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I don't know where they'll tell me that was delegated to me by Trisha and I will be meeting with them next Monday so maybe that covers we don't need a whole I will I will send a memo because the next meeting I'll be missing I'll send Trisha memo about that meeting and there can be a report that way from me um historical Commission because I think they're working on historical district there's a local historic district so I think they had asked to meet with us so maybe no we met with them will the here yeah and I don't know we're working on it and they will come back okay maybe and I can I would just add that I know the historical commission met with the local business owners in the downtown last week so I know the local historical commission is working to make to meet with folks regarding that topic so Kate I know you reached out to sustainability who has not responded do you want to reach out to the historic folks for an update if sure is that something that the board is comfortable with so that we have some progress on that just find out where they are then I'm just kind of scanning things I think were um well we can just pick away each meeting but I think for for this timeline pet like can we tentatively say Springtown meeting we're going to try to clean that up the timelines of the um special permit yeah so I'll just start keeping this up today I think spring time meeting would be appropriate and I think that's probably sort of you because it's just you know what yeah it's me I'll take it I'll take it I'll take control of that and there's one thing I do want to add to this and just this is me just adding to the list is that uh for the um excuse me Charles River flood plan um they're coming out with some new flood overlay districts and so we're most likely going to have to update our flood overlay district and just accept those at town meeting it's update to our bylaw our flood overlay District bylaw but it in they this happens from time to time last time that we did it was 2017 um in Ashen is's actually two watersheds we're in the conquered subur asbit Watershed and then also we're in the Charles River Watershed and so we are going to have to update our Charles River Watershed um at this uh town meeting annual town meeting not this one is that state or federal state St it starts at the federal then it filters to the state then the State kind of plugs it into the local communities okay anything else get on the checklist nope okay and so we got through uh Trisha we got through one through six obviously we skipped 100 Chestnut so now we can go back to that item do you want to take over um only if you're go for it okay I unless you want me to going either way um okay so sorry everybody um so item four on the agenda is is 100 Chestnut Street facade adjustments and irrigation modification Peter do you want to give us a just a summary of what we're going to be kind of talking about in sure so tonight first I want to introduce the mcdow's Roy and Todd and their architect Michelle Walden with icon arit Michelle Walden with icon architecture so um working with Todd and Roy and the mcdow's um and Bas on development on H cheson Street um obviously the Project's going well and and uh we were out there not too long ago look at siding look at the facad um and just kind of overall taking a look at the the major projects um through conversations that we have had um uh it has come up that there has been some minor uh alterations to the facade and these are due to um while talking to the McDonald's and I'll let them obviously tell tell uh talk um is that you know from the plan that was approved from the planning board things had to some minor details had to change due to the floor layout on the inside um walls structural walls um and so that kind of led to some of the window spacing on the outside um and then also there has been um a a need to add a new retail door or secondary retail door at the ground level and that is would give the ability of uh base own development to demise one of the sections the commercial uh square foot area and I think that is in building one um and that's just one thing because a couple commercial re tenants came in they didn't like the location of the door facing one way they kind of wanted to fa in the front facing the street so these are just kind of in in interpretation uh through our conversations these are kind of real world modifications uh that are done on all projects you know what projects are approved at one side at at one point are obviously not um the ones you know are actually built in place and so um with that I think in knowing where the project stands and and obviously the great strides that Bas development has made over the course of the summer I thought you know it makes sense to come in talk about them and it would give the planning board the ability to kind of learn that yes projects are obviously do not always go as planned you know from the permanent set of you know the the r the renderings that we see um and that they're actually where our problems that need to be kind of looked at and so uh with that do you want to add anything I I just wanted to add that um you know some of it came up and I mentioned this to the board before um because we were out there on site one day starting to look at just the colors I mean for no particular reason just Peter was going out there and invited me to come along I said sure I want to come and take a look and there were you know there's just some differences in the building from from the original drawings and um and I thought it would be a good on the one hand we you know we've had had buildings that have come before us that had significant I'm thinking of 128 Main Street that were which I don't think anyone here was on the board at that time but there were significant differences in the way the building looked as opposed to what was presented and so it was something we had to go through and these weren't that way in fact they were very like small things to my eyes um but I thought you know this is something that the board should understand and it should be something that we un we get on the same page with as far as um I don't want to say a learning opportunity but it's not that in order to understand what these projects go through from the time we see them at a very early stage to when they actually go into construction and what the role of say Peter and and Doug Scott is in this process um because even on the smallest projects the little projects I do we're making changes up until the clients move in right so um so I thought it would be a good opportunity for us to kind of discuss this as a board um for for future projects as well um so I just wanted to to add that on uh yes so we're going to talk about the facade number one number two we're going to talk about the irrigation so it has come to my attention and and through the couple emails that I sent out that um we did have a condition with our overall decision that the applicant would drill a well for irrigation water um since that time and and and please stand if I stand if I I'll kind of talk about it briefly and then obviously I'll let Roy and Todd kind of jump into it but um a well was drilled it was 900 ft deep um which is extremely deep and there was not uh adequate water coming up out of this well um so with that said um we talked about putting in a sistern um underground which would be fed by the well and then that sstn water would be able to be used to irrigate the Landscaping however in digging the S the locations uh at the proposed sisters ledge was found and so the mcdows based on development have had a tough time um finding irrigation finding enough water to irrigate the landscaping and so a request has been made uh by the mcdows to to connect to town water for irrigation purposes um with that said um you know all regulations regarding what the town has regarding irrigation would be similar and or the same to the development um but that is kind of a second to the facade so I don't want to put the cart before the horse on on that one so I think that's I think that's a good plan I know mat s over I think you're need to gonna come need to come to the microphone for the purposes of the recording and so these are the updated r that I've received from Matt Mara y okay uh so when the projects are presented to the board and the planning submission is put in the project itself at that point is only at about 10% of the way through design um typically the mechanical engineers Structural Engineers other other engineering teams on the on the project are not brought on yet into the project so we're making our best estimate based on experience where the window should be um what the facade layout should be when the other team members are brought on board and coordination begins then some of the windows have to move interior layouts are decided on uh coordinated with all of those other consultants and at that point also the owners are working through the commercial spaces with potential retail tenants where they where their entries might need to be how the spaces might need to be divided up uh but as we look through the the documents comparison of what was originally submitted to what is currently there uh the materiality has not changed the color palette is is still the same and the design intent is still um in kind with the original so I guess if there are specific questions I'm I'm happy to address those as as you look through I think you all have packets here and my note just to you know I think just to make note and you can kind of provide some some background that we're looking at two different we're looking at documents but they're the one that we the the the the item two which is a-201 that was done in a different software uh yes so the original the original drawings are done in a program called SketchUp which is very very loose uh the the project is then redrawn in a Bim software which is used to coordinate with the other consultants and that's very different um but aesthetic everything is is copied over so the design intent does remain the same so you may look you may see some differences in the way the Shadows are drawn or the way the colors um come through but the original color selection has not Chang from from what was originally discussed okay thank you Ju Just for clarity so a201 represents the original design and SK 2011 the changes is that right I believe I'll see yes that is correct the SK logically okay but you're going to have to come to the microphone I'm afraid sure for those people at home who want to hear sorry it's okay uh the other thing to keep in mind is when you look at the overall architecture you look at The Gables you look at the roof pitches you look at the overall roof design that's very much in keeping with the original plans including the colors of the sighting the locations generally speaking the board and batten the lap sighting so I think the general overall look of the building is pretty much what you had originally I think as uh Michelle had mentioned because once you start getting the other disciplines involved some things have to shift a little bit yeah questions or comments from theor no I for a project of this magnitude it's definitely not unusual to have changes like that that's just part for the course especially when you deal with retail that you don't I mean they don't have leases ready when they present it so you have to make adjustment to that so I I personally don't have a problem with that and and the changes um I mean I'm trying to kind of um uh decipher the changes uh they seem relatively localized right is that right it's kind of on the corners or um adjusting some windows here and there uh there's one uh that speaks to removal of some um mesh panels that we have on the first floor for the for the parking area that is becoming solid that what why what is that due to is there is there a change of of something that we didn't notice because that's something that people will see on the first floor a lot of that stems from when we were doing our original energy model and when we came in with that with the open grates and the cold air coming in with the units right above that unconditioned space we were having a lot of trouble getting the building to meet the new energy codes and energy models so uh you know that was suggested we I did go over that with Peter a year ago uh so we could actually hit those Turtles and meet the energy requirements for the building so you're mechanically ventilated the the gar instead of using the fresh air just being an open garage correct yep that that would make sense uh and what material you using for those changes um on the first floor are you using um one of the siding colors that was approved yep it's one of the siding colors and those are built out as fiber cement panels uh with reglets for additional definition there are some windows they real Windows black yeah see seems kind of consistent with what the project of this size would would go through in my view I don't have much of a comment Anna or Kate do you have any comments um I just sort of have a comment that I would like us as a planning board to have a process about what's considered a change um I looked up there's some right around us right Shrewsberry Lunenburg I don't believe Ashland has any rules about what's considered a DI Minimus change but I thought this was interesting in Provincetown right so right they have like five or six bullet points but changes so this is you you could go to the town planner or the um Building Commissioner what they've defined as best they can to Minimus changes would be so insignificant as to not be noticeable to persons generally familiar with the original approval and I would argue since you picked it up this this would not be by that definition I'm not advocating for that necessarily my my point being that I don't like it coming afterwards I wish we would be proactive so I'm going to strongly Advocate that we have a process and that we don't have something that's different without it being brought publicly yeah I I agree that's and that's actually one of the reason reasons I wanted to make sure this discussion came before the board is because that we should have something both for our comfort level and for the comfort level of the developers to understand where in the natural process of things something is a a change a a whatever the term you use a change of note and whether it's just the normal stuff in trying to to build the building um and the reason like when you said um about me noticing the reason I noticed is that I had the drawings in hand and was looking at the building and looking at the drawings and looking at the the the first time I went up and I didn't notice any different it looked it looked like the spirit of what we had uh approved and it was only because I had my architect hat on really looking at it carefully that of course I I picked up things and um and so L led to this this discussion but I I I think that's exactly what I those comments um and notes that you have are are exactly what I thought could come out of not today but come out of a discussion of how can we put this somewhere how can we document this somewhere so that um that in between period that in between stuff it's is more defined so we know when it's something that needs to come back before the board and when if it's yeah it's just the it's it's the normal everyday thing for construction right so I I agree with you so I have a a related question um and I was trying to look this up on my phone and I'm going to try to pull up the zoning um the zoning bylaws the the thought I have is this project was a major project for the public we sent out notices people showed up I remember this was one of the larger meetings we had people had a lot to say um obviously we don't send those notices out for this kind of meeting that we have for tonight um however if we consider the change to be substantial and I'm kind of looking at both changes together the water and this in theory there could be one reading of the bylaw that I can read a really tiny little phone which is that you need to file a um a uh request for a modification to the special permit there's a fee that we can wave and by doing that in theory you're notifying the community and you have some say from the public right now I'm not I don't think that's the process we're following we we seem to have implied that we don't need a modification to the special permit we don't need notification to the public and the abutters and we're sort of deciding or the implication so far in the presentation is that these are just tiny minor changes I disagree I think that they look significantly different the colors are different I for one believe the original design is more refined I think it looks very different from what the prior design was and I certainly believe water and connecting to public water is a substantial change um so sort of squeezing these together as if they're minor makes me very uncomfortable I'm just going to say that for the record I think it's important to understand as they were describing that um these two drawings um come at are done on two totally different programs which have two different color models and so and different ways of expressing detailing so they're not they're not going to look exactly the same I would um you know uh I I've drove P thir today to kind of just take another look at it and it really solidified my view that it really this it looks in the spirit of what we had approved right so um so again you know like how do we um you know I think the point more is how how do we start to Define that for the future so that there's kind of this Comfort level on both sides knowing that a project at 10% is not a project at at 100% And um not to overburden our staff about looking at changes that are really in the architectural World quite small yeah I I I agree and and there are changes that are substantial like on massing or Arrangement or really a complete reorganization of the window pattern or the materials that I don't think that's the case here this is more like I said part for the course for what a project of this size means of course in Province Town for example probably using a lot of historical uh houses and so Chang are a lot more minute maybe there's a place in depending on the district and depending on the project where it would be good to have a range of consider uh some something that tells us what is a the Minimus change or not I I I agree with Anna one thing that I I I have no problem with the changes I'm an architect so I I I know how this works and and I I feel this is not a substantial modification of the spirit we also saw throughout that presentation everything and 3D and renderings and everything it's very different when you see that and when you see flat elevations it's it's it's this is a drawing that is not very easy to understand for someone that doesn't work on this but the water thing is something that that is different because there is a sustainability component to it that was discussed uh and and I totally understand the rationale but they are very different problems and I agree with that and I I didn't comment on that but that that is agree those are this one is the is kind of an aesthetic thing and the other one is is is very different so but right now but because we started to discuss them together I want to be very clear that that that happened at tonight's meeting they got squeezed together as minor and so therefore that was what was said therefore I'm discussing them as if they're together and if if they're being presented to us as a board together then we have to ask the question if these two items together belong on an application to modify the special permit which comes with a fee which comes with notifications of the public which comes with a deep discussion and if we're going to separate the two that's fine but that's not how it was presented at the start which is oh these are just minor well I'm going to take the heat for that then because I was asked if we should do one of these in in in uh in two separate meetings anyway and I didn't think that was fair to the applicant's time especially when you know that we should at least be able to to talk about these things and our concerns in the same meeting even though I think there are really two completely different you know aspects of the project so um if that if that's a concern that was on me and it was and it was my call yeah and I think if we separate them out I could be convinced by The Architects of the this room that yeah one is more blue and warmer and the other one is less warm and but it's not a big deal I could maybe be convinced because maybe I'm color blind to me it makes a big difference but but I can maybe be convinced on the water I'm not going to be convinced that that's not substantial that's pretty substantial that's public Supply but the reason they had they were having the um the architect speak first was exactly for that reason so that we could talk about that and she could go home to Boston and then we could proceed with the other part so it was trying to be a very clear division of these two things so in keeping with that why don't we continue on with any other comments only on the elevations and um I I understand that uh this is a world that that Marcelo and I live in every day and we're happy to try to um interpret that in the same way that we often ask Anna to interpret legal jargon for us so I mean are we asking for a vote vote on on that or CU I I mean if we are going to vote I'm going to abstain we don't have a basis for what we're judging and after the fact I I do not think that's appropriate for us or the public um but I I mean as far as the idea of it I I certainly can default to people um professionals that are saying these are but I they're they're also separate issues for me through the chair if I could please um we didn't ask to have these two put together at all matter of fact we're not asking for a change in the decision on the plans we think the plans are frankly a DI Minimus change and frankly we submitted these plants to the planning board a year ago these plans understood and and like I said I I already said it was it was me that put it together I take okay asked me about it I take full responsibility for that I thought they were obviously very separate issues and but I I didn't understand that they might be viewed as one one ticket um so um so I I think I mean I and I I I don't I think there's nothing to really vote on here unless someone feels that there needs to be but I to me what this was bringing up is to try to um get to an understanding of something that we should put in our process in our bylaws and I'm not sure where I'm not sure where so that so that this is the no that so that the norm that already exists in the Construction and design industry is more known to the public does that if that make sense I disagree with that I I think that um just like lawyers can disagree about interpretations of law um Architects certainly have opinions that that matter but I think that the concept that in your professional lives this is normal is not necessarily the way the public or the lay person would would interpret a project so um I I think we we need to do a little bit more research on that and understand how what is the state law on substantial change um is it architecture standard or lay person standard what what does it mean and so case research is helpful and I think we need to explore that a little bit more because I don't know if the lay person would agree with the interpretation that hey well this is normal for Architects to sort of change these things and therefore it's normal for ashin I don't know the Aesthetics of that is needs to be that regulated or or it is but I I would say that there's a process I don't know Ro you were saying that this was submitted so are these changes consistent with the building permit drawings that were submitted for for construction yes yes I we believe so yes and I will say with with the changes yes and I will say these these plans were submitted uh about a year ago and and I think it was at least our understanding that there were ministerial and Di Minimus changes and we didn't think much more after that okay so Trisha just trying to follow up on what you were saying it seems like if what Kate is proposing makes a lot of sense to me we need kind of assist them right we just need to find out what that is it seems to me that a project of of of certain size especially a projects of these size it would be um it would be good to satisfy also what Anna is highlighting that some we establish a process by which before submitting for building permit let's say with a certain let's say at um 75% CDs or something like that when when the architect is already has UND understood all the the the conflicts with other systems of the buildings that's totally normal process that they could if there are changes from the approved that they could come and EXP them before they're filed for building permit that would be a process that would say okay we approved the spirit of a project and materiality and massing and what have you and then they they they work the carpentry of it is ready almost ready to go and then they can highlight the changes so that before the C Construction that's all understood seems to me that that would be a process that would be simpler instead of having to well I don't think we need to that seems reasonable what's that that seems reasonable yeah I I don't think we need to kind of uh create a a love president or something but it's it because these things are are a process that is I mean getting a project of this size it's very complicated it just takes a lot of time from hundreds of people so it things change I mean that's just the the nature um so so as long as we see it and then we have the chance to say well explain that change more because that's more that meets the eye you know that if you have a good reason then we can have at least one chance to say change it a little bit before you submit fing permit or okay we accept but we have that chance so um so are we good obvious to are we good letting them proceed obvious I mean we don't have the obviously the right to shut down construction is is the board okay with these changes and then obviously we will be working in the future toward a little different process about how do how do we look at this further down the road I mean I think we should vote and I I can go with this I'm not delighted but I can go with the changes it sounds like I do agree I I think if this was submitted and the town did not have any argument against it before they give the permit I think it's unfair to say otherwise at this point and on the on the on the renderings atic on the aesthetic modications okay does I think we should vote I'm going to stick with abstaining because I mean procedural and process I I just don't feel good about approving something that looks different than what we approved with and I understand that could be considered minimal but we have to do better I think for formality we should take a vote because we should take responsibility this is ours and we are acknowledging it and so I think a vote is important obviously if you want obstain as part of that that's yours but I would feel I believe we should take responsibility and take a vote what does that vote say like that I we I can make a motion that we are essentially supplementing our prior decision to reflect the fact that there is a change in some elements of the design and presentation of sk21 becoming the new reality versus a201 that's the motion and then we can this is part of the official decision that we're supplementing our prior vote because we're technically approving this not the prior renderings or we're supplementing the prior renderings that would be the motion I know it's a complicated one I can try that again I I'm good with it okay all right so I'll second that I roll call vote an teski i i Katherine Jers obstain and Trisha Kendall I so like I said I think we continue this in the future so that we have this in place as other projects come through so um okay so then there's the water issue which is different thank you for your time um so the water issue I I am not sure uh there there's there's obviously various things uh I'm not sure the the right direction to to go on that or or what the options are I had little back yeah please I'd appreciate that sure yeah I'd love to give a little background how we got to asking you for this sorry AE before we kind of hear from the applicant can we kind of reset us to our jurisdiction and make sure that water is in fact part of our jurisdiction so that we don't misstep accidentally okay but do you have something appro I'm trying to but I think Peter since this is being presented to us not the select board who is in theory the Water Authority for the state excuse me for the town can we just make sure that and I'm looking at the special permit and I'm trying to make sure that we can regulate this relative to our project do you have any I believe Peter can correct me if I'm wrong I believe we have jurisdiction together with concom for this type of request because I do not want to be speaking and then have legal counsel slap our wrists a good happen before no it's a good point and if we are not sure that we should not be doing this until we have a memo so I would add this the water and sewer Commissioners are at the select board and I was going to raise that that I do not believe this is under our purview to allow a connection to the public water supply I would like to confirm that from legal counsel and so therefore there would be a waste of time frankly to hear from the applicant until we make sure that we're not discussing something that we're going to be found inappropriately to be discussing through the chair here please we have spoken to the water department and the water department is fine with us connecting yeah I think um yeah yeah then I know what you're saying Anna I I think though that while we have them here I would like to UND I would like to take the opportunity to understand the background um since you're here and to to understand how you get to this point so that we're in full understanding of it even though we're not maybe we're stepping back saying it may may not be in our jurisdiction but understanding is that's okay for everybody right yes okay thank you very much I appreciate you taking the time to listen to this and hear the background of this request so uh as the decision says that we should use a private well for irrigation of the site we agreed with that and we thought that was a great idea um you know if we don't have to pay for public water private you know that's great so we we went and put a well in 500 600 so we got to 950 ft deep we were getting minimal flow we went and even then fra that well uh to try to increase water flow and it after all that work we were getting 11 gallons per minute which is about a garden hose worth the your your average garden hose so you know given that we wanted to do private well we then tried to think of a new design all right what if we uh We've looked at steel pipe going down further so you put a stronger pump doesn't really matter uh so then we looked at putting a sistern in the ground okay if we put a sistern we could have the well pumping constantly to fill that sistern so then when our irrigation system runs we have a reserve of water to use um one of the issues we've come up with was using this method we will not have enough water to run a full cycle and so we're discussing okay if there's not enough water because the well doesn't produce enough during that time period one we probably be running specular systems based on pump size almost all day every day um getting Town water to supplement that so we could actually get watering done more efficiently and keep this the Landscaping alive because right now based on the well even with the sistern it just doesn't produce enough water to run the cycles and keep the plant material alive so we we did some exploratory holes just last week and there's both kind of locations near the pump that it could possibly go there's significant amounts of ledge 4et under and these tanks are large they go down about 14t deep and about 15 ft long um and it's become challenge after Challenge from designing a irrigation system with 60 zones which is kind of crazy when you think about it and and we've kind of feel like we've gone every route we can and we keep hitting roadblock after roadblock trying to solve this issue we've uh as you know as we designed our site with almost all Native species to reduce the Water Need of those plants we have Eco grass in a large portion in the in the rear area that actually requires no watering um so the the the site is designed with a sustainable uh effort in mind to you put plants that are low water consuming native to the area and even so we're still running into this problem and we we make one comment um so we did look into a 10,000-gallon tank we were more than happy to buy it if it was going to work um we met today again with our irrigation people and they said even if you put a 10,000-gallon tank in we'd have to do 60 zones I said I don't care I've many zones it takes he said but here's the problem because the well is only putting out 11 gallons a minute there'll never be enough water to fill the tank and the zones would probably be running 20 to 24 hours a day just because they need so many zones so even if we put in a tank even if we drilled and blasted and put the tank in we would still need to have some form of public water just to have the tank work work otherwise why put a tank in if never going to fill it so a conundrum is if we don't have water plants won't live so we're here respectfully requesting uh if we could use tie into public water does any have any questions about this you know again learning opportunity let's gain some knowledge here for questions on other projects I mean it's not really a question for the applicant I I appreciate the applicant's explanation um and I I understand the the challenge they're under I I'm trying to understand our role so that I can properly comment all I I will ask is the board these are questions I'm asking myself which are when we have conditions relative to Landscaping we as a board need to consider whether we have sufficient information clearly we need to consider whether we and the applicant have sufficient information that the special the special condition can actually grow no pun intended flourish flower um landscape right and so that's a question I'm asking and clearly in this context somehow that did not happen which surprises me because this is a major project of massive proportion multiple years um and it's very shocking to me that no one connected to this property and I'm not going to blame this particular developer at all because this was owned by other people but it's very shocking to me that the prior owner would have no context for the lack of um what call it proper water pressure water pressure exactly um so I believe that we were blindsided I think these are the kinds of things we should have explored more um and I'm not blaming the applicant because the applicant comes in with some lacking potential access to Prior records Etc so I'm just saying out loud this is a question I'm asking myself how did we miss this we missed this we we allowed Landscaping as a condition without thinking through the consequence number two do we have jurisdiction we sort of do and we sort of don't we kind of seem to have it because we can we can talk about impact as you recall part of our permitting discussions we are we are authorized to discuss um things like impact on infrastructure this is why we talk about population and who's going to move in and how much it's going to cost and and we talk about police costs and infrastructure that's part of it so it feels like our jurisdiction somewhat but the idea of plugging it into the public Supply also feels like select board jurisdiction so I I feel like that's a question we need to explore before we can make any decision on this depending on the answer to that question we may need to have a formal in my opinion a formal um what's it called a modification of the special permit and and notification to the public all of that because that is substantial if it's ours to deal with per legal counsil so that's question number two and the last thing is more of a which is where I live which is a different part of town neighbors are complaining about changes of water pressure public water pressure changes so our community is growing it is significantly developing and people are noticing an impact on their public water supply whether there's all kinds of controversy about whether we have enough or we don't have enough should we plug into the emergency supply once in a while or the non-emergency Supply but I can tell you this is very important to the public and the idea of plugging into public water because we need some nice Landscaping that we the planning board approved makes me really uncomfortable we need to explore that a little bit and make sure we know what we're doing through through the chair if I could um I think Marcelo had a comment yeah know I I mean that that was a lot so I I I don't I I just see it in in a simpler way I think two questions first so are you asking you you you tested the possibility of uh putting a sister you found ledge are you asking to connect without the system or with the system actually think Anna brought up a very good point we're not actually here asking you to let us use public water we're asking you to Simply drop the Restriction we'll go through the other Town boards whether it's the uh water department Selectmen whomever it is because I think you're right I don't think it's your place to decide whether we connect to public water but it is your place because you put a restriction that we can't we had to use a well I think if you just were willing to lift the restriction on don't even say we can use public water just simply say we're not restricted to a well and that's totally in your purview and then we will go to it whomever we need to go to that that's the that's the way I was saying I think that that is kind of that's clear to me the way you explained it and and because yeah we we we're not going to decide on the things that we don't have to decide question number two did you explore the possibility of har harvesting rain water and connecting it to the system also it would be very difficult now cuz the whole system there's a massive probably oversized system because it's gravel under the parking lot that's a cultech system and everything from the roof drains everything goes into that and because it's such great gravel almost the moment it goes in there it literally dissipates into the into the groundwater so we we actually got on the phone with our Engineers today and ask that question because if that was feasible we'd be happy to do it he just says it's not going to work okay so my comment um was is is it's kind of simple so what what we the the the the way I see it the intention of what we approved was uh a project with a with a bunch of sustainable features uh I think somewhere described here um the planting the PBR uh roof ready and everything that that all it was the the intention I think was met on that approval um drilling a well over here or over there I mean once you get into Mother Earth you could find water in one place and none in the other and be like 20 ft apart the same is true with all geological features that you will find I don't think that would be that having one well before would be predictable for for this project in the future so it the process that been described to me is makes sense a Justified effort to to do everything you can to make the system work as it was approved seems to have taken place um if um if if if the town or the authorities that deal with water believe that that that there's no issues with it for whatever whatever technical russal they have is um then then what I I don't feel feel the need to be encumbered by by hypotheticals I I think I would be in favor of of dropping the restriction on the basis that that an effort has been made to to a a real life problem that is is the earth sometimes not everything goes perfect but that's not for us to say I think the the water department or the select board would have to make that call I I see it as simple as that I I um my perspective is that like to Anna and Marcelo both of your points you know I think we could maybe take for the future a suggestion that maybe we're a little bit more open-ended in those types of conditions and that you know maybe a simple modification rather than even dropping it to modify it to say if feasible if it's not feasible because you know or if geologically feasible like if we could put something in there that covers them now that still has the intention of the original decision and going forward we can sort of know that we can't just say that you have to use well water because we know that it's might not be technically feasible for a project to be able to use groundw when they once they start so I mean a very like base modification of just a modifier within the existing condition to say like if you can if this is all reasonable efforts to no that and and and that makes sense but the other wrinkle to this is that for example I have a well in my house for irrigation I think it goes down like 150 ft my my grass is dead because uh because you're an archet not a landscape no it hasn't it's it's a crappy well because it doesn't yield what what I would have liked mine mine is dead too so that's that's why when I bought it the pre previous owner was forced to connect to the town water so my grass is dead I said it again the neighbors especially on that on on on that Community were promised a place that had good landscaping for buffer and for visual privacy and it would be silly to have all that die in front of the windows too I mean there there no there would be no point this is why but but rather than just saying oh we are just never going to do that condition again I kind of look at it as the reverse I think that was an excellent condition because what we are saying is whatever Landscaping you do try to do it in your own private well so really to me the responsibility is on the board to figure out is there sufficient water supply to do this privately number one number two is maybe our landscaping ideas were too limited maybe we should have considered is there a different way to do this that does not require so much water and we didn't including the rain water concept that is apparently is too late to consider now and we should have considered it so I disagree strongly that the lesson here is oh we should just always allow the potential for public water I disagree with that I think instead for the future we should be asking those questions has there been a study of water supply has there been an understanding of whether this Landscaping can be supported do we have plan be if that's not enough do we have an alternative landscape plan that does not touch public water I I believe we have a a responsibility to try to limit the need for public water whenever we can if it cannot happen we should we should attempt to to redefine the Landscaping in this context if this board wants to remove that restriction I would also want to explore can we somehow change Landscaping so we don't need so much public water these are all good ideas and suggestions and I think these actually very beneficial including the earlier conversation about the architecture so we call them in our business Lessons Learned every time we build a project we write a lesson never do that again or this you know what I'm saying so I think these are good points the problem is there is so much plant material in this site um that well would probably comfortably take care of 10% of it so to start tinkering with the planting is almost a waste of time unless you eliminate 90% of the planting which none of us want to do we've got a beautiful uh arrai hedge 10 11 fet tall there's 90 of them in a row purely for the benefit of our neighbors it gives them a nice beautiful green screen that takes a lot of water to n water 90 AR rides and and I think the point came out and I didn't even think about it till I think maybe it was Anna that said it we're not asking you to approve us for water we're just asking you would you please lift the Restriction that we have to use a well just leave it like that which doesn't obligate you to anything it obligates us to then go to other parts of the town to see if they will let us connect to public water and I think that with the plantings um too uh there's also a difference between planting or watering things so they get established I mean Arbor vites don't need to be watered like to for the rest of their lives right they're everywhere around Ashen and we don't water them gr perfectly f important timeline for planting is the first year exactly I'll give you an example of forget the numbers if if you need 100 gallons the first year the second year you probably need 50 third year you probably need 20 so you can see it goes down because once the roots gets established it starts sucking moisture out of the ground itself but when they're still encased in their own root system they do need water because they don't have that connection agreed and that that was just the thing about talking about all these ARB varities as if we needed to water them from now until the end of time which we don't right no we'll be using we'll be using substantially less if we get to use it Town water year two and even less than year three to a point where it's it's quite small and by the way because we've got more drought tolerant plants because if we got ecass we're using a lot less water just by the plan that you approved and eass is what again it's not uh it's just a drought Dr is that what they put on the it's not it's not as attractive as Blue Grass but it suits the purpose but it's green and it and it um doesn't take a lot of water yes we we don't want it in our yards but it's green and we're happy with it that was a recommendation from the was it that was a recommendation from the design review I think I I I mean it went through design review I can't I can't um remember specifically I thought it was an original condition from no oh something you added okay yeah yeah so our conundrum is this we we actually have engaged our landscape contractor we're hoping to start doing planting this fall because we hope to occupy the buildings in April and in order to get a c ofo you pretty much get to get most of the project complete and if the planting is not done it's kind of hard to yell this equipment around people leave living in the buildings so we're kind of in a tight spot and we're really hoping to do the planting but we can't do the planting till we know we have water and I think I just want to clarify I I was not suggesting that we don't do the condition anymore in the future I think it's information that like we can't just say if we're going to put in a condition that says you have to use a well we can't say that if it might result in exactly this which is an applicant back here two years later saying we can't but I do I do think you can say we'd like you to uh best practices to try and do a well and have them prove to you they actually did it right or have you know we've now heard rainwater we we we can as a board have sort of a list of ways that we say we would prefer irrigation be in these manners I personally think that dropping the condition is much and then allowing the select board or whoever has jurisdiction over the water connection is much less disruptive than going back to the drawing board on Landscaping which matter I mean I was not on the board when this project was before but I think I was at meetings where it was discussed and um I I think knowing how just how folks in town in general feel about the appearances of projects like I think nobody wants all of those plantings to be brown and crusty in nine months those are good points I mean I I I could like I said I could I I'm speaking about the past I wish we had a time machine and go back in the past I think the tragedy of this is because we didn't ask those questions we can't retain the rain water apparently and we can't consider other options but you comment about that makes a lot of sense though about what about establishing those type of kind of tear for landscaping irrigation in as as as as as like a checklist of things that we want to make sure projects like this are is discussed yep and it's included I wish I had been more pushy about green roofs some buildings in Boston are putting putting Landscaping literally on top of their roofs in part to um Heat cool um address climate change I'm doing one of those you have to irrigate them to establish understood understood but these are all things we could have explore that could be Alternatives or things that we did not push because they're quote unquote more expensive well now we're going to be paying for it with public water so the expense the things the developers say no to because they're too expensive end up not being asked for not being pushed for not being considered reasonable and then we need to connect it to public Supply which all of us pay for so um I'm just going to throw that out there I think well public water you mean yeah very expensive very expensive actually it's a lot more expensive the gallon of irrigation than it is for consumption to well not not only that but when you're commercially us you pay a higher rate me payment is not just about who's paying the bill but uh the infrastructure the lack thereof ex well that that's for the water department to say yeah yeah so I don't want to use other words so I'm using the word pay but what I will say is I I get the argument and I I don't think we have much of a choice in the matter right now well I think that's I think it's just uh again I don't want to keep reiterating what others have said but it is kind of a something we're going to continue to learn about not um you know in in various projects as we keep doing better as Kate says I think with each project we do better um but with each projects there's also new issues because no two projects are alike and this was the first one of a big ones right that we got yeah so and and that happened to come into this this circumstance right so um so I guess the uh yeah the qualification would be to to remove and I assume it wasn't just one and done trying to find one particular spot for a well there was we we spoke to our well people so what about over here because you're right about that what about you said Roy we went down 30 ft hit ledge we went down 950 ft hit ledge he says the ledge is so dense and so hard cuz normally you can get fissures and fractures and water travels he say I could drill Wells all over the place here and get nothing more so if it was a different type of site you're absolutely right okay and I also add we do need to be the well needs to be a certain distance from uh sewer lines and stuff like that that's what part of the requirements is right and we have sewer lines all over the place so there's a lot of reasons why believe me we'd rather not here yeah but we're forced with this dilemma yeah I mean I I think like I said it's not it's not the position any of us want to be in but we know that we have other housing coming our way yeah and and I was going to ask about that but do you think Trisha or everybody that uh these considerations are even going to apply on a 40b project well and other projects right I I don't know well I can tell you 40b you can't deny them water yeah so why does that matter here this is not a project we're just talking about we're just talking about other large projects that this is just isn't one and done this is like a a big a bigger issue across Ashland and yeah you know MBTA and it's a lot yeah it's a lot so okay so um I guess we're looking for a motion to remove the condition I'll make it I'll make a motion to remove the condition to prohibit the use of um public water for irrigation in a second or do you have a comment I thought we were considering that this was sort of a major change or not in considering the process because I I feel like if anyone in here doesn't know that water's a very sensitive issue with people in town right we have a water band and I feel like if if this is the size change that Anna had brought up that that is is a request for modification that we have to strongly consider that to make that a public that and I I would if we did that I would assume a parallel path can be we we should step up proactively and say hey there's an applicant in front of us and we really think it's probably a water and sewer commissioner that I'm not trying to slow it down I understand the concerns but I also feel like this has to be very public so so I guess it's also been talked about that we're not sure um where some of the responsibilities lie and that we should I think we're pretty confident that we can't say sure connected to public water that's definitely not our purview right we know that that's fine I think we figure that out together so so do we need input and information from any other bodies about the directions we have to go because if they I think the only Direction we're being asked to go is remove the restrictions so that the applicant can then go to the select board and ask for the permission yeah I that's reason I see the way I see the way and is explaining it because basically the process starts when the Restriction is removed so that publicly they have to go to the other bodies in the town and ask for that your question is is removing the Restriction a substantial enough modification that there should be the process that and put forward I agree with that it is and the reason it's it's important is and and I'm sitting here and I'm thinking okay if we if we reopen this well no pun intended there's going to be a well no pun intended of public attention and and so or maybe intended um I think we need to focus the public that this is the only issue we're discussing we are not talking about anything else and that we don't have control over the decision of whether or not the whether or not it's used and the benefit of that notifying the um the folks who live there and giving them that chance and I would want the notice to be very specific that we are only discussing lifting that one restriction so that any further decision is made by the select board that should be very very clear so that we don't reopen an entire process so what would be the two choices that what would be the choices that the public would be discussing either we remove that restriction or we remove vegetation from the we change the landscaping or we remove vegetation we do other things we don't have to invent that it's up to the applicant he made a simple proposal I I would like you to remove the Restriction I don't think you have to say invent redoing the Landscaping yeah if I can make one comment I don't see this as a a major change I actually think it's a minor change in the reason being is if you just simply lift the Restriction we're in limbo you haven't allowed us to do anything we have to now go to other boards yet to be determined who they are to see if we can get public water it it it's not really a responsibility yours the only thing we're asking you to do is simply lift a restriction put us in limbo you know if the if if whatever board we goes to if the neighbors want to talk to them let them talk to them let them let them come to the select man or water commit whomever it may be so I don't really think it's so much in your purview is you're allowing it to be in someone else's perview Peter what is the precedent on this so from my history right I would say this would fall into the category as a minor modification and it would not need public notification you know going back you know not in any projects I've really had to deal with here but in other projects whenever there's a major modification yes then and I agree I know we're talking to talk about processes right and and I'm happy to do that and then a lot of other towns they kind of highlight what requires a whole public notification what doesn't you know I think in many instances if if a project proposes additional units from what was proposed then yes you're going to go back out and do a whole notification process after that hearing is closed I think in my eyes that yes this is a fairly uh uh it's it's minor it's you know I think we've talked about this a lot I think the applicant has proven uh beyond the reasonable doubt that they've exhausted their Avenues to put in a well and there's there's cons to that right and there's the and and so with that you know in my eyes I would say this would does not qualify for full public hearing uh to reopen a full public hearing to do all advertisement um and and which is a big effort on its own and I think I that's where I land as a town planner and I think what like my perspect I agree and I think my perspective is so I think the applicant stated it nicely we're like we're not agreeing to anything we're just revising a condition that was not as it turns out hindsight's 2020 was not possible to be met so we're just editing a requirement that is it is not possible and I I think in that way that makes it that assists in the reading that it's a minor modification right like we're not I also think that uh it's our job as an elected board to make the kind of calls that happen on these projects like this that we have these public hearings they're open for obviously any issue that comes up but when other things come up in process I think it's our job to handle those things not to open it up again to say hey we're going to take another big vote we have been elected to this role and it's our job to to figure it out right not to throw it back always on the residents they they've asked us to do it that's our role in the planning board right otherwise we can just do a Google Poll for for everything out there right but we can't we have to take the responsibility and figure something out sometimes you take some heat for that and sometimes you don't that's where I that's where I land I totally agree I think we're here to exercise our judgment on items that are but you have to remember this is a special permit there's only four of us here today who can vote on that right we don't have Deepa here so I I think we have to be cautious to that as well because if Kate and I have one View and the two of you have the other that's not going to really go anywhere today so I with all due respect I don't think we're sending anything back to the public I think I think the position I'm taking and I believe Kate is taking and with all due respect to Peter I don't remember any project in Ashland where we have had to come back to deal with public water supply so on the one hand I can be easily convinced tonight that the proper course of action is to lift this restriction I can vote that that way in a second however I also agree with Kate that this project is sensitive this project was one that has a rich history in this community of sensitivity and controversy and there are reasons to allow the public a position of understanding that the beauty that we are requiring is going to require this particular Factor mitigation that's required and there's a beauty to that and and with all due respect I don't think we're somehow not doing our job in making sure that the public is correctly informed I believe that is our job but through the but this is a public this is a public hearing this is not a hearing but it's a public meeting if you if you look at our agenda I don't I don't believe the agenda that was posted adequately gives the public notification that we're being asked to lift a restriction relating to public water but I was still talking this agenda does not give the public any idea we're going to allow that I think we're just keep the ponds of water seems to me that this is more like making a storm and a glass of water because we are uh it's a very specific condition of of of of the reality after everything has been exhausted to meet that requirement on on on the on the condition the the sensitivity of the project and everything is something that everybody dealt with and yeah I know the the the Covenant we deal with that that was a lot I I I I I seriously doubt that the that the the community immediate to this project or at large would be uh would really have a care of that item more than removing the landscape or having it die it just it's not reasonable why don't we why don't we do this oh do you have one more I have a compromise that might work but okay well let's hear those two things and then know no I I think like the building is there right regardless of the sensitivity like I think opening my perspective is that opening it up in that I don't think I'm not saying avoid opening it up because we don't want to wade back into that that's not what I'm saying but I think it is a minor change to a condition that is was never feasible it wasn't feasible When It Was Written in we just no one knew it so my my perspective is if we take the I think extremely conservative approach and require a formal process and open it up to the public I don't think the I don't think the conversation is going to be necessarily constructive or get a like to marcelo's point like what what is the the other alternative a dirt desert out there nobody wants to drive by that on chest Street every day so I my perspective is that this is our job all we need to decide today is minor not minor and and then move forward and my perspective is that it's minor and I I know that I'm not voting here tonight but that's my both I have a compromised position and I mean I could I could vote to approve this with the understanding that um I I don't want to leave it a mystery as to who they're going to go to I think we need to be very blatant that that we believe this is within the purview of the select board to address whether or not they get public water um and that we would want them to also explore whether concom has jurisdiction if those two things they're willing to do they're willing to go to the select board and ask and they're willing to go to concom and make sure that this is not somehow within their view I could vote for it tonight because I know that if that happens there will be public vote at the or public participation of the select board where I have another I have another uh potential way of of of doing it what happens if if we do both at the same time because I think we're more at the end of the day in agreement that we are not if if if we remove the Restriction but at the same time Peter I don't know if I'm not talking about uh uh uh like a legal notification or anything but is there an Avenue on on the town website or or through email or whatever to spread the word to the residents or whoever to say the project is going through this process they will be attending other other boards whever the the water department the select board whatever be aware if you want to to go and and make your voice heard is is it is there a way to do that and we do it at the same time it would be the select board's agenda right cuz like our says irrigation modification which like to be fair it's not explicit that like the modification is going to require Town water but it's there I mean if anyone like this was a hot button project 100 trust not's there it's on the you know there's not it's not like it was buried it's item four I I but that if it's it's not the modification anymore when it's a select board right that's that's the tie-in through the chair the I think that Peter go ahead Peter want you go first I I think we're talking about the Conservation Commission the select board we're kind of moving things around I think the jurisdiction of who is allowed to connect to town water is the water in the DP the DPW overall right and the water in sewer super attended right um I'm happy to email the conservation agent I'm happy to email the select board and yet tomorrow right and ask if there are any concerns if there worries or if there's any red flags to this modification of this change and then they kind of vet through those red flags or issues at arise um in that in that sense Peter I I like Anna's idea except that I would make it a little different rather than saying what's specific specific boards maybe say uh with the understanding that the applicant will go to the appropriate boards for approval for water connection because I'm not sure if it's the water department the Selectmen and it may be combination of all the above but whatever it is we all know we're not going to get water until the appropriate people approve it I I can care with Roy uh you know I think I'm happy to vet this through and and take this through with the the developer but the first concern is lifting the restrictions so we can start that process we got that so so I guess are people comfortable with lifting the Restriction with um caveats about going to the appropriate board public notification of that process or is this something we need more information on and it needs to come back to us in two weeks to make a further step on it I mean I think it's a little of both but there's so like to me this ends up being like another technical review right we are not we don't we have plenty of information the applicant did a good job saying I don't think this is going to work we don't have any Town information right so I think there's lots of possibilities I wish this was not written this way cuz that's part of the uncomfortable about trying to vote on this this like that being well described um but I think there's a potential solution for a vote but it's very messy all right so there's bugs flying around I'm not losing my mind um the notice that we gave for tonight kind of sucks I would feel much more comfortable uh without it with a better one however I I do I don't think we need I don't I'm not we need expertise to lift the Restriction I think we have enough to lift the Restriction what I'm more concerned about is whether there's sufficient process relative to the public Etc I would be comfortable with the proposed language I like the idea of Peter reaching out to the select board in concom and I very much like the idea of some sort of public notification whether it's through the town manager newsletter or a notification on the town website that the plan board Has Lifted this restriction and the applicant is heading to the correct boards to address this issue all that as a package would make it very easy for me to approve this tonight but it it would have to be a package deal that addresses all of the concerns essentially I just want to make a note I'm happy to put a note on the town on the Plenty boore website I think that's appropriate we can do that it's an easy LIF but it's also understood that the planning board can't obvious viously add an item to the select board or the Conservation Commission agenda all we do no but I think we have the responsibility but we're saying that part of our vote is that we're going to communicate to them and invite them to consider not I don't think we're inviting them to consider I think that's really up to the applicant to figure out and we don't even know if they are the the board right oh they are they are the Water Commission but I I think it's up to slug board legal counsel and the applicant to figure out what their role is I'm not going to tell them to read the law we can figure that out I just know that it's not us we're not the ones who turn that water on I I think if you vote this this evening we'll immediately tomorrow work with Peter we'll talk to the selectman wh whomever else the water department and find out the exact process and what we'll do is once we understand the full process we'll immediately report it to Peter who can then distribute it to you can we get a report of what H what happened with that process on the next meeting Peter oh 100% okay so does someone want to summarize that no no because all the pieces I mean I can try I I can try to make a motion um I will make a motion to oh wait a minute I withraw my motion you do you want to make it no I I made it already he had a he had a motion that he just withdrew so now you can do yours dangling motion all right um I will make a motion to approved the request for the irrigation modification including the removal of the Restriction regarding public water with the understanding or condition that the applicant will reach out within a short amount of time to relevant boards such as the select board concom or others with input from the planning office and that there will be a public notification through the town website or Andor other appropriate Town menus that Peter can explore the planning department can explore so that the public has notified that the planning board lifted the restriction and that the applicant is pursuing proper action is there a second I'll second and a roll call vote and a teski i Marcel I okay C Jersey guy and Trisha kendai thank you very much I much appreciate it all right thanks for um I have a I have a technical question if if we modified a decision does that have to get filed refiled does it have to be signed so traditionally what I've always done in the past is I'll draft up a memo um I've always draft drafted up a memo and normal I've if the board feels comfortable I've signed them before and filed with the time Clerk and typically they do not go to the registry of deeds however they just normally just stay on file with the town so in this case I'll draft up a simple memo just saying this is this was the motion and it obviously and it deletes this you know special condition number X on the decision filed date when where and then I'll share that with the board or trer and the board or Trish and and Anna the the co-chair and kind of move forward in that direction thank you very much right thank you um I assume we didn't talk about item five on the agenda MBTA no we did we did we got all the way through so next item is number seven okay seven housing Bond Bell and accessory dwelling unit Adu regulations um Peter do you have an update seems like you mentioned something nothing you know just real quick you know I'm I'm following it all the plans are following it right now uh actually I think it's Tuesday the state um unveiled a um Adu uh website which I'm happy to send the link to for everybody um I today I signed up for a mass Municipal Lawyers Association meeting on uh adus everyone's waiting to see what happens uh there's been a lot of good questions brought up whatever house is pre-existing not conforming does it go to the zoning board of appeals um XY and so uh we're all kind of sitting here waiting and I'm trying to go to Every conference webinar there is so correct me if I'm wrong but I I believe you mentioned something to me that Lisa me who is deep into MBTA at the moment but that she said basically this is being in most communities or I don't want to put words in her mouth but it's being put on hold a little bit until the regulations the proposed regulations from the state yes come out or are and speaking with other planners you know in the in the area um and through Lisa and obviously Lisa's working with all of her clients that she's advising everybody let's just hold tight see where the regulations are um and then move forward once those regulations you know come out um I am mentally preparing myself for a bylaw that we'll have to put together uh coming up to annual town meeting in May um fundamentally the the edu bylaw does not go into effect until February 2nd 2025 which would have been 180 days from the signature of the law uh but with that said rules should be able to come out we'll take some time and we can get a bylaw that's good that understands the regulations how it's going to be presented and implemented and then we can get that for annual town meeting so that is the cue that I am taking from Lisa um on how to move forward and how to proceed and I think it is the right cue I think we should not you know I think we should all understand it before we come up with rules and regulations and it's tough to come up with rules and regulations if the state hasn't done their best and so um with that said the question is so the law was signed by the governor right so while the regulations are passed what happens if somebody just files for a building permit just so if you file for a building permit today um it wouldn't be approved oh you can hold it until the regulations so February I would hold it no no February if February 3rd came in with a building permit I mean March 1st good point as long as that applied to all the regulations within the law right under the square footage in the back you know in the rear yard uh whatever those regulations were off the top of my head then yes we we would have to be approved we would have to be approved okay we have to be approved however and I believe the regulations will be probably released somewhere between Thanksgiving and Christmas um which doesn't give everybody a large amount of time right I think this is one of my take on is it wasn't you know they should have at least given us a full planners indor towns a full town meeting season to adopt right but yeah there is going to be a couple months where in Lim not in limbo where the bylaws at the time are going to be the rules and regulations within the ACT until all the other communities can just understand the regulations of the state and proceed uh at annual time meum that's what I'm take picking up from planners and and attorneys um I believe you know I think in next two weeks I'm going to go to the like I said the mass Municipal um who is presenting at this is is Mor Healy moraly um not the governor is actually in charge of uh all mass Municipal law um in reviewing all mass Municipal all Town bylaws um she regular presents at the CTP um which Anor Kate and I know Trisha you attended uh the last couple of years out at Holy Cross uh but with that said that's what everyone's waiting for we're all kind of seeing what happens is that any other questions on that okay all right so um it is 9:00 um and uh the discussion review of retreat items I want to make sure that we don't just load up our schedule with I want to make sure there's things we actually want to discuss instead of forcing in discussion items um so but is there anything that is that we should be looking at on that at this at this particular meeting so I I think we it was my fault we a little bit did six and eight together earlier um but I just want to bring up one thing about so I think what's really helpful if we can figure out a plan to have public like MBTA zoning accessory dwelling unit like we're hearing about it and I think we're being good publishing it but this if you take um six weeks back from May and this comes out in February let's just say we don't know anything there's very little time to like react but if we're telling people now we're going to be reacting we'd like to hit Spring 25 town meeting I think that's super helpful right so getting some of our more active things on the list like just in front of the public in that way yeah I mean so MBTA obviously I'm sure people have been saying it we've been pretty clear about it in the town newsletter right the that Michael Tom Andrew's newsletter that Michael puts out um and also advertising on the Facebook page and things like that yeah so is that like like just kind of I mean under planning board to have that these are things that we're discussing okay I think it'd be awesome because you're what happens is where did this come from I didn't hear I know you say but like people are going to do that and we're trying to prevent that the more it's out there and maybe people have good ideas and maybe the people that thought about the most are going to show up when we do have those hearings right so maybe we can look at putting that in next week's um next week's Town manager's newsletter about adus about about how the planning board is starting to discuss changes in the bylaws to adus based onw do that well and I I think ideally would be we'd like to see Springtown meeting right it's G be it's G to be Adu it's going to be this change that to time our timelines match of special permit and um and uh site plan review there's probably a couple others but now it's like we've been talking about for a whole year right those things because there's going to be probably quite a few I'm just going back a little bit because like you mentioned adus but then you mentioned some like that's that's one that we want probably the spring site plan review timelines updated to be the same as special permit timelines that's quite likely we'd like to have that at Springtown meeting I think what it makes sense skate and I I see where you're going is is to start maybe it's not in a in a you know maybe it's not next week or the week after but we put the story together you know maybe in in in sight these are the goal maybe some goals of the planning board are these three items Please be aware the planning board is working on the upcoming Adu bylaw we're looking to we're going to adopt a new flood plane for the Charles River Watershed and we're going to try to do uh a small correction to the site plan review regarding timeline and others if everything evaporates and we have more time but at least those we know are happening or can you put that can you put that in a little email and send it to Peter and I so we don't so there's a kind of a record and a little bit of a wording on it thank you the AC k okay H do you want the fan do you want me to put the fans on no it just started blowing like this is a miracle actually I noticed that [Laughter] too yeah yeah she's she's got six weeks to go getting flushed oh boy you're looking great thanks how you feeling why she look so happy all I'm like what's going on I was a lifeguard ready all right so um we are then uh at reports from board members and town planner um there's a long list here oh um so let's do reports from about the various um let's do number nine because I have a few things in there but first is comprehensive plan is on the top of the list anything from comprehensive plan um yeah so I think the the public survey about the current where so we've we have a draft Vision draft core themes and strategies we're working on not goals so there's so what this is we took all the public comment survey with the consultant the group selected what we think we heard and this is the chance to say yeah I like it I don't like it I think you heard and we were we've been told over over the Consultants of great this is iterative so it's not the one we might pick up through the process something else that we like better so that's still open but it's really important it's open for about a month it just just opened today so people will be on the lookout I assume that the um it'll be published every way we can publish things and then um it's this week at the select this coming week at the select board meeting on the 18th correct the consultant yes so will be there we do not have a planning board meeting next week but we do need to attend the select board meeting because there'll be both comprehensive plan discussed and then MBTA um discussed at that meeting so if people can be there are we first I'll TR to be there again Marcel showed up last night for the select board meeting he's very dedicated I think I thought it was last week well it was originally originally and she was like we're not doing that anymore it was originally scheduled for September 4th we did talk about that but it wasn't ready in time so it got changed to the select board meeting on the 18th just aggressively attending select board I guess so guess so A little over ambitious there so next week is kind of an important it's the fa end of to a report to the planning board and select board specifically obviously the public and then um the comprehensive plan be Ashland day obviously asking questions or getting survey and then I think a really important thing um one last thing coming up is that it's I think it's actually going to be in like November but each of our themes will have a working session with the professional representative of the consultant and those are groups of 16 to 20 um specialists in the top I so we're meeting comprehensive plans meeting this week so kind of our plan to recruit it was specifically said it really shouldn't be the same people um wait when is there a comprehensive plan meeting this coming week well today's already Thursday week from today oh boy okay thank you for reminding me um so that meeting I'm just putting it out there for we so that's five groups times 20 new people important and very important that that will be reviewing like strategies for the goals and um I think that's going to take a big effort and and it's a great opportunity to get more public so that's it thank you that's a lot really okay uh design Review Committee you had said and um maybe that you had reached out is that I did uh you we chatted about delegating to me the reach out to them to understand their uh agenda if you will um and so I reached out to them and I believe Monday at 8 is when I'm meeting with them great thank you for doing that I'm realizing I have a meeting for the Town 3 days next week thank you for reminding me Kate so sustainability committee um I think we I think I came in right as people were kind of mentioning that maybe because it was on the retreat items um but the several things involving um I still I kind of um when we came to the retreat I tried to reach out and I haven't so I kind of let that MBTA is obviously priority and it's kind of about the tree bylaw and anything else that might be on the yeah okay I mean I can reach out again if people want or just wait till we get through MBTA maybe MBTA Z that's not about idea yeah yeah yeah it's I would probably wait myself it it's okay to it's okay to reach out and said hey you know when when you're discussing it and you want us let us know but okay but we don't need to probably push it until we get this taken care of I think that was their plan yeah okay yep um okay uh CPC um we did have a CPC they were kind of on a big summer break but we did have a CPC meeting um uh earlier this week one of the evenings and um we approved some money for a study um for the wasam pond in on Long Pond Street um which I'm sure Kate knows about has been kind of over Kate's Pond we'll call it hopefully more viable than Anna's [Laughter] Hotel I hadn't heard that one hotel Anna I like it um sounds more Marcella knows what I'm talking about yeah but I think the pond has been um having some pretty serious issues with Vegeta growth and um bacteria all the things that we keep hearing about why you can't swim in various water bodies is ited it's been closed I think all summer like yeah yeah so 25% of it is kind of in Ashland and 75% is in Framingham a member of the Framingham Conservation Commission no Conservation Commission or CPC now I don't remember which one um but joined us for the CPC meeting and so they Framingham has already approved their share which is the 75% of the money for the study and the Ashen CPC has approved our 25% that is that's something that goes to town meeting as you know so um to to put towards a study to see if that pond how best to address the issues that are happening with that pond to remediate to remediate yeah yeah yeah so uh so that was kind of a good thing and um Becca Solomon the the Conservation Commission agent was the one who presented it to the CPC we gave her you know she was given an A++ for homework like she had her ducks in a row so have okay we'll work hard at it then okay but just so just so you know that's just the relationship with the CPC Metro West Regional collaborative they're still on summer break first meetings end of September okay so um and the MBTA working group we met on Monday yeah we met on Monday to um discuss a little bit The Forum that we had um you know I think I think it went well people asked a lot of good questions we answered them as best we could um but I don't think there was any real uh real feedback or strong like we don't like this but we do like this or we would rather you do this I think it was just more I mean it wasn't that different than our previous obvious plan but um so you know we took that um and we're going to have a second Forum on the on Monday right is Monday the 16th yeah Monday the 16th at 7 o'clock via Zoom which we kind of kind of just the same thing we'll present the we'll explain as if it's a whole new audience which because we don't know we'll explain the MBTA regulations we'll explain our work we'll explain what we're proposing and open it up for questions and feedback you know so have a question so are you like I I agree because there might be new people and we have to get as many people educated before town meeting um but I did hear feedback I I heard feedback and I feel like I mean it's nice to say what I did with your feedback and it might be simply like it was in keeping with but I feel like it was a little more detailed than that so people can feel heard yeah obviously I'm kind of summarizing an hour and a half meeting you know um but um but yet you mean so in the next meeting we can say hey this is some of the feedback we got back last time and then I feel like that's really important okay that's fine yeah we can we can definitely do that um so that'll be our second forum and then we'll be talking about it obviously um on Wednesday um with the select board at least at least that's the plan I assume well I I would say hopefully maybe we will then be able to take a vote of the two committees to see if the plan is um accept able if if it doesn't work then if we need to tweak it we still have the Monday of the 23rd which is the supposed to be more the just it's not supposed to be for that purpose but we can use it partially for MBT if we need to one thing I wanted to tell you because you were not here when we discussed the MBT zoning is we had quite a heated NOP I know it was hot discussion about um the importance of having opportunities for the public to speak and we discussed how that meeting with the select board would likely have a public comment so the public could communicate to us so I just wanted to make sure since you're chair communicate toand that we would like public to be okay is that an accurate summary okay yep that's fine okay um that's that um reports on planning topics I can just jump in yeah the biggest thing is uh economic impact tool so we we went uh Alo we we kind of start restarted our conversation again uh Framingham States back in you know school um and so the professor that we were dealing in or working with or communicating with um regarding the development of economic back tool was in in contact with us today Alvaro sent him a bunch of information so I think hopefully he's starting to look at the data that we're sending him and digging into it and maybe making sure you know kind of to to see if a project can get off the ground um in partnership with Framingham State so uh we continue to open that have that open line of communication back and forth okay um moving on to number 11 uh planning office updates um first and foremost whittimore Estates um definitive subdivision I know this has been on the agenda for a long time and we have received a couple emails about it I do need to tell everybody that this is on the Forefront of my day-to-day it is on the Forefront of Michael Herbert's day-to-day um Michael um spoke to the developer of this subdivision Steve Ross uh within the last week we are pushing them to finish the subdivision um we are coming to agreements on what uh can be done how it can be done and it needs to be done um to the subdivision standards and what was approved by the planning board in 2016 um I was on the phone today with the with the contractor um but when we receive emails please know that I am dealing with this on a day-to-day basis in the office and is that still going through through legal lawsuit Lisa we have yes we have legal council looking at this conservation agents on this we are all working on this together as a team um and we're trying to do the best that we can but at the moment the resid the the residents there have not had relief on the problems that they had or there something has been done no they're still working the developer is still working saying he's going to do it um we had confirmation he was going to do it he's going to do it things like this happen from time to time um this is not the first time it's happened in ashin it's not the first time I've ever had to deal with it um but yes we are dealing with it on and and we're trying to take care of it as as quickly as possible but since the time that we discussed this before has has actual work been done on the site work was done last work was done leading up to last winter we were in a good place coming out of the spring uh coming into the spring however we're still working on out details between the two parties so I just want to make a note to that 100 Chestnut Street um we did talk about so I'm going to skip over I have no update on 501 Pawn Street besides the fact that I did email the applicant um to see what you know how everything was going and what his next move was his permit time is running out his permit does expire I think it's December 22nd of 2024 uh which is only a few months away I said he's got to give us you know we where we want to know is this going to happen are you going to request extension what's happening and so that email went out uh I believe last week we and I have not received a response however uh I am not going to I I I'm following up with that I have no um obviously uh nothing really on the other two um besides well 12 Pawn Street I did meet with the developer out there Charlie zudo and we did go over implementation of the sidewalks uh and he stated that he's going to that's on his to-do list this fall since doot has completed the sidewalks in front of his building so hopefully we see some some movement out there um there is one item um which I didn't realize was is not on this but it does deal with the 501 Main Street uh property and it is um the the fire station do you mind if I go into greater Detail no that's not 501 though is it I'm sorry 151 151 yeah and so just from the plany board standpoint um John mun the applicant um he did come to me the other day and he if you if you remember on and I can bring up an image on the approved plans but on the approved plans there was this concrete wall in the front of the building he's building out on the approved plans he has a raw concrete wall um what he is proposing is to put a um uh this is a sample piece so this is about 3 ft and this just a picture so is he looking he is looking to do is to upgrade that can I call it a facade that wall that that poor concrete wall with the with the cinder blocks on top he's looking to upgrade that facade of that wall with a I'm going to call it a stone veneer um I believe this is an upgrade um but I do want to just update the board uh I believe this is minor we can't you guys we can discuss it it's not on the agenda it would be public meeting violation just out there I I don't want to get pinged by anyone yeah but uh agenda items um uh it doesn't include things that we can't um uh expect so this just happened right but what I mean is let's not talk about it because it just happened unexpectedly and it's not on the agenda like we can't comment on this this should be on our agenda no I believe we can come up we can comment on things that come up uh that that can't be predicted which this couldn't and um and come up just unexpectedly so I I I believe there's nothing there's nothing we're doing about I'm going to there's no action item right it's there's no action item there there's no action item I I don't think anyone I mean I just an update yeah oh an update is fine but you started talking about what you believe which is an opinion and the second you do that we're open to potential argument that is a public meeting violation so I'm just stopping you and saying I'm not comfortable discussing it I I understand Peter made a surprise update but a discussion of it would be I would don't want to get in trouble then then do it I just did it yeah I think I think it's that uh he uh Peter showing us a pro a progress shot um of a of a this is just a progress shot of a proposal to upgrade the front facade of the retaining wall um but but but so so is is this going to come up to to somebody's approval or something at some point or is just an update of what they're doing I I think it's just an update of hey look at he's making it better than even we anticipated and I'm like great stone is a high ticket item where's this picture taken from the sidewalk oh looking at the building oh this is towards the building towards the building yeah so the board the building is up this is that patio it's that patio myself yeah so this is like as you would walk by if you would be walking on the sidewalk along Main Street that's where they took it okay correct yep yeah got it so I think it's upgrade I think it would look better and yeah um other than that I have uh no other updates okay so um is there anything else that people have that uh then um I think we're on to meeting Minutes review can I just comment that I will not attempt the informal gathering with the select board on the 23rd because I'll be out of the country and the same thing for the 26 the meeting we have on the 26th of September okay um do we have any special permit projects that I'll be missing because then attendance is an issue uh no at this point we have nothing um can we just avoid that so we don't if possible if we can if we don't get into deadline trouble but if we if I miss it I miss it I'm just letting everyone know I am not I have no nothing on my radar that's coming in so but I'm happy to do all I can to make sure I and you know what by by the time you receive an application and by the time you send it out for public notice and by time you get in the newspaper for two weeks it's a three to four week lag time and so I don't believe it's not an issue I don't think it's I think it's a not an issue Anna all right so then I think we're on to meeting sorry meeting minutes um oh I wasn't here this time I did watch I did watch it though um guess the only correction I have is if you could correct the spelling of my name in line six yep I had no Corrections just to comment that whoever is doing the minutes is still doing a great detailed job um yes I've never seen myself quoted as much I couldn't remember anything that I supposedly did but I trust it's accurate well was a girl dad uh I'll fix that oh see [Applause] you want a motion uh if everyone's is everybody good I think so I'll make a motion to approve the August 8th 2024 minutes as they are with the addition of page excuse me line 77 uh yeah it would be edit on line six and a edit on line 77 second and a roll call vote an Tes I I Catherine jerse I and that'll have to be good because I was there well I guess I can I can say I too because I did watch the meeting yeah sure all right okay so uh I'll make a motion to adjourn all right second 29 roll call vote Anki i marel i c Jersey gu Amanda ha and Trisha kendle ey all right thanks everybody but I can't for

