um is at our secondary level So currently our secondary level meets um across a what you would consider a typical school day and what we've seen over the last year of implementing this is a 41 or 48 minute period remotely is um longer than what we need in order to provide instruction and have students have the opportunity to complete schoolwork so with the guiding principle of a 5-hour instructional day the committee came together and talked about three different options one being um a shortened day followed by um a break and then um time for student support time another option was no student support time and extended um the class periods a month of five hours but what the committee settled on is they wanted to do a mixture of both instructional time through a Google uh meet and have opportunities for students to seek help so the Junior High um will start at 8:00 um they currently have a student support time at the start of their day so we would continue that the class periods then periods 1 through n would be 20 minutes in length and then at the end of the day there would be a 55 minute students support time to give the students opportunities to either asynchronously complete work that they have um experienced or participated in throughout the day or rejoin um any of their classes to see clarification support or help from their teachers the high school schedule will also start at 8:00 um the class periods there will be 25 minutes followed by a 55 minute student support time at the end of the day question how does that oh never mind I was thinking about the buses but we don't need buses no so um our e-learning day would be when we are implementing remote instruction across the entire District um and essentially closing school for that day um in case of ongoing inclement weather we would use our five um e-learning days then if needed we would then have to go to the five emergency days um in which those are currently blocked off at the end of our calendar um after the last day of school if we would go through our five e-learning days which still count as a student instructional and attendance day then we would have to do our five makeup emergency days if we've exhausted all 10 of those then we would potentially um apply for Act of God than I think that's an important piece for people to realize because I've heard a lot about um like using these days or or abusing these days or whatever the state already says you got five that's it so um you know there's not going to be unless somebody changes a law or whatever there's not going to be a situation where we're taking more than five in a year which obviously we're not trying to even do that is the start time currently the same so the start time is currently the start of the school day so for junior high it is 805 805 I believe thank you um and the high school is 720 so what this does is it standardizes is it across um 6 through 12 um it gives our teachers the opportunity to start their day and be ready for students um remotely and then um finish their day um so it gives them time also on either end of the school day now I'm just concerned about the communication aspect that's all but as long as uh we do well with that then I have can you clarify what you mean by well as long as students know that they're supposed to start at 8:00 instead of 7:25 or instead of 805 or okay got it thank you because it's how long do they get like how much notice in advance they get if they got if they're going to do a e-learning day well and and and also just establish that an e-learning Day means you start at 8 o' you know no I'm just saying like when would we make that determination and how how much time do parents have to get in line and order whatever they need well that's one of the Privileges I have as a superintendent I was uh Beed when I took this role I tried to ask if any of the members of the team would want it but they all said no it's you're not it everybody said not it but but it is really um I I will just say briefly that it's not a light decision and there is a delicate balance between um notice that's too early or too late and so our team works very hard to the extent possible to give the earliest notice possible um in the event and we are working on our communication systems we work very hard um we don't always get it perfectly but I do know that we work very hard to ensure that we get notice as early as possible without putting us in a position where it was the wrong decision and I would say last year based on repeated evidence every decision was actually the right decision and I can say that with all du cty so some people did not like that but I would say that it was it every every one of the decisions was done with the interest of students um Safety First and staff safety and ensuring that we were able to be safe in our um in all of our buildings and I would say that we did a good job of that and I want to thank the team for that in advance because it's going to be another year of hopefully not too many 4:00 a.m.

with that we will be adjourned thank you

to learn more about getting involved and or purchasing a membership be sure to check out clocker club.org that's clocker club.org so it's Oly Laro back in punt formation low snap good job picking it up that's a short Lefty kick it's a fairly decent Roll Out of Bounds at the 42 yd line of Grafton 4 three it's a net of 30 yards on the punt is that the first time they've punted tonight I think they've been going for it on Fourth up till now they've punted at least two other times yes by the row down to the 4 three yd line the first and 10 for Gra okay in between plays will get caught up on other Ashlin Sports going around the horn boy socer played Westwood to a 2-2 tie on Tuesday and shut out Norwood yesterday 4-0 they head to Denim on [Applause] Tuesday o late tackle out of bounds okay o'ban had gotten good penetration on that play had had his hands around the ankles but wasn't able to complete the tackle and uh Owen Banger yeah ended up picking up five six yards yeah could have been a loss a lot of arm tackles just not and not able to complete gain of five second and five so yeah five guard excuse me five yard game for baler [Music] so peeler under Center rafton once again like you mentioned here trying to time that uh snap yeah just do anything to get an advantage rafton just picking it up though okay checking with girl soccer really quickly they lost to Westwood Tuesday 4 nothing but bounced right back by shutting out Inwood 3-0 yesterday they host deam on Tuesday for a 4:30 match we'll see them here on waa on Saturday September 14th at noon when they host Blackstone Valley wow a rare Saturday game huh is that you are you on the mic I'm hoping it's going to be Daniel and I on the mic we're just verifying his availability we also have to check on a crew apparently Saturday's a little bit tough to get a crew but we're trying to only do games with the high school now you know middle school has uh has lost some of its uh yeah they lost the Fieldhouse and Wi-Fi is a little sketchy so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yep can you hear [Music] us okay did you need us yeah absolutely offsides on as it's a 5yd penalty bring up first five for got them and coming into the booth did I hear the door [Music] open see Grafton does here they fake the hand off outside goes inside for another sizable gain another first down 6 seven yards we're going to welome oh some extracurricular activity maybe flag on the play see what the call is but welcoming to the booth Daniel vetstein thank you for having me glad to glad to have you and uh you're senior here yeah just started my senior year I'm excited getting ready for college and what are you do when to get ready for college doing uh applications yet tell us yeah starting to do applications uh finished up my essay just focusing on the ne next steps uh to getting to the applications the kids these days with the Common App so much easier than what we had to do [Music] Rob what what what's the difference now it's common app like they just fill out one application it goes to all the schools and oh really easy peasy it's not like having to do a separate application and mail it in and I I wasn't involved with hi's uh we had a call about your applications yeah I know but I didn't even know how she did it but anyways well I hope you get in now you want to go into broadcasting in some capacity yes what are the what are you what schools are you looking at Daniel uh my top Runner right now is Dean I really like their program I also like Curry looked at lell couple options that's looking at URI and there's the uh another run just yards at will where did uh Chase Chase ended up a u but what other schools did he look at cuz he's the same program right yeah he looked at American he looked at Syracuse those are the important where's uh where's Dean Dean is in Franklin okay not too far from here all right yeah sound like mostly it was mostly New England schools you were looking at but L is Philly right no lel's and Newton oh I'm thinking of it different okay I'm thinking L never mind trying to stay close gotcha there's the pitch oh there has a nice tackle number 44 youve called it Nick Boomer Kerry Turner's old number 44 boom goes the dynamite that was one of the most painful segments ever Daniel you're going to have to watch have you ever seen that segment in bro broadcasting you that's your that's your homework for tonight is to Google boom goes the dynamite you think I haven't seen that before Oh okay I've seen it plenty of times I'll chime in at any point we should ask Daniel if he's seen Space Balls I have all right good job good job [Applause] respect there's another handoff outside and into the end zone about a block in the back on the way would have made a difference yeah I think it was a clean block he almost turned his back on it seven land on the Run that's good for a touchdown for gra who's [Applause] [Music] that oh we can see it on the re [Music] [Applause] replay was it bandra is that number seven I couldn't tell or it could have been number nine peeler the quarterback [Music] he won't turn his jersey one on the replay seven yeah B J so with 545 and counting to go clocker down 31 nothing yeah extra point went wide so score is the lead's over 30 fourth quarter so it's a running clock here on out yeah Kevin o lumba got in there maybe put some pressure on the kicker that's what made him go to the left yeah they've had that's one thing uh grafton's going to need to work on cuz they missed the extra point earlier and even the one that they made was not perfect okay heading back we'll wrap up our check-in on Ashlin Sports fall sports girls field hockey was shut up by Westwood on Wednesday and played Norwood earlier today sorry I'm my voice they travel to Denham on Monday the boys golf team started their season with losses to Hopkin and Westwood but followed up with wins over Bellingham and dham they played Millis earlier today boys and girls lacrosse started their seasons in 2 weeks and the girls volleyball team they lost three nothing in the Westwood in their season opener on Wednesday but we're right in each match they're playing Norwood just down the hill uh at that one's probably over by now but I talked to I talked to Coach Le after the match needless to say he was I was more optimistic than he was he just felt you know they didn't play as well as they could and and for the amount of experience on that team I agree yeah um I felt as we watch this return it's a different returner number 24 that is Malachi Lambert get Stu right the 25 yeah not a bad return but to me it looked like Westwood was really serving well like they had some tough serves I was standing in the back there you could see and you could see them it was like a knuckle ball like a lot of their serves um no I mean they were a very welld disciplined team they didn't make a lot of mistakes and hopefully you know Ashley can get their act together and down on the metal erors that's yeah that's another it's another one where they they're a good team they're going to get their wins yep it's just a little off they battle back I thought that third set was going to be a walk over and they made it exciting M so and that you can watch the replays on YouTube waca TV covered that live little flip pass looks like only be a gain of a couple it'll be second down and long for the clockers so want do want to give one final uh shout out to our sponsors tonight Tech complex Healthcare and of course our thanks to krie Turner for spending the second and third quarter with us learned a whole lot about the company and their contributions uh to the local community and Beyond and uh looking forward to another successful partnership with them this year and um Mr Handyman we have uh Mr Handyman we'll uh we'll catch up after the play yeah this is going to be a big one I'm expecting big things here not bad six seven yards when you say big things were you talking slow motion well was that 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much about the Bellingham Squad so they are Tri valy small they are on the road they just got to put this game behind them and I think they'll be able to execute they were just playing against a just a huge team this is probably one of the biggest teams they're going to face all year yeah yeah so we'll see I had heard good things they they had a good camp up at UNH and they had played against some tougher teams obviously you know not full contact everything and done really really well against those teams so there was a lot of uh good chatter it's not a tvl loss so they're still in uh in the running for the tvl those games come a little later in the season the TV large got a few non- League games so okay Daniel you going to travel to Bellingham for the game maybe it depends so yeah I mean we don't cover it but I may go I'll say having some uh I'm trying to stay close to home on Friday the 13th but hey you guys go for it okay thanks I have your blessing all right okay any uh you want to 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3:00 a.m. 2 am calls MH e-learning days are not ice cream they don't make everybody happy no I have a few questions do do does this new plan align with our new cbas are we all yes cop patic that was the discussions from last spring so um we will be in line once this is approved both at the board and Roe level one of the things that you know parents and we all know this we're all parents that it is very hard to on a dime figure out the next day and you know what you're going to do and so forth so when the e-learning plan is approved and it goes up on the website I think it could be helpful if inclement weather included heat and we prepped for that because I don't think this is going to be the last time that we have an e-learning day because of heat and um everything that I hear in climate news says that we will continue to have these and um I'm sure my fellow board members received many of the emails that I received about our heat e-learning day um so I think it's to just about managing expectations that we should expect it and and it should be something that um we should understand that we have to look at the whole of the system and do what's best for the whole of the system so two questions that have come up over and over and over and I personally have received earful about if we could just address them how are we holding our Educators accountable for showing up on e-learning days there have been and this I only heard from high school parents um I haven't heard it from other parents but I heard it from high school parents that teachers just literally didn't show up for e-learning days and I'm not necessarily looking for an answer tonight and the second question is why can't we just have a good old fashion snow day and so those two questions are something that I've heard a lot and got ear fulls about um because I think we're still all dealing with covid PTSD I I think it's really important to put in perspective that it's one day here and one day there it's not you learning like we were going through back then but you know those are questions that I think that we should answer and realize that the community is asking can I can I add two pieces on to that just like as far as things that we heard and kind of I guess kind of a response to not to yours but just add on and I I want to remind people that not all districts are the same um and if you look at some of the districts that made decisions that day they are districts that have some similar characteristics to ours I mean canland has some serious ground to bus uh so does Burlington Central um planfield left early could we have gone that route I don't know you know um but but suddenly though right right and so um you know these are districts that I don't want to say look like our us because they're definitely there's ways that they don't but from a standpoint of how large and where they're located and the amount of busing and everything they really do so I I take exception when somebody says something like I don't know um you know Newark went to school okay um I mean I you know I so I I I I I think that's a piece that we always have to remember is that look at some of the districts and and why and and what's going on and the other piece like is no one no person has said that e-learning is superior to in-person learning no one said that no one will say that um by the way I mean it's just as disruptive if we just took a snow day I would argue um you're still going to be disrupted you're going to have people you're going to have kids around anyways and on top of that um it's still going to disrupt a student's uh regular schedule so you know I don't know well I think though for the heat day because it was new it is vital for us to be over communicative into why we made that decision and as a mom that is on the mom social media links on you know social media it is there's so there were so there was so much misinformation out there and I'm sure everybody has heard it so I think in those cases and I now we'll have memory we'll be like oh we did this last year you know maybe we'll have an e learning day but I think we need to give and I think it needs to come from Dr katti not I'm not saying us but um why we made that decision and understate give people the scope of the issue the scope of the issue is over 2,000 employees over 17,000 kids you know 150 bus D I don't know what the numbers are but that we have to look at things as a whole and then putting kids in that in that environment I I know I'm not happy when I'm in a building or a room that's 85 or 90 degrees I know as an adult and then I have to help regulate 25 students come on like you know there's there it's it's a lot to think about it's not a decision that is made hastily so just overc communicating what when into that decision um and so the misinformation doesn't get so out of control I I was just in shock at some of the things that I read I was like that's just not true at all yeah I I'll say a couple things and I think this is the commitment from the teaching and learning team is really that we know e-learning could be better and that it's not perfect and so to in the spirit of continuous Improvement we will continue to evaluate the resources es and I know that Dr Paul and her team will be looking at that and finding ways I just had meetings with members of our CT Career Technical Education team who do you know if you're if you're you know you're in a class and you're doing shop you're not going to take a saw Home on an e-learning day right let's hope but when I was talking to some members of our Union they were saying what if we front-loaded some really engaging lessons that planned for it and so so I would say that as we understand this we will continue to improve it and so I'll just say that we accept and we welcome the feedback actually I think it's good I think that that feedback is healthy and it helps us understand how to strengthen our work and so I I would say that um anybody who's reached out directly regard regarding some of this we actually had very few we had a number of people reach out to say thank you um for this decision um because it did put students if you drive around this neighborhood and I'm not going go in my soap box cuz I know everybody's getting late but I will say if you drive around this community on a hot day turn off your air conditioner and and see how long it takes you just to go to the grocery store when you hit a place where there isn't uh intersection with two stop signs and you have to wait for the bus in front of you and three other cars to try to cross flying traffic and you're sitting there for 20 minutes now imagine you're 5 years old sitting in that heat and then suddenly that ride goes from being a 5-minute ride to suddenly a 30-minute ride I am I I I will say this Bor and I will never put children in a position where I can't 100% guarantee that those children will get home safely without uh a situation where that heat May potentially hurt a 5-year-old and I cannot guarantee that on a day where the temperatures on those buses got to5 120° and I could not guarantee that because the last thing I would want the last thing I would want is to get a phone call that a 5-year-old was on the back of the bus and because we had a substitute bus driver who got stuck at multiple intersections and a in an accident in an area of town where we do not have appropriate infrastructure for the child to suddenly be hurt because I made a decision because I didn't want people to have to miss out on something I'm not going to do that folks and so I would say anybody who has any questions about it please send me a call I have a 5-year-old so maybe I can get emotional so well and right now get from my house to OE it's entirely under construction right and on minkler it is oneway traffic right now oneway traffic I don't even to even think about the possibilities of what could happen so I fully supported the decision and just so we're clear too not every student does not do well on e-learning a lot of students do well on e-learning I don't want I I just sometimes we do a disservice so my old District we had e-learning it was we had an entire alternative program so some students Excel during it so just want to give a little shout out to that but um there I it's a tough decision to make but I fully supported it it's more about the communication of what went into the decision that I think um will help and then muscle memory for next year if it happens again we will have gotten this out of the way yep thank you all right can I have a motion to adjourn make a motion to adjourn all in favor I I any opposed no we are now adjourned

e e e it is is 6:02 p.m my name is Gabriel harp the chair of the an Harbor energy commission as chair I'm calling this meeting to order I'm participating from my home in an arbor uh welcome to the September 10th 2004 electronic meeting of the energy commission we will conduct this meeting like in-person meetings Commissioners during roll call please indicate your current location and also during the meeting please remain on camera just as you would be visible during in person meetings finally M mute your microphone when not speaking public comment will be via telephone only and to speak during any of the public comment opportunities please call one of the following two toll-free numbers 877- 85352 47 or 888 78899 and enter the meeting ID 9956 8718 7876 on your phone this information is also available on the public published agenda in the Public Notices section of the city website on the broadcast of this meeting on CTN Channel 16 AT&T channel 99 and online at www.gov.org CN Joe would you please read the land acknowledgement statement yep um I acknowledge that the land the city of Van Arbor occupies as the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the Anish shab including and W not peoples I further acknowledge that our city stands like almost all property in the United States on lands obtained generally in unconscious ways from indigenous peoples The Taking of this land was formalized by the Treaty of Detroit in 1807 knowing where we live work study and recreate does not change the past but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of this past can Empower us in our work to create a future that supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals thank you and Joe would you mind uh taking the roll call yep I've uh heard inance that council member Briggs will be unable to make it today um missioner burkowitz president in an arbor commissioner coven Garcia pres and aror uh chair harp presid and an aror uh Vice chair Hans president in N Arbor commissioner 11 not seeing yet uh commissioner msky here in Seattle Washington commissioner overp here in an arbor and council member Rina here in an arbor chair you have a quorum back to you thank you we'll now move on to the approval of the agenda is there a motion to approve the agenda is posted and a second so moved second commission second uh Commissioners please raise your hand if you'd like to propose changes or discussion issue um seeing No Hands raised all those in favor of approving the agenda is posted uh raise your hand and say I I all those opposed please raise your hand and say no okay the agenda is approved we'll move on to the approval of the minutes is there a motion to approve the minutes as posted in a second commissioner burwitz is there a second second SEC commissioner mki thank you um Commissioners please raise your hand if you'd like to propose any changes or discuss an issue seeing no hands rais all those in favor of approving the minutes as posted uh raise your hand and say I I all those post say no okay the minutes are approved we will move on to the uh time for public input this is an opportunity for people to speak for up to three minutes if you are watching on CTN please call 888- 78899 or 877 85352 47 and enter meeting ID 956 8718 7876 this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and video feed City staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak please press star N9 on your phone you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sound so that we may hear you clearly and please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments uh first up we have caller ending in 01 0 [Music] there we go sorry about that 010 hi this is Wayne Appleyard former member of the energy commission for about 26 years and share for around nine or so and I'm speaking tonight on behalf of the green rental housing ordinance first of all three minutes is not enough time for me to really respond to all that's in the ordinance and what's been handed out um you will hear from you have received something from John Mery and I totally agree with that and you may hear something from Ken Garber um who's done some really wonderful work along with Rich fine on um this proposal um or response to it I want you to read I want to read one thing eb11 strengthen housing code energy standards for rental properties rental properties are currently governed under chapter 105 of the city code which regulates housing by establishing basic requirements for inspections heating lighting and weatherization R units this plan recommends enforcing the current standards and expanding the housing energy code standards for rental properties because the rental inspection cycle of every 30 months is firmly established the yber already has the enforcement and compliance assistance structure in place to implement this change more rigorous enforcement of the current code will greatly benefit both condition and Energy Efficiency in the rental housing stock question is what did I just read I read eb11 of the Anarbor climate action plan from 2012 it is 2024 once again we have taken far too long to get to this place hasn't anybody ever heard of the emergency of of climate change we have to move faster and it may mean that some of the things that don't reduce greenhouse gas emissions have to be slowed down in order to beat up the things that really make a difference time is running out thank you thank you um caller ending in 534 good evening this is Tom stalberg calling from 1202 Traver in N Arbor uh I'm a landlord that's my job relatively small landlord we have mostly very old houses and a lot of duplexes and we have a lot of room for improvement this is going to mean a lot of work for us but guess what I'm totally for doing this we need this change and so what I'm in business get to work Tom I was on the task force for this a few years ago so I knew this was coming I've been expecting this I'm glad to see it here before you today I won't go into into the details because yeah I've only got three minutes like the last caller said um I do want to mention a couple quick things we do have in our portfolio a number of affordable and Workforce uh priced units and whenever you're making any uh considerations always consider that uh how the cost of work can impact the affordability of living I know that's a difficult balance uh some of these items are going to cost money and how can we make sure that that doesn't turn into uh you know pass through for higher rents for tenants so I know some of you have that uh already in mind I just want to remind you and I look forward to however this gets implemented we've got to do something uh so I'm not gonna be nitpicky about the little items uh I would love to talk to any of you who want to talk at length uh about half of you already have my contacts uh if uh if you need to contact me uh it' probably be easy to find out how to contact me and have a lengthy discussion so mostly I will just listen tonight thank you very much thank you [Music] um there was another are off the line so um just noting we do have another opportunity for public comment at the end so if they're able to rejoin we will hold for them so no further callers at this time okay thank you Joe um and thank you to the callers for those comments um much appreciated tonight we have a presentation and uh following we'll following that presentation we'll open up for discussion on green rental housing as some of the uh callers alluded to and so um tonight that presentation I believe is going to be driven by uh City sta USI staff Joe Lang is that accurate yep okay um and so I'll hand it over to Joe in just a second um as as Commissioners are sort of thinking through and and and listening to the presentation if as we move into discussion if it's possible to sort of bundle some of the comments um and we'll sort of go around um the group partially just to sort of be efficient with our time um and get feedback I know a lot of it will sort of come up in through the discussion as well but if you're able to sort of um pull some of your your comments together in the following discussion that might help us just in terms of time and then I'll also try to um just maybe hold a discussion on the um resolution in support of the audience till after the sort of discussion of the presentation and the ordinance and the supporting materials itself and just sort of um keeping that potentially uh somewhat separated from the sort of main main presentation and content um we aren't planning a vote or anything like that tonight but we'll have some time for discussion around that as well but we just keep that separate so um with that I want to hand hand it off to uh Joe to uh lead us in the presentation and and and open up the discussion yeah thank you um me share my screen here all right yeah so yeah thanks for having me here well always here but thanks for having me here to talk tonight um want to talk about renal housing which again a couple folks alluded to um I know has been a thing we've been one talking about for a while in the sense of it came up and it's it's been a minute since we've talked about it but um I know it's a thing that has interest and so I'm happy to be able to talk about it this time um for a little bit of run of show just what we're going to do I want to go through some of the background again why um I know some of the colors alluded to it too but just why we are um embracing this why this is an action why this is something that we are interested in going through as well as talk about some of the program development how it was developed over time just cuz again I know some folks were around the first time we talked about it others weren't and you know even for those who were um a refresher is always helpful um we'll spend some time talking about you know what the policy is what it looks like um you know a lot of it's in the packet so I'm not going to dive through like every specific detail in there but happy to talk about them and just talk about some of the main components of it to help try to clear anything up as we go uh as well as get a chance to talk a little bit about some of the resources that are already available as part of this um with you know more planned on the way and then plenty of time for questions and discussions if you have like you know said hold questions till the end but if you have like clarifying anything like that happy to just jump in happy to go through that at any point um as I know most of you are familiar with but just in case anyone listening is not um you know a20 core uh plan for all the work we do here at OSI which is our plan to equitably achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 is kind of what the basis for where this comes through um there's a whole bunch of things in there but what I want to notably talk about today are two of the strategies within which are switching our appliances and Vehicles over uh you know off of fossil fuels to Electric we can be renewably powered as well as strategy 3 which is significantly improving the Energy Efficiency of our buildings notably within that strategy three on the Energy Efficiency side we do have a specific action calling out promoting the green rental housing program which we're talking about here today uh which again is reducing the energy usage in rental properties within the city and the reason this is in the plan and why we're going down this kind of path is because if you look at our greenhouse gas emissions you know fluctuates a little bit over time but as of you know our most recent one we see just under 70% of our building emissions come from or our emissions come from buildings uh notably that number includes all buildings this isn't just residential buildings uh but when we do talk about residential buildings we do see that over half or 55% are rental units which is you know pretty big it's a majority of our residential units and so um with that in the fact that there is not any existing initiatives targeting these emissions we knew that there you know there has to be something that is uh looking at that and the core thing about this that also makes it tricky is this concept called the split incentive um which basically says that those who are able to make the change are not necessarily those who are able to get the benefit of the change in some cases the way to think about is you know in a single family home say you're the homeowner you own the home you're able to make any improvements you can you know improve your installation you can get a more efficient um you know heating unit all those kind of things and then over time you can if there's Energy savings you're the one who recoups those Energy savings so it can make sense you get a return on your investment over time through that saving um but in the case of a lot of rental units not all of them there's you know different situations and whatnot but in the majority uh of cases that doesn't necessarily happen uh you know the property owner is the one who owns the property as the you know the name states there so they're the one who are able to make these upgrades they are the ones who can do renewable energy electrification Energy Efficiency upgrades but often again oftentimes they are not the one who pays the utility bills so they don't necessarily see that direct benefit um from the reduction utility bills that can help pay off that kind of initial Capital Improvement um there's you know in you know there could be potentially indirect things where you know they're able to pass on savings they're able to um you know better promote their options and they have an increase in interest and who's in the properties and things like that but that direct savings on um utility bills isn't necessarily there on the other side you got the tenant who lives in the unit uh they're you know generally not able to make those big structural changes they might be able to do some things you know put like little bit of weather strip in or you know cover up Windows little things like that that can have an impact but they can't make those big changes that we see the biggest impact from however they are the ones who are paying the utility bill and you know they can't necessarily do anything to change that outside of you know some of those some of those smaller things um you can also think of it from the perspective because again in some cases the property owner or landlord is the one who does pay the utility bill and so you know they are more likely to see some of these changes they see that savings but then you can have you know situations where say you got a tenant who's in there um and because they don't pay the bill they're not thinking about um as much about how they're using their energy and that can result in kind of wasted energy use from the behavioral side um and all this again kind of coalesces in the what happens is these uh these types of units get upgrades at a slower Pace than we see in other types of um buildings again single family homes we see these kind of upgrades happen more frequently just because there is that Financial incentive to do this even though there is an upfront cost there are those savings over time so we see those changes made more frequently and so that's kind of what we're trying to address through kind of this policy structure um the other thing I just want to you know note is we do have existing processes for all this um you know we do have an existing uh rental housing Inspection Team they do these inspections again as a caller noted got the 30-month cycle there can be an extension for passing on the first try uh it has an existing rental inspection uh process you can see some of the stuff here in general these all relate to health safety that kind of stuff and everything that is on the list has to be met uh for the unit to be rented additionally there are some of those existing things again as callers mentioned are some of the um winterization requirements in rental housing these are all in place everything I say you know from here on out none of this is getting replaced none of this is getting removed moved this is all still in place all will still be part of it everything is just being added on top of that and then the last thing I just want to note for background is that again this isn't the only thing we are doing rental housing is not the only type of building that we are addressing um all the different buildings we have in our community operate kind of in different ways they have different things that work different things that don't work um when we're trying to address things from an Energy Efficiency standpoint as well as just again just reducing carbon emissions and so there's different structur in place for them again I know many of you are familiar but just in case folks aren't on the you know commercial building side um any building greater than 20,000 square feet needs to go through the benchmarking process where they track their energy and water data on the single family home side we have the home energy rating disclosure program where homes that are up for sale have to get a home energy score and report that out to potential home buyers and then now we're getting into greenal to housing which is kind of the third of this you know core Energy Efficiency criteria across our our buildings here lots of other work going on throughout this across a whole bunch of other different things we've talked about but these are just kind of those you know building related um policies that that we're talking about so in terms of how the policy was created we started with you know where most things started just looking up and seeing what is out there uh we worked with a couple of of these different uh national leaders who are doing work in all sorts of things across you know the decarbonization sector and sphere uh to really just understand what types of policies were out there already you know seeing what's worked what are some of the best practices that other communities have done um you know and for those that have seeing how they designed these programs how they've implemented them what are the results of those how they have been working uh to again just get a sense of what is out there and making sure we're not doing anything that um you know has already been developed we're not screening something from scratch uh we're using what has worked and also making sure we don't do anything that hasn't worked as part of that we um looked at a couple different cities there's uh more than just the ones here but you know some of them they've got uh different programs in place policy in place that have uh some over 10 years they've uh been going and again just really diving in to see you know what they have and you know importantly what's worked but just importantly what has not worked you know making sure that if they have something that's worked really well we're able to take that and repurpose it for our own needs um but again just importantly what didn't work you know we don't want to go down a path of doing something if it's proven to not be effective because that's not a good use of anyone's time with that um and all throughout this just really making sure that we're looking at what could work here in ant Arbor um you know I not you know we're not necessarily unique necessarily but we do have different situations different circumstances that some of these other communities might not have to deal with or just different again just different scenarios so making sure we're not just copy and pasting something from another place because we have a different set of scenarios that uh we need to consider so when thinking about those scenarios just kind of looking at the context of where we are in an arbor uh for our rental units there's about 31 a half thousand units across about 8,500 properties here in an arbor um in looking at you know kind of when they're built where they're at we find that the median year built is 1964 and you know some of these units date back to the 1850s obviously not the common but there are some there and why this is kind of important to note is because there were no Energy Efficiency requirements at all in Michigan building codes prior to 1977 um so even though there's been plenty of units throughout this time even before that that have been updating been doing things been having you know Energy Efficiency improvements during that time there's some that entirely possible they're just in that kind of same spot where they were before then before we had these codes that were designed you know to increase our you know our our standards of health safety security and Energy Efficiency to get kind of that modern levels of comfort that we're all familiar with that also again leads to those reductions in energy usage in greenhouse gases so with that kind of taking all that information uh we convened task force and we had one of the callers who called in uh who was a member of that to take all this information learn more discuss with each other and be able to tailor this policy to Ann Arbor uh there were representatives from tenant advocacy groups landlord advocacy groups lwi income housing uh as well as our building department and I within this we also had folks who were qualified Architects engineers and licensed Builders so we making sure we're getting that building science side of things within this um again they saw a bunch of presentations looked through a bunch of the research all these kind of things to just sort through again everything that's out there and begin defining what are those challenges what are those opportunities how do we address that split in incentive and again how do we do it in a way that works for Ann Arbor and for all the different stakeholders involved to the best you know we can we can find some sort of compromise with that during that they