and I'm not sure if we have a location set for that yet but we usually try to meet in person okay great um I guess I would just encourage you all to consider just cleaning up the version that was presented to us last last time and bringing it for a vote I I think it's ready for with with the you know there's places where it's saying you need this information or whatever but um I think it's really ready for the full committee to discuss and vote on and then could be something that could get added to but even what you have there would be such an improvement over not having anything at all and I really appreciate the work everybody's been doing on it um any other questions or thoughts for handbook committee okay um collaborative for Educational Services rep remember goodwi um very excited that the collaborative is celebrating their 50th year as a collaborative on September 18th um they're having a big shindig in Worcester um if you're interested in participating in the shindig let me know um and I will send you the link thank you um City Planning and construction rep we have not met okay um legislative rep is U member Den she's also our division five rep uh District Wellness committee our first meeting will be on October 7th um and I believe it will be virtual great that is uh committee reports um next we have um our new business um we'll say given the hour if anyone would like to move to table any of these items if they don't they don't want to discuss them tonight I I'm very open to those types of motions but our next item is the music program uh which I believe member Goodwin asked to be put on through the agenda I believe superintendent patod brought us celebration on the music program tonight yes okay excellent item handled uh petition on changing the school funding formula um so um let's see I in your packets I believe is a um petition that um that I mean I think the intent actually was to have a resolution ready for us which would be different from just the um petition um um Jesus is here representing that and has said that other districts will be voting on resolutions next month so it is an item that could be tabled uh alternatively I could accept a motion to um to uh approve the um to sign on as a school committee to the um petition as presented so it's kind of we could go either way we could do a resolution next month or we could have a motion to sign on to the petition as presented and discuss it now any any preferences anyone all right I guess what I'm gonna say given the hour why don't we do this in October if that's okay it sounds like it was okay I don't have my glasses on so I can't read you okay um great uh we will table that oh why don't I take a a motion to um take up a resolution on changing the school funding formula in October so just a motion basically to take this up next month is there someone who'd make that motion motion all right uh okay got a motion for member Saxton and a second from Member Martini um any discussion uh member Martini vote yes member Goodwin yes member Childs yes member ston yes I'm a yes mayor yes yes okay motion carries unanimously we will discuss that at our um October meeting lpac and CPAC updates um superintendent oh sorry oh oh I didn't realize we were actually getting an update that's great I thought that I was making a motion to CU oh the intent of why I brought it up was so that we would actually have representatives from those bodies come and give us updates is my that was the intent that I brought that forward from but I would be happy to hear the updates that you have for us tonight I I'll just say I asked the superintendent to gather some information about us so so she can share the information she's gathered and then the committee can decide what our next steps are thank you superintendent sure um the director of people Services Dave messing um oversees both of those and um the CPAC is set to meet next Wednesday um September 18th at 6 o'clock they meet in the Greenfield Middle School library they also offer child's care um for any members that want to come they are working on getting um officers elected and and approving their bylaws that they started last year because we find fin have some parents um on the advisory committee that joined us last year and are continuing the the hard work so they're moving and shaking um the bylaws um I looked into this because I wasn't quite 100% certain but the bylaws actually dictate how they report to the school committee so once their bylaws are approved we'll see what's in the bylaws and then if they don't actually have that in their bylaws Mr messing said he's happy to send reports either that I can share with you or he can come to a meeting um our lpac has been a little slower getting off the ground but that meeting is on Thursday September 26th 6 o'clock Greenfield Middle School library these um things will all be in my parent updates and reminding folks where and when and that we do offer child care so folks who want to come and don't have that they can bring their children um but they are just starting out they did not have any um solid representation last year so they're really looking for people to join that and that's the English language parent advisory committee so um if um you know anyone that wants to join please contact Dave messing and we will get you where you need to be for those groups so I'll keep you posted as they meet and as the bylaws get adopted any discussion or all right um um then I don't think there's any other action for us right now that's all right not this time okay um item D we have the school resource officer in schools um the mayor asked me to put this onto the agenda and we heard during the public comment uh the chief uh uh imploring us to please uh reinstate a school resource officer in the schools uh I think what I would like to do on this is basically have a vote about whether the school committee um wants to um deliberate and um and uh vote on having us basically whether we want to take this up because um we did um not too long ago um you know make a choice as a school committee about which direction we were going in with school resource officers which was not to have one um so I do feel like it would require our committee choosing together about whether we want to um initiate I guess the way I would put it is um I would hear a motion that the school committee initiate a comprehensive study and deliberation process to evaluate the potential addition of a school resource officer to our school district so is there a motion to that effect um a motion from the mayor and is there a second second from Member Goodwin okay um discussion I just wanted to um say one thing without and I don't want to say too much but um this actually came up after um we had a meeting we had a department head meeting and the the FBI was not at the school but was at the home of of um uh a student um and there was a threat to the school is my understanding um no so if you can correct me if I'm wrong I I actually it was concerning to me enough to to bring it up and I didn't go into all of the details but or I did I don't know all of the details but I know that they were in touch with you and so maybe you'd like to Enlighten us a little bit yeah we don't talk about like security issues in a public form yeah okay there other discussions member goodwi so sorry okay so I would just say this when I heard that I had a concern about public about safety so I put it so I asked that it would be on the agenda for a discussion and I wanted you to know where that came from that there was something behind that okay thank you thank you mayor member Goodwin I think the world is a very scary place and unfortunately things are happening everywhere and that everybody likes to think not where they live um and I'm sorry we need as much help as we can get to keep our schools safe um and we've had a good relationship for a long time um with our local police they would show up at our schools when there was a problem um and some of our schools are more isolated from downtown than others location matters so I would say to you um sro's um are a necessity for today's world our doors are not always people can just walk indoors um our new security system hopefully will help with that that but there is always somebody who's going to leave a door open in our schools um I think it's a um something that's necessary and every time there's a shooting you know you sit there and you go you just hold your breath and I do not want us to be sitting here in tears because children or teachers died because we didn't have um people in our schools to help and there was a school committee meeting I can still remember years ago where they talked about um arming our custodians and I can remember that school committee as clear as day and sitting there going you've got to be kidding um but people react every time there's a shooting um and every time something happens and then it fades away and today of all days um it is 911 and I have not forgotten that day I was would say to you that the more security you have the better off you are before I hear other comments I just want to emphasize again to the committee um the reason why we have uh an executive session I item um that we we actually happen to have met for this reason today to discuss the deployment of security Personnel or devices or strategies with respect there to so we do get to have an open discussion about whether to have a school resource officer but we need to be extremely sensitive about what information we're disclosing or not disclosing um in that discussion so please be thoughtful thank you member Childs can you speak a little more about what the comprehensive study would entail and what the time frame on that would be because the the movement was about that I think if the committee took it up then we would have that discussion and determine that um I don't have that I mean with this item was uh submitted a few days ago so I I certainly don't have a draft plan and plus the committee hasn't decided to take it up so member ston you mentioned in opening this discussion that it was quite recently actually that the committee took up this question and and decided to not no longer longer have SRO in our schools and I would like to think that they went through a deliberative process and addressed many of the same concerns and questions that we would be facing with this comprehensive review I would not be in favor of reopening that if there if we can go back and look to their deliberations and see how they chose to respond and the measures that they put in place to address the concerns about safety it is my understand understanding that even without SRO we do still have police officers who respond to incidents at our schools is this true they're still there um yes we can connect with dispatch or anytime we need something dispatch will send someone if asked for absolutely um I'll just say my computer went to sleep so member Martini if you're wanting to speak please uh just unmute and say something so I know you want to talk because I don't have my password handy and all that um okay no problem am so I I understand if newer members um want to discuss this topic um I however was on the committee when we did discuss this um issue quite extensively uh not that long ago and I remember so clearly the um input from lots of community members about this and the ones that are uh the most at the Forefront for me are the ones from our students um and and they are the most important when it comes to um any decision we make and uh I I will not forget from our discussions on that um the opposition expressed by many of our students um and the poignant description of why certain students would not feel safe having police in our schools um and uh I worry just as much as as anyone else about uh about our security which is why I appreciate the um Regular communication that the committee has received from the school administration in uh our executive sessions o to the need to keep our security um procedures and um capabilities uh Within um within our own knowledge in order to uphold the Integrity of those things um and then in terms I understand why this issue comes up um when a tragedy occurs and I spend a lot of time um reading as much as I can about each one um so it's not lost on me that um having an SRO did not prevent a tragedy in Parkland having uh having two officers responding right away um did not prevent people from losing their lives in the most recent one and a school having its own entire police department did not prevent uh one of the worst tragedies in our nation's history in you Val so um I myself I'm not interested in revisiting this topic I think it would be um a better use of our time to to focus on other things but um if other members as a majority of the committee want to go through a process of studying this again then I'm here for it thank you other uh comments um I'll speak to this I also am not in favor of the school committee taking this up um I also was on the committee when when we discussed it it did come up uh in the wake of uh George fluid's killing and the um the rise in Consciousness and um voice about the role of the police in our community about how um I mean at the time I don't think the school resource officer has been brought to us before with the idea that that having a a single School resource officer at a school would increase the safety of our students in terms of um protection from um mass shooting events for example it was always presented to us as something that um was needed in order to build a good relationship between the students and the police department and is something um that would contribute to that uh the challenge for um students of color in particular um Black and Hispanic students um is that the role of the police in these communities has not um always been um what it should be in terms of protecting uh people and so it can be uh triggering and inhibiting of learning to uh have a police presence in the schools on an ongoing basis certainly we do have uh events and invitations to the police to come and bring Comfort dogs and so on that does occur but uh I I uh agree that um with member Martini that um the idea of having a um a single um school resource officer in the school is really not going to contribute to the safety of our children um unfortunately from those mass shooting events um and yeah the exact same examples those member Martini I think chose the perfect examples of of where that has not been effective so I am really um not interested in um red deliberating about this and I will uh vote against the committee taking it up uh on an ongoing basis any other discussion or questions all right let's have a vote um member Martini no member Goodwin yes member Childs yes member ston no uh I am and no um mayor disorder yes okay we are tied uh 5050 uh Robert's Rules of Order kind of calls for us to keep deliberating and keep discuss discussing um another option would be for us to uh table lay this on the table until our October meeting um when there will hopefully be a an odd number of us present for the vote um any I'd just accept informal feedback from people if you have a preference one way or the other if you think that you could your vote could be changed by more discussion I would be open to talking about it more tonight I moveed to table move to table by the mayor is there a second second second from Member ston discussion no it's not a no discussion item yep thank you okay so we will vote um member Mark Martini motion to table okay that's a yes member Goodwin yes member child's yes M ston yes I'm a yes mayor yes all right motion passes unanimously we will um consider the motion to um study and deliberate on this topic at our um October meeting and with that uh are there any requests for future uh agenda items hearing none I'd take a motion to adjourn so moved motion from the mayor is there a second second second from Member suon any discussion let's vote member Martini yes member Goodwin yes member child yes member ston yes I'm a yes mayor yes motion passes unanimously we are adjourned at 9:30 p.m.

they held their monthly food and clothing distribution at the family and Community Center they first made the clothing available to students and any items not chosen by them were then shared with families additionally they also provided food to the families in in their Community they want to remind everyone that they accept clothing donations year round to support this initiative now looking at Magnolia Jan and Ross bilings Innovation Center was a beautiful tribute where they acknowledge the dedication and the hard work put in by Dr JN Billings and Ross Billings to better the ahsd community this past month had definitely been a a laboratory one as the Magnolia arre Science Community Center had received a $110,000 grant from Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation to help as the Mac will continue to host their Farm to Table dinners and as they help better the community around them in other news Magnolia has also seen an influx of clubs such as their new Guatemalan Roots Alliance club and girls leag to give all of their Sentinels a place to feel seen on campus now looking at Oxford for Oxford Club Rush was definitely the highlight of the week as many students crowded around different tables and numerous clubs were growing around advertising their STS and taking pictures with their photo frames alongside with different performances from clubs every day Ur eari created a recap video and publicity video for RSVP and started the phase of choosing top three choices from last year to address to their principal now for Savannah the ahsd student incubator program was created for student leaders part of student body to participate in collaborating to create exciting engaging activities for the ASB Camp's opening and closing session Kina was able to be a part of this new experience as this was the first ever student incubator program occurring for a to student leaders during her time through the meetings and overall speaking at the opening session Kina learned to effectively collaborate with her new peers and create workshops to help build ASB to use their networking skills and build collaboration now for the last go Western their highlight was their senior events which had more than 60% of seniors attend their first senior event was senior sunrise and it was a great start to their events their plan is to continue to come up with creative ideas for senior events like a scary movie night for October it has been a great way for Western to create special memories with each other and for the graduates Bravo definitely a lot of information in here so thank you for your very first report and looking forward to next month's all right we um have a student that has arrived from the uh girl State Delegate from Cyprus High School check yeah [Applause] w moving on to um neutral ground and I am to defer to yes so it gives me great pleasure to First bring up Dr dellaa Cruz who's going introduce our guest but I'm so grateful to have our partners with neutal ground here to share the great work that they're doing you heard already from some of our students during the public comment so I feel like they I I don't need to say much they've already spoken uh but I'm excited excited to have them here to share the great work they're doing with our schools Dr Cruz thank you uh Madame U president Trio Board of Trustees executive cabinet and guests it is my absolute pleasure to introduce Mr Nati Alvarado exe executive director for newor ground um last year we met um neutal ground through a relationship with Mr Jose Lara and since then um they have built a very impactful and successful relationship with several of our schools so please enjoy this presentation and without further delay Mr elor I uh thank you thank you so much I want to say thank you to um our superintendent matsuda our a SD board uh to Dr Cruz for all of her support thank you so much for having us um I have a couple parents a couple of our youth are going to uh speak first and then um I'm going to have our Pro program manager Samuel just go over a couple of the data points with yourselves um just a quick overview neutral ground my my wife Teresa she walked him up on where she went but um we started doing this work uh 34 years ago going on 35 years in San Ana Street intervention work and we've never stopped what we started back then so um it's been an honor to be here in in Anaheim we have a variety of of different um uh intervention works that we do with San An School District also we've been contracted with them since 2013 um I'm contracted with the city of sanana to do gang intervention we have a re-entry home we work with orange wood foundation foster kids that have been in trouble and give them a place I've been doing housing for 24 years uh we have a boxing club and um and we love our our our kids we love our students and we're trying to make a difference in their lives um first of all we brought up Omar Espinosa we brought up his son Daniel um we're bringing up Reyes and um and then the last one will be Ben Escobar so if Omar uh could come up with Daniel please good evening everyone uh my name is Omar Espinosa uh this is my son Daniel Espinosa um well there's no ways to express my gratitude to miss uh Teresa and you know everyone involved in the neutral ground uh for helping my son achieve uh his goal to graduate from high school you know as a parent it's really hard to focus whatever times we have left to help them out achieve those goals and to be honest with you I lost every hope that I had when he was a senior that he was going to be able to graduate if it wouldn't be because I met Miss uh Teresa and the the members of the neutral ground that were able to help my son you know come up with all the credits that he needed to be able to graduate he wouldn't be able to graduate so honestly I wish I could have had those kind of programs in my time which I didn't but I was able to graduate because I you know I forced myself to do it in in his case he had that help that he couldn't get at home because sometimes as parents our time is limited we focus our time in other things and especially as myself uh I have six kids so it's hard to spread whatever time I have left with all my kids and thankfully they were able to you know provide that help that I couldn't give my son so he could could be able to achieve that goal to graduate so thank you so much I appreciate it thank you thank you I canot express my gratitude to them and to all of you for providing this kind of help thank you so much [Applause] we want you to say how we carried you all the way to class to get your grades up whatever it takes H uh hi my name is Daniel and I'm a graduate from Anam high school and uh I would have not graduated if it actually wasn't for neutal ground because during the whole high school years I've never paid attention in school I've never just gave it any thought at all and um throughout my years I just never tried till just senior year and actually took three months back to back each day to get all my credits up that I needed all 220 uh in order to graduate I needed actually 150 to graduate and um it's most of my school year that I missed out on and if it wasn't for them I would actually would not graduated because I would always go out on the street I was just mess around with my other friends bad influences you know just not make the right decision and just not put my mind right and put it in school and they taught me the way they show me the right way by putting me in the path where they show me more where I can achieve more and just you know bigger opportunities in life that I that I won't have out in the streets because in the streets all you can get is just you know drugs and get you know just lose your life but my point is that I could have not done it without them my life would have not be here without them honestly could have not done nothing without them if Pastor Na and Teresa didn't teach me the right way thank you okay we have interpret uh Lo GR for anahim [Applause] my name is Reas Ortiz the one reason I am here is because of this group these people they identify with the Spanish speakers we have work um sometimes we as parents work we have two jobs and we don't have the time to give the kids what we need but here neutral ground was here and they identified with us and we are and and they are used to speaking to us and they can understand us they speak our language they know our problems they know our needs they know how to identify with us they are we are being heard through them they help us grow so I want to thank them because if it wasn't for them it it wouldn't it wouldn't have it it wouldn't have changed our our the way it is they understand if we're poor if we're rich they everyone needs to understand we're the same it doesn't matter if whatever school you're coming from if you're coming from catella if you're coming from alheim we're all the same we're rich we're poor we're all the same they ex the these kids sometimes Express themselves in a negative way but that's just when we're calling out for help and they neutral ground is helping [Applause] us my name is Benjamin escore I'm a senior at laa I've been working with neutral ground for about a year now um they've been helping me open my eyes to many more things in life on in the streets they've also helped me out stay on track with school just keep me busy and just to keep me off the streets um that's it thank you thank you he was all right huh you're all right um we just we only have a couple more minutes I understand that but we just want to I want Samuel to just go over a couple of the points of our data points of of what we're doing at the schools with the students and the different things so just a couple minutes okay I'm going to run through these um but uh brief F our mission statement is uh to create a healthier safer Orange County centered our our community is most impacted by gang violence breaking the cycle of poverty child abuse academic failure and team pregnancy through restored practices Youth Development academic support and the strengthening of meaningful relationships a mouthful but it's it's to help our students and our families um our just a list of a few of our programs uh we have started initially in the San Unified School District uh centering services on restorative practices within uh Anaheim Unified it's more um tailored towards uh gang prevention and gang intervention um our youth violence prevention program which some of our youth are a part of uh that's actually through a contract that we have with the congressional district and so we're working through the in the city of Anaheim and the City of Santa Ana not these houses are transitional living home we partner with um Orange County's uh Youth Development Court we're housing young men exiting the prison system and young men um aging out of foster care um the neutral ground boxing club which we have youth from all over Anaheim all over Santa Ana coming to a neutral ground to train break a little bit of sweat and we close off with the resorted practice Circle uh and then we have the Summer Night Lights program which we just finished up this past month it's a program where we keep the lights on at El Salvador Park gang Enclave in Santa Ana uh and all of the communities invited becomes a neutral ground for the summer months um and then we have neutral ground construction where we help put some of the guys from Na's house to work um four pillars of service Community engagement prevention intervention and violence Interruption uh Community engagement that's part of what we're doing in the schools that's part of our popup events that's part of Summer Night Lights programming that's our uh just engaging the community as a whole uh prevention is for all of our youth who are not gang involved uh that's the majority of the kids in our schools we we want to prevent that from ever happening intervention services is uh youth violence prevention that's tailored towards our kids who have already self-disclosed gang ties um and violence interruption in working with those kids who have self-disclosed these these ties we have an ear to the street and we get uh uh we get notified we get notices of these incidents that happen in the community and ideally we're able to prevent them from from uh escalating further uh we also partner with as I mentioned uh Orange County's Youth Development court and so through Youth Development Court uh we're able to help young men exiting the prison system or who have done uh done juvenile life sentences they're now 24 25 years old coming home and were able to house them at Na's house uh the numbers uh just within Anaheim Unified School District we We Gather numbers from each of the schools that we partner with and I compiled them uh we facilitated over 187 staff presentations that would be a presentation to a few administrators and teachers to a presentation with all of our um staff all of the staff from the school we did those usually at the start of the semester just to notify all the staff of our presence on campus um Circle participants this is duplicated so over 2,000 uh participants and over 300 circles that were facilitated uh since the start of our partnership uh end of November this past year um total contacts made again again duplicated is over um 11,000 um school-based referrals from each of across all of our campuses over 800 um our key impact areas are to increase trust and safety so uh we don't want to be create or or have a continued uh sort of other on campus and so we engage those students who are usually hanging out in the back behind buildings and and bring them into all of the other support services that the schools have to offer um we are uh centered on gang prevention gang intervention but we want all of our kids to graduate and so if we can be the bridge to a social worker if we can be a bridge to uh a staff member who can support them in that way uh we'll do that so we create safe spaces proactive identification is um yes we we go after the kids who've had behavioral issues um have incidents on campus but also because we come from the community because we know what it looks like we're able to spot some of these kids out who maybe they're walking on campus and they got uh A's and B's but they're leader on campus and they're of influence on some of the boys that need most of the support and so we we pull them in as well um all underlying all of it is to reduce violence across all of our campuses um so enhancing community and academic outcomes uh so uh part of what we do aside from meeting with kids one-on-one and facilitating circles we do a conflict mediations and so when there is an incident of of violence or some sort of Confrontation we will bring our kids in together um I they have to agree to come and sit together uh if they do maybe we form a peace agreement maybe if there's already been a a scuff of some sort if they're willing to come and sit together in Li of suspension or in Le of of expulsion they'll be assigned to our case loads and then we're meeting with them regularly um we'll assign them to our circles and they're a part of our circles week to week um leadership opportunities where uh because these kids are working with us uh also administrators know of them know them by name and so we're we're opening up opportunities for them to step into leadership opportunities um even if it's to help us co- facilitate some of our circles um again underlying all of it is reducing violence on campus and Community cohesion uh youth violence prevention as I mentioned a little bit earlier um we have a a contract with the congressional district and so we're working across both cities Anaheim and Santa Ana to work with gang impacted youth uh our community intervention Specialists are essentially our intervention Specialists are assigned to schools but out in the community so we are working around the clock working with our young people after school Community engagement uh really briefly uh we met with over 200 gang impacted youth from across um Anaheim Unified so these are all the kids that are on our case loads uh We've engaged them all through the summer months uh doing a Youth Development activities and so we took them out camping we some of them for their first time took them out fishing things like that just to expose them to to more to something different uh all encompassing and obviously uh k continued case management so uh when our assigned intervention specialist from the school notifies our community intervention specialist of a kid at one of our tier three more high flyer students uh will case manage them closely uh again early identification uh uh all intended to uh to Target uh prevention initiatives across all campuses and uh what in closing the way we envision uh Orange County is a place where students get to be students kids get to be kids um people feel safe um on campus and so our underlying intent across all of our schools is to to change the story for Orange County [Applause] thank you for coming we really appreciate your presentation uh everyone who gave testimonials we take that to heart we really appreciate that um uh Dela thank you so much for bringing them in your a dream we we uh we um we're doing the best we can in our schools um and a program like this um really enhances the work that we're doing and partnering um the more we can can reach the more we can help so thank you so much uh Guerrero is absent um she had a family emergency uh she wanted uh us to um speak on her behalf um she said that I appreciate neutral ground being at the board meeting I had requested the presentation from neutral ground to Showcase their work and impact at our sites also want to thank our school mental health and wellness team for their work in making this partnership possible I had the opportunity to meet a few of the neutral ground team members including their Community intervention Specialists during school and community events across Anaheim and Santana I appreciate their continued efforts in connecting with our students building trust and offering support in addressing our communities most impacted by a gang violence poverty and other issues I look forward to our continued partnership and commitment to our District's values in supporting the whole child so that's from Jessica anyone else have comments or uh questions for them well I was privileged to go and see firsthand the work that neutral ground does in the park in San Ana um and I was just so impressed with just the the level of Engagement and your presentation you have to come and work for our district it was incredible I mean thank you very comprehensive I just want to tell you thank you for sharing um so thank you and for all the adult leaders I just really want to thank you I know um that you guys put your heart and soul into this organization so I want to I want to thank the students that were here this evening uh coming in and speaking whether it was two words or 50 words or whatever um it's meaningful for us to hear from you so don't don't be afraid to come up and and take a turn at the mic you know throughout your life also want to thank the the leaders of neutral ground for all that you put in you know your life giving them a new life and the presentation tonight was very thorough very in depth you know I I read what we had in our binder here but but this what you presented tonight was very different I thought much much more inclusive so thank you so much for for all that you do and I wish you well and you mentioned Anaheim High School you're you're in you laara High School catella laella Gilbert Gilbert okay sou okay great thank you thank you [Applause] well I did owe everything you heard up here but I remember earlier you said we love these boys and you know they love you in return and that love surrounds all of you for many years into your future and you will give that love to others because you saw the and experienced the exact example and from the bottom of my heart I want to thank each and one every one of you for sharing your evening with us and thank you from the bottom of my heart you and we did also have a speaker um request on this item uh Vanessa Guero welcome hi hi Vanessa my name is Vanessa guo I'm Anthony galindo's mom he is an eighth grader at South Junior High and um it's not easy racing him um I'm a single mom and he also does not have his dad in his life so it is kind of hard seventh grade was very difficult um I actually took him to project youth but he slipped a little more after that um and he actually came home and told me Mom I'm in this um program at my school n nutral ground it's very fun you know they're like they they accept me and just hearing those words um one I got really excited and happy because I was seeking help for him and um I was given a pamphlet of neutral ground um but I never reached out to to them because I'm you know so busy um and so when he told me that I was just like well wow you know the they reached out to him I didn't even know they were at South so um I'm very excited that he's part of the program now and I can't wait for what's coming next thank you I know it's hard I'm a single mom too and so I wish this program was there for me for my son Bravo all right moving on to our uh public comments for uh Open Session items yeah thank you it's it's fine if you want to get up and leave now yes maybe maybe you have some homework to do thank you Matsu uhti thank you uh thank you all for um uh doing what you guys are doing partnership with them I I support you guys we support you guys a lot and to the youth those hob don't give up I I went to South Junior High in Anaheim High School bro I was in your shoes thank you um I want to thank the school board I uh was cruising down Ball Road at Gilbert uh High School continuation school and I saw a mural there I've been painting murals for the past a year year and a half we have five new murals in Anaheim and we target um any varo or neighborhood where there's gangs drugs and alcohol and our goal is to create um a and an identity and I I heard that in one of their um presentations an identity is very important I was lucky to have a grandpa onito to teach me oral tradition myya would bring me books from Mexico I just came back from Mexico um to find out more about who my father was I relate to some of their stories I never knew my father I was adopted um but that's another story but it's connected and I encourage you to keep um working with people like them or a nonprofit uh it's very important because when you don't have a role model then you look into the gangs into the drugs and you feel empty and you have no identity if you have no history of your background if you're Mexican or Cho Or Hispanic Latino you don't know who you are and with that I um want to just say uh we pray to the Creator and to Mother Earth that's what saved me our language and that with that um hopefully in the future we can have uh other nonprofits work have air Anaheim High School of toy porina toy porina was a female native indigenous woman of the gabino tribe and we're getting ready for indigenous people day we had a zoom meeting with Adam Loya Virginia carello um I think I have one minute or is that it okay and thank you so much for what you guys are doing and welcome uh I haven't been here maybe in six seven months I've been gone just doing a lot of um teaching at uh in Mexico City verac Cruz Pua Guerrero and a couple native schools and teaching them what we've been fighting for and just connecting with other neighborhoods that are in the lower than middle class uh thank you gracias [Applause] Castillo good evening uh yeah there's a lot of stuff just happened tonight um something in my field uh I created an organization back in the 90s called United neighborhoods and we were uniting all these people fighting for the kids in these neighborhoods also Los Amigos I brought a lot of my attention to them and they helped out tremendously and some of you who were here you know we all came here a lot on issues of Youth and and young kids I stood on that trail after wise I became the largest lulac uh president but again a lot of it didn't really want to go towards these issues that they just brought up so now I see it changing I so I'm the young guy at Ball Junior High Lera and seeing the changes and watching everything and as a city employee at 13 with a work permit I got to see the community and be involved and try to help so basically the kids that I even came here to support were being expelled was they they they I was looking at my own staff of people at my school at that time and they they didn't they didn't expel the kid or I go to the school with the principal and they would say okay we'll give them a chance and these kids graduated and uh they served our country and they got homes and they made it so I I applaud that but one of the biggest things I came for was the SS that we have good sor police and our schools and I go to the police review board I'm actually the one that founded that here to bring it together and I always go and sometimes I'm by myself but the narrative is not on the subject that we need uh people won't come in and say anything because they're afraid so what what I'm suggesting is to this to them but they didn't really give me a good answer was you got the good SS and kids are seeing them and liking them but then when they go home they're getting you know stopped and put on the ground and we got videos and everything and some of the actions and so there's a lot of Rift of differences and neighborhoods that are called bad neighborhoods and then they get labeled so the officers see that and then they treat it as that so my own sub suggestion was can we make SS and I just spoke to some of these and they said the same thing we'd like to see the SS uh uh getting the training of of the officers and these neighborhoods that same kind of training so that's that would like to have you guys actually try to get with the police and make that subject to getting these officers to get better communication now again there's good kids and there's bad kids but again look at what they done they we went and got I got a bunch of them and and saved them and that's what we're trying to do and I I see the the changes so I want to be on the positive issue but there is some things that we need to work on in bettering as as they even said some of you didn't don't know about this you know uh the young kids the way they uh live and the the way they have to survive in the school in the streets so as I got to watch it um I got 51 years of all that so basically it's um I'm coming in here and didn't know this was going to happen makes me happy there's other organizations also that are helping but we're not collaborating too close with uh the government of the police department and you know city city developing of the of the neighborhoods we need to get into those neighborhoods better like these people are doing and and they hit every school they hit every school that uh I know of all the troubles that I had I sicamore he didn't them all he named them all where I saved young kids from being expelled and uh but um but that was the main thing Soros please if you can advise with the police you guys got the power because these are your kids these are the kids that are going to that school when they go home they need to be treated the same way or else it's not going to work and that's my thing but I got all hit me it hit me I came here for some reason and this is something weird how this happen so there's got to be the move forward issues and uh I like to thank you everybody that you know has been here uh working and changing these things I'm seeing the changes the the these these ambassadors that's the beautiful and that so we're over here and over here but but they need to get together and I hope you guys are doing that thank you so thank you very much Germaine Newman hello my name is Jermaine Newman I'm a Community member um I'm here to talk um about back at our August 8th meeting Miss Smith trusty Smith you um requested that the school district uh Administration and the board provide a presentation on our financial oversight um in light of Magnolia Elementary School District's uh situation with the embezzlement and um I'm a little disappointed that that's not on the agenda tonight I think it's a really important item that we need especially in light of what's happened with the County Board of Supervisors Andrew da and and uh the Viet America society and the situation where we see um just some opportunities um uh and misuse of our tax funds you know um a Magnolia Elementary School District is a much smaller District than this District um that was an inside job that was a employee that took advantage of the volume of money going through the school district and knowing that there was so much um paperwork and and red tape that they could get away with something like this um unfortunately you know this school district is a much larger School District we are handling much more money I mean Nancy I'm sure you could attest to how much money we're handling our board agenda just this month alone is only 545 pages long it's got 110 Pages worth of financial documents in it and um as you can imagine I don't think all of you or even myself could read through 545 pages in 72 hours we really need some oversight just to understand what those precautions are and how you our district is making sure that these things don't happen here at Anaheim Union High School District our purchase orders alone for this month we have 22 pages of purchase orders that are in this agenda 16 Pages worth of checks being written some of those checks being written are being written to cash some of those checks written are being written to anachronisms that nobody as a public I don't know what those are so I want want to make sure our District's doing their due diligence we have multiple accounts with US Bank that are being paid thousands and thousands of dollars every year so it's really really important yeah i' appreciate if you actually take put this on the agenda and we get a presentation on the financial oversight of this District thank you TR us and I I uh apologize for I can help with that all right you can help me with that all right welcome thank you I'm Costas scaes I'm um father of a child in your District I'm a homeowner and taxpayer and a US citizen there's an election in November you I'm going to be asked to vote for a bond you're putting forth to invest in our district so before I talk about the bond I want to make sure to let you understand that the investment you have made as a citizen as a taxpayer and your oversight of the school staff has been incredible beyond what I would expect before I came to California from Arizona you done a good job however I will not be supporting your bond because you chose to not invest in my neighborhood I live in El drive my school of attendance is Western and orange view my child will be a guinea pig in your new system of combining schools I accept that it's part of life I didn't ask my kid to go to Walker or to the privileged Kids Academy you created I send it to the school of attendance because I believe in public education what I've seen though is that you choose to School of my child in the school that I pay for the same taxes that people in Cyprus pay for the people of Kennedy pay for my child went to school behind chicken wire now that you're giving it to hope it's getting a nice fence the auditorium you made the decision in to change all that did not receive a quote of pen since Truman was the president why would I support you investing my money for the children of other people would you do that should I go to my neighbors and tell them it's a good idea to invest that way I don't think so thank you for your time and I hope my kid does not go to class in a double wide next year in Western thanks next up Andrew hello it's me again um so uh just wanted to kind of Shadow off of what Haley said we are a democracy District um and what that means is that we're going to have a lot of conflicts and a lot of discussions that that needs to exist in a democracy school um I really don't think democracy can't I don't think democracy exists without dissent um and a lot of the times what we've been seeing is its dissent from the community um I saw it through a father today and I've been doing it for the past year now um so I definitely think that as a democracy District I want to promote the community and students to go ahead and speak up here especially um the neutral ground students that we saw here today um you know we saw um a lot of students in support and you know I think neutral ground is really important in our schools I've had many many um classmates a lot of friends who have gone through the program and it's something that they look forward to um so I think we should be investing in that you know something that the kids are looking forward to a lot of these kids um previously were not going to class um or otherwise would have not gone to school um so I think investing in programs like neutral ground is critical um I know he's not here but I wanted to thank deesa and Nati for their work um across Anaheim and S um it's really really crucial that we have programs like neutral ground in our community um and one of the kids said um you know their dad had to work two jobs um and I relate to that there's issues like that that exist in our community um my dad had to work four jobs at one point because we just couldn't make ends meet um and I had to start working at 16 so a lot of these issues that I hope you guys realize um and remember when you're up there representing us um and just when you're thinking about how to vote just remember that some of us struggle at home um so I also wanted to come up here on behalf of some teachers whose names I cannot say um they have asked me not to say their names but I want you guys to visit the sites really going to the school sites and investigating what's going on um I find it kind of ironic that we hired a bunch of new teachers at Anaheim um amidst the Riff notices um and I know it was needed we did need the teachers but there's this term that I've developed called classroom stuffing and so what we're seeing in some of the classes is um teachers are still given the 190 student load but they'll have one class with 20 students and then another class where the kids don't even have tables to to use to work they don't have chairs to sit in and so I really want you guys to go to the school sites um go see the go see the schools that you represent and see firsthand what's going on in our schools because it's this this isn't okay and what I really want to know is is if we have classrooms like this who's going to be responsible when there's a fire who's going to be responsible you know what just happened in Georgia you know what's going to be what's going to happen when the kids can't leave their classrooms because it's just so crowded in there so I that's what I want to challenge you guys to do um and to the students of neutral ground um I want to leave you guys with this um I start UCLA next week um and at my orientation I saw almost no Latino students um I was kind of standing out um I want more of us there so I want you guys to push yourselves um and hopefully um be there aside me or even above me we need more Latino students in our public school program so um and I'll be here I'll be in the community supporting you guys um and always always fighting for my community and for the teachers and for everyone in the community thank you thank you everyone we appreciate your comments just Andrew congratulations on UCLA I wish you well come back and tell us about your [Applause] experiences okay item 10.1 School sponsored student organization this is an action item and Aon this is your first vote so moved second second moved and seconded all in favor I I all right move your mic resolutions 10.2 resolution number 2024 2.5 db-3 adjustments to income and expenditures general fund resolution number 2024 25-b d04 adjustments to income and expenditures various funds 2023-24 un audited actual financial statements moved second moved and seconded any questions or comments okay hearing none all in favor I roll call vote that's roll roll call that's right it's a resolution okay Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal I miss Smith I and I vote I 10.3 resolution number 2024-25 db-5 five recalculation of the 2023 24 Appropriations limit and establishing the 20242 estimated appreciations limit calculations action item so moved second moved and seconded questions or comments on this Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal I miss Smith I and I vote I 10.4 resolution number 2024-25 db- 6 the Anaheim Union High School District in support of proposition two kindergarten through TW grade 12 schools and local Community College public education facilities modernization repair and safety Bond Act of 2024 this is a roll call vote absolutely so moved all right um I just want to make a comment on this um this is to uh help um support this bond that will go on the state and people will say well why do you need to go for a bond in your local area um if there's going to be one in the state well this is for matching funds only and the only way we can get these funds is if we uh get the public to support a bond so um any other comments or questions on this these are not also taxpayer repaid yes yes very important all right roll call vote Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal I miss Smith I and I vote I 10.5 resolution number 2024 25- f02 State allocation board and school facility program Beyond Bond Authority acknowledgement action item so moved second uh questions or comments on this no all right hearing none um Mr hosi hi Mr O'Neal hi Miss Smith I and I vote I 10.6 uh open public hearing sufficient of textbooks and instructional materials anyone wishing to speak on this item okay seeing none closing the hearing 10.7 resolution number 2024 25- e-03 textbooks and instructional materials compliance for 20242 action item so moved second roll call vote any questions or comments Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal Miss Smith I and I vote I 10.8 resolution number 2024 25- e-04 National Hispanic Heritage Month action item so moved second okay um I'm just going to read the first part of the resolution that we are voting on it's very important okay um where is the Board of Trustees of the Anaheim Union High School District honors the heritage of Hispanics and acknowledges their many contributions to our nation and whereas Hispanic heritage week began in 1968 under President Johnson and was expanded by President Reagan and enacted into law in 1988 to cover a 30-day period starting on September 15th the day which represents the anniversary of Independence for five Latin American countries Costa Rica El Salvador guatam Mara uras and Nicaragua followed by Mexican Independence Day on September 16th and Chile Independence Day on September 18th Hispanic Americans have helped our shape our communities throughout Orange County with profound and positive influences through a strong commitment to Family Faith and community and enduring work ethic and many contributions to society including dedic ated public servants holding locally elected positions serving in our boardrooms as well as our classrooms and um on behalf of uh our trusty Guerrero I want to acknowledge this okay action item roll call Mr hosi I just wanted to say I would love to be aware of all of the celebrations that are taking place at all of our school sites and if there's any kind of like Community thing I know the city of Anaheim does something big um that our students and families can be aware made aware of those celebrations as well absolutely absolutely and what is your vote I Mr O'Neal I miss Smith I and I vote I 10.9 resolution number 2024 25- E-5 attendance Awareness Month action item so moved second okay and this is in September and uh my question is what are some of the things that we've been doing um to um enhance our uh attendance yeah absolutely thank you for that question uh you know chronic tapism has been deemed a National Health crisis and I'm proud of the work that our district has done to proactively really try to address not just chronic aasm but just in tenants in general uh I know Joe S want to recognize his work previously but certainly Now Alison Conrad and the amazing work she's doing hitting ground running uh to really work with our sites and the way that we look at attendance uh we have site attendance teams we're pushing out data um I think every couple weeks to our sites with names of students and list who are in danger of being chronically absent so schools have data given to them so they don't have to do that work to be able to track and work and support and monitor those students with their families uh we have incentives like we like we've always had in terms of perfect attendance or no tardies a lot of our schools are doing tardy sweeps um but we're also working hard with our staff uh and I want to give a lot of credit to our teachers for the great work they do instructionally to bring in relevant engaging um instruction uh where students feel connected to the work that's going on the classroom our performance task assessments um I think also there's um work than being done with I know Diana Fujimoto is here with also with Danny Warz and Kenny Petz um who are who led our principaling and I know Mr hos you were at our princi meeting uh the other day um we're doing some deeper work with Street data and our Focus for the first goor round is going to be on attendance so it's uh we're looking at Equity centered questions and really this Community Practice around collecting the the voice of our students and our families to better understand um what brings students to school what prevents students from coming to school to really inform us on some of the things that we can do differently as the adults and create the conditions where more and more students want to come and we're seeing already impacts at some of our schools who began this work last year and so now we're scaling that work districtwide uh and then the beautiful thing about this process is we can replicate this process with any data point that we're interested in improving so when you think about the satellite data the overarching trends of a district um the street data allows us to humanize that data and make sense of it in terms of real stories uh so the data makes uh becomes more personal um we also um are beginning to automate and and create different processes and forms so it's easier for staff uh in the way that they work with attendants I know through the lens of cohesion our Ed staff you know and and Allison are working really closely with the great team of our business folks uh and the way that we um work with attendants and support the way that our attendant secretaries work with staff to code absences and working with families in the way that they call in to report absences because sometimes when that does doesn't happen um our data can be inaccurate which then unfortunately gets marked as an unexcused absence or a Trent perhaps uh when a student may have missed for a legitimate reason but it wasn't coded that way so a number of those things are also happening and I know our schools are also working closely to clean up their data with especially at the beginning of the school year with our no- shows the students who have never shown up because as they're in our system they get marked absent which affects our Ada rate and so when we can clean that data up um our data reflects more accurately which improves our attendance uh as as well and then one of the things that we're also doing this year which is new is um Allison is working to create um you're probably familiar with the six and 12 day letters that that typically go home to a student who's missed those days of school that's typically a part of our student attendance review board or sarb process uh but one of the things she's also doing this year with our schools is to create this chronic absenteeism awareness letter um because a lot of times you you may have students who miss a couple days here and there and they don't think much of it their grades are actually pretty good um but over the course of year if you average two to three days a month you can be chronically absent even though your grades may look okay so the idea is to really bring this awareness to to students and their families early on um because they may take that that three-day weekend or four- Day weekend just because not realizing the impact um so there's a lot of things that we're doing proactively and of course we have our Saturdays that have been in play that we're continuing to do um in leverage as well so a lot of those are just some examples of some of things that we're doing that we're really proud of and um I know the work that Allison is doing with our APS Who oversee attendance are also collecting feedback and data points in terms of how we can also bring new ideas to the to the table Al are we still doing home visits yes so we have we have two different kinds of home visits we have um the typical Outreach that might go out when we haven't seen a student we want to check in to see if they're home if they live there if things are okay um we also have um the the home visits that we were're brought through our community school efforts where it's more proactive in nature it's more aspirational it's not um about reaching out to students who maybe have been missing school but it's really to reach out to families to learn more about their story um what is it they care about their aspirations and goals those are teacher-led um with staff um so we have different kinds of home visits going on to again connect students um with and families with our schools and remember there's different levels of absenteeism you have some students bless you we have some students who we know maybe miss those couple days um over the course of a month but it adds up we also have some students who come to school but maybe miss a few periods here and there because they May Roam or they may just choose to miss or ditch that class and then we have students who just aren't coming to school so we have different levels of of absenteeism and we're trying to address the different levels um based on the need of the student and so there's a lot of complexities to how we're trying to address this but um I know our district is up for the challenge and we're working intentionally to to do that work wow thank you for answering that was very thorough you want to say something yeah that's thank you jiren I would like to add you um make a comment you noted that uh nationally there's a crisis in chronic absenteeism we have been going deeper with the data there's been State and National Data on uh SEC mid middle and secondary school students uh National and State polling and surveys and uh lo and behold students are finding School less relevant to their lives uh school has become boring and um and that's why we want to underscore the importance of student voice and allowing students to find their voice find their issue find their passion and express it but also hopefully that passion leading to a possible major in college or a possible career right pathway and um and so I'm so grateful to um our our teachers for helping to make that happen in the classroom they're supporting the students and encouraging them to speak up and speak out about whatever issue that they find important and yes to hold us all accountable I think that's what creates a more healthy democracy and uh I'm really proud of the board for supporting that as well the student voice should be front and center uh and hopefully um we will together be able to make school meaningful and relevant for all of our students and and that's why we have important um programs like uh neutral ground and other that have been an important partner to um helping to support Student Success thank you any other questions or comments okay Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal I miss Smith I and I vote I resolution 10.10 um sorry item 10.10 resolution number 2024 25- e-06 Red Ribbon Week action item so moved second he moved in second any questions or comments comments I would like to see red ribbon programs that are more relevant to the age of our high school kids and you know and be a little bit more intentional about the programs about that um same thing at the junior high level some more engaging activities that really are in intentional to to Really resonate with um so we'd have to be working with you know our two- pay programs Etc but I mean get some ideas um and let's generate something that is really more kid kid age uh Focus age appropriate yes age appropriate all right uh any other be appropriate questions or comments hey um Mr hosi hi Mr O'Neal Miss Smith I and I vote I 1011 resolution number 2024 25- e-07 International translation day action item so moved second okay moved in seconded any questions or comments just really appreciate um all of our um our translation department or all of our translators without uh them um you know we can't uh communicate with um uh some folks so um they're very important to um providing that important um information out there all right um Mr hosi I just want to say Dr fren and I were at a back to school night and we had student translators and they had like ribbons underneath their name badges and I understand that's been going on at at several School schools and so I just really want to applaud I mean the schools that are doing that and engaging the kids with the families I just thought it was like wow this is this is incredible and the kids were you know um were talk talking to families and if they needed the translation services so kudos to the principles that thought of that aome thank you for sharing that Mr hosi hi Mr O'Neal hi Miss Smith hi and I vote I 1012 resolution number 2024 25- e-08 request for proposals for eate year 28 data Communications equipment cyber security software and other related electronic equipment apparatus and services action item so moved second okay any questions just a climate this is such an important program that we've had over all these years I I don't know how many millions of dollars we've received in order to keep our equipment updated replacing it and fixing it so um thank you to the IT department for getting this to us and and following through with it over the years thank you here here okay Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal I miss Smith I and I vote I 1013 resolution number 2024 25- hr-01 week of the School administrator action it second all right any questions or comments no just really honor our school administrators they are um you know extremely important uh in their role um and uh we we appreciate um all that they do and um we um we couldn't do this work without our hardworking administrators who really do this um I remember talking to Mr hosi a while ago and he reminded me of um the uh number of hours spent um you know going not only doing your day job but then going to events afterwards and um you know sometimes we forget that um we forget that um administrators who are so dedicated and they attend all the basketball games and football games and and they try to try to get in support of um of all the students so we really appreciate you and so anyone out there um really really honor and thank um your school administrator all right Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal thank you I miss Smith ditto I and I vote I thank you okay 1014 Reserve transparency statement of reasons action item and I believe this is an information item actually oh this says action yeah it does but it's it's a typle okay information information all right we accept that 10:15 ratification lease leaseback agreement AP construction ground Group Inc DBA air plus districtwide and soul systems RFP number action item no moved second okay moving to second questions on this Pat's here okay seeing none all in favor I I I 1016 revised board policy 7807 parenthesis 6158 independent study second reading second so moved okay second reading um do I get a second on that second okay um what I just really uh summarize in this is um you know this it it really is um to increase um participation um above all um and to decrease um apathy and Dropout with this um program um I so admire um our our study programs and um I really uh hope that um well I already know that we will be helping many more students with this so uh any questions or comments no no ready to vote on this one sure okay all in favor I 1017 piggyback big Google workspace for Education action item so moved uh piggy pack bid 1017 wasn't it pulled was Paul that was 11 that was 1117 oh 1117 sorry wrong page I want to vote on this one this is a reduction of 15% cost I love that I complain about that no do I get a second or a a motion oh yes so moved okay a second on this item I'll second it all right all in favor I I all right Bo president Rand Trio can I make a comment on this real quick yes so I just want to clarify for folks for not only for our board for our public but um the Google workpace for Education this is the Google Suite so this is our Gmail or email system it's our calendar system it's our Google Docs spreadsheets ex um slides um all those all those sweet um platforms that we get to enjoy that's what this represents it's not um it's not the same as what we're doing with our Learning Management platform in but this is the Google Suite okay communication all right uh did we vote on this no okay all in favor I thank you 18 agreement with Mr Kevin Mays action item second moving seconded questions or comments okay all in favor I I 1019 agreement University of California Irvine UCI Paul Mirage School of Business Future Leaders initiative action item so moved second okay moved in second any questions or comments on this item hearing none all in favor I I 1020 agre agement helping the behaviorally CH challenged child hbcc action item so moved second moved in second it questions comments okay hearing none all in favor I 1021 memorandum of understanding the Regents of the University of California on behalf of its UC Cooperative Extension Orange County expanded food and nutrition education program action item so move second any questions or comments okay all in favor I 1022 community service agreement food finders Inc action item so move second questions comments all in favor I 1023 subscription SAS Learning Company LLC High School science action item so moved second okay questions or comments all in favor I I 1024 subscription Act activate learning High School science instructional materials action item so move second moved in second a questions hearing none all in favor I I 1025 amended 2023-24 collective bargaining agreement with MMA action item so move second okay moved and seconded questions or comments all right all in favor I all right consent calendar anyone wishing to pull an item yeah pull 117 JJ 118 anyone else move the balance okay uh second second all right all in favor I uh item 117 118 motion that's J so move sorry JJ 7 JJ 118 so move second okay all in favor I I I oppose um abstain all right all righty right go ahead and all right any comments I just want to give a quick update um next week I think you heard Jeff Morganstern allude to it but next week is our first of four uh leading learning lab visits uh with our community school efforts so um if you haven't ever been I would encourage you at least in the in the morning the beginning when we do our kickoff say hello really tell our story before our friends uh get to go visit um katell in South the first go around um I would encourage you to be there you can kind of see the Magic in the room the excitement and um just the great work that our district has done um and our sites have done around the community school efforts is this on our calendar um I don't know that be on when is it it's next Wednesday uh it starts with the 18th it starts at uh 8:30 in the morning it's an all day it's an all day Affair we have 1208 a.m.

so I'm just gonna stay on obviously not [Music] you crispy Crispy Cream donut selling donuts for 13 cents tomorrow oh I didn't know that Friday the 1 so do we have to go where's what Broadway is that the closest I'm not even sure we just got a message from it I think the closest I think it's on Broadway Broadway yeah are you Celiac or you just gluten-free I am gluten inant yeah I'm not Celiac but gluten tolerant so stivity so that and G can't do either been a long time though I've been like this for eight nine years oh my son since like we started noticing like around four or five like he was real restrictive and what he eat yeah and I took him to the doctor and they said oh it's autism and I said no this is something else and so I got a gastroenterologist to do a colonoscopy and endoscopy they did the whole thing and took biopsies and then came back and said your kid doesn't make the enzyme to digest lactase at all like he can't have it at all I always had issues with with milk yeah with dairy whenever I had Dairy my stach lot can't have brown rice can't have pineapple there's just so many things have yeah and and supposedly if you start like I have some Brands because I the diet's a big thing in the autism Community like a lot of people felt going glutenfree casin free help relieve a lot of the symptoms of autism so I did a ton of research on it and the only reason we didn't do it is is the people that did it found that then within years their kid couldn't eat soy and then their kid couldn't eat corn then their kid more things they would have to eliminate more things to keep the behaviors right well what happened with me was I had to I have to rotate it's like I can't have like even the same meat days in a row right I Got That Beef one day pork one day chicken one day right hot then I can't have the same thing day after my body tends to develop an allergy to it if I have it too often right which is weird there's nobody in my family that's had this ever that I'm aware but then again years ago they probably didn't even to diagnose stuff like that yeah it's different it's different I think I think we're exposed to so many more chemicals and I think the food we eat exposed like even our beef like the hormones and everything that I think it's that's why we see more kids with allergies asthma autism food allergy I mean because when I was a kid no nobody was allergic to peanuts I'm 55 remember that either again nobody we I was never told we can't forget peanut butter and there was nobody allergic to peanuts nobody I remember one kid in my class was allergic to eggs but otherwise no food allergies in any of my classes process so I I think it's changed something us and that's why we're seeing so many more kids with autism and behavior issues and anxiety and Asthma and I don't know we have to do better yeah we have to do better I just want toight over I'll just settle for tonight guys tired it's a big agenda today it is but you know what it's mostly policy so it should go quick I think so yeah I mean I think Dr stre has probably he's with he's with Mr Willard right now yeah we talked we were supposed to meet on the 11th and I looked at him we were at the law conference like we have like an hour break and I'm like so can we get this over and cancel the 11th yes he's already spoken with you he's with Mr Willard now he's already spoken with Tom he's already spoken with marabel so I'm I'm not certain that I'm pretty sure he you know as long as he's I know people may have gotten all questions answered hopefully it'll I didn't have you know after him and I went through the book he had the book with them so him and I went through the book during our meeting because we didn't have Wi-Fi to look up the board book but we had his binder right it was I was like oh this is gonna be quick yes so it may be I mean mean typing my minutes was not quick when I had to prep all my minutes I bet oh my goodness I'm still not finished I'm still working on yeah so yeah well we'll do the consent agenda I don't think anything's going to get pulled that's good so that's quick and then we don't have any recognitions I have no rec and then new business they should go pretty fast um yeah I think you know we may get some questions if they haven't already been answered about the data Shar we always do it's usually where is this one JJ oh right here right on here paper yeah yeah actually that's how I caught it I was prepping my Minister tonight and I caught that so I just I told Dan I said I didn't want to do anything without telling him I said just intently whatever happened get on there just do that has it yeah minutes St I know I get here early I hate being if I'm not my grandmother like I was raised by my grandparents and so my grandmother like your handwriting was drilled into us because people get their first impression of You by sending a a cover letter your signature so she she'd make us practice our handwriting over and over again and then you're late if you're not 15 minutes early do if if I showed up to school if school started at 7 10 my grandma dring off at 6:45 I have been late almost every day this week I keep leaving my house early but it doesn't matter it doesn't matter between the construction and the trains I've started going now I now I take Twin Peaks where do you live the mountain okay now I take twin PE and it doesn't matter I'm still sitting in all this no matter how I'm not leaving now stupid then by the time I get I'm lucky if I get a parking spot driving around Park lot yeah this is stupid I should not have to do this I should be able to par you should have a reserve parking spot we still nobody touches they're too salty I'll be drinking water the whole meeting I got be a little further re morning have go tce and then the other day I parked across the street and then every now the rest open up I moing [Music] your are you you a yesterday I was minutes iese because know District as well as the superintendent's office so getting hit with and for some odd reason I am getting all of M school I asked a few parents I'm how did you get this number and they're calling the middle and yeah and like they're like oh well we just Googled and I guess when they Google they say around in middle but it still comes I don't know Peter was over from technology he's looking at it and I went on to Google and it comes up Middle School's number so I don't know when they're talking IOD days and days and days and I'll put my computer I'll set it down I'm look at for two days every day there and I go back two days later on and refresh and 300 and I'm like what the hell is happening why got having read games CL politics came she felt it okay toil woman guess princip princip it's like it's just common sense it's common sense you keep your political views your relig just used in your why why do you say anything why you yourself just say I don't she's not my favorite person but why say anything but but they were they were talking about in the context of The Hunger Games and politics she felt at [Music] [Applause] Liberty that's okay I was actually ping to confirms they was setting the mics up over here Dano is on vacation still correct okay thank you yes yeah okay all right I'll I'll make the arrangements here let Catherine now okay see bye oh let me move move some stuff around okay so now um ask do the he usually second he usually does the Motions when you seconds usually yeah is okay so I will move so we're moving everybody down one yeah might as well okay and then I'll take binder unless you want it I'll use it for the meeting okay just can get through it but okay but yeah I mean she shouldn't be giving and no nobody in their right mind should be giving their personal views on anything like that to bunch of question well and there sixth graders it's not a high school government class it's sixth graders so wrong let's let's you know there's just so much wrong out there Catherine you know this some people didn't have common sense whatever that's kind of what I said to Sunny I said well sounds like somebody doesn't have any common sense no there's absolutely none okay one person I talked to that kind of stuff about my husband nobody else well Dan just told me to call him did he just want to call me um he says call me when you get a chance marinel Marbel won't be here tonight well I just told him I was going to how long just three minutes ago I think it was right before you talked to him okay so you're good he probably just let me know that you're running the show all right okay I'm gonna shut my because I I'm gonna use the folder not this okay the board book because it's too hard to work with both of them okay so call to order roll call yeah I'll do the roll call and I think we have to do um a roll call after one of the items um one of them one of the beginning new business I go to Jay's here I'm not g to say it on there start with J1 let's see one of them I needs a roll call [Music] okay roll call Vote Yes so then that you'll ask me to do roll call one time hey Christen oh no we didn't know that okay yeah we're okay yeah that's actually I have to wait for Rene to come back in there's nobody in here but Catherine and I so but okay no you no you you you always do Kristen and I love you for it okay all right U our audio is going on we're live stepped away for a minute hi glor from inside okay I I just got a callot from the assistant superintendent that they can hear us live over on on YouTube perfect than I just want to get through the Section season to too much yeah I'm just well this time of year for me pretty much F so which is good you got you know in September October November Thanksgiving and then it's Christmas and then the semester over well I want the prop to pass because we need that extra money that's just the bottom line except we we found out that with us still being at 10% us Hill is at right should when you say 15 what do you mean uh override currently at% legisla up from the district St my house payment has my house payment and then my escro account which is my prop insur insur a month I think it's a blessing get out of the supermarket and not spend 100 bucks for two people yeah and walk out with two or three last week last Friday I think it was like H like like 2% what we now High Haven see a lot ofices had these people and rightfully so that got these significant [Music] down it's not don't think it's com down enough but if it doesn't get below five theer they still say that used cars are still like, what they should be and new but they said those should be clean down inventory going up good I mean literally I go e e e [Music] are we live I'd like to call the meeting to order please can I get a roll call Miss mcris present Mr Carlson here Mr Hall president Mr Willard I here Dr Lopez is absent um can we get a motion to adopt the agenda can I get a motion to adopt the agenda move we adopt the agenda second all in favor I I can we please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence flag the United States of America and to the rep for it stands one nation God indivisible liy and justice for all thank you you may be seated um we have no res uh recognitions or Pres presentations tonight uh board Communications would anybody like to speak yeah I have something um Miss mcris and I and Dan streer got to attend an event with Juan cisman on the 21st uh it was a great meeting uh Juan and Katherine and I got to speak um for about 15 minutes afterwards talking about protecting Title One and title two funds um which he has vouged to protect um as he's the only um Republican voting to protect those in his committee so we really appreciate that so if anyone who lives in C six and could email him and thanking him for that that would be great thank you thank you anybody else okay remarks from the public um Raina York from the mea would you like to come speak good evening vice president Mike cronis members of the governing board Dr streer senior staff and community members I'd just like to use my time this evening to invite the community to a public forum for um all of the Morana Schoolboard candidates being hosted by the musd parent partnership on October 7th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at Mountain View High School this is an opportunity for the community to hear directly from the candidates about topics that are important to them on behalf of the Mirana Education Association I want to thank the musd parent partnership for taking over this event and providing the candidates a platform and the community with an opportunity to make informed decisions when they vote thank you thank you what was the date again o October 7th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

[Music] all right Wildcats it's Friday we're going to have some fun today we want to hear from our wild cats promote student voice we're going to get some hot takes and see what our wild cats are thinking about today good morning any wild cats want to give us a hot take I don't think Scrappy do was that bad I think he was pretty cool people hated him I don't know I thought he was pretty cool I liked him thanks for being honest with us thanks for the hot take here's a gift card to Dan's games up on North Avenue buy some games yeah thank you man I appreciate you I appreciate you all right wild cats I'm here with Jessica Balmer do you have a hot take for us this morning yeah I'd say running is the hardest sport it is pretty difficult gift card for participating here's a free bucket of balls at St Andrews maybe you should golf instead of run all right wild cats I'm here with Joel Joel you got a hot take for us hot dogs are better than Burgers hot dogs are better than Burgers so you go to a barbecue they have hot dogs and burgers you're going with the hot dog yes sir thanks for participating got a gift card to slice Spot Great local pizza place maybe they'll throw a hot dog on there for you any strong opinions you want to share hot taste all right wild C I'm here with Lauren doing senior senior year going well going so good going so good that's what we like to hear do you have a hot take for us this morning I do my hot take is sleeping with socks on that's a good thing it's a good thing you're Pro sleeping with socks I am a pro totally disagree don't know how you do that but that's your hot take that's your right here's a gift card to Hawthorns go enjoy yourself after you have dinner there you can put your socks on go to bed thank you thank you all right wild cats I'm here with Ethan Godwin Ethan what year in school area I'm a junior do you have a hot take for us this morning I believe Samsungs are better W so you don't mind texting in green is what you're telling me nope all right we got three students walking towards us one's looking down do you guys have a hot take you'd like to share this morning no no can some of you guys give us a hot take um I like Ranch on Steak Ranch on steak that is a hot take some would say don't put anything on it it's perfect way it is she's going to put some ranch on it you got one now I like ketchup with my eggs ketchup with eggs that's a good one too I've seen that before all right wild cats I'm here with Ella Alice like Alice Wonderland to play this weekend yeah check it out tonight or tomorrow in the auditorium so today's theme want to hear some hot takes we want to give students some voice we want you to share some opinions with us do you have a hot take for us pineapple belongs on Pizza it just has to be done well okay as then it's got to be cooked longer no it just it has to be done properly some people just slap it on like canned pineapple randomly no you just have to have like a nice Hawaiian barbecue style and then it's just phenomenal got fresh pineapple not canned pineapple you can put it on Pizza Alice do you have a hot take for us I'll go with the pizza category my aunt used to put ketchup on pizza and I think that does not belong do not put ketchup on your pizza that sounds illegal in Most states Pro pineapple anti- ketchup on Pizza thanks for the hot takes why they put coffee in the coffee in Brazil do you have a hot take to share with us this morning Starbucks is probably better than Duncan okay so a hot take usually you firmly believe it you're throwing in the probably Starbucks is probably better than Duncan is it better than Duncan or is it not better than Dunc it is better than Duncan okay then say it if that's your hot take then say it starbcks is better than Duncan there you go thanks for participating you guys like pizza yeah here's a gift card to slice spot local pizza place all right wild cats I'm here with eile Eileen what year in school are you senior senior senior year going well pretty decent yeah pretty decent we love to hear it all right you're on the Badman team got your tennis rackets in a bag over there do you have a hot take for us my hot take is that fall is the best season Fall is the best season that's not debatable by far it's the best season let's get rid of this heat we're ready for some fall weather all right wild cats I'm here with Brock Parker do you have a hot take for us this morning mustard is the best condiment mustard is the best condiment like a true Chicago and he's not putting ketchup on that hot dog all right Wildcats I'm here with miles miles do you have any hot takes for us this morning I do yes AV club is the best club in the school I'm not being paid to say this all right Wildcats I'm here with dlan Thomas Logan Sean this morning we're collecting some hot takes from our wild cats you look like an opinionated Bunch what are some of your hot takes hot takes are kind of like they have hot takes that's your that's your hot take that's my hot take okay pickles aren't good pickles aren't good wow that's disappointing I really like pineapple pizza we've heard that before today despite what inside out says I'm totally against what Logan said Pineapple does not belong as pizza hot take being here by 7:55 a.m.

e e excuse me the the record for the Ashlin planning board this is Thursday September 12th 2024 and it is 7:18 p.m. and we're going to call this meeting to order and we will begin with the clerk's report I will add that our chair Trisha Kendall is running a few minutes late so we're going to take our agenda slightly out of order and we begin as always with the clerk's report thank you the planning board has received four correspondents from the public since the last planning board meeting thank you Kate and we now will have a brief public comment what we tend to tell the public at this point is that later on today we have other agenda items including the Chestnut Street project and so if your comment is about an actual project coming later in the evening please wait for your public comment at that time but if there's general public comment this would be the time and Peter do we have any public comment online currently we have no uh public comment online uh at this current point and is there any public comment in person Mr Mar donon is making his way to the microphone thank you 119 Main Street next door to the town hall I want to ask I know you got currently M agenda's coming up I I want to ask is the Z content going to be the same or be changed in the middle well the zoning contact for the MBTA zoning bylaw will be overlay District spread across um um spread across the proposed districts so it's going to be one overlay District so what's in the zoning code book is going to say what it's going to be for this so what's in the zoning today will remain and then what will be added is a MBTA overlay District I also know by email be a public form H for this next that is correct it's not hybrid actually entirely on zoom and that's going to be held uh next Monday um October excuse me September September 16 e September 16th at 7M via Zoom um that's on the calendar and it will appear tomorrow in the town manager's newsletter um but yes thank you Mark as always is there any additional public comment okay okay do you want to say anything okay for the record that's how I feel every time I'm here hi Paul FL from Upton originally from Ashland but I own the property adjacent to the 61 Wy Street project um I just want to make sure that uh everyone knows that we are not opposed to the project because we know that housing is something that's coming and everyone needs it um but as it's proposed right now there's a f story apartment building 25t away from an existing residential home which seems unfortunately that's what the zoning is when the zoning was changed I was at a meeting here I didn't want it changed I wanted to stay residential but the planning board at that time kind of talked me into it and they said you don't need to worry we're never going to let someone build a large property without having some sort of buffer so I just would like to uh go on the record saying that you know I think that I I know that they're probably working on new changes to the development I don't know but we would like to have a little bit of a a buffer between an existing home that's been there for a hundred years which is uh Apartments now so we've actually had affordable housing there for the past 40 years that I've owned it uh and then my grandmother before that so U anyways I just wanted to let you know and see how things are going I know that's not a subject that's coming up tonight so um the planning board because we don't have it on our agenda we can't discuss it in detail but what I will say I believe you're referencing the 40b project that's proposed right next door which the planning board did provide public planning board comment to the state and I would certainly encourage you to reach out to Peter after tonight and he can update you as to where that is can I have a second sure so just to make note Paul actually came into town hall and him and I have talked and actually uh I've connected with Paul we've talked about the situation um that 40b um is still up at Mass housing you know along with the 10 60 um 40b uh but with that Paul did write me an email as an abutter I then forward that on to the select board and to Mass housing CC and Paul and so I was able to connect Paul and Mass housing um and so just to make note of that and make it clear for the planning board that Paul and I have discussed project great and I think procedurally any any further news on this is there more efficient way for me to find out what's going on you know like you know right now there is none you know it's still within Mass housing's hands in their jurisdiction um I do not I do not I don't know what their process I don't know their processes uh is well enough to say what they will and will not do uh what they will do um is either they're going to issue a denial to the applicant and or they're going to issue what's known as a eligibility a project eligibility letter if the project eligibility letter is then issued then that allows the applicant to come in and file with our zoning board of appeals once that happens all then we the town will have to send notification to all the butters within 300 ft um and go through the processes of Mass General law uh however like I said last time Paul you stay in touch with me and I'll keep you updated you know on a you know on a weekly and monthly basis so you got it any additional public comment and with that we'll close the public comment the next item on our agenda skipping over number four will come back to ches Street once our chair is here we're going to move move on to the MBTA zoning any update Peter at this point uh MBTA zoning we're we're still working hard on it you know I think we have a good game plan we had one public forum we're going to have a second public forum this upcoming Monday night uh as Mark uh nice kindly uh promoted um at 7 o'clock on the 16th via Zoom um hope anybody can attend uh it is going to appear in the town manager uh weekly uh newsletter tomorrow um and then we're going to kind of move on uh and then we're going to actually move not move on but we're going to move to we're I think we're going to have a joint public meeting with the select board um which is on the books um to to to talk about this and then we are going to uh hopefully um congeal around the plan and then you know move forward and and have public hearings right now the planning board as slated will host uh a public meeting starting in October um you know to hear the the bylaw as proposed for fall town meeting which is um I believe scheduled for an excuse me for looking at my phone yet again um November 18th I believe it's going to be on a Monday um night at the high school okay and so it was going to be a Wednesday but it was moved to Monday I have a question on timing so if we have a public meeting in October is there um and so someone comes with a good idea that the planning board likes and it's a change is that going to be too late to make a change at a town meeting warrant because I know you it cannot be done on town meeting floor so I just I think it it all kind of depends on what the change is you know it's kind of a hypothetical so but I think we have to be transparent if it's basically we're having a public hearing but you can't change it I I think we have to tell people that if if we if unfortunately the window is not going to be able to allow changes before town meeting it seems like information more than well um the informational will be the public the public forums that one we've already had and then obviously this upcoming Monday night so when we get to the actual hearing is it is it in it seems to me it's likely not in a window that there could be a change suggested by the public that could get acted on before town meeting so when we do the meeting with the select board on the MBT zoning is that a public meeting yeah yes it's a public meeting so that will be the Public's opportunity in theory to provide comment in theory so as long as we maintain the MBTA on our agenda as a planning board we can in theory address changes sooner than the October event and I think then that should be publicized because that might just let me make sure I'm actually saying it right I think we're meeting with the select board we're meeting with the select board correct and that will be a public meeting where all of our meetings are public meetings and we always take public comment we always take public comment and we'll take public comment at the public hearings for the mbta's zoning bylaw however from a procedural standpoint when you adopt a bylaw the planning board has to typ has to always hold a public hearing so that public hearing for the bylaw adoption is slated to be on October 10th right to respond to Kate's Point what are your are you trying to say Kate that if we only have one event which is the select board Mutual meeting with us and then another event where the really we we have a very small window to hear and actually make changes maybe that's what I'm trying to find out what what is that window and I believe if we are having our first public Hearing in October we probably could not address any substantial changes to still have it on town meeting warrant I would say the word substantial yes you know I think for public comment the time is now you know the time was you know from the public for you know leading up to the public forum number one having the public forum number two at on Monday night having a public meeting with the select board about this you know the window is now will the town manager newsletter make a comment about the meeting that we're having with the select board on the MBT zoning and if so can we add something about how that's an important venue for the public to comment so I as far as timing I don't know I guess I'm asking in theory it's been in there it's been in here it's been in the newsletter every week every week correct that like a update on MBTA zoning is yes does that address your concern Kate I'm just trying to figure out what we want to what are you asking as a member of the public if I came to a hearing I would I would think that I would be able to influence and and I believe if in October it will be minimal chance you want more focus on the fact that the last point of influence might be would does the of the think that's important to I I just don't understand what's being asked I'm following Pete's um rationale I think the public has had plenty of opportunity and still has opportunity to come and thinking that you're going to come with a great transformational idea last minute is not a right way to do anything um I think every all these meetings are public and it's been yeah discuss whoever is waiting should not wait that's kind of my feeling on it because we also had multiple public hearings in the spring like we we' had like been for lots of yeah we've had two open public forum between the spring deliberations and these ones and obviously like there's a different iteration of it now for sure but that's been there's been one public forum on it already that's been super publicized there's another one coming and I think um well again like the select board is another opportunity so I think from where we sit today there are two more substantive opportunities for the public to weigh in meaningfully and I I agree with Marcelo that like if I think it's been very widely publicized that this is going you know something's going to go forward at fall town meeting and so thinking that you would come in October with like a earth shattering change I think would be no but to the best of my knowledge we don't actually have have all the partials picked so I think it's what what you consider substantive change I mean that's still open so so but I think like talking through the options and ideas is happening at the forums and at the public that has been happening for a while so so here's the the good news the good news is we've had lots of public hearings or moments we'll have a few more it sounds like we can all take responsibility to individually let our constituents know that if they want to contribute they should be doing that ASAP in many ways and then the other thing I'll say is there is always a risk that somebody will come up with a great idea and this is not going to pass a town meeting and I think we all knew that and know that and so it's not that I'm excited about that I think I had a lot of concerns about it and if it happens we're going to have to deal with it and hopefully not be um penalized if you will by the state and my the last thing my last thought on it is like the world of options like the there's there are various permutations that are available but like the world of options has been pretty widely known and like hasn't changed a whole lot at least like from when we've been talking in the spring until now like the P the last public forum this one coming up on Monday the selectboard me we'll be talking about sort of the same stuff that was talked about at least at the prior public forum correct a couple weeks it'll be in addition to the prior public forum and how it's been kind of worked out and what's been looked at obviously from a number standpoint from an acreage standpoint from a parel ID you know it's so could someone come up with like an earth shattering permutation of that like potentially but like I I also think to your point about like I think the the realm of like available options is has been known and is out there I would concur and and also this is in for you know I did write up a blurb and I put it into the town Pages which is actually a print which is going to go out early October um and so that is also going to alert everybody uh within the print form of planning board public hearing on the 10th okay anything else on on this particular item and we are now moving on to the draft checklist for application status and Peter I did not see at least not in mine so I just left it on this I left it on and obviously this is something that Kate's been working on uh and so I did not put anything there was nothing new to add okay oh was it the checklist for the status this this was the this was the detail checklist that you know what I think we accidentally may have Alo may have accidentally removed that's okay yeah I'm hoping that we don't just keep looking at us checklist and we start some things so that would be my cheerleader for that I think we should continue to keep it on the agenda and obviously start to do some work on it and uh I would be more than happy key to uh actually produce what I promised I think we had a on the sheet I believe we assign names I think um maybe we can find it I have a piece I do have so the items that have my name on them um I'm more than happy to commit publicly to some sort of informal deadline of a draft of some kind of a memo of some sort um if that just so we can move this along and feel like we're actually making some kind of progress so I can just because I think it's appropriate we were talking about the I took a rough stab of order of queue of importance MBTA zoning which we talked about the tree bylaw I think we I got the sense people were sort of excited but I have not been able I think the sustainability committee took kind of for the summer anyway and having her back um so accessory dwelling units and I believe that's on our agenda um I put below that accessory dwelling unit as affordable housing sub so we don't confuse the so I'm doing some research on that and then um Airbnb shortterm rental B which I think kind of those three go together um Zoning for downtown hotels we know who that's me um the bylaw review so there was just a lot we we find discrepancies or conflicts or repetitions in consist that really take us more time in making decisions so do we know who committed to that um well we never did that so we we should kind of with DEA and Trisha not being here yeah Trisha I mean Trisha definitely said she has like a list in her mind of them that she wants to like that she knows from being like yeah I asked her about that but she said she kind of just as she gets to it so she didn't want to what I can do the next meeting that we have is September 23rd and I'll be I will be out of the country so I'll be missing that one and the 26 I'm missing so for October 10th I can commit to having some kind of memo or notes on the three items we mentioned a little bit of research on uh examples of communities that have been able to create protocols to use Adu to count towards affordable I can do some research on that um the Airbnb thing I can attempt to bring some examples of how communities have drafted zoning and the same for hotels the hotel one is easy because our zoning essentially says no to hotels and the change would be striking like it's allow so that one is easy and I literally was going to reach out to Peter and sort of draft it and say did I miss the word Hotel anywhere else um so I I can publicly say for October 10th I should be able to make some movement on that and at least bring a memo to the board that kind of says hey here's a summary of where I am and then the board can react to it does that suffice Kate for now can um follow up with as clerk to Trish to add these specific things as a um it's accessory dwelling unit affordable housing of accessory Airbnb short-term related and downtown hotels okay okay and I'm sending that to myself as a as a the trigger for me so I don't forget to do it okay the I think uh so we had this is skip the B well we talked about there's just that could be ongoing bylaw updates um site plan review timelines updated be the same at special permit timeline and I know some Peter BR and would be helpful and that doesn't seem like that would be super hard to change yeah I think just that in my eyes I think that's just matching up to both like the the special permits follow can follow chapter 48 site plan review doesn't even exist in chapter 4A of M law so we have a different timeline and so I think it just makes sense that we link up and we kind of make it the same uh in both uh and just Mak note I know we talked about edus excuse me adus um and I know it's one of the do we want to move on to the next topic are we done with the checklist um I'll I'll you know what I'll make my note maybe wait I'll make my hold on I just do well yeah it's I got a section meeting with people and one design review so the last meeting we said we probably should try to have I did reach out to them and they are going to get we I have a meeting with them Monday already set for 8:00 p.m.