uh concluded by developing a set of recommendations again these you know came before folks including at the energy commission but what they were were a set of these policy elements that were targeting the appliance efficiency again looking at the individual appliances and how they get upgraded over time how we look at the overall efficiency of the units through a couple different pathways that again address how um you know how efficient the overall unit was some information on occupant weatherization as well as how to uh you know publicly disclose this information so taking all of that taking those policy recommendations those were shared out uh including an initial draft of the checklist which was used to um for that unit efficiency side of things and we collected a whole bunch of feedback through this process we had a public survey that had over 100 responses we had a couple different public meetings in which anyone could attend attend we had multiple stakeholder group meetings including meeting with the energy commission a couple times as well as some of the different um you know landlord Department groups in the uh in the community and you know all throughout we got a bunch of different feedback but um two the things I just kind of want to highlight that we got were um you know they were around one not really being enough time to beat some of the compliance things that were in place we're thinking about building cycles and upgrade Cycles in you know a rental unit having 6 months was really fast for some folk you know there might not be a resident turnover in that time period um at the time we were you know we still have in some cases contractor shortages or you know um you know Appliance shortages and things like that so it was they in some cases not necessarily feasible to do in that period potentially um as well as again you know feedback word again from you know energy commission included was some of the checklists felt inconsistent uh throughout kind of felt like some things were just slapped on with points um and they weren't necessarily equivalent to either the work required to make those kind of changes or the uh impact that they generate in terms of you know reducing greenhouse gas emissions so we had that a lot of other feedback a lot of different ways all was really helpful um and with that what we've done to you know to address that is one we've we've reworked the checklist uh with the goal of making it more consistent backed by data um you know having more of the points that be uh equivalent to the best of our ability uh also having a little bit of a phase in period just so you know we have something in place so immediately as it's you know going into effect there is the opportunity to get started start making changes uh but have a little bit more flexibility to make some of the bigger changes that might need to take place over a longer period of time um and then you know some of those other ones like the again the appliance upgrades and the weatherization Parts uh were kind of included into the checklist just that way we have one system that's going about it's all in one place it goes through one enforcement process um it just makes it a little easier to manage than trying to track down a bunch of different parts through um systems that aren't already in place so what this looks like um going to talk about the big thing is the again the Energy Efficiency requirements and basically what this is is setting an Energy Efficiency Target for rentals throughout one of I'll I'll talk more about and the way it's designed is to give choice and flexibility for compliance we know that you know not all rental units are the same and so there needs to be some flexibility to make sure they're doing the things that work the you know the most effectively for those units instead of doing a one-size fits-all approach that might not be effective for different units and then again all this is added to the existing pre-inspection uh checklist and the inspection process to make it all just kind of streamlined it's in one um you know one system that already exists people are familiar with while there's new requirements the the core process is still the same to try to eliminate confusion and make it again more streamlined as we go again this doesn't eliminate any of the things that are already in place this isn't replacing anything in the inspection process this isn't replacing any of the other requirements those are all still there this is just on top of that um and again all this is with the core goals of you know there's nothing related to efficiency currently in the checklist and we're also just trying to you know equalize the market expectations for rentals you know a lot of them are in good spots there are some that are you know uh in a pretty good spot and there are some that you know might be a little bit behind in terms of their level efficiency and so we're just trying to bring everyone up to kind of that um you know at least a a certain level to make sure we've got comfortable Apartments efficient apartments and reducing greenhouse gas emissions with them that the way that this works is there's two different Pathways depending on you know again what works best for the um you know for the for the property owner the first is a checklist pathway which um we'll spend a bit of time talking about what that looks like um but basically this is a checklist that was developed by us here at the office of stain Innovations uh with consultation from uh you know some experts in the field in again the goal there's a bunch of different points on there each item is worth a certain amount of points into um the pass you need to have a minimum amount of points on that checklist the other is the home energy rating system pathway um what for this you have to undergo a home energy rating system assessment or hers um through a home energy raater and achieve a minimum hers score with that the way these look the first one again that um for the home energy rating system pathway what the unit would need to go through is uh they get a home energy rating score very common um scoring system it's used across the country uh and what you got to do as you go through the inspector will go through look at all the different things the appliances uh the you know Energy Efficiency air ciling all that kind of stuff and come up with a final score of this um these can range in value uh you can see Zero is you know the lower it is the better zero is a zero energy home uh and so for this you need to get a score of at least 110 on that checkl on the on the score 110 or lower the next and I'll spend a little bit more time talking about this just because this again is developed by us rather than you know a national score there um is the checklist pathway and what this is again it's a checklist developed by office sustainabil Innovations and some of our you know our our collaborating experts and again what it is there's these different items they have points within them and you can pick and choose the different items to get the points to the score that works um I will talk more in detail about these different points but just noting there's a couple different sets of points they work in a couple different ways um and again at no point do you need to all of the points on here you don't need to get all of a certain number of points in one category something like that um and in fact you don't even need to know that these points exist or how they work in this way this is purely just to show people that there is a reason for these points this is how we got to those points and if people want to know that that information is out there but all that matters is that you know the point that's associated with the action um there so the first one is we have a set of um planning points and the reason we have this is to make sure that UPG UPG grades are being done in an efficient manner uh we don't want to have people going into a situation where they just look at a checklist they see the things that get the most points and do that um in a lot of cases that's going to work well you know but there's also other cases where that might not be the best process for that unit uh so we don't want people going out and either spending a bunch of money for something that doesn't work well or just doing upgrades for the sake of doing upgrades but rather we want things to be done in an efficient and a sustainable Manner and so they can go through and either do an do an energy assessment which again says where unit is at and then using that they can make a plan uh based on how they're going to make those changes over time so again it can be done in efficient and sustainable uh manner instead of again just going out there making changes for the sake of making changes and getting a certain amount of points the next um and I can go into this in more detail if we want but I you know I'm in general we have a modeled section um and basically what this is is going through and doing the best we can to find um if you do an action how much greenhouse gas reductions can you expect from that and give points according to it um so we worked with some again some Consulting experts to um go through restock which is a a building tool by developed by the uh National renewable energy laboratory that basically looks at all the different buildings uh across the country we narrowed it down to Michigan um and then look at at how these different actions impacted it so we went through did all these different things um and as you do them pulled out for each item roughly how much it reduces the energy consumption of a unit based on making that individual change um a little tricky because you're trying to you know a lot of these have dependencies with them so trying to break them up as best we can and then doing that you get that energy consumption reduction um and then looking at you know the overall uh fuel mix to see how much of a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions you can expect from that so um that's how this went about again it's it's roughly a one to one say if something gets a 10% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions it gets 10 points as a result of this and then the last is this section of non-modeled points um and the reason we have those is because there are things we know that do have an impact maybe it isn't you know as big of an impact with greenhouse gas uh emissions directly but there are different things where it impacts the health the safety and sustainability overall all important things that are in a20 that are in our sustainability goals um but we might not necessarily just be able to model those um one to one or there's just there can be such a discrepancy between different sizes of places that again you can't assign a certain number for that so these are all consistent across they have the same amount of points um you know and some of the examples are things like using electric lawn equipment again you know we know things like you know a gas leaf blower we' already addressed that to some extent you know gas mowers things like that have an awful lot of pollution from them for the size of what they are and by switching to something like electric we know we're producing emissions we're making a more healthy um you know environment as well as reducing things like noise pollution again there's not a one toone thing we can do for every unit roughly to see kind of what that looks like but we do know it's important so it gets points on the checklist similarly there's tenant education in there um which is important for two reasons because like I said one um the behavior within a unit does have an impact and it's important to account for that uh and so by doing kind of education again we can behave in a more um you know more sustainable manner uh it also as we're going through the process um there is a portion of what could have been in the model checklist which is plug loads which is basically all the different devices that are plugged into Outlets that can vary so much between different residents and so we wanted to account for that in some way and this is kind of how we have that so that's why it has a higher number of points than some of the other things just because their behavior includes things like how long they're running their TV streaming service computer monitors all those kind of things which can vary and isn't you know again directly modeled in another way so you have the overall checklist in your packet I'm happy to go through it later if we want to you know kind of go through things from there but just in general here's kind of what it you know here's what it looks like this isn't like a final you know beautiful version necessarily uh we'll you know work on that as we go so of course if people have ideas for how to lay it out better that'd be great to hear um but in general you have the you know the option the different item whatever it is how many points it gets and then what you need to do to meet that um this goes across all these different categories and again just noting people do not need to score every single point and even though there's categories that's just kind of broken up for ease of you know finding things seeing what they look like um it's you don't have to get a certain number of point points in each category to achieve compliance necessarily so it's just kind of you know guidance there those are what the points are and there's a total that needs to be met and the way it works is kind of again like we said a two-phase process um that have different point requirements for those two phases uh the first is would go into effect six months after the legislation has passed if it is passed um and from that time period till the next phase all units would have to get a score of 30 points um there's whole bunch of different ways this can be done a lot of units will already be in a good spot some might not be but a lot are going to be pretty good um and if folks are sitting there and like not quite sure how to start the easiest way that we can see people starting is if they're doing some of that um doing an energy assessment again seeing where the unit is at how it's currently performing creating a plan for how to get that unit into compliance and what kind of upgrades they want to take place over time and doing that tenant education that'll be developed by the office of sustainability Innovations here those will get them good for there of course there's other ways to do it that's just one pathway among many um and again this is to give that time to get everyone set up to make sure we're getting them into the system getting them thinking about this getting them making um improvements where improvements need to be made and set them up for that Final Phase of compliance which would happen again three years after this policy goes into effect um at which point 80 points would need to be met um this could be done again in whole different ways depending on the situation um again some a lot of buildings are doing very well and probably will have to make no changes as a result of this um but there are some that you know might need more meaningful work and we want to make sure we have processes in place to help them with that and then regardless of which pathway um folks undertake uh that will just need to be publicly disclosed um reason being well one the inspection results that already take place are already publicly available this is just one more thing that's part of it they will also be publicly available through there um and we're going to to do as best we can as an office to make sure that these are you know more readily um findable by folks again just because something's already out there doesn't mean people find it uh especially you know you get people moving from out of state into an apartment you know sure they're not looking for it in a lot of cases so making sure we can do things to try to make that more publicly available and more accessible for folks who might be searching for it um all with the goal of making sure tenants are you know better able to understand what they're looking similar to again a car you want to know um you know what kind of you're getting into with the efficiency of the car before uh purchasing try to do a similar thing for apartments again regardless of the um the pathway chosen compliance will work um again with the existing rental inspection process uh prior to the uh the inspection itself um the uh property manager or whoever is responsible for doing all that will be submitting uh this information to the inspector uh there's a you know there's a form they will fill out they will submit they'll say here's what I've done here's how you know here's the points or the you know the her score here's how I've achieved it and here's documentation that can show um that I have achieved it to the extent they have that documentation the inspector will then come out and confirm that yes those things have taken place um in the event a unit does not achieve that uh you know the required Port point total or her score uh a fine will be issued uh and that fine will be a recurring fine each day until unit is brought into compliance um you know here as an office our goal is never to issue fines never to you know issue compliance anything like that we really want to make sure that people are compliant at the beginning you know our goal is reducing the greenhouse gas emissions not issuing fines uh so we want to make sure we're doing everything we can to help people be you know prepared for it we want to make sure they're reducing their emissions um in advance of this so with that in mind we do have some resources that are already available um we have two different uh resource hubs one for landlords and Property Owners one for renters uh the landlord uh property owner one has a bunch of things on there that are related to financial resources different grants different rebates different tax credits different um you know financing options all those things that are out there to help them make changes should they need to make these changes there's also educational resources on how to connect to contractors how to know what's the most beneficial um improvements to be made um how to go about financing if they need to do financing as well as an incentive database that can help um you know continuously find new financial resources and if folks find Financial res resources that aren't on this page they can let me know I'll add them as soon as I can um as well as some of the different local resources that are out there to help folks with this such as again the 2030 District we've talked about uh who can help um you know people understand kind of where they're at and connect them to different resources from there and then lastly uh for renters again we have a a a renter resource Hub where we have different um Energy Efficiency strategies things you can do in your you know in your apartment to you know behave in a more Energy Efficiency way look at different uh you know different strategies things like that as well as during the apartment uh hunting process of you know what kind of questions to ask what things to look into uh so you can be thinking about how to set up uh yourself for Success um while this program doesn't touch on residents Halls uh we do have information in here on you know what folks can do in a resident Hall to um you know be more efficient even if you're not necessarily you know paying the utility bill there's all things we can do to do our part to improve efficiency there um as well as some other resources um I've talked a lot so that's all that I have in terms of the presentation um ready to open it up to like you know questions feedback I know I've gotten some in advance and happy to kind of go through some of those as we go um and also just you know knowing while there was like kind of like uh chair harp was saying while there was a resolution that was attached we're not planning on voting on that anything like that tonight um just noting that that was kind of one that had been brought up previously so just re-sharing noting that was something that was brought up I just updated is slightly for you know some of the numbers change and some of the policy things change um so just noting that is there we're not planning on voting on it at this time but um like I said I have some questions in advance I can start going through some of those but I'm just going to open it up first to um anyone here um for now think ccil member Rina has a hand raised yeah thanks um I just wanted to lead things off with a thank you I I expect that we'll have a lot of conversation tonight but I um really am just appreciative of all the work that has gone into this over a period of years now um and wanted to thank staff for their work I know that this has been um through a series of of processes uh from public engagement and committee work to staff work to Legal reviews and all of those things to make sure that what you guys are presenting uh is the strongest and most legal defensible option that that we can move forward and so I just want to to give my appreciation to all of the staff that have put time and energy into this as well as the volunteers we heard from some of them uh this evening um but uh really just appreciate all of the the hard work and and energy that has gone into this so thank you for that M 11 uh yes I would also Echo uh What uh commissioner ardina was saying H council person Rina um thanks for the it was very informative um I have a couple just kind of basic questions to start with um you were looking at when we were looking at the phase one part um just kind of like do you have like a rough idea of like what person percentage are already at that it seems like a pretty low bar to me and I understand it's just getting people used to the program and how it works but are we thinking that's like 90% like any idea I don't have a specific number um in terms of things and that's also kind of part of why we're looking at it in this way is one we you know we just don't know what we don't know um you know we have a general sense of like you know some are performing very well some are not performing well and this kind of can help give us that that kind of information to be like yes this is where we're at and if it's you know severely underperforming we can kind of make um you know adjustments from there um but yeah we just don't know a lot of that information okay um and then so let's say they meet the level let's say we're in phase three already and they're they've you know they've done improvements or whatever that they're they're in compliance um is there like follow-ups in the future uh that where we'll like continue to like how would that work exactly has that contemplated working yeah from from then on out in both of these again the enforcement is assessed during the inspection um those inspections occur again every 30 months you can get an extension again if it passes um and so yeah once we enter phase two phase two is indefinite um it continues throughout so every time they go for their inspection that gets checked at all those periods um so it's it's always checked they always have to meet that score from from then on out but it's not just like a you know like an energy audit it's just them like you know showing what they have done in the past and yeah you know once you get to that again it's different things like is there a heat pump that gets you a bunch of points do they have that insulation it has all those different things in there um and so you know it it's not just doing the assessment not just that it's it can be any of those things yeah okay uh one more question in terms of the incentives sorry if I I miss this in the materials but um is there any incentives they get for uring a contract with the tenants that might create more incentives for the tenants to use less energy like the tenants responsible for 100% of the utility bill or something like that or maybe even they split the utility bill yeah there's not any like direct things like of how it you know goes into the lease or anything like that just because that was one of those things we were looking at and was a little murky in terms of you know what we can legally tell them to put in a in a lease um but that's kind of why we have that um that renter sustainability session and again that would would be a thing it's going to be developed by us we're already we already have a lot of the resources we're putting into place just trying to figure out how to best do that just to that way we're focusing on that behavioral change focusing on you know what folks are doing um because we know it can have an outsize impact naturally if you have a very inefficient building what you do inside of it's not going to make too big of a difference but you know if you have an efficient you know unit making sure that people are acting in an efficient manner um does have a you know can have a big difference and that's why we we have that in there to kind of one couple all those different things um there is also at the bottom of the checklist there's like a called like unlisted Innovation measures you know if uh you know landlord property manager comes forward and says like hey we have this really Innovative leasing structure or we have this really Innovative you know way that we're doing you know XYZ that I can't think of because I'm not someone who's a you know a property manager and says like we're doing this and it you know related to that they could potentially get points for something like that thanks Jo I'd like to jump in just with a a question sort of some background and context and and I noticed in one of the slides um I have a question and then I have a a comment um in one of the slides I think there was uh some uh some indication of sort of either balancing prescriptive and performance-based um measures in the checklist or or the approach to it overall and what I I think I'm trying to sort of wrap my head around is the sort of choice or sort of the thinking and the context around the choices particularly of the sort of checklist approach which I think maybe tends to be more prescriptive and you know as oppos and maybe in contrast to I would say um and I'm I'm sort of making this up but like an approach where you would look at the actual energy use and fuel mix that the unit is using as a sort of outcome for um whether it's use intensity or efficiency or whatever that might be and I was wondering if you could say a little bit more about that sort of that sort of overall General approach in the program design and sort of how maybe the checklist approach sort of helps that or or is a choice that's distinct or different from that um because one might imagine you know both approaches but obviously there that that's a a pretty significant design choice I think um for my for my reading sure yeah and there's definitely um you know I think we with both of them right like I said right now there's those two different ones you got the you know the the hers rating essentially or the checklist and you know um there's the ability to choose which one makes the most sense you know uh we've seen in some of the one of the ones we looked at Boulder they had a similar thing and what they found is less than 2% of the people who went through it used the um like the hers rating almost everyone was using the checklist um you know like I said very few used it even those who did kind of switched over to using the checklist kind of after um part of it and why we're kind of going down this is one it's just easier to see if I do make this change I will receive this number of points and so that's kind of helpful rather than you know while I think in the you know the perfect scenario the scientific scenario is to be able to yeah exactly show like this is how much energy youve reduced this is how much XYZ has happened um that can be harder to do from like again the individual property manager perspective of being able to show that change happening um and in some cases can feel like a bit of a risk on their sense too where they're like okay I'm going to go improve the I'm G to add insulation and the attic into the walls things like that I'm gonna spend however much without really knowing how much it's going to change um and so there's like a level of risk associate with that they're a fear of that and that can prevent people from kind of going forward and doing that without knowing how that's going to impact them as opposed to again saying here's a checklist if you do this you get this many points you get this much closer to compliance um and that's kind of the reason that we saw in those other those other cities of why they were going down um the checklist pathway because it was it was helpful to see from that perspective um so that that's kind of why we settled on that and and just as a followup is then is there a mechanism at all you know at all for then understanding the sort of impact to sort of energy use intensity or fuel you know fuel use intensity or Energy Efficiency um beyond the checklist itself like in terms of the actual performance of the of the rental units themselves um either in this program either in this program or other programs some of it yeah and especially um you know if it's one of the you know larger multif family units again if it's greater than 20,000 square feet it goes through benchmarking you can potentially see some of those changes through that as they as they go through that um otherwise you know again the majority of the points are you know close to majority of the points are coming from a modeled thing so we can roughly say that yes they're reducing it by you know by this much going through those measures um again I would love to have you know however much budget to be able to go through and or just you know require people to go through and their data from all the things and all the changes they're making uh just kind of yeah some of the stuff that you know as we were going through um the reality of what we were able to do and what was able to be gleaned from kind of or you know what data was able to be provided um this kind of is the the route that you know was the most um effective from you know being able to make those changes and see as best we can thanks and I I'll just add a brief comment um which is I think you know as I was reading as I was reading the guidelines um I think it's in the guidelines that the disclosure is posted on the building inspection permits site and what I was was starting to think about was a sort of analogy that I see in a lot of you know hotels motels airbnbs even even some homes um that that are rented out and and I think this was something that um steuart the author and journalist Stuart brand um sort of wrote about which is this idea of a home book or some or a book or a binder or something that sits with the house or the building or the structure and sort of maintains the memory of things that have changed and uses and and sort of um retrofits and and all kinds of things and I think um maybe it's a good analogy to consider in terms of that some of the educational aspects of the checklist in particular is the availability of that kind of um information in the place where it's sort of used and makes it more sort of mutually available between the renters the landlord um the inspectors as they come and visit the house and sort sort of how how that information might be updated I'll I'll put some more description of that and and feedback that I'll send over email but I just I just wanted to draw attention to that because I think it's a you know it's potentially an important opportunity also um for empowering I think not only the renters but the landlords as well with the sort of types of information that they can both sort of use to sort of nudge each other in the right direction yeah definitely and I appreciate that too and I know this was um said John I know we got questions I haven't answered of yours yet but um one of the one of the ones that was brought up was you know what is being done to you know incentivize people going even higher than what's on the checklist and that is a thing we've we've started having some discussions with some both internal external Partners uh talking to our Buildings Department to see you know well just in general Again One how can we make these things more available like I said it's great having it online on a permitting website but how easy is that to find for people or even to know what to look for um so seeing what potential different ways we could do whether that being you know creating some sort of you know um you know tiered system saying oh you get bronze silver gold once you reach different tiers of saying you're doing this well things like that and then you know having whether it be you know plaque stickers you know something more uh sustainable than printing something out um you know and being able to use that in marketing materials being show like Hey we're a you know this rated property we're this efficient we can you know do things like that uh We've also started to um talk with some of our some of the folks at University of Michigan they have a lot of um different resources that are out there to help students find off campus housing uh and so working with them to you know be able to use their systems to kind of integrate this score into that system um again with some you know sort of explanation in there again of what that score means and you know what what things are to kind of help with you know students who are looking for um you know rentals as well to be able to find you know housing that is more efficient if that's you know a priority of theirs so looking through all those different ways and yeah folks have different ideas for how to you know better promote that how to better show that how to you know enhance that interaction um would definitely be open to hearing things like that so I appreciate that Comm mki thank you uh first of all I'll start out with uh the fact as mentioned earlier that uh I provided input um that hopefully all of you have seen in your in baskets um if you haven't had a chance to provu that um I encourage you to do so um I don't plan on regurgitating all that but I'd like to um make some broad comments about um the rental housing program um and some of the concerns that I laid out in uh this document um first of all I want to make it clear to everyone and that I'm totally supportive of the green rental housing program this is absolutely needed um I think all of you if you uh recall I've been asking for a review of the green h orental housing program by the uh the environment or excuse me the energy commission every two or three months for the last two years or so so this is this absolutely is necessary um I think it's important to consider context uh first of all the a20 plan has the following targets um in strategy 2 action one a 20 uh 25% of rental properties have fully electrified also in the same same um strategy and action electricity powering these units is 100% renewable energy by the way these are all Targets for 2030 strategy three action one 80% of tenet occupied homes have achieved a 20% reduction electricity usage and a 15% reduction in natural gas usage and then the strategy uh three number action number number eight which is the green rental housing program itself this was covered on a slide that Joe showed earlier is 10% reduction in energy usage attributable just to this program so there are very very high targets they're necessary targets um a couple of other things reling to context I think we all know that we have a housing affordability issue so this is one thing that we have to keep in mind when we design this program and make recommendations to city council I think we also have to recall that we're not meeting our greenhouse gas reduction targets um we had a 1% reduction from uh 2022 to 2023 if you look back to 2015 um we've averaged about 1.5% a year if you at the old simple greenhouse gas inventory that 1% per year roughly since that time frame this this is a huge lever it's um by the way oops do are you hearing me I my internet you went away for a second but you're back you're back now okay good yep okay um this is a huge lever Joe covered that in his slides um it really emphasized how important this is it's one of the few really major levels that we have to drive um action um in the building sector remaining so it's really important that we that we uh focus on this and we do a really good job um with the program that's proposed uh I want to also state that there are really excellent elements of the program as is um indeed it's significantly better than the uh program that was presented to the energy Commission in March of 2022 so that's two and a half years ago so work has done but we've also lost uh two and a half years this this program in the a20 plan was supposed to have been approved in 2021 and was supposed to have taken effect in 2022 or starting in 22 so we we're obviously way behind that and if you look at the three-year timetable for achieving the 20 points it's likely that we're not going to see any measurable impact or at least significant impact until maybe what 2028 or something like that um another thing that's really good is the fact that we have two Pathways that was in the original plan um the checklist pathway Point uh allocation is really much improved it really is based on uh as Joe showed um some science behind it and that's really good the fact that um a plan um is is not required but receives a lot of points makes a lot of sense and the Tenant education also makes sense um I have a number of other concerns though that I want to point out and I'm not going to repeat like I said what's in uh the the email and in the attachments but in my view the thresholds are low um the hers threshold is 110 it's uh appropriate that everybody know that that's based on a score of a 100 that's tied to the 2006 International Energy code so that's already an 18yearold code um it's not um there no stepwise targets other than that there's no targets past three years from now um there's no differentiation by age of the unit I know that adds complexity so in in stating that I I recognize that that cuts two different ways um and but the biggest concern is as outlined in the attachment that I sent is that I'm very concerned as others are that this will not drive the necessary um energy conservation measures renewable energy adoption or electrification because landlords can cherry-pick measures and that's not going to lead to the kinds of reductions that we really need given the context that we're in in my view we need a program that's going to really Drive action that's going to lead to significant tangible greenhouse gas reductions recognizing the context of a split incentive system um in my view um the the EC should not endorse the program as it is there is really a lot of good material there but there's um a lot of in my view tweaks that can be done before we uh approve a resolution um recommending that city council adopt uh the program as as it currently stands um if you dig into the the documents that I provided there's a lot of little things that need to be addressed there's small Corrections um um in sort of a licensed uh uh energy accessors they should be certified um you know little things like that those kinds of things need to be done there's also some other things this would cover sori and fraternities it's uh there's some uh uh group housing in those situations is not really clear how those would be done so there's really a a number of of different things from sort of high level issues that need to be addressed to lower level issues um that's all I'll have to say for the evening um unless really I think feel moved to to comment on somebody else's comment but I wanted to share all of that with you thanks for the opportunity to do so yeah definitely definitely want to say yeah thank you for that I know um yeah I was looking through it and you know a lot of those you know especially you're saying some of the things like yes will be updated because that makes a ton of sense um and clarify um yeah some of the the group housing ones like had some stuff in there especially around like the dryers and stuff like that and wanted to try to make things clear but I know it might not be for all of them so might yeah go back and make some of those changes um I do want to say one thing before jumping to commissioner koven uh covin Garcia um just again noting in terms of framing context and all that kind of stuff on the program especially around you know the point totals and how you know we got to them um and again noting as you know we've all said we've all noted throughout even you know how people are it's like the the core goal of this is to improve you know the Energy Efficiency resulting in the greenhouse gas emissions uctions from that um but I also do want to recognize the context that we are in I know we've talked about this in a couple different meetings a couple different programs on what we are able to do as a you know a city city government how you know how far we can go especially as it relates to you know some of the different Michigan building codes and what we're able to go up against with that um and that's frankly a large reason why this has taken so long is you know naturally when we were yes adjusting the checklist but two we were trying to find every you know p pathway we could to make this into a program that is able to have the impact that we want it to have while also doing it in a way that is legally compliant making sure it can be a program that can exist um and doing that in a way that is able to then have as much impact as we can under that setting um and I do also want to note that again you know as you know talked about a couple different ones again this isn't the only thing we are doing while this is you know a thing that can be put in place a thing that we can do um and a thing that you know can have some sort of compliance with it uh we are you know seeing improvements in some of the other areas uh just you know to talk about a couple things that I know these aren't necessarily you know for every single housing uh unit every rental housing unit uh but talking about the home Energy rebates we've seen a couple of landlords who are already taking advantage of those for their you know their the houses that they rent out and we're seeing them install heat pumps we're seeing them install um you know new levels of insulation updating things like that um so you know we're seeing some of that Improvement already we've also been talking to some of the larger building owners and developers across the different you know sizes of rental properties connecting them to different financial and Technical Resources to make improvements uh We've submitted a couple different grants where we're looking at trying to again find funding opportunities to help people um you know make improvements where where they might need to be made so a lot of work is being done and even if you know the kind of the numbers they feel um you know a little you know low potentially again some of that's from the context we're in uh but what is in there is you know something that we feel we are able to make a viable policy again given that landscape uh but also just as importantly have a framework and a connection point out there that can kind of bring people to this change you know in some cases um you know landlords aren't thinking about Energy Efficiency improvements or anything like that but having a policy in place can connect them to that they see it they see what's happening and can then think about changes that could go again even above and beyond what is required in the checklist so just wanted to note that these are all things we've been considering and we you know appreciate hearing the feedback on um and this is kind of the result that we've gotten to kind of based on all those different considerations so but thank you for bringing that up and I know you and others have brought it up as well so we do hear you and we do we do feel that commissioner colen Garcia thank you very much and thanks so much for the work that uh you're doing uh moving this forward and um um albe it it's it is definitely much later than what many of us have been requesting um I am curious more at this point you know after the comments that have already been submitted and thanks to your work uh commissioner riski um and sharing this with