[Music] good evening and welcome to the Greenfield Public School school committee meeting it's Wednesday September 11th 2024 at 6: p.m. and the johnzon community center um the uh secretary is not here so I'll take the liberty of calling the role um member Goodwin here member Childs here member Sexton here and I Glenn Johnson mad am here we have a quorum just barely Jenny is uh the mayor's on her way in um um we um needed to schedule an executive session at this time um so we will be returning obviously and then doing public comment uh we don't think our conversation will take too long but we don't know exactly how long it will take um so I'd like to hear a motion to enter into executive session pursuant to um oh I should say first this meeting is being recorded by GCT if any other persons present are also recording you must notify the chairperson at this time not seeing any um I'd like to hear a motion to enter into executive session pursuant to Mass General Law chapter 3A section 21 A3 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigating position of the public body and the chair so declares also pursuant to Mass General Law chapter 30A section 21 A4 to discuss the deployment of security Personnel or devices or strategies with respect there to Is there a motion so moved motion from member seon is there a second second second from Member Goodwin any discussion all in favor say I I I I and um we have an i for the mayor too the mayor arrived and 602 welcome um so we will now adjourn into executive session and we'll be returning um hopefully not too long from now [Music] n [Music] a [Music] a [Music] a [Music] he [Music] n [Music] n [Music] w [Music] n [Music] n [Music] a [Music] n [Music] e e [Music] w [Music] n [Music] n [Music] he [Music] w [Music] yeah e [Music] he [Music] a [Music] a [Music] a [Music] a [Music] he a [Music] n [Music] n [Music] e [Music] oh [Music] w [Music] a [Music] n [Music] has joined as well um so I guess let's see um mayor do we need to vote to come back to the meeting okay okay okay um Sydney are you ready okay um we're reconvening it's 6:42 PM um member Martini has joined while we were in executive session and our business manager Andy pette has joined as well our next item is um public comment [Music] good evening um so I have three quick oh Doug zelwin Greenfield um three quick points I hope um the first I had a question about the budgeting process the district budgeting process um I've asked a couple of different members of the school committee about you know what's happening with the bu bud and where things at and I got a universal we don't know which was troubling to me I mean I don't it seems to me that the school committee should somewhere be involved in the process and I remember from years ago that by the time the school committee members at the budget committee we sat in on a couple of meetings by the time they got budget numbers basically all the decisions had been made and so it was sort of a a rubber stamp kind of thing so that puzzled me a little and I just wanted to express my hope that there's more communication along the way than than what is visible to me and I don't know so I'm and given that this is not a dialogue it's just me saying things to you um I'll leave it at that but that that was one comment I had is that I hope I hope that's happening um my second category is I have a question about the three kindergarten classes that have been raised and what the impact that has on uh the redistricting that's going to happen I mean if there three additional classrooms are there space allotted for those three classrooms my assumption is there aren't more kids suddenly but but but that the cl the kids are divided up differently but I don't know that I mean I'm I'm working in ignorance here so um but I just wondered how that was going to work and whether there was going to be conversation about how that all was going to happen and then my third point it has to do with uh ballot question two and I just wanted to say briefly um that there has been misinformation about it that has come the Boston Globe really is opposed to ballot question to and they've been putting out misinformation um have as have local um local uh TV and so I wanted to just correct a couple of things ballot question to the the only thing that it does is it says that the mcast is not a graduation requirement the state standards are still in place that hasn't changed the children the kids the high school students still take the mcast that hasn't changed it's just not a barrier to them graduating they don't have to pass it to graduate as long as they have passed all of their classes which are are aligned with the state standards um and the spreading of misinformation I think is unfortunate um it's the times we live in perhaps but I think all part of our responsibility is to call it out when it's happening so that's what I wanted to do thank you thank you is there any other public comment yeah got it Todd Dodge uh chief of police for Greenfield um I'm here tonight um in the wake of the horrible tragedies that are taking place continuously across the country um I'm hoping I don't know past dialogue between the police department and the school committee um but I'm really hoping that you guys would reent the concept of having our school resource officers in the schools I want to protect our kids there's no other motive behind that um if you look at the data that we're seeing here this was days of old this is today and it's not changing okay the only reason why the last line is so short is because we're only one month into September this is fatal shootings of children it's real it's here um I had talked about it previously in another meeting that in the wake of the school shooting in Georgia the next day the FBI was in Greenfield I don't know if any of you guys know that so it's here we're scared um we're not here to do anything with the children other than protect them so I know we've been viewed a certain way in the past um perhaps the plan changes these days I was speaking with the command staff today and maybe our our officer our student resource officer just maintains security checks doors throughout the today watches the videos make sure people are not coming on that property that are not supposed to be there historically I think they integrated Karen you could probably answer that more they did a lot with the kids um gym stuff I'm just looking to have someone there at the ready in case this happens again the FBI was here in Greenfield already it's it seems almost imminent as sad as that is to say as the chief of police I want to protect the the kids that is my primary goal we have two student resource officers that are always trained up and ready they maintain their certifications I need you guys to help with this I really need you to help with this um we should be in schools I'm not looking to be in come in and look like Storm Troopers and try to scare everybody but we really need to be there so that we can act quickly in the event something happens I don't know what else to say for that um I don't know what the again I don't know what the conversations were in the past um we're not we're not trying to do anything other than offer protection and we need to do that so I really hope you guys think about that and again the minute you say you're up to speed we will have someone there for you we have two ready so okay have a good night thank you thank you is there any other public comment okay let see anyone online move on to our report of student representatives to the committee Shane welcome back thank you um so we're going to begin as per usual with the student council who has already been very busy so far this year the executive board over the summer volunteered at the0 5K and the triathlon where we also had our eboard meeting um we've helped at the meet and greet made welcome back gifts for all staff and treated the newly hired staff to special gifts as well last week weend we held our first bonding where new members learned many of our school energizers and spent some time getting to know them uh getting to know other members we have Homecoming coming up at the end of the month and we are signing up students to help with the G cleanup and will'll be holding elections for open class officer positions soon as well um new students are always welcome to join student council if they are interested they can reach out to the president who's myself or our adviser Angela Mass um Athletics are off to a busy start this fall season you can go to arbiterlive.com to get all the schedules um on September 20th our home field hockey game versus West Springfield will be dedicating the field hockey field to Donna Woodcock um Donna was a longtime educator and coach in the Greenfield Public Schools who passed from injury sustained in a car accident Donna meant the world to many people in athletics especially field hockey and this is the least that we could do for her NHS had their first meeting to begin planning for our events and projects for the year French Club welcomed new members to their first meeting this past Monday where they planned fun French themed activities the school year and this year we look forward to social activities like movie nights and cooking classes and their annual events such as Coffee House and taste of world cultures drama club was excited to welcome new and former members to their first meeting on Tuesday September 17th after school anyone interested in acting stage crew lighting sound costumes makeup and or props is encouraged to join in the auditorium the trivia Club had their first meeting on September 6th to determine a studying week time per week um we're going to be sorry we're going to be creating a new team this year with a couple of returning players we're going to be focused on strategy and memorization and are hoping for a higher score and hopefully a win this year and finally um the students of Color Group Club has been founded at ghs so students had their first meeting on September 5th with a mission to address School culture specifically around racialized language they're working with Administration to have educational inter and interactive presentations led by students in advisory as well as with faculty when possible the club is working closely with school and Administration and communities that care as an outside support um if anyone has any questions I would be happy to answer any questions for Shane what time is please yeah what what time is that dedication um um let's see I not sure if it is listed on here but um it's a field hockey game on September 20th and if you go to arbiterlive.com you can find that game thank you and um it's going to be sometime in that schedule but I'm not positive exactly on when that's great thank you mayor it's at 3:30 and then the field hockey game begins at 4 um and I just want to thank Shane good to see you back um but I also wanted you to know that I heard from some of your clubs and if you have information that you want to get out on our new social media with Facebook or Instagram to please send it our way and we're happy to do that for your for the rest of the club so if you could share that back with your advisers that would be great I can absolutely do that thank you thank you we'll move on to reports of the administration and our business manager good evening everyone you have in your packet the budget report and revolving account as of the 6th of September um where the goal is now at with the year starting as I've said before we are doing our Personnel review to end up realigning where it is that people have the changes that have occurred over the summer you'll also notice on the last page that there is a line at it that's called grants undistributed that's where some of those things are going to happen where technically you're not allowed to charge expenses to Grants until the grants has been grants have been written and approved so we charge things that line uh and then when the grants get approved we'll end up moving those out that's a practice that's been done even when we haven't been here uh in Green Field it's a good practice um so yeah that's you know nothing really new to report uh I do have something that I'm going to be sharing in the next um update based on the meeting that we had um ver in the business office has been running some different report scenarios and she and I I think we found a very good report that would be both easier to read uh and in line with the the little workshop that we had the last time so we're going to send two reports out next time that are going to be formatted one this way that you're used to seeing and the other that we think will uh lend itself to some more uh uh I'd say educationally appropriate way to look at the budget as far as it it it it Mares La of better phrase both the the Des function codes and the organ objects that the city follows so that's just a sneak PE ahead I can answer any questions that you might have questions for our business manager not seeing or hearing any uh Andy I wanted to thank you very much for responding to the school committee's requests for uh some reports that tell the story in a clear way for some of us who aren't steeped in this all the time that's uh going to be important for us and I think will be a useful tool for the community as well so thank you I'll tell you without sounding like a geek I'm actually excited about it well we don't avoid look sounding like Geeks around here very well very often so uh thank you very much assistant superintendent your report thank you it's been good to get the school year kicked off um the real kickoff for us was our new teachers um new teacher orientation for Greenfield Public Schools took place on Wednesday August 21st and Thursday August 22nd at that time we welcome 14 new teachers to our community and over the two days these Educators were supported as they transitioned into into their new roles meeting with their assigned mentors and working and working with the IT department to gain access to the essential digital platforms they were also introduced to the district wellness policy our key instructional strategies and priority subgroups and additionally superintendent patod hosted a tour of Greenfield that received rave reviews um she led the bus and showed us all around I said I wish that happened on my first day so um it really was enlightening to see some of the places in the city and where our students are living and the bus rides that they're taking to and from school to help new teachers understand um you know what some of our students or families are are having to deal with every day on Monday August 26 and Tuesday August 27th we welcome back all teachers and instructional assistance to kick off the new school year the two days began with a with convocation at Greenfield High School featuring inspiring performances by two student groups strings for kids and twice as smart it was great to have students involved I know teachers and the staff were excited to see students and um kudos to those students who got there for 7:30 the two days before school was starting for them um following the superintendent's message about rebuilding the Green Wave Nation staff returned to their respective buildings to reconnect and prepare for the return of students throughout the two days staff engaged in a variety of professional development sessions including honoring the student experience in illustrative math ongoing support for implementing our key instructional strategies which are checking for understanding scaffolding questioning techniques and think right pair share and training on using imagine math our interv our math intervention platform instructional assistance also rece rece re training in strength-based instruction and we look forward to seeing these efforts come to life in the coming weeks and months and to build upon this work during the professional development sessions throughout the school year all of these activities are planned with the intention of addressing objectives outlined in our strategic plan and these activities are most re most directly connected to the sections related to curriculum and instructional supports at the end of each session participants complete feedback forms and this information is then used to monitor our progress toward these objectives plan future professional development and inform the work outlined in the dist in our district prioritization plan developed in collaboration with the Statewide system of support team assigned to Greenfield by desie as school got kicked off we had the window for our beginning of the year benchmarks also opened uh last Tuesday September 3rd this initial assessment window provides a baseline for our students allowing us to measure their starting point for the school year the data gathered will serve as a foundation for tracking student progress and growth throughout the school year and will help us identify areas in need of targeted support based on this data we will identify individual students and groups who would benefit from immediate intervention allowing us to provide timely and effective support from the very start of the school year teachers and interventionists will collaborate closely with building leaders to identify gaps in learning and develop strategies to address these needs this process will be continually monitored and refined through the reg through regular collab collaboration time faculty meetings the student support process and other available resources by consistently assessing and responding to student needs we aim to ensure that all students are prepared to receive grade level instruction with the appropriate supports additionally we have posted for curriculum review team members in math and health and Ela and music were done in year one last year and this will keep us on track with the five-year curriculum review cycle outlined in the GPS strategic plan superintendent good evening um we're going to to start by uh I'd like to introduce my new superintendent induction program coach Kenny Saleem who's joining us this evening Kenny was a superintendent for nine years five in Cambridge and four in wayth Mass prior to that he was a district leader in Boston Public Schools where he oversaw new teacher support professional learning and served as the deputy to the chief academic officer he began his career teaching biology at Brighton High School in Boston and is currently teaching educational policy and Leadership at forum's Graduate School of Education please welcome Kenny to our meeting tonight oh thanks great to to be here this evening and uh be here with the school committee uh so I'm pleased to join you this evening and as superintendent Pat said my name is Kenny Saleem and um I am an executive itive coach for superintendent patau through the new superintendent induction program uh which is a collaboration of the U Massachusetts Association of school superintendents uh the Massachusetts Association School committees as well as uh Desi um nisip is uh the new superintendent induction program is sometimes called U has been a resource for new superintendent for 15 years um and uh superintendent patau is in cohort 15 and is one of 21 new superintend across the Commonwealth um niip is a three-year program uh that's designed to induct and support new superintendents who are either new to the role or new to the state and the content of the program focuses on instructional leadership uh Team Building supervision and professional learning um there's a strong focus on Equity uh which cuts across all the areas and new superintendant meet on a monthly basis in year one for a total of 48 Hours um in year two for 39 hours and in small Regional consultancy groups in their third year um superintendents also meet with their um executive coaches for six hours a month and year one um for four hours of coaching in year two and then in the regional consultancy groups um in the third year we found that superintendents who have participated in NP over many years have um value the content the coaching and the collegiality uh that the program brings and each coach works with their superintendent to establish um onsite coaching opportunities including providing feedback on leadership team meetings um providing feedback on Entry planning and findings and visiting classrooms and observing meetings with principles and earlier today uh had a chance to observe classrooms at the middle school um as well as one of the elementary schools earlier this afternoon um one thing to note is that the relationship between the niss coach and the superintendent is one of confidentiality by Design uh coaches provide feedback to the superintendent um only as part of its uh the the program um and it's really focused on on learning and to that end um superintendent produce an entry plan which uh you'll be hearing uh more about this evening as well as a report on Entry findings and strategy for district Improvement uh that'll be based on those findings so I'm happy to answer any questions um that any members have um about the new super new superintendent induction program and um with that I'll turn it back over to superintendent p any questions so far okay oh mayor I think sounds great I'm I'm very happy for the superintendent I told her I wish there there was something like that for Mayors really it's wonderful um do most of the new superintendents are most of them take advantage of this they do it really is an expectation um for um really focusing on what it the the the Commonwealth believes both the superintendent Association the school committee Association as well as desie um is important around District leadership um in in the Commonwealth thank you any other questions or comments at this time okay superintendent thank you so I'm going to start with um what Kenny was describing as the entry plan plan and um I have a PowerPoint here and I apologize I should have put the TV on the other side of the room this evening so if you want to move your um but one of the overviews of the entry plan is really uh focused on uh providing you with an introduction talking about the core values as the foundation giving you an outline of the phases the tasks and you know the next steps in that timeline and how I'll be reporting out the findings from the entry plan and even though I've been in District um this is my first superintendency role so I there's definitely learning curves and um it's really been eye openening for me to participate in the process of creating this plan um I'm not going to read my letter to you but um part of this is online and accessible to everyone but part of really um what I believe needs to be the foundation of any work that a superintendent does is to build and strengthen relationships and whether that's with students with staff with faculty with you with community members parents families and really just listen and continue to understand um all that's going on in the district and all of the things that are ever changing that we need to pay attention to and try to support and move forward so that our Student Success is valid and increasing every year so um you can read my letter at a later date um the core values and beliefs though that I really hold true and are really the foundation of my entry plan are students first um they are the reason we all are employed in these roles they are the reason we get up every day the they are the reason that we make decisions to try to make their experiences better in our school system and with that is that shared Vision with stakeholders we all need to be working in the Direction and supporting the goals that we have as a district to move ourselves forward that definitely aligns with support and engagement though you have to offer the support but you also have to be engaged they you need to be seen you need to be um evident out in the community you need to be available you need to really Express that you are um in it and uh willing to do the hard work to make the change happen and lastly just that collaboration with families and how we need to be partners with them that they entrust us with their children and we entrust that they are working with us to have everything moving in a direction their success for their students will happen um so really having that bridge is so important and continuing trying to build that bridge with families is definitely one of the values I hold dear one of the things we've been talking about as a school committee though was this um strategic plan that was developed before many of you were actually school committee members and understanding how that Five-Year Plan really um is incorporated into everything that we do so you'll see in Stephen's report tonight and in my report one of the asks was to try to align some of the things that we're reporting out on with the Strategic plan that's in place in year two so we're going to highlight those things as we provide information at these meetings but I also took those four buckets as I'll say that came out of the Strategic plan our overarching um focus points are Communications and Outreach instructional supports curriculum and instruction and operations and I feel like those definitely link in support and in conjunction with the core values of my entry plan and I also added our mission statement which came out of of year one with the Strategic plan which is the Greenfield Public School District is a place where every child is supported on their path to success and I think we need to remember that that every child's experience is different and we want to make Equitable experiences for them so that ultimately their success is graduating and becoming good humans in the world doing wonderful things core value number one though students first so um I really think that of all the components this value is at the heart of everything we do and I think all of us need to remember that these are the people that we are serving and everything that we do needs to be in service of them I also think that um what they have here in Greenfield is special we have phenomenal staff in every one of our buildings and people that give their all every day for these kids and supporting them in that work is really pivotal to the the mission that I hold dear as a leader but one as an educator where we're constantly learning and trying to do the best for them and improving we're not going to get it right all the time but we definitely are trying our best to improve each and every day how do we do that though and what is it that we want those students first to get we want qualified Educators in front of them we we want access to high quality instructional materials and having that grade level curriculum and we've done a lot of work in the past three years when I was assistant superintendent to make sure that that is accessible to students across the board we want their social and emotional needs met we want to support that because we know their emotional needs and their social needs are part of their learning environment and what makes them successful in our classrooms we want our schools to be safe and supportive and welcoming and we want to be culturally responsive and always focusing on Equity some of the things that our tasks or um things that I can do along with our leadership team to make sure that we always keeping those student F those students first is site visits to buildings and classrooms Stephen and I need to be boots on the ground seeing what's happening in our classrooms and our buildings and making sure that the work that we are giving to our leadership team is filtering down to the faculty is filtering down to the classrooms in each of our schools We are continuing our learning walkthroughs and this year we have a learning walkthrough with a focus on literacy and we will be doing six official learning walkthroughs as an administrative team along with our ssos partners along with the teaching lab again this year and we've adopted a new tool so that the results can really fine-tune our data on our stud students and what's going on and how we can move them forward we have professional development aligned with the district prioritization plan of the ssos team that we've submitted to desie and we're going to be reviewing district and state level data not just three times a year but constantly at our leadership team and then they're going to lead their buildings at collaboration with their teachers so that people know how our students are doing each and every day we have professional development with building leaders we have department head meetings to discuss building needs to make sure that our buildings meet the needs of our students we have a chronic absenteeism issue in green fields we have to be paying attention to attendance we cannot possibly move the needle for student Improvement if our students are not in front of us it has to be pivotal in the work that we're doing and then we need to be reviewing student support team report reports at the building level and to see where our students are struggling who's being referred and how we can support them so that they are successful core value two is that shared Vision with stakeholders um we have to be partners all of us together for our students we have wonderful people working hard from all Community um aspects to our PTO to some teachers here that I highlighted to our department heads to every Department that works for our buildings and some of the things that we've discussed as I've just just had some listening sessions with stakeholders we're asking some of these questions so I wanted to share some of the answers that came out of these listening sessions and if you recall I started these listening sessions in the spring as assistant superintendent but one of the things um that I asked people is what do you want for the students of Greenfield Public Schools and the an some these are just some of the answers I got Equitable learning experiences for all of our students diverse opportunities to explore College and Career experiencing experiences and welcoming and supportive schools and then I asked what glows do stakeholders have about the Greenfield Public Schools what what is positive that you feel about our schools and really they know that the investment in the educational experience of all children is true they know from the teachers their students have they know it from their building principles they know it from the conversations they have with others in our buildings expanding access and communication venues with the district you know we have really tried to be more available and to communicate better and to expand access to building leaders District leaders in different venues and they definitely over and over and over I should have put this one in bill in big letters know that teachers care deeply about their kids and they know that administrators are supporting teachers in that work the last question I asked was where would you want us to grow where do you see us needing Improvement either in the next school year or in years to come because this isn't going to happen overnight the expanded opportunities and career exploration was really a highlight for our students um you see a lot of Workforce Development opportunities um budding out at GCC our local Community College you see a lot of um kids that don't want to go to a tour fore college but they want to have a livable wage and they want to take other career paths and how can we get them the opportunities to explore that they want to see Diversified clubs and extracurricular activities shaking it up a little so that there is more for more students to get involved in um we see as schools match wits that made a come back at the high school I also saw an advertisement for a crochet Club so you know teachers are listening they want to expand those opportunities so that they have students who feel like they belong in a certain area or can enjoy some Afterschool activity with their peers and have some um fun and opportunities to do that and then um one of the highlights that I always hold dear is more opportunities for highlighting academic achievement of students not just that honor role in the newspaper quarterly but how else can we highlight all of the good that they're doing all of the hard work that they're doing so that that is celebratory and rewarded um core value three is that support and engagement and I included um part of the work that I started with our admin team we are doing a book study on leading with dignity by Donna Hicks um if you've never read the book I strongly recommend it it's not just for educational leaders it's about leadership in general and how we treat people that we are in um collaboration with whether it's in the workplace or other um we did our first uh PD development at our e team this week where Stephen and I led the first two chapters of this but I really I took this quote and it really hit home with our e team and I really think it really shows um what we value and that dignity not only explains is an aspect of what it means to be human but also is a Hallmark of our shared Humanity everyone wants to be treated in a way that shows they matter I started our convocation with the puzzle piece analogy and that we are all a puzzle piece in the greenwave nation that need to come together and we are not whole without each other's peace and I think that is true at every level and our students are very important in that whole puzzle um really supporting the whole person we try to do it with our staff and our admin team the building principles are doing it with their teachers and with their students creating class rooms of trust collaboration and respect Community connections and Outreach um really just making sure that we are doing the best we can to try to connect with everyone who's a part of our student experience modeling and leading by example how do we want our leaders to lead how do I want my principles to lead in their buildings how do we want our teachers to lead in their classrooms and I really think that that's the culture that we're trying to create and then showing up for our students and staff they want to see us outside of the classroom they love when you go to an activity a band concert they see you at the football game um I I was shopping at Big Y and I get the huge shout out of Miss bat node they love to engage with us and they would love to see all of you join them in supporting and engaging with them as well I put this on here as a former High School principal you know our shared vision is that all students are successful and that they continue as lifelong Learners and they are active and engage contributors to our society we want to get them to the finish line but we want them to go out and be good humans and give back to the world in which we live so we want the support and engagement along the way so that they know that that is possible for each and every one of them and then core value four is really that um ingrained collaboration with families and being out in the community and being accessible um we had quite the representation in the parade this year for any of you who saw us we were um a football field long is what a picho mom said to me so I am very happy with the representation but I have done Saturday Library visits to try to meet families I worked the Harvest supper we've done food truck supper nights we've done listening sessions and we will continue to be accessible throughout so that families can engage with us in whatever venue they feel comfortable in I think we need to continue to gather that feedback we did a survey in March of family Communications and we want to do another one before the uh winter break so we will be following up with that we want to respect and welcome all to their children school we want people to feel comfortable coming to us we want to celebrate the successes of their students together and we want to make sure that they feel we are creating and we are actively Equitable access for every student and we want to plan and organize family engagement events to avoid conflicts one of the biggest pieces of feedback is they can't be somewhere if they have children into two schools and the event happens on the same night so we want to really take their feedback and make sure that we make the the positive changes so they know we're listening and we know we care about what they what they expect of us um and I think that we have to keep in mind that we have to revisit and adapt as we go through the process this is only year two of our strategic plan we might have to you know pivot and make some changes but we are listening and we are paying attention the tasks and timeline just so you all have um some outline as to when all of this entry plan andent findings are going to happen um we're I'm sharing the plan with you tonight at our school committee we're going to continue to provide listening session forums for stakeholders from now through December going to gather that information and data and then do site visits as well and take into account the information we get back from the site visits process all of that information I will keep you updated in my monthly superintendent uh reports to the school committee we'll be analyzing and synthesizing the information December and January and then our report of Entry findings um a draft will be shared with our admin team at that level in January and then the final will be presented to you in February one of the things though that I really want everyone to keep in mind is not only do we have the district prioritization plan with our ssos team but we have a district um desie site review scheduled for this year so we have been chosen to undertake that and that is quite an undertaking um I was listening on a webinar the other day to all of the things that we have to do so between those two um exercises in reviewing our district and seeing where we stand and analyzing data and reviewing and T giving feedback to building leaders and doing more walkthroughs and doing the cycle over again we're going to have a pretty good um insight as to where we stand as a district come February March after all of this um if the dis desie District site review happens in October which was one of the dates they had proposed they did say that it would be about four to five months with the findings so we might have them in Spring if they don't come until later in the year we may not have their findings until the summer so I just wanted to keep you a breast of that and that is the end so I do have um if you want to save questions I do just have a uh update though as well to my superintendence report just to add a little more information that wasn't part of the entry oh thank you um so we opened school as you know August 26th we had convocation and um as I spoke about in this presentation we really were just trying to message that we are all valuable pieces to the Greenfield Public Schools and that we need to work together and collaborate in a respectful Manner and that way we can create positive learning experiences for our students I really do want to shout out and take this time to thank our maintenance and custodial staff the admin assistants the tech department our business office staff and building administrators for all of the work they did over the summer to get our schools ready and uh looking fabulous for opening and a big shout out to the F Food Service staff they supported all of our summer school extended year programs with meals and then did 60,000 meals this summer in our summer eats program and I just can't thank them enough um I have added additional photos of them uh from the parade they were left out of my s'more on Monday because I did didn't have any so we've added many more to the s'more so if you have access to that link still please go back there's many more photos but I told them I would give them a shout out tonight because I felt sorry that I forgot them um I do want to just highlight though they have switched their point of sale system to school Cafe and fam should be getting that information not only in my parent updates but also in the school newsletters so if you haven't switched over to the new point of sale for your child in school lunch please follow the link toam schoolcafe.com um and I also added that this was part of the operations District strategic plan for year two so Greta is doing a fabulous job as the food service director and making this happen and appreciate all of the tech support from our tech department um district-wide Staffing we obviously as you know are still looking to fill some positions we have instructional assistance at the elementary in middle school we have special education positions at middle and high some night custodian positions we have a kindergarten position in Federal Street and we're always looking for substitutes um one of the things I did want to also just say is there's been some conversations around the grade shifts that we had to make at our elementary schools to accommodate an additional K classroom at each Elementary School and the reason this happened was due there was a significant amount of registrations in late summer so I went and did some data collection with our registar today and between August 12th and August 28th the district had approximately 45 new registrations many of whom were those kindergarten families so we continue every day and I know for those of you that have been in Greenfield long enough you know they continue to move into district and register on an ongoing basis so those numbers really spiked in lat summer the budget that we had approved for this year did not allocate funding support to support additional teaching positions the budget was developed last fall approved in the spring based on projections and information at the time and there we had to work on being budget neutral in each school and that required working with the Union adhering to collective bargaining agreements discussing with the school committee Vice chair Glenn was on vacation and Kate was in charge and her and I had a lengthy conversation and Kate is also the budget subcommittee chair um and then I had informational sessions with each building PE principal and all of the teachers that were affected by this so we met with all parties and made the necessary shifts to best meet the needs of our students and in order to support the difference in sections in other grades we look to our Title One federally funded Grant so that we could um offer a shared IA for those classrooms and we are still looking for those IAS so if we have anyone out there that would like to come work with us we would welcome you um it is important to note though that each Elementary School houses a subpar special ed program and some of those class enrollments reflected in total grade level numbers are not reflective of day-to-day operations in classrooms um so I just wanted to clarify that and then my last bit of an update I think is so exciting because I know this is near and dear to the committee's heart is the music um we welcomed a new band director Hannah Cherry to the GPS staff and Rockstar we also welcomed Rachel Herz who is our Elementary fourth grade instrumental teacher Eli Litwin who is splitting his time between Federal Street and Newton and we have our returning music teacher Sarah page who splits her time between Federal Street and Discovery and for those of you that don't know strings for kids is uh hosting their program now Mondays and Fridays at our own Greenfield Middle School so that students in the program K7 Come Together um and can practice together and learn from the older kids teaching the younger kids and I talked to Julie KW after Monday was their first day she said it went phenomenal so very excited to share all of that news along with the entry plan with all of you tonight well thank you very much both of you for your reports and um superintendent uh for your very thorough and um presentation of your induction um plan it's uh impressive uh questions and comments from the committee member ston yeah um thank you very much for laying your plan out and for mapping the uh strategic plan to the core values appreciate that um I had some questions about things that you did didn't mention that have been coming up just from the community that I wanted to follow up on um I know that there was a little bit of a busing snafu and a communication snafu during the first few days with some of our elementary school students where their children were late uh by more than an hour and there was not communication from the schools to the parents about this has how are you planning to make sure that that doesn't happen at all again in the in the remainder of the school year um and then I'm I'm actually uh a little bit concerned that the public comment from Chief Dodge was the first time that I had heard that the FBI was at our school recently not at our school the city in the city okay in the city uh not at our school okay oh no I was that would be news to me too okay great um because there was a a separate comment that I had received from a from a parent or wondering um or believing that there had been an incident at our schools and uh so I just wanted to make sure um because I I don't want that to be the way that I find out I would love to hear those kinds of things from you when if if hopefully not when uh they happen um and I was also just curious about these the about the kindergarten class and if I could follow up on that is are these is the actual total number of kindergarteners that we have this year substantially more than the actual number of kindergarteners that we had last year okay and so these are totally new totally unanticipated ated we could definitely not have reasonably predicted these 45 reg later in 2023 we had 86 kindergarteners enrolled in 2024 as of September 9th we have okay those are all the things that I wanted to follow up other questions remember good one oh sorry I had um actually told member Martini Who's online that I'd recogniz her next I forgot member Martini do you want to speak thanks Glen I just wanted to um speak my thoughts about the um presentation of your entry plan um Karen because as you were going along I was just um noting all of the ways in which I have been seeing you put those um actions into practice over the last um couple of months and even you know while still in this um planning phase and I appreciate how much you have uh put yourself out there to be available to the community and um participatory and um and and engaging with all different stakeholders and uh in terms of the priority the first priority that you um identified putting students first um that's something that uh was definitely part of the um conversation that you and I had in regards to um what to do about the uh influx of kindergarteners and um how to go about identifying the most Equitable uh the most Equitable action to take for our students um and to do that regardless of what um may be popular or uh what opinions might be out there so uh in any case I just uh wanted to say I can definitely see those values taking taking place right out there um in your actions over the past couple of months and I appreciate that so um you sharing your plan really helps me to um understand where things like that are coming from and I appreciate the presentation of that and also I just wanted to give a a special um a special shout to miss Herz I'm so excited to have our um fourth grade Band program coming back like we planned um as part of our uh effort to to improve our music program that have been going on over the past many months so um that is all thank you thank you member Goodwin I have two questions when does the middle school have a music teacher Hannah Cherry splitz your time between the Middle School and the high school the high school has a band and in the middle school I talked to Hannah this afternoon she has 31 fifth graders signed up for ban 126th graders and nine seventh graders so um I think we see the investment in growing the middle school program and how that will feed into the high school and I also want to let you know that 69 Fourth Graders are interested in taking instrument lessons and that is 2third of our fourth grade signed up for that so so um Rachel Herz is going to be very busy thank you and so when the whole kindergarten information came out I went to the dec website and they had us having 125 kindergarten students last year so did we have 80 kindergarten students last year yes I shared the enrollment numbers with you from our Sims data right but the D the state has got wrong data that's weird okay well could be so you only budgeted for the 81 for kindergarten teachers so at the time when we were developing the budget Discovery School had 10 kindergarteners enrolled um if my memory serves me correctly I would go back to calling Christine for an answer on that but and uh historic Ally Discovery School is not a school that usually grows exponentially in numbers so uh with 10 at the time and I think that was maybe March when did you approve our budget Jenny April so I I would say in March they had 10 so that was the reason that they went down to one in the spring and that's what was budgeted for but as we can see we can't predict the future so how many we do our best how many are at each elementary school right now kindergarten teachers two no Newton and Federal Street have three and Discovery has two okay because Newton's numbers and Federal Street numbers were just as high as the one in the two at the other schools so we added across the board okay for our youngest Learners great I do have an answer so as you know we have a new principal at Newton um and uh at 3:45 she called me because she was trying to get everyone on board and at 3:46 I sent the message out because I said have you told parents that they're this late and so we messaged as soon as I was aware but our followup was um Stephen um as well as her Mentor who is Miss fenamore from the Middle School School spent the next 5 days down at Newton working on a dismissal plan and you can report but I think we're pretty good now um even with the change of strings for kids but um I think it was um a learning curve for a principal in realizing that we have to communicate better and um we sent a message out and did our best to apologize and understand people's frustration but um I don't know if Steph wants to just he was boots on the ground and the dismissal yeah I I think superintendent Pat said it well I think it was a challenge especially that first day and I think then on Friday we introduced kindergarteners but they got out on a half day Friday so we had a trial run with just kindergarten and then had to adjust the plan based on some other after school activities at YMCA learning null things like that that were coming that following week so it was bumpier than we would have hoped for the first couple days um but I would say by that t last Tuesday Wednesday it was up and running well and um the feedback that I got from a couple of parents that I had met the first couple of days was much more positive this the at the start of last week than it was um and rightfully so we recognize that and our convers ation with those parents where we absolutely need to be better better communication um to make sure that they know and we know that their students are the most important things to them and um we recognized that that was on us and we had to make some shifts to be better and I think we got there quickly but unfortunately probably not quickly enough and the one addition that we did add on is um travel CA has adopted a new system um which was also part of the snafu so now we meet with travel CUA every Friday to review all of our lists and our runs and just touch base because they're also undergoing a lot of changes in their company with the new system and just trying to figure out where every kid's supposed to be on what bus so we're trying to do open communication follow-ups and have boots on the ground so that we are better always trying to improve follow up can you speak a little um to the complications because I think a lot of us in our minds School transportation is you you're at school you get on the bus and you go home but I know it's more complex than that different students are going to different places can you speak a little bit to that sure um we are very thoughtful and allowing kids to take buses to um after care so Newton doesn't have after care so if they go to after care they get bused to Federal but they may not go to after care every day they may only go to the YMCA on Mondays they might go now to strings for kids on Mondays and Fridays so you might have a second grader who takes bus six on Monday bus eight on Tuesday and Wednesday takes bus four on Thursday and then on Friday and then you also might have that same student who um is going to go over a friend's house so it's this ever changing um especially at the elementary level just with how young they are and how often um we get information from families during the day on changes to Transportation um I'm sure member Goodwin can remember that as an elementary principle and how it is always influx in changing and um it's just always trying to keep them in line so one of the things we did do to try to address that is change the dismissal protocol and really um we had teachers practicing that dismissal protocol after that event and um we had the principal and Stephen down there just going through the motion so that everyone had a better handle on that thank you other questions mayor first I wanted to just say I'm very impressed with your community engagement it's like practically on a daily basis and I thought was very reflected in the fact that you took all the new teachers and we're bringing them to show them all of Green Field and wherever everybody was and what was happening here I thought that's really you know showing them what our community is like also so thank you um so I have a couple of questions one um uh you and I we were both on the uh shelter call on Wednesdays and um if you're EXP ing a bigger you know a change in the elementary school numbers I we heard so there's 45 families there and it sounded to me as if quite a few would be leaving now do do we know if they're going to be schooled in Sunderland do you have any idea of that so the information we're waiting to find out is if they're still technically considered un housed in Sunderland and if so they can remain with us for the school year and even if they acquire a lease it is my understanding they can remain with us until the end of the school year so um I'm not sure after today's call we've got a list of some that have moved into Sunderland but are not confirmed as lease holders and how that affects their school for their kids so um we have been having as I indicated on this morning's call we had to have a separate call just to try to get a handle on the EB and flow of um the five new open rooms now we were informed five families are coming and they do have schoolage children so we don't have those registrations yet or grade levels so it's this constant influx and then trying to figure out what Transportation they go on as well so so it's it's uh definitely um a lot right I just wanted everybody else to understand that as well um you were done a good job on those calls and um at at the very first I was there at the beginning and people were there getting everybody registered and then we knew that there were 45 families but I think that some of that was maybe upon the individuals themselves to get registered so that was a bit of a challenge and then to say also we will be filling up every room and um I'll be reaching out to the delegation for um you know as much funding as we can so I want to work together with you on that I don't know um it has a great impact on the schools and you know also on the community so uh there'll be more changes in those numbers probably so I just wanted to to kind of ask about that and say that um I do want to add though we welcome every student with open arms and enjoy all of them in our community um even on day one we had five that weren't registered but we kept them and um loved them and fed them and um in had them in our classrooms until we could get them properly registered reged so um we do what we can because students first thank you that is something that they keep highlighting at all the the calls that this is a community that is one of the most welcoming embracing and a lot of that starts right there so thank you other questions or comments thank you both very much let's see we're moving on to item six action item amendments to Title Nine policies I'd like to start by just kind of giving a um little update or overview of a kind of a um orientation to our policy review process we used to um talk about uh passing passing things on first reading and then passing things on second reading but we um um have recently um updated our policy adoption policy um and so the um phases that a policy goes to on its way to becoming adopted by the committee is one it's an information item it's distributed with the with an agenda then and ideally there's a discussion item where we get a chance to talk about it um and then it can be um sent to the policy subcommittee or come back for um come back at the next meeting um and then there's uh when it is an action item when it is discussed um and adopted or rejected at times we do need to move items directly from information item in other words distributed to you with your agenda immediately to action item that's happening tonight with the amendments to Title Nine policies um before we get to the sub of that I just want to um check in any questions about our policy adoption process it's kind of new for us okay great um superintendent could you Orient us to these uh policy changes sure um August 1st the Title Nine uh laws and regs change so attorney roach who you met this evening um has uh Incorporated the changes to Title 9 into to policy ACA and acab for us um for adoption under the new regs and laws thank you uh so I'd like to start with a motion to adopt policy ACA non-discrimination on the basis of sex or gender identity so moved a motion from the mayor is there a second second second for member Childs uh discussion hearing none we'll move to a vote because member Martini is attending by um by Zoom we will do the um vote by roll call um uh member Goodwin yes member Childs yes member saon yes I'm a yes mayor motion passes unanimously thanks every body oh okay I'm sorry take my vote Yes okay K also vot is yes so it is unanimous um okay we'll move on to policy acab sexual harassment may I have a motion to adopt um the uh revised policy acab as presented so moved motion by member Childs a second second second by member Goodwin any discussion hearing none vote by roll call member Martini yes okay member Goodwin yes member Childs yes member ston yes I'm a yes mayor disorder yes yes passes unanimously thank you everybody next we will move on to acceptance and enrollment of foreign students superintendent will you give us uh the setup sure um G the Greenville Public School registar received information regarding two students who are staying with host families in Greenfield one is from Spain and one is from Germany um in looking at our current school committee policy we do not have a policy on allowing foreign students to enroll in the district as part of any Exchange program so upon review with District Council um there was a directive that the acceptance of the two students would be required by a vote by school committee tonight and then the policy subcommittee could take this matter under advisement moving forward after that but if the vote was in favor of that we could um support these students and I do just want to add they are under a J1 visa and under that Visa uh Desi does not provide any Financial Funding to the schools for that and the students do not acquire any um high school credits they simply would get um if they enroll a seniors a certificate of attendance if they chose to walk at graduation um it's really about the experience our students would have by um having them integrated into the school Community okay we'll start with the motion and then we can discuss is there a motion to accept and enroll the the uh foreign students who are applying for uh acceptance and enrollment I move that we accept the foreign student exchange um students into Greenfield Public Schools okay is there a second second okay uh [Music] discussion are they both seniors when they return home they'll probably do it's it's considered like their Gap year they come here for that um they're not technically seniors but we would do that so that they could engage in all of the activities um that are part of that experience um you you mentioned that we're obviously we're not gonna get uh any additional monies from Desi but are you confident that we can we can support these two students reasonably yeah the high school senior numbers are pretty low um relative to past classes so I think it would not be an issue I have a um comment or question from Member Martini go ahead member [Music] Martini first I just um had a hard time hearing exactly what motion was could you repeat it h m Susan Farber can you Susan Barber's coming up or coming to a mic the motion is to accept and enroll the foreign students in the Greenfield Public Schools did you hear that member Martini I yes I did thank you and I just want to say I'm really excited about the prospect of having students from Germany and Spain joining our uh our students here in Greenville I think that there are so many mutual benefits um for our kids and um and these visiting students and and I'm very excited about it thank you any other comments Okay no Okay um I'll I'll say I also think it's one really wonderful and uh can really I know from my own experience of forming friendships with people from other countries it's really helpful um in expanding my own Horizons and getting out of my us or bubble um and uh I hope it will be enriching for them but I I think it will also be enriching for our own students great so we will do the vote um member [Music] Martini yes member Goodwin yes member Childs yes member seon yes I'm a yes mayor yes motion passes unanimously welcome to the Greenfield Public Schools uh let's see yeah okay let's see can so um the consent agenda um as you know this any member can remove an item from the consent agenda if they want to consider it separately we need to remove the um item a because um those are not the um minutes of the school committee they were um they were draft notes um so there's more formal minutes that we will take up um another day um so are there any other items um be through I on the consent agenda yes U member Goodwin I'd like to remove the vote to withdraw from neas okay we will discuss the um withdrawal from nas separately anything else that anyone would like to remove all right um I'd like to hear a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented with the exception of items A and E so moved motion from the mayor second second second from Member child's um any discussion let's m seon assuming that it passes I just want to preemptively thank green and Greenfield for Their donation great wonderful thank you so much um any other discussion hearing none um we'll vote um member Martini yes um is that a yes yeah okay great um m Goodwin yes member child's yes member ston yes I'm a yes mayor yes the consent agenda um passes with those exceptions um we can now move uh let's see we're at we're at 7:57 we're going to keep going um let's discuss um so I guess I would like to hear uh separately a motion to withdraw from Neos maybe we need a little more um orientation to that superintendent can you give us a little overview of that sure um my letter to the school committee for the proposals included in your packet but um Nas has often been uh years ago as the member organization that is overseeing accountability with um high schools and it's a 10-year accreditation visit and it's a lengthy process that um follows and tracks seven standards and how our high schools compared to other high schools in um not only Massachusetts but in the country um it was really uh the only accountability system at one point which is why everyone was engaged in it for many many years um we were involved in the process when I was at the high school and went through it and um then they give you two and five year plans after that that you have to account for and uh work on but it is a lot of time and energy on the staff to be part of all of the seven standard subgroups and you need a steering committee and um all of that takes time away from the time that we need for other initiatives that we have moving fast forward 10 years later we are in the 10e cycle they delayed us a bit because of covid but um I had a superintendent's call the other day and just kind of asked around what everyone locally has been doing and many if not all of the surrounding high schools have removed themselves from nas it is um to me an unnecessary process for Greenfield considering we are in ssos turnaround we are also having a desie district site review this year so to then add a a third accountability um engagement process with the high school staff along with everything else that we're working on seems to be a bit overwhelming I did um do a survey of the high school staff um and had um the majority of them also reply and agree that it is not a process that they felt they could undertake at this time it is also quite expensive so you have to invest in um a lot along the way but then when the site visit comes Upon Us you're putting up the site visit committee members at hotels they're spending four days here you're um spending your time with them and really uh it is not something that we need a deep dive on we have a lot of oversight already on our school system including the high school which is now in turnaround um I listed some other areas where we are monitored and audited over the course of just my uh few years in District leadership uh we like I said we've been chosen for the desie district site review and that's going to focus on a lot of areas of districtwide improvement we have the ssos targeted assistance overview we've recently undergone a Essa title 12a and four six-year monitoring audit we have also undergone a tiered Focus monitoring of our L program we've undergone a tiered Focus monitoring review of our special ed programs and um it just is one more ask from an accreditation system of accountability that um I don't think at this time Greenfield High School needs or um Can undertake so um I did also get the question though like what does that do for our students colleges and universities and how is that measured and I talk to UMass I talk to GCC I talked to Westfield State and I believe I included let me just see um the colleges and universities all replied they do a holistic review of applications for all of their applicants admittance and applicant from an accredited High School is not automatically guaranteed admission neither is an applicant from a non-accredited school automatically denied and in talking to the local universities they said they don't even pay attention to accreditation anymore on college applications so um at this point it just with our building Administration with all of the other oversight and items we have on our plate um I think it is not something we want to engage in and it is timely because neas is also off you know asking us for our feed to engage in the process and to um have them come soon to the high school which is why it's on the agenda at any time in the future if we change our mind um we certainly can rejoin and go back into the nas accreditation cycle um I do know I think I listed on here the local schools that have removed themselves but um it is you know Frontiers no longer involved Pioneers no longer involved uh Gil monq has removed themselves from it as well as well as you know Hampshire I think grami remove themselves um so there is this um I don't know want to say need because we do have oversight and accountability but we didn't need one more aspect of that thank you for that thorough introduction so is there now a motion to um vote to withdraw uh the Greenfield Public Schools from nas so moved oh okay um let's see why don't we do member child's for the motion and member Martini for the second okay um discussion member Goodwin so where are we in the 10e cycle right now are we if we withdraw are we accredited this year how does that work so we are in the I think 2025 is the planning year so I think for this year is our 10th year it's really our 12th because of covid and they extended our plan so the process would then start and then um 26 and 27 would be an enormous amount of undertaking and then you would have have the site visit and um I don't know 2028 I would think but I can find more information out if you want and we would also have to consider where we are budgeting for this because this is not a budgeted item any questions or comments other items all right let's move to a vote oh sorry member Martini please uh well my question is related to what superintendent Pat just said what do they charge what is the cost of the district for participating let's see it's in our packets $55,500 wait the total cost for the 10e cycle okay yeah total cost for the 10year cycle is $55,500 annual membership fee is $ 3550 anything else member Martini no that was all okay are we ready to vote okay um member Martini yes member Goodwin yes member child's yes member sex yes I'm a yes mayor yes um motion passes unanimously thanks everybody it's now 8:06 the school committee um gets to take a 5 minute break after 800 PM um going to give you whatever the rounding up the minute so you get to we will reconvene at 812 [Music] he [Music] a [Music] n [Music] n [Music] a [Music] n [Music] a [Music] he [Music] second I just like to say these chairs really get better and better as the night goes on [Laughter] everything gets better and better as the night goes on you're ready when we are okay we're not ready yet oh now we are okay uh we're reconvening um and so we have before us um resolution for the Green Field school committee about ballot question two I'd like to hear a motion that the committee adopt the resolution as presented so moved motion from the mayor is there a second seconded second for member Childs um uh this was brought to us by Doug swin Doug do you want to say anything else about it you spoke about it during public comment but if there's anything else you want to add I don't think so I think it's pretty clear I'm happy to you know answer questions but it's seems to me that it it's pretty self-explanatory any discussion okay um well I guess we're just all I'll I'll just say I appreciate you very much for bringing this to us I appreciate you for your um mcast advocacy and um I'm very much myself in support this I especially liked um your emphasis that um it doesn't change the fact that people may be taking the mcast but they can graduate on the basis of passing their courses not on the basis of a standardized test and I think that um there's a lot of a lot of um value that and data that we get sometimes from standardized tests and it also when it's when it's tied to certain things and when it's used as the only rubric Etc um that can be really damaging for education and so I think this is one step towards reforming that system thank you for bringing it to us um so let's take a vote member Childs yes oh I said M I'm getting tired member Goodwin yes uh we'll go around the room the other way mayor yes okay I'm a yes uh and member sex yes member Martini are you back with us member Martini I'll take that as an exstension from Member Martini so that the uh motion passes thank you very much I appreciate it thank you um and Doug just let us know how we can work with you to get the word out about having ad Ed it or whatever the next steps are signatures and the like whatever you need among other things part of the resolution is letting um both communicating with the governor and our local legislators I mean that's that's built into the legisl the the resolution so that would be one step and of course there's a lot of canvasing and and activity going on um to let people know about about the fact that there is this ballot question so um maybe we can talk together about how to how to work together on it I'd love that thank you thank you okay all right um M Martini I'm sorry I've been putting my phone face down and probably makes it hard to hear okay um on um we're moving on to appointments um I had uh presented to you I think last time um draft um or or the uh subcommittee functions and duties and just wanted to open up the discussion for any questions or comments about the um about the subcommittee functions and Doc subcommittee functions and duties document member ston I have two questions one about a specific subcommittee and one in general um I'll start with the more general question uh a few months ago I honestly can't remember how many months but earlier at the end of last Academic Year we had voted as a part of this uh initial discussion to eliminate a committee that did exist that was specifically naming as student Equity um and in part of that that discussion what emerged is the idea that Equity is part of all of the things that we do which I believe is true but I also believe that Equity when it's not explicit is often not enacted and so as as part of the prior discussion we I I had urged or asked that um these committee descriptions and in and their functions duties roles and responsibilities included some specific element of how they were working to address an equity issue or working toward more Equitable outcomes for our students and I am just not seeing that reflected in many of these descriptions and I would love if that is occurring at the specific subcommittee level I would encourage all of those chairs to revisit that question um and name something or if you're waiting on something in particular to communicate that what you're waiting for um but I just don't want us to forget that the second thing was specifically to do with the redistricting subcommittee and why it it appears that like y'all don't think that that committee can be judicious in its choosing of its own meetings and why that one needs requires a vote of the full committee or the superintendent gets to decide when those meetings happen as opposed to the chair of that subcommittee um well I guess I can speak to that um the the all of our all of our um standing committees and um subcommittees are to take on work that has been charged to them by the full committee um and currently there is no work assigned to that committee um the I think I heard a lot of um interest from that Committee in when we were discussing because I it it is an ad hoc committee which means that at some point it does come to an end um it does sunset um and um in that discussion I heard one of the major reasonings that people wanted to kind of keep the uh ad hoc committee up and running in spite of the fact that we did establish our our policy and our plan for for redistricting was that something could come up for the superintendent and wanting to be able to have that committee there to be helpful to her um so oh youing oh please yeah I think with um some of the shifts and moves um we should have a committee meeting so I don't recall Stacy who else is on that committee with you Ann and Jenny um just because we were we are going to have to make some budget decisions earlier rather than later this year with regards to those shifts and um I'm happy to have a committee meeting with you to get some input on some of that so if that's something you are um I just wanted before we got into a lengthy conversation just to to put that out there so that we could schedule something if that's okay of course yeah yeah um great and yes I would love to schedule something my I believe that one of the roles of this committee is that it doesn't only serve as an instrument of hearing from the superintendent but also from the community um on on their questions and what they still have lingering about the redistricting process or the policy itself as well so that's another reason why I wanted to be able to call my own meetings if I needed to because it's it's not a responding only to one entity I'm not only responding to you I am responding to you but I'm not only responding to you I'm also responding to the members of our community our parents who still have questions and I want to be able to call a meeting without necessarily needing a full vote of everybody else who's not part of that Committee in order to make that happen if needed so can you can you talk a little bit more about the scenario you're imagining like sure I've received many questions actually about when the eighth grade moves out of the high school what happens to the space what are we considering putting there um and what are the options that we have for utilizing that that space that will become vacant once those students are moved back into the middle school so that's one example of a question that's come up so you're saying there are members of the community who have questions about how the policy is going to be implemented and the implications on that on the operations of the school not only that yes yes and they want a place to weigh in I don't see any other venue for them to weigh in on that type of question I mean there's here but not everyone comes here so it sounds a little bit like you would like to be able to um have the subcommittee um function as almost like a place where people could come and um talk and share their questions and concerns about the way that the um our policy is being implemented yes yeah I think that but then that see this kind of goes back to Liz Leon's uh conversation with us last time that once it changes from a policy that we're instituting to something that the superintendent is implementing then it it kind of enters that realm that is out really outside of our scope as a school committee I would like to refer to policy AE and just let you know um we don't necessarily need but implementation is necessarily part of policy and policy is necessarily part of implementation and this is there's not a clear and hard boundary on this particular issue and so I I will fight for this the existence of this committee and my ability to call a meeting when I need to AE commitment to accomplishment the school committee accepts ultimate responsibility for all facets of school operations because it is accountable to residents of the district the school committee will maintain a program of accountability consisting of the following elements clear statements of expectations and purpose as these relate to operations programs departments and positions Provisions for the staff resources and support necessary to achieve stated expectations and purposes subject to financial support by residents of the district evaluation of operations and instructional and staff development programs to determine how well expectations and purposes are being met specific performance objectives to enable individuals to direct their own efforts to the goals and objectives of the district evaluation of the efforts of employees in line with stated objectives with the first purpose of evaluation being to help each individual make a maximum contribution ution to the goals of the district every effort will be made by the school committee superintendent and staff to fulfill the responsibilities inherent in the concept of [Music] accountability I'm I mean I guess the way I guess we we see things differently um I see I don't see this acceptance of ultimate respons ability as um being a directive for us to get involved in the ongoing operations of the district I think that it's clear in other places that our role is really different our role is comined to budget policy goals and super uh and evaluation of the superintendent so I don't see it as our role to convene um to have have subcommittees whose goal is to listen to the community members concerns about the way that our policies are being implemented by the superintendent I see it as the superintendent's role to um be in communication with the community and to be listening to their needs and concerns and I think our superintendent has demonstrated a lot of willingness to listen and uh does get a lot of phone calls with a lot of feedback about a lot of the the um a lot of our policies and how they're being implemented so um I I guess so you know our our policy about um about about uh the way our sub subcommittees get organized is basically that people will be provided with a list of functions and duties and as of now I not inclined to change the functions and duties that I'm providing to the committee but I appreciate your sharing your um your concern and your disagreement any other um comments or questions member Goodwin when we moved to the fourth grade back to the elementary schools there was a committee called the star committee and they met every Thursday afternoon and I was on that committee along with parents from every Elementary School and it was led by school committee members this superintendent attended when she could but it was a good platform for parents just to express questions which nobody ever thought about before um and so I think you know parents are trying to we have a history of putting grades in different places closing schools opening schools in Greenfield that parents are just looking for an outlet so the star committee um gave them an outlet for those questions and they were you know everybody was allowed to speak like a public comment um so that there was a way to get an outlet thank you other comments C mayor so I have a question and maybe I wasn't paying attention to this when it came up before um this new thing this is new this sub committee functions and duties who who wrote this I did oh okay so did we have something I didn't mean that in a bad way I just I was like where did that come from yeah fair enough fair question so uh did we have anything before about what all the subcommittees did we did not so um our we have a policy that had not been being implemented that um school committee members would be presented with a with a list of their functions and duties for each of the um standing Andor um ad hoc subcommittees that they serve on and so this is a a new um and that I think is is part of um what's creating a little bit of this discrepancy is that you know we uh when we created that ad hoc committee there wasn't a functions and duties that was created as kind of sort of the chartering process for creating the um for creating the the subcommittee followup if I may yes pleas so on so I'm just looking at like the budget and finance subcommittee the duties at the very beginning if if the school committee has oversight is supposed to have budgetary oversight the way this is worded analyze superintendent budget proposals and Ure alignment with District priorities and goals well the the way our budget process works is the first you know the budget that is originally developed is the superintendent budget with um school committee input and then after it goes to the city council and then comes back then we vote on the individual line items or changes um based on the um new number that we get from that Pro process so if if we didn't vote to support this then what happens you mean if if you didn't vote to to support what um the def these def these new definitions I guess was that what we call them definitions of the job descriptions of the duties of Comm functions and duties um the way our policy is written they are just to be presented to you so I'm sharing them with you as a review but I'm not seeing them as something that requires a school committee vote okay thank you any other discussion okay um next um and we have listed here as communication subcommittee but I I think I was also thinking of it as a community engagement subcommittee uh this is an idea I had that I wanted to put forward to us that we uh establish a um subcommittee um to um to look at Community engagement and Communications um not not basically school committee uh Community engagement and Communications in other words what are our own Communications what's our own engagement with the community um and so um it's one of the I guess I can talk more about it but I guess first I would um like to okay oh I'm on Echo oh somehow I'm on Echo in Kate's world I think let me see what's happening with our Zoom sorry folks Kate I'm sorry I didn't see your hand have you have you had your hand up for a while oh now you're quiet can you try again Kate okay um Kate if you come back just speak up um so I'd like to hear um a motion that we uh create a um Community engagement subcommittee so moved is there a second I would second that okay [Music] um let's see yeah so discussion yes I can hear you now before I was hearing an echo of my own voice I think the reason you have the echo sorry about that you open on YouTube okay you can turn off YouTube I unmuted myself and I apologize for my technical glitch it i y I had a couple I have a question and then and then a suggestion was a little bit of History so because were M at yes there there is a motion to create a uh Communications I mean a community engagement subcommittee and it would be a standing subcommittee I guess I didn't that should maybe be um included in the motion so who made the motion would you accept that as a friendly am amendment to make it a standing committee yes uh and this person who seconded yes okay so um amended to be a standing um Community engagement subcommittee okay and is that motion to create standing or rep it's just to add the U Community the standing uh Community engagement so the the ad hoc committee would stand yep okay I see thank you well in that my my comment about history was perhaps irrelevant but I just wanted to share some information based on Section comments and I also appreciate theorical information from as well experience on this when I it facp to fit Reas devoted to our fac MERS excellent aad purpose related to our facili not distri process but especially withs to the long range that this committee has talked about many element andersh C that would a su if if we're considering the purpose and of but it doesn't sound like that was part of this motion so I'm not really clear how the discussion wandered over to that but that would be my feed on the discuss so I thank you um any other discussion about the um Community engagement standing committee member Goodwin how do you see this being different from what Karen is already doing for Community engagement this would be focused on school committee engagement I mean so how are we getting out into the community how are we talking and relating to people how are we um showing up at community events not focused on um the superintendent's work but our own work as school committee members other discussion all right um then let's move to a vote um member Martini yes member Goodwin yes member child's yes member ston yes I'm a yes mayor disorder going to abstain abstain the motion carries uh we will have a community engagement standing committee um I'd like to move immediately to um appointments to the subcommittee I'd like to um I'm I'm put forward a um um I guess my my appointments would be um if approved um uh member seon is chair member Goodwin and um member Den is there um a motion to approve that um assignment a motion from Member Martini is there a second I'll seconded okay second from Member ston discussion have those listed members all agreed to participate um I haven't had a chance to talk to all but um I I would definitely welcome to hear from people if if they don't want to be if they don't want to serve we can certainly um discuss that and amend the motion yeah I'm just thinking because one of the mentioned members is not present yep y I think she'd be willing to serve um and uh any other discussion all right let's move to a vote member Martini oh member Martini I see your hand raised sorry I keep forgetting to look at the laptop feel free to just speak up I don't know the perspective of those particular members on taking on this responsibility but I just wanted to voice my support um I think that um I always appreciate member ston for your leadership um capabilities and uh and your interpersonal communication with people so I I would strongly support that and M Goodwin I know has relationships already with lots of people in the district and it would really be valuable to have a person uh with those relationships on on a Communications committee and members needs is um I I always admire for um her technological Savvy and knowledge when it comes to Modern communication uh with people which is not my structure so she would definitely be better than I um for this particular sub committee so that's that's how I see those three individuals being a good fit for a committee like that and whether they want to take it on or not that's that's I would support them if they wanted okay all righty uh member seon I would be willing to take on the chair of that subcommittee I want to be clear to the other people in the room I am in favor of having a committee like that um I did I will just share that I did speak with chair Johnson mad about about the opportunity and I want to be also very clear that it's not a figurehead position that I actually do want to be out there doing stuff possibly in coordination and collaboration with you superintendent Pat node but you know in you know other things also um and I I welcome creating another dedicated venue for engaging with the public and for getting their feedback and for being out amongst them talking about what matters to them thank you any other discussion remember Childs I I just need a little bit more reassurance that I I'm not doing something terrible to member Den while she's not here to say no to more work I she said yes she said yes okay thank you thank you no subcommittees without consent um any other discussion all right let's vote member [Music] Martini yes member Goodwin yes member Childs yes member ston yes I'm a yes mayor I'm gonna abstain abstain okay um thank you everybody I'm really excited about that I think that's going to be a a really strengthen us as a as a committee and strengthen the community and help to um ensure the success of every child um we're moving on to uh school committee reports report of the chair um I'd like to make some exciting and share some exciting and good news I can find it um lost my tab um but our uh illustrious uh Elizabeth Den who has been serving as our um our rep to um R uh mask division five uh has been recognized uh by mask as the oh thank you superintendent um The Masks division 5 all state school committee 2024 Award winner um so these are awards that are given um each well they're given each year uh if a district feels that there's someone um who is worthy of receiving it so it's not just something that is offered every year they have to have someone that they feel is really deserving and I think we've all seen um the wonderful advocacy and relationship that um M deneve has um made with mask um and also the wonderful um resources she's brought to Greenfield in terms of trainings and encouragement to go to trainings in other places sharing resources gathered at those trainings with us and it's been a huge um gift to the committee that she's been um doing that and I only wish she was here and not feeling sick to uh be able to receive our um our um Applause for her wonderful success um yeah wonderful news we'll move on to reports um member Martini the budget and finance subcommittee can I that shaking myom for that award she definitely deserves it yes wonderful um I I have appreciated the organization and um training that she has brought to the committee and uh the uh coalescing of our um our own participation with within masc and with regard to um legislative advocacy so much as that to her so um she's definitely devoted a lot of personal time above and beyond um her obligations to the committee and Greenfield and I just appreciate that so much so I'm very glad to hear that uh on to budget and finance I am um delighted to share with everyone the uh budget development calendar for FY 26 that is in your materials um this as you recall is something that the committee has discussed over the past several months um it is not something that we have had before and it is something that um is a practice in many other school districts and uh we wanted to take it on because uh in the past we've had um some difficulties when it comes to uh confusion uh for people about how exactly the uh School Department's budget is formulated and where their opportunities are for input in that and uh so this the goal of this calendar is to um help us overcome those issues and it's just a first step this is not a magic wand and it's not going to solve all of our uh challenges with regard to that but uh but I think it will be a good step a good first step so as see there is a cover page there uh for our our calendar and you'll notice that all over it are our students and and I I want to just explain that that is there because it it's there as a reminder that that is who we do all of this for um and so that we will keep our students front and center um when we are discussing and deliberating on and considering issues related to our budget so uh they are the face of our budget development calendar so that we are always uh reminded that we put students first uh which is part of our values and also part of school committee policy um which you'll see a little bit later in this document now the second page is the calendar itself you'll see that it is uh colorcoded in to several different categories so that uh we can elucidate for people the uh parts of this budget development process that come from the city that are done by the school committee itself actions that are taken by the school administration and then uh events that happen at the state level that impact us so um we couldn't you couldn't possibly put every single step that all of those entities take into one calendar and have it end up on one page okay so this is curated to the most important um events that take place throughout the year and um hopefully hopefully this is will make sense to people I realize there are some acronyms on there and the reason for that is um just space uh it's not if I were have to have spelled out those acronyms every time then um it wouldn't have been possible to um make this format work um on the page so what I tried to do was um spell Out full names for those things the first instance and the acronym and parentheses and then thereafter you'll see uh things like CIP stand for Capital Improvement program uh and so on and so forth so um I am putting this forward to the committee with uh one small adjustment that will need to be made because I missed one of those first instances of an acronym which was B andf which stands for budget and finance subte uh and uh then down on the third page this is the last page of the document um that goes to um offer people some um good solid basic uh information about what the school committee policy is on public engagement uh which you can read for yourself there uh and then how all the different ways in which currently um a member of the public can share their input and and participate in this process so I try to um link things directly for people in there so that it will be really easy to just hop over to whatever it is you're interested in there whether it's the school committee policy manual this or uh specific email addresses and things like that uh and if this is meant to just be um like a FAQ for people about how they can join in and participate in the uh budget development process which is part of our um our policy and it's spelled out for you there um that I do have I have more to say about what's next for the budget and finance um subcommittee in terms of implementing our policy there uh about public engagement in this process but first I would just like to uh move that the school committee adopt this as our uh annual budget calendar budget development calendar par me for FY 26 uh with one clerical change to spell out the first instance of B and on page two thank you would anyone like to I just want to make sure Susan got the um motion uh the acronym that b and F budget and finance that um okay great is there a second also I should also just add for the budget and finance committee itself we did meet very recently and approved this as as our final draft and um the vote from our subcommittee is unanimous in support of approving this as our fy6 budget development thank you so much member Martini so you made the motion is there a second second second for member child's discussion uh mayor I just wanted to to thank member Martini she was dogged in her pursuit of the information um making sure every date she was coming to me asking to meet with the mayor asking to walk with the mayor to make sure she got all the dates down she she put a lot of effort into that I just hope you can hear that Kate um thank you you did a great job M xton yeah I just wanted to second that and say that this is a beautiful tool that our newly created Community engagement committee can utilize to help ensure that everyone knows when and where and who to bother about their their budget concerns other comments or questions well I'll just say Kate I'm not sure that you were here but we actually had a public comment from someone who was saying you know in the past the school committee hasn't been engaged until it was kind of too late and how are you going to address that and there's members on the committee who don't have answers to basic questions about the budget and uh I I knew that this was coming but I'm really pleased and um uh thanks to everybody on the budget subcommittee for your hard work on this and you in particular for spearheading the effort Kate um it's it's really wonderful I'm so excited uh about it remember ston sorry I did actually just I could probably find it myself up here but noting that in the on page two under November the dates are not there so there are dates be written in there times when there are dates on the committee that aren't aren't there on purpose Kate yes so you're probably noticing that in the late spring I didn't mention our regular school committee meetings and the reason for that is because we don't usually discuss very much with regards to the budget at in those particular months and the reason why is because immediately before that we have approved the uh School Department's budget request and then it's up to the mayor and the city council then to uh take that forward for the next few months until we do in fact have a uh a city budget in place so there the school committee itself discusses the budget in all of the months prior to that uh we do a lot of work that leads up to it and then we have to um sort of let it take its wings and fly with the city and wait for um wait for the mayor and the city council to get through their parts of it um so you'll see that uh for example the school committee's discussions about um Capital Improvement need to take place in the fall um because then the capital Improvement committee needs to um do what they do and then the mayor needs time to come up with her Capital Improvement program then go to city council uh and what happens so we as the school committee discuss those things up front and then we and then after that we are um there's not much for to do uh and the same thing with the operating budget once we finish our um our deliberations and approval of that which usually takes place that's either around the very end of February the beginning of March um then there's not much for us to do until um until after the mayor and city council including Ways and Means and what have you get through all their business which that would not take be until about the end of May so we probably wouldn't take up another budget topic other than our monthly updates until June so that's why and then just reading looking at the format there are some for example in November you have three items there but there isn't a particular date that's unintentional right there are times when you you won't know the dates or it's not something that's tied to a particular date yeah that's right um certain things within the budget process take place over a period of time rather than on a particular day uh so like for example when the when the um superintendent is looking for her department heads to create their individual uh budget requests that's something that doesn't take place on one particular day it takes time for those department heads to put together their requests um and so that's not you know that would go without a date on the calendar because it takes place across multiple dates um but I put those in the the month or the start of the year in which that thing would take place um I hope that makes sense yeah it makes sense to me other questions or comments about the about the uh calendar right uh anything else from you member Mar Martini before we vote no all right uh we'll start with you member Martini yes yes okay remember Goodwin yes remember child's yes member suton yes I'm a yes mayor disor yes yes passes unanimously thank you so much big achievement really appreciate it I'm so excited thank you so much this is definitely a little labor of love but I also just want to let you know make sure folks remember this is a you know changeable amendable document if something comes up or you see a need to make a change we can always uh you know go back to the to the drawing board with it and and amend it if we need to but I'm so glad to have this framework in place so now we can we can get going on what comes next which brings me to the other piece of my report so uh the next piece as you'll see in the calendar there is for U budget and finance to meet uh to discuss the implementation of our school committee policy dbd which is all written out for you there on page three uh basically the school committee's policy is that the needs of our students always come first when it comes to the development of the budget and the school committee is very interested in um having input from our community so there are already a number of ways in which members of the community can have input into the budget development process um people can uh come to our meetings and make public comment they can write email to individual committee members or all of the committee uh through our website and um we have had um you know we have individual members such as myself who have regular office hours that people are welcome to come and speak to us uh directly so um I could go on but so we have a number of ways in which we already do this however um I'm really inspired by superintendent Pat level of Engagement with the public over the last couple of months um since she took on her new position and um that's something that I myself would like to uh carry on and and um integrate into our work as a committee so that we're also doing our part especially when it comes to the development of the budget and now I know that I care about this maybe more because I happen to be chairing that subcommittee uh but I would like to um I would like to have a discussion about whether the committee would like to um and how and when do more to implement this policy so I plan to we will be having a a subsequent meeting our next meeting of this subcommittee will take place in a couple of weeks and uh that will be one of the topics that we will discuss so I wanted to ask the members of the committee right now um if uh they have ideas that they would like budget and finance to discuss in terms of um doing anything new or additional uh in terms of public engagement on the budget development process um so I would I would open that question for discussion great responses feedback I mean we just created another committee to engage the public and so I think that there's opportunities for joint committee operations if you will so that we could work together to think of some things great great thought others what that ston talking because it was very hard for me to hear oh yes member ston was saying that uh with the uh creation of the new community engagement subcommittee there might be opportunities for collaboration um about U Community engagement about the budget exactly what I was thinking yes um I also wanted to just add for members I know I you might have ideas later that um you're not able to think of on the spot right now and that's okay um and I I welcome um individual input from Members if they have suggestions that they would like to make I just want to remind members that um if you're communicating something like this it needs to be one onone directly to me because um no one should be deliberating on anything um or doing anything that could be seen as deliberation on a school committee um topic or anything under the SCH committee perview um in between open meetings so um I welcome individual um Communications so that I can I can um evaluate those suggestions properly with the subcommittee and then bring it back to everyone thank you all right anything else on your report no that's it I'm excited okay great um policy and program subcommittee that's me uh as chair and we did not meet we had a meeting and got canceled uh one person wasn't able to be there there was an item where it seemed useful to have the full committee available um so we will um convene again next month there was also not an executive subcommittee meeting um since the last meeting um um I don't think there was redistricting and reorganizing uh school committee handb handbook ad hoc committee um the chair isn't here to report on that is there a member who would be willing to to report remember seon we haven't not met since the last update that was given uh but I will I would like to remind folks to when you get a chance review the draft that we sent to folks um again not with a not with an editorial eye this is not your chance to play New York Times editor but it is your opportunity to provide broad brushstrokes feedback about big areas that are either missing that you'd like to see or ways that we presented something that you would like maybe presented differently um and I know we have another meeting on the calendar and if you give me 30 seconds I can tell you when it is it is the 23rd of September at 6: pm.

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e e e welcome everyone to our September 12th 2024 uh regular meeting of the Board of Trustees um I would like to begin our meeting with a pledge of Allegiance and um she's not I'm asking her to do this she's not prepared but she's a good sport she's going to do it for us anyway lead our Pledge of Allegiance our student representative to the board Aaron [Applause] Beck put your right hand over your heart ready begin I pledge of aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God inivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you all right she's not formally been introduced but I'm already putting her to work I love it um for Our Moment of Silence I'm going to do something just a little bit different and I'm just going to ask um somewhat like we do maybe in our services um with uh with our respected um places of worship do your own uh thinking about uh what you would like to think about and um and give um a thought to always um we're always thinking of our staff we're always thinking of our students um and our community um but tonight is a minute a moment of silence also in recognition of um n our 91 uh victims thank you so much okay moving on to our Clos session report item 5.3 clerk the assistant Clerk of the board tonight Katherine H Smith will read the reports taken during close session 4.1 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 4.2 the Board of Trustees un unanimously approved the settlement agreement in oah case number 2024 02 0946 resolving all issues in dispute by amending students IEP and providing reimbursements 4.3 no reportable action taken regarding anticipated litigation 4.4 the Board of Trustees unanimously approved the settlement agreement in Orange County Superior Court case number 30- 223 Dash 01 dc- p-c CJC 4.5 no reportable action taken regarding negotiations and lastly 4.6 no reportable action taken regarding Personnel thank you Miss Smith um I would like to um recognize a few folks that we have in our audience um we are always um appreciative of anyone that comes to our meetings um but I'd also like to recognize a few folks I believe Jeff Morganstern our ASA president is here there he is welcome Jennifer sasai our ala president is [Applause] here our um is that you Laura our uh I think I recognize you there our um secondary Council PTA president is here and lehia hrom administrator at our um building across the street our Ro anyone else that I um inadvertently missed oh Lacy merer yay welcome everyone okay moving on to our recognitions our divisions uh for CIF girls swim Champions Kennedy High School is here so the Kennedy High School girls swim relay team won the CIF medley relay and the 4X 50 relay swim championships the team was coach by Eric Corona Rick Aila Ron leam and Amy Portillo the team won the championship finals on May 2nd 2024 at Mount San Antonio College the team was seated first in the medley relay and second in the 4X 50 relay they defeated 17 other teams in the finals of each event all right so um and if you're here please come on up the team was made up of belel drunkers Cara kabar ARA teuchi Taki takauchi and Natalie um po PD Bravo [Applause] addition the winning individual championships and the relays they led the Kennedy's girl swim teams to its first ever second place overall finish in CIF sectionals [Applause] we also want to acknowledge of course the families and moms and grandmas [Applause] hi everyone my name is Ira um I was the captain for High School my Junior and Senior year um I graduated in 2024 so now I'm I'm a freshman at w College um these past two years or three years at high school being on was was absolutely amazing um especially this past my last season with with these with the team I had um I never expected such an incredible ending um I also do Club swimming School I've been cling since I was six years old and I've never had a moment where I won a relay at a championship meet and so this was one of the best moments of my life [Applause] all right we have uh on our next uh agenda item Cypress highs school boys state and girl State delegates all right so if the delegates are here you can go ahead and stand up and I'm going to talk about you while you everybody's staring at you Nathan Jackson you Ryan hng Gavin Park so the girl State and boy state are leadership programs through the American Legion and the American Legion auxiliary designed to increase awareness and knowledge of governmental processes while learning about the duties privileges rights and responsibilities of citizenship the student nominees from Cypress high school went through a rigorous application and interview process after being nominated for their leadership qualities academic potential and character each delegate spent a week at Sacramento State University this summer participating in mock government conferences and sessions with other young leaders from throughout the state the 2024 girls State Delegate from Cyprus high school is Shish uh siru Ruru I apologize and uh the boy State delegates from Cyprus High School are Nathan Chung Jackson Houston Ryan hang Gavin Park can someone correct me with the name sh shisha suuu suuu shisha suuu I want to get that right so congratulations everyone [Applause] all right here we go [Applause] have our repres Representatives yeah no no we have our Representatives excited for I want to bring you up already yes we have student speakers all right our first student speaker is Haley soell ATA High School ninth grade [Applause] good evening my name is Haley soel I am a student at Savannah High School I would like to say that as a democracy School District we should be encouraging students to speak both at these meetings and in others nonetheless we should be making efforts to encourage students to register to vote because they will be the ones who will be choosing and making the decision for who presents them both in local and federal elections on September 18th SE votes will be having a voter registration table at back to school night at Savannah High School say votes is a nonpartisan group that focuses on registering youth voters they are already making change in Santana and I hope that we can follow their lead I would personally like to invite all students to come and register to vote parents please encourage your kids to go out and register to vote they are the ones who will be choos Ching the people who represent us both here on this board and in our local elections board members the students you serve are the ones who will be voting on the seats you sit on thank you [Applause] I believe Anthony Anthony Galindo welcome [Applause] Anthony all right hello my name is Anthony um um I'm a student at South Junior High and I've been I'm a new member in uh neutral ground and they um what helped me out a lot was the they U kept me out of trouble uh I had good times with them and like the year's going by so fast and I hope there's like more stuff like to come and like more how do you say it like events and stuff and I I hope to join their Boxing Club and be a member of their club and that's good all right that was great [Applause] Anthony uh Carlos Orosco [Applause] hi Carlos my name is Carlos Rosco I go to South Junior High School I've been with neutral ground since seventh grade um they've helped me a lot like to open up with things I can't open up with like talk about with other people and I've had really good times with [Applause] them uh Christian hi Christian can you pronounce your last name for me yeah U my name is Christian angano you I'm an eighth grade student at South Junior High and before neutral ground I was on a dark path with addiction and gang violence I didn't have a father in my life um in April I started getting closer with neutral ground I started realizing that I didn't need a D in my life to be a strong man um when I told them when I opened up I didn't have a dad they took that they took that step and they were father figures to me not just one but all of them and um when I didn't have no one to talk to about my problems with the addiction I opened up to them and they helped me get away from that they helped me stay away from everyone who wanted to mess up my life I found out about their church and I started going to their service every Sunday and now um I'm doing better in school I have good grades I have better friend groups um my mom's happy with me thank you students we really appreciate hearing from you um and uh you're always welcome to come back and share anything that you'd like uh with us and that's why we have this uh special spot for you um early on in the program so anytime you want to come and share um congratulations to the three uh that spoke about neutral ground we appreciate I make a comment yes I just want to tell you you touched my heart and I I'm really holding back the tears and choking because at your age to be able to solve this problem which could be effective you for the rest of your life and the people that you love and the people that surround you in your life and I just want to thank you for sharing that wonderful story of yours and I know you'll never forget tonight this always ring in your mind as you age and get older and you'll share your story with other people [Applause] I'd just like to acknowledge their leader tonight too here so tremendous work that he's he's doing incredible work and um we're so proud of all your your uh your boys and everything and the work that you're doing it within our schools thank you very much I did oh all right um moving on to our report of the associations uh Jeff Jeff Morganstern welcome all right good evening I'm board president Randle tro Board of Trustees superintendent Mata and cabinet it's good to be here tonight I am uh happy to report that the representative assembly of the Anaheim secondary Teachers Association had voted to endorse the school bond um so we are excited about that we are excited to host numerous nights of Home banking at the AA office and this week I've been working with our organizing chair and comm's director to put together a member recruitment campaign uh to get our members and members of the community out to support and campaign for the passage of the bond in November so happy to be a part of that I do also on on another note in terms of uh Staffing this year we know that um given the tight Staffing uh presented us with some unique challenges I want to extend my appreciation to both Ed Division and HR for working collaboratively with us and trying to solve some some issues and put people in their place I do know maybe once November wraps up and all the elections finished we can sit down and kind of figure out fine-tune the process going forward um look at some of the Lessons Learned I know our counselor friends would like to do that as well and be able to kind of have a smooth process smoother process next year and kind of look at the look at the details of that I'm also happy to report that the budget stabilization committee will be meeting with Dr nen on uh I think the 25th all the leaders of the associations will be there we'll be looking at the process and how we want to be able to invite and include members of the community parents and students on that committee so I'm happy that we are getting to work on that this month and will be more uh information to come on that uh also extend my appreciation to trustee Smith and hosi for being at the insurance committee yesterday um I'm very pleased that the leaders of the associations were come together and to come up with a consensus for some cost-saving measures for our amazing health benefits and to keep that going as we've used to I've been in the district now for 2 seven years and we've always maintained great health benefits so I was glad to be a part of that as uh all the other Association leaders were there the other day and lastly as we look forward to next week for our first learning and leading day here at the district office I'm happy to report because of the Nea grant that ASA received we're going to be hosting over 60 union members board members administrators at the ASA offices the following day to go over some of the great things that we do here in the District as well as to kind of show them the way of putting together a great and strong and capable uh Community School steering committee as well um and that concludes my report so thank you thank you [Applause] Jeff welcome Jennifer Society good evening Madame President Randall tro Board of Trustees superintendent matsuda executive cabinet students parents and school community joining us in person and online our back to school nights across the district have been an overwhelming success schools across the district have hosted parents Guardians and families in person to engage with teachers and staff learn about the curriculum and gain insight into their children's educational experience these events continue to strengthen the vital connection between families and schools ensuring a successful school year we look forward to a year filled with academic achievement and growth as we continue to work closely within our communities we are excit are also excited to celebrate the official grand opening of the new Dr Jan and Ross billing center at Magnolia High School the ribbon cutting ceremony was held last Thursday the state-of-the-art facility will enhance learning opportunities for students providing them with a modern collaborative space equipped with the latest technology in the area of cyber security Dr Billings and her family have been instrumental in supporting educ UC ation in the Anaheim Union High School District for decades and the center will serve as a legacy to their commitment to our schools the event included Dr Billings her family retired ahsd employees community members and students to commemorate the significant addition our vapa programs are also doing great things we are proud of our anim High School band which performed at halftime at last weekend's USC football game this is a remarkable achievement and a Testament to the dedication of the students and our music programs the band showcased their talents in front of tens of thousands of spectators at the LA Memorial Coliseum representing not only Anaheim high school but our entire District on a prestigious platform another milestone in the expansion of sports opportunities within ahsd is our girls flag football teams catella and Anaheim high schools competed during halftime at an NFL preseason game at Sofi Stadium this exciting event provided our students with an incredible experience on a professional sports field the introduction of girls flag football has been a great success promoting inclusivity and providing new athletic opportunities for female students our community schools are busy currently all Community Schools are com conducting needs assessments from parents students and staff they are also bringing in dental and vision mobile clinics to sites provid providing free of charge services to our students in the local communities our community schools have also participated in Fall convening with all of our School site steering committees this month all schools are acknowledging a suicide prevention month schools with their social workers have been planning lunchtime events and advisory lessons as the weather cools and we head into the fall season we continue to look forward to working together have a great evening thank you [Applause] welcome Lacy good evening ahsd Board of Trustees superintendent Matt sud cabinet and community members we are five weeks into the school year and ahsd counselors along with our counseling programs are moving full speed um with students fully scheduled we have now pivoted to focusing on their College and Career Readiness in the classroom um last month I mentioned the universal needs assessment being rolled out across the District um which asks students about their academic their personal social and their College and Career support while we are still in the process of gathering responses preliminary preliminary data is revealing the following 83.7% of our students believe school will prepare them for college career in life 79.3% of these students are interested in understanding what the best career options are for themselves and 78% of them would like more information about their post High School options additionally 87.7% of our students surveyed know their school counselor is available to help them with academic and personal needs and though that's not yet at 100% it's still an encouraging figure considering you know we have a lot of students who might not know what a school counselor does for them and our goal is always to hit that 100% if you're wondering why is this information and why are these percentages important to school counselors we use it to guide our lessons throughout the school year by analyzing the data we form small groups and deliver individualized lessons for students with specific needs and this is what we call our tier 2 interventions but meanwhile the broader data is used to create lessons for entire grade levels which we call our tier one interventions essentially ahs's counseling program is not a one-size fits all approach we are here for each individual student additionally with the support of our teachers students across ahsd have either completed or are in the process of completing their strength and interest profile on our platform platform thrively this is in preparation for our College and Career Fair lessons that are going to be rolled out on E Cadence in the upcoming weeks to date over 26,000 students have completed their profile and here's what we're seeing so here's another data dump but it's pretty interesting our top strengths for our students right now they believe they're analytical analytical they are creative thinkers they have flexibility and they are assertive and I think that you see this just with everybody who's willing to come up here tonight and express who they are and what they are experiencing their top interests are Creative Arts Sports music cartooning and drawing which once again if you think about it it goes along with their strengths and lastly the top recommended career for these students architects set designers video game designers interior designers and animators students are going to have this information that I've just presented to you available to them as they complete their two-day College and Career Affair lessons at their sites these lessons will be taught by either a teacher or a counselor with students using their th profiles to connect their strengths and interests to College and Career exploration they will develop an action plan tailored specifically to them with which they can take to the College and Career Fair in October once again these lessons are intentionally designed with each individual student in Mind through e Cadence we are going to capture student responses and their work throughout their two days of lessons our goal is simple as counselors to extract both the satellite and Street data because as a counseling program we know that both are essential to serve our students effectively so yes this has been data tonight from apga but this is what is driving our program and we are fully committed to serving the needs of our students over the upcoming year thank [Applause] you was there any of the Association members um here that I uh that I miss that would like to speak okay um all right moving on to our uh par teacher student Association report she's here Laura would you like to speak all right all right thank you for being here appreciate you each other at Cella okay moving on to our presentations 8.1 introduction of the 20242 student representative to the Board of Trustees so um our student representative our um to the Board of Trustees is Aaron Beck we've already uh been introduced to her she gets to make her way over to her seat let's give her a round of applause and so what I am told is that our ambassadors will come to the podium and um introduce themselves so uh president Randle tro that that's the next item I believe that um our new student trustee actually has a report for us tonight yes go ahead and move your microphone good evening um as a korean-american and daughter of a first generation immigrant it is truly an honor to even have this position to represent 26,000 students and to be a leader who can bring awareness to every voice I want to use my passion of helping people to make sure students can trust their ambassadors and me as a representative to bring a change to where leaders are born thank you to the chair Miss R Trejo and the board and superintendent Mr matsuda and the executives for allowing me to have this opportunity I want to thank my parents for supporting me with everything I'm my teachers counselor and principal for pushing me my name is Aaron Beck from Cypress high school and I will be the student representative to the Board of Trustees thank [Applause] you all right so um now our Representatives will come up to the podium and introduce themselves welcome I intend to amarate student voices and to create positive change within my school I am under various positions at my school site and I enjoy working with others I am the njtc commanding officer RSVP president dance production member and Simon Scholars recipient my name is Maya gazan and I'm the anim high school student ambassador I hope to continue raising student voice empowering students to share their perspectives and ensuring that their views are respected and responsive in a learning environment and tailored to their needs my name is Elana Garcia and I am the Cambridge Virtual Academy ambassador [Applause] [Music] I became an embassador to make a positive impact on my school and to make the quietest voices heard I hope to help my community in any way that I can my name is Jackson Houston and I'm a senior at Cypress High [Applause] School school I'm from hope school and what do you hope to do talk to my principal I'm Jasline Kosco I became an an ambassador to help advocate for the student body to take in their concerns and solutions to make and to take action on our campus along with serving my community and and helping for the betterment of our students Futures my name is Evelyn Ramos I am the student ambassador of Katella High [Applause] School my goal as student ambassador is to help students find support in each other and their Community by helping them make connections necessary to be successful my name is Joanna Kim and I'm the student ambassador at Jonah Kennedy High School I believe I believe the all students voice matter my name is I'm student ambassador to Laur high [Applause] school as an ambassador my goal is to serve encourage and inform students at the School site of opportunities and resources that they may not be aware of my name is Eileen Ramirez Ree and I am Magnolia High School student ambassador I am very excited to have this opportunity to work with both the staff and students at our school to find hidden issues and to create a better future my name is YY Martinez and I'm the student ambassador at Oxford Academy making an impact has always been a passion of mine through RSVP I hope to have my peers feel comfortable sharing their voice and build meaningful bonds between the students and staff my name is Kina ping and I am the student ambassador of Savannah High School I don't know if you have all noticed yet but I have not the opportunity to pick up my uniform [Laughter] anyway um throughout my four years at Western High I've noticed that some of the best and brightest students lack the proper motivation to shine on their own so I've made it my mission to have every student at Western find their own way to shine my name is Mohammad kowal and I'm the student ambassador at Western High so uh this is absolutely not the first introduction that we have seen the ambassadors they have already been working and uh presenting and doing events and this is not an in name only um opportunity for our students they will be sitting on really important committees and they will be uh giving their opinions uh voting and um really representing the entire district and so um we um already are impressed with uh just hearing uh your statements and your names and we appreciate you you're gonna work really hard this year so um I also want to take a minute to acknowledge the hard work of um their advisers here Hilda vquez and Jennifer [Applause] they uh they are minus one now because our uh Mr hosi was uh the adviser to uh our student ambassador so uh did you want to say something well I miss you guys I miss working with you um the thing that I just really am really G to be thankful for is uh we have reestablished our relationship with the Disneyland ambassadors and Mr Mrs Brown and Mrs Vasquez have been working uh you guys are going to be receiving a business etiquette training from them so um in the upcoming week so we're we're happy to reestablish that relationship and um one other thing I just want to say too is to all of our friends here from neutral ground and this the students that are represented at South we too hope that you uh look at these students because we're going to expand RSVP which stands for raising student voice and participation down to the junior high levels this year so we hope you guys get involved with us and that you consider being an ambassador when you get to high school thank you madam president if I could also just want to give a shout out because they're not here uh to Melissa Nadine and Jenny Lee they're both assistant principles who with with Ron taking on the role of we needed two people to replace Ron uh so so so so Melissa and Jenny are supporting both Hilda and Jennifer who also serve as coordinators and principles of two of our high schools so I love that Bravo go ahead like to add uh my two cents uh last week the the board in the district honored Jan and Ross Billings uh with naming the uh a new building at Magnolia for them but Jan Billings was the uh former superintendent and she's the one who created the ambassador program which lives today too so it's partially because of Jan Billings um well it is because of Jan Billings that we have such an amazing uh program for students great thank you and we know you have a lot of things to do so you may be excused are we going to take a picture oh yes yes picture I told you take a picture e [Applause] and I believe our representative to the board of chuses has a report all right so starting off with Anaheim High School Anaheim high school has implemented weekly care lessons for the entire school year focused on college readiness Career Development and personal growth during the advisory period anim high school has also noticed a huge increase in student enrollments this year in late August new teachers were hired to meet this exponential growth and reduced classroom sizes to accommodate all students now moving on to Cambridge CVA held their annual breakfast with the v's but with the twist we they had a club Rush nearing the end and cahoot to get everyone attending familiarized with CVA for Cyprus Club Rush was definitely a highlight of the month the three actionpack days brought excitement fun and opportunities to all students along with this the students are expanding their collaboration and communication with each other while doing what they love in their own club another important thing that has occurred with senior luau this event combined culture and entertainment there were authentic dances food Kona Ice picture booths and more this month was filled with joy and excitement and hopefully they could keep this energy throughout the year next catella catella High School had a parade recognizing their jroc dance cheer and more it helped bring Spirit to their school for homecoming and everybody loved it girls varsity volleyball took first place in the new Golden Empire conference League next week they will have their Community Schools come visit their campus now for Kennedy High School they were awarded the Civic learning award for excellence an honor sponsored by Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero and state superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmont this award will be presented by Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero on campus on September 23rd lastly they are looking forward to their upcoming homecoming week now looking at Laura last Saturday from 10:30 to 12:00 p.m.

8 8:30 in the morning 80 laama room laama here yes could we put it in the Friday yes thank you yeah there's four of them this is the first of four maybe put them all in so we can get yeah it's a full day we have a lot of folks but just to come see uh the work that's being done um especially in the morning when they start to go on the bus and go visit the schools um that's different but but if if you could be there that' be great just to see them the great things that are happening thank you thank you thank you did you have a report yeah I do have a uh quick report if the board recalls um a student who spoke at a soapbox finals and he also went to the Nixon Library his name is Matthew Franco he's the one who wrote who talked about fentanyl uh an independent learning student he is now attending uh IR I think Irvine Valley College and he has been invited to uh represent the district in I believe Sacramento at the uh Statewide uh Speech finals in that particular area so he's uh really another student just uh that could have gone a different direction but because of the amazing support at the uh Independent Learning Center the teachers uh he is on a very healthy path thank you for supporting that appreciate that wonderful news well I'd also like to join the Board of Trustees and just um um recognizing our school administrators uh just for the amazing work that they do each and every day uh we're very thankful very grateful thank you thank Youk you i' like to take this time to uh thank the Magnolia High School admin team and their s staff for hosting the um Dr Jan and RZ um Innovation Center they did an amazing job as well as um um Quinton and your team as well van and all the TCH they work really really hard for many many days to uh get the place ready um so want to make sure that um the staff know that to that we're very grateful for that um we also have some exciting uh ribbon cutting ceremony coming up in the next couple months Western High School practice fi as I have uh shared with you they're already using the FI um but we will be having an official ribbon cutting at their homecoming um night as well um that will be in October as well as the Cypress High School back and f um they already practiced there and then uh some of the work um is uh being completed as we speak and they're also hoping to have a re cutting ceremony in October so lots of uh projects are coming uh finishing up and we're very excited our kids are uh using uh those facilities already at this point and so we have those dates certain yet uh yes once we um have a confirm we're checking the school on the time definitely we'll make sure that uh everybody is invited and we'll ask um our Pio John Batista to post that on social media as well Community come joining us as well okay thank you thank you uh just briefly I I've had the opportunity in the last couple of weeks to visit uh Lexington and Cyprus um and I just want to thank uh the staff and the administrators there for making it so welcoming to both me and to the parents and the parents attorneys who joined me when I'm there so thank you we're a little more than a month into the school year and I think tonight was a a very important reminder of of the important work that's going on back of our back back at our sites um new to ground is obviously one of our many important programs um you know there's so many across the district that really uh when you think about all the work that's being done by staff teachers counselors programs administrators um it reminds us of of why our outc cap goals are are um are are basically our our main goals for this school year is really um supporting and servicing the students and families that are are at the margins and um and you saw powerful evidence from the two fathers that spoke um representing the students from neutral ground and the students that spoke of why our work is so important um at every site but in particular for those those students and families are for this from opportunity so to Echo um the board and Brad and the important work of the administrators that they're doing day in and day out but also our our the rest of our staff our teachers our counselors our um classified staff um everyone involved on a day-to-day basis thank you Mr hushi well um one of the Privileges is of being a board member is getting to go to all of these back to school nights and so I've gotten to go to about 10 of them and a back to school breakfast even at CVA uh one of the things I do have to acknowledge is I loved what western high school did they um had performances at the beginning of the evening with a food Trek and then they had the class time um class visitation time and at the very end they had more four performances so at the very end of the evening there were all these people in the quad and I thought boy that's a really good idea and I think uh you know but every school has different nuances and um um a lot of creativity being demonstrated uh some of the meetings I got to go to was the community school steering uh committee um I got to sit with the the school I represent at Western High School and so it was great getting to know that team along with the orange view team uh we had a city of Cypress virtual meeting um that um we got to share our concerns and so forth and how the school year is going um I got to sit on the insurance committee yesterday and uh it said till 5:00 and I was so happy it ended at 3:40 uh so that was a treat um and student discipline um I got to be a part of that that and always looking at the creative ways that we are doing to um to you know I mean like talk about how we can correct Behavior but uh not make it look like it's punishment but really connect with the kids through the restorative practices that we have um I got to go to um the the Hope um program called Each one teach one it was sponsored by um nsh Patel that's his organization uh along with the um Orange County uh Fire Authority that these guys gave up their day off and they were there barbecuing hot dogs I was just so impressed with that each of the students at Hope Oh and Dr Nan is part of this too um each one of the students received a personalized pair a Van shoes and a backpack and the energy on that campus was just So High um so anyway it's been so much fun going to football games and um and just seeing all the spirit at the schools and so I'm really enjoying uh my time being able to uh represent um our students so thank you Mr hosi Mr O'Neal what about Cypress Zoom meeting did you mention I did mention that oh you know what I do have to acknowledge a couple of people too um so um let's see we had a we had a meeting with um Scott sangren who's here and Patty Neely our executive director of facilities Scott our director of transportation we were working at the parking lot at Cyprus to make it more safe and more efficient and you know I mean Cypress high school was built for 1,00 students originally and you know it we have about 20 800 students so parking we're always looking at creative ways um because I think uh Principal Brown said we had like five spaces left so we we were really looking at best drop off so thank you so much for being so proactive in helping us uh find Solutions and then I want to commend Eric Greenwood and his team we had um we have emergencies and I just love the away seeing these emails of how proactive he is in his team and the constant updates that we get and I know um the national administrators week is coming up but I want to let you guys all know that next Tuesday September 17th is National it day [Applause] y so thank you Eric and your team very good yeah oh made him made him blush all right Mr O'Neal well unfortunately I missed many back to school nights because I was out of the country for just a short while so to the schools I didn't make it to apologize for that but I have been to seven since I returned and they all seem to be well attended and talking to the teachers they are all uh excited for the year they're having a good year so far so I'm I'm very happy to hear that um I attended the grand opening of the cyber security building which was uh very well attended everybody was excited to see it it's an exciting building to go see I know everybody probably in this room has seen it uh so people that are looking and haven't seen it you should stop by to see it uh hat off to the uh the staff that uh Patty Neely and her staff that had the design factor and then actual the construction p and nany nean for following it through uh I attended a ro board meeting last night and everything is moving forward well in that area so uh a lot of nice programs throughout all of our five districts so nice to hear about that and I mentioned about the zoom meeting that I I didn't hear you say but I was there too and I just wanted to say um one more thing about parent and I know we had talked about uh in the past we have had parent institutes and I think that we need to look more into that and see how we can bring those back more throughout the district I've attended many graduations for those and um I know we have talked about it but I think that we need to relook at that and see what we can do about bring that's a I think that's a big benefit to the parents and if it's benefiting the parents it's benefiting the students and it's also benefiting the district so thank you thank you um I attended the insurance committee meeting and it was short that's unusual I've been on it for over 20 some years and that was the first and the discipline committee really gives us a lot of feedback when the teachers Express um their wants their desires their needs uh in making their teaching experience easier and um it really gives an opportunity for the people in the committee to discuss and think about it and I appreciate that uh committee I've served on it for many years and um it's beneficial I was unable to attend um Dr buildings and Ross Ross's buildings buildings dedication to this and this is on page three and here is Jan dressed in a yellow jacket and I'm going to mail it to her because people don't take newspapers anymore but it was also in the Anaheim bulleon today but I wanted to say just briefly when I came on this board Jen Billings was the uh superintendent and I always referred to her as my mentor because because when I was a new board member she's older than myself and um it developed a friendship of uh just special so when I started on the board I went to every single School in the district and every bathroom so I was able to coordinate with her what needed to be done to upgrade these and when I went to Magnolia High School she she told me where she and her husband taught and I went to that room and it was suffocating and the design back at those times in the ' 50s the ceilings were very very low and um it was just ugly construction so when I came back to meet with Jan I told her I said we need to air condition our schools because it was suffocating and as I went from school to school to school I realized it was just plain a necessity so the person that wrote this article I just thought did a wonderful job it's so comprehensive and I look at Patty Neely back there and it just expresses how special you are uniquely special most people wouldn't even be able to Grapple what your job enta entails and did you see this article Patty I would like it back but I'm going to leave it for you and I want to also make sure I get this back goost of Jan you'll appreciate it and they mention your name but I also want to mention Eric Greenwood are you looking up at [Laughter] me this is another person that has an awesome task to do what he does to run this school district and I just want to thank you I years ago when I first met Eric we were walking out in the parking lot and I'd learned what his job uh entailed way back then it's more now much more and I said to Eric how do you Des what do you tell your par your kids when people ask them what their father does and he said what was the answer the world of business but I mean it is so complex and you wonder well how do children even express to writing on a paper what their parents do so I'm just grateful I I have enjoyed the people I've known over these years and love everybody I've I've set it at the table over the years I love everyone and the kindness and the spirit of of just hard work that I find in everyone so I just want to say thank you and enjoy the rest of the meeting okay thank you uh I'll just really quick um as Nancy said congratulations to all who um were involved in putting on the um ribbon cutting um it was a tremendous event and as many people that came uh even though it was I don't know 90 something degrees it was so hot but um everybody was welcoming and it was just really uh amazing and the students that were um giving tours were excellent um and so thank you for that um didn't mention the principal's breakfast uh the PTA principal breakfast I really love the overview uh that was given uh to to everyone just really to remind um everyone the contributions of PTA um I'm a dieh hard PTA uh fan a member um forever um just to remind you uh kindergarten wouldn't be here without uh PTA and um movie ratings G and PG that was established by by PTA so um just a few of the many wonderful contributions um to educa to the educational system um with uh PTA um superintendent muda and I attended um a black African-American family affinity group meeting um where uh Dr Bryant was um facilitating and uh parts of the um black uh task force which just shows the um Outreach and diversity um of groups that we um service in our in our district um of course my Roop meetings and uh um we had a one-on-one with our uh superintendent as well um it's it's hard to get to know people when you're in a group and setting and so it was really nice to have that one-on-one um meeting with him and um our wonderful Leia works so hard um for uh Roop want to acknowledge you stay for the whole meeting thank you appreciate you you're always so welcoming and um lovely to everyone that you work with and you make an impact uh wherever you go so um thank you everybody and we will move on so everybody can get out of here I should have said the contrast from where Jan taught originally to the new building that has her name on it it's not night and day it's just two different worlds so anyway that's true was remiss all right any um uh recommendations for um agenda items okay seeing none all in favor so move I all right second second all in favor I I I good night

and I'm not sure if we have a location set for that yet but we usually try to meet in person okay great um I guess I would just encourage you all to consider just cleaning up the version that was presented to us last last time and bringing it for a vote I I think it's ready for with with the you know there's places where it's saying you need this information or whatever but um I think it's really ready for the full committee to discuss and vote on and then could be something that could get added to but even what you have there would be such an improvement over not having anything at all and I really appreciate the work everybody's been doing on it um any other questions or thoughts for handbook committee okay um collaborative for Educational Services rep remember goodwi um very excited that the collaborative is celebrating their 50th year as a collaborative on September 18th um they're having a big shindig in Worcester um if you're interested in participating in the shindig let me know um and I will send you the link thank you um City Planning and construction rep we have not met okay um legislative rep is U member Den she's also our division five rep uh District Wellness committee our first meeting will be on October 7th um and I believe it will be virtual great that is uh committee reports um next we have um our new business um we'll say given the hour if anyone would like to move to table any of these items if they don't they don't want to discuss them tonight I I'm very open to those types of motions but our next item is the music program uh which I believe member Goodwin asked to be put on through the agenda I believe superintendent patod brought us celebration on the music program tonight yes okay excellent item handled uh petition on changing the school funding formula um so um let's see I in your packets I believe is a um petition that um that I mean I think the intent actually was to have a resolution ready for us which would be different from just the um petition um um Jesus is here representing that and has said that other districts will be voting on resolutions next month so it is an item that could be tabled uh alternatively I could accept a motion to um to uh approve the um to sign on as a school committee to the um petition as presented so it's kind of we could go either way we could do a resolution next month or we could have a motion to sign on to the petition as presented and discuss it now any any preferences anyone all right I guess what I'm gonna say given the hour why don't we do this in October if that's okay it sounds like it was okay I don't have my glasses on so I can't read you okay um great uh we will table that oh why don't I take a a motion to um take up a resolution on changing the school funding formula in October so just a motion basically to take this up next month is there someone who'd make that motion motion all right uh okay got a motion for member Saxton and a second from Member Martini um any discussion uh member Martini vote yes member Goodwin yes member Childs yes member ston yes I'm a yes mayor yes yes okay motion carries unanimously we will discuss that at our um October meeting lpac and CPAC updates um superintendent oh sorry oh oh I didn't realize we were actually getting an update that's great I thought that I was making a motion to CU oh the intent of why I brought it up was so that we would actually have representatives from those bodies come and give us updates is my that was the intent that I brought that forward from but I would be happy to hear the updates that you have for us tonight I I'll just say I asked the superintendent to gather some information about us so so she can share the information she's gathered and then the committee can decide what our next steps are thank you superintendent sure um the director of people Services Dave messing um oversees both of those and um the CPAC is set to meet next Wednesday um September 18th at 6 o'clock they meet in the Greenfield Middle School library they also offer child's care um for any members that want to come they are working on getting um officers elected and and approving their bylaws that they started last year because we find fin have some parents um on the advisory committee that joined us last year and are continuing the the hard work so they're moving and shaking um the bylaws um I looked into this because I wasn't quite 100% certain but the bylaws actually dictate how they report to the school committee so once their bylaws are approved we'll see what's in the bylaws and then if they don't actually have that in their bylaws Mr messing said he's happy to send reports either that I can share with you or he can come to a meeting um our lpac has been a little slower getting off the ground but that meeting is on Thursday September 26th 6 o'clock Greenfield Middle School library these um things will all be in my parent updates and reminding folks where and when and that we do offer child care so folks who want to come and don't have that they can bring their children um but they are just starting out they did not have any um solid representation last year so they're really looking for people to join that and that's the English language parent advisory committee so um if um you know anyone that wants to join please contact Dave messing and we will get you where you need to be for those groups so I'll keep you posted as they meet and as the bylaws get adopted any discussion or all right um um then I don't think there's any other action for us right now that's all right not this time okay um item D we have the school resource officer in schools um the mayor asked me to put this onto the agenda and we heard during the public comment uh the chief uh uh imploring us to please uh reinstate a school resource officer in the schools uh I think what I would like to do on this is basically have a vote about whether the school committee um wants to um deliberate and um and uh vote on having us basically whether we want to take this up because um we did um not too long ago um you know make a choice as a school committee about which direction we were going in with school resource officers which was not to have one um so I do feel like it would require our committee choosing together about whether we want to um initiate I guess the way I would put it is um I would hear a motion that the school committee initiate a comprehensive study and deliberation process to evaluate the potential addition of a school resource officer to our school district so is there a motion to that effect um a motion from the mayor and is there a second second from Member Goodwin okay um discussion I just wanted to um say one thing without and I don't want to say too much but um this actually came up after um we had a meeting we had a department head meeting and the the FBI was not at the school but was at the home of of um uh a student um and there was a threat to the school is my understanding um no so if you can correct me if I'm wrong I I actually it was concerning to me enough to to bring it up and I didn't go into all of the details but or I did I don't know all of the details but I know that they were in touch with you and so maybe you'd like to Enlighten us a little bit yeah we don't talk about like security issues in a public form yeah okay there other discussions member goodwi so sorry okay so I would just say this when I heard that I had a concern about public about safety so I put it so I asked that it would be on the agenda for a discussion and I wanted you to know where that came from that there was something behind that okay thank you thank you mayor member Goodwin I think the world is a very scary place and unfortunately things are happening everywhere and that everybody likes to think not where they live um and I'm sorry we need as much help as we can get to keep our schools safe um and we've had a good relationship for a long time um with our local police they would show up at our schools when there was a problem um and some of our schools are more isolated from downtown than others location matters so I would say to you um sro's um are a necessity for today's world our doors are not always people can just walk indoors um our new security system hopefully will help with that that but there is always somebody who's going to leave a door open in our schools um I think it's a um something that's necessary and every time there's a shooting you know you sit there and you go you just hold your breath and I do not want us to be sitting here in tears because children or teachers died because we didn't have um people in our schools to help and there was a school committee meeting I can still remember years ago where they talked about um arming our custodians and I can remember that school committee as clear as day and sitting there going you've got to be kidding um but people react every time there's a shooting um and every time something happens and then it fades away and today of all days um it is 911 and I have not forgotten that day I was would say to you that the more security you have the better off you are before I hear other comments I just want to emphasize again to the committee um the reason why we have uh an executive session I item um that we we actually happen to have met for this reason today to discuss the deployment of security Personnel or devices or strategies with respect there to so we do get to have an open discussion about whether to have a school resource officer but we need to be extremely sensitive about what information we're disclosing or not disclosing um in that discussion so please be thoughtful thank you member Childs can you speak a little more about what the comprehensive study would entail and what the time frame on that would be because the the movement was about that I think if the committee took it up then we would have that discussion and determine that um I don't have that I mean with this item was uh submitted a few days ago so I I certainly don't have a draft plan and plus the committee hasn't decided to take it up so member ston you mentioned in opening this discussion that it was quite recently actually that the committee took up this question and and decided to not no longer longer have SRO in our schools and I would like to think that they went through a deliberative process and addressed many of the same concerns and questions that we would be facing with this comprehensive review I would not be in favor of reopening that if there if we can go back and look to their deliberations and see how they chose to respond and the measures that they put in place to address the concerns about safety it is my understand understanding that even without SRO we do still have police officers who respond to incidents at our schools is this true they're still there um yes we can connect with dispatch or anytime we need something dispatch will send someone if asked for absolutely um I'll just say my computer went to sleep so member Martini if you're wanting to speak please uh just unmute and say something so I know you want to talk because I don't have my password handy and all that um okay no problem am so I I understand if newer members um want to discuss this topic um I however was on the committee when we did discuss this um issue quite extensively uh not that long ago and I remember so clearly the um input from lots of community members about this and the ones that are uh the most at the Forefront for me are the ones from our students um and and they are the most important when it comes to um any decision we make and uh I I will not forget from our discussions on that um the opposition expressed by many of our students um and the poignant description of why certain students would not feel safe having police in our schools um and uh I worry just as much as as anyone else about uh about our security which is why I appreciate the um Regular communication that the committee has received from the school administration in uh our executive sessions o to the need to keep our security um procedures and um capabilities uh Within um within our own knowledge in order to uphold the Integrity of those things um and then in terms I understand why this issue comes up um when a tragedy occurs and I spend a lot of time um reading as much as I can about each one um so it's not lost on me that um having an SRO did not prevent a tragedy in Parkland having uh having two officers responding right away um did not prevent people from losing their lives in the most recent one and a school having its own entire police department did not prevent uh one of the worst tragedies in our nation's history in you Val so um I myself I'm not interested in revisiting this topic I think it would be um a better use of our time to to focus on other things but um if other members as a majority of the committee want to go through a process of studying this again then I'm here for it thank you other uh comments um I'll speak to this I also am not in favor of the school committee taking this up um I also was on the committee when when we discussed it it did come up uh in the wake of uh George fluid's killing and the um the rise in Consciousness and um voice about the role of the police in our community about how um I mean at the time I don't think the school resource officer has been brought to us before with the idea that that having a a single School resource officer at a school would increase the safety of our students in terms of um protection from um mass shooting events for example it was always presented to us as something that um was needed in order to build a good relationship between the students and the police department and is something um that would contribute to that uh the challenge for um students of color in particular um Black and Hispanic students um is that the role of the police in these communities has not um always been um what it should be in terms of protecting uh people and so it can be uh triggering and inhibiting of learning to uh have a police presence in the schools on an ongoing basis certainly we do have uh events and invitations to the police to come and bring Comfort dogs and so on that does occur but uh I I uh agree that um with member Martini that um the idea of having a um a single um school resource officer in the school is really not going to contribute to the safety of our children um unfortunately from those mass shooting events um and yeah the exact same examples those member Martini I think chose the perfect examples of of where that has not been effective so I am really um not interested in um red deliberating about this and I will uh vote against the committee taking it up uh on an ongoing basis any other discussion or questions all right let's have a vote um member Martini no member Goodwin yes member Childs yes member ston no uh I am and no um mayor disorder yes okay we are tied uh 5050 uh Robert's Rules of Order kind of calls for us to keep deliberating and keep discuss discussing um another option would be for us to uh table lay this on the table until our October meeting um when there will hopefully be a an odd number of us present for the vote um any I'd just accept informal feedback from people if you have a preference one way or the other if you think that you could your vote could be changed by more discussion I would be open to talking about it more tonight I moveed to table move to table by the mayor is there a second second second from Member ston discussion no it's not a no discussion item yep thank you okay so we will vote um member Mark Martini motion to table okay that's a yes member Goodwin yes member child's yes M ston yes I'm a yes mayor yes all right motion passes unanimously we will um consider the motion to um study and deliberate on this topic at our um October meeting and with that uh are there any requests for future uh agenda items hearing none I'd take a motion to adjourn so moved motion from the mayor is there a second second second from Member suon any discussion let's vote member Martini yes member Goodwin yes member child yes member ston yes I'm a yes mayor yes motion passes unanimously we are adjourned at 9:30 p.m.