with the rest of the commission um what is the uh the plan moving forward with uh for for um finalizing and and taking it to the next stage for rolling this out yeah the goal is to move as you know as quick as we can where we can um you know as of right now this is my I've talked to some folks in you know in smaller settings but this is kind of the you know the first one coming back to the energy commission to talk about it um I'm planning on also talking to the renters commission about it as well we get feedback from from their side of things as they you know when it first came up wasn't um you know present uh the the commission um also planning on trying to get a couple different meetings with you know some of the bigger stakeholders trying to get some stuff you know was Apartment Association and some of the other um groups that kind of helped early on uh but the goal is to move as you know as quick as we can make sure we get that information be able to update things that are you know crucial to be updated and able to be updated um with the goal of you know moving forward as quick as we can based on you know some of the other legislative items and such uh from there so as I I I apologize I left this out that so moving forward um is there is there any input at this time that that OSI will consider as far as making modifications to the to the uh program yeah I mean where where possible I mean some of the you know the big overarching structures some of the stuff that's in place is in place because of that's what we are able to do legally and we might not be able to change much outside of that um but for you know especially a lot of the different you know some of the different things in the point structures you know some of the stuff again that um the materials that pass along with some of the comments were like hey you said this thing that's not actually the thing you're trying to say this is what you'd say um you know things like that those absolutely can be updated um so yeah some of the bigger structural things might be kind of difficult at this time just because you know we got that feedback we've Incorporated that feedback and then we've updated it to the the best we can again based on legal guidance uh but yeah some of that other stuff can definitely be tweaked if it's if it's if it U needs to be tweaked okay that's that's really important um I think that that still be an um a an opening for this because it's there are some important changes that do need to be made and um you know we have to definitely balance the um the legality of it the defensibility of it and then the the impact of of what we're we're working to to accomplish here um I I do need to leave the meeting early today I'm really sorry that I can't be here for the entire meeting but thank you so much for um for allowing um to have input on this thank you and I know you're jumping in others um please send me emails anything like that if you have um input I'm happy to take those thank you and if I could just follow up briefly too on on on the the question as well Joe would you be able to just comment briefly on with particular respect to the guidelines of how those might be updated in the future um or what the process might be for that whether it's based on other other programs that have run like this in the past or or what the plan is currently for this program because it seems like a little bit of that is is baked into some of the guidelines which which I could imagine being a source of of learning as well yeah absolutely I think you know so basically there's in the in the packet you got there's some of the those different materials the one that uh forgot what I call I think ordinance pack part or whatever it is um the ones that are in there um to an extent so anything like the ordinance itself um and what is in there those would all if that were to be something that needs to be updated those are things that would have to go through Council um so some of the you know the big things in there like again the point totals that are required if that needed to be changed down the line that's something that would have to go through the council process to be changed um the things that are in the um uh what is it called the regulations so green or housing regulations those are things that could change through the um you know through the regulation process from um the office of stand to Innovation so again if there's like things in there um you know where it's like hey this is how you reach compliance with this thing and if we're kind of going through and finding that like hey that doesn't work that can kind of be updated from that those are how those are designed to be to be fixed through kind of simple things where again like if there's something in there and we're going through and everyone's like you can't meet compliance because of the way you describe that we can fix that to make sure people can uh but yeah some of those like larger systematic changes were those to be changed down the line that's something that would have to go uh back through Council to to change thank you for that clarification other comments or questions from members or council members Min [Music] mki I'm breaking my promise but I think maybe it's important um two two Qui questions uh in the materials provided I didn't see any hint that the thresholds might change in the future is that something that has been discussed within OSI um and has it been has the topic been Broach at all with Council and then I have a second question yeah kind um it's it's been discussed and again right now where we have the point total set is where we feel the most comfortable with in terms of all that other context were things to change that would be a thing that we could potentially revisit but again that would have to go through the you know the public input going through uh Council and all that kind of stuff to change so as of right now that's where we're planning on being at and sticking at if things were to you know change that could be potentially brought up and readdressed then the the other point that I have is I I really appreciate hearing staff's uh reaction or comment on this uh I've point out to others that the uh Pathways to 100% Renewable Energy report um makes reference several times to the costs that are going to be incurred by the city and it in turn refers to the fact that those will ultimately have to be passed on to taxpayers meaning we're all going to have to pay um what are called nonrecoverable costs for buying essentially wrecks or offsets um for not being able to be in a situation where we have 100% renewable energy uh those costs vary by scenario um they're summarized on page something like 14 or 16 of the report they amount to somewhere in the range of5 to10 million between uh 2024 and 2029 and then are in the range of $10 million plus in 2030 and then presumably those would drop every year as we make progress on getting U cleaner electricity that's just for the electricity side of our greenhouse gas targets doesn't address any of the targets or the any of the Recs I should say your offsets that we may need because of not making progress in reducing um fossil fuel consumption for transportation for heating Etc um so if indeed we're going to be spending roughly $10 million a year the question is we're we're gonna pay for this one way or the other so shouldn't we be paying for this by making sure instead of buying recks or offsets that we actually make the kinds of improvements to housing and transportation Etc that really have a Tang impact on on our emissions as opposed to doing it um by saying we need to meet our Target we're going to meet our Target that's something that has been uh repeatedly stated I think that's a great position to take and if indeed that's the case but it's going to take wrecks or offsets at that cost should we be considering that when we consider the costs of a program like this to landlords that are eventually going to be passed on to tenants um so it's going to be coming out of people's pockets one way or the other is is that a reasonable line of thinking um I will defer that to others I don't necessarily comment on my end from that perspective but I I see what you're saying I know it's things that are being discussed is being considered um I just do not have a perspective for my end maybe we can save that as a topic for another meeting but I think it's something that we need to always be considering in in again in this context I see Missy has come on line so go ahead Miss I'm lurking John lurking in the background uh yeah I I think it's a really interesting question and there is unequivocally truth in it and then there is some Simplicity in it that uh which you know I I know you know this because you think about this a lot uh that a20 is directional it's not verbatim right that a lot of things have changed in the ecosystem uh some really good and some really challenging and so we don't have the state uh policies that Governor Whitmer signed last year in here in a20 as it is but that is part of the ecosystem that we're operating with we also haven't identified those wrecks and the market looks different today for renewable energy than it did developing in Michigan even sighting right the sighting policy and the sighting law is fundamentally different than what it was so this isn't always a tradeoff that we think about is where does the LI The Limited capital go to make the biggest impact and some of the things we probably don't talk a lot about with you all are the soft things like the regulatory interventions before the Public Service Commission because if we get a win there that win Cascades and is so much more effective than a dollar like Roi per dollar invested I I don't even know how we calculate it right the the attorney fees maybe is how we would do that so that's a convoluted way of saying I think it is always right to keep what you're saying front of mind but I think we have to do it dynamically given the context we're in in the moment as opposed to where we were for years ago when we adopted the plan does that make sense I think what I'd like to do is is sort of steer discussion now and and I I'm possibly looking at Joe for a slight clarification on this with respect to the resolution that was also included as part of the pack um I'd like to open for any comments particularly on the text of the resolution but I think the plan was not necessarily to um I don't my sense is that there's not a lot to that that we necessarily need to adjust in part because I think Joe probably updated that from the time that it was initially introduced and and and um and we can also gather any comments or or updates to that text uh via comments from Commissioners separately but if we were to um reintroduce the resolution on the agenda perhaps for a vote um at the next meeting for example um I just wanted to make sure that we had an opportunity to discuss anything that was important at this meeting um before doing that yeah I think that that's fine if folks have comments on it again we're not voting on it tonight um but you know if you have any comments you see anything wrong with it or anything like that um yeah you can either let us know now or you know if you have more chance to read it and send in a comment um we can we can do that later so but it is there if folks have comments happy to hear them yeah and so just to give an indication like you know given the feedback and and given the sort of tener of discussion um I think everyone please share uh comments and and feedback with the OSI team um and Joe uh um and I think that there will probably be some updates and and perhaps we can do that through some of that through communication with the Commissioners um between now and the next meeting and what I'd like to do is reintroduce the the resolution at the in the uh what month is it um October um energy commission meeting um POS you know for potentially for a vote um on that resolution as well so just to give a sense of of where this might be going um thanks everyone and I just want to thank Joe in particular because I know he's shouldered quite a bit of the last two Commission meetings um I think both in terms of presenting and Fielding uh questions and and really being able to respond and and um carry a lot of these things forward so um thank you Joe for all of that and um with that maybe we can move on to the staff report yeah that is also me um find the right thing okay apologies I have a few because there's so many things going on um and I'm probably not catching them all I didn't even know we were in a meeting earlier today and Missy said there was only I think three days this month that we don't have an OSI so lots going on um yeah I did just want to run through um so one green fair is coming up I know a lot of you are familiar with it and have been out to it um but noting greenf Fair our annual event featuring over 80 exhibitors advancing sustainable living with information about renewable energy energy waste reduction circular economy local food system all things a20 that I could keep listing for a while here um but just noting that that takes place on Friday September 20th 5: to 8:00 p.m.

I'd like to call this meet into order and we'll begin with the Pledge of Allegiance and I've asked Mary Ford to lead his n ALG 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 we'd like to start actually with uh excusing a couple of members here today Kimberly dugdale is on a training travel training today for fin School finance and Diana Butler is under the weather today won't be able to attend with us so we all have probably heard the horrible news that uh uh Mr Ferell fish Mr Fish was uh taken in a terrible accident with his wife this last I think it was Friday Friday afternoon and uh it came as a shock uh he is pretty much when you think of Blue Ridge he is one of the persons that you think of I think everybody in this room either had him as a teacher a coach athletic director or principal uh our history goes way back with him I was thinking I talked to him one time and he said he graduated from Lakeside High School and a there's a picture in the superintendent's office in the district office of the first winning Blue Ridge football team and it was actually Lakeside had high he was one of the coaches for that football team way back in the 60s early 60s so he graduated right from college came to work here and he never took another job anywhere else he worked his whole career in the Blue Ridge School District and he uh was funny he had a Mr Fish joke almost every day and uh I think if you just remember the man you can remember some of the funny things that he did and said just recently he saw me with this little beard on my face and he says hey Dave why are you growing that hair on your face and I said well my wife says it makes me look smarter and he says well I ain't working Dave you know that's the way the man was he was a legend in B and he going to be missed many people saw him jogging in his 880s he would run uh four five miles every day in his 80s um I love the man I think a lot of people he affected the lives of generations in this community for good and I would just like anybody in the board if you had something you'd like to say about feral fish you're welcome to say it right now I'd appreciate it I think you said it all well um I came here as a teacher in 1973 and phell interviewed me for the job and he was the principal at the time so it's going backways backways yeah and I came in 75 and he hired me over the phone I took the job before even I'd never even been here before so he was the one I talked to one of my favorite pharoh legacies is um no child could outrun him so if a kid was doing something wrong he chased him down and took care of it yes he was a character and he was one of the reasons blidge is such a great School District um if I'm not mistaken blidge has one girl's basketball championship and he coached that team to a state championship so if if you uh wouldn't mind we'll just take a moment of silence to remember frell thank you so much the uh recognitions for the month of September I'm going to turn over to Dr Wright thank you Mr Mero it's always one of the enjoyable things to do is recognize our wonderful students we'll start off at the elementary level with Mr Grace if you could please honor your student of the month and then we'll move on to miss hoffmeier and then Mr web in that order please so at the elementary school um we went back and forth on our student of the month and we had several people that nominated uh kej Wilson kej come on out [Applause] so keyj is a second grader at our school um his teacher Miss poer writes kej is an amazing young man he's very respectful not not only to adults but to his peers as well he is thoughtful considerate and cares about how people feel kej is not afraid to stand up to people if something isn't right he shows great leadership skills and is always willing to help anyone in need KJ is an inquisitive and has a love for Learning and he is an absolute joy to have in class QJ is a great honor to have at our school I see him every single morning um give his younger brother hugs as he lets go of him at the at the sidewalk he's an amazing young man he's very deserving of this award kej [Applause] congratulations I requested uh two students of the month this month um if I could please have Kye Meadows and Vince Johnson come up Vince and Kiren are eighth graders at our school year last year they started showing us some of their leadership skills this year they took it up a notch when they started a movement in the cafeteria um they started uh just they asked one day can we stay in and clean the cafeteria sure you can absolutely do that instead of going to recess they stayed in and clean the cafeteria the next day they did it again and a couple kids chose to stay in and help them and they did it again and more kids chose to stay in and help them and so every day um they stay in clean the ca the cafeteria after all the students leave with six or seven other kids that choose to stay in and help our cafeteria staff clean up great leadership um I'm excited to see what these guys do as they move into the into high school and career because this is the kind of leader we are super excited to see congratulations [Applause] so high school we are recognizing Jack Woods um he's not a stranger to the board he is an amazing young man he's actually um representing the school at a cross country meet today so he's down in CQ and that's why you couldn't be here tonight um Jack is amazing student in the classroom in the Halls um he represents the school well as you've witnessed here in the board meetings when he talks he demands respect attention from the audience and we he's heavily involved with FBA he he's a key part of the student story and why the student story is successful as it is right now so um his leadership skills his performance in the classroom and the way that he treats the other students and adults are those are the reasons why we're recognizing Jack wood so help me congratulate Jack and I'll make sure that he get award congratulations to all those youngsters and now we'd like to highlight a couple of our teachers of the month and we'll start at Mr web again you have both of them [Applause] so we'd like to recognize Mr bestest U Mr bestest is he's social studies teacher at the high school he does our AP Government AP US History um and does dual enrollment classes with NPC um so he's got our higher level kids and he requires a lot from them in their classes and he's um this last year as we finished up our AP exams his students that did the AP Gov test 91% of the students that took the government test passed it and 83% of those that took I think it 83 took the the AP US and passed it so those are phenomenal numbers and that's I mean it's you're not going to beat that anywhere so um does a great job in the classroom he's also our NHS sponsor and this last year it's a second year in a row that we've been recognized by by talent for the efforts with his leadership with the kids and it's really a kid- driven program and the kids do so much but we got to have the leaders that help push the kids and and so Mar is is a a key part of NHS and providing that leadership to the kids so um another thing that we're excited for Mark and what he's doing with the school this year he is actually meeting with Juniors and starting our scholarship process not only for University bound kids but students that are um they might be in a trade school or they may be looking to stting Community College we want to start them thinking of postsecondary and and Mark is the perfect person with his background with NPC um his skills in the classroom he's able to help give those kids some some goals and some aspirations to to start their planning early so we're excited to see what what happens this next year as he works with those kids so we want to thank Mark for his work and recognize him as teacher of the month thank you and then my next one is Brian White we want to recognize Mr White so I I I hired Mr White when I was at the junior high and he came in and he ran our um kind of our alternative school at the junior high and so he's he works really well with those kids who maybe need a little extra guidance and assistance motivation to be successful in the classroom um he worked at the junior high for several years I think he was with Courtney maybe one or two years two years and then taught social studies there then he came up we had some re assignment and some shuffling with some positions and so I needed him up at the high school at the end so he started off with the ASU um learning lab and then went into the alternative classroom he helped with classes there um he's helped with our ISS kids so he's really he does great with those kids who need a little push a little reminder um what it takes to be successful in the in the classro and so uh Brian's been great at whenever we have a need he's willing to jump in and and fulfill that need whatever it is whether it's 7 to class he'll take two or three classes in with his class when we're short teachers and so he's always willing to help out so we want to recognize him for his willingness and his leadership in the classroom and on the field he's also Al coaching baseball and helping with football so he isn't able to be here tonight cuz he's actually out there coaching so we want to recognize Brian White and his and his work at the high [Applause] school just real quickly Diana Butler is just joining us Mr Merill she's on a speaker on my my phone here in Diana we've just recognized Mr vest for Teacher of the month and Bri white for Teacher of the month and several students for the U students of the month and now we are going to recognize our be star and Miss hoffm if I could please have Dean Moya come out deian is our uh our health Tech and our attendance Clerk and we compared her to Mary Poppins today um because she's just she is able to take she's able to find anything somebody came in and said do you have toothpaste I sure do come on back she's got everything you need um and she can fix everything she came Onan came on with us in October I think of last year um and so in the interview she was a delight and after leaving the interview we all said we have to call her immediately so she doesn't take any other job she is she has just proven to be such an asset at the junior high she is compassionate yet she holds students account um she is just somebody that we rely on for multiple things you can give her a task show to her I mean this is how we do this one time and here I'll kind of show you but she figures it out and then she teaches us how to do it better so she is just um just um an Irreplaceable person at our at our front office and we love having her this junior high thank you [Applause] our uh Mr President our last bit of recognition um if you'd indulge me for a couple moments is to recognize Margaret Gabby for 37 years of continuous School Board service I'll let that sit sit in there's some people in the audience that aren't 37 years old that is a lot of commitment I'll also point out that we have Diana Butler on the line Diana Butler and Chuck have both invested more than 50 years of service to their schooling community um Margaret Miss Margaret is on 46 years so the short timers are 12 and 15 years respectively with M Miss Brimhall and and president Merill this is a it's a privilege to have people that are this dedicated to serve in this community and it's it's a gift to have people that have had long tenure and vested interest in this school district and they all had children attend and graduate from the school district it has been my privilege for 10 years to to serve as their superintendent and I still have another nine or 10 months left July 1 that'll be passed on to someone else but it is a privilege if if we could U if the board president would like to take a picture with Margaret or in the board itself um if you would indulge us for a moment president I do think the whole Board needs to be in the picture it's just not me then you can add up all our yours put that in of 37 that's yeah pi than thank you have to find a ww in in a moment uh well after after this Mr President during Miss Hoff me's presentation on the junior high she's also going to talk about the Diana Butler student Commons area and so I wanted just to bring that to the board's attention too and I'll turn the time over to you Mr President thank you back in the mid 90s I served as stin on the school board and Margaret we served together back then that was just yesterday right y all right next item is 2.1 on the agenda and we'd ask we've asked uh Dr Mark jorstad to come and give us a presentation and this is open for discussion from the board during this presentation and questions from Dr Jad thank you for coming up appreciate you and I want to start by thanking the board board members for your service for what you do I know it's a highly paid job and you repeatedly thanked for it but um leadership and service like you're giving is really the essence of democracy and it's it's what's so important about our Public Schools remaining functioning vivacious Lively important places for students so I thank you for that and secondly ASA I represent the Arizona School administrators we're honored to work with you on this uh Endeavor of choosing a new leader it's one of the most important decisions any board makes and and we uh take it very seriously and appreciate and are honored to assist you in this task okay so let's we're going to start by looking at I'm going to give a little presentation on the search itself the components give you this is an overview so you'll be familiar with it you have a handout in your let's see if I have this up there I do okay and you have a handout if you wish to follow along okay if I set this down like this am I can you hear me well enough no okay I want to go into cring feelings when I have this mic in my hand but I'll spare you okay so let's take a look at the search itself the components of a search how we will work together to find the perfect leader for Blue Ridge so we have two goals two goals in a search like this the first goal is the outcome of course select the highest qualified best fit superintendent to lead Blue Ridge Unified School District into the future and notice there's two terms there highly qualified you want someone who is highly qualified ified in many ways but also they need to be the best fit someone who's the best fit for example a large Urban School District might not be the best fit for a smaller rural district and vice versa so we'll work together on qualifications and fit and secondly there's a process goal that this process is transparent to the public there's no questions or secrets about what happens it's it's out in the open we have public meetings you vote in public you go on record and and that's very important as well there's no back room deals and suddenly someone comes out with a surprise superintendent announcement so we'll work on those goals together I can be a runaway train when I get presenting so if you have a question just interrupt me don't wait because I might never stop and you you probably won't like that you'll somebody will have to get a hook dragg me out of here okay let's look on the next page this is the timeline we've got six phases in our timeline and I put some dates down for those phases and again this is up to your approval as as we work through this tonight you will be approving the process so understand some of these dates are suggested we we've I've consulted with the superintendent we've looked at calendars we think they'll work but again you are the board you are in charge of the search I'm not making these decisions I'm facilitating helping guiding keeping you within the legal parameters that Governor search but it's your search phase one on the top left there develop a profile that's a profile of the position the timeline and the extent of community engagement those are things that we will do tonight action items then we shift down to phase two posting recruiting and and if you decided on a community survey some districts do some don't but we'll be posting this job uh very widely we'll be recruiting I'll be calling people I know who are looking for positions who are well qualified and trying to interest them as well we use some national job boards because some there's some people out there who are on indeed or zip recruiter who want to apply that way but we'll also we'll post very extensively in Arizona we will the Arizona school boards Association will list it the Arizona business and education Coalition the Arizona Department of Education of course our organization the Arizona School administrators we'll we'll post widely and and as well I know people and I know people who know people who are looking so we will also make a lot of personal contacts to try to get a a good good I would say a good platter of candidates from which uh you can select then phase three we'll we'll leave that open for a month if you approve this tonight the the information on the posting what I call the posting document then give us about a week to make it look pretty to add pictures and dress it up a little bit then we'll try to have it posted well we'll we will have it posted by September 18th possibly a little bit earlier but I don't want to promise something I'm not personally doing um so but by September 18th it'll be posted it'll be posted advertised and recruited till October 23rd so that's a good five weeks and and we should by then have really coralled who who is interested and sometimes it takes people look at something they think about it are they interested they maybe call me and ask about the job ask about the community so on they it takes them a few weeks sometimes to decide to get their letters together to get their uh references together so by October 23rd we'll close then a week later we're proposing that a week later on the 30th of October that's a Thursday preh Halloween Thursday we'll as a board together along with with me facilitating you will screen the applications I will screen them in advance and make sure that they're complete they're thorough there's nothing oh odd about the candidates that might that I know of or that I will I will do not a deep dive but I will do a dive into their record as well and make sure that it's pretty good now once we get to a finalist candidates we'll do a much deeper dive but uh but we we will bring forth uh the and you will take those applicants then the applications and personally screen each one I'll provide a rubric for screening and scoring screen the applicants then as a board talk about whom do we wish to interview from this group Mark I want to interject right here I think this step right now it's is as a board and I think I can speak for the board we want to open that up beyond the board there's there are three board members that have been elected will take office in January we'd like to be we'd like them to be part of that screening plus there's faculty and administration that we would like them to be part of that screening too in other words the applicants that you feel are good for our district we would like them to meet with these non-board members so that they can make a recommendation to the board of the ones that you have submitted and the ones that we are going to interview if if that's okay with you I think that's what the board would like to see I I know we haven't discussed this but I you know I think shuck shaking his head Jennifer shaking her head and Margaret shaking her head I think I think we want to open that up we don't want to open it up to like the public to interview these people but there those three individuals will be working with this person for the next year so you'd like them to sit in on the screening process or the process correct correct the the uh fine screening process yeah we want you to screen the best applicants for us and those that you suggested to come to the district and they're interested in doing that we'd like them to be a committee that would sit down and meet with them interview them get their feelings about that person you we'd like the principles to be a part of that we'd like the office staff to be a part of that maybe some key community members to be a part of that but we'd like those three individual board members that are coming out to be a part of that when you're saying interview them you mean interview the candidates as well correct correct so that they can get a feeling who they are so starting at phase three in progress yeah starting at page three F page three phase three is where we'd like them to be instead of the board doing the screening we would like them to be part of that screening process you the board would do the screening as well correct you don't want toate the part of that that would be anation of really what's leg responsibility I'm not hearing everything you're saying you you want to do that right we're not going to shove it off to them but we want their input we want to know who they they think they would like to see as the new superintendent of the applicants that you send us we would like to know who they think the best one is and then we will all those that you have brought to us then we will screen those individuals with their input so if if uh us four were applicants we would sit down with the individual members of this community the new board members and they would make a recommendation to the board on one of being the superintendent then the board would sit down with those applicants and interview them and make their own final determination I think um I I need to maybe just issue a caution that's happening in my experience is we're not there you go sorry I'm so so used to having a playground voice that people um in my experience doing something like this can work but I just need to issue a caution people get if somebody's left out feels they should be included in this screening process a member of the community so then you you run the risk of frankly alienating people you know you can't please everybody but there are key people that we want to please and I think those key people need to be involved the board members Bo the future board members specifically and the principles uh I would I would department heads maybe my suggestion only as a facilitator would be that you use the three soon to be elected or board members because they are they do represent the community correct if you start singling out other individuals in the community well I I don't mean so much to the community but I do think we need to have the principles involved and maybe uh dep department heads uh and finance director you know they need to be involved in this decision too and then the board will make the decision because that that decision can't be made by them it has to be made by us in executive session so with all that input then the board will sit down in an executive session and make that decision but we want the input we want to be open in this we want the input from the those key stakeholders so in this kind of screening process it's oh I'm sorry Mr wal were you going to well I didn't I didn't mean to interrupt fine well um you mentioned that you were going to review all the applicants and Screen them and then we're going to screen them are you going to narrow the Fe are you are we going to be looking at all of them I I will only narrow the field if there's something if I detect something false in the application or something it comes in too late or or I discover something in the individual's background that I think would become a problem for the board for example a year maybe it was two years ago I I had 21 applicants for one job and I was reading 21 applications and I got to a certain point and I thought was reading the letters of reference I thought I've read this letter before when it it turned out yes I had the a an individual submitted purportedly from two different people two letters that were word for word the same from evidently supposedly from different individuals but somehow these individuals in different states ended up writing the exact same word for word letter and so I I threw that one out I just thought you know that's yeah well I I do believe we're going to trust you that's what that's why you're here we're trusting you to get to bring us the cream of the crop but when you bring the cream to us we want to we want to separate it ourselves too Y no and that's that's vital but we do want input we want input from these new folks and I and you might want to touch on why we started this process now so that we can get the cream of the crop instead of those that have signed contracts gone different directions well and you you do get uh by starting this early because many districts start the process around November or December and then they're active in January February and March and then good candidates are interviewing at several districts at once and I just last spring had a situation where one District said this is the person we want and I called that person they said they've just taken a job with another District in Arizona so by starting ahead of time you are not competing yet and probably won't be competing with other districts and generally there are 30 positions that that become available in Arizona every year 30 superintendent positions rural and urban all across the state that's that's what we' heard that's why we decided to just go ahead and jump on this to get this process started because it is a process and to be legitimate it takes time and we want the very best so if I can summarize a little bit what I believe that I heard so so I that there will be an initial screening of the applications by the three incoming board members the the the principls I'm not I'm sure we're not communicating well it's that's my fault I'm sorry you'll do the original screening you will bring us the cream of the crop and at that day when they're all here there will be a room where they are in and they will they will sit down and they'll meet those those individuals those say five individuals that you've referred to us that they' come to be interviewed they will interview them they'll talk with them they'll get a feing from them then they'll communicate to us who they think they would like to see their list one two 3 four five whatever and their rate of priority and then we as a board will sit down with those applicants and make that final determination so at least we'll have their input I think you're missing phase three is what basically what he's asking so we have a phase three so who do we want in phase three so phase three is before they're invited to come to our community we review all the applications correct so they're not even around no that I believe that's what phase three he's going to refer we're not going to review every applicant I think that we do review every application and then we pick our favorites from the application process and we invite six eight I don't know how many people we invite I my well it depends on what you're saying though first is yeah you should see all the applications except ones that I've filtered out for being obviously we're talking the same thing well if we're fortunate and have 20 applications we're not bringing 20 people here correct so that phase three screening would be basically the board and we're asking if it we could include the additional three or is that you want to include them in phase four J I think that would water it down so far we would never get the process done right so phase four is when you're wanting the input from the additional three board members that will be taking office in January plus the um stakeholders stakeholders in this primary stakeholders right yeah so are we clear on that now so that's the board will screen the applicants read every application except ones that maybe I throw out for for reasons of being problematic I'm not sure about that I'm I'm not sure that's why we hire you to bring us the best not just everybody that's applied that's what he said he said other than the ones that he's do yeah um if I could add a comment I I've participated in this before and I think the the exact number that you bring to us depends on how many apply and how many are viable candidates at that time and then we can talk about can talk with you about it and come down to a number that we're actually going to review correct but if there say there are 50 applicants you don't want our opinion on all 50 applicants to make your decision no and there won't be 50 well I'm just saying you can see how it could get really watered down so we want you to bring us the best and then we'll discuss those best I mean we'll review that and then you can we'll start that third phase after that so it and it depends on for example last year I did searches at Cottonwood O Creek there were 21 applicants Mingus Union there were 19 uh Globe there were 12 uh Baghdad there were n or 10 and those boards scored all of those okay and that's a long meeting I I actually as far as the board goes do you want to if there are 20 do you want to score all 20 of those or do you want to take the top 10 that he gives us I would I think the screening process 50% of those will be able to throw out quickly depending on what you know like we would love to find someone that has his um experience or at least I would in a rural school district and maybe history so um well are we taking are we taking his work away from him no I think that we're allowing let me give let me be blunt so Mike for example wouldn't have we had a specific screening criteria that we wanted to replace um our previous superintendent and it was rural School District experience Mike would have never qualified for that if someone took his application and said well they really wanted that but we loved what we saw with his experience that he had in the CTE portion of of something that was really important for us so if we start throwing out applications based on an arbitrary where we feel like this is where our classification is and then we get some really cool Stellar candidate that creates something a little bit different for us I would like to see that and if we gave him that list of arbitrary NOS then we would have missed out on a an opportunity because Mike was like we all I remember we were I mean we were like do we want this guy's a little different so I think the concern I think you just have to wait and see who applies and how many apply and how many are truly qualified and when you get down to that point then I think we decide how many of those we want to really review ourselves right so we'll be probably in close communication with you there to start with in terms of preparing sorry you're really looking at the board screening initially I would screen the board would screen and you would bring in selected candidates and at that point the other three board members would get involved correct at that point then when we get it down to like three to five people then the other board members are going to come in I mean not the board other board members the the new elected board members those that are on the ballot that nobody ran against so they got they they're here by uh default because nobody actually they're so popular everybody said I can't I can't run against them so yeah so so I think that could that could work and okay the the process if we encumber it too much then you you you but up against your hopeful deadline that's I don't want that to happen I want this to happen in a timely way so when we get say five or six that we've all settled on then we want to invite those uh shareholders stakeholders whoever you want to call those those people that have a vested interest in the new superintendent we want them to to sit down with those people and determine who they would like to see in there and we would take their recommendation we might not go with it but we probably all will be feeling the same way because we all have the same desires for the school district I'm sure would you like me then to design phase 4 November 7th the actual interviewing in such a way then that includes an initial frankly interviewing of these people by this this group um I I think that's probably and then after that they would make a recommendation to you and that I'm thinking maybe that same day yeah it would be this might be an all day yeah night because you really don't want to have people coming at their own expense more than once correct correct yeah I could I could design that and it's very important on interviewing that the process is standard the questions are standard every candidate is treated the same correct so you don't want to give any inadvertent uh occasion for someone to claim bias or or something at a later date but I could I could make that work um good we would leave October 30th and for the date the board screens the applications and selects candidates to interview right and then uh the November 123th we would sit down in executive session to do negotiations yeah and by probably if things go well by the end of the day on November 7th you may have the person that you're most interested in but then you would negotiate with that person individually yeah that you and the board generally the board that's what we wanted isn't it yeah the board usually designates one person often the president not always to work with the attorney of the district and the candidate on contract negotiations 29.95 [Laughter] that's a joke that's a joke Mary so I think we've just covered phases 1 2 3 and four this phase five the board and attourney enter into contract negotiations in phase six then at your December 10th meeting you would hopefully present a contract and a candidate to the board for final official approval I would love that that would give that person time to get settled in and see how this District works and and just hit the ground running July 1st so phase four will be a very important day November 7th and and I'll what I always do in that and I'll just bring that up right now as I include a little bit of guidance and training on certain things in an interview to make sure the process is standardized everybody gets the same questions and it's it goes off the ra easily so great that's why I think that's important and I would as as your facilitator right I would facilitate those interviews in other words bring the candidates in here they are and groups one group the board the other group The the invited interview interviewers correct when I would facilitate their interviews as well so I think we're on the same page now okay all right thank you thanks for being patient with me no all I graduate of snowflake Union High School and have a hard time communicating sometimes this is a it's the most maybe not the most important almost the most important decision the board ever makes because if it goes wrong it has real detrimental effects when it goes right as your previous one did not a pun on the word right but uh the district benefits for many years so the next page let's see if I can this is still work okay here's just another look at the search process what happens in executive session and what happens in Open session so phase one we've we we're doing that right now and that's in Open Session we'll vote on it you I shouldn't say we you I'm using the Royal we but I'm not part of it phase two posting recruiting no community no um no board action needed phase three screen applicant and select candidates determine interview format that's the board usually that's done in executive session then you come out of executive session and you determine you make a formal uh motion to acknowledge what you've done and at that point by the way we usually tell candidates your candidacy is confidential until or should you become a finalist at that time when districts announce finalists your name will would be made made public because sometimes you have Sitting superintendents who want to be a candidate maybe they aren't ready to release to their District that they're interested but if they become a finalist then they need to understand yes can I ask you to hold the microphone a little closer I have trouble understanding I my fault I start gesturing I'm a I'm a wave my hands type of person when I talk and okay I appreciate you're calling me on that so then phase four now this would generally phase four the interview the candidat select a finalist that occurs in executive session but we're including a lot of more people now who aren't necessarily the board members so we would probably hold that you want to hold that in the public I'd have have to get legal advice I don't think you do no so we'll say we're going to hold it in executive session I need to get the advice of a lawyer on if that causes difficulty when you have non-board members in executive session but I would think if you have the designated including three who are coming on to the board that that could be workable yeah I don't know we'll find out can you find out for us who is your attorney we have a number of them uh for a generalist we probably called Dave that's a good one Dave is good yeah he'll he'll know the answer to that okay I've worked with him quite a bit Above All Above All We just want that input on those people from from those individuals and from the stakeholders one of the things we do on this evening is determine the extent of of input and you've just discussed and determined that okay the other thing that happens possibly that night if you would still want it depending on how long a day do you want do you want to have the candidates who are chosen to be interviewed you want to have a community meet and greet for them that's up to the board I mean you we'll do that after the decision's made yeah okay phase five that's the negotiations and phase six is on the new superintendent cont phase five will be strictly the board only yes that won't include those those and generally you have a board represent the board selects one person to really you don't want four or five different board members calling a candidate or the candidate's attorney and you want one one point of contact to avoid confusion that'd be the last great thing Margaret got to do right okay should we move on thank you this is great no you're you're doing it a great job of working these things out I appreciate it you can tell this group has worked together a while duties and responsibilities of the Arizona School administrators and I'm just going to lay out here's what we will do then what you will do Consulting with the board throughout the search process and I'll be Consulting with the board extensively as we've done tonight and as we'll continue to do ASA will provide agenda language for search related board meetings items so make sure those items are are legal and and written correctly collaborating with the board on developing a timeline which we've just done publicizing the vacancy and providing related documents that will be upcoming communicating with all the applicants so the communication with the applicants will occur through me if an applicant calls you for something you would say appreciate your interest contact Mark J said at of the Arizona School administrators here's his phone and email otherwise you too many cooks tend to get things confused so so I'm the point of contact and I will notify all applicants I'll notify the ones who are selected for an interview I'll notify the ones who aren't and and I'll do the legal notification as well that when somebody's someone is discussed in an executive session they have to be properly notified legally notified I'll do all that scheduling and facilitating the entire interview process and this one maintaining strictest confidentiality and that's extremely important and when we're going to have a broad if I could use that term broad executive session as is envisioned it'll be really important for everyone who attends that executive session to understand that what happens in executive session stays in executive session and so we'll I'll I'll go over that in detail but but you don't go out later and say I really favored this candidate but everyone else want I have a I have a question if we prefer um as we get closer to that date to having an executive session with the board the existing board members and then bring in the new board members I mean the only time we have time to actually discuss amongst ourselves on a topic like that would be an executive session and then bring them in is that considered possible so this would be the if I can think of it this way the third meeting that day well that that meeting we're having the executive session I guess that's three and that includes not just the three board members but if I understood correctly includes like yes but is there is can you see a situation where we would divide that up and have the board members meet first and then we bring in the the uh incoming board members and the um principles I I or not I think there's problems that I think the final decision has to be made by the city El yes yeah we realized that but I I like you said The more we get into executive session the harder it gets and these board members have not even though we're including them they have not had any training on and I will review that okay a little more extensively than I normally do considering we'll have that would be great principl certainly are familiar with maybe not haven't been in executive session but they're familiar with school law executive session right so what I'm what I'm hearing potentially is when we want to have that final discussion that that's when we enter into executive session where we release those individuals that were part of the preliminary portion of the executive session and then we convene into the executive session with just the board members is that that's what I'm envisioning okay so we can control it like that we we don't have to have that set up ahead of time or what what I will try to do is is schedule out a draft a schedule for that day roughly depending on saying maybe five people four or five being interviewed see how it works logistically and then maybe runed by uh Mr Merill the board president and make sure that we're all on the same page here before we I mean that's a couple months away so we we got some time to do it and if you give us time to think about this we might come up with some other things too sorry no that's a we want to do it right yeah and the duty of a board member is to make these decisions with the most careful consideration which is exactly what you're doing right now so that's the duties and responsibilities of Asa the duties and responsibilities of the board are adhering to all statutes related to the Arizona open meeting law that's very important as as you know people have lost their board positions by not adhering referring all Communications with applicants to the the ASA search consultant until the board enters into contract negotiations with the finalist so if an applicant calls you and says could we have a can I meet with you and get your take on the district you would say call Mark Jord said at the ASA office it's very important for you as individual board members to remain Above The Fray to remain above the fry so to speak and not give any reason for someone to perceive that a certain candidate has gotten information other candidates have not g so that's that's a very important thing being pres for required meetings which you are and I thank you providing ASA consultant with required information and approvals in a timely manner determining final candidate that's up to you and entering into contract negotiations is up to you what I'm here to help you with is adhering to equal employment opportunity laws and helping you maintain strict confidentiality and especially setup procedures that enforce STP confidentiality and also to advise you on open meeting law and other statutes that apply to a selection can I move on guidelines recommendations it is recommended that the board follow a moratorium on contact with the media if the if I don't know if you have an active media here an active of newspaper who reports on every I've been in Prescot for example the reporter had me on speed dial and but it's very important that that one voice answer those questions rather than you can make an offand remark about oh I'm really interested in the qualifications of a couple of the candidates and suddenly the rumor mill starts and there's names attached to those candidates and it becomes that mive especially in small communities and I was born and raised in a small community was a superintendent in a small community perception getting that rumor mill going is is we've got to be so careful about that about um everybody's in everybody's business and sometimes that's good actually neighbors look out for each other but it also can lead to rumors false information coming out and so it's better if I'm the source of that then if false information goes out it's on your incompetent coun consultant not in the board member it is recommended that board members do not contact potential superintendent applicants finalist prior to or after the screening process but what if you have a candidate you think might be a good one should you call that candidate no no call me text me email me I will call that candidate and I want to say similarly if we have staff members who know people who they think would be good candidates uh contact me and and give me their names and I will reach out to those candidates we've often come up with good candidates by someone knows someone who's always wanted to come back to Blue Ridge and now is their chance so we care well the bottom line is we want to avoid any action that gives cand a perception that their candidacy has an advantage questions on that on any of these things any questions from anyone no I think we I think we hit you with a bunch of questions early no and that's good I mean I think we just made some accomplish some very important things here okay I think we're all on the same page now yep so let's if we can if we can move on to uh 2.2 then we will um you'll have a chance to make some other decisions and and make them make them official as well all right so Bard we we don't have to vote on item 2.1 item 2.2 we it's an action required item so we'll have to vote on item 2.2 this is the governing board will discuss the components of a position advertising document and may consider approval to direct the Arizona School administrators to construct and publish an advertising document related to the position of district superintendent so Mark yes and this is the the several page posting document that I believe was sent to you a while ago this will form the content here will be once once you've approved it will be transformed into a flash year more attractive graphic and photofilled listing for the candidates that that we will post out on our job lines that we will make available that the for the district to to send it out if they have people they wish to send it to as well so what we're really looking for here is the content has everybody had an opportunity to review that we we were sent it early and uh I I can't I had one question and I I didn't highlight it I'm sorry I'm going to have to just review it one quick time yeah and I can highlight a couple things that frequently bring up questions go ahead and do that while I'm looking let's let's look I think the the information is is correct that's come from ad and it's also come from yeah your District leaders on things like enrollment and budget and tax rate and so on but uh let's take a look at this would be page three in the middle of Page Three position requirements let's just make sure that you're fine with these position requirements 5 years teaching experience in a public school system master's degree from an accredited University three years principal or building level administrator experience current Arizona superintendent certificate or ability to attain one fingerprint verification from the state of Arizona doctorate degree preferred not required finally knowledge and recent leadership experience in Arizona schools and Rural settings preferred which one of these do you think is is required in state law state law I believe the superintendent certificate doesn't it no no who you tell us Arizona fingerprint verification oh verification yeah that one are really up to discretion most districts want a superintendent certificate or ability to attain one but some districts have brought in right outside candidates with no educational experience but leadership experience I I knew what my question was the doctorate degree but that's you answered it when you said preferred I clearly listed as preferred correct it'll be clearly spelled out that that's similarly you would really like someone who's done some rural leadership experience in Arizona that would be the ideal thing that they know what they're getting into we might have some great candidates that don't have that so that's why we put that as prer as well there's also salary and on page four salary and contract the salary range and it's often you publicize it as a range because depending on the candidates education prior experience qualifications they might be in different parts of that range so this the suggested range here the salary for this position is 160 to 175 and that's that's based primarily on salaries offered recently in comparable Arizona districts for example Blue Ridge your blue sholo hired a new superintendent last year they listed that I think at 150 to 165 and I I believe the salary offered was closure to the higher end of that range but that's a very comparable District um Prescot I did a search there a couple years ago and and they ended up over 150 and that's a somewhat similar Community as well can we reduce that to 150 to 175 you're the board certainly can reduce that or if you want to give it a bigger range one you I think a larger range would be just fine okay yeah but then you the benefit package too right which increases it substantially so I think with a larger range it gives us more flexibility and again this is the range for the position now if you get somebody who just is is wonderful but maybe they don't have the experience you get to the bottom end maybe if you got someone who's wonderful and has every qualification and everything else then maybe you go to the top or it depends on what happens in negotiations this is not locking you in but it's it's suggesting if some candidate wants to make 250,000 they shouldn't bother applying correct probably anywhere in Arizona but okay then if you look down toward the bottom there's just a couple other things there in the underlined and part there an applicant's file must be completed and filed with Asa by 5:00 p.m.

United States of America yes okay that is approval of the agenda is action agenda yes we second we have a second [Music] yes and with that we will move into the study session the main top topic being okay 48 annual aspa law so thank you for coming and thank you um admin team because sometimes uh like we mentioned we don't have time to really sit and discuss policy and share and especially um you know as times are changing and discipline is arising it's a good time for us um to kind of sit together and delve into some of the sessions that we went to that will be available to help the board and our leadership team build capacity so you have in front of you this the page that I did with the cover page so when you look at it just a few um on the notes section okay so on the first page on the notes section we will talk about this at the board meeting but we found out that the Pima County meeting that we go to is asba p County meeting where all the superintendents from P County go and board members is on Tuesday October 15th which is the day of our board meeting so we will talk about at our board meeting whether we want to move the board meeting to Wednesday the 16th or the following Tuesday the 22nd okay so we'll have you kind of check your calendars and we'll see what will work um also for asba so for the law conference for the registration and for the tallet was $2,240 and we paid $864 a year to be part of asba so if you recall we had looked into the trust and their policy bridge and um when we found out about our contract our contract with Asda ends on June 30th 2026 so I believe it was half the cost pretty much right Greg of what we were paying if even uh less than that for the trust policy bridge but we would have had to continue to pay anyway since we were in contract that's why we put a hold on it so we did notice at the conference there are districts who have um who are no longer with the Asda policy bridge and so those of us that were still with ASP got a little extra price an extra gift I'm still not sure what it is if it's a USB key with all the policies on it or if it's I have yours in my office Steve but we got we had to go to a separate table to get an additional gift because there's a lot of people at the conference who no longer use ASD as the policy Bridge Okay so that's just an FYI for everybody um we had our two speakers there just in shaper a little bit information you can look him up amazing speak speaker and he really is into stem education stem Ambassador um he's has a studio in La based on just when you talk about Project based learning and creativity and student centered learning is what he's created so I would encourage you all to look him up and see but very motivational on what he's doing um for students and he was that student that just as a little boy loves science GR up and when we talk about kids nowadays and this generation of how they're inventing themselves with a purpose so he truly has he's doing what he loves and he's great at it and he's really building uh a community of stem based Learners did you guys want to add to only 30 he's young yeah he do a teaching degree but he's reaching kids because he's teaching the way they learn best on Discover and PBS miscellaneous otheres yeah so it's pretty neat to hear he talked about how a AI is here to stay and how as Educators we have to embrace the fact that students are going to be using it and how can we take advantage of um because they had a panel of students talking about how they use the I and I know a lot of the um high schoolers and the college um students are afraid um to use it um because they don't want to be accused of cheating but he talked about different ways that use AI not necessarily write your papers but to help you can like what's a good source for whatever subject it's notable just that's um sort of like when um the internet started right more information that's in there you can use but it's um it's not reliable so that's something that you know I we've been experting my school district with is just a staff and and it's really like I was telling Rox that I'll I could ask it to um create a l for me and it has but it's not the lesson that I'm quite looking for so you have to be very specific um with it the more specific you are the better results you get so they are talking about the fact that we need to start looking at policies and procedures around Ai and expectations for teachers and kids because the kids are like Ruth was saying from the you know one gamut to the next they were all kind of afraid to say that they used it right because they didn't want to get in trouble but they're like well we know our friends are using it or then once they realize they weren going to get in trouble they started to say well yeah I used it for this but they're all high school they were high schoolers um so really talking about how to use it responsibly so the kids were saying teachers need to be able to teach kids how to use it responsible I have some not s on the AI first thing he said AI is really not here yet what we're seeing like it's really called it gen generated technology right because it's going off of words and what it's already learned it's not really AI is coming up new ideas you know like Terminator but a couple takeaways like you know obvious can help with lesson plans but maybe you might need that lesson lesson and converted to spee maybe you have a lesson plant or you have handouts and you have a student in your um classroom that needs a more visual right um handout instead of the standard one you're doing regardless of the subject and it could easily convert it to that and the stuff's free you know um I likened it to work like in the industrial revolution with they have coming because it's so new but you know like we went the the car I mean it's that GNA be ginormous like we're chat gbt is already on version four when it came out to the public was on version three so it's been in the works of long time from what they what I've seen what they that's the the main one but Facebook has theirs Microsoft go one working oned I use chat GPT almost every day at work and it can't do the thinking for you um you have to know it it does research for um I use it a lot to decode um or debu code a lot or write code for me but I have to tell it the very specific thing I needed to do I had to come up with a solution to the problem but it can to model the glasses that will like tell you what they're seeing tell you what interpreting and Reporting you can talk to your glasses you know push a button and it's G to tell you and you can talk to your classes it's crazy it's all been new so you know talking about we're have policies policies and procedures and professional development and all that it's also new for and they're saying we just can't be afraid like we have to you can't ignore it either it's saying just like how the calculators evolved and how now kids aren't using calculators anymore because you have your phone and um so started just just very Progressive we could probably talks the one thing he didn't do is he should have done some live demonstrations type in something and it shows it generating Facebook that now in your comment little bit of something in a comment section you say Meta Meta something and it gives you like five different other options from what he put in or Ru showed me how to put in what say like you could put a caption for the photo and then it generates the caption for any random photo in your phone that you want to have a caption for social media and tag tagging yeah tag tagine for see at myenc this summer so when I went last summer it was like don't use AI this summer it was oh look here's a program that will basically outline a compar of five different articles and it gives you you know it's hours worth of work done in minutes it's sum put the summar for and pulls out like the main points and create an outline it's almost you got a big tree to cut down you got a handsaw an ax and a chainsaw right so it's like use the tools that are available but use them right or you're and this simulate the simulations that they he's been able to recreate too in terms of being on the moon like what it takes to work out to eat to survive on the moon this is the kind of stuff that he's doing in his Studio that kids are experiencing ahead of time to determine you know do they want to go to space if they want to go then they need to have this is there any curriculum out there right now that includes that so there's a lot of websites and Joe's going to cover some of that during his technology presentation that are being referred to for teachers to use to generate methods and activities okay so good the next thing is when you see the breakout sessions um I put which ones we went to and Steve in your packet uh the one that you did some of them were they're so long the presentation so we didn't print them all we put them on but Steve on Thursday's breakout session on your relationship with your superintendent tend and don'ts that is printed in your folder everyone so you'll see that 10 does and don'ts for governing board members and superintendant so what did you gather from that okay good job you're prepared um and it's also was this one was are we a private citizen or not so yes and no so one of the biggest takeaway is don't comment anything publicly whether it's your private email I mean sorry your your private Facebook or whatever even the PTC post something and I I've done it I like it or share it because it's family name you think it sounds Innocent but it could be misconstrued possibly by violation of the open meeting law um and that so their biggest advice was you know if there's five of you five of you commenting on one thing isn't make a difference of it and share if you want to tell your friends through your own email goad and do that but when you're talking anything in relationship to the school don't do it that because especially on the open Meeting Mall like we're protected if we or something but if you violate the open meeting law I think weat openting just call the lawyer right you think we need to do a lawyer thing with BR one thing they kind of said I thought was cute Lear the alphabet right asba 301 what is all that so maybe we'll all just kind of get together and write all the school acronyms where you guys can create a G I Can't Keep try 501 301 section this yeah see I was the private records law right don't do any District information on your own like your hot account Gil you're going to talk School talk on our school GMA account but no private um records law those could be asked for last we have we have people asking for public records right now no all schools there's people who get on bandwagons and then they're like oh right now the one that's requesting is somebody from Grand Canyon University that's doing research on salaries and contracts and that he's requested records for all all contracts all staff and so we have to provide that you know we can charge by the Yeah and then that's another thing we need to charge and we need to because now everything's online so um it's still someone's hours being spent fulfilling that instead of taking care of the scho it's like a standard fee it's like it's I don't even know it used to be per five cents a page right now for the hourly rate I think the last time um when we asked SES about it she said you know it's not even worth it just give get more and more because public schools are becoming more and more politicized it's not we have a lot of retired people in our district on their so this last sentence the superintendent might have to execute that part of job so the board we decide something that she thinks is bad it's still our policy they have they kind of had a little fun with that slide talk and you know which I think we're really good at we don't try to this board doesn't try to M super I know my philosopy is you guys are all adults and you know what your job is better than I do so you need any help or anything yeah we're here actually get it and tell you how to do payroll the hard part is are when your parents and you're participating in PTC and you're you have access to the Letta Highlands page or you have um access to what PTC is saying or you hear some of the parental concerns on there so that's where I think they really emphasized that board members have to be very care ful um not to respond or not to reply or not to like or not to dislike because that's where you have to bring it to obviously to our attention as at the school so we can address it but we can't even like a lot of our teachers struggle with they're teachers they're not board members so they can they can counteract and say no that's not really how it is or go talk to have you talk to to the principal or have you talked to um you know the office but we do get a lot of heads up from parents so it's not like they're ignoring it or we expect you guys to ignore it but just go through the the proper channels to say hey did you know that this was going on and typically you know 90% of the time we do know because we have people who have alerted us there's been times where as the PTC president or PTC we asked the officers and they'll reply right because it's their page and they can reply so I think that's where it gets tricky because you know Di and Steve are parents too right so they have to be very careful because no matter what you're the superintendent you're the board members you're the administrators at the school so you can't ever hide from that role when you're out in public in our community so even if you you know try to say well I'm acting as a parent right now well really you're going to wear that spend director hat the preschool director hat no matter where you are you're safe way I guess ited to Andrew would say get somebody parent approach him about something so that happens don't engage say we need to take that up and I D buses like I I open yet Friday night she didn't read it and then the rumor will be that superintendent doesn't even tell her I must have a sign on something and there's Holly going you know she's on the board no one does lockers anymore the high schools want to do lockers colleges don't do lockers are so heavy no oliv day to be a superintendants because I get out with my lunch bag three bags my water bottle my coffee my Walmart has those little we tried that okay so find some cool kids back right there yes so that was um anything else Steve on this other one okay Ruth um so I went to the Title Nine um presentation because I wanted to learn a little bit more about it so um um the new law modifies the Title Nine regulations that were implement to 2020 and there's a lot but what I got out of it um is is well two things right there's a lot of um there's a lot of cases that are still challenging the department of education's expansion of the definition of sex to include um gender identity sexual orientation sex stereotypes and sex characteristics so that's hard because you know we talked about the cases and then we talked about pronouns which is the biggest thing right so what I um what I wrote down on that is um that you can get into a lot of trouble if you don't use the correct pronouns on these students if they've asked you you know or they told you their preferred pronouns um and it could be like a form you don't use it um with it could be a of sex discrimination so what they recommended is avoid using pronouns and just call them by their last name you got to call Everybody by their last name not just you know the person you don't say yes well because so [Music] um sorry um so that was the the biggest one um because that's I that's the everybody's talking about the pronouns and what you do one of the questions to the attorneys was what do we do with the FES right the kids that identify as a cat or a dog and they didn't answer that I was waiting do well we did it in for a femil and I know that at w they did it for a mail [Music] oh the other one that was important to me right because I have an athlete is that um that um historically title n um um gives opportunity as a female sports right but um this new world addresses the males and wanting to play female sports so they're not going to allow males even if they identify as a female to play school sports which is know good because you can compete with with that um and then the last thing is I had this in in the other piece of paper um let's see um that we have to adopt and publish an implement the policy stting that it does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination as required by Title Nine um um and the and the regulations including the admissions and employment and you must adop publish and Implement procedures consistent with so we need to check and see our policy because I know we have something in there but I don't know that it's updated and you have to provide notice of non-discrimination to students and employees so a good idea would be just to post those in every classroom that's it any questions post what post these policies title my policy that we're not that we're not Distributing N distrib N distrib I think they are already there I just don't know if the language has changed or been updated because it's usually on our website it's on our documents it's on our it's on our it's on our application it's on our application you know that so okay but we'll have to check it out you the Dual language litigation is a disaster is a mess um there's all kinds of districts that are trying to sue the the Arizona Department EV Ed because they're like backtracking and trying to say that dual language programs are not allowed that students can to be in English only so it's a huge are were we it doesn't apply to us because we don't have a large population of monal Spanish speaking students so it's not the elll it's the Dual language program well the state had already approved in order to abide by proposition 203 which passed as the English only module of law in Arizona the state department came up with three ways that it was lawful and one of them was a dual language program but now when Tom Horn came back into session he's trying to say no that that's not lawful and that you're breaking the law so there's all these districts who have lawsuits against Tom Horn and if you watch there Arizona Department of Education board meeting last week or two weeks ago there's a lot of people speaking up at those meeting as to why they are not wanting to disant language langu totally different from this like you know teaches mandin and those are okay because they're not modal Spanish speaking children and there's not enough and and we don't have it because what happens in Arizona you have my legal certified teachers who can speak Spanish who can communicate with the students a lot of times you get students from other countries like right now there's a huge influx of um students that are going from Ukraine we have ukra ukan you know we're using Google translate we don't have anybody that can actually teach in that language so it's primarily the Spanish that they're talking about okay so that was one um we we went to R schools and I was telling Steve and Ruth that we're like little stepchildren in the rural school because a lot of these presentations are about rural schools and how they don't have the resources because their way in the middle of nowhere and how difficult it is to get kids to school to get support to help and that's not us right we were ruled way back before was here right now middle so a lot of that didn't apply to us Ruth with the student discipline 101 that's in their in the folder yeah um you know important to document any disciplined issues and synergy synergy right so um report any dis that's yourent inter have done students they said proactive saves money in the long run reactive cost a lot of burning um for disability screening that targeted interventions with consisteny and Fidelity is important before you caner them to sped um they talked about proactive intervention supports um training of staff for classroom management and positive behavior support and I feel that the especially the classroom management that that you know teachers especially the new teachers have that like know how manage the classroom but you know refresher would be good and then the positive behavior supports um explicit and targeted instruction for students behavior teams for Behavior interventions for all students higher board certified Behavior analysts um and they really stress that you know if you don't have that person on staff to hire the behavior analyst um to do functional Behavior assessments and then multi-tier systems of support um and then they talk about you know adult responses trained students and they gave the um example of like a slot machine right you're there at the casino you're putting in money you're not getting a reward but then you get that um you hit the three sevens or whatever they're called and you get a little bit and that's pretty much stu um students right that they're they're going to work for that every once in a while reward um so watch your response so that you don't train the students on their negative responses to you um um then it talked about targeted Behavior interventions identify the specific behavior and must Target the function of the behavior must teach appropriate replacement behavior and must be implemented with Fidelity and then um they said there are four functions to behavior Escape um I want to get out of something attention access to tangibles and um automatic I want they want the sensory to put so and I think that when I was thinking about a lot of the kids that I deal with is for attention or Escape no they don't know how they're struggling with a certain subject and so to try to escape it or you know they want attention from everybody um and then um they encouraged people to have a re-entry plan when the student has been you know suspended or out of the class whatever reason um and then the behavior contract to write them with things you want them to do not what you don't want them to do I thought that was write I will not do this another one was on Friday on the governing board operations manual on what should be included I was super excited about that presentation because it's exactly what we're talking about Steve is a adop a folder for board members on um the acronyms on the word chart on the procedures on policies that are most used and referred to at our school to give that information so naani and I are going to start working on that we did start last year putting stuff together and the year before even when w was here but we never finalized it so now we have a better guide on um tabs and what we can include and one thing that I'd like for you to all think about is what do you what do you wish you would have known before you even got on to the board like we're talking about Robert's Rule of Order and how do you make a motion and who makes the motion when you second it you discuss it um how do you get items on the board agenda I mean there's just some things that we can just be more clear on that um to avoid some of the confusion and to help our meetings um run efficiently but I think we have pretty good meetings um but don't ever hesitate to ask about that you wish you would know let us know so we can make sure that as we go along what we' like to do is at our Spring retreat is have a draft of that man for you to all the Open Enrollment and Boundary changes we have just uh updated our policy and worked with ses in order to get all of our open enrollment docs in order and on the website so that was good we had that already um chronic absence room um just the The Chronic accents was um tier um tiered interventions so the the tier one is important um you make sure that you're like in your newsletters um talking to the parents students the importance of of coming to school did they talk about today I was at a meeting at the Y and on September 25th there's going to be a a chronic absenteeism resource guide that's been being put out by uh a bunch of people reading first reading and AD that came together and Arizona is the highest used to be Alaska it used to be Alaska now it's us with the highest problem and so nationally we haven't recuperated from Co so a lot of kids they were saying are flexing their time at school on when they feel like attending or not and so um today I had a report run with kids that we have this is our fifth week of school and we have there's probably like 16 or 17 kids on the list that have three or more absences already in this five weeks of school so we're working on increasing our communication with parents at three instead of five and standardizing our letters that we send out but they are breaking it down to tier one tier two tier three and they're really talking about again the discussion of Project based learning and student centered learning that if kids don't think that the lesson is exciting if they don't think that the project is important they're not going to want to come to school so we can't continue to do the sit and get right they have to be engaged feel it touch it see it participate in it to in here so that was one of the tear that they had a