they held their monthly food and clothing distribution at the family and Community Center they first made the clothing available to students and any items not chosen by them were then shared with families additionally they also provided food to the families in in their Community they want to remind everyone that they accept clothing donations year round to support this initiative now looking at Magnolia Jan and Ross bilings Innovation Center was a beautiful tribute where they acknowledge the dedication and the hard work put in by Dr JN Billings and Ross Billings to better the ahsd community this past month had definitely been a a laboratory one as the Magnolia arre Science Community Center had received a $110,000 grant from Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation to help as the Mac will continue to host their Farm to Table dinners and as they help better the community around them in other news Magnolia has also seen an influx of clubs such as their new Guatemalan Roots Alliance club and girls leag to give all of their Sentinels a place to feel seen on campus now looking at Oxford for Oxford Club Rush was definitely the highlight of the week as many students crowded around different tables and numerous clubs were growing around advertising their STS and taking pictures with their photo frames alongside with different performances from clubs every day Ur eari created a recap video and publicity video for RSVP and started the phase of choosing top three choices from last year to address to their principal now for Savannah the ahsd student incubator program was created for student leaders part of student body to participate in collaborating to create exciting engaging activities for the ASB Camp's opening and closing session Kina was able to be a part of this new experience as this was the first ever student incubator program occurring for a to student leaders during her time through the meetings and overall speaking at the opening session Kina learned to effectively collaborate with her new peers and create workshops to help build ASB to use their networking skills and build collaboration now for the last go Western their highlight was their senior events which had more than 60% of seniors attend their first senior event was senior sunrise and it was a great start to their events their plan is to continue to come up with creative ideas for senior events like a scary movie night for October it has been a great way for Western to create special memories with each other and for the graduates Bravo definitely a lot of information in here so thank you for your very first report and looking forward to next month's all right we um have a student that has arrived from the uh girl State Delegate from Cyprus High School check yeah [Applause] w moving on to um neutral ground and I am to defer to yes so it gives me great pleasure to First bring up Dr dellaa Cruz who's going introduce our guest but I'm so grateful to have our partners with neutal ground here to share the great work that they're doing you heard already from some of our students during the public comment so I feel like they I I don't need to say much they've already spoken uh but I'm excited excited to have them here to share the great work they're doing with our schools Dr Cruz thank you uh Madame U president Trio Board of Trustees executive cabinet and guests it is my absolute pleasure to introduce Mr Nati Alvarado exe executive director for newor ground um last year we met um neutal ground through a relationship with Mr Jose Lara and since then um they have built a very impactful and successful relationship with several of our schools so please enjoy this presentation and without further delay Mr elor I uh thank you thank you so much I want to say thank you to um our superintendent matsuda our a SD board uh to Dr Cruz for all of her support thank you so much for having us um I have a couple parents a couple of our youth are going to uh speak first and then um I'm going to have our Pro program manager Samuel just go over a couple of the data points with yourselves um just a quick overview neutral ground my my wife Teresa she walked him up on where she went but um we started doing this work uh 34 years ago going on 35 years in San Ana Street intervention work and we've never stopped what we started back then so um it's been an honor to be here in in Anaheim we have a variety of of different um uh intervention works that we do with San An School District also we've been contracted with them since 2013 um I'm contracted with the city of sanana to do gang intervention we have a re-entry home we work with orange wood foundation foster kids that have been in trouble and give them a place I've been doing housing for 24 years uh we have a boxing club and um and we love our our our kids we love our students and we're trying to make a difference in their lives um first of all we brought up Omar Espinosa we brought up his son Daniel um we're bringing up Reyes and um and then the last one will be Ben Escobar so if Omar uh could come up with Daniel please good evening everyone uh my name is Omar Espinosa uh this is my son Daniel Espinosa um well there's no ways to express my gratitude to miss uh Teresa and you know everyone involved in the neutral ground uh for helping my son achieve uh his goal to graduate from high school you know as a parent it's really hard to focus whatever times we have left to help them out achieve those goals and to be honest with you I lost every hope that I had when he was a senior that he was going to be able to graduate if it wouldn't be because I met Miss uh Teresa and the the members of the neutral ground that were able to help my son you know come up with all the credits that he needed to be able to graduate he wouldn't be able to graduate so honestly I wish I could have had those kind of programs in my time which I didn't but I was able to graduate because I you know I forced myself to do it in in his case he had that help that he couldn't get at home because sometimes as parents our time is limited we focus our time in other things and especially as myself uh I have six kids so it's hard to spread whatever time I have left with all my kids and thankfully they were able to you know provide that help that I couldn't give my son so he could could be able to achieve that goal to graduate so thank you so much I appreciate it thank you thank you I canot express my gratitude to them and to all of you for providing this kind of help thank you so much [Applause] we want you to say how we carried you all the way to class to get your grades up whatever it takes H uh hi my name is Daniel and I'm a graduate from Anam high school and uh I would have not graduated if it actually wasn't for neutal ground because during the whole high school years I've never paid attention in school I've never just gave it any thought at all and um throughout my years I just never tried till just senior year and actually took three months back to back each day to get all my credits up that I needed all 220 uh in order to graduate I needed actually 150 to graduate and um it's most of my school year that I missed out on and if it wasn't for them I would actually would not graduated because I would always go out on the street I was just mess around with my other friends bad influences you know just not make the right decision and just not put my mind right and put it in school and they taught me the way they show me the right way by putting me in the path where they show me more where I can achieve more and just you know bigger opportunities in life that I that I won't have out in the streets because in the streets all you can get is just you know drugs and get you know just lose your life but my point is that I could have not done it without them my life would have not be here without them honestly could have not done nothing without them if Pastor Na and Teresa didn't teach me the right way thank you okay we have interpret uh Lo GR for anahim [Applause] my name is Reas Ortiz the one reason I am here is because of this group these people they identify with the Spanish speakers we have work um sometimes we as parents work we have two jobs and we don't have the time to give the kids what we need but here neutral ground was here and they identified with us and we are and and they are used to speaking to us and they can understand us they speak our language they know our problems they know our needs they know how to identify with us they are we are being heard through them they help us grow so I want to thank them because if it wasn't for them it it wouldn't it wouldn't have it it wouldn't have changed our our the way it is they understand if we're poor if we're rich they everyone needs to understand we're the same it doesn't matter if whatever school you're coming from if you're coming from catella if you're coming from alheim we're all the same we're rich we're poor we're all the same they ex the these kids sometimes Express themselves in a negative way but that's just when we're calling out for help and they neutral ground is helping [Applause] us my name is Benjamin escore I'm a senior at laa I've been working with neutral ground for about a year now um they've been helping me open my eyes to many more things in life on in the streets they've also helped me out stay on track with school just keep me busy and just to keep me off the streets um that's it thank you thank you he was all right huh you're all right um we just we only have a couple more minutes I understand that but we just want to I want Samuel to just go over a couple of the points of our data points of of what we're doing at the schools with the students and the different things so just a couple minutes okay I'm going to run through these um but uh brief F our mission statement is uh to create a healthier safer Orange County centered our our community is most impacted by gang violence breaking the cycle of poverty child abuse academic failure and team pregnancy through restored practices Youth Development academic support and the strengthening of meaningful relationships a mouthful but it's it's to help our students and our families um our just a list of a few of our programs uh we have started initially in the San Unified School District uh centering services on restorative practices within uh Anaheim Unified it's more um tailored towards uh gang prevention and gang intervention um our youth violence prevention program which some of our youth are a part of uh that's actually through a contract that we have with the congressional district and so we're working through the in the city of Anaheim and the City of Santa Ana not these houses are transitional living home we partner with um Orange County's uh Youth Development Court we're housing young men exiting the prison system and young men um aging out of foster care um the neutral ground boxing club which we have youth from all over Anaheim all over Santa Ana coming to a neutral ground to train break a little bit of sweat and we close off with the resorted practice Circle uh and then we have the Summer Night Lights program which we just finished up this past month it's a program where we keep the lights on at El Salvador Park gang Enclave in Santa Ana uh and all of the communities invited becomes a neutral ground for the summer months um and then we have neutral ground construction where we help put some of the guys from Na's house to work um four pillars of service Community engagement prevention intervention and violence Interruption uh Community engagement that's part of what we're doing in the schools that's part of our popup events that's part of Summer Night Lights programming that's our uh just engaging the community as a whole uh prevention is for all of our youth who are not gang involved uh that's the majority of the kids in our schools we we want to prevent that from ever happening intervention services is uh youth violence prevention that's tailored towards our kids who have already self-disclosed gang ties um and violence interruption in working with those kids who have self-disclosed these these ties we have an ear to the street and we get uh uh we get notified we get notices of these incidents that happen in the community and ideally we're able to prevent them from from uh escalating further uh we also partner with as I mentioned uh Orange County's Youth Development court and so through Youth Development Court uh we're able to help young men exiting the prison system or who have done uh done juvenile life sentences they're now 24 25 years old coming home and were able to house them at Na's house uh the numbers uh just within Anaheim Unified School District we We Gather numbers from each of the schools that we partner with and I compiled them uh we facilitated over 187 staff presentations that would be a presentation to a few administrators and teachers to a presentation with all of our um staff all of the staff from the school we did those usually at the start of the semester just to notify all the staff of our presence on campus um Circle participants this is duplicated so over 2,000 uh participants and over 300 circles that were facilitated uh since the start of our partnership uh end of November this past year um total contacts made again again duplicated is over um 11,000 um school-based referrals from each of across all of our campuses over 800 um our key impact areas are to increase trust and safety so uh we don't want to be create or or have a continued uh sort of other on campus and so we engage those students who are usually hanging out in the back behind buildings and and bring them into all of the other support services that the schools have to offer um we are uh centered on gang prevention gang intervention but we want all of our kids to graduate and so if we can be the bridge to a social worker if we can be a bridge to uh a staff member who can support them in that way uh we'll do that so we create safe spaces proactive identification is um yes we we go after the kids who've had behavioral issues um have incidents on campus but also because we come from the community because we know what it looks like we're able to spot some of these kids out who maybe they're walking on campus and they got uh A's and B's but they're leader on campus and they're of influence on some of the boys that need most of the support and so we we pull them in as well um all underlying all of it is to reduce violence across all of our campuses um so enhancing community and academic outcomes uh so uh part of what we do aside from meeting with kids one-on-one and facilitating circles we do a conflict mediations and so when there is an incident of of violence or some sort of Confrontation we will bring our kids in together um I they have to agree to come and sit together uh if they do maybe we form a peace agreement maybe if there's already been a a scuff of some sort if they're willing to come and sit together in Li of suspension or in Le of of expulsion they'll be assigned to our case loads and then we're meeting with them regularly um we'll assign them to our circles and they're a part of our circles week to week um leadership opportunities where uh because these kids are working with us uh also administrators know of them know them by name and so we're we're opening up opportunities for them to step into leadership opportunities um even if it's to help us co- facilitate some of our circles um again underlying all of it is reducing violence on campus and Community cohesion uh youth violence prevention as I mentioned a little bit earlier um we have a a contract with the congressional district and so we're working across both cities Anaheim and Santa Ana to work with gang impacted youth uh our community intervention Specialists are essentially our intervention Specialists are assigned to schools but out in the community so we are working around the clock working with our young people after school Community engagement uh really briefly uh we met with over 200 gang impacted youth from across um Anaheim Unified so these are all the kids that are on our case loads uh We've engaged them all through the summer months uh doing a Youth Development activities and so we took them out camping we some of them for their first time took them out fishing things like that just to expose them to to more to something different uh all encompassing and obviously uh k continued case management so uh when our assigned intervention specialist from the school notifies our community intervention specialist of a kid at one of our tier three more high flyer students uh will case manage them closely uh again early identification uh uh all intended to uh to Target uh prevention initiatives across all campuses and uh what in closing the way we envision uh Orange County is a place where students get to be students kids get to be kids um people feel safe um on campus and so our underlying intent across all of our schools is to to change the story for Orange County [Applause] thank you for coming we really appreciate your presentation uh everyone who gave testimonials we take that to heart we really appreciate that um uh Dela thank you so much for bringing them in your a dream we we uh we um we're doing the best we can in our schools um and a program like this um really enhances the work that we're doing and partnering um the more we can can reach the more we can help so thank you so much uh Guerrero is absent um she had a family emergency uh she wanted uh us to um speak on her behalf um she said that I appreciate neutral ground being at the board meeting I had requested the presentation from neutral ground to Showcase their work and impact at our sites also want to thank our school mental health and wellness team for their work in making this partnership possible I had the opportunity to meet a few of the neutral ground team members including their Community intervention Specialists during school and community events across Anaheim and Santana I appreciate their continued efforts in connecting with our students building trust and offering support in addressing our communities most impacted by a gang violence poverty and other issues I look forward to our continued partnership and commitment to our District's values in supporting the whole child so that's from Jessica anyone else have comments or uh questions for them well I was privileged to go and see firsthand the work that neutral ground does in the park in San Ana um and I was just so impressed with just the the level of Engagement and your presentation you have to come and work for our district it was incredible I mean thank you very comprehensive I just want to tell you thank you for sharing um so thank you and for all the adult leaders I just really want to thank you I know um that you guys put your heart and soul into this organization so I want to I want to thank the students that were here this evening uh coming in and speaking whether it was two words or 50 words or whatever um it's meaningful for us to hear from you so don't don't be afraid to come up and and take a turn at the mic you know throughout your life also want to thank the the leaders of neutral ground for all that you put in you know your life giving them a new life and the presentation tonight was very thorough very in depth you know I I read what we had in our binder here but but this what you presented tonight was very different I thought much much more inclusive so thank you so much for for all that you do and I wish you well and you mentioned Anaheim High School you're you're in you laara High School catella laella Gilbert Gilbert okay sou okay great thank you thank you [Applause] well I did owe everything you heard up here but I remember earlier you said we love these boys and you know they love you in return and that love surrounds all of you for many years into your future and you will give that love to others because you saw the and experienced the exact example and from the bottom of my heart I want to thank each and one every one of you for sharing your evening with us and thank you from the bottom of my heart you and we did also have a speaker um request on this item uh Vanessa Guero welcome hi hi Vanessa my name is Vanessa guo I'm Anthony galindo's mom he is an eighth grader at South Junior High and um it's not easy racing him um I'm a single mom and he also does not have his dad in his life so it is kind of hard seventh grade was very difficult um I actually took him to project youth but he slipped a little more after that um and he actually came home and told me Mom I'm in this um program at my school n nutral ground it's very fun you know they're like they they accept me and just hearing those words um one I got really excited and happy because I was seeking help for him and um I was given a pamphlet of neutral ground um but I never reached out to to them because I'm you know so busy um and so when he told me that I was just like well wow you know the they reached out to him I didn't even know they were at South so um I'm very excited that he's part of the program now and I can't wait for what's coming next thank you I know it's hard I'm a single mom too and so I wish this program was there for me for my son Bravo all right moving on to our uh public comments for uh Open Session items yeah thank you it's it's fine if you want to get up and leave now yes maybe maybe you have some homework to do thank you Matsu uhti thank you uh thank you all for um uh doing what you guys are doing partnership with them I I support you guys we support you guys a lot and to the youth those hob don't give up I I went to South Junior High in Anaheim High School bro I was in your shoes thank you um I want to thank the school board I uh was cruising down Ball Road at Gilbert uh High School continuation school and I saw a mural there I've been painting murals for the past a year year and a half we have five new murals in Anaheim and we target um any varo or neighborhood where there's gangs drugs and alcohol and our goal is to create um a and an identity and I I heard that in one of their um presentations an identity is very important I was lucky to have a grandpa onito to teach me oral tradition myya would bring me books from Mexico I just came back from Mexico um to find out more about who my father was I relate to some of their stories I never knew my father I was adopted um but that's another story but it's connected and I encourage you to keep um working with people like them or a nonprofit uh it's very important because when you don't have a role model then you look into the gangs into the drugs and you feel empty and you have no identity if you have no history of your background if you're Mexican or Cho Or Hispanic Latino you don't know who you are and with that I um want to just say uh we pray to the Creator and to Mother Earth that's what saved me our language and that with that um hopefully in the future we can have uh other nonprofits work have air Anaheim High School of toy porina toy porina was a female native indigenous woman of the gabino tribe and we're getting ready for indigenous people day we had a zoom meeting with Adam Loya Virginia carello um I think I have one minute or is that it okay and thank you so much for what you guys are doing and welcome uh I haven't been here maybe in six seven months I've been gone just doing a lot of um teaching at uh in Mexico City verac Cruz Pua Guerrero and a couple native schools and teaching them what we've been fighting for and just connecting with other neighborhoods that are in the lower than middle class uh thank you gracias [Applause] Castillo good evening uh yeah there's a lot of stuff just happened tonight um something in my field uh I created an organization back in the 90s called United neighborhoods and we were uniting all these people fighting for the kids in these neighborhoods also Los Amigos I brought a lot of my attention to them and they helped out tremendously and some of you who were here you know we all came here a lot on issues of Youth and and young kids I stood on that trail after wise I became the largest lulac uh president but again a lot of it didn't really want to go towards these issues that they just brought up so now I see it changing I so I'm the young guy at Ball Junior High Lera and seeing the changes and watching everything and as a city employee at 13 with a work permit I got to see the community and be involved and try to help so basically the kids that I even came here to support were being expelled was they they they I was looking at my own staff of people at my school at that time and they they didn't they didn't expel the kid or I go to the school with the principal and they would say okay we'll give them a chance and these kids graduated and uh they served our country and they got homes and they made it so I I applaud that but one of the biggest things I came for was the SS that we have good sor police and our schools and I go to the police review board I'm actually the one that founded that here to bring it together and I always go and sometimes I'm by myself but the narrative is not on the subject that we need uh people won't come in and say anything because they're afraid so what what I'm suggesting is to this to them but they didn't really give me a good answer was you got the good SS and kids are seeing them and liking them but then when they go home they're getting you know stopped and put on the ground and we got videos and everything and some of the actions and so there's a lot of Rift of differences and neighborhoods that are called bad neighborhoods and then they get labeled so the officers see that and then they treat it as that so my own sub suggestion was can we make SS and I just spoke to some of these and they said the same thing we'd like to see the SS uh uh getting the training of of the officers and these neighborhoods that same kind of training so that's that would like to have you guys actually try to get with the police and make that subject to getting these officers to get better communication now again there's good kids and there's bad kids but again look at what they done they we went and got I got a bunch of them and and saved them and that's what we're trying to do and I I see the the changes so I want to be on the positive issue but there is some things that we need to work on in bettering as as they even said some of you didn't don't know about this you know uh the young kids the way they uh live and the the way they have to survive in the school in the streets so as I got to watch it um I got 51 years of all that so basically it's um I'm coming in here and didn't know this was going to happen makes me happy there's other organizations also that are helping but we're not collaborating too close with uh the government of the police department and you know city city developing of the of the neighborhoods we need to get into those neighborhoods better like these people are doing and and they hit every school they hit every school that uh I know of all the troubles that I had I sicamore he didn't them all he named them all where I saved young kids from being expelled and uh but um but that was the main thing Soros please if you can advise with the police you guys got the power because these are your kids these are the kids that are going to that school when they go home they need to be treated the same way or else it's not going to work and that's my thing but I got all hit me it hit me I came here for some reason and this is something weird how this happen so there's got to be the move forward issues and uh I like to thank you everybody that you know has been here uh working and changing these things I'm seeing the changes the the these these ambassadors that's the beautiful and that so we're over here and over here but but they need to get together and I hope you guys are doing that thank you so thank you very much Germaine Newman hello my name is Jermaine Newman I'm a Community member um I'm here to talk um about back at our August 8th meeting Miss Smith trusty Smith you um requested that the school district uh Administration and the board provide a presentation on our financial oversight um in light of Magnolia Elementary School District's uh situation with the embezzlement and um I'm a little disappointed that that's not on the agenda tonight I think it's a really important item that we need especially in light of what's happened with the County Board of Supervisors Andrew da and and uh the Viet America society and the situation where we see um just some opportunities um uh and misuse of our tax funds you know um a Magnolia Elementary School District is a much smaller District than this District um that was an inside job that was a employee that took advantage of the volume of money going through the school district and knowing that there was so much um paperwork and and red tape that they could get away with something like this um unfortunately you know this school district is a much larger School District we are handling much more money I mean Nancy I'm sure you could attest to how much money we're handling our board agenda just this month alone is only 545 pages long it's got 110 Pages worth of financial documents in it and um as you can imagine I don't think all of you or even myself could read through 545 pages in 72 hours we really need some oversight just to understand what those precautions are and how you our district is making sure that these things don't happen here at Anaheim Union High School District our purchase orders alone for this month we have 22 pages of purchase orders that are in this agenda 16 Pages worth of checks being written some of those checks being written are being written to cash some of those checks written are being written to anachronisms that nobody as a public I don't know what those are so I want want to make sure our District's doing their due diligence we have multiple accounts with US Bank that are being paid thousands and thousands of dollars every year so it's really really important yeah i' appreciate if you actually take put this on the agenda and we get a presentation on the financial oversight of this District thank you TR us and I I uh apologize for I can help with that all right you can help me with that all right welcome thank you I'm Costas scaes I'm um father of a child in your District I'm a homeowner and taxpayer and a US citizen there's an election in November you I'm going to be asked to vote for a bond you're putting forth to invest in our district so before I talk about the bond I want to make sure to let you understand that the investment you have made as a citizen as a taxpayer and your oversight of the school staff has been incredible beyond what I would expect before I came to California from Arizona you done a good job however I will not be supporting your bond because you chose to not invest in my neighborhood I live in El drive my school of attendance is Western and orange view my child will be a guinea pig in your new system of combining schools I accept that it's part of life I didn't ask my kid to go to Walker or to the privileged Kids Academy you created I send it to the school of attendance because I believe in public education what I've seen though is that you choose to School of my child in the school that I pay for the same taxes that people in Cyprus pay for the people of Kennedy pay for my child went to school behind chicken wire now that you're giving it to hope it's getting a nice fence the auditorium you made the decision in to change all that did not receive a quote of pen since Truman was the president why would I support you investing my money for the children of other people would you do that should I go to my neighbors and tell them it's a good idea to invest that way I don't think so thank you for your time and I hope my kid does not go to class in a double wide next year in Western thanks next up Andrew hello it's me again um so uh just wanted to kind of Shadow off of what Haley said we are a democracy District um and what that means is that we're going to have a lot of conflicts and a lot of discussions that that needs to exist in a democracy school um I really don't think democracy can't I don't think democracy exists without dissent um and a lot of the times what we've been seeing is its dissent from the community um I saw it through a father today and I've been doing it for the past year now um so I definitely think that as a democracy District I want to promote the community and students to go ahead and speak up here especially um the neutral ground students that we saw here today um you know we saw um a lot of students in support and you know I think neutral ground is really important in our schools I've had many many um classmates a lot of friends who have gone through the program and it's something that they look forward to um so I think we should be investing in that you know something that the kids are looking forward to a lot of these kids um previously were not going to class um or otherwise would have not gone to school um so I think investing in programs like neutral ground is critical um I know he's not here but I wanted to thank deesa and Nati for their work um across Anaheim and S um it's really really crucial that we have programs like neutral ground in our community um and one of the kids said um you know their dad had to work two jobs um and I relate to that there's issues like that that exist in our community um my dad had to work four jobs at one point because we just couldn't make ends meet um and I had to start working at 16 so a lot of these issues that I hope you guys realize um and remember when you're up there representing us um and just when you're thinking about how to vote just remember that some of us struggle at home um so I also wanted to come up here on behalf of some teachers whose names I cannot say um they have asked me not to say their names but I want you guys to visit the sites really going to the school sites and investigating what's going on um I find it kind of ironic that we hired a bunch of new teachers at Anaheim um amidst the Riff notices um and I know it was needed we did need the teachers but there's this term that I've developed called classroom stuffing and so what we're seeing in some of the classes is um teachers are still given the 190 student load but they'll have one class with 20 students and then another class where the kids don't even have tables to to use to work they don't have chairs to sit in and so I really want you guys to go to the school sites um go see the go see the schools that you represent and see firsthand what's going on in our schools because it's this this isn't okay and what I really want to know is is if we have classrooms like this who's going to be responsible when there's a fire who's going to be responsible you know what just happened in Georgia you know what's going to be what's going to happen when the kids can't leave their classrooms because it's just so crowded in there so I that's what I want to challenge you guys to do um and to the students of neutral ground um I want to leave you guys with this um I start UCLA next week um and at my orientation I saw almost no Latino students um I was kind of standing out um I want more of us there so I want you guys to push yourselves um and hopefully um be there aside me or even above me we need more Latino students in our public school program so um and I'll be here I'll be in the community supporting you guys um and always always fighting for my community and for the teachers and for everyone in the community thank you thank you everyone we appreciate your comments just Andrew congratulations on UCLA I wish you well come back and tell us about your [Applause] experiences okay item 10.1 School sponsored student organization this is an action item and Aon this is your first vote so moved second second moved and seconded all in favor I I all right move your mic resolutions 10.2 resolution number 2024 2.5 db-3 adjustments to income and expenditures general fund resolution number 2024 25-b d04 adjustments to income and expenditures various funds 2023-24 un audited actual financial statements moved second moved and seconded any questions or comments okay hearing none all in favor I roll call vote that's roll roll call that's right it's a resolution okay Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal I miss Smith I and I vote I 10.3 resolution number 2024-25 db-5 five recalculation of the 2023 24 Appropriations limit and establishing the 20242 estimated appreciations limit calculations action item so moved second moved and seconded questions or comments on this Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal I miss Smith I and I vote I 10.4 resolution number 2024-25 db- 6 the Anaheim Union High School District in support of proposition two kindergarten through TW grade 12 schools and local Community College public education facilities modernization repair and safety Bond Act of 2024 this is a roll call vote absolutely so moved all right um I just want to make a comment on this um this is to uh help um support this bond that will go on the state and people will say well why do you need to go for a bond in your local area um if there's going to be one in the state well this is for matching funds only and the only way we can get these funds is if we uh get the public to support a bond so um any other comments or questions on this these are not also taxpayer repaid yes yes very important all right roll call vote Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal I miss Smith I and I vote I 10.5 resolution number 2024 25- f02 State allocation board and school facility program Beyond Bond Authority acknowledgement action item so moved second uh questions or comments on this no all right hearing none um Mr hosi hi Mr O'Neal hi Miss Smith I and I vote I 10.6 uh open public hearing sufficient of textbooks and instructional materials anyone wishing to speak on this item okay seeing none closing the hearing 10.7 resolution number 2024 25- e-03 textbooks and instructional materials compliance for 20242 action item so moved second roll call vote any questions or comments Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal Miss Smith I and I vote I 10.8 resolution number 2024 25- e-04 National Hispanic Heritage Month action item so moved second okay um I'm just going to read the first part of the resolution that we are voting on it's very important okay um where is the Board of Trustees of the Anaheim Union High School District honors the heritage of Hispanics and acknowledges their many contributions to our nation and whereas Hispanic heritage week began in 1968 under President Johnson and was expanded by President Reagan and enacted into law in 1988 to cover a 30-day period starting on September 15th the day which represents the anniversary of Independence for five Latin American countries Costa Rica El Salvador guatam Mara uras and Nicaragua followed by Mexican Independence Day on September 16th and Chile Independence Day on September 18th Hispanic Americans have helped our shape our communities throughout Orange County with profound and positive influences through a strong commitment to Family Faith and community and enduring work ethic and many contributions to society including dedic ated public servants holding locally elected positions serving in our boardrooms as well as our classrooms and um on behalf of uh our trusty Guerrero I want to acknowledge this okay action item roll call Mr hosi I just wanted to say I would love to be aware of all of the celebrations that are taking place at all of our school sites and if there's any kind of like Community thing I know the city of Anaheim does something big um that our students and families can be aware made aware of those celebrations as well absolutely absolutely and what is your vote I Mr O'Neal I miss Smith I and I vote I 10.9 resolution number 2024 25- E-5 attendance Awareness Month action item so moved second okay and this is in September and uh my question is what are some of the things that we've been doing um to um enhance our uh attendance yeah absolutely thank you for that question uh you know chronic tapism has been deemed a National Health crisis and I'm proud of the work that our district has done to proactively really try to address not just chronic aasm but just in tenants in general uh I know Joe S want to recognize his work previously but certainly Now Alison Conrad and the amazing work she's doing hitting ground running uh to really work with our sites and the way that we look at attendance uh we have site attendance teams we're pushing out data um I think every couple weeks to our sites with names of students and list who are in danger of being chronically absent so schools have data given to them so they don't have to do that work to be able to track and work and support and monitor those students with their families uh we have incentives like we like we've always had in terms of perfect attendance or no tardies a lot of our schools are doing tardy sweeps um but we're also working hard with our staff uh and I want to give a lot of credit to our teachers for the great work they do instructionally to bring in relevant engaging um instruction uh where students feel connected to the work that's going on the classroom our performance task assessments um I think also there's um work than being done with I know Diana Fujimoto is here with also with Danny Warz and Kenny Petz um who are who led our principaling and I know Mr hos you were at our princi meeting uh the other day um we're doing some deeper work with Street data and our Focus for the first goor round is going to be on attendance so it's uh we're looking at Equity centered questions and really this Community Practice around collecting the the voice of our students and our families to better understand um what brings students to school what prevents students from coming to school to really inform us on some of the things that we can do differently as the adults and create the conditions where more and more students want to come and we're seeing already impacts at some of our schools who began this work last year and so now we're scaling that work districtwide uh and then the beautiful thing about this process is we can replicate this process with any data point that we're interested in improving so when you think about the satellite data the overarching trends of a district um the street data allows us to humanize that data and make sense of it in terms of real stories uh so the data makes uh becomes more personal um we also um are beginning to automate and and create different processes and forms so it's easier for staff uh in the way that they work with attendants I know through the lens of cohesion our Ed staff you know and and Allison are working really closely with the great team of our business folks uh and the way that we um work with attendants and support the way that our attendant secretaries work with staff to code absences and working with families in the way that they call in to report absences because sometimes when that does doesn't happen um our data can be inaccurate which then unfortunately gets marked as an unexcused absence or a Trent perhaps uh when a student may have missed for a legitimate reason but it wasn't coded that way so a number of those things are also happening and I know our schools are also working closely to clean up their data with especially at the beginning of the school year with our no- shows the students who have never shown up because as they're in our system they get marked absent which affects our Ada rate and so when we can clean that data up um our data reflects more accurately which improves our attendance uh as as well and then one of the things that we're also doing this year which is new is um Allison is working to create um you're probably familiar with the six and 12 day letters that that typically go home to a student who's missed those days of school that's typically a part of our student attendance review board or sarb process uh but one of the things she's also doing this year with our schools is to create this chronic absenteeism awareness letter um because a lot of times you you may have students who miss a couple days here and there and they don't think much of it their grades are actually pretty good um but over the course of year if you average two to three days a month you can be chronically absent even though your grades may look okay so the idea is to really bring this awareness to to students and their families early on um because they may take that that three-day weekend or four- Day weekend just because not realizing the impact um so there's a lot of things that we're doing proactively and of course we have our Saturdays that have been in play that we're continuing to do um in leverage as well so a lot of those are just some examples of some of things that we're doing that we're really proud of and um I know the work that Allison is doing with our APS Who oversee attendance are also collecting feedback and data points in terms of how we can also bring new ideas to the to the table Al are we still doing home visits yes so we have we have two different kinds of home visits we have um the typical Outreach that might go out when we haven't seen a student we want to check in to see if they're home if they live there if things are okay um we also have um the the home visits that we were're brought through our community school efforts where it's more proactive in nature it's more aspirational it's not um about reaching out to students who maybe have been missing school but it's really to reach out to families to learn more about their story um what is it they care about their aspirations and goals those are teacher-led um with staff um so we have different kinds of home visits going on to again connect students um with and families with our schools and remember there's different levels of absenteeism you have some students bless you we have some students who we know maybe miss those couple days um over the course of a month but it adds up we also have some students who come to school but maybe miss a few periods here and there because they May Roam or they may just choose to miss or ditch that class and then we have students who just aren't coming to school so we have different levels of of absenteeism and we're trying to address the different levels um based on the need of the student and so there's a lot of complexities to how we're trying to address this but um I know our district is up for the challenge and we're working intentionally to to do that work wow thank you for answering that was very thorough you want to say something yeah that's thank you jiren I would like to add you um make a comment you noted that uh nationally there's a crisis in chronic absenteeism we have been going deeper with the data there's been State and National Data on uh SEC mid middle and secondary school students uh National and State polling and surveys and uh lo and behold students are finding School less relevant to their lives uh school has become boring and um and that's why we want to underscore the importance of student voice and allowing students to find their voice find their issue find their passion and express it but also hopefully that passion leading to a possible major in college or a possible career right pathway and um and so I'm so grateful to um our our teachers for helping to make that happen in the classroom they're supporting the students and encouraging them to speak up and speak out about whatever issue that they find important and yes to hold us all accountable I think that's what creates a more healthy democracy and uh I'm really proud of the board for supporting that as well the student voice should be front and center uh and hopefully um we will together be able to make school meaningful and relevant for all of our students and and that's why we have important um programs like uh neutral ground and other that have been an important partner to um helping to support Student Success thank you any other questions or comments okay Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal I miss Smith I and I vote I resolution 10.10 um sorry item 10.10 resolution number 2024 25- e-06 Red Ribbon Week action item so moved second he moved in second any questions or comments comments I would like to see red ribbon programs that are more relevant to the age of our high school kids and you know and be a little bit more intentional about the programs about that um same thing at the junior high level some more engaging activities that really are in intentional to to Really resonate with um so we'd have to be working with you know our two- pay programs Etc but I mean get some ideas um and let's generate something that is really more kid kid age uh Focus age appropriate yes age appropriate all right uh any other be appropriate questions or comments hey um Mr hosi hi Mr O'Neal Miss Smith I and I vote I 1011 resolution number 2024 25- e-07 International translation day action item so moved second okay moved in seconded any questions or comments just really appreciate um all of our um our translation department or all of our translators without uh them um you know we can't uh communicate with um uh some folks so um they're very important to um providing that important um information out there all right um Mr hosi I just want to say Dr fren and I were at a back to school night and we had student translators and they had like ribbons underneath their name badges and I understand that's been going on at at several School schools and so I just really want to applaud I mean the schools that are doing that and engaging the kids with the families I just thought it was like wow this is this is incredible and the kids were you know um were talk talking to families and if they needed the translation services so kudos to the principles that thought of that aome thank you for sharing that Mr hosi hi Mr O'Neal hi Miss Smith hi and I vote I 1012 resolution number 2024 25- e-08 request for proposals for eate year 28 data Communications equipment cyber security software and other related electronic equipment apparatus and services action item so moved second okay any questions just a climate this is such an important program that we've had over all these years I I don't know how many millions of dollars we've received in order to keep our equipment updated replacing it and fixing it so um thank you to the IT department for getting this to us and and following through with it over the years thank you here here okay Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal I miss Smith I and I vote I 1013 resolution number 2024 25- hr-01 week of the School administrator action it second all right any questions or comments no just really honor our school administrators they are um you know extremely important uh in their role um and uh we we appreciate um all that they do and um we um we couldn't do this work without our hardworking administrators who really do this um I remember talking to Mr hosi a while ago and he reminded me of um the uh number of hours spent um you know going not only doing your day job but then going to events afterwards and um you know sometimes we forget that um we forget that um administrators who are so dedicated and they attend all the basketball games and football games and and they try to try to get in support of um of all the students so we really appreciate you and so anyone out there um really really honor and thank um your school administrator all right Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal thank you I miss Smith ditto I and I vote I thank you okay 1014 Reserve transparency statement of reasons action item and I believe this is an information item actually oh this says action yeah it does but it's it's a typle okay information information all right we accept that 10:15 ratification lease leaseback agreement AP construction ground Group Inc DBA air plus districtwide and soul systems RFP number action item no moved second okay moving to second questions on this Pat's here okay seeing none all in favor I I I 1016 revised board policy 7807 parenthesis 6158 independent study second reading second so moved okay second reading um do I get a second on that second okay um what I just really uh summarize in this is um you know this it it really is um to increase um participation um above all um and to decrease um apathy and Dropout with this um program um I so admire um our our study programs and um I really uh hope that um well I already know that we will be helping many more students with this so uh any questions or comments no no ready to vote on this one sure okay all in favor I 1017 piggyback big Google workspace for Education action item so moved uh piggy pack bid 1017 wasn't it pulled was Paul that was 11 that was 1117 oh 1117 sorry wrong page I want to vote on this one this is a reduction of 15% cost I love that I complain about that no do I get a second or a a motion oh yes so moved okay a second on this item I'll second it all right all in favor I I all right Bo president Rand Trio can I make a comment on this real quick yes so I just want to clarify for folks for not only for our board for our public but um the Google workpace for Education this is the Google Suite so this is our Gmail or email system it's our calendar system it's our Google Docs spreadsheets ex um slides um all those all those sweet um platforms that we get to enjoy that's what this represents it's not um it's not the same as what we're doing with our Learning Management platform in but this is the Google Suite okay communication all right uh did we vote on this no okay all in favor I thank you 18 agreement with Mr Kevin Mays action item second moving seconded questions or comments okay all in favor I I 1019 agreement University of California Irvine UCI Paul Mirage School of Business Future Leaders initiative action item so moved second okay moved in second any questions or comments on this item hearing none all in favor I I 1020 agre agement helping the behaviorally CH challenged child hbcc action item so moved second moved in second it questions comments okay hearing none all in favor I 1021 memorandum of understanding the Regents of the University of California on behalf of its UC Cooperative Extension Orange County expanded food and nutrition education program action item so move second any questions or comments okay all in favor I 1022 community service agreement food finders Inc action item so move second questions comments all in favor I 1023 subscription SAS Learning Company LLC High School science action item so moved second okay questions or comments all in favor I I 1024 subscription Act activate learning High School science instructional materials action item so move second moved in second a questions hearing none all in favor I I 1025 amended 2023-24 collective bargaining agreement with MMA action item so move second okay moved and seconded questions or comments all right all in favor I all right consent calendar anyone wishing to pull an item yeah pull 117 JJ 118 anyone else move the balance okay uh second second all right all in favor I uh item 117 118 motion that's J so move sorry JJ 7 JJ 118 so move second okay all in favor I I I oppose um abstain all right all righty right go ahead and all right any comments I just want to give a quick update um next week I think you heard Jeff Morganstern allude to it but next week is our first of four uh leading learning lab visits uh with our community school efforts so um if you haven't ever been I would encourage you at least in the in the morning the beginning when we do our kickoff say hello really tell our story before our friends uh get to go visit um katell in South the first go around um I would encourage you to be there you can kind of see the Magic in the room the excitement and um just the great work that our district has done um and our sites have done around the community school efforts is this on our calendar um I don't know that be on when is it it's next Wednesday uh it starts with the 18th it starts at uh 8:30 in the morning it's an all day it's an all day Affair we have 1208 a.m.