definition there 20% of the school day of the school year and it's whether they're because before it used to be um 20 they said 20% is considered chronic but they had um before would be only unexcused absences now whether it's excused or not it counts as the abente chronic absentees is there a way to so that's what if we have kids who have then we need the doctor's excuse show sign they get really bad seasonal allergies or Asma then it doesn't count to stay count are stud some of our special education students have that I've had one in years past that had some very specific things that need to take one day a week every week what what do you do to keep those kids caught up well and they were sayings are hurting they're saying every time a student is it takes two days for them to catch up for the teacher to catch them up and then they're saying that chronic absenteeism affects the rest of the kids in the classroom because the teacher obviously has had to slow down or retach so that's where the concern is nationally that all these The Chronic absentee rate is affecting the fact that our Statewide data is the way it is so they track third grade ELA data and third grade ELA data improved but the absen absenteeism rate of third grade improved so they're making that correlation to attendance and student progress so um so it'll be interesting but look at that and then September 25th I'll probably um put in our October board meeting we'll put that resource guide foric aism on our do on our board agenda performance audits that was um informative and I think as you know we've worked really hard with our Auditors to continue to address the needs of the Auditors that they were um typically the message is be as honest as you can give them what they what they need don't try to hide you know if you don't have what they need and I think um that was one of the comments from our past Auditors that they were uh very pleased that whatever they asked for we were able to give them right away so it wasn't like we were scrying to to get what we needed so that was that one and then um the First Amendment free speech on that one um there were a few cases that stuck out um one of them one of the main ones that they talk about is um that if students are on social media posting weapons drugs violence in the community the the school has the right to act upon what students are posting okay there's a lot of times um kids will saying well that's free speech on off school campus but when it comes to braging about weapons threatening to shoot specific students or posting images of other school shootings then the student um the school obviously is has a responsibility to act on what they're seeing on social media um so we I also I thought about that next one on the eth grade student that recorded a video of herself drinking alcohol and shared it in a private Snapchat and she was on the volleyball team so again we need to make sure that our student handbook states that drugs and alcohol are prohibited when you're part of a team because that student didn't get suspended because of what they posted they were not allowed to play on the volleyball team because of the policy in the student handbook in terms of rules and three environment so that was a good one and if you look if you go back and look at that one um CES stamps who does who did the presee presentation she is our attorney she's our legal counsel that we consult with um whenever we have questions I want to go back to the due process the the what you guys have here the student discipline 101 and 102 and they really stress the importance of process you know make sure that that um that you are um following the proces and then remember that 504 students are treated like SP students when it comes to discipline yes you can't and then the new law that went into effect last year about students in K second suspension of students K is it K4 yeah K4 two days um max um um if you can go more than than two days let see um two days suspension for no more than 10 school days in a school years forer than seven um but then there was other what changed is the you know um the new legal requirements you Comm suspender sell only all of the following are true that the student is or older the behavor OCC in school possession of a dangerous weapon or involes of Dangerous Drug or requirements immediately endangers the Heth sa other theol circumstances because before this you [Music] couldn't and the the last one that you have here is um this was on the presentation on what board and superintendent need to know about IEPs and special education so this talks about what are the schools what are schools required to do with an i determines a particular educational placement is needed that the school does not have so the last highlight yellow if the school does not have the educational placement needed by a particular child they can pay tuition to send the student to a school that has the appropriate placement which is what we have had to do um it can cont Contract Services out to a vendor or if you create an appropriate program so we look at whether we have the resources and the budget to create a program or is it beneficial to all concern for them to be serviced outside of our school um so just look those over but you have a copy of all the presentations so at your leisure if there's something that you're interested in um if you have questions about please don't to come to see us fromer this morning so thank you for all this refer to it any question me okay so thank you and like I said please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions but there is a lot um to know and I always love the part of stump the lawyer because it's interesting to see what what we know or what we think prior to the answer what the attorneys are going the it was I don't know I'll have to remember dur the meeting I'll remember I share it at the time but they weren't sure they all passed it on to each other we're gonna have to see about this it was something that could come up we'll remember we'll say meeting okay so now we'll turn I'll just close e e e all right welcome everybody our recess nice so we'll continue with our meeting we've already just got done with a study session where we really discussed conference went to last weeting it covered everything from AI to Chronic abces to you name it but it was really informative obviously some sessions are better than others but for the most part with that we'll move into approve the minutes from last meeting [Music] discussion M fav yes M [Music] yes with that Mr Ferguson is on for his it report [Music] good evening we've um we've been pretty busy over the last couple years and this is this is the first first official update that I've given you this position so um for those of you you don't know me my name is Joe I'm the director of Technology services at so we'll start with had good news for you the uh today I signed the uh completion documentation for our security camera project as well as our server upgrade project so as of today today uh the projects that we've been working on that are fully operational operational are our Network upgrade or security camera upgrade server upgrade fail device upgrade um which a failover device is a backup internet device it's uh it's not nearly as robust as the sunor connection that we have but the event sun corrid goes down the fail is int to at least give us some conne um and uh battery backups have been installed in all of our Network process so all of all of those projects are um partially operational that probably should have said mostly operational is our intercom system you can see our brand new beautiful messaging clock up there um these these devices they they function as two-way two-way communication between the front office and classrooms as well as a clock and they they can have a scrolling message so when um if we need to push out an announcement we can say it over the announcement have a pre-recorded announcement pushed out as well as the scrolling text the reason that's that's partially operational is because we still haven't gone through the punch list um the the technician is coming back next month to uh finish up some some final things as well as start a new project for us um but it's just a couple new SS I think it's maybe two or three speakers here and there callon um that is but with regards to that that's that's almost um work in progress uh website redesign our our website is is uh in need of replacement and uh I am um right now I'm in the process of approving the uh the updated site map for our new our new vendor what happened is the vendor that we were using was purchased by another company um the the the current company uh Sunset the um the product that we were using and is moving all their their their customers that that moved over with the purchase to to their their platform and that new platform is is parent square and that's the that's the platform that we use for notification Robo calls and text messages and emails that fber to the bus barn we're we're reaching out our Network to the bus barn so that our maintenance department has connectivity and we get rid of the Hotpot that they're currently working on where we are with that is we we have f run um run out to the bus bar it's not terminated yet so that that sched to be terminated with the next future projects planning phase um the the sfd project that Greg has been discussing over the last many months um and down the road we're we're looking to replace our wireless access points um the network upgrade that we we completed in at the in the in the spring of this year um replaced all of our interior wireless access points did not replace any of our exterior wireless access points so there's about six or seven um access points that we'd like to update the the devices that are currently um installed are I want to say about eight or nine years old and um they are not connected to the network right so those need to be replaced um repairing conduit that R to the snack bar um when when core was working on campus renovation and and building out all of the new buildings and the new pods um there was there's a stretch of conduit that runs um runs from the softball out to the snack bar um that was collapsed and it was it wasn't repaired it was just a so um we'd like to repair that so that we can install a fiber run out from our Network to to the snack that would um that would allow us to to have connectivity out there PE uh wanted to do anything outdoors um we could uh we could give internet access to anybody who's deciding to use the standar for concession um and the network equ in the bus bar we're we're stretching the fiber out there um we don't yet have so those projects are down okay other department updates um over the past two years uh we consolidate tech technology storage to network closets which has opened up two office spaces and those office offices are currently being occupied by the the other two members of the IT department right down this hallway um our SA say clerk who half half the time works on student information system maintenance the other half works on sped records and our um technology and differentiation coach Lord who has been a tremendous help over the last two years um we've updated technology handbook for students and staff ref find the process we used to track student device damage and how families are buil that um that is new this year um mto's been working hard to repair theage devices actually just the picture of those broken Chromebooks those were on her desk so she's been um she's been taking computers apart replacing screens replacing uh keyboards um getting crumbs out of keyboards it's it's it's very help um we've we've updated our digital citizen curriculum the the curriculum we were using in control um was many of the links that were posted on the platform were breaking and no longer active so we needed to to go to different um and the the program we're using now is called Common Sense education and it's it's recommended by so I believe I'll be touching on that in a little bit um updated student PR book distribution procedures distributed spare prome books to each classroom which which was new starting last year in um in previous years if a student forgot their Chromebook they were out of look the teachers didn't have any spare so at this at this time each classroom has one spare Chromebook um in in case a student forgets there at home um and we've set up a charging cart with going testing Chromebooks those those Chromebooks are available only for students when they are taking a benchmark or standardized test uh device uh distribution at the end of last year students checked in their devices and filled out a form letting us know what what damage had been what needed to be repaired on on their devices um misso came back on July 15th and began repairing and reconfiguring devices and I I I don't remember specific number but I think it was around I think it was around close to 200 devices that were either end of life this Miss and Mrs had allent devices this is pretty impressive when you talk about body around um had all devices ready and distributed to students by the second day of school that was our our historic go has been within the first three days they got it done within two and Mrs Le weren't you done halfway through the second day of school or did you use the entire I don't remember that was so long ago let say she got it done by morning that sounds great I'm not sure it was that fast but it was close yeah um and this year we were able to uh issue brand new computers and cases to second grade students and that's the second year in a row that we've been able to do that um I don't know if that that's a goal that we can achieve every year that's a you know that's that's kind of the dream that's the Hope um but funding funding can be a challenge um devices in circulation okay so student device this doesn't count all of the Ring computers that thiso is working on there um we currently have uh at the time this was created keep in mind that these numbers fluctuate uh 639 in circulation assigned to students 605 assigned to students directly 10 in that spare testing part 24 assigned to teacher classrooms is spare we have one new Chromebook in reserve we have eight old Chromebooks in reserve and 14 end of life Chromebooks in reserve so we're we're pretty pretty tight um that said we have um we're in better shape than we've been in the last two years so this is don't let those numbers scare you this is good new and the the the Chromebooks that that you used earlier for the study session those came from um Paro devices we have 22 in circulation two new devices in uh for staff this is our um our teachers our administrative staff and our District staff um we have 68 circulation 2 to be issued five old Reserve TOs and seven old Reserve desktops and what when I say old what I mean is these These are these are devices that have already been replaced so they they should not go back into circulation unless somebody breaks one of their okay artificial intelligence we are um along with the entire educational world we are we are learning as this this technology is developing and um we're we're actively talking about it on a weekly basis how what do we do with this how do we how do we approach this um we've we sent out um several memos to staff um we had a a kind of truncated uh training last school year on AI and how we're um how we're going to approach it as a district okay so um this is a prepared statement so I don't mess this up but AI is the 21st uh century version of the calculator um it's a tool that's going to be used in many specs when our students go into the workforce it's better to teach them how to use it respons responsibly and to hold them accountable than it's used IR respons so we want them to know that AI is a resource but it's not a crutch okay they still need to do the thinking behind the work that the AI so um this the the next set of bullets this is information that went out to teachers in memo in that training that we had last school year um how teachers can spotted there's a a drastic change in vocabulary and quality work um formatting changes in consistency in format um inconsistencies in style or voice as a teacher you can kind of start to recognize the voice in your students right um lack of personal anecdotes or anecdotes that are just completely off based um irregular repetition um another one in there is um just incorrect facts that's that's something what teachers can do to encourage students to use AI responsi um require students to show their work by submitting multiple drafts using the peer review process um teach the use of citation right um and these are all things that teachers have been doing for years they just need to make sure they continue to do it um use resources to help detect the presence of AI generat and those those have okay for staff use um be a helpful it's it's helpful for staff it's um as long as as long like the students as long as are not using it to think for us and if we're using it as a tool to do the work then it it can be very helpful okay staff can use ai ai to help not taking sometimes whether we want it or not you download an app um account management and improve functionality resources um there's there's a whole Host this list forever we have new new AI resources being published all the time the the resources that our staff is using and we do we do have a small handful of teachers who are using it daily um I know in the Middle School um so's been um been working with small groups uh using a tool that's designed specifically for teachers and Educators called brisk and it helps it helps uh create lesson plans create assessments create presentations um it it's it's very useful for teachers um Magic School AI Microsoft pilot we're we're a Google and a Windows District so that's one that kind of comes whether we want it or not and undetectable AI is one of those resources can to okay site and cyber security posture this uh this this isn't something that I'm I'm going to go into detail in open meetings we we will have with like anything regarding site security that's something that that we can go over in executive session dat but I will say that it um it's it's something that I spend a significant amount of my day working on and improving we talk that Administration discusses this on a daily basis how do we improve our posture so we've been working with our insurance provider in the Arizona Department of Homeland Security side Readiness program to actively improve our cyber security posture we're also actively working to improve security using the school fac okay air air quality sensors um an air quality sensor is a device that think of it as a really fancy carbon monoxide um we've received two air quality sensors um to test and our trial will run to the end of October um at which time the district will have to decide whether or not we're going to purchase and um leave install or send back to the vendor um the devices are currently configured and working in the administrative building um but will be installed in the Middle School restrooms this week these devices will work with uh the system that currently runs our security campas um and they they they'll send alerts to uh to District admin team whenever they detect smoke Vapor or high high noise noise levels we we actually got an alert this this morning um when one Reed a hot so that was interesting uh devices what here's what they don't do they don't record video and they don't record on they do have motion detectors and they have um they have noise level sensors so they detect and that's that's useful in a lot of schools will use that to identify when there's a fight in the bathroom or something like okay um we've prepared an automated message to send out to families just to inform them that we are going to use these for a trial basis for that will that will go out okay um as I mentioned earlier here's here's a little more detailing what what they detect um air quality sensors they they measure something called the ba index um temperature humidity carbon dioxide noise level air quality index and tach index which is volatile um the the one of the the big benefits in in schools is that this helps this helps School staff um know when someone's using a vape device or if you don't know what those are um an electronic cigarette e cigarette or a bit P for short they're small handheld battery power devices um that create an inhalable liqu um they they they come in all shapes and sizes um they're often very small and easy to hide and they're commonly used to inhale nicotine THC um these cigarettes and big pens do not smell like cigarettes and are very easy to hide um the Vapor that they emit is difficult to detect even though it can contain substances so knowing knowing that you can imagine the the challenge that these devices present to schools it's not like it was when I was growing up where if you smoke a cigarette in the bathroom everybody knows it's it's something that is really easy to hide very um digital czen ship curriculum so this is what I was mentioning earlier we switched from control to Common Sense education and um I don't remember who asked it somebody asked if we have a curriculum that touches on AI in our study session this is our curricul okay um Common Sense focuses on six core topics they're media well balanc online privacy digital footprint uh communication cyber bullying and uh news news and media literacy and uh the one of the greatest benefits of this um as as opposed this new this new program this new curriculum as opposed to our that it has um it has lessons that are designed for grade levels Kinder Garden all the way up through high school so in control was really kind of tailored more for middle school and Upper Elementary this one has uh lessons and curriculum dropping all the way down to our younger students okay and teachers teachers were told that um they we we asked teachers to discuss each topic each core topic they could go as deep into it as they wanted or touch on it um and just hit the essentials there's a lot of time there's a lot of material there if they wanted to stretch this out through the entire year they could I hope they don't but they could there's a lot of resources um the curriculum is recommended by Abid we are in Abid school this is where I first learned about the curriculum two years ago when I went to um an avid conference with our team and provides like I said earlier lessons lesson plans activities and professional development for teachers and students from kinder Al through high school um teachers were introduced to Common Sense education and preer pre- service second and third grade teachers have already finished the lessons fourth grade is almost there and um since I've since I made this presentation middle school is almost there as well um at this at this time teachers have finished um I checked again a couple hours ago teachers are about 70% of the way through delivering all the lessons that all so they've done' done aett good job that's it thank you just for our parents here how many of you actually are using AI in your profession or in your jobs okay good thank you and um just we're just curious you know wanting to know um in at the law conference when they were talking about the presenter was saying that it's part of like the interview question now that they're asking um employees when they come in to interview if they're familiar with AI and have they used it and those are the ones that they want working in their um in their jobs and in their occupation so it's interesting how it's just growing and evolving so thank you thank you for your presentation and now it's time for episode two from Miss Rico boys and girls are you hanging in there okay I'm going to go fast okay we're going to get to you as soon as I'm done so thank you parents and thank you students for your patience okay this is as you um know or may or may not know our theme for the year is friends and we are um talking about the one where the Colts not get out of the park this year because you are doing an amazing awesome job and when we look at balance curriculum and discipline and motivation and all work in leader and me we know that this is our year to shine and um just so proud of all of our students so this is the year where the fs are going to not get out of the par okay enrollment update um we are at where we left off last year in terms of enrollment with our students who withdraw we always get new students so we are exactly where we are where we were last year at the end of the school year with 644 students on campus um in kindergarten you may recall that we had three classes we didn't have enough students for four teachers from the very beginning and our plan was to use that four one of the four Kinder teachers to help us build capacity in other areas in terms of testing um but what we found is that we have a lot of challenging kindergarteners um they seem to be a little bit more immature than the kindergarteners in the past so um we made a decision to go ahead and separate the students and have four classes so you'll see at the bottom that we have 45 total kindergarteners and in the class we have eight in one class 15 in another 14 in another and eight in the fourth class so even though the numbers seem low the needs are extremely high and our teachers are um working really hard but it just seems like socially trying to get students going in kindergarten has been a little bit challenging this year for us so um our first grade numbers are a little bit low as well which we know we prefer them to be know but we discuss our Revenue comes from student enrollment and bodies so we need more kids so we are um still looking for new students in KRA first six and seventh grade maybe not even um right now all the new students that we get are in fifth grade for some reason and that's the highest gr we have like we're getting new student what grade F oh no so um but just if you have any Kinder first grade friends that want to come I mean this is a dream number with eight kids and 14 and 15 classes and Kinder classes so this would be the year to have them become C so help spread the word Transportation update than you again for all of your patients in terms of having to be patient for your students and the students waiting for our consolidation of our routes so um we are we have Consolidated routes from six to five due to our driver shortage we do have one person in training that will cover the am routes and the occasional PM routes as well um Mr Renzo will be back um next week so we're just very grateful to our current staff and despite the $3 an hour difference from our drivers to sa's drivers we still have people um and drivers committed to sticking with us at Continental two years ago we were um way above sa's pay and we had all their drivers we had people quitting in saita coming to us and then saita increased their R so we had not too many went back to sa but um um bus driving is a hard job and that's probably one job that I would never be able to do Mr Nathan drives the bus and the other day I said Mr Nathan I'm GNA take something off your plate let me drive your route and he started to get out of the bus I was like I'm kidding I'm kidding so um you know it takes a village to transport our children and we just really appreciate our staff members Miss as the Food Service um director and Miss Roxy Who works also in Food Service they are also drivers so if you know anybody that wants to drive a bus or if you want to work very flexible and we can mate people doesn't matter if they want to work one or two days a week Am Pm we're flexible and we have positions and we train them too for inhouse training um our override prop 10 update and St Continental presentations so we are seeking donations for signs maters and door hangers for our override the signs are up and around Valley so hopefully you've seen them we just found out that on the ballot the Continental override is going to be the very last item on the ball so we're probably gonna have to campaign to start with the end in mind and encourage everybody to start backwards at the end of the ballot and it's four pages long so please remember to talk to your friends and spread the word go all the way to the end or start at the end um I will be doing presentations um on our district and current challenges in education and they're listed there with VI the rotary with the American Association of University women with Green Valley rotary and have been attending several meetings um in Green Valley to kind of spread the word and let everybody know that we do have our over override on the November thank you let play progress and support again our students are engaged and our community support and donors are as generous as always we're submitting gra proposals to the Continental foundation and to the white El Grant to help us with our Outdoor Equipment but our kids are just loving it and boys and girls how many of you have been playing outside with different activities that we didn't have last year okay good we have air hockey so just we really want our kids we wanted to give them productive things to do outside um so I think it's been a really good thing for our students and coming this year we're having a continental musical Mrs hatch is seeking students to audition for our musical Disney's Alis in wonder Junior so we have 18 students so far and we need more so um she is going to be sending out information and be sending out info on parent view to please audition we need more students the cost is going to be $2,000 for licensing and $1,500 for props sets and costumes so um please boys and girls be brave and come out in audition because it's going to be a great a great play yeah and contact information just contact Mrs hatch in our school but like I said she's going to be sending out information on parent view on um more audition dates to be coming our grant submissions we are submitting four grants to Freeport that are $500 each so we have some stem math grants literacy preschool and um for our English language Learners and we're looking at some different FPS experiences for students and then the rotary Grant also has a $500 option that we will be submitting for and through the white elephant Grant we will be submitting for 15 to $20,000 so hopefully um as you may or may not know we were cut $77,000 in our title grants so we really have to make up the funds somewhere so our efforts to write grants is what we're really going to push this year professional development as we mentioned we attended the law conference last week we had uh Mrs Dr Robson and attend conference for for special education um we Mrs um slis is also attending the star comprehensive Workshop in terms of star curriculum for students with autism and development delays developmental delays so we're always learning and always trying to keep up with best practices to stay up with the latest and greatest SB update we have projects that we've been working hard on thank you Mr sh we have an update on Middle School fund that's going to be taken care of um the orders have been placed for our stage replacement we're excited about that and um weatherization gring and drainage is also been our they were open today so we'll have a PR conference on the 18th so we're very grateful to facilities Bo for being able to keep our school up to spec and Prov expensive needs that we have there's some upcoming professional development the Arizona assessment conference and Mr Ferguson will be attending September 17th through the 19 we had lead training today with our admin and our leadership Lighthouse team mrsas and I will be presenting at the a National Conference during break um and we have generation schools Network coming to do learning walks and data with us on October 23rd and we are going to be adding parents from our parent advisory to be part of the learning walks this time because we do include students so that we're going to have parents um come and have the to visit some so let's go forth and do and we're making it another great year so thank you all for your attention app thank you now it's time for the if we could please have our of the month come up here and we're you upic second graders seconders first grade third four okay fourth middle schol okay good job thank you right parents please don't be shy to come up and Report also if you want to join your child at that back table once we bre through their recognition certificate you can help them if you need toise shirt for they be taking we' like to thank Java because they have been so helpful these past I believe five years with giving Ice Cream coupons for our full of the month Dr Robinson writes Logan is willing to help and is kind to others she actively engages in classroom learning activities we're excited to have her in Continental preschool congratulations this Evelyn follows all of the rules and is a joy to teach she's kind to all of the children and very patient with helping them she's responsible by staying on task during activities and completing assignments at all times she is safe by following all of the playground and school procedures and keeps others safe as well congratulations Evelyn my have great public speakers already Mrs tesso in kindergarten writes Evelyn is a wonderful student ready for kindergarten she's eager to learn and comes and ready every day Evelyn has made so many friends because she's friendly and caring she helps out any ways she can in the classroom and on the playground Evelyn is showing great responsibility as a kindergartener learning R rules following procedures way to go Evelyn my name isaya Mrs Rodriguez in first grade Amaya is a fabulous first grade student she is kind and friendly all day every day she loves to smile and participate in class Amaya is safe with all of her classroom supplies and belongings Amaya is responsible because she completes her work to the best of her ability she is present in on time ready to learn and has a positive attitude about learning we are so glad that she's in our class keep up a fabulous work of Maya my name is Mrs Mone in first grade writes Lea is kind with her classmates she likes to help others with their work and she likes to help the teacher Leila looks out for the safety of everyone and she is responsible with her class work and homework congratulations [Music] MRSA in first grade writes Everett is my poal month nominee because he's such a kind sweet and responsible young man he comes to school every day with the smile on his face and is always eager to learn Everett practices being safe by following the classroom rules as well as the school rules I love having Everett in my class as he's such a wonderful student and role model to his peers congratulations my Mrs Nado in second grade writes although Ava is new to our school this year she's made remarkable impression Ava has consistently shown kindness to her peers by taking the time to support and encouraging others she demonstrates responsibility in her tasks and prioritizes safety setting a positive example for others we are very lucky to have AA be a part of our B family keep up the great word AA congratulations my name is Zoe this and second grade writes Zoe you're such an amazing young lady you're such a hard worker and you're always showing students how to be safe and responsible thank you for always being kind to me and to our class you are amazing congratulations my is Mrs bti our Music Teacher writes Lewis is always Lo for ways to be kind safe and responsible in music class he's constantly kind to his peers and helps out whenever possible he is responsible by being a respectful listener and he actively participates I'm so proud of Ls and how he demonstrates being kind safe and responsible on a daily basis congratulations Mrs Wade in third grade writes Isabella is kind to everyone and is very patient around those who may not always be kind Isabella is always safe in the classroom and shows safety around campus by following the school rule school rules and classroom procedures she's an extremely responsible student as she completes work on time and always does her homework and assignments congratulations Mrs Hoff in third grade writes jayen shows amazing kindness towards all her classmates she shows responsibility in her common areas classwork and when we collaborate with teams jayen is an amazing helper when a student is in need of extra guidance or a positive boost of their self-esteem jayen is a rockar in being a true example of what is congratulations [Music] J Mrs Flowers in fourth grade writes I love the energy and enthusiasm that Valentina brings to our classroom she recognizes and celebrates others accomplishments is very open-minded and is an excellent Observer of everything she has wonderful relationships with her peers and is always there when I need her we've only been together for a short time but I already know that Valentina and I are a perfect match congratulations Valentina [Music] this house in for grade right Leon has all the characteristics of the true cult he is kind helpful safe and most of all responsible he's always willing to help his peers get his work done and participate Lon I am really tring congratulations Mrs Montoya in fourth grade writes it's only the start of the year and Leila has already set the bar for clst of the month she's always here with a smile on her face and ready to work her positive attitude helps her peers want to work hard as well she's ready to help anyone who may need it in any way she can thank you Leila for starting the year on a positive mil keep up the great work [Music] congratulations Mrs Adams in fifth grade writes Zen has done a great job showing how a kind safe and responsible fifth grader should be he has been responsible for his work shown kindness to his classmates and come to class every day with a smile and Day heart keep working hard this year Zen congratulations my name is [Music] Kai so our Middle School teachers all come together and they choose students from all of middle school so this is a very special honor Kai is always happy polite and kind he's doing very well in completing his work on time during class he follows the rules and puts forth his best effort he is such a pleasure to have in class keep up the good work congratulations Middle School teacher [Music] and too was also nominated by our Middle School teachers too is off to an incredible start in his eth grade year he's he's an allar in the making today was kind safe and responsible to all staff and his peers his leadership capabilities make him a tremendous asset to our middle school and has really set a great tone for this school year he works diligently on his academics and can be trusted to do what is right even when adults are not around thank you for starting the year off on a positive note for all of us today keep up the great work congratulations to the front with their certificates and then we're going to um do our staff award in honor our recipient who will also take a picture with our students and then make sure you stay up there okay [Music] all right so we have a Golden Horseshoe Awards which is our employee of the month and the staff members that get chosen for this are chosen by their colleagues who write in about their colleagues and nominate them one of our staff members who's a programmatic assistant for special educ was been able to be here tonight because she's working and she's coaching soccer right now so she's very honored and we be sure that we can get this at next month's board meeting that was Miss Megan kamacho tell her congratulations and our if we could have Miss Donna Grimes our middle school math teacher yeah her colleagues write Donna works extremely hard on working on math standards and addressing the needs of her math students she's brilliant at looking at data and summarizing findings um as the other math teacher Donna is also super techy and is patient when explaining and teaching other staff members and these are from separate colleagues Donna Grimes is an outstanding educator and colleague who always gos the extra mile in whatever she does she's always willing to lend a helping hand to Administration staff and to her students she's extremely dedicated to her students whether it is in her math classes during after school tutorial or with Builder Club Donna is a hardworking teacher and a supportive colleague we are lucky to have her at Continental thank you Donna for all that you do I'm excited to nominate Donna Grimes for her dedication and commitment to her classroom and students she shows up every day ready ready to give her best to her students and never let anything get in the way of providing the best education possible her ability to maintain school-based standards and finding ways to make learning f and engagement is inspiring I'm happy to nominate her for this recognition and Donna I see this in you too and I thank you for all of your hard work you're always helping us out throughout the school year with schedules with ideas for mathematics with the standards with our maing you really try to enhance the rigor for our students you went into math last year and you learned the whole curriculum and you've embraced it and we really thank you for that we appreciate you and all that you do we a little B boys and girls ready for Extraordinary board two St all right thank you job that we'll take a minute recess free I e e e on e e e Mrs yes yes this yes yes and with that M we're fortunate enough to have Mr acly from County um come to talk to us about the tax situation it'll probably cover everything so thank you board members um yeah so hopefully this is is the last time that we have to address the Saga and we can um we can put it to bed um but uh as as you know um there was a change in the law um in the way that Elementary only districts handle payment for high school students um and so to start off with with those in case anybody isn't aware and anybody who might be watching at home um Arizona has a from my standpoint over complicated school funding system but the basics of this is is they establish a minimum and a maximum qualifying tax and so um um right the slide it's it's in um slide sorry that's okay well in any event a minimum and maximum tax rate so basically what occurs if you a normal District um big district with a mix of commercial and residential property some high some low um basically a mix um you go calculate the school's budget um assess it tax rate back on that and it falls somewhere in the middle there and so you're just fine um if you are a relatively poor district and I mean that by that you have a a student large student population compared to the assess value in the district rural agricultural land not much bu business activity with that within the actual um uh District limits um it is very possible that when you calculate the budget that you need to operate your school that you would bust the cap and exceed the maximum tax rate in which case the state would backfill an additional um basic state aid for the district if you are a district like Contin which has a very high assessment to student population ratio you fall under the minimum qualifying tax rate so for decades the Continental Elementary School District and please do remember this is does not include voter approved initiatives like bonds and overrides it's just the basic um primary tax rate you go ahead and calculate your budget and for decades your actual calculation of your basic budget again excluding bonds and overwrites had very little impact on what taxpayers pay because taxpayers were going to pay the minimum qualifying tax rate so in years past you would calculate the school's Revenue control limit you would add on what you were going to pay in tuition to seren the seren district and then there would be a little bit more that you would have to kick into the pot to pay the State of Arizona that would go into the equalization okay if we could go back um one slide or right okay go forward two more slides okay um however they said no longer were you going to pay tuition to um a neighboring School District the state was going to take the money directly however when they passed the legislation three four years ago now what they failed to do was put that underneath the minimum qualifying tax rate so in essence what happened you will notice that this graph shows the difference between 2022 and 2023 which was last Tex so in 2022 your District budget was about 5 a.

e testing testing one 2 three testing e e e all right I would like to call this meeting to order for creep mon School Board of Education School District 201u it's the committee of a whole today is Tuesday September the 10th 2024 6:30 p.m.

start pledge allegiance Follow by a prayer Al 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 our father in Heaven we're grateful for this beautiful day and this beautiful time of year which is upon us we're grateful for the many things which we have and and the blessings and the health that we have we grateful for the opportunities which you have to to serve in this this community and here on this school school board and we ask as we go throughout this meeting and this agenda that we will be able to do those things and discuss the things that would be pleasing unto thee we ask you to please bless those that are that are in need bless us that we may be able to recognize those needs and that we may help we ask you to please help our teachers and our administrators to to always be able to help these kids in any way that they are able to we ask you to please bless this meeting and we say this in the name of Jesus Christ amen amen [Music] uh future board meetings September 24th August 8th October 8 backwards and November 12th so there's only one in October um all here 6 o' revisions to the agenda I think there were some HR that were revised and maybe one donation revisions uh public recognition we have a recommendation to approve a $2,800 donation from Thorn Insurance Agency for all of the NHS students to have athletic pass and we'll just follow that with the one from South we have a recommendation to approve a $2,800 donation from complete Glass Solutions for all of the shs students to have a athletic pass um also have a go ahead that I'll to approve this second we got a motion to second to approve these donations all those in favor say I I post and we definitely like to thank those two businesses in our area for that generous donation I know the athletic directors definitely appreciate that uh number three a recommendation to approve a $50 donation from Happy Homemakers for Sharp Creek Elementary student Mel lunch program and we'll just also a recommendation to approve a $120 donation of Walmart gift cards from the class of 1979 for the northv guidance Department we'll move to accept those donations second we have a motion a second to approve the $50 donation from Happy Home makers and $120 donation from the class of 1979 I assume that's the class 19 you never know all those in favor opposed all right passes um School recognition all right I just have a couple one that's um just I just received an email so I'll go back to that one after I do this one so Mr Snider shared this one north of volleyball received an Exemplar Behavior report after a fifth set 1614 with a Huntington North on Thursday 81924 official Michael leash reported that there was a good crowd that was playfully engaged interesting play players and coaches uh from both teams played hard and coached their teams up it was a pleasure to work the contest so it's always great to see those and I also just received one too um this is just in wasn't on my list but I just received the email uh this is from Mrs Lewis at Southwood recently the varsity football team played our varsity team at Northwestern High School and let me start by saying this is a Northwestern parent not a an official I just wanted to send an email saying I watched uh Northwestern score a touchdown against Southwood and on the same play number one on South's team helped a Northwestern player fix his shorter pads that he was struggling with as as he came out as it came out was Jersey such a nice gesture and great composure in the he of the moment he was very kind and thoughtful of him I just thought I would share his kindness it was appreciated and number one is Emme Bo liic so it's very nice to see things like that happen because you know when you just get scored on don't always think about helping your team or not the teammate but the so anyway those are the two that I have tonight all right no presentation so public comments on agenda items only not we will move on um need a motion second to approve our regular meeting minutes August 27th so second motion a second to approve those minutes all those in favor say I oppos uh move on to financial reports um [Music] um got claims questions on claims for the end of the month got payroll four and those should have been together we had a time sheet issue so we had to run a separate page to get that paid out so 4 a and are together same week yes questions there I Mo the claims of payroll okay motion second all those in favor of claims and payroll 4 4 a say iOS all right uh budget review 2025 yeah so this will be kind of our last phase of uh reviewing the 2025 budget uh so that at our next board meeting we would have a budget hearing and then the following board meeting after that we would have our budget adoption which would then allow me to submit everything to the dgf and meet all are time frames um that are required by Statute so with this uh we're going to talk a little bit about um our form four and form three advertisements which relate to uh tax rates so we don't need to go through every page on this a lot this is the same things we've discussed in the past taxes are controlled by assess valuations uh assess valuations can help determine tax rates levies also help determine tax rates that's the amount of monies that you would be requesting uh and so they kind of all work on a uh fixed ladder there where you know AB increases rate decreases and vice versa uh when that comes in so when we look at what those upcoming rates are going to look like for 2025 one of the things that we want to know is what our assess valuation is going to be uh we don't always know 100% of what what that is um so we look historically at what some of those net assess valuations have been uh we know that they have been increasing over the last uh three years three four years um at a pretty significant rate um so when we look at that uh back when we were working on the referendum we had polic come in and give us a forecast of what uh assessed values might look like in the future uh the red was their forecast and the blue is what is actually been happen uh with our with our district so you can see that it has increased sooner than what was expected this is a look at what those tax rates have been over the past 13 years um you can see how those are broken up into different uh funds uh and how those funds were uh changed back in 2019 um as far as where that puts us from a state perspective it puts us around the medium uh rate of where we stand now so one thing I wanted to look at which we haven't done this before but I just thought it would be interesting to look at um as we prepare or not us but as we prepare for the 22 budget the legislators are also preparing for their biannual budgets uh coming this spring and so one of the things that has been a topic of discussion is property taxes and so I went back to our dgf website uh and made some graphs of of some different information Mike keep it there for a second please we in a hurry I heard graphs uh just some things that understand and changes of how our property taxes have have changed uh from a a state perspective uh this goes back to 1984 uh so back then we had a general tax levy which funded our general fund we had a tax levy for debt and we had a tax L for capital projects that made up our total tax rates back then um those stayed the same until 2001 they added bus replacement in 2004 they added pension debt in 2009 they removed the general fund tax levy in 2018 is when we actually paid off our pension BB so that no longer exists for us and then in 2019 is when they created the operation Levy which basically removed the capital projects and bus replacement levies and combine them together so right now currently our only tax levies are related to operations fund and Debt Service you may change the slide so uh one thing I looked up was just what has been our Levy history so these would be the property tax dollars that we have collected from the school corporation side uh since 1984 and so you can I you can make your own interpretations in there the interesting thing about this that I came up with was that in 2009 when the general fund tax levy was removed that dropped our tax uh down to 1991 levels and so um that adjusted over the course of the years to where we got to 2023 and if you look at where we were at in 2023 that's still actually at 2001 levels and so you're working with monies in your uh operations and Debt Service at 2001 levels in today's market and so um that can cause some issues uh as far as getting certain things done Etc with that so that's just a little bit of of History uh where that is uh this is a look at total tax rate history uh I mean back in the early 2000 tax rates were over $4 obviously assess valuations were a lot lower back then as well uh but we've maintained a fairly steady tax rate over the last U 14 15 years uh when it comes to total tax rate history from an operational standpoint um that shows you what our operations so this would be the dollars that fund operations accounts and funds where that has gone from um over the years and then the next slide is The Debt Service uh and so it shows kind of where our Bing rates have been uh over those years as well so just a little perspective uh from that from a historical standpoint this is how we compare to our peers those would be our bordering districts for 2024 so again going back currently Debt Service and operation funds are what's supported by our local tax dollars um so we look at net assess valuations we look at what we call tax caps tax caps went into effect in 2010 those are in State Statute um ours have increased over the years so more people are reaching no tax caps which then means those are dollars that we do not capture uh in in those taxed funds then tip districts those work a little bit differently there are three districts that are part of her school corporation uh those are just assessed valuations that we don't capture uh as part of our total assess valuation so the goal is to advertise a high rate and a high Levy to ensure we can collect the full amount of Levy uh for the budget that we need uh for that current year so for 2025 so we're going to use a lower assess valuation than what we anticipate uh for what our known Levy is that we're going to ask for we factor in any potential tax cap losses into that we keep in mind any max ly funds so like for Debt Service there's not a Max however there are situations that control the amounts of monies that you can borrow from a Debt Service perspective so like anything above or below 39 cents is for approval anything between 40 and 79 cents is board approval but it could go to a remonstrance and then anything over 80 cents is a refering in which case public uh so this year for 2025 our operation fund Max Levy is at $5 million where at the previous year is at $4.8 million now one thing to understand about that so for 2024 we anticipating of collecting $4.8 million however we had about $150,000 tax cap loss so we're not going to collect all that money we're going to collect more around $4.6 million well with our new Max Levy of $5 million we have a $360,000 t cap loss which means we're going to be around that $5.6 million again so or $4.6 million again so we're not really going to see a big increase in tax dollars when it comes to that operations F so that's controlled a little bit as far as that growth of the max Levy by state law they used to follow this formula they still do however there's new law that caps it at 4% so it can only have no more than a 4% growth even though we could have captured Maybe over a 5% growth state law caps it at only a 4% growth so that's why it's at that $5 million one thing to keep in mind again we talked a little bit about this in the past as well is the tax levy dollars that we get in our operations fund does not fully support our operation fund and so in a few examples here for 2122 23 that Revenue the r is the actual property tax dollars that we received for that year the E is the expenses so those were the actual expenses in that fund for that year so you see that there's always a gap there so how do we control that Gap we have a couple different Avenues of doing that transferring money from education to operations fund which we do but that also has a 15% cap so we can't transfer more than that dollars uh and for bigger things bigger projects we do that through bonding and borrowing those needs uh we're looking at doing um a bond for 2024 which we've already went through all that process we're looking at closing here in the next week or so uh to receive those dollars in October uh for the uh 2024 project which would be the Northfield Elementary Edition and Metro North Edition um so that's a little bit of where the interest rates lie for that as far as what we're advertising uh for the budget that is over on the right hand column there uh I put in in those first two columns what we advertised in 2024 and what the actuals were for 24 to give you a little bit of perspective uh so what we're advertising in 2025 is not what it's actually going to be uh that was is being reflected in the estimated column there um again at that doll10 rate but we are going to be advertising um a tax rate of a149 um for those two funds with that uh the only thing I'm asking for is our ability to advertise the form three uh which would include this information as well as uh information related to when a bond hearing is and when our her bond hearing our budget hearing is and our budget adoption is clarification when you ask for that tax rate knowing you're not going to get it it's a dgf that cuts that back that well they'll factor in what our budget estimates are they'll factor in what our budget estimates are on Revenue as well to make sure that our Revenue what we're estimating is going to or what our estimated expenses are um and then from the tax rate perspective obviously the operation fund has a max Levy so you can't go above that Max Levy anyway I mean we could ask for10 million in our operations fund they're going to cut it back to the max Levy uh for that anyway so that's kind of how that that works so they kind of know we want to end up or land around dollar so they know that go and if it doesn't come back then we can send them back and make adjustments to get it up to that level as long as assess valuation is able to carry it able to carry it all right we need a motion second for that recommendation to approve the advertising form three second a motion second to approve the advertisement form three in Gateway all those in favor say I oppos Financial summaries yeah this is the end of the month for August where we sit uh with our fun balances at this time nothing all right uh on the personnel [Music] employment have a Lori Cisco sub teer at all schools that's Valerie d sub teer for all schools and Rex Rymer sub teer for the north schools and de simpon bus aid for special education bus um have one leave 182 leave will begin November 12th to January 6th of 2025 Hamma po teacher of visual onair WAP she's retiring at the end of the school year then we have some robot coaches Mark B from Northville Junior High School Crystal Northville junr High School mber bretzman Sharp Creek Elementary Kevin bretzman Sharp Creek Elementary ham Sadler Southwood Elementary Dan Wright Southwood Junior Senior High Jody Carr Southwood Junior High jol sham shimau shimau at Southwood your senior high Janette Moore Metro North Elementary Randy Collins Southwood Elementary and Joel Mesler at Shark Creek Elementary get a motion a second to approve these second a motion in second to approve the HR report all those in favor say I I opposed right I just mentioned a couple things for retirement so Pam po um she basically started Wap in 1991 um she actually was a very professional um she was uh motivated and also had that passion of teaching students so she went back to school to get her degree and of course being a teacher visually impaired uh for us and just appreciate all that she's done over the last several years so this will end almost 30 years of service with Ms at the end of this school year so appreciate P for all she's done and wish her well in retirement but not until the end of this all right Heartland C Center oh wait till get business okay superintendent report yeah I just want to mention we've been doing this about every time but um of course the locker room and wait rooms continue uh to be worked on tennis courts there's a lot of it um going on there um actually at uh Northfield they do have the first layer down I don't know about South but for sure because I haven't been there today um and then of course uh the demo for the new bid construction um at North as that's been completed and of course bid phase three which is a will be a lot of people we're going to have a lot of people in here in this room and that won't be until Friday now originally was going to be today but it's going to be on Friday so we're anxiously waiting for that to see how that all comes out uh the digital signs of course you know those are completed a lot of the the work around there as far as the uh the dirt that was piled up and different things like that that's all taken care of of course the fence at norfield so just continue to have a lot of different projects going on I appreciate all the people that are working on that to make all the improvements of course that will continue for years to come now as we start these projects all right thank you Tim construction yeah I guess just real quick mention about PD day coming up Friday I'm so thankful to have the waiver so that teachers can really focus on that and so they're going to knock out a lot of state required trainings and lot of school building trainings and then talk about the new graduation Pathways and how that might impact their course offerings and for those of us old enough to remember these used to be the old teacher Workshop days that the teachers used had went away but they really appreciate to have those things and I'll just jump on with that too when he mentioned that we saw a calendar 1964 65 calendar that had the old 175 days but then an October instead of having like a fall break there was a teachers if you remember that all you are old enough to remember that some of us are I didn't want to date myself I was going to correct I remember teacher yes yes so I dated myself teacher Institute so there you go all right well thank you Tim um under our new business school well I will tell you something's a little different this year with the indana Department of Education um there are different types of school Improvement plans uh for different reasons and so for this year it is a difference that they're doing the CNAs CN did I say it right yeah the CNAs and U Mr mcdot at White Junior Senior High SCH school has um an improvement plan it's labeled as a CNA and so um he's required to well actually to get your approval of that and then also to submit that to AE uh through a jot form and all of the rest of them um all the rest of the five schools actually won't do that until next year typically they do that every year uh but for some reason they change that this year and um Mr mcdot will be able to take the floor for all five six schools tonight only one of them so I'll still keep it free okay so if you could share that and I will and I will I will uh try to go as fast as you can because how many pages are there well6 I think how many six yeah just I'm want to have we're not going to go through every page let me just say this um Mr ke paper is right we are a CNA status school which means the way the reason we got there was years ago our graduation rate was below 67% so I was just doing some quick readings before the meeting started our graduation rate for this year is not officially set yet until October but right now we're at 72% so if we have a second year of where we hit above that 67% threshold we will come off CNA status so uh we have one year down and we're going to keep working to make it two years in a row real quickly I'll just say this about uh School improvement with whites uh in 2019 a decision was made right before before I think I arrived uh to give the bridge program which is Under the whes Umbrella uh distinct separate leadership and so while I am technically the principal over all of that t Boon has taken over the bridge part of that since 2019 and I do think that decision is paying dividends in a lot of different ways but I think I think one of the things both T and I really work hard at is is really two primary things that is being laser focused on graduation making sure what we're offering our students is exactly what they need as the state has thrown new diplomas at us and we have been we've been hustling it seems like for the last five years to make those adjustments on the Fly and we're having to do it again uh which is fine our staff is prepared for it and our staff works hard at it and so I think that is one thing um that has really made a difference I think the other thing that has made a big difference is that we continue uh even though the population we work with is is a student um that is traditionally behind on credits um and needs a lot of support I think what both of our entities try to do I think do quite well is establish as good of positive connections between the school and the home school and the student which is tough to do in a virtual setting it's tough to do in our setting uh but I think those dividends do pay off and so hopefully next year I'll come back do this report again because I will have to and we'll be over that threshold again and we can come stand so that's a quick rundown of what we've been doing I'll be happy to take any questions and answer well we just appreciate Mrs Moon too with like like what you said Mr MCD um being able to work with all the students across the state of Indiana and also the students that come to us from all across the state of Indiana residentially so and uh I will assess it it's an appropriate time to do this um it's great to see the school board at the bridge graduation June which I will tell you that is one of the coolest graduations I was been a part of uh we have monthly graduations as necessary at whites and if you're a if you're around the W bash area at 11 o' and you want to come out to the whites Chapel we have another graduation Thursday we have four kids graduating and it's really cool so if you're able to make it I know all of you are busy but if you're in the neck in that neck of the woods around 11:00 a.m.