I'll move now into Saturday September 14 2024 bobber K Unified School District fall board retreat um I'll turn it over to missa for a roll call ju Kathleen Vance syvia Hendricks anamarie Stevens El gaswood roll call for the record we do have four board members present um in a quorum so we'll continue with this morning morning's agenda letter C is our routine business which is the approval of the September 14 2024 B fall board retreat agenda um without objection a motion to approve oh I'm sorry um I need to request uh for the technology department presentation um there was Al live um out of control circumstance and and our director of Technology will not be able to be here so I will postpone that one to a regular board meeting uh um the presentation uh but I will ask that then we'll move and continue with the agenda starting with community and part um heing engagement department presentation okay for the record board members we are removing number two under information items which is the technology department presentation and will be reported at a regular board meeting are there any other changes no if not I'll motion to approve is there second second by Miss Kathleen Vance all those in favor Sylvia Hendrick M ju M Kathleen Vance MPP anarie Stevens M motion Carri we go move into letter D our information items which is are welcome and president when members of the board uh year uh we have two Retreats we have the instructional uh which was over the summer and this is about the operation um just to recap um when we started the Retreats our focus is we are now on building structures we are on year two of our three-year plan and and the F guy is going to be the structures in place to help us get to the number one goal which is 80% of our students are going to score 70% or better as you going through the presentations today uh one of the key um concept that I want you to keep in mind is how is that department supporting that our students and teachers and administrators at the school are not distracted and the support that they were providing it is the expectation based on our to plan that all of us will be supporting um our administrators administrators can support our teachers and the teachers can support the student uh the the primary goal is uh there will be no distractions and that everyone is going to have a system in place to be able to support our administrators having said that um it is a pride uh with pride and joy that I introduce and present our director um Community par engagement um Miss agie Hart Miss Hart um I will be uh showing your plan as well on the screen do you want the PowerPoint or do you want the other I that wasn't printed so just the three-year plan um see I'm going to set a timer go ahead good morning president bendia um board members and Mr did I say board member yes board me board president buendia superintendent Diaz and board members um thank you for allowing me to present today I am really excited about our program this year um our three-year plan is pretty basic it is just talking about the Partnerships that have to exist between the the family and Community engagement department and the schools and the families so that we can align all three so that we can work together so as you know our mission for the family and Community engagement department is to build Partnerships between the three entities I just spoke of and we are there to support the schools in giving the students the basic needs that they need to um be able to attend school without any barriers um one of our in our year one plan we were building foundations our goal was to establish strong relationships with schools and families and our Community Partners the first thing that we did was we conducted a three-year goal or a three A needs assessment and on the the papers that I provided you I actually included the the results of the survey so according to the families that partake uh partook in the she didn't get me oh you didn't okay this is on your PowerPoint right okay I can send the link but according to the survey from the parents that completed the plan which was strictly mckin vento families uh they believed that the resources that they would need to help their students with their attendance would be um providing tutoring I'm just eating go ahe okay they would be to provide tutoring um the next largest barrier that they had was um not having access to laundry soap and so we have been working really hard to provide those Services for Families last year we wrote a grant to ad and we were able to purchase thousands of dollars worth of laundry detergent for our families in the mckin ventil program so I'm really excited about that and I'm really thankful to Allison for helping me um put that together as well um the next barrier was they would like alarm clocks that was something that I found really interesting uh the reason why they said that they were late for school is because they weren't able to wake up in time so something as simple as an alarm clock May benefit our students which is really good information that I felt like we didn't have before and the other ones are pretty low school supplies and um additional clothing H let's see so so yesterday that was all delivered oh thank you yeah I got home and my grandkids said oh look what we got the school dropped them off oh awesome okay so what board member um Sylvia is talking about is our mckin gento families they receive hygiene items they receive school supplies and they receive clothing items just depending on our student population count from the previous year is how we get our funding and so this year I have been really proactive with our parently aison to put together the bags and I have an expectation for them to deliver the supplies within one week of putting the bags together because there's no point of us having the items and they're just sitting in the sunrise house so I have really clear outline expectations for our parent ladies ones that I'll go over in a minute um year two I'm working on collaborations and Partnerships and like I said earlier I know I sound like a broken record but my goal is to strengthen the homeschool Partnerships and we want to create regular check-ins between the parents and the families the parents and the teachers in the sunrise house and the way we do that is through utilizing the parent Liaisons so it's really important for us to make sure that the parent Liaisons are sticking to their Title One um duties and making sure that they are not at the front desk they're not at the playground and they're not doing lunch duty because that's not what their funding is um set aside for so when I talk to Mr Diaz and I tell him you know I need the parently aison to be doing the things that they're budgeted to do and if the schools need additional funding for people at the front desk then they need to work that in their budgets because they're taking away from the parently A on duties so it's really important to me that we establish that expectation with the parently aons the principles and the schools they need to know that they need to utilize other people in their schools to do a lot of the things that they're asking the Liaisons to do and so if you notice in my director's report every month I have in there how many hours that the parent leaon are coming to the sunrise house because all although they're in our department they're actually supervised by the schools and so yes I was just wondering because at one point there were uh saying that the parent leison would be making calls for attendance that they don't do that anymore no I I have I don't know what they do when they're at their school sites oh okay and so that's that's where the disconnect kind of yeah are taking on students regarding you know bad attendance and would that would be actually a really good useful um tool for them to do because that's 100% parent engagement like they're calling the families making sure because our goal is to support the the goals of the district and getting kids over um what is it 80% so that is and I'll go over that in the expectations and stuff so but for the year 2 collaboration partners ship we just um establishing mentoring programs collaborating with Community organizations and partnering with people who can help us bring programs to the school um I don't know if any of your students were participating in the stars of Honor football game that was a program that we um worked with the U OFA and the stars of Honor program for kids through K through five and we were able to thanks to Transportation bust the students in and I believe they had over 20 families that um utilize that bus and so I've also been reaching out to different organizations um the U OFA just contacted me for a kids day volleyball game and so we can go to this volleyball game however it's during fall break so it's it doesn't fall within our schedule and I also reached out to the Phoenix mercuries and the Phoenix Suns and the mercuries actually offered us tickets but it's on a Thursday night so I don't want our teachers or our students to miss school so I didn't advertise that but I'm trying to work through programs where we can expose our children to events and activities off the nation and just have the exposure and my plea to the U OFA was you know they are on opam land and they acknowledge it in their land acknowledgement that they are on tribal land and that they themselves said that they want to build stronger relationships with um the indigenous communities in the state and so they were really receptive to my request for tickets and so hopefully we can um continue our partnership with them and um work to get more things for our students is it possible to work with like the district office or um sales District or any other districts if it is like on a Saturday um and if they're on fall break that is part of my um my goal and I talked to Mr dasas about my plan is I want to start attending more of the community meetings because the districts have been receptive um last year during the Miracle On Main Street shto actually paid for um oneway Sky to come to the miracon main street and I don't know if you've noticed in my board report that I have started including numbers for the community members from each district so um I thought it was really important for me to have that data to back up you know we're serving all of these families at the Family Resource Center every month and so when I do come and have an Ask they may be more receptive to helping us because they can see that their funds actually do benefit their community members so that's part of my plan um so that's building the Partnerships with our our different community members and then year three will be imp actually for year two since we're on this year I don't know if you were able to see the yearly calendar that I had printed out I think I put it in one of the board reports of all the activities that we do have planned for this year my goal is to have two events every month and we have been doing that last month we had our Li is not nice and I think we did a attendance one I the attendance one is going to be one where we're not going to advertise it however we're going to have the parently aison bringing in families that need help with attendance and part of our goal is to support the um what is the one we're we want to have people on parent view connecting connecting I'm sorry it's Saturday morning so part of our goal to help um support that goal is we're going to be doing parent view classes and so we're going to teach Families how to get on to the um internet and log on to their accounts and if you haven't been by the sunrise house lately we have a new classroom so I'm really excited about that we turned my old office into a classroom space and Technology put in a huge screen like that so we're going to start doing our classes over there so that was one of my goals last year with Mr Diaz is to make sure that we have a space I wanted a you know a a nice space and we just have old tables now but hopefully I can get a capital request in to get um new furniture because we haven't received any furniture or any type of upgrades in our program the last nine years I've been here I think I think in in line with what everyone's been recommending know as far as keeping my ear to the ground or to the ground and what's happening is I would really definitely reach out to communities or districts because they are trying to facilitate those types exact types of opportunities especially for grandparents raising their grandchildren because they want to be involved they just don't know how to get like into it they're used to all of this like show me but we know we have systems that they can actually use so I think they are are looking for those types of opportunities to have people that want to that want to take the time because it will take patience I promise you especially with some of them but I think that they're definitely open and interested to be able to do that so now you have a space to but be G the other thing is the sales District because it services so many Elders it's the largest has that resource center next to the post office which was also a space to to like do the sewing classes to do the and that might be a good opportunity to partner with them and just be present and so that you can start to engage in that way however you want to but just the recommendations I think that that those are all on the horizon and it's good that you're in we're in year two where looking at how do we do that to you so well thank you for those recommendations I will go ahead and um consider those it would be really it's the reason why I feel like it's so vital for the parent Liaisons to really be aligned on what we're trying to go for is because if I want to utilize them after hours like as you're saying on weekends and in the evenings if they already have their 40 hours for the week my hands are tied and I I literally have um medical issues where it states that I can't drive at night and so that's why I don't do the board meetings and so it's difficult for me to stay late in the evening to facilitate those programs so is part of the parently aison expectations if you will no on um they are required to facilitate workshops now each late each parently aison will organize two workshops with a minimum of attendance of 10 parents so that is one of the expectations that I do have for them and I know it was really hard to really put down the the rules and stuff but I think now that they realize it I don't know if you've been to the sunrise house but our overflow room is never overflowing now I they have a daily system of procedures that they have to follow every day and it's just a learning curve because you know we didn't have those systems in place before and now that you know thanks to Mr Dio's guidance and you know really pounding in that we need we need to have the procedures and the systems in place it makes it so much easier because if something is not done I'll just send an email and say hey here's a reminder and you will be evaluated on these um points if if if it continues then I will have to do a letter of reference but just a gentle reminder and not having to you know tell them every time hey here check it out read it that's really been helpful and so um in in the plan I also have a copy of the chain of command I don't know what you call it civilian um organiz organization organization chart and so I also included a copy of the job description for the parently aison and like I said if you could read over those parently aison job descriptions it would be really helpful because then you would know what is expected of the parently eons and if you see them in the offices or if you see them on the playground continuously then that is something we really do need to address as a school district because we are certifying that they are being used for a certain um job and if they're continuously doing something else then we need to recode and reclassify them so that is one thing that I really will stress and I have talked to Mr Diaz and I will let him know during our monthly meetings if those um if the parently aison are not coming to the sunrise house as they're supposed to because they should be doing one day a week and so this past month I was very flexible and you know we're just all getting started and the schools were really busy but this month they haven't been coming and so I'm going to you know do an email and let the principes know that we do need them there so but that is basically the gist of my three-year plan our whole goal is to support the school district and the schools with getting the attendance rates up with um strengthening the relationships with our families because I think that I know as a parent myself it's very difficult if the only calls you get from school are bad ones and so we make it um a positive experience to come to the sunrise house we serve so many families and they're very very thankful and I don't know if it's come to your attention however the tanam nation's healthc care um has taken over the diaper bank that was a decision by the diaper Bank of Southern Arizona so we no longer have the diaper Bank um once we've exhausted our diapers then we won't be providing those services but I feel like it was a a decision that benefits both community um the Ben benefits the food or the diaper bank and us because we were spending a lot of time doing that and that was a service that should not be um taking up so much of our time so but we do still provide food and we still do provide um a lot of resources that do help our families do you guys have any questions Miss Ms um I don't have any questions um Miss Hart I just want to say um that I think that you're doing an amazing job as a director for Sunrise house I know that at the law conference in one of the breakout sessions Baba Kiri uh Unified School District was recognized for um providing an opportunity for community members to shower and which is I believe as part part of the sunrise house so that was something that was like oh my gosh it's on the screen we're one of the three so that was and then I had one of the um uh individuals sitting next to me um and she asked us that really and I'm like yeah we provide a lot of stuff so I did highlight the sunrise house during that conversation thank you um I also want to say that you know as the Sunrise house provides um food food and resources um clothing for our community members you have made it possible for all of this to happen by going out and asking for donations and I know that's hard it's really hard but the amount of um um Products that come in for for our community is really amazing and that a lot of the communities and the the members benefit from from the sunrise house and I do like the fact that you are putting in place for um the Leons to do their part and additional um reaching out to families and to provide so some of those um trainings for families because it is important it's very important and and you know I just I think it's going to it and it all it all plays and connects into the into the three-year plan that we have in that connection with communities and and and families so I really like the way that you set up this plan and are moving forward in that so thank you for all that you've done and all that you are doing thank you I appreciate it Miss syvia I was going to add on to what Juan was mentioning about you were saying that you were going to be doing these trainings for you know like you said um grandparents raising grandchildren um so one of the things you might want to work with the sales district is because I get them as an alter is Packet they give out packets once you get started or you start advertising you might want to maybe approach them and see if you could include that in the pocket well that's a really good idea for the ERS Grand parents yeah oh well yeah they hand them up two Elders okay I get home and they're right there on my table they do a lot of they send out a lot of crossw word puzzles and work fights my mom used to be my Advertiser for Senior Services she would go all the senior events and she would tell them oh go to the sunrise house so I I my mom is not doing that for me anymore so that's a really good good idea I appreciate that yeah so and to you know you're doing a fantastic job with the example of what I was just mentioning about the the pockets and the backpacks and whatnot that were giving out yesterday they were my grandkids are really excited about this I will let Jer and um want to know thank you Miss Stevens I just want to thank you for all your hard work I think it's amazing and it's good to hear all the wonderful things that you're providing for our community um you know it's not always easy for families to be vulnerable and take donations but I think it's very helpful because that's less one less thing they have to worry about um especially for basic needs and I think it's phenomenal that you're also reaching out to these organizations to provide exposure because those things help students learn and gain that experience um and dream dream big so um I commend you for everything that you're doing and thank you for your hard work I appreciate that thank you let me share first before I before before you go no I just wanted to to I guess continue to um not only express my support but I think that obviously the support of the entire board and your efforts I think that you are setting a very clear and um expectation and that's all we can I know when initially we hear parently aison we think of something like exactly what you're saying and we were seeing something very different from what it was before and that's great and I'm really excited that you're setting that base like hey this is what we're going this what we're here to do and the more that I can see as much as the much of the impact not only just as a board member but as a community member that you've been able to make um I think that I'm really glad that you feel and if you know you feel supported and that are now finally feeling or given the authority to be able to make some decisions that you know maybe you didn't feel you could before nonetheless um there's there's always uh I feel like because you're setting that standard now what I would really like from to support you with or let's maybe offer inside inside of some guidance is with personal skills there are some people who need maybe some training or some maybe some more understanding on how to be not how to be you because we can only have one you but how to break down their own like barriers of how do you engage and and not feel cuz some people can do presentations and some people have hard time doing presentations and then mostly for elders especially if you're not building a connection and they don't feel like you're talking to them the way that they should be spoken to they're going to tune it out and not not pay attention and not return I mean you've been here so long you understand that but I definitely want to make sure that that's also something we're mindful of when we're setting kind of systems of expectations on any staff members is um maybe modeling some things at some point or somehow some way um and then gauging them on how they're receiving that and what they're going to do with it and and you know kind of going forward with that um cuz is I say you're setting a very good expectation and I don't want to see them um feel like they haven't been supported either because I think everybody's capable and able on on being successful um so I want to see I love it I can't wait to see all of it in action um I and I'm really grateful like just miss Anna said um it is hard to like but everybody needs something sometime even for myself when you're so when I visit and you're like come in look at all you know and and I'm thinking and and or you'll give me a bag of food and I'm like I just I don't need it but you know at the same time I'm grateful because obviously not everyone has everything all the time and and it really does help so I have to swallow my pride a lot at points and I know it's very difficult for a lot of people to swallow their pride on on on like I don't need anything but I think so long as we're consistent and we have this connection or ability to be to connect that we can help um students will or will get over the stigma at some point of how it looks and just be like I'm grateful and I'm gracious I can go to school I have I'm clean or I I don't feel embarrassed and it all adds to the overall achievement that we're alling here so I'm really glad that we're all in support of what you're doing and and thank you so much um for everything Mr Diaz thank you uh Miss har I also want to extend my appreciation uh you and and understanding a system um highlighting some of the pieces that we have discussed doing a retreat um doing the summer Retreat it's for you to by understanding the needs uh if you understand the needs and then you have the strategies of promising practices to fulfill those needs and the last one is to have a way to check if you're being effective or not um based on your presentation is you identify some of the needs that are will or that will be making an impact uh on our three-year goals including 80% of the students are going to score 70% or better including um the 90% attendance or better including 8 90% of our parents um connecting to parent view so they can help us be our accountability partner and based on goal three um essential 10 which is going to be uh connecting um with a family with students uh for you to understand that some some basic needs uh sometimes is what prevents the students to come to school um if you're not fit if you don't feel good about what you're wearing or how you um how you projecting yourself as an individual or as simple as waking up in the mornings so thank you for your support um U the way I want to challenge you is to continue to uh increase the partnership um and and and and grants that can benefit and bring additional resources not only uh to the sunrise house but also um to our nonprofit um let's give her our B hand [Music] [Applause] um and she's been consistently asking for time to take you guys to the sunrise house so you can see the improvements I know it's part of the tour today I don't know how much longer you're going to be hanging out my son has football day okay so with your permission I cannot do justice but I'll I at least I can show them some of the point of some of the changes that you have made okay um but I know we will have some based on on how much time we have right now um that will be towards the end of the day so okay or you guys can also schedule a time when you guys want to come in and we can do a site tour and it would be cool to have you guys come in on a day where we have a lot of families that do come in like a Tuesday okay uh because you will see how many families we do making a difference in their lives so um I just want to thank you and just one other last thing is you know one of my things was you know when I first came out to the nation I was very well connected within the Puma County State of Arizona and Tucson and since I've been out here I haven't really been able to make those connections in Partnerships so part of my goal this year is to elevate our program so that other people know about our program like I met a person that works for PBS and I want to have him come out and do a story because our program is really great and when I do go to national conferences and we do have group discussions I tell them that what we're doing out here on the nation and they always encourage me to do session so that's going to be my my goal for this year but I really do appreciate your time and I do appreciate your support and I really do um I do really think it's a privilege and honor to work here on the tatham nation and I'm very happy with um our new direction that Mr Diaz has brought us to it's good to hear thank you thank you m heart thank you let's give her a big hand and um as we get our next presenter ready I want you to talk to a partner next to you and through in your own words how is the sunrise house helping us reach our threee one goals talk to your partner and say one item in which in your own words you feel that the sunrise house is supporting at threee goals I can go it would be good to see maybe how thank you Miss yeah would be good right right right and I also feel like the what she does as part of the exposure and getting students to do those I was l i was I didn't know that was doing that for the football game and I started seeing all these different social media like photos of them being at the football game oh yeah and I was like oh that's really cool you see that um on social media people like so a lot of people were posting their kids like with their certificate and they're saying US USD bought us tickets to this game yeah yeah yeah I know Virginia got yeah and I had no clue that was happening so I was like oh that's really incentive because I think like students get that and they get to see that something about dreaming bigger f is your thought we're so grateful for your your grandsons to come over and help was like all the yeah was just like ladies there three two one and I'll point to your partner that he's going to present and summarize what you guys discussed [Laughter] okay um if we're ready we'll go ahead and move on to the number four this morning or actually be new number two oh number three M the S social emotional learning presentation by Miss Anne Cordon our director of social emotional learning good morning good morning guys I'm so glad to be here wonderful to have this time with you I know we don't get it too often so for starters I'm want to do a mindfulness activity then we're going to go through our presentation and then allow some minutes for feedback questions concerns I do want to introduce Miss Alisa beay she goes by Miss B she's a member of our counseling team she wanted to hear the presentation and also hear feedback from the board and any questions the board may have all righty let's begin by taking a moment to allow your body to settle in a comfortable position you may close your eyes or keep them slightly open willing the spine to lift and the shoulders to soften today we'll practice a short body scan checking in with our bodies helps settle the Mind helps us know what physical Sensations and emotions that might be present Begin by taking a full breath in and a long breath out now bringing awareness to the top of your body your head face neck and shoulders noticing any Sensations movements any places of holding now moving down to the arms and to the hands sensing the back of the body the front of the body sensing yourself seated feeling the contact of your body with the chair now sensing your upper legs your lower legs and the feet noticing if there's any particular places that call out for your attention places where Sensations feel most vibrant or dynamic scanning to see if there's places where there's a lack of sensation or very faint Sensations now coming back to the whole body sensing the whole body breathing one complete organism finishing with a deep breath in and a long breath out and when you're ready you come back to the room and open your eyes all righty here we go you're welcome this is my three-year plan you clicking who's clicking oh perfect all right we're all familiar with the Mission Vision and purpose statement on T quizdom on it ah okay threeyear process CL rest what's what was year One what was the thing for year one can we can we I'm sorry cuz we're cuz we're recording you're going to have to hold a mic sor so probably a walking M does that work in if you want to walk around okay year two building the structures year three maintain success so we're going to go into year one of the plan kind of a recap all right the director of Social and emotional learning is a key collaborator in building the bridge between in school mental health support and community-based or outside Mental Health Services for students in need however the role is so effective because of the collaboration that is done with important school-based and community-based partners but most importantly with students and their families this role was created to close as many gaps as we could to GA our students who were in need of services to those services and by doing in order to do so we often had to reduce barriers and continue to have to reduce barriers for parents in order to make that happen so this is the organizational flowchart I'm a member of the district admin team the site counselors and the behavioral specialists are under their admin but I work the most closely with them directly in regards to serving our students all right we began doing monthly newsletters in the fall of 2021 and we have kept that going to current bu USD um through the project aware Grant we're able to put together these resources if you go on to our District web page in the upper right hand corner there's a tab that says Mental Health Resources it's also available under the helpful links on the web page if you notice the subjects run the gamut and they're all very important whether or not it's grief bullying domestic violence self harm lgbtq plus sexual assault eating disorders and pregnancy um hotlines every one of those numbers also have an option for support by chat so like by texting and it has list the websites as well we've always had a policy in place in regards to bullying but it pretty much lived in our handbooks so we created an anonymous bullying report form a Google form which is also available directly from the district website um through project aware we were able to fund securely so security acts like a technology net flagging key search words and vocabulary that could signal students in crisis or who are struggling flagged alerts are sent to selected admin and counselors at each site to be addressed this could be anything from inappropriate in um images to to gun violence um searching different things in regards to hotlines certain keywords like kill or hurt or harm um will will be flagged and they will go directly to the site admin and the counselor at those sites in order to handle it and increasingly so now you know when you go to any Google search you go to start typing something you know and all these other people and what the trends are a lot of the students just go to type something and then they see something else and they hit that option when they you know they couldn't spell it on their own or it's not something they would um normally do but once they click that again we're alerted and we look into it so we developed the counselor referral form back in um 2000 spring of 2022 a workshop was also developed and presented and then given to staff so they can use it for their reference I know this has been presented in board meetings prior um it also has a rubric in there and explains the different reasons to refer students and the categories to choose so wrapping up year one was pretty much the tail end of our project aware we had a suicide prevention walk held by the secondary campus with members from the state and access and our school counselors so Cognito Cognito um again through project aware we were able to use the funding to to train our staff on suicide awareness this is a state mandated training that needs to be done every 3 years so through the end of year one um we were able to get the majority of the staff trained and then last fall we followed up with new staff or staff at the secondary campus that weren't able to get trained the year prior and this included bus transportation as well that received the training all right this is where my heart is um a lot of times there's just not enough time during the school day because of what's going on and putting out fires meeting with students um after hours I'm able to spend more time with students and families run small groups and really just kind of work on the resiliency skills one of the main things I do when I take students um out in the afternoons and for outings is helping with their coping skills earlier this week I took a bunch of handful of students up to Bab ke and one of the students that was new to my hiking group I asked him how it was going and what he thought he's like I don't even know what I was upset about out you know and just seeing that smile on his face he's like I'm I'm just loving life right now and just was amazing um just student that had a recent loss in his family has some other issues going on and some separation it just was great to see him be a kid and that's the kind of ties you want to make back to the behavior you know whether or not he's bullying at school making inappropriate threats that sort of thing and working on that anger so again resiliency and um coping skills all right so year two build the structures so we continue to add on we continue to do our um monthly newsletters I began to work with any new staff members to the counseling team I also tried to support any new teachers to our school district whether or not they've been teaching for years or brand new to um teaching so these are some of our Partnerships Arizona complete Health it's through them that um Community Health Associates staff the crisis mobile team when we have a student that's in need of services and we feel that a higher level care may be needed we will contact crisis to come out to also do an assessment from there determine whether or not a student needs to go to a crisis response Center or whether or not they need to be impatient um Inter Mountain Center for human development is our number one provider at the current time for students for counseling the cook Foundation is something that we took on again through project aware they provided um resources for us and helped us with the monthly series of mental health text talk act they have been out for the past two years doing interactive presentations at the secondary campus the alternative The Accelerated campus and intermediate campus through parent guu.vn Hospital the police department and then our second main provider to our for our Behavioral Health is Spectrum all right so we continued on with the counseling referral form again this was something that's offered at the beginning of every school year at each site to make sure that everybody is trained and able to submit referrals keep that in mind and when it's in what a even on the referral form when you look at it if it's an emergency we're not asking for that form to be filled out we want to be contacted right away um but that referral form is helps us with data purposes and we'll get talk about that a little bit more so last year is when we developed the QR code we made sure that not only um students and staff but the community had access to this policy by having it on the website um the QR code has been included in our school newsletters and also posted on the campuses when when something is filled out um it comes to the district office if it's anything related to bullying then it's passed on to me and then I work with the counselors for what student and what sites it might be um implicated in the report and sometimes they go across campuses all right solidifying communication um one of my goals last year was to make sure that no parties assumed uh the counseling team not to just assume I may know or be aware of a crisis that happened with a student or assume that the parents also shared the information with the school so if they didn't share with the office with parent permission I made sure that the counselors of that site would be aware um and sometimes I don't know the information even with students that I'm working with some sometimes a parent has felt like oh the counselor will tell her I did tell this person so we wanted to make sure that flow of communication went both ways yay okay so we had our second um Brian Brown Youth Academy um we had 25 youth over three4 of them were B USD students three of them in June had not been in school for a semester or more uh all three of them are back with bu USD uh one of them at the accelerated campus and two have returned to the secondary campus in addition to our students um we had students from Tio high school we had a student from hila Ben and a student from out of state uh you can go to the next slide so here are some pictures from the camp uh we found out this morning that we have a grant that we were rewarded so we're going to be working on planning for that um and then we're going to raise the number of students keep the same age group 17 14 to 17 but we're going to raise it to 35 students we're going to be working with the sales schools sales um district for the day after their Halloween event which I believe is going to be Saturday October 26 we are going to have an event just solely a Brian Brown Youth Academy um have students that have participated in the event and call other resources to come and help put up tables as well so we'll have mental health and um law enforcement um FBI is going to put up a table Etc all right so I like to call year three I know it's maintained success but we want to maintain and increase our level of services and getting students to help that they may need how are we going to do that we do this through normalizing social emotional awareness and mental health in the community to do this we have to have a strong Foundation of Counseling Practice and Partnerships so the counseling referral form Synergy actually were pretty impressed with the counseling referral form that we had developed they have taken that form and on their end have now put it into Synergy so it's going to be now that's going to be the add-on you know they're welcome to share it and use it with other school districts because of the they felt the quality that it was so it is in on the trial site as staff of being trained once the um MTS is fully rolled out as long as you have access to that student then you're going to be able to have access to put that referral in we still want to keep the council referral forms open for other staff that maybe do have that student but would like to put in a referral and with a big piece with having it in Synergy is going to help help us for data it's going to help us see Trends it's going to help to see I really want to see the time of year when certain you know behaviors might Spike um the number of kids that we've referred out you know all that kind of tracking information that's been very hard to do with just the Google form and separate Google forms across the districts so Spectrum Spectrum came on under Arizona um complete Health they still are under them as far as um their their ability to work out here in the spring of last year they got theou for the entire nation when that happened we saw a decline in services to our students they were just stretched really thin we have one behavioral coach that comes out to our schools but they were also serving the um bie schools and then began serving the community that's changed our the behavioral coach will now be solely working with B USD they will be on site 9 to2 Tuesday Wednesday Thursday that's the tentative schedule that's up there right now um we also are are able to serve um send parents to get Services through Spectrum as well um next slide Inter Mountain again is the number one provider to our students we have finalized the schedule with them too there's only two counselors so we have to be a little bit more lenient on how things work but um basically Caleb who is the director of intermount he serves our primary and intermediate students um and then Quinton serves our accelerated and high school students or our secondary campus students so Monday through Thursday they are out here as well to service our students on site we are going to continue with the cook Foundation um a new thing that we're looking into is called a ask a therapist I know a couple of you have done the mental health Series in the past and it was hard it was hard to ask a question you you came to this training you wanted to know something and you couldn't ask anything so in this event I I was able to Shadow one last month you're able to putting questions ahead of time you're also able to submit questions during the course of the presentation the question is given to the therapist and you can hear your answer in livetime so that will be in the future to be rolled out and we will be bringing back the mental health U monthly series events in addition to that we'll be continuing with text talk act come out and do presentations and we are now looking at anou with Child and Family Resources out of Tucson um they currently have a grant to service students between 6th and 8th grade our main focus that they have curriculum already for is going to be self harm and suicidal ideation we spoke to them over our other three largest concerns being U marijuana vaping uh bullying as well as wait there one other one grief and loss grief and loss um to make sure that we can see whether or not groups can be provided for those grade levels as well so that would be the intermediate campus um the middle school and students that are in Middle School ages at The Accelerated campus Tada okay awesome thank you uh Miss Cordon um questions Miss V um I don't have any questions but um I also just want to say thank you an for everything that you're doing um I know a lot of our um students have um issues that they don't want to bring forward and it does come out um in negative ways and so everything that you're doing is helping not only the student but the community and their families so I I sure hope that with everything that you are um taking in that you also take care of yourself because it's a lot it's a lot to deal with um especially for an individual so thank you for for all that you are doing go ahead thank you yes I I want to share real quick um I think that [Music] your um you your spirit is very precious and so I want to make sure again and reiterate that we want you to take care of yourself um but above all one of the things that I was question wanted to ask about because I know and I'm really glad it's in your plan that the comfortability with expression and or emotions and or feeling like I'm not a bad person I just this is just a really bad circumstance and situation that I have no control over and being able to let yourself like Let It Go to some some degree um has been one of the things that I know I've I've been able to witness the the gentle like hand that you give um but essentially what I've been able to observe from others that are also doing that within the school district I want to thank you for any e effort that you're giving to be able to guide anyone who needs that type of uh understanding especially with our our autum children um in line with that I wanted to support and ask about with all of the things you have to be able to track how much and how well can we build a system of not accountability on our end I I don't think that's the question the question for me is when we hand something off to someone else and we we hope that it's being taken care of I feel terrible when I hear individuals say you know H the school was so great but when I started going to such and such program it was not the same and I did not my child as a mental health provider yes as a mental health providers whether it's and I it's it's been said but behavioral health or even those systems where they just take so long to even come back and then you you just said the same about like Spectrum they're amazing and then they open the door and then it was like okay what happened but I don't want us to also get bogged down too much and I'm not saying that without without the understanding that when we don't provide those services our students suffer and then we don't see the sex or the achievements that we would like but I do want to be able to respectfully hold the nation accountable for welcoming these programs in or these systems in or trying to build a program and then we try to reach out for some help or not help but as a partner here here's our beautiful student child you have the service and the capability Way Beyond what we can do right now now and that way I know if we have that information and we can kind of engage not by name but at least by an individual number or some sort of degree to say this is the amount of times we've sent over this information to you and I'm probably looking directly hrdc that we can share this type of information with and how many times we've had to you know I think again going back to what you experience as an individual where you might have to lose a night of sleep because something wasn't taken care of and then it turned into something even worse and worse when we thought we had a partnership that would be able to help support that and now we ended up taking it on our own or you yourself take it on so I think that there's opportunity for the community and the nation to support us but I think that again we're not looking at it from the perspective of this is what helps our students succeed they're looking at at another case load and it's not fair that we look at it from a whole child perspective that if we don't do this we're going to lose this child or we're going to have another funeral service or whatever it may be and that's not where we want to be cuz above all attendance is amazing if we can get it there but obviously we just heard alarm clocks or something we don't even think about and yet students are like I can't even I want to be able to be there this is my support I need and if we can build those systems to help them and then if we they get to the point where they're in a crisis and we we also try to help I'm really really proud of of you and everything that you've been able to do and the entire systems that we're we're trying to put into place I'm disappointed in some of the things that the nation can or cannot do and it's not because there are not good people there it's because there's just for whatever reason difficulties for them to be able to follow through with some of those things so I'm hopeful we can use what we're using to at least put some emphasis on that Mr Diaz and go from there direct those families back to the school right I'm glad to hear that they felt the support at the beginning and then if the the third party lacked then maybe it's the time to switch up that third party so anytime there is a crisis you know it could take sometimes we have to pull some favors and get a student in with the next like 72 hours to be seen or something other times it can take weeks right so that's to where my position is that I have high contact with that individual until they are in services and then I kind of taper off but all it means is me stepping up again if I know that that student or somebody else you know um can step up if they are not getting the services that they need it's hard when you hear from a parent I haven't heard from them for months and you're like I know it's always five months later when they're like yeah I tried and I waited and I didn't I gave up I'm like like don't do like let us know so we can exactly do something but I hear you but what you also said we were working on right now we do have um Google Docs that we're created we are sharing information um we have a whole list and it's shared with the highly confidential but we have it shared with the counselors um of all the students and how they're being so whether or not this is their first intake day you know we don't have we're not breaking it down by individual minutes we're Total Service minutes because you it really isn't our business exactly that treatment plan but making sure that they're being seen same thing with Spectrum we have our own now online referral form that's just for B USD and no other schools and then we're seeing it live as things are getting scheduled and again in a meeting yesterday there was concerns I put in a referral yesterday or sorry last week and now they're not being scheduled to Mid October right so but I but still I need to know that because then I know I need to make sure that we're putting in those extra supports between now and then yes thank you that that was all I have Mr Hendricks um thank you for your presentation um oh preventive um training and workshops I know that you did some last year I attended a few of them online and are those are going to continue we're renewing our contract with the uh cook Foundation but what we're trying to do is add on this extra piece of the a as the therapist which I think will be so much more beneficial to our to our families when they get online and they do these events okay that that one you did for parents and Guardians and grandparents and everything but um and for students we me the child and family resources that we're currently working on anou with okay okay all right um but yeah I thank you and and this was all good information and continue doing the work that you do thank you Miss Stevens thank you Miss Cordon for all your hard work I always enjoy your presentations uh I think it's something that's needed I know um you've talked a lot about funding and getting information and I always bring back to you just opened up with this great activity of meditation and I think if children could learn how to regulate their emotions they'll do a lot better so I always encourage like can that be taught to teachers can that be taught so that they can open up class with that or even when students are dealing with like emotions like how can I self-regulate myself to like Cal C down U meditate or do some kind of activity or even an outlet as far as like a punching bag or something cuz um or art therapy my office yeah art therapy or something because students need those things and I feel it's helpful um even as adults um I never really paid attention to meditation until I was losing my father and I was so stressful and I was like I have to find a way to keep my sanity um and so I spent a lot of time meditating and I um so I appreciate it now and I think up as my current job um we spend a lot of time when we are together providing those opportunities and even when we are meeting with students creating those possibility um like walking them through a meditation process of like okay you're going to start a new semester how can we be helpful this is um trying to teach them some of those tools so I I think those are things to consider if you can train the teachers the staff to just help a student calm down and learn how to regulate their emotions we do a lot of breathing exercises with students um I think doing the whole class ones would be a really good idea right in addition to like their class Council and PB yes and I've been watching a whole lot of things about like yoga and how yoga helps with that stuff too so um I think it's great but I also appreciate everything else that you're doing CU you're doing wonderful things um W did mentioned you know there's so many things that the nation could be doing and I feel oh there's so many resources but we're not talking or having these conversations that sometimes things fall off the radar and it does make it impossible and we you know we don't want to see our our community hurt anymore and you know have to deal with this historical trauma and like how do we move forward so I appreciate your efforts and sometimes when we bring in new people and it also comes down to cultural awareness um and you've been in the community for a long time so you you're aware of those things but I think when we bring in new people that's something that needs to be um stressed across the board because you deal with those issues of just not being aware the last the last thing I want to mention is when we go out to the state I think sometimes we're we're almost the Envy because we tell them we have a social emotional learning director like this is this is the importance and the highest priority that we want to make sure that we're providing and I'll tell you just to share you know I'm sure you're aware but it is it is it is so disheartening to hear how much it's trying to be ripped away from a lot of the other school districts so trust me when I tell you that it is one of the the things that this board is definitely going to maintain and stand behind as much as humanly possible um not even humanly I think for sometimes it it it comes down to you know what we're responsible for but in addition to that I think that um when we had I think in the in the long-term vision for any opportunity that we have to to to model those things as adults as us sitting here doing what you just did apprciate you all participating to in the morning you know like that truly we're all uncomfortable at the beginning but it's a start and I think when we continue to push that image or that modeling out there as adults now the students and everyone else like we don't put it in your hands only but we go we participate we talk about our feelings I know it's not I know it's not fun and it's not always the greatest but obviously it has effects on on individuals that we don't even know that way we don't even think about so I'm really glad glad and grateful and I think that I want to support what Miss Anna had mentioned in that if there's any way possible or any opportunity that you might need one of us or something to to be able to say model something I don't know whatever it may be but I think that's what my commitment will be you know what I mean to to being able to push that effort forward in your goals that you're trying to reach of finding a comfortable space in this district for every everyone like hey this is we get what you're going through now I mean not to that degree but we're going to make the effort to understand what it is that's bothering you because you're not a bad kid it's just a bad day or something's happening choices so you know those are things that people feel very I don't know how they feel about it but you know it it is a process so Mr M gording um presid members of the board members of the Community uh what I want to um appreciate and highlight um and give you a shout out is this is a year building structures and it is uh your leadership in idance in collaborating um with multiple offices of the district office as well as um our counselors to build structures um I know um I know the goals and intentions are great but it is more powerful when when it comes to building the structures all the time that you have spent um and collaborated with um not only outside agencies but within our district to build structures forms uh referrals um aligning it to our sis um school student informational systems and secondly I also want to thank you for your support in holding um it is based on the data that we're not collecting that we not we have those courageous conversations uh with some of our agencies this year to say a our data shows that you need to step it up and the way I want to challenge you this coming year between now and maintain success is uh maximize the influence of the governing board as a as a body and and and the office of the superintendent to schedule now uh followup conversations with the nation or any Outside Agency to say um let's take it to the next level uh and and hold each other accountable but also remind our agencies that the school cannot do it all um and and that they need to step it up on um at one point I I need to tell my employees or or members of my team to go to sleep and and some agencies they need to step it up thank you for your support thank you for what you're doing and special thanks to our counselors as well be you giving up on Saturday to um learn more about uh our systems in place and I commend you for for being here today thank you so much for everything that you do as well thank you you don't mind passing that around can see that thank you so B and I are both presented uh yesterday with the from the director of the Brian Brown Youth Academy um a poster signed by all the students so I'm going to give this one to Reuben if he wants to hang if we'll just pass it if you guys want to see it closer and thank you guys again at this point um I know we schedule for a little break but can I take a break I need a break and I don't want to miss anything so we be quick five minutes five minutes can we make sure we get coffee take care of your social emotional needs right [Music] now what is it no way there been that when I um when I when I clicked on the one they operations one it should be there yes ma'am yeah it's asking I I sent this request I don't know if it's to him or to you it shouldn't be to me oh okay CU I give it all to and Reuben all right Reuben just telling me to us to request do they still have the coffee yeah you want to refill yeah okay this one got cold no ice coffee uh operations operations thought was going to add both of them but I guess you didn't I'm sorry I thought you were going to add both of them but I guess you didn't there's a second part in there let me [Music] see did you get my request request I should be able to do it regardless uh Transportation GRS office [Music] Sunrise H do transportation did I skip it District secondary operations um and yeah that's that's the that we've had since I've gotten and share um anyone with the link anyone with the link refresh and try it again so that other show yeah I got y it's working let me get your coffee my brother going to retire this year he hasn't told me that yet he needs to yeah he's one of my dedicated people that always comes to work oh yeah yeah yeah I'm waiting for him too and then I will bad part about it is if he leaves I have no nobody to replace him oh really I have nobody applying for jobs right now I we finally had a kid apply for a maintenance job and we have another interview next Wednesday for another meance job but it's been [Music] quiet good morning how are you I don't know how much information you is when I know so you just got to keep pounding me or asking me questions I have I could give you like months and months worth of reading cold no I'm keep it okay eat the fruit I'm getting at that age where I just cold all the time you didn't have a district meeting this week this we can uhhuh what and one two three Stevens really B [Music] reuben reuben okay she's right there on her phone see her okay just is on the phone so we can go ahead and continue hey Mr Diaz real quick some of these we don't have access to can we make sure that we can get onto these yeah I have to request the transportation I just refresh if you don't mind refreshing I want to say operations too I mean operations I just refresh operations uh if you don't mind refreshing and let me know if it worked okay man no thank you okay sir when you're ready ready yeah uh good morning Ruben uh super Diaz board board chair um uh we've been I've been going here now almost four years now be four years in November so I'm going to give you my my operations a lot of this remember started before we implemented the the the um the department uh wanting to do a three-year plan so a lot of this stuff is still ongoing um we're probably at where I would see our our Five-Year Plan is where we're at now with us because we're ahead of schedule um in doing some uh major major uh remodels and stuff like that throughout the schools and stuff so I just want to start out with again you know my three excuse me my three-year Plan update operations to meet um steps to meet your three-year plan um the first part of it is uh again since we've met the last couple times for board retreat um project updates I don't know if you want to go through these uh one by one or if you want to if you want to pick out a few of the Highlight ones um we can go through that too um the major ones right now that that are being funded by um sfb are the Intermediate School roof project and the updated the updated uh completion is uh the middle of December right before uh fall or uh Christmas break I'm sorry um can you um identify it in the project number so I can yep yep I'm sorry it is [Music] number five oh no four number is number five intermediate no it is four sorry Intermediate School building roof replacement so if you want to go to that one oh okay yeah and this is the one that started at about this time last year when we started about a month month ago early um so this is this was all funded from SB we actually were we were behind a little and now they're going to start on Monday again because we had some more change orders that came through and the and I needed to get State funding and we had to wait till after the fiscal year for the state to actually give us more money to finish some of the um change orders that were needed and and again this this um will be completed in December of 2024 before Before Christmas before we do our Christmas break um and a lot of the the stuff that we uh had to do change orders on were the drains for for all of the buildings they actually needed to be um brought up to a Cod size because when it was built it was a 2 in and now it's a 3-inch drain to get the water off of the building so that's that's probably one of the biggest things that they're going to have to be doing coming up now is they're going to be cord drilling through some of the roofs and putting in new drain pipes and coming out all the way down to the outside of the building so all of these projects are are um in Pro in progress are any of them completed the ones that were completed was the primary gym with the primary school um excuse me again can you identify it on the project I'm looking for it right now I'm sorry um [Music] Reuben sir um maybe following this can we update this and note that like complet it yeah it's it's in when you when you read up the projects it'll actually say that it's completed it'll tell you exactly the money amount and how much was spent and everything okay so it it it will be number two Primary School gym building roof replacement oh okay so and if you go to that it'll actually tell you that it started October 23rd or October 2023 it ended on May of 2024 okay unused funds and everything it'll show everything that's on there what is the unused funds um there was no there was no there was no money left over I'm sorry okay because this was money from the state and not from from from our our actual uh impact Aid or anything like that M mono operations money okay and then the other project that would have been done would have been the um intermediate kitchen oh okay that is number seven so if you go to actually number seven that's on there m that'll actually physically tell you how much money was spent when it started it started in February it ended in 2023 unused funds the state paid about $354,000 for the update okay unused meaning we didn't use what does that mean I'm still confused yep no money left over correct they use every pening for that project okay oh okay so if we if it was 350,000 you would have 4,000 something right there that's 17 cents to use it will sit there and be like oh we didn't use 17 cents okay okay okay so it was so yeah so so really the way that it's set up is the state is the one that gives us the money we're just the in person that pays the contractor it doesn't come out of our funds we're just an in between so they give us the money they put it in our account we put the check to them because the state can't be the person that's actually giving the checks out so we're the middle person so is that all captured meaning what if it goes over is there no that's where the change orders come in so so if there's change orders that that that come in then then I have to go back to the state I have to you know present to the state with the architect and with the contractor okay this is money that we need we we they approve it and then that's why um the intermediate school was there was so much extra that that was not caught at the beginning of the of the actual project put it together yes sir okay awesome okay thank you so yeah so so so what's been done is the primary school the intermediate kitchen we're working on the intermediate roofs we're working on the secondary roofs at at the high school and the fifth one um will be the actual canopies at the intermediate school and I believe that is number five yes number five and that will not get started until they finish the roofs because once the roofs are done then we can come in and finish the canopies that are around the outside of the actual buildings what is the um is there I'm sure have some sort of contingency fund especially after what storms have been kind of becoming and I know we're doing a lot of putting a lot of investment into this is there like a way I me I we protect it basically that's what so I can tell so so the storm that came through that damaged um our football foot bleachers and stuff like that the trust actually took care of all that okay yep so the trust took care of that we're actually we we finalized with terot um on a um company that's coming into do our uh tree removal because we had a bunch of trees go down and so the ins our the trust insurance is giving us money to actually um have a company come in and and remove the larger trees and stuff like that that we had damage to um and we actually um are actually looking at a bunch of other trees throughout the district that we have to fund so I put together a thing um and sent a finance to actually get a bunch of other trees removed because the trust won't pay for that but we need to remove them because in the in the future they could cause a problem with our buildings if they do fall down oh okay awesome that's I'm glad on your radar yep so so the bleachers the bleachers um we had a bunch of water damage if water damage at the high school in the library that they took care of we had some water damage at the 800 rock house that we took care of and then we had some water damage at the library at uh at the Intermediate School that they took care of okay is that the weather weatherization no ma'am so so the weatherization once I get a lot of these projects all done then then the state we've already been allocated 1.5 million for the weatherization at the intermediate school but until we get a lot of our a projects done they don't want to hamper me because I have to be the boots on the ground person following all these jobs so then they will allocate and right now we did we did get $50,000 out of the 1.5 million because the one wall on the on the south of the library is was damaged so that wall is actually going to get um re um started to get removed and then it'll get reinstalled again and that was with the weatherization of the 1.5 million but they they only gave us 50 Grand just to do the one wall but the weatherization will be like doors windows replacement um weatherization of the doors the seals and then they'll come around and they'll actually um pressure wash all the buildings and then when they come back through they'll actually patch where all the paints P coming off and then they'll come back in with like a process like when we did when we painted the the admin building they'll come in with a process where they put on a couple coats and then they'll paint it a final coat and then they'll seal it and then that should last for 20 years what's your take on um and I'm only asking because I feel like well first of all I want to say especially um I I'm I'm 100% a lot more comfortable as an individual who sole responsibility is to look at and find and protect the finances of this District but essentially your coming on has been one of the one of the I just I just want to say thank you I think especially overall and what you've been able to do for the team and overall for the schools especially um it has definitely been a very different um experience from from my beginning year here to now um but I wanted to ask in the in the sake for the sake of and maybe put on your radar and maybe this is something that doesn't even pertain to you but we had talked about a lot of different engaging types of opportunities with with communities with students and trying to re-engage our connectivity with them um what do you or do you feel or is there I'm sure you're having conversations about identifying buildings walls whatever it may be that we could work on different types of mural projects or different types of things where we're not we're not degrading the the the overall buildings but we're adding some sort of effect to that so that we give it a sense of correct Community but I just wanted to put that in your radar if maybe that's something you know at the Intermediate School there's been some walls um that uh myself and um uh their admin team have picked out I just don't know where they're at with it because I'm just going to be the person that will get you the wall and you're doing the rest of that stuff okay I know like when we did you know when we painted the the gyms we added some of that extra stuff in there theed you know the intermed school we added a little bit more instead of just having a white wall um when we did the high school I couldn't find anybody really that could put a be on the wall so remember in the gym I actually a company actually um uh donated donated those those two big bees that are in the wall in there um but but I know what you're talking about I've done that before in the past even with cities that I've worked with um but if if they tell me you know as long as I know ahead of time because the preparing of the wall on the outside especially like the high school oh we need to make sure the walls aren't in the in the you know like the the 100% if you go to the high school and you see like the blue paint that's out there yeah some of it's faded we need to make sure if we do wall that it's not in direct sunlight all the time because your your mirror will be gone completely it will not last very long so if and if you look at the blue on some of the walls it's it's it's gone and you know it's it's degraded or whatever and some of it's really bright so when we come back in and paint the schools it'll actually be to a color that'll last a lot longer and it won't you know it won't degrade as fast the blue dip okay yeah just a general question but that's that's the key is is miror placement and where they're at and stuff like that excellent and if they're inside even better okay then else from the board Mr Diaz were you want to say something I'm Sorry Miss syia no I just had a quick question so do you have periodic inspections so do do I do them I think the school itself the buildings so so sfb or sfd the school you know State facilities division they're actually coming out here um Monday we're we're going to do a tour so then Tuesday through Friday from 7:00 a.m.

president Melinda saski Charlene Diaz here Fred rushon here Sheila Bernett here would you guys please stand and say the Pledge with me I pledge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the repu for it stands one nation God indivisible liy and justice for all I don't see any citizens present so I'm going to go and there is no call to the public so I'm going to move on to adoption of the agenda um I need a motion to adopt the agenda please I'll make a motion to ad adopt the agenda as presented I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda sabraski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I Sheila Bernett okay you're on on again um well you can see uh work work order reports and facility reports and capital and M budget and all of those things um uh so if you have questions about any of those I'll answer them um two other pieces of updates number one um our enrollment if you noticed on uh the that part of the report is pretty stable from the beginning of the year um the on paper uh the principal's report reped today we had a leadership team meeting um they're reporting that we are in fact um uh enrolling students who are coming back to us from some of the charter schools and uh so I found that interesting and uh so I kind of anticipate that our numbers will go up a little bit um for next month so um uh that was kind of an interesting report today from them uh second thing I would like to share with you U I did tell you in an email that we uh had to replace uh sewer out here and um uh essentially from just at the end of the the other end of the uh two buildings uh Suites 200 and 300 so right at that fence and then down the drive to the uh partway halfway to the um uh where it connects with the big main to go out to the street uh it was very interesting because there were places caved in and there were a couple of places where the sewer uh had been laid going uphill a little difficult for sewer to work uh efficiently when things are expected to go uphill um so anyway uh the point I wanted to make is none none of those kinds of things are inexpensive um we did uh need to contract out for uh someone to come in and dig get up dig down to the Sewer uh and then to come back and and fill it in and compact it and we will still need to um we will still need to replace the asphalt one of the things that we did um actually they just did it yesterday uh where we put in new cleanout um you know the cleanouts um one of the problems was that one of those cleanouts had been collapsed U from driving over it or whatever something covered it up to begin with and people didn't realize it was there and so they drove over it so it collapsed what happened then is dirt and rocks went down in that you know in that clean out and then that was part of what was plugging up the sewer so needless to say we've put the cleanouts back but this time we've surrounded them with a pad of concrete uh to protect them so um uh that's a good thing so we had to pay for some concrete and a little bit of work there um Total Works so far is just a hair under $10,000 uh when we do the uh when we do the asphalt I'm guessing I have no idea what that's going to cost I'm I'm so I'm ballparking it at five 5,000 so uh perhaps this project um a very serious project we were without restrooms and water for a couple of days um I sent people home early because it's even though we have restrooms next door and whatever you can't wash hands you can't do some of the things you need to do um and everybody was really a good sport about what we needed to do um but $155,000 um is probably less than a third maybe less than a fourth of what it would cost us if we needed to Outsource that entire project we are so fortunate to have a a journeyman plumber and uh and his assistant to do all the work they literally did all of that sewer work once the once it was dug up and um so a project that might have cost us anywhere between 45 and $60,000 uh is costing us maybe 15 so uh I want to recognize them um um you know for and thank them because we're really fortunate to have people with that kind of expertise to work for us and um um and there and and and the benef big benefit is we know it's done right and we know it's done well um and so we don't have to worry about it you know it's it's done it's kind of like a couple of our other sewer projects that they've done that uh you know it's it's not happy work and most of us wouldn't want to do it um uh but we know that it's done well and that we're not going to have to worry about it for you know who for a long time we hope for a very long time um so anyway I wanted to recognize them so thank you if you have any other questions I'd be happy to do that by the way those folks are Mark King and Tyler room so um just so you know that those are two of our employees who um shine every day thank you perfect okay any other questions for Dr Stewart board member updates um Barbie and I went to the law conference it really this time around was super informative on AI lots and lots of information um about what it currently can do and what it can do in the next decade um right now it's not artificial intelligence like or that genre of uh um of movies you know that are really scary to me okay um the fact or RoboCop or whatever that is you know um but basically it's a it's not even learning it's just it's it's uh predicting right now it predicts what you want but it's got so much data behind it that it's pretty dang good at predicting so basically that's what we we learned um we learned they had a panel of uh five High School seniors from Corona delou which is a a magnet school they're their magnet school and some of them were talking and you could hear the information splatting on the back wall you know I was like whoa did they really say that word um and they were telling us about about um something called chat GPT and I got on there and it is really a fantastic place to go um but I also went on there and had it write a paper for me yeah and the citations were all made up so anybody who's having a kid do an essay where they're requiring a citation basically you know all you have to do is check the citations to see if the kid wrote it and they also talked about getting to know the writing style of the child you know that's the the teacher is is the still the gate um it was just very very interesting over and over one of the kids on the on the DI was uh he's either going to make it or he's not you know he you could just tell that he didn't have the social skills skill to to get very far but he had the intelligence that was just dripping you know it's just very very good um got to see some people that I've haven't seen for a while we talked about the um the meeting that's October 29th that we're still in the process of planning and I'm hoping that you guys will all well I know you may not be here because you'll probably be with quanas doing something but uh the 29th you know when we have the county meeting that we we're all here because it doesn't look like too many of us are going to be here right now it's us in Mojave Valley so far that have said they were going to be here um we're still working on that and that's pretty much all I have unless you guys have questions over the law conference it was just I have a question because I was speaking with Mr Cooper from um MCC about this and are there going to be is there a policy in place for Ram ifications of children using these programs we don't have yet because he said that is one of their biggest challenges right now at college is that and he's like I never heard of it and when I started he said I had six pages written in a matter of like a minute when he yeah but the thing is when I when I did it because I asked it for a two-page essay on something historical I can't even remember what I did um and I was reading it and there were parts of it did that did not sound like me so you know like any teacher who who assigns an essay and doesn't read it is going to right with the ramifications to the student for I mean there should be some ramification if if they're caught we're waiting on developing anything until until we have any issues but I mean it's plagiarism it's plagiarism and we have we have things in place for plagiarism already um could I add a footnote to to uh what you said for AI um uh we have a uh a little two and a half page document that I I sent you sent to you uh for explaining the grading system for parents okay and you have it formatted on you know so it looks nice and whatever okay so today um it's parent conferences so Michelle calls over and asks um asks Cass if we had it in Spanish and I said oops nope so I got online and I looked for free uh free translation um and uh uh found this little place it's a free place um I dropped the file the word file into their little in a minute and a half I had it's translated into Spanish now I've given it I've left it on Sheree's desk because I want her to go through and make sure you know there really does what it's supposed to but not only did it translate it but it put it in exactly the format we had so it has the Border it has our logo it has it it looks just like our English document because it's an AI program um but literally a minute and a half to do that so uh some real value and some and some timesaving thing Jens used it a couple of times for you know just put in some keywords and it's generated a paragraph or or whatever um so really good opportunities for us to do some things with it because it is a it's a it's a language program it is not true uh you know artificial intelligence at this point thank goodness uh it might be kind of scary when it gets there but um but certainly some helpful things but also some danger so but I wanted you to know I used it just today it's fun it's fun to use it is kind of fun it is fun to use well she ler bring up College I know that the high school cuz my granddaughter goes for Val and they the kids have been told they are not to use AI for their English essays or whatever else um and I think if it sounds even remotely and that gets back to knowing the right the writer that they have to redo it but they do have it as a a plagiarism I believe is what they have under that's exactly what it is yeah yeah I have a student out at the college and I teach math out there who uses a prog used I figured it out today used a program called photomath where you just take a picture yeah of the of the problem and it comes up with a complete solution and he wrote down every step and I said no we didn't do that you know it was very evident so you like if if you're if you're a really a good teacher and you assign something and you're actually doing the Great you're not just throwing them down the stairs and one that hits the top gets the A's and the ones you know um basically you would be able to pick it out at this time now they say in a decade not going do that challenging making teacher teaching challenging yeah but that was that's what we learned and it was really well done I enjoyed every minute of it okay um um next up is a consent agenda I need is there anything that we want to pull on the consent agenda at all do we have any donations this time I didn't notice I didn't see I didn't see any of this I was I was kind of I was making sure that's why I asked whether we had any we didn't have we don't have uh to the district um I will tell you that our employees have stepped up above and beyond to help um because we have a bigger group of foreign teachers than we've had in the past and um you know they come with two suitcases and um uh so you know furniture and and pots and pans and blankets and beds and whatever and um our our staff has um stepped up amazingly and then we also had um6 $100 uh gift certific gift certificates to kohs uh that uh Legacy gave us to uh give to um our employees Ross so I'm sorry Ross yes sorry Ross thank you that's even better get it right uh to Ross uh for our employees and so uh what we did was one of those to each of those households so you know if there lots of times there are three in the household so you know one of those to each household so um kind of not a donation to The District kind of donation to some of our folks but uh I still wanted to point that out to you that our folks stepped up it's a family it's a family awesome awesome uh so I need approval of the um a motion to approve the the consent agenda please I'll make a motion that we approve the consent agenda I'll second the motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon a Sheila Barna um there is no old business but we've got some new business I need a motion to convene into executive session I'll make a motion we convene into executive session Madam president I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I Sheila Bernett okay we are in executive oh you're supposed to read that whole oh I'm supposed to read the whole thing yeah I will read the whole thing we are going to convene into executive session according to AR 384 31.03 A1 discussion or consideration of employment assignment appointment promotion demotion dismissal salaries this I just thought about this should be a wrap I'm Sor I'm sorry that that was you were on a roll I was no I'm not disciplining or resignation of a political officer appoint to your employee of a public body body except that with exception of salary discussions an officer appointee or employee May demand that the discussion or consideration occur at a public meeting and obviously that didn't happen that did not happen Okay so we are in in executive session all right [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] a n [Music] d [Music] a [Music] oh [Music] h [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] session I make a motion to reconvene into public session second all in favor I'm I Charlene Diaz hi Fred rushon I Sheila Bernett I need a motion I'll make a motion to accept the resignation of Deborah bash bash I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Alinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I Sheila Bernett I need a motion to to convene executive session for discussion and consideration of employment assignment appointment motion the motion dismissal salaries disciplining cut is out or resignation of a public officer appointing or employee of a public body except that the with the exception of salary discussions an officer or EMP May demand that the discussion for consideration occur in a public meeting I have a motion to move into executive session do we need the roll call first I'll make a motion that we move into I'll move into executive session all those in favor IA saski I shene Diaz I Fred rushon Aila Bernett I'll second that motion if you need a seconded was going say sorry I can read that stuff [Music] oh a [Music] oh [Music] d [Music] h [Music] sh [Applause] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] a motion to reconvene into public session I'll go ahead Fred go ahead Fred I'll second that motion I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton I Sheila Bernett I need a motion to accept the resignation of Patricia Lee please I'll make a motion that we accept the resignation of Patricia Lee I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm molinda saski I Charlene Diaz hi Fred rushon hi Sheila Bernett we are now in item 9.3 covid protocol revision and I did not read this one see this pretty simple it's pretty simple yeah oh then that's the reason why I didn't read it okay thank you uh Madame President and board members we've had um fairly lengthy protocols for the last few years um on the only reason I'm asking you to approve this as a protocol for this uh just for this year and then we will abandon those Al together um and I just realized that September is spelled wrong so we will fix that yes it is uh yeah you put it up there in big it's pretty pretty clear anyway the um the CDC is really doesn't have any recommendations at this point but um uh unofficially says that we uh treat covid just as we treat flu or any other contagious disease uh which means that people need to stay home until 24 hours after you know the fever ends so uh we'll we'll keep it as a protocol for this year and then uh then abandon it in the future okay that's probably what the policy is for all illnesses right oh yeah the the 24 yeah anything that any any illness that for which there is a fever um in in our handbooks and whatever is that you know the individual whe it's a student or an adult uh stay home until 20 until they have been uh free of fever without medication for 24 hours yep I need a motion to approve the covid protocol revision I'll make a motion to approve the covid-19 protocols for students and employees for 2024 2025 school year I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda sabraski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I Sheila Bernett item 9.4 policy gcbda housing for professional staff members uh professional on support but that's fine uh this is the one we reviewed during the workshop it is the first reading so no action and we will uh make uh edits before we present it next month okay that's just first reading you said professional what well it's professional it's supposed to be a slash support staff so it means it's for all staff okay they didn't put support when I read it it wasn't there I was going to say 9.5 G policy GBE ECA non-medical use or abuse of of drugs or alcohol this was our first reading we did this one also um so I'm just going to move on 9.6 establish rent for district employee housing units Madame President and board members I uh based on some research that I did I've made a recommendation uh however um uh it's up to you and you can U make the changes to it if you want so uh I'm simply recommending for rent electricity which includes heating and cooling um and uh uh water sewer and trash um be $1,200 a month and then uh how we would divide it if we had three uh singles you know in those uh in the three bedrooms the goal what is what is the cost not so much for the utilities but per unit are those covered through all the the funding and the grants that we've gotten so yes yeah the construction everything is cover 1200 is really low yeah um construction is covered with with the Esser Grant so um uh at least initially of this $1,200 all it is covering is um well and I hesitate to say all but what it's covering is uh uh the utilities and then any maintenance that we need to do throughout throughout the year um so uh you know and once again it's one of those situations where we need a Year's worth of data to really to really decide uh you know what's going on and um so uh this will allow us to pull some money through the year uh for any maintenance things that need to be done and you know and that kind of thing that's just wear and tear um uh as uh when you consider next meeting the regulations and the exhibits that go with the policy um uh you'll note as you already have it the workshop that any um excessive expenses the tenant would have to pay in addition to this okay so we're going to put that in right but um you know so that we can be prepared for when the houses are done and us getting the applications and those things um uh I was hopeful that you would at least would establish a rental rate um for our folks to know and once again it is your decision um I'm just recommending this you can make it more or less as you choose so proving this tonight isn't going to lock Us in if we have excessive electrical use is that what I'm hearing well I for the first year Fred we would have plenty it would lock Us in until for the rest of this year um but what I'm saying is that we also have some cushion in this because uh because we're not using other other than whatever the electric bill is the water bill and the trash bill um the rest of that rental money is sitting there for the first year right okay so it gives us a little cushion and and then if we need to adjust uh we will have had the cushion for the year to make that adjustment I think with being the goal that we're trying to provide them an opportunity to save money to buy or rent whatever I I think it's it's hitting that goal if we keep it at 12 very fair and if it gets way crazy really fast I'm going to let you know it shouldn't but I mean if it does I'm going to let you know I need a motion to approve um $1,200 a month for a family or a group and the singles this she has listed here I need a motion to approve I'll make the motion to approve this recommendation as presented to us this evening I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I Sheila Bernett item 9.7 this is interesting Madame President and board members um as you know we have an actually we have over 50 foreign teachers uh in our employee at this point um and we knew when our new folks came from things that they told us that of course they don't have vehicles and um and most of them have not applied for driver's licenses because they don't have vehicles um So currently they're uh doing a variety of things uh to get to and from work and sometimes on a day-to-day basis so it's an inconvenience and um kind of a hassle for them um and the expense because they are paying people to do this um to give them Transportation um I did look into the legality and we can in fact provide transportation uh for employees uh it would once again be a separate budget um because we would charge them we would not do this for free um and we're not just looking at uh we can't just look at offering this to our foreign employees if we have other folks who don't have regular or or Dependable Transportation um we would certainly make this service available to them um Cass blesser heart looked into uh city transportation and for the mornings um uh there are some routes that cover the the places where our folks live within the city limits um but it's very problematic for getting folks home um and so uh you know so we did look at other options we do have one van that we own uh unfortunately we only own one um and uh so um you know this would require several routes and several you know several times for that van to be going around and and uh picking Folks up either to take them to work or to pick them up uh and we would establish a a a rate for folks based on what it costs us to operate the van and to pay a driver um I'm asking I have a separate item about the driver but what I'm asking for you to do is to approve uh uh that we initiate this kind of a program for our teachers um uh to accommodate um getting folks to work and home at the end of the day and this is just within Bullhead City just within City Limits would there be any advantage since there's at least a potential for 50 teachers to rather perhaps uh using a bus if we use a bus then we have to have someone who has a CDL they have to have that kind of a a driver's license for driving the van um uh the stipulation there is an additional thing on a regular driver's license but it is not a CDL and it doesn't require that kind of training and that kind of um uh you know that kind of issues um and um uh so you know we could we could do it fairly easy easily and in fact if one of our teachers well it won't work for a teacher to be one of the drivers because there are multiple routes that would you know because we can only transport seven people at a time uh with this process now the good news is that a number of our employees a number of the 30 foreign teachers who have actually said we need this service live at the same addresses um so a good many of them live at um desert Foothill up in Desert Foothills uh and so that where they're living is kind of clustered so it's not like it's 14 stops or seven stops even for seven individuals um uh you know it could be one stop for seven and then one stop for another seven and and whatever so we can make it work but because uh because we would need to do it multiple times it can't even be one of our other employees it needs to be somebody who's uh you know who's not a teacher not a a paah at one of our sites yeah there only seven you said only seven at a time and there's about 30 that need that service for sure 30 and and you know and I can see on an occasional basis that people who have vehicles might even need the service once in a while you know um um I I you know so we're not just limiting this service to our foreign teachers we would offer it to to any of our teachers who live within the city within the city limits yes it is if we had uh if we had a bigger vehicle so uh Fred you ask about a bus um uh there are vehicles that are called White Fleet buses um they look like the smaller buses but they're white and they don't have all the equipment and all of the things safety things that are required for transporting students to school um uh they are used in many districts uh for transporting athletes and and club members to you know out of town events and those kinds of things so it's part of the White Fleet uh we don't have that kind of a bus uh I wish we had the money to purchase one uh because then we could transport 14 at a time and once again it doesn't not require a CDL so uh you know if we if we were flush as Melinda talked earlier about if we ever had the money um that would be one of the things that actually would benefit the district in many ways not just for transporting teachers but for transporting for instance our um our Science Olympiad kids you know because we don't have it's not that big of a group and um so you know we have other other reasons or to have to transport students that are not needed School needing a school bus so kind of off topic but is there a grant program for something like out there maybe yeah I I had started to look I could see this could be really beneficial to keep the teachers like their car breaks down they would have to take a day off from work but if they have this service yep we can look you know we're looking all the time for any of the places to get us some some Financial Resources for these kinds of things and once again this would be a separate budget so uh it would have to be self- sustaining well if teachers don't want to come here because we've got daycare now we've got housing we've got Transportation if teachers don't want to come here they really really don't want to come here I need a motion to um transport teachers provide transportation I didn't I'll make a motion that we um provide the transportation for teachers that need to get to work I'll set don't have transportation all those in favor I Melinda saski do uh I Charlene Diaz I Fred Rushton I Sheila Bernett revised Transportation Transportation position 2031 from bus driver to Van Driver Madame President and board members um uh position 2031 is currently a bus driver position and of course it requires a CDL uh it is a position that we have not been able to fill uh in a couple of years so we have an already approved position that we've been unable to fill with the bus driver and uh so I'm requesting that you authorize me to change that position from bus driver to Van Driver um uh so it's an existing position it's existing in the M budget right now uh but it would give us a place to start uh you know to advertise and get a driver for this um uh employee transportation I need a motion to change or to revise the transportation position 2031 from bus driver to van driver do I have a motion I'll make a motion that we do this change that designation from bus driver to van driver I second that motion all those in favor I'm Alinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred Rushton I Sheila Bernett this last one is um not happy Shea I'm not either yeah I'm really not 9.9 resignation of board member and direction to seek replacement I don't know whether we could replace you you can't but I am one of a kind trust me if I didn't if it wasn't Fort Mojave I wouldn't wouldn't even dream of it that's a sad thing but you had to find a place you could afford to move right well to go from paying $1,500 a month is zero yeah know it's kind of a no-brainer going to miss you I'm going to miss this this has probably been one of the most fulfilling things that I've done in my entire life it really has you know so it's it's don't get me started because it was a hard decision don't get it started um school board or or you know relationship yeah that's kind of hard to do I'm going to move that we accept Sheila Barnett's um res designation and direct the the board secretary to uh fill the position to seek a replacement is there a second I'll second that motion all those in favor I Alinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I Sheila Bernett okay that's pretty sad future topics 10.1 what would you guys like to have have Dr Stewart working on this week this month I hope this week is almost over well that's what I'm saying um in the in in the book um and you guys can you hold that book sure this book I've been reading with a a book study group from uh asba and in it they she talks about a Family Resource Center all right and it fits kind of we you and I talked a little bit about it it kind of kind of matches one of the things on strategic strategic plan yeah and this would be a center where we would take instead of homeless people because we do so much for homeless kids we we provide clothing and pantry and and and warm fuzzies for that they need to get through um this would be providing for more of our poverty level families according to the book it would be something like and this is the things that are in the book this is not what we would do as a as a family resource center but the what's in the book is that um they actually put a washing machine and dryer in which I don't suggest we do all right but but as far as um maybe some nutrition maybe some legal services if we could get a proone health person to come in to do something simple like how do you read this tenant agreement or how do you do a simple will or how do I get out of trouble with with my my landlord some things like that um maybe some s Financial Training some budgeting these are the kind of things that the family resource unit that she has suggested in there um maybe even citizenship prep I you know I don't know what we would do but I would I would really like to see us activate that group and and reactivate that goal absolutely if that would be okay please know anything that I could provide whether it's nutritional counseling weight loss counseling anything healthwise I would be more than happy to keep my hands and help out with that if you know if we can come up with a way and a place and some people to do it or just maybe it's just a something to think about I think it's a great idea just so you know uh this book was written by U Melissa sadorf she was the superintendent at um uh Stanfield School District which is a little bitty rural District down in the southern part of the state she's now the executive director for arsa the Arizona rural schools Association so uh when she speaks about rural schools and she's speaking about rural schools in Arizona so uh you know and and U Melinda has lent me the book so I'm going to read through it but I wanted you to know that um we know that this person is uh legit and has the you know has the background to be saying the things uh writing the things that she's sharing here what's her name again Melissa sadorf s a d o RF thank you the book is pretty well written uh Fred there are parts of it that I just skipped through because it didn't apply to our because she did work with such a small small place that she actually made the the school a community center where we are a bigger bigger place and we have lots of community centers um but she has some excellent ideas and some sometimes she comes up with some Grant ideas it's always worth looking at those that's unfortunately the group of people who need the most help I think because they don't qualify for certain things and they don't have enough money for other things and yeah it's a good Target group might be something something to think about anyway I appreciate that anything any other kind of things okay upcoming board events I'm sure that Lance has his fall meeting that I is that the same you mentioned earlier oh it's not the 26th it's the 29th it's the 29th yeah no it's the 29th all right thank you for for putting the list together date and time of for future meetings um we have it down for October 10th I know that Sheila can't be here she's got training to do she is no longer a member yeah accepted resignation that's that's sad anyway stop the three of us will be here right well the of us here I know okay unless and if we have we need if we need transportation we know where we can get a van okay CU already have us a driver and yeah yeah um meeting will be here at uh will we need a workshop next time or do we should we plan on a workshop anyway we always kind of plan on one to see what what what shakes out but if we don't we'll let you know I mean unless you come up with something you know we'll see okay 5:30 here on October 10 okay I need a motion to adjourn please I'll make a motion to adjourn the meeting I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I Sheila Bernett [Music]

Columbia QB club.com to find out more information on how to get involved donate or make a request that's Columbia QB club.com third and three for the tornadoes doubles tight three down lineman of a spiral going to be caught at the 49 yd line good job there by Jace making a dude went right up to his face under a foot so the eagle is going to be starting over on the 49 yd line I was going to give him 49 they're going to give us to 48 we'll take [Music] it looks like there's a little bit more energy out there on the field tonight up seven nothing with 235 left in this first quarter Eagles get the ball back see if we can go down the field and punch another one hand and make it two score game go single receiver left a sniffer back right Wide Receiver right motion man's going to be Hicks we're going to hand the ball off to him to the outside he's going to have to make something happen and I don't think it's going to happen loss of four on the play for the Eagles nothing going on that play probably had about six seven tornado hats getting to the ball there great job of flowing to the ball see if coach Horner wants to use that wide side of the field he's been like can going the short side of the field 4 so from the 48 to the 48 doubles we'll call it trips left it's almost like a quad set with Janik in that backfield as well we'll go quads left empty backfield they're going to look at hick or J there cam it's going to be caugh 50 yd line 45 brings up a manageable third down I'll take that play call there out of jce Nelson a gain of 10 there that time for Nelson that's all you really need to do you got a guy like Nelson guy like Hicks guy like Thompson and Jan just get them out in open space and let him do let them do their magic ball this time now in the 42 yd line third and four great position here if you're the Eagles offense in coach Horner's Playbook drips to the right side motion man Nelson hand off right side fi use that speed baby he's at the 3530 2520 15 lowers the boom down to the 11 big game there for the Eagles gain of 30 first and 10 for the Eagles 107 here in the first quarter y y great play there third and four turns into a 30 yard gain first and 10 from the 11 and once again great stock blocking by those receivers it's not an easy task when you got linebackers and safeties and Corners flowing to you doubles to the right side tight end left Nelson's going to be to the left side he's the motion man fake it to him vaguely keeps it himself he's at a 10 he kind of slips up a little bitter theall carrier boy how did he just say his name right there V gain of three gets it to the seven eight yard line gain of three for vagle right there you have Hudson Bryant playing that tight end position hopefully somebody forgets about him here see if you want to line him up in the same position fake it have a run right down the middle of the field and score a touchdown full Back Field this time two tackles to the right side Bryant's going to be to the left Nelson motion man from left to right going to be a hand off to Hicks he's to the 5 yd line he's going to run the ball hard he's going to get near the end zone but I think it's going to be at the two third down I thought I don't know why they don't have the chains up I guess they gave it to us at the 10 I thought we had it at the 11 which would have given us a first down ball at the two ydd line going to be a I don't know what it's going to be whenever we come back in the second quarter the end of first qu looks like it's at the two we needed the one for a first down but anyway that's a good first half out of the Eagles offense and defense first quarter rather we come back after this break we'll give you hopefully a Columbia Eagles touchdown right here on KCs [Music] you're watching Columbia football live presented by kchs thanks to the Columbia quarterback Club [Music] welcome back to kchs here Ball's going to be on the two yard line as we start the second quarter Eagles are up 7 nothing looking to go up 13 nothing week three action live in Taylorville on homecoming night for the tornadoes Mason vagley is on the sideline we're going to see what we got out here little wild cat action Janik is going to be your wild cat quarterback three running backs for the right side janic number zero is going to be your quarterback he's going to run to the right side he's going to put his shoulder down he's going to get into the end zone for another Columbia Eagles touchdown gain of two there for the Eagles gets him into the end zone 13 nothing I don't think we saw that at all last week because cam was out of the game but we saw that a little bit week one against M day especially in if you're inside the five yard line putting big cam janic back there call him our power running back for this season step into the Press Box here for this play you're okay TJ I can see over you good snap good hold kick is up and it sneaks in that right side of the upright so that takes the score Columbia 14 Taylorville zero Eagles firing on all cylinders right now even on special teams I don't we pinned them inside the 20 and then we got that block punt so great job by all three what would you call that all three uh offens facets of the game yeah there you go but I don't think they've got past I Want to Say the 25 or the 30 so great job by the defense as well causing some mishaps on that offensive line and even in that back field with that fumble that happened that turned into the block punt this stat sheet has ways you can keep stats on everything all I have are yards penalties passing rushing first downs receiving third down conversions then there's a whole backside we're not even going to look at that man we'll call down to Sharky and hoe at halftime see what they got Keegan Thompson's going to send it deep from the 40 he's kicking it to our left side it's going to be caught it's going to be fumbled at the six yd line Eagles once again great job getting down the field four Eagles there 15 yd line Cooper white laying the wood at the start cleaned up musk up I think was down there as well so the Eagles defense getting a job done here again we saw a lot of that at modern day too I know we weren't able to broadcast it but on that kickoff team you had guys flying down the field and that can change the game flips the whole game if you can get good field position on your defensive side of the ball and force them to punt like we did last drive and then you get the ball right at Midfield so you can't really ask for anything better so far from the Eagles makes the game a little bit easier and hey we did broadcast it down there and yeah just you just couldn't listen to us who knew that you needed a power strip hand off this way up the middle gain of about five that's a pretty violent run there out of the running back what do we say number 45 was was huge 4 195 boy they all look tall now holy cow they're right tackle as well number 76 we'll have to get that 65 310 remember when I said they didn't have much size I lied single receivers split out guy down here number four is way out of the picture Mo motion man number one going to hand the ball off just going to be a jet coming at us good job keeping the edge there good job in Pursuit there by the Eagles Defender I think that's going to be Keegan Thompson your middle linebacker this week and on our way up here we were excited that guy can run back and forth yeah and like we said he's normally playing safety with Mason but over the last couple weeks we've moved him up to a linebacker position because I want to say he's one of our best tacklers um started last year for us as well on that defensive side of the ball so he knows how to stick his nose in there along with Bryant and Cooper W on the outside linebacker so we got a lot of linebackers in there that aren't afraid to hit empty Back Field tight end left doubles third down here third and five eagles got to get off the field it's going to be a screen play number 22 Nelson misses the tackle uhoh number Four's got a lot of green grass in front of him he's at the 40 45 down at the Eagles 40 about a 34 30 40 yard gain from the 22 to the 37 at the 3 yd line first and 10 tornado that's a play we have in our Playbook there a little screen pass to the outside receiver coming back straight to the quarterback Jace with the missed tackle there could have had close to a first down Eagles are slow getting to the line of scrimmage that time boy we had guys that were still falling down to get in the stance number 71 for the Eagles comes on Mankey and there's already getting set again quarterback sneak up up the middle this time I don't think it's going to be enough for a first down it'll be close Eagles defense gives up one big play and all of a sudden their dobers are down heels a little bit third and one I'm Taylorville I'm running the same play watch the football here too for the Eagles quarterback sneak up the middle again number 15's got plenty for a first time first down this time as he get get down to the Eagles 24 25 yd line first and 10 Eagles defense got their hands on their hips now Eagles crowd trying to get the cowbells going and make a difference Taylorville really slown at down man you had the Eagles on their heels that have kept going doubles running back number seven to the right side of number 15 Baron Odum last year's quarterback as well going to be a pass this time they're going to look to the left side pressure This Time by Keegan it's going to be dropped incomplete good job there by Keegan getting in the back field and disrupting odm was looking deep second and 10 please tell me that was his dad saying that yeah it was I got a little nervous there for a second what odm we said his name a lot last year quarterback this year he's a senior though doubles to the right side we'll call it doubles all the way around number one motion man they're going to hand the ball off it's going to be a stretch play good job there by the Eagles getting there Mason vaguely great job running the alleys it's going to be a loss on the play and it sets up a third and long out looks like nobody's jet sweeps are working tonight only for jce Nelson on those short handoffs whenever he's in motion third and 11 at the 25 see if defense can get another stop here 822 left in this first half this would be probably four down territory if you're Taylorville and if you're Columbia yeah like you said a huge stop if you can get the ball back going make Taylorville call another timeout timeout tornadoes timeout tornadoes 813 I believe that's their second timeout Eagles have taken one 14 nothing third and 11 we call it third what you want to call it third and long 10 or short 11 short 11 short 11 we bring in any juice here yeah I think so I think they're going to throw the ball here you got to watch out for that screen pass again if you want to bring the juice but I don't know I kind of liked the manto man to open up the game had that Arrow Route on their side that we read really well with Jason Nelson making a great tackle so our defense has look pretty nails start off this game I'm just going to say that I was a li to start the game when I said they didn't have size starting offensive line 63 220 6' 200 6' 300 65 310 6 foot 255 so uh insert foot there that was way wrong ain't no way he's 65 though he don't look 65 quarterback comes in 631 75 he looks bigger than that yeah quar every probably looks bigger than you though quarterback hey now wow wow that was a low oh oh you can't say that either doubles punch stack stack that's a good word tight end left empty backfield that watch out of that tight end here tight end now they're all everyone's up tight middle of the Field's going to be open here Eagles got to stay home and know their assignments quarterback's just going to run the football up the middle he's going to be short four down territory fourth and I'm going to give it an initial fourth and four on the initial look I do like that play call though you had wide side of the field you had two guys out here that I mean you have you have to bring your defensive guys out here to guard them and like you said there was nobody in the middle of the field quarterback kind of recognize that an easy easy sixy gain we'll call it eight y gain maybe big fourth down here for the Eagles see if we can get a stop doubles running back left coach is looking at what he's got three down lineman for the Eagles four linebackers going to be a roll out to the right side coming at us they're going to look to the corner of the end zone they got a man wide open TouchDown Taylorville [Applause] whose assignment's that Jace looked like it would they have a little bit of a arrow out here or something in a wheel turn into a wheel I think Jace bit I don't even know if he saw him coming out though on that wheel route he was wide open Jace was probably standing at the seven or eight yard line an easy ball there for the quarterback just to throw it to the back of the end zone let his guy get it 146 now the P good snap good hold left footed kicker sends it through the uprights and good 147 now on the Cory Pharmacy scoreboard 724 remaining here in the first half coach G's out talking to p and Nelson so I don't know if that was P there and I think whenever I looked down it looked like P was tapping his chest um so I don't know like he said if he bid on one thing and not the other and ended up being a touchdown for the tornadoes I want to say that was one of our if not the only really mistake we've had start off this game know we lost four yards on a Jet Sweep but that's that's been about it we've been pretty Perfect all around and that's all it takes is one play to get get anybody back in the game so see if our offense can maybe take some time off the clock here go up two scores from a momentum from a momentum perspective you got to get in the end zone here yep to uh try to get get the momentum back and try to get things going because like you said you're going to be getting defense to start the uh second half great showing over there for Taylorville as well turned into a nice night beautiful lot better than the last time we were up here a little chilly out here no I wasn't here when you were up here yeah so a different kicker for kickoffs number one I don't know if that's a pooch kit let go out of bounds go out of bounds please go out of bounds it checks up hits at about the 30 and goes out of bounds I think bounce straight up in the a I'd be a little nervous about it Little Eagles unofficially so far 107 yards of offense unofficially Nelson your leading carrier 66 yards on 10 carries Hicks has one touchdown receiving for 22 yard yards and Janik has a touchdown for two yards that's how the Eagles got their 14 points at the 37 yd line where went out of bounds where the Eagles will have a first and 10 Eagles are going to start at the 37 where they marked the ball out of bounds all right big drive here trying to get the momentum back on our side open up in that same scheme that we've been this whole game probably going to send Jason motion here doubles to the right side sniffer back right motion man's Nelson he's going to run to the right side try to stretch it out wide he's got the 35 he's got the 35 cuz he started five yards back in the back field maybe gain a one ball started on the right half she gets tackled out of bounds on the right side for a gain of nothing lot of running for nothing I feel like that's why coach horer likes going into the boundary a little bit more to some some guys like to get to that outside but they like running veral or was that would that be horizontally uh then rather getting vertical up the field doubles to the left side tight end right sniffer back right going to be a pass this time caught by Nelson he's going to get behind his blockers great job great cut good for seven yards third and three good play all around for the Eagles great job by man to think he went down and blocked the outside linebacker there just to get jce a little bit room little bit of wiggle room after the catch look like we're going to bring that Wildcat set back out Mason coming out janic in Keegan coming in as well third and about four Eagles just load up that right side two down linemen three linebackers they're going to run to the right side is Janik he's got to lower his head he does he's got enough for a colum Eagles first down looks like 70 checking out of the game Malachi betet Y and Mason going to check back in with the spread offense I like how we we're overloading with tackles on one side getting your way off the ball there you go we got two tackles to the left side Jace has got one defender on him it's forever away going to be a fake pass play down the middle of the field it's going to be Hicks makes a great catch great adjustment first down for the Eagles gain of 27 Yards First and 10 I thought he threw it too late he had Hicks after he beat that safety great ball though by Mason might be his best ball we've seen this season on a rope great catch there by Logan to go up and get it first down Eagles 527 left in the first half and we're driving I think you look at Mason and his brother Dom Dom's going to Chuck it Mason's got a little bit better feel a little bit better touch and that was a good ball good adjustment all the way around doubles to the right side tight end left Nelson motion man he's going to the right side going to be a quarterback keep cam cam just absolutely whiffed might have gave him the original line of scrimmage we'll see what the official does Cam knew it too once he saw that guy beat him made the tackle clapped his hands but now you got to regroup and go do it again I think if he makes that block Mason's getting at least five yards there with his feet but a loss of one clock is ticking looks like Bryant's GNA set up in tight end but coach or is going to burn another timeout so timeout here for the Eagles we're going to run to a break real back real quick and when we come back it'll be the Eagles at the 24 yd line right here on [Music] kchs you're watch from Blue Pride football on kchs thanks for the Columbia quarterback Club welcome back to kchs where the Columbia football team is leading this one 14-7 had a loss of one there cam just missed a block and uh vaguely went down for a loss of one see what the Eagles Drew up there at that timeout ball at to Taylorville 24 yd line every time Bryant's lined up in that tight end position you got got to watch out for it honor it motion man Hicks going to be a fake bootleg to the right side he's got Jace Jace is going to catch the ball at the 15 he gets up field he's going to be drugg out of bounds near first down line we'll see what they give him it's going to be good for Columbia Eagles first down great play calls right now by coach hner too had the whole defense going left and you vaguely spins out of it rolls out to the other side of the field and that looked like a play that we used to run a lot on I'm not going to give the name of it but great job there by Mason vagley to get that ball out first down Eagles Mason right now has five completions I don't know how many attempts but hasn't been many dropped balls for the Eagles or incompletions still tied and right two tackles to the left side doubles to the left side pistol back is Nelson he's going to have to make something happen but again I think cam missed a block it's going to be a gain of two but I think that's all on Jace there with his his foot four minutes to go in the first half ball at the eight yd [Music] line I'm going slant out of Thompson I'm running bubble here with Logan Hicks and that's why I'm going to go Slant with Keegan let's see what the Eagles are going to do Nelson's going to be your pistol back going to be a play action vag going to have to keep it run to the right side five yd line pylon End Zone touchdown Eagles Mason vaguely good for seven yards gets it into the end zone once again Eagles needed a touchdown there and they got it I think that was supposed to go to Logan too on the bubble but looked like the corner of the linebacker jumped it so Mason just decided keep it himself get to that right Edge able to get close to that pylon reach the ball over the line of or not the line of scrimmage but the goal line to make it 20 to7 with 340 left in the first half see if we can get one more here make it a 14-point lead Keegan good snap good hole kick up through the uprights in good knock on wood very consistent out of our PS this year great job by special teams so that takes it Columbia 21 Taylorville tornadoes 7 340 to go in the first half in week three action you're listening live on kchs as our cheerleaders are about to do their 42nd push-ups of the night they've had to do a bunch of them already this year we usually try keeping track of how many they do but you can't count yeah not that high buddy Anderson says sounds good looks good watching from Columbia Illinois hold stti for Columbia Eagles thanks for listening Jason Stapleton texted earlier sounds good looks good let us know that TJ didn't update the scoreboard still said first quarter hopefully we got that uh change now the new vice president for the quarterback Club always doing stuff with the Blue Jays great guy that guy is ain't he great guy yeah somebody wants to hit somebody all right let's get a big stop here going to halftime with a two-score lead I would love it oh short kick this time going to be caught at about the 19 yd line Eagles get down Qui great job oh man we lost Edge now we're going to have to make a play at the 35 it's going to be number 11 Aaron p and a whole swarm of eagles Hicks was there got a little I think musku was back there again too looked like Hicks got a little bit two sucked into that inside like you said lost that outside edge Hicks knows it too he come over he knows that he uh missed it but it's all right 35 yd line we're still in good position here for the defense 330 Taylorville has one timeout Eagles have one timeout looks like first time we're going to see Cruz Cory in the game tonight as well think he checked in for Lincoln Corbin I'm not Tak or quivero four down linemen now two linebackers start there's guys moving everywhere yeah got to call something there fall start on the tornadoes first and 15 now did they shift out of something there on the offensive side or did our guys just get confused yeah I think our guys got a little bit confused cuz you had two guys on the right side moving and the whole left side of the line didn't move at all did you speaking of guys running in not knowing what's going on Clemson Georgia a couple weeks ago I think the right tackle went to the left the left guard ran into the right tackle they were everyone was going everywhere four down linemen three linebackers manto man outside going to be a bootle off to the left they got the middle of the field it's going to be Hicks ball gets by him and it's going to fall incomplete that's Nelson that wasn't Hicks no they're both back there we got lucky on that at modern day week one W two or three times where the receiver kind of got past our corner or safety and all they did was Chuck the ball deep but over threw him so we're in the right spot he just got us beat by a couple yards I tell you what I've been very impressed by our defensive backs this year Hicks is always there knocking balls down the speed that you have out of Nelson pool's back there now you got vaguely running around I mean we got a lot of speed and a lot of athletes back there and it's been fun to watch this year sounds good looks good from Cuba Mo three down lineman for the Eagles doubles for the tornadoes running back right I'd like another pass play here going to be a SL a vertical up the middle they're going to try to throw it it's going to go to No Man's Land it's going to fall incomplete that's what we want right there 3:15 now if you get a stop here you're at third and 15 Jared shaking his head yes we're going to call a timeout if we get a stop here you got it might as well use it the way your offense has been moving you got to take a chance and Mason's look really good throwing the ball tonight definitely the best half we've seen him play I I think all season I know it's only been two games but you see coach Herer running down by Coach G right now and Coach herner's even running next to the side judge so I got a feeling he's going to be in his ear calling timeout as soon as he can big play here for the Eagles try to get that ball back doubles rolling out to the left side they're going to look deep they got to set it up and he's going to be throwing it before he wants to it's going to be great defense there by the Eagles and they're going to throw a late penalty on Mason I think that comes from a bad ball and had to get spun around that's a tough break for the Eagles you're right where you want to be you got everything that you want and a bad ball forces that penalty yeah CU then you force that receiver to have to come back to it whenever Mason's already Underneath Him so it's going to be Pi on the Eagles got what you wanted just it was a B I mean there's there's nothing you can do about that call so it's going to be first and 10 ball to the 42 you still got 309 so you're all right maybe you can try to get them to throw it again and you can still be in the same spot this is a big drive cuz they get the ball coming out second half four down lineman three linebackers man man going to be a run up the middle this time it's going to be good for about seven maybe eight Got Five Guys laying on the ground if I'm Taylorville I'm getting on the ball quick like you said in that first drive they had or second Drive I want to say they had they're on the ball Hudson turn around Hudson going to be the same play this time again this time nothing going good job there by the defensive front third and short they going to give it to him here I bet you they give it to him they're the home team they're going to give it to him they're the home team oh come on you're not even going to measure dude whatever man yeah you look like the inside ref wanted to measure and then he said ask screw it first down going for it first and 10 from the Eagles 47 227 let that clock keep ticking don't fall asleep if you're one of pegan Thompson [Music] here good job there by the Eagles once again nothing going look at that there's four or five eagles making the tackle you got to love that number 72 for the Eagles ran on late Dylan Robinson and he still comes up with a tackle they dropped Keegan back deep kind of going I guess to a cover two at that point like pivo was in on that tackle too like Brody Furlow little shaken up everybody was telling them to go down for an injury timeout looks like that's what it's going to be 148 here left in this first half so now if you're Ro get off the field this isn't an official timeout so the officials can blow the whistle right away and you don't want to give Taylorville an extra time out to figure stuff out but then if you have a guy coming off and nobody coming on it's 11 verse 10 you're at a little disant disadvantage they would say look like it might just be a cramp hopefully for Furlow getting stretched on the sideline there number 73 for the Eagles uh that's going to be Corbin I believe 51 checking in as well looks like Jake vulmer for Brody furo three down lineman three linebackers and to go man out wide vaguely is going to be with number 84 Hicks is going to be manto man as well he's off is he not he's pretty close I think they're he's all right empty backfield going to be a pass to the left side Eagles are going to play far off they're going to give it to him good job there by making an open field tackle Mason vagle clock I don't know why the clock stopped 1 minute 40 they're still wanting to roll it they're still wanting to roll it now it's going that's was probably five seconds minimum and that matters at the end of a half of course every second matters tight end right doubles stacked again out wide empty backfield minute 25 third and six quarterback right up the middle this time once again great push out of the tornadoes and that's going to be good for a first down the Eagles r on skates that clock ey is pretty quick he's hitting it before the refs blow the whistle takes the ball to the 3 yd line first and 10 tornadoes first and 10 for the tornadoes at the 36 ball set chains are set clock started same formation once again only two linemen FSE start no it's going to be a pop pass they're going to throw it across the middle great job Mason vagley making a play where's the false start by the right tackle those are optional coach owners is letting the white hat hear it gosh good job Mason not falling asleep there second and 10 minute two clock is stopped now it's supposed to be stopped Taylorville slown it down 15 seconds on the play clock doing a makeshift huddle second and 10 Eagles three down linemen two linebackers manto man across the board from the looks of it here quarterback's going to set up for another screen play Eagles got three guys in the back field they're going to have to make an open field tackle once again it's going to be forced out of bounds vaguely and Hicks are going to make the tackle 53 seconds in the first half now good open field tackling this week by the Eagles and minimal arm tackling third and four what do you got Jared I mean if I'm Taylorville I'm going to try to get columia to jump off sides here I think they what have one timeout left or yep one timeout left quarterback's been known to keep it I'm calling a little roll out here to this right side Keegan playing about 12 yards off the inside guy hean bringing the juice they got a man in the end zone but it's going to be brought down by Odum brought down at the 37 and another penalty flag on the play those shoulder pads horse Coller I think it might have been enough for a first down anyway but was close 46 seconds now in the half [Music] come on Eagles so now the ball's going to get into the Red Zone ball at the Eagles 14 Eagles defense needs to make a stop we're right there again on a couple different plays trips to the left side single Receiver right running back right roll out that way now they like using that wide side of the field one's going to run a little arrow route one goes with the arrow they go with a little snag ball goes up in the air it's going to fall incomplete we got to play just like that got a post got a snag and an arrow we throw a bubble with it but only four or four seconds taken off the play clock there game clock 42 seconds 21-7 Eagles in the first half this drive the defense has kind of been on been on skates like I said we were in the spots to make the plays two untimely penalties that pioo yeah doubles tight end left quarterback going to fake a hand off nothing going Cooper Wes in the back field forces the quarterback to throw it it's going to be caught got to make another open field tackle and we do good job Logan Hicks bringing the guy down at the 12 yd line timeout Taylorville good job Cooper white getting in the back field good job open field tackle Logan Hicks great fake by the quarterback to no one to no one that's really like you're the quarterback you can see who's next to you not next to you and you usually know the formation yeah you should third and eight now 32 seconds the final timeout was taken there by Taylorville so if you can yeah if we can tackle inbounds here that's going to force Taylorville to make a decision if they want to go up and Spike it but I mean then they can't it's it'll be fourth down so this is kind of a big play here keeping them in bounds you can end the half here if you keep them in bounds I feel a throw is definitely coming though you got third and eight and if it goes incomplete who cares then you your clock stops like they're going to use this wide side of the field once again do that roll out I'm bringing Coupe on the blitz if anything gota be ready for that quarterback to keep it though try to force him back inside now you got beat on the corner earlier on the wheel or wheel got he got beat in the corner of the end zone at least so you got to be mindful of that Coach G still rolling with the shorts tonight all right let's see what Coach G Drew up trips to the right side running back right play action boot this way out three defensive backs over here can't fall asleep on the backside that's going to be Hicks on an island by himself motion man one nothing going it's going to be quads to the right side they're going to throw it it's a double pass and it's going to be caught by Taylorville touchdown tornadoes I can tell you what I didn't see out coming oh [Music] man quit talking get back on defense don't get another stupid penalty yeah I didn't see that coming at all yeah one came in motion just a simple little flare route if you want to call it and somebody slipped out of one of those receivers slipped out and able to be wide open once again the same spot he caught the first one good snap good hold kick up did he push it to the left I think he did no good on the pat so that keeps the score Columbia 21 Taylorville 13 26 seconds to go here in the first [Music] half see what happens that's a huge drive there out of Taylorville to get into the end zone and get a little bit of momentum last two drives been touchdowns correct yep I think we've scored on every possession I think we've only had three Poss possessions right I think and if you're coach Horner here I don't think you want to get too pretty I think we only got one timeout left now that would just take the KNE go unless you can get the ball at to 50 or something like that but that Pi man that oh that's I I think that's the play of the game right now if that's not called we got about two minutes to go down and score make it a three possession game I think that that just changed the whole out or not the outcome but what this game could look like in the second half during our halftime show we're going to honor Matt once again with a couple writings and Zack Daly's been sending scores in we'll read some scores that he's been sending us he's watching in town so Zach if you're listening keep sending scores Bud we'll talk about them at halftime we'll give a little breakdown of this game number one going to be a squib kick picked up and down at the 34 by C white looks like coach herner is wanting to make a play call here not bad just take a couple shots you got 26 seconds think going to call Pi though and they had that first down the the uh ball spot where that guy was like all right we'll just move him first down that's three plays right there but Eagles still up 2113 starting trips right here trips right janik's going to be your running back to the right side bigley's going to roll out to the right he's got Keegan throws it to Keegan it's good for a first down he gets out of bounds it's going to be at the Eagles 48 yd line gain of 18 take your time here take your time if you're the Eagles I don't know how big of a leg Keegan's got but I mean if you can get close to the 2530 you can take a shot kicking a field goal you still got that one timeout so if you need to throw it down the middle of the field you can you don't have to work those Sidelines only six seconds taken off 20 seconds strips to the left side running back left I'm going to imagine a roll out left here it comes right at us it's going to have to set up this time now vagle is going to have to scramble he's going to try to go to the right side he's going to have enough to get to the first down maybe went out a yard short we'll see what the spot is look like an eagle lineman yard short white hats giving him the first down we'll take it 12 12 seconds balls at the 41 so that's going to be a 58 yard kick same formation here you need a ball down the middle of the field here and then quick timeout if you can only two down linemen one linebacker after that everyone's in the middle of of the field and safeties we got three safeties playing deep this time vagle is going to set up he's looking in the middle of the field he's got Keegan it's going to be caught down at the 27 timeout Eagles three seconds to GOP now we got the well now what do we got going on calling it incomplete pass is ruled incomplete bring the ball back to the original line of scage at the 41 yd line why they move the down marker right away I don't know they call it a catch on the field I guess the booth review said it was incomplete now ball goes incomplete going to be a first or second and 10 now from the 41 see what the iPad has to say who's got it on the sideline so now does time go back on the clock probably not huh what a odd change of events that was well and if it's incomplete you don't want to use your time out there well yeah there's 3 seconds at least you can try to throw something around but we'll see what happens now 41 yards I don't know if Mason's got the arm strength for that but at least send it up there and see what happens can end on a penalty so if there is a pi down there try it over again so Eagles now use their third timeout 2113 tornadoes do get the ball coming out in the second half just watching Coach G there he was waving his hands up like the official called it a completion and was like waving the clock to be stopped not an incomplete pass so not really sure what happened there they're saying the official From The Far Side based on hand motions official From The Far Side of the field called it incomplete nonetheless three down lineman trips to the left side doubles to the right vaguely should not get touched here three guys blitzing with five offensive linemen and he's gotten pressure and it's going to have to be thrown away incomplete pass and that's coach is asking for grounding over there well hey if the uh play clock or the game clock would have started on time they said that play just took one second so we get another untime down now are they going to say that it or just take a knee how did one second only come off the clock started at three now we're at two third and 10 looks like we're going to be in that Victory formation just take a knee send it to half what a crazy end of the first half yeah coach Warner talking to the ref down here down here so that's going to be the end of the first half Columbia leads it very good first half I thought leading up to those last two drives there it was a real goofy end of the first half but they're going to lead it 2113 here in Taylorville we're going to run to a commercial and when we come back from the commercial we'll give you our little insights and uh we'll talk first half Columbia Eagle football and bring you some more scores welcome back to kchs right after this [Music] he [Music] n [Music] he [Music] you w [Music] m [Music] oh e [Music] oh [Music] w [Music] we [Music] for [Music] w [Music] a [Music] nah [Music] he [Music] I'm Logan hi I'm Aaron p and we like to give a quick shout out to Alicia o be and Edward Jones for providing us the team meal allowing us to play our best and stomach full too no Eagles thank you once again to Alicia Oglesby for getting our pregame meal tonight Chick-fil-A so far so good working for the Eagles here as they uh have a seven point or eight-point lead 21- 13 745 remaining and half time you got your 50-50 tickets out I didn't get one didn't get one I going to get a hot dog but that line was too dang long so I guess we're stopping at McDonald's on the way home there's an Arby's there's an Arby's yeah what else oh that Sonic it was one of the world's nicest Sonics we saw too how many towns we drive through getting here Alex little towns yeah I think 250 250 900 we went 10 miles and never even turned it was the longest straightest Road I think I've ever been on in my life oh man so Jared we look here 715 now in the halftime uh with it being homecoming I guess it was an extended halftime they did a little dance routine with the loudest music that we've ever heard sounded good but it was loud and it forced our team to move over to the shop put area to be able to talk up there so Jared let's talk a little bit of first first half uh thoughts stats thought we're doing pretty good up until that last drive we said that a couple times but the Eagles offense doing a lot better this week than they did last week yeah we came out our offense looked pretty dang good running the ball really well Jay jayon Nelson putting him in motion a lot which is messing with their defense defensive side of thing so um as long as we can get him some some touches I want I want to see Hicks get a little little more involved on the offensive side as well uh but I think M this has been Mason's maybe his best game of his career uh so far made a couple great tackles getting down the alley on the defensive side of the ball throwing the ball really well tonight um so I think all around our offensive line looks looks looks pretty good I think the only thing uh going into the half was couple penalties there um we would have got the ball around Midfield with two minutes left and could have went down and went up three scores but um they went down and scored after a couple penalties and turned it into a one possession game in the one penalty the pass interference there on vagle it was just a severely underthrown ball he was trying to spin around make a play um I think both guys got a little handsy but yeah I guess was in the worst of the two spots so official called it on him so you know you can't complain too too much about that and uh we'll see what they got drawn up here as Taylorville gets the ball coming out of halftime they're not even out here yet I guess they went back to the school I'm not really sure where I saw them run off too Eagles are kind of mingling a little bit down here to our right as the kickers are getting ready to start making their kicks uh let's talk a little bit about scores in the area had some good ones tonight Rochelle verse Highland at Illinois Westley and Belleville East was at Alto that would have been a great game and Chester at the end of the first quarter was leading freeberg 14 to7 Roxana was leading Civic Memorial 25 to3 in the second quarter there goes cm's perfect season yeah and then now you look a little bit more live stats as they were sent to us by Zack 10 minutes ago alof leads bille East 28-21 in the second quarter coin leads Heron 8 nothing kinville leads Carbondale 7-2 in the second quarter and keep in mind that is a football score not a baseball score seven yeah that is Zach didn't mess up on that one yeah maybe that's supposed to be 12 I don't know seven to two yeah three I mean it's possible it's very possible I would have known there was something off if it was seven to one but seven to2 there in that game no there was an NFL game Alex the other day there were two safeties in the same game and there was almost a third ball at the one yard line and I can't remember which one it was I think it might have been the Seahawks Broncos game they literally had two safeties in like two possessions and I don't think I've ever seen that happen before what's the thing ihsa score zone that'll give us some scores there too won't it I haven't been on Twitter X we're not going to look at that that's nothing going since May usually if you type in 618 football on there and just search it get a couple scores all in one all one word you're good that was from 2021 here let me try this 2020 here I got you let me see if I can find oh this one's from 2018 Chester leads freeberg 217 and half and that's the only score I got from 618 football all right there's that well we tried 328 now Taylorville is still not out here coach Zack George and Coach Kyle stump making their way back up to the Press Box you know one thing we haven't really mentioned the new coaches that we have this year for the Eagles coach George in his first season Auggie hangle making his first in the Columbia sideline coach Stewart coming back was a principal back in the day he's coming back and uh he's on the side line so nice to have some familiar faces and some new faces coming back here on the Eagles sideline we got coach stump he's coming up he's been here on the sideline up in the booth for the last three or four years and when he gets up here Jared we're going to let you go ahead and do a little halftime interview with Coach stump so we're going to hand it over here's a headset coach DP you got two minutes I'll ask him a couple questions so on the defensive side of the ball how do you think we've looked so far in that first half oh not too bad we've we've uh held them when we need to hold them for the most part gave up a couple big plays one on that trick play the double pass got us there just got to stay in coverage and uh offensive look offenses look a lot better than last week I want to say offensive line has looked much better than last week anything you want to add yeah just being able to consistently move the ball um we'd only ran shoot 15 plays I think uh for the most part last week and having the ability to sustain drives here has been nice all right perfect thank you coach St thanks 148 left I think they're going to add three minutes on they had 15 minutes when it started then they went up to 20 for the longer homecoming so we'll see if they add three more after this first minutes rock or not roxan Taylorville still not out on the field Columbia doing their stretches refs are all out here so we'll see if we have to go a little longer in this halftime or we're we're going to get right back to football modern day leads Effingham 1410 thanks to Zach right there we'll see if we can get a hold of Sam Herer down on the sideline do a little call in see if we can get his uh onfield perspective of how things are going see if we can get this to work we got a new mix up here we get it figured out one week and now we're getting a little little aggressive thinking we know what's going on I think you just ignored your call TJ no he oh TJ the person you're trying to Y he ignored you oh well it was a good effort they are going to put three more minutes on the game clock here for stretching purposes Sam you got us down there I do you got us down there all right so what do you think your first half your uh sideline reports and what the what the game plan is for the second half you know I don't think coaches are are planning on doing too much it was a a pretty good first half from the eagles's offense um you know a lot of stuff that's been stressed down here is they feel like they're you know about two plays away from this game you know being 21 nothing or potentially even 28 nothing so I think just being more sound on defense and and you know being levelheaded and playing your assignments and offensively I think that you they're going to take what the defense gives them but um you know can't fix what's what's not broken right so they're just going to keep counting that rock I think so we've been talking we think this is probably Mason Begley's best game that he's had best balls that he's thrown um when you look at the balls that he's throwing and you look at the run really got a lot of opt options all night long 100% I mean he he has looked fantastic I've been talking down here with Coach pen a little bit about how well he's looked I mean on that roll out pass um you know going going towards the the school I feel like he had some zip on on that um across the middle so you know he looked pretty good there and then he hit Hicks you know down the middle on the 30 yd line on that vertical early in the first quarter so you know again I don't think the Eagles really need to to switch up too much may keeps you know taking care of the ball and doing what they're doing and you know I think it'll it'll be a good night for the Eagles on the defensive play on the first touchdown do you know was that a wheel route that we messed up on or was it just a double move we couldn't really see what happened did you get anything down there I think I think it was just a vertical out of the one with an out route out of out of the slot I believe uh Eagle defense there a little bit of a cover two look there and a bit of a miscommunication between the safety and the corner so safety didn't really get over toping them kind s there EAS so all right well thanks for joining us down there uh like I said we got the sound work in one week and now we're making phone calls so well hey I'll be down here all night all right we can give you a call back maybe between the third and fourth quarter so keep that phone on you so thanks for joining us here on kchs and we got a minute here now before the second half starts Eagles are going to be kicking off defense first hopefully uh coach G's got the the wording figured out and got the guys figured out what's going to be happening here in the second half 45 seconds now for halftime Jered your three keys now let's say for the second half to have a good first half like Sam said I think you just got to keep keep doing what you've been doing up front we've been we've done everything we've wanted to do um like he also said Mason's moving the ball really well so I think you just trust that trust your guys on on the offensive offensive line um and on defensive side of things I think you just keep doing what you're doing on that side too um get those key stops on third down like we've been doing all night force them to Fourth Down force them to maybe go for it and try to get some turnovers on Downs I mentioned this earlier Coach G still wearing the uh the shorts that's a new look this year that I don't think he I think he said it's the first time it's ever been allowed on a CHS sideline so usually get hat backwards in the second half I don't think we've seen that at all not at any point this year like to give a shout out Kurt stump listening at home tonight make sure you let us know where you're listening from we've had text and comments coming from everywhere so get involved with the broadcast we'd love to uh shout out your name yeah Keegan's gonna send it deep he's doing all the same steps that all kickers do that you know got to make sure you go seven steps this way just stand in the same spot you know where it's going to be I'm cutting in front of you again all right second half action is underway with a kick that's going to be caught at about the 16 yd line good job Once Again by The Eagles getting down number four is going to get up the middle now it's a bunch of missed tackles though Keegan's in on the tackle you never want that good Fielding position for Taylorville they're going to to start at their own 41 yd line Eagles defense on their heels a little bit Eagles team on their heels a little bit even though they have the eight-point lead it felt like an extra long halftime too with the homecoming and everything going on so we'll see if Columbia's still ready to play here up eight Math's listening at Aces wild Grant Math's Mom and Dad listening at Aces Grant always texting about where he can listen as well number one's the motion man to the left side going to be quarterback up the middle good Pursuit there by the Eagles but nothing going muscu was in the back field just couldn't get close enough to make the tackle but it's going to be a gain of three second and seven Turn My Headphones Up to listen to Sam and I'm getting blown away over here trips to the right side single receiver left running back right he's about a yard or two away going to be quarterback rolling to the right side he's looking deep he's going to tuck it and run he's going to slide slide short third and a long a short two third thought they were going to throw a flag [Music] there great job by Jan just be there though make sure he's sliding down be third and two like Alex said here coach Raine you don't know if you want to bring a blitz here but most likely quarterback's going to keep it in my opinion right up the middle three down lineman now four coming up showing Blitz quarterback going to hand it off he's going to get stuffed gain a one short one ball at the 50 yd line like cam janick made that play went low on the running back Dr Herer texting in said put Sam out there as the coach replaced the old man fourth and one let's see if the young Buck's going to call something here Coach G fourth and one at the 50 oh he's off sides off sides now how can that official From The Far Side of the field call it and this guy that's 18 yards away not call it I think that's what coach Germaine's saying there how in the I do not understand the ball wasn't snapped I don't know he could he had time to scoot back a yard even half a yard it was just the tip of his helmet hanging over the ball there that's a o that one hurts there but first down and 10 ball at the Eagles 45 yd line I had a feeling tub sneak was coming up anyways and they were probably two two for two tonight on that quarterback going to throw it a little now route to number 84 on the side of the field brought down nothing going Logan Hicks great job by Logan get to the football there like you said a little now route just catch it and sling it out there to your receiver in open space see what he can do with it great job by Logan open field tackle bring up second and eight quick note from the Cardinal game Cardinal player Thomas sisi just hits his first major league home run tonight Cardinals are tied 33 trips to their right side doubles to the left second and eight empty backfield quarterback looking in the middle of the field he's got number four going to be caught gain of nine good for a first down that's just a flat Defender read right there for the quarterback if he wants to stay in the flat you're going to throw that Arrow I mean that's same play we talked about earlier yeah great ball there by 15 the quarterback there he took a hit from Furlow he was kind of looking at the ref thinking it was a little after he uh released the ball but no call going to be an empty set here on First and 10 same formation ball on the right hash Eagle showing Blitz number two's going to be the motion man going to be pull someone's helmet just flew off how in the world that helmet was [Music] launched I'm sure they know guys I'm sure they know so number 7 6 is going to come off 51's going to come on for the one play since he lost his helmet going to be a gain of six eight minutes now already had four minutes taken off in this third quarter three down linemen four linebackers manto man across the board for the Eagles defense running back to the left side I'm going to say it's going to be a pass play here going to be a quarterback draw up the middle nothing going number 51 just came into the game number 51 is the reason that I think that sack happened he's coming off [Music] now big play here third down again we saw this all game last week this is exactly where they would be third and four clock would keep running pick up another first down and we couldn't get that defense off the field definitely in four territory if you're Taylorville try to get into more of a manageable fourth down or try to pick it up here third and four motion man number one going to come to the right side he's going to get under center it's going to be a draw up the Middle with number one see if they can oh he's going to bust it to the outside now he just got out of the grips of the Defenders the nothing going for him at the start but instead it's going to be good of 25 yards he was stuffed up the middle and then went out to the outside sandstrm are listening in town enjoying it and thanking the sponsors for making it possible first and goal from the three 658 Eagles lead at 2113 but that's in Jeopardy quarterback sneak up the middle false start hopefully going to be a false start took the so the far official looked like he was the one blowing the whistle could have called a couple of those in the first half too he never threw a flag he just started walking in blowing his whistle looks like we got an injured Eagle forj in the end zone not sure who it is looks like it might be 77 bro furo who a little shaken up in that first quarter go to a college score real quick from Zack number 