[Music] hello clockers and welcome to our first segment of waa news blog my name is hi silver and today I will be reading you a brief summary of the Ashlin town manager newsletter starting off we have the pawn Street project update this week Dennis GM Betty from the Senate President spilka's Office representative Lewis select board chair Yolanda Greaves and town manager Michael herbet met with the Mass DOT leadership to address frustrations over the lack of progress on the Route 126 project Verizon's delay in moving wires from old polls to new ones particularly at the AL gunman intersection is a major issue the revised project completion is now expected in spring/summer 2025 Mass DOT plans to complete some drainage and sidewalk work by the end of the year they've also committed to improving site maintenance in memorium Cheryl Bell dunavan we are saddened to announce the passing of Cheryl B Donovan ashlin's Outreach coordinator after a brave fight with cancer though Cheryl wasn't working for us long her dedication to the seniors and the community was remarkable she deeply loved her work and was committed to returning to serve even until the end Cheryl will greatly be missed and we take comfort in knowing she is no longer suffering following we have the state primary election results for the Republican Party John Deon wins for Senator against Ian Kane and Robert antonellis for the Democratic party for counselor Mariel elae Kramer had the most votes in Ashland but was still beat out by Tamisha civil representative in general court Jack Patrick Lewis beat out Carl Phelps following that the MBTA community's update the MBTA working group will hold one more public discussion the week of September 16th date and time to be determined via Zoom the session will share updates on NBTA zoning plans ahead of the Fall town meeting as Ashlin Works to comply with MBTA community's legislation the zoning plan aims to meet requirements with minimal Town impact and Resident feedback is encouraged about the MBTA community law the law requires towns near MBTA services to adjust zoning to allow more multif family housing Ashland as a commuter rail Community must zone for 1,124 new units 15% of its housing 2020 housing stock the town received a grant to assist in creating a compliant zoning bylaw following we have the baa Grant opportunity the baa Grant application is now open for nonprofit organizations the Ashlin select board began the fall 2024 baa Grant round on August 21st 2024 with two opportunities available fall 2024 baa Grant available to qualifying 501c3 organizations funded through Boston Athletic Association entries applications are due by September 30th 2024 next is the fall 2024 select board Community Grant applicants can request up to $1,000 per cycle with a, 1500 cap over two rounds applicant are due by September 30th 2024 as well for assistance please contact Susan Roby at 508532755 Boston Marathon bib application now available the select board is offering the chance to run the 2025 Boston Marathon whether you're an active Runner or simply just pursuing a lifelong dream apply by October 15 2024 names will be drawn at random with priority given to ashin Residents and employees notifications will be sent via email for questions contact Susan Roby at sroy asley mass.com or 58 532 7921 a message from the Ashlin Board of Health and how to avoid mosquitoes in early fall mosquitoes remain active in the fall so it's important to protect yourself your family and pets from mosquito bites that can lead to some serious illnesses so here's some tips that you may follow to avoid this use EPA registered mosquito repellent Outdoors wear long sleeve pants and socks when Outdoors eliminate standing water around your home and this standing water can be included in bird baths flower pots so just be careful of that repair window screens to prevent mosquitoes from entering and then keep pets indoors during Peak mosquito times which would be during Dusk and Dawn coming up we have some Ashland Recreation programming Ashland wre offers a variety of programs for all ages here's a sample of upcoming events backyard Discovery explore nature at Ashton state park with activities like examining leaves and turning over rocks for grades K through 5 on Tuesdays 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

[Music] at Gillette Stadium Ashland is the Super Bowl champion of division 6 and the winner of the aganis trophy [Music] good evening everyone welcome to Clock Town as waca proudly presents tonight's Tri Valley League girls volleyball matchup between the visiting Westwood Wolverines and your Ashlin clockers along with Brian s I'm Josh Abrams Brian it's the season open for the clockers and they're returning a lot of players from last year's team that went to the division 3 state tournament what do you expect tonight I I'm expecting them to start off strong as you said High percentage of the girls are coming back so this should be a very great competitive team and a great season so couple freshman um so good team good uh good group of girls coming back okay yeah I mean I've got I've got down five seniors five Juniors so this is a this is a deep experienced team and uh I think I think this team's going to have a lot of expectations early on here in the uh in the early going of the Season yeah so you're right one freshman one sophomore and then the rest kind kind of upper classman so should be a good great team excited to kind of start off against Westwood today okay it looks like we're about to get under way so why don't we go ahead and go over the roster for your Ashlin clockers number one Eliza fiak number two Quinn herder number four Ali politica by the way Eliza and Alli are two of the four C co- captains for this volleyball team number five is alah De Cruz number six Rose Berliner number seven Gabby Van Beek number eight Isabelle l number nine Siri Bina also a captain number 10 Emily Collins the fourth Captain I mean they're not in any order just numerical of course number 11 Lily vidy who I also want to give a shout out to she and her father Dave helping me out with uh getting in Ashlin cler's roster in time for tonight's game so appreciate the vidy family number 12 Marissa Carrol and number 14 Angie [Music] Nomi we have the traditional kind of uh if that's called just a w Center cour handshake yeah every sport has it yeah we're used to baseball right you and I are used to baseball it's after the game you do the handshake with the other team so while we do have a moment here before we get started do want to give a shout out to our crew I might be the earliest I've ever done a thank you to tonight's crew Jeff Hall Jeff Cunningham Luis Miranda and Paul Bowden bringing us the color and audio of tonight's game so obviously we are live streaming here on YouTube and uh we will be keeping an eye on the on the feed you are welcome to uh make some comments if you want to give a shout out you want us to give a shout out if uh you have any pointers for Brian and for me for uh any broadcasting tips we're always open to constructive criticisms and positive feedback that's right keep it a 10 out because uh I'm sure there'll be some uh recommendations suggestions over here looks like we're about to get started I was going to say the crew here had a chance to connect with them before during the two JB games very hardworking group over here got some new equipment and uh it's it's a little bit it's a little toasty right now in the gym so it's cool outside warm in here but uh we're about to get started okay so first serve here for Westwood is Francesca janari senior and a co- captain for the Wolverines oh beautiful ball movement there by the clockers for the first point of the game yeah Liza with the kill I think that was a lefty shot too so she is a lefty yeah Southpaw [Music] yep Quinn herder by the way is your labero this season that was morsa Carol with the first serve for the clockers nice dig out there by Carol big hit by Bina W struggling with that a little bit but recover backwards hit over the net little decep ction there yeah good little save by Quinn I thought there was like a fourth hit I missed it I was a little screened by The Ref on that one vdy to Bina that's deep but playable cross cour Carol digs it out to vidy over to fii probably should have let that one go that's imagin Roberts for Westwood that ball was probably carrying out of bounds but she made the play and uh point for the clockers so an early two- nothing lead here as Carol continues to serve yep that's two two kills by Eliza too big hit from Bina that look looks like side out so Westwood okay so that point will go to Westwood two to one here in the first game Josh did you play any volleyball this summer beach volleyball or S volleyball or I walk I walked by a beach volleyball court on the URI campus last weekend that's about as close as I got the playing there you go I I would have to say my beach volleyball days are over are over the the risk reward set nicely for pina crosscore it handled Westwood setting up big hit and finds the back line point for Westwood we're tied up here two tell you what else I did this weekend I played around the golf did you really I sure did 18 18 holes Juniper in Northboro Riverside or Lakeside Riverside Riverside I think it was I I don't know if it's if it was H it was Riverside okay nice dig little miscommunication f is the one who hits it Quin herder takes it over the net big hit by Westwood pass the diving Marissa Carroll for the point Westwood takes the [Applause] lead yeah as kind of lost some of that over there didn't have a chance to set up and go for a kill but 32 Westwood Westwood Wolverines should say served by Megan gley dug out by Carol put R the right idea there was a hole there just a little too strong so you think Westwood if they saw the movie Deadpool and Wolverine you think they're more on the Deadpool side or the Wolverine side well they are the Wolverine they're probably more Wolverine than Deadpool it's a good question little little miscommunication there but playable what a Siri that was a great uh great kill crosscourt great Court Vision there she found a hole beautifully played so Ashlin back within one here in the first set we have our first sub we have uh Ally also my neighbor okay Alli served too deep too hard they might have called that out before she even served something with the rotation saw the rough oh maybe she had stepped on the line you're right it was it was an early whistle yeah got another substitution Gabby van Becks I remember coaching Gabby in soccer to me she was always Gabby V I had two Gabby she was Gabby V and the other was Gabby but every time I say her it's Gabby V sure but I remember Gabby last year some huge contributions to the ashin team MH she is really dedicated to this sport she is a big Serve by cine SEL Aces it they get six to3 Westwood so those are L reasons why I don't play volleyball that right there is one of them I think you got say out of the way I would be [Music] just these serves that come in are no joke at at any level obviously we had the Olympics and even at the high school level some of these spikes but these uh jump serves so you're more of a Nukem guy kind of I just kind of duck and roll but you stopped first right I stopped first of course okay number eight Isabelle layi serving here for the clockers it's 64 in favor of the Wolverines [Music] nice touch nice oh good save terrific volley again just seeing some more great cord Vision by those clockers they were able to draw the back line up and then drive it deep where it wasn't playable so it's funny ashon has a obviously a good amount of seniors but this junior group over here that's been together for three years it's just this year next year they Contin to improve but Isabelle is one of those juniors little bit of a scramble that's not going to work so westw had been looking so disciplined as they built a lead now looking a they're a little bit on their heels they're a little discombobulated we're at a tie game now 66 as Le will again serve for the clockers and another Lefty yep well played well played that was Angelina hamy faking a hard hit and just dropping it over the right over the back of the front line you know every sport has like their crap or specialty I always love watching Setters because they're going they're just very creative Lily viy had a bunch of them earlier MH one's going wide the setter is such a key component of the game usually you hear more about the kills and the digs but you can't get anywhere without a good setup Pino with the big overhand serve okay vidy herder right on the line good okay big kill there by Carol heads back to serve again that was Lita Quinn to [Music] Marissa wow what a sa yeah that was that was a questionable decision by Megan really of how she how she played that one there was just I think she kind of got caught in between and there was just nothing she could do to provide a good pass for a teammate too hot to handle for fter I think that's all about I think W thought they had the point but that ball went just wide just long ending well I might have to talk to ad Kevin Anderson about putting a brighter color for the uh the lines for the volleyball court I thought that one was in I I just couldn't see it it's it's hard to tell p recovers that one herder goes to gather it in up front to vidy free ball quick play recovered big hit to took too much off of it Marissa Carroll looked like uh had that go off the side of her hand y so 108 Ashlin Westwood regains serve but Bina brings them back into the game and into the lead some terrific serving there by Siri you actually have a really nice crowd over here it's uh I think I heard I know field hockey had a game earlier today they were on the plateau yep think I heard Jamie trip doing some announcing see some football players so Josh are we the wa for this serve of over here that's Emily Collins ni [Applause] dig I don't think that's what she intended to do with that left-handed hit that is way too deep for and she knows it so you and I closed out the indoor sports with the clocker classic are we opening up indoor this year is this the first this is is our first broadcast of the Fall 2024 season absolutely so we closed it out with the sellout Cloud we're opening up with uh I mean this is pretty PR pretty plack pretty packed crowd over here I think it all ties back into those uh expectations right there's high expectations for this team Westwood has closed the Gap it's 1110 now clocker lead but it's getting tight here in the first game first set this is imagin Roberts the labero serving for the Wolverines deep [Applause] serve just snuck over the line just that's one of those like you just watch it come down and you hold your breath hoping that you guessed right everyone looks at the two people in blue for the call I'm supposed to have an eye doctor appointment and I'll give these refs credit to see where the ball is hitting on the line it's it's not easy Lily vidy with the serve nice short serve big hit oh great diving efforts there on the back line by Bina and herder with Angelina hamy a big hit for the Wolverines it's 1211 now clockers it's funny I always about the the pads with the knees they look like the pads are right below the kneecap a little way it's almost like like above the shin mhm oh nice oh my god wow nice left-handed play who I couldn't see who made that play it looked like Abby V by set from Lily but that was a great set the ball was kind of going deep [Music] we'll apologize for any audio issues you've been experiencing here on the live stream we've made an adjustment to our microphones and uh hopefully you're getting a clearer audio from me now a good dick for the video is world class deep return herder back up top to vidy over to Eliza Bali continues there's that play again yeah PTY is really nice touch on the ball right now she is just finessing these points so Josh are you a a Hamilton person do you ever see the broad wish show Hamilton I I'm not going to hurt any fans here Brian I but I'm going to be honest with you I the only time I've seen Hamilton was on Disney plus and I fell asleep while I watched [Music] it free ball over the top vidy setting for herder up to fiak too hard to froma so Eliza is one of the main characters in the in the show Hamilton so every time I see Eliza I just want to start breaking out into the song so is that allowed maybe the pause just answered so all right I you you have a lot of talents and strengths it's not one of them it's not one of mine either my father's a singer but it just it stopped at him miss my brother my sister skip to generation what up 1513 and holding serve herder digs it out Carol tracks it down gets over the net setup herder digs again vidy setting for Eliza too much net it's really been a topsy tury first set here Brian as both teams have been stringing together you row points I believe that's a timeout for ash inconsistent I guess the best or inconsistently consistent one way or the other it's a conundrum really it it is it's a get comfortable being uncomfortable I guess and you know granted I mean I know that I am older than you getting back to the Eliza reference when I think Eliza I'm thinking more like about my fair lady Eliza do little yep yep tune in for a volleyball game you're getting some uh some culture here culture over here literature musical theater yep so while we have a timeout Brian did reference uh girls field hockey hosted Westwood earlier today up on the plateau they host Norwood this Friday at 4:30 we have not received a final score on that field hockey game earlier this afternoon but we'll keep your prize if we do learn of it uh boys soccer played Westwood to a 2-2 tie yesterday they host Norwood tomorrow at 5:45 at the middle school we'll pick this up during the next timeout so game reset Westwood up 1613 in in the first set with the serve Megan gy one of the seniors on this team again Brian we didn't really know a lot about the Wolverines coming in tonight but uh they were forc to be reckoned with definitely it's a pretty good competitive even match over here and that's going deep y just wrong arm slot there so Ashlin finally breaks the serve regains control looks like herder's checking out and Gabby V is checking out as well we got allly coming back to serve so quick roster check here on the floor right now for your Ashlin clockers Ali politica Marissa Carol Siri bini Lily biddy Eliza Eliza fiak and Emily Collins thank you politica with the serve dug out by The Wolverine set and Spike good gig by Marissa nice set Oh I thought she was going to put that right back right back in their face here's bin with another big hit go found it just inside the line P really playing the angles here tonight FY to an extent as well from the opposite side but doing a nice job yeah onepoint game 1615 Alli back with the serve good deep serve it's another point three and a row 166 imagine Roberts couldn't handle that one back to a tie game we're playing a here 1616 wow they go some indecision there by uh by Roberts whether to play that or not she chose poorly hold on that's a movie ref sure is a no just you got to give me you chose well we got a Timeout on the floor you can take your time I got it Indiana Jones here we go there's like six Indiana Jones movies the third one with uh uh Temple of Doom that's the second one the the father um that's a terrible reference I know what you mean I know you chose wisely you yes Sean Conor Sean Conor thank you James Bond okay okay heading back to Ashland Sports around Le horn girl soccer lost to Westwood yesterday 4 nothing they head to Norwood tomorrow for 4:30 match we'll see them here on waa on Saturday September 14th at noon when they host Blackstone Valley the boys golf team started their season with losses to Hopkin and westw followed up with wins over Bellingham and dham even their record at two and two their next match is tomorrow against Millis back to our game at hand clockers up 1716 I'm sure the Westwood fans are looking for a net violation on that one I think Pina had her hand over the net on that didn't get called they called a break called but Alli that's five straight points I wonder if for sister laurren who's at penate you just jinxed her oh I know well I've been saying this to myself so let's see if it's a jinx no Jinx okay I'm good okay Bina vidy back to Pina handled This Time by Westwood here's a big hit on their side there there's that play again the that front line keeps getting sucked into the big hit into the de that might be the third time that hamy has just Dro one over that front line both going for the block definitely a senior veteran kind of play over there Angela Holmes Ley 22 from Westwood but five straight points for uh Alli serve so so Ally completing her job sits back down on the bench H her back in on defense labero service by SEL for Westwood here's bin with the big hit oh she had the hole but too deep a little deep that was a little bit deep SEL breathes a s relief cuz she wasn't going to get she was out of position ashin didn't like the call but that one was just a little bit deep Brian I got to tell you for Westwood that's got to be the third unforced error on a serve there were two that went out of bounds and this one into the net into the net yep so make it 1918 clockers taking over on the serve this be Isabelle lay look like might have been some spin on that serve Brian a good deep serve yeah Pina going for that far side it's played by Westwood here's the set near side [Applause] they got her hands on it so we have a game I I I see this match going at least four sets I don't see this is a very evenly match over here mhm what a way to start the season huh yep fcala with the serve Pina digs up to lay that was Emily Collins Westwood still keeps the ball alive homsey does it again all right is that four for her I think next set we have to start uh tracking this by my unofficial count that is four Le four finess hits just over the uh it's I don't if there was are called a dink I don't know there's a there's a term for that she's going to keep doing it until they stop it so Ashlin down by one Westwood has the serve good save they need a big hit here and out of bounds that one hit the pole on the way over 2119 Westwood there's a good try by Quinn I mean I think that was her best shot to try and get it over yep here's falo again for the Wolverines dug out by Carroll robera didn't get up there to make the play didn't call for help easy point there for the Wolverines 2219 Timeout on the floor called by Ashland so just wrapping up on H fall Sports Around the Horn here in Clock Town boys and girls cross country start their seasons in two weeks late start for cross country pretty late and of course football opens their season this Friday 7 o'clock here on waa against Grafton Rob silver and I will have all the live play byplay also want to mention by the way uh we we have our sponsors lined up for football we appreciate them we hope you you know you'll patronize our sponsors they do some good work big stalwarts in the community we want to welcome our new silver sponsor Subzero ice cream home of the clocker crunch but you'll learn more about that during our football broadcast Friday night at 7 here on waca stay tuned so it's interesting you said with Grafton so obviously I think uh Kevin Anderson I think that's her he's from but I have a problem with Grafton I have a problem with Kevin Anderson well that's that's no I'm kidding do you know why I have a problem with Grafton what's what's their logo what does it look like oh it's the Packers it's the Packers yep it's it's uh so I if if I'm coming line I'll be going my Bears here okay and I don't want to leave the the whole Kevin Aon thing hanging the problem my have is that he's a Cowboys fan Dallas Cowboys that's my problem I know what you mean big hit by vidy play loose at the net Westwood can't convert point goes back to Ashlin 2220 going to need to make a run here and Bina had an earlier strong serve Run for the clockers so basically your nightmar is having dinner with silver and Mr Anderson two Cowboys and one Eagle fan that that'd be rough that be rough be k for [Laughter] me wow great play okay W can't handle the big hit there clocker now down only by one Brian I feel like like it feels like it's a start of a joke you know two Cowboy fans and Eagles fans sit down for dinner should have been brunch but so they tried that think this time Lily actually caught him defended it okay here's Bina great serve great serve putting hands it good good hustle there by Westwood a game of runs 333 it's crazy yep we're back tied up again I we have to go back and look at this replay and see just how many ties and how many lead changes we've had in this first set very evenly matched teams here tonight another time out on the floor so I'm still loading some how many does each team get a timeout per Set uh three timeouts or two timeouts that's two ashon one by Westwood actually I think it's two for each team two for each team so far oh got it okay yeah so far they've been alternating timeouts by the way speaking of Kevin Anderson the best way to keep up with clocker sports is the ashin Athletics Instagram account he is active on there and uh represents all the ashin sports can get all the lace information including schedules on the ashin Athletics Instagram account and by the way did you see uh that the opening week scavenger hunt included a photo with athletic athletic director Kevin Anderson I did not yep my kids have been scolding me for a while I can't call up the gram it's IG it's IG I know oh a little controversial call there at the net ashleen I thought had the point I they they think they did too but it goes Westwood's way it may have been a net violation it's the whole continuous Improvement these are some of the rules I'm still trying to understand sure okay humy serving here for Westwood anything to get her off the front line right y big hit but right into the net for Marissa Carroll game point here Match Point 2422 for the Wolverines right it's time for us to kind of get on that three-point run uh run over here soft serve Bina runs forward for it and L can't handle the pass so that'll do it first set goes to the Wolverines 2522 so not that we're keeping track but I'd have to say if there's a MVP of that first set it probably has to go to 22 Angelina absolutely she definitely uh had those at least four kind of I don't know what to call Little dinks on the front line and had two great serves in the back line but uh one set down expecting ashon to kind of come back strong and uh I'll tell you what if she keeps making that play they're going to start calling it The Hy and have a play named after her you should but a lot of positives that I'm seeing there in the first in that first set for the clockers again first game of the season maybe a little bit of opening night Jitters again the high expectations but really first time in competitive situation for this team granted they've many of them have played together before but long off season they all play on their different clubs they finally come together just a couple of weeks of practice you know toward the end of the summer sounds like I'm just making a bunch of excuses for this team but I I really like this team aan I think again I have high expectations for them as well and uh just you know saw some really good play there in the first in that first set from fi from herder politica I mean you can go all the way down the list so you know of course in Bina yep yep and again I think Lily L to me just some of those sets that she was doing it's a it's a very it's a craft that you have to develop so absolutely I want you to keep calling that out because for my angle I'm having a tough I'm maybe I'll be able to see better this time when the team switch sides yes yeah so we got just under two minutes until we get started with the uh the second set here and uh Brian you were talking about a uh this crazy fantasy football league you've got you got a draft coming up I do I do so I'm in I'm in a couple leagues you and I obviously we have our traditional stack League uh our father son all all five of the stack children have all gone on to college all in college right now but we kept the tradition alive um but I actually have a work one which is pretty cool mhm and he guesses on how many people are in this work fantasy draft for no money just fun I'm going to say 12 12 would be good so you're you're you're way way under it is the last I look there are 78 players in this league how is that even going to work so this this could be an all nighter draft over here we will see um I again I love it actually the uh one of the presidents of our organization is helping more just for bonding kind of uh teaming but uh for those that don't know drafts you know it's basically uh you have a minute to make your pick but you have we have 78 individuals participating right I'm hoping every pick is in one minute and there's 16 rounds right so 78 teams 16 Picks for each team yep that's a lot of math 78 time 16 and hopefully they don't each take the full minute the yep hopefully there'll be some Auto drafts so uh again just for fun but uh we shall see I'm so you mentioned you're an eagle fan I'm a bear fan in our league my traditional taking too many Chicago Bears I did that in both my leagues is this the year that it pays off are the the Bears have to be better than they were last year right they they can't they they should improve nicely they got a nice quarterback I I like the culture I think everything in sports in organizations is all about culture and I do like the culture they're building so we shall see okay we're about to get started here on the second set serving for the clockers will be Lily viddy she has joined on the floor by Siri Bina Quinn herder Marissa Carroll Eliza fiak Gabby V thank you Gabby v i if I don't see the number I I don't know the phases yet of course they're all year older since the last time I saw them okay Westwood big hit Siri digs it out gets it over to Carol answered by Westwood quick play over nice dive there by herder over to Carrol again Westwood makes the effort it comes up empty Ashlin scores the first point of the second set so if anyone watches this on replay go back to the first point in the second set to see quinnn that's a one-arm dig over there great defensive play bidy again little bit deep Westwood recovers big hit dug out nicely by viddy all the way over to Carol free ball just past the outstretch reach of Siri Bina so Westwood comes right back 1-1 takes over for the serve that is number 16 Katherine SEL senior with that call it a kill okay Francesa Jer serving for the Wolverines Pina answers good he sets to Carol but into the net two to one Westwood I see some soccer got the girls varsity soccer team I see some golfers here it's a fall Sports of paloa here at the ashin Jim Gina goes down and digs this out van be almost got the kill but Westwood recovers ball still in play oh she lost that in the light something happened there Roberts had that all lined up and then she didn't I know my expertise I don't know how that got lost but I think it might actually just been the lights where in the Ashland gym so we'll take itage Ashland car serving too hard y little Deep by the way I want to call out our score bug this is a new Improvement this year on waa broadcast you can actually see uh that first set of numbers to the right of the uh team names the black background the white numbers represent sets right Westwood won the first set they won nothing you can see the score from that first set 2522 Westwood over Ashlin and now you're seeing to the far right the score for this this set so it's now 33 tied up so again thanks to our uh our technical support team technical production team here at waca we're looking forward to bringing you even more Innovations in this fall 2024 season van beak with the serve just got that one over the net Emily Collins plays that one right off the top of the net going to settle things here fiak oh deep set nice set good dig point GH Ash that one just went out of bounds but you're right about the technology the The Innovation it's actually pretty cool just seeing as our kids are kind of going through High School MH that's a little bit deep good communication there by the way she was ready to play that uh hamy was and uh at least three different teammates called out and she pulled back her arms yeah I was just saying like the techn the innovation of what we kind of bringing together over here it's it's pretty impressive absolutely VY tries to play that one off the net but no good Westwood now up six to four so that might be a little bit ahead they may have scored that very quickly 54 it says on the scoreboard right now so Katherine's actually serving from the left side Crossing that let's see a little bit unusual to that one down so backline having a little trouble with uh with her serve from that far from that near Corner typically see in the middle of the right but she's uh it's working for her right now [Music] so fidy Emily gets [Music] rejected smart play right at the net by Westwood y speaking of the clocker club I see clocker Club president Jeremy Ramsey in the doorway speaking of the clocker club they meet every first Wednesday of the month at 7:00 here here at the high school if you're interested in learning more getting involved or even making a donation you can learn more at clocker club.org so Westwood now out to an 8 to4 lead they have not been able to solve Katherine sandle just yet by the way clocker Club annual golf tournament had been postponed from the spring that takes place tomorrow find my notes in um Shiny Rock Shining Rock is Right Shining Rock in Northbridge so you know in this I think it was supposed to be May 16th right 516 yep and it was pouring out yeah yep okay clocker finally break that serve free ball going deep Carol probably didn't need to play that one no Pina free ball there's a big hit block with the net but the point goes to Westwood yeah I think that ball that Marissa hit it it was a tough call that ball might have been going a little bit deep but sure sometimes better be safe and sorry also took a little bit off that serve big hit by Bina deflected at the net but drops down to the point sorry so I think Siri I think um 2023 tvl Allstar that's right and a 2024 Metro West Daily News player to watch that article came out within the last week or so Metro West does a great job featuring local sports and they had an article on pretty much every fall Sport and uh for volleyball Siri was the Lone clocker representative got it and for the record by the way no Westwood players on that list interesting oh beautiful placement by Bina speak of the devil Dro that right in the middle of the zone and as a reward she gets to serve she does again going on these uh runs over here Westwood now [Music] Ashland West with scrambling a little bit but they get a free ball over the net Vina digs out to L to Collins gets it past jari for the point didn't see if that was Lily or Isabelle with the set but it was a great set quick short set to Emily I think I'm a little surprised Emily you know seems a little bit on the shorter side she's getting a lot of play right there at the at the front line but she's making the most of it yep wow another block block good hops play setting for Carol this is a little bit of trouble for Westwood they recover free ball over the net Pina digs out lay at the net backwards vidy free ball wait I think they're going to call Lay hit the net yep that's the call Point goes to the Wolverines so in rball do you know if if both refs are called referees or does one have a I actually don't know you have someone up top someone on the bottom by the score might be a down ref down ref because they're looking for different good communication Pina the big hit what a hit what a dig though Westwood is this going to make it it does vidy right at the net setting for lay back to vdy bounces it off the net and we got another net violation Ash ball yeah Point go Ash I didn't I didn't see the Westwood touch but we'll take it yeah 10 to n Westwood again I don't think either team has ever led by more than three points tonight in either set the the Delta it's it's tight competitive game I love when you speak math I try that's all I got into the middle Le is able to grab it Bina setting to Carroll cross cour block played by Westwood split the defense on the back line goes right between Bina and Collins for a Westwood Point 11 to9 wolverin yeah that was number 20 Megan gy who actually dug it and actually got the kill so actually a really good play by Westwood so if I do if I speak more math can I sing that or I still kind of no no musicals no you're good I'm I'm I'm stronger with the musicals than I am with the math okay it's been proven over the many years I've been doing wac broadcasts okay Westwood in control big hit too deep side out Point goes to the clockers I think Gabby V had a little something to do with that with the uh potential block okay faki checking back in for Lei fidy back to serve that's a deep hit a great sh pasalo can't make the play on it tie game good start by L viy hopefully sister AA is watching her stay tuned for basketball with Ava another deep ball headed for the back line Westwood plays it crosscourt hit herder digs it out to vidy over to Carol to Westwoods labero nice set there and herder just comes up short getting the Dig yeah so that was Catherine at this time not Angelina with that little little big with that little uh sink over there there's got to be the proper term for that so make it 12 11 Westwood here in the second set Fran Francesco jari serving had to go low for that dig was pacina F Miss hits into the net so did you have any favorite sports during the Olympics this year anything that you kept your eye on or no no I'm like not really into the Olympics anymore it used to [Music] be we on used to be U so good volum by both teams fiak big hit Westwood scurrying and scrambling and they can't come up with it clockers get the point they're down one 13 to 12 Great Rally so you know obviously talking about the Bears we have Simone who is um her husband is on the Chicago Bears wasn't happy that she went to a game when her Green Bay Packer jacket over there but we'll let that slide for now hey she's an independent woman she is allly with the serve big hit yeah Wolverines push it right up to the front that big hit goes right past politica Point goes to the Wolverines 1412 yeah I mean I don't I don't know if it's all the professionals that have come into the Olympics both summer and winter but it's just it's not the same for me anymore that being said I did attend in person the 96 Olympics in Atlanta did you really I sure did which any particular I saw gold medal soccer at in Athens Georgia and I saw a women's basketball game at the Georgia Dome okay was that the other dream team that was 92 that yeah that was 92 92 yeah gold medal men's basketball was a little bit out of my price range as a young young professional in 96 oh yeah clocker back within one retain the serve van beak steps out Collins back in serving for The clockers Big Dig scrambled to get to that second hit free ball coming over vidy sets for fiak tipped at the net and Roberts the labero can't come up with it so Quinn's also one that serves the ball from the left side as well mhm yeah that one was too deep yeah too deep okay 154 Wolverines give it right back yeah that Atlanta Olympics I mean forget about the hwami I'm going to go right past that but the interesting thing about I mean they shut down downtown Atlanta there were no vehicular traffic there were just buses and they realized that they were short on buses oh tough break for the clockers I caught just enough net to go over and throw off the clocker sorry clogger T and yes I am fighting my way through a cold here Wolverines now 1614 um so Catherine she's from that left side I think she's definitely one of their Ace servers over there Carol couldn't handle that one say really quick the alen organizers reach out to all these cities and these cities send down their mass transit buses so they'll recept the buses from Philly and there were New York Transit buses from New York and Chicago and really yeah wow good play right at the net for both teams nice save by the volley continues B tries a running hit Wes with a big hit there dug out by herder deid Far Side to Bina big hit too hot to handle def flux off two Wolverines on the way out of bounds ERS get the point and the serve yeah great set by Lily and uh Siri just it's funny you can see it in her eyes when she has in that kind of left side crosscourt it's deadly mhm okay faki sits down lay is in and serving Collins vidy Pina I believe on the front line W with a deep hit to the front block to the net but can't come up with it off Pina last so there's the magic there's the magic Delta Brian 1815 3point Delta now we have Grace serving another senior on the Wolverines dig by Marissa lyly almost caught that Wolverine napping it was a terrific placement off the net double hit yep there goes our three-point lead we're at four right now 1915 Westwood y second [Music] [Applause] set Carol digs this one out to herder up to vid free ball Wolverine setting it up deflected at the net back line can't recover in time 20 to 15 this is the biggest run of the night biggest lead of the night yeah might see a timeout here just to kind of slow things down a little bit think the Ashlin clocker student section getting into it faithful trying to Rally their uh lady volleyball team over [Applause] here herder L bachina answered by Wolverines block the net but again can't make the [Music] play that was a very pretty set I I missed who Scot it on Westwood but there's the timeout yep 2115 six-point lead by the Wolverines coach Ray with a much needed timeout just to kind of get the girls kind of focused he and just again a reset you are watching ashin girls volleyball on waa your announcers tonight Josh Abrams Brian say two fifths of the stack league but 100% on group 516 so I have to put out a call in the ashon community if we have other other people born on May 16th join our 516 Club I I do have three cousins that are born on 516 so on the same side of the family one of my wies and two they're not they're kind of like an aunt and uncle that are married they're not blood but you know there's we call them aunt and uncle you like them cuz they're based in Philadelphia perfect Cherry Hill so they uh no that's that's New Jersy close enough that's J New Jersey but they're Big Philly fans okay I know I admire their taste in baseball teams remind me at the next stopage we'll do the dad joke of the game I feel like I'm getting set up though well I don't have Chase around to do it to eye roll me yep hey GRE set up for a big hit too big great communication by Quinn and Marissa B was went deep that Isabelle with the no series with the serve okay clocker counting on another big run by Bina here nice serve yeah Wolverine played about as well as you could expect L sets for vidy vidy gets rejected L sets this time to Carroll blocked again or answered Again by the Wolverines there's a big hit at the line and out of bounds Point goes to the Wolverines 2216 that is not what the clockers wanted there homy serving for the Wolverines good placement there I think that was janari did notice with the westw uniforms their name isn't in the front it's actually in the back where I just noticed where the last name nor yeah cuz they're all Westwood all Westwood 2316 Wolverine serving herder digs to lay set for Carol answered by the Wolverines big crosscourt hit herder digs it out Bina up to Carol Carol sends it deep too deep yeah too deep good job by the clockers there like look I mean these are two really well coached well disciplined teams you rarely find them at a position yep they support each other both of them on the back cour I don't know if that was Quinn but somehow they communicated M very quiet there's serve just over the net Carol delay Machina tough dig but it worked oh we got yep got a carry a two double hit wow that's what it was double okay double hit yeah was a good play there but uh not legal yeah s that was a back hord kind of Spike over there okay here's Collins great serve lot of touch going on to the net right now nice dig by uh vidy Pina going deep played by the labero blocked oh VY heading for the net vidy touch it on the way over it thre off lay and it dropped yep she did she had a great block over there earlier okay set point here 2418 Westwood with the serve this is Roberts the labero serving [Music] Carol lay viddy touch diving dig by Pina kept alive Carol sends it over the net Wolverine setting up again oh quick hit thought they caught the Wolverines out of position but they recovered nicely Bina Lei van beak with a big hit got b b very nice may have to start calling her Van Dam twice Le van damage twice it it was a movie with him they played twins he played twins he played twins yeah the muscle from Brussels I believe that's right great play by Gabby though all right [Music] Lily van Peak again with a big hit Wolverine's answer blocked at the net but kept alive van beak wow finds a whole big point there for for Gabby Van Beek it's the Gabby show right now did you ever see that vanam movie that where he was it was a hockey was he was a hockey goalie um the sudden death sudden death there you go it was like the producer like the company the production company was owned by the guy who owned the Penguins so like at the Eglo yeah yeah yeah it's like one of the movies that's worst at [Applause] continuity herder vdy big hit by Pina but two hard and that's the game all right you know there's nothing better than a nice comeback over here Ashlin down two sets to zero okay so we'll find out what they're made of in a third set y coming up in about three minutes Westwood 25 Ashlin 20 they're up two sets to none trying to see if we can get some scores from the other Ashland Sports we got a minute break you take a look on there I just want to mention of course we we were talking about the stack League earlier the five members of the junior division all are college freshman now and they've gone off on their separate ways uh what have we got Michigan State for Matt Terry y UMass Amherst for your Josh s chases at URI URI Nate is it UNH UNH and then uh and and Andrew is at University of Delaware the uh the fighting head so the fighting blue Nate is actually uh playing football at uh at un so that's right that's right we're excited because when Nate is a junior UNH goes up to play Ohio State University I just want to be on the bus I'm hearing road trip oh it's road trip I just want to hear what the coach has to say I thought you were going to say you were all excited that N is a player in the um NCAA football video game he he should be he is is he I think I might start all the players that you know oh you're right yeah yeah sign their rights yeah all got a free copy of the game I'm GNA check out his stats check out his profile Nate kavanov it's interesting the quarterback from uh when we won the state champion yep um Jan black on kavan off's not related not really he's actually one from quarterbacking Ashlin I think he's a linebacker now Dom Kavanaugh sounds sounds thank you thank you now good time so we got we got lucky with our little with our stack group with got the boys kind of going off we're able to kind of get a a a fun draft over Zoom MH really proud of Chase I mean he did uh win one of the waca scholarships at uh senior night on Just for graduation yep and he is pursuing a a degree in sports media at URI and uh fingers crossed that he'll be announcing games before we know it at URI he will definitely be missed here at waca he definitely he had he's leaving a legacy over here really started that tradition of students I think he started as a freshman I'm pretty sure he started he was in Middle School he was in Middle School I remember as a freshman yeah I know obviously Logan has kind of debuted as a sixth grader as well but yep and uh we expect to work Logan now almost 14 eighth grade he'll be working into the rotation later on in the fall probably doing a couple soccer games with me excellent but yeah I mean speaking of that I mean we definitely have openings for announcers you know doesn't have to be all grown up so certainly have to be Rob silver and me doing all these games so if uh you or your ashin high school student is interested in pursuing a career in broadcasting or at least an interest in broadcasting or live streaming as we do here on YouTube uh just uh check us out at wca.com you can certainly email me at Josh wv.com and if if any students are listening to this parents I would highly highly recommend it's a great opportunity it's fun um and it's from a communicational perspective as they're starting to grow um their young lives it's a great opportunity get a little bit uncomfortable yep but just learning the game learning how to communicate and it's fun I mean this is professional quality Equipment and but lowlevel expectations right it's okay to it's okay to mess up it's a great opportunity to get your foot in the door and try it out to see if it's something you're interested in it's the only time we can call out our ask director for being a Cowboy fan but I I I have their quarterbacks so on my fantasy league so I can't be too mean oh Brian I I know I don't know you at all I you know I oh there's a nice is that viy Eliza Eliz that was yeah Lefty Eliza um you know I took your receiver of my first picked AJ Brown that's a good pick I know how many leagues are you in just two oh okay only two oh three with my with the work one yeah deep hit there yeah Quinn kind of knew that was coming and backed off sails out of bounds Ash's first lead of the third set they're down two to nothing two sets to none two to one up in the game here in the third set question is how much preparation with the handshakes I that every team every player has the unique celebration and I was just watching the Quinn ly one sure there's that dig nice job got it this time herder to Bina going deep yeah just a little long fin finally realized to let that one go yep but Lily actually they Tred that little Dink [Music] and finally wised up to it we got a Time match here 22 Westwood on the serve Carol digs out VY quick Pina recovers and over the net herder digs this one out vidy over to Bina to Deep Side out y great attemp quite TR going crosscourt mhm [Applause] I said I was going to look for some Ashlin scores I kind of forgot about that I when she went just the way she went up for that it was going to be a problem like she was she was arked too far back to be able to get that ball over the net somehow probably should have just laid off and just got it over agree yeah okay so we're at 33 Ashen with the serve this will be herder by the way shout out to longtime wac announcer Rob silver here in attendance tonight catch on the volleyball team is herder serves right into the net turnover goes to the Wolverines so you and Rob are doing the football game on Friday night doing the football game Friday night against Grafton Friday night rights yep it's another team that I think has high expectations to you know go to the the playoffs and and do some damage maybe not a Super Bowl but crosscourt hit viddy this is really deep great attempt there by Carol but out of bounds it's funny with with football the again we're talking about culture you know when when drung blank on the coach's name for some reason M Andrew McKay yeah when he came in the complete culture changed it just wasn't winning that Super Bowl he has consistently brought together a winning program similar to volleyball volleyball has been competitive since my oldest uh was in college wow great dig by Lily right into the net big break for the clockers you know Lily had a great it's always tough because where we're sitting everyone has long ponytails covering their numbers great dig though okay fak heads to the bench Isabelle with the serve Emily Collins into the [Music] game clockers can't come up with the block there at the front line Point goes to Westwood you know I was so smart about bringing my water bottle my stack water bottle to the game tonight but managed to leave it at the uh production table on the Baseline it's not up here with me so I apologize I would offer you some of my t you want but I don't share Tang everyone knows that well you don't want my germs that's for sure okay free ball goes up to vidy drives it deep Wolverine set up big hit dug out by Carol lay Quick Pass to Bina trying to catch him napping Robert to come up with that and then a big hit on the far side finds open space on the clocker court make it 74 Westwood here in the third set Yeah by uh Angelina so she's she likes that left side over there so we got 74 uh Westwood the [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Wolverines deep hit there dug out on the Baseline by Collins Far Side Pina with the hit Wolverine's answer set of their own blocked with the net Bina saves it but L can't handle it 8 to four Westwood by the way Brian I would say there were at least four clocks on the walls in this gym that I can see and I think one of them has the right time you would think if there was some place that would have correct clocks it would be the ash clock clockers that's that's right what twice a two times a day I think they they just they repaved the court I think you were sharing all the Banners are down so maybe uh we're still even though we're in season over here okay clockers get the ball back at the surve back they're down 85 P oh nice recovery by the Wolverines Pina digs this one out or sets it really to Carol Wolverines can handle it there's the set back to hamy there's the touch they're getting closer but still couldn't make the play on that touch over the front line that was uh lay who came up just short yeah I mean she's yeah H is having a great game abely I mean on that left [Applause] side okay Pina digs this out over toay Carol that one was probably heading out of bounds but the catchers catch a break as hamy played it homy takes and hamy Gibs yep nine to six clockers as they were gain serve Emily Collins doing the rers I'm going to try one more time see if I can get some other scores as we're in this game over here from the uh field hockey two Oh I thought that was too deep it stayed in ICT on the front line yep okay tough break there for the clockers they're now down 10 to six here in the third set oh miss hit there by [Applause] Bina the way Robert served that one and the way she reacted I think she didn't mean to hit it to pacina no no agree she caught a break there China set by Lei Viddy Wolverine set up for a play right at the net so I'm not seeing any any scores posted but uh it's pretty early like high schol scores take longer to post yep faki just checked back in Lay sits down vidy serving for the clockers again some last minute indecision on how to handle that initial shot but that kill is clean I wonder if that was reflected that looked a little deep I saw the ref with his uh they called some kind of a deflection deflection okay so here's jari Pina Vinnie back pass that one was deep War's play will be a free ball coming up over herder Vinnie Van beak wow nice save there wolverines keep it alive heading deep Bina sends it to the front vidy over to Carol oh great effort by the Wolverines but it comes up short point for the clockers nice set by Lily I think that was Carol right with the uh Carol had the last hit y y had two different players trying to make the play with one fist each yeah okay this is Carol in the serve line scrambling a little bit free ball oh that was a tough spot but they recover the clockers do big hit by Bina heading out of bounds okay clockers starting to come alive here 12 to n wolverines in the third set it started with a great dig by Ashlin so starts with defense okay Carol continues to serve for the clockers and into the net tough break yep going to have to get these unforced erors out of the system y so gy the senior serving here for the Wolverines from the middle of the back line herder Vinnie over to Bina big hit at the at the net that's the Lily two Siri kind of from the left side that's that's their bread and butter over there got a sub Quinn's out Emily is in and we have Ally politica so in first set she has some she had a great run with these serves I think she had like five or six M politica yep yep so see if she can get the girls going backto back serves into the net Wolverines by four here in the third set leaden checks in for the Wolverines heads up to the front line SEL serving From The Far Side though she's a righty so that's me still learning somehow they had to get Gabby in to sub out to get Quinn in one day learned the sub process all right back to back onfor that's three straight into the net Wolverines helping out the clockers who helped out the Wolverines very generous both teams very generous very generous you been watching any of the US Open you keep serving me up these I know well just with with the service of the net over here that's my specialty we got some Americans that are kind of doing well right now I was I was bom that Coco got eliminated but uh at least two men and and we have one lady in the US oh blocked at the net CL Rec cover lay back over to vidy never reached over the net I would say my favorite US Open was the time that uh Kramer was a ball man and then he kind of collided into another uh ballp person didn't he yes a ball boy yes my favorite when George is eating coll into a player oh yeah he met he crushed that Sunday over his face served by the Wolverines way up to the front line for the clockers Bina awkward hit almost gets away with it Wolverine send it back over here's Lei to Bina didn't get a lot on that [Applause] one so Angelina again she's not tall she didn't take that one well she she's pretty solid on that left side yeah she knocked it right past yeah Carol she's a solid Spiker soft serve viny great momentum trouble from the Wolverines and that's a point for the clockers very nice great set by Isabelle great G great Kill by uh L viy 1612 Aina serving for the clockers I feel like you're you're getting an incredulous look that you're announcing from a fan in the stance here the Wolverines big hit to the backline Pina digs out over to Lei Carol Miss hits into the net point for the Wolverines all right 1712 some defense and as has to make a run over here [Music] [Applause] and we have a timeout yeah that'll be a clocker timeout they're down 1812 here in the third set and down two sets tonight again just really quickly another another thank you to our crew Jeff Hall Jeff Cunningham Luis Miranda and Paul Bowden uh who were here early uh midaf afternoon getting everything set up I me you look we got headset for two announcers new headsets this year I'm really excited about it and hopefully you're hearing great audio from us um we got at least two cameras going tonight and of course uh Jeff all the Maestro sitting behind the switcher making it all happen yep one of many games so I think we're back um not next week the week after I think the 18th 18 sounds right y yeah oh were you trying to make me forget about the de oh the joke of the night I knew you had a couple more minutes what kind of car does a sheep like to drive but no idea a Lamborghini oo Coming to America that's right okay we're back underway here third set clockers down by six Wolverines with the erve this is a little bit of trouble great hustle there great effort by the Wolverines janari but comes up short clocker still down by five as they regain the serve Emily Collins heads to the back line you know there's nothing like a timeout to see a point out of it so if you get one point it's like worth the timeout it is just to break their momentum oh that's a beautiful serve and Ace Emily Collins much much needed Ace over there right into the net oh off off vid's back off ahead of back but and Emily heads to the bench in shame replaced by herder you now tonight guess what I'm watching the replay of this game besides that I got to watch my fever Indiana Fever oh okay I'm been very obsessed with the uh Indiana F I don't like Indiana teams G Clark six and one since the Olympic break okay here's Roberts on the serve for the Wolverines Pina digs out up to L set fora y big hit right yeah Russ's finding the openings right now [Applause] unfortunately right in front of the back line there Westwood now with a commanding 21-4 [Music] lead Josh are you a Beetle Juice fan did you see the first original one I saw the first original one I mean I'm a Michael Keaton fan I'm certainly a Gina Davis fan um no not really excited about the sequel no I can't say it three times yeah no no please don't yeah and I mean I kind of like wi Odo ryer but I mean Michael ke's the man he is I heard good reviews might wait for that to get streamed but uh sure we have a some kind of timeout with the with the referees so again 215 Wolverines as we have a pause here in the third set so do you think the bluish on the rough shirts you think that's going to be the color this year or cuz I've seen different variations but uh I don't know if that's the new at all the refs are going to wear that blue I'm curious we'll see in a couple weeks but uh actually I think so ashon has another home game Friday so Friday's going to be busy here the uh girls have a game on Friday uh we have football we have bunch of sports going on something's happening with the uh got coach Ray so something must happened with our faithfuls yeah but I mean that's that's on the Westwood side of those Ashlin fans yeah I think they they are actually fans I think I think they're going where wherever West so [Music] but all right lity back to serve oh that's deep but playable yep blocked to the net great play and out of bounds off I was I was screamed I didn't see it was it was you always get tell by the celebration I think she led by the way you were talking about the handshakes earlier and I wanted to mention I mean the clockers do have four co- captains I would imagine that at least one of them is responsible for the individual handshakes of course okay vidy again with the serve dug out deep to the net somehow bounces over vidy setting for Carol soft touch deep and that's going to be four hits point for the clockers 217 it's getting interesting Brian it's getting a little interesting right now [Music] he right at the net yeah really that's three great serves keeping in deep again it felt like Gabby broke the plane of the net on that play but they're not calling it so can I wonder if she just can't touch the net I'm wondering I just don't think she can touch the ball until it it it's at least in line with the top of the net and it felt to me like she hit it before it got there but I'm not complaining don't get me wrong so another time out on the floor the clocker is now down by just three so Brian Quick summer wasn't it I mean like I knew going in like back in June I'm like this is going to be a really fast summer and it was super fast it was and everyone I've spoken to said the exact same thing it's I I don't know where the summer went I it does feels like summer still but it's it's kind of sad yeah but if you by you and I at least got had one round of golf which was fun yep even though the weather there was crazy with we had some rain some sun I almost hit someone driving but that's I did not have a good round I played much better on on Saturday or Sunday whenever I played this weekend yeah oh big hit there oh nice attempt to dig that one out for vidy but Wolverines get the point 2218 and mean for the record like when I play golf like I don't keep score yeah I keep score of like how many good shots how many shots I'm happy with I keep it all based on how many balls I lose that's fair okay herder to vidy faki tries to go Cross Court Wolverine's answer answered at the net this double hit yep I couldn't tell if that was uh Gabby V or Marissa with the block point for the clockers 229 this is about as close as they've been in this set since early on so three-point deficit for the clockers but they have the serve here's Carol I thought I thought that was going to clear yeah that was close I mean seriously Brian like how many how many serves they put in the net that's got to be at least four in this set yeah I mean it' be a tie game now yep it's unfortunate good serve dug out by Carol Pacino at the hit Wolverines can't handle back to the clockers again a three-point deficit Collins checking in herder heading out and again it's the Lily toiri on the left crosscourt M when she has that momentum oil I would have want to be the one receiving that that would be it's interesting I me I feel like like Eliza got more kill opportunities last season tonight I mean Bina rightfully so I mean she's a terrif player but it just feels like you know faki was involved early on and I just haven't seen it as much at least in this set agree agree but Van Beek serve leads to another point for the clockers is now a two-point deficit Van Beek serving again oh great shve did that land in it did yeah great serve wow great serve huge break for the clockers it's a one-point game 2322 Timeout on the floor Westwood's going to try and do whatever they can they do not want Ashlin to win this um this game over here they're going to ice the server you do not want to get a team that's down two to give give them the first set first win Kevin malar on the 2004 Red Sox right don't let us win one don't let us win one right when they're playing the Yankees look what happens yep history is made did you uh did you see that new Bly Hill Scott movie I did because You' killed me a couple times to we talked about no you you you've shared that uh yes and I wanted to but uh you'll never get that hour and a half back I you when you saw it I was I was like that's good enough insight for me got to trust the 516 got to trust it okay back to action clocker down by one but on a run Van Beek good serve Point goes to the Wolverines great hit there 24-22 and all of a sudden we're at Match Point great serve I think just Angelina um hope I pronounce her name right she's definitely had a great opening for Westwood and now we have two volleyballs out there are okay and they both the same color scheme try whatever we can Carol vidy bino for back foot Wolverine's handle here's the set tipped at the net Carol was able to play it it goes back over as a free ball Wolverines set and Spike soft one over yeah wow I thought it hit the line but herder was right there was jumping up and down she called it correctly our little our a the logo over there it's it's tough to see so 2423 we need at least one more to get this game tied is about with the serve okay faky out Collins in lay with the serve good serve herder able to handle it l free ball coming over by Bina Westwood with the set and over all right here we go H her here's Bina oh she Mis hit it wow yeah so 25 23 in your final so Westwood the warrior though Wolverines excuse me swe the clockers tonight three sets To None here on the season opener for the clockers but a lot to be encouraged about here Brian we talked about it between sets earlier right they didn't win any of the three tonight but they kept it close made some terrific plays again this team has a lot of experience much more than probably the last couple varsity teams we've seen out of the out of Ashland agree and I think this is definitely one where you can kind of completely build off of um so lost three games to love however the future is still very bright like I think they can learn from this made some unfor errors a lot of you know westbr had a couple of uh great plays but um again the future is extremely bright for this uh fall season for the ashon volleyball team I feel like there's a timbuck three reference in there someplace no comment future so bright I got to wear shades that's right d do they play Westwood again I think they they must were in the division I think yeah yeah it's going to be home and home yeah so I'll be there because I know my daughter plays on the JB team so I'll be excited to see the rematch one to watch one to watch for sure Sammy S Leo for JV yes okay so again your final tonight Westwood sweeps Ashlin three sets To None scores were 2522 2520 and 2523 uh Brian before we wrap it up uh who would you award your gold star of the game to so I'm going to go with Ashlin I'm actually to give it to Lily vidy I think Lily the way that she was able to set the ball had some great digs as well really good serving but the way that she was controlling the set very impressive you know you don't get a lot of points but the set right there is so critical so I'm going to give it to Lily right now okay Lily vidy congratulations you're are first gold star winner of the Season here on waa our next broadcast here on waca again this Friday night 7 o'cl as the football team host Grafton live here on waca as well as on replay Rob silver and I will have all the have all the calls for you we're looking forward to it's going to be a lot of fun so for Brian s I'm Josh Abram saying thanks for watching and go clockers go clockers

good evening I would like to call this meeting of the Berlin Boon Regional school committee to order just to reminder that this meeting is being broad is being recorded your image and or voice may be broadcast please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to flag of the United States of America to the for stands Nation God indivisible liy and justice for all can we stand for one moment I'd like to do a moment of silence um honoring the shootings that happened last week thank you very much all right we're going to do public comment so one thing I wanted to say before we start public comment because it looks like there are many people here to make comment tonight so public comment must be on something if you're going to stand up and speak it must be related to something that's on the agenda there is a time limit of three minutes um and I believe that is it so we're gonna try what I'm going to try to do moving forward is I'm G to try to keep these meetings a little bit more in order and the goal is to keep them a little bit more reasonably timed because we tend to go on and on and on and I think we need to stay on track so we're going to start with public comment the other thing is if you would like to speak tonight I hate to do the raised hand thing but it really needs to go through the chair I I don't want the back and forth I don't want to be out of order I want everything to be in order we do have a hard stop at six o'clock I brought a timer um because we have an executive session that we have to start at 6 pm.

and uh good evening everybody thanks for few people that came tonight the folks that are online this is a uh it's called a special meeting of the Board of Education although it's our typical regular meeting time um it is September 10th and I'm glad everybody remembered we're starting at 6:30 that's the new time for the Board of Education 6:30 in the middle school tonight we'll have a uh we'll have a presentation I think the highlight tonight it's going to be the presentation on the Cher book School building by um Mr uh bishop and uh we should fly through this pretty well because I know everybody wants to get home and see the debate tonight so we we'll move pretty quickly so with that why don't we stand and do the pledge of leg mag you want to read can you put your hand on your heart is that [Music] okay of the United States of America and to the rep for stand One Nation God indivis Li and justice for all okay thank you very much we move the public comment up to the front we gave an experiment last year to see if we put it behind the administrative reports U but I think people would like to um people that come they have something on their mind so uh anybody here for public comment please state your name try to limit it to 3 minutes and just know that the board will not respond to any uh any public comment comment because we stay to our agenda uh and if it's not on our agenda we can't comment on it so having said that anybody open for public comment tonight anybody in the audience anybody on line we have one raised hand I'm gonna allow Lisa to talk hi Lisa just State the full name and address please for the record thank you hi uh Lisa cogins Dan our drive I just wanted to say that I'm here tonight um I could be in person but I'm for the temporary traffic and pedestrian safety advisory committee so I just wanted to say that I'm here thank okay anybody else online that has anything to say nothing okay so we'll close public comment thank you very much we'll move to the Chairman's Corner um before we go to the temporary traffic committee update and who's giving that update please thank you very much um before before we go to that update I'll just mention the only thing that I have on my announcements is in November cave is having their annual um annual uh event Forum that takes place in November and I don't have the date in front of me but I know that I'm already registered to go Dr grman will be going I'm not sure who else uh from the administrative team but I would suggest that uh it is a u the 15th thank you very 15 16 so it is a packed uh with great things uh there's booths with a lot of information I always walk away a little smarter as a chair or as a board member uh from some of the speakers and the information that they have so I would just remind you if you would like to go it's a uh it's two days 15 16 um if you want to just go for I think it's Friday may be the 15th you just want to go for Friday and not go for the 16th that's fine 16th is usually done by 2:00 Friday's a full uh a full Day event but if you'd like to go and I would encourage you to go um please sign up with um let Claudia know and she'll register on behalf of the board what is that called it's it's the K annual convention and you can see it online and if you haven't been getting deles with emails on it I have anyway okay and that's a mytic by way okay with that and I'm sorry uh Mary didn't tell me you are Lee Pierce Lee thank you very much Lee so Lee Pierce is here on behalf of the temporary traffic and pedestrian safety advisory committee and she's going to give us an update on where they are and I think safe rides kinds of falls into that not right yeah sorry before we start I just want to say that I am also a member on the traffic and pedestrian Safety Committee I refuse myself while they were discussing what they were going to bring to the bo so this is new to me as well kind just know I just thank you Lee thanks for coming tonight so one of the things um Lisa did mention she's here she's online so um uh when I'm done she might want to jump on and uh round something out that I maybe didn't forget or this is kind of her baby so um one of the things that were discussing and we've been discussing as part of the uh temporary traffic and pedestrian safety board is the safe roots to school um now we're actually very pleased that you're starting the safe roots to school initiative again um one of the things that we had talked about as part of that was um the areas outside of the school um the board of selectman had been talking about with the new there's a a new ruling that came down from the state where we can have uh traffic cameras um which will stop Speeders people running red lights things like that um so that was one of the things that we've been talking about now one of the issues that we did kind of run into though is that after a few different meetings discussing the traffic cameras um the board decid decided to shove it for a while because they feel like it's not sufficiently fleshed out in order for them to be able to really take action on however as part of the safe roots to school initiative I would NE not necessarily want for us to just give up on that completely either um it's still it's just been sheld it's not um mixed so we can still go to the board of Selectmen um and encourage them because one of the things that you don't you don't have to adopt the initiative everywhere in town you can adopt it just in a select area give it a try so it's not something that we should just give up on we should definitely still encourage them to consider it after it's been maybe fleshed out a little bit more by the safe roots to school team um where it's where it could be helpful and the kinds of things that they're envisioning um let's see one of the things that Lisa had brought up and I was unsure about she seems to be under the impression that there isn't um defined school zones um in this area and in the area of Cherry Brook and I don't know if that is or is not the case is it are there defined school zones any know honestly I don't know I've never seen signs that say school zones I haven't either and that's generally speaking usually if there is a defined school zone there are signs so one of the things that she was just you we talked about that we felt would be helpful in terms of slowing traffic down in the school's own area um would be to actually Define schools don't have signs that kind of thing um you know it would improve safety for everyone the area out here even without the school it's actually still a very um populated area people are going by for different things um there's the fields there's after school activities involving um sports teams and things on in the area so there's almost always traffic around here that can benefited from that um so as part of the stfe FRS school um we're sort of advocating for defining the school zones because also if you define the school zones it makes you eligible for more grants um to improve the safe roots to school so if we have more Walkers and cyclists we can um perhaps combine bus roots or condense the bus you know have fewer kids riding on the bus more kids um safely riding and walking to school um so those were the main things that I had to bring up I don't know if Lisa has anything she'd like to have I will reow Lisa to talk Lisa you're free to comment now okay thank you so much no I I thought um the committee just wanted to thank the board of education for you know investigating the safe roots to school the things that the committee had done in the past year to promote that was we asked the police to enforce clearing the sidewalks so that our Walkers and our cyclists could have safer roots to tools um and I did a walk audit on May 20th and they um they designated some easements that that might be possible uh through some field um on Gilder sing connecting to Simons um so there's just a lot of options that we can do to create safer Pathways for the students to get to school um through cycling and walking and um that might reduce traffic in the neighborhood and benefit everybody that was the only other thing I wanted to add okay thank you all right thank you very much we will uh we will investigate the um I think that's a good point about the uh Define Mr Daniels if I can just jump in uh Mr Bishop is part of the safe FR to school committee there's a meeting on Tuesday night SE member 17th at 6:00 which Mr Bishop will be attending this was something that came to my attention last year when I came in by a Community member to really get the safe roots to schools um started and get some Administration depit some Bishop is our liaison and he just informed me that school zones is one of the recommendations um to have so we have that answer that we don't have school zes and it's one of the recommendations um so uh we support this initiative and thank you so much for the the work that you're doing because it's one of our priorities the school safety and that's definitely school safety great thank you very much on to superintendent report Dr super thank you all Welcome to our first official special meeting for the 2425 school year I I want to let everyone know that we had a nice start to the school year led by our grades 12 students coming in before everybody else we have seniors here and I thought it was a great day I heard that the seniors got up early did their senior sunrise and then came to school they got a treat of hearing Mr Daniels Mr wios and myself speaking that day and the students were definitely actively engaged what a treat to know that our Kon Public Schools teacher of the year Kelly th all I sent you uh the press release is named a semifinalist for that at the state of Connecticut and and that's that's truly a deep honor if you think of all the teachers that were nominated for that now she's a semi finalist and she goes through an interview process so we wish her the the the best of luck and also congratulations to uh patard our pair up of the the year we do have open houses crickle night starting Thursday uh September 12th at 6 p.m.

on Main Street in downtown an arbor uh all the details including some of the special activities and a full list of the exhibitors is available at a2gov.org greenfair um sticking on greenf Fair um the green energy neighbors who are a group that came out of the A2 Z ambassadors program uh they will be tabling there at uh greenf fair and what they do is they'll they'll be sharing their personal experiences with res residential decarbonization they are also looking for interested residents who have done some form of efficiency electrification or renewable energy adoption to join their efforts in Sharing experience with with their Community uh so folks can just have a broader resource to be able to to reach out to and talk to about some of these things um and if folks are interested they can uh reach out to me and I get you in contact with them um with the goal of increasing the availab availability of publicly accessible EV Chargers uh our commercial EV charger program now provides an opportunity for commercial multif family property owners in Ann Arbor to receive up to four Free level two EV Chargers uh folks can learn more about this program and uh View and submit an application at OSI a2gov.org charger program um couple quick just kind of updates on some of programs that we've talked about previously for the home energy advisor uh we had a really great uh swell of interest at the beginning we were on a wait list for a little bit uh but just noting that they fully worked through the wait list the portal is now open to sign up and folk can receive their free custom home decarbonization plan uh which folks can do through the a20 ea.org uh additionally with the home Energy rebates uh we have now put up a real-time dashboard that residents can quickly see the status of the different local an arbor rebates uh that are available uh they can see which are available which are exhausted and can help give folks a better sense of uh you know what rebates are still there and feel comfortable with initiating their sustainability focused projects uh there are a lot of rebates that are still available particularly the ones that aren't the um Reserve rebate they're just the ones that are on the first come first serve uh so there are a lot of those re still available which you can see on that again at OSI a2gov.org rebates um additionally we are awarded $2.8 million to expand Equitable access to public EV charging uh through a grant uh which again uh you can learn more about at a2gov.org EVS um another fun event coming up we had um our our one of our sister cities tuban Germany is going to be here uh next week uh you can one of the events that's taking place uh with them you can hear from uh their lord mayor Palmer of dub Germany as he shares what uh they're up to to equitably address the climate crisis um in in their community and how it can help shape an Arbor's a20 initiative uh it'll be an inter active session that provides a unique opportunity to hear directly from representatives from one of our sister cities about their work to make tubin one of the more sustainable cities in the world this will be taking place Wednesday September 18th 600 to 7:30 pm at The anara District Libraries downtown branch um also noting the city has released a request for proposal for the phase two municipalization study with responses due by October 11th 2024 uh and we've also released a request for information on sustainable energy utility support service Services which can be found on the city's procurement website with all responses due by September 20th 2024 at 4 P.M lastly um and then I will be done our um we'll have a sustainable Lawn Care Learning session uh which is for uh homeowners lawn care service providers or property managers interested in learning more about electric lawn care or um or sustainability in general uh this will be on October 21st at Cobblestone farm from 4 P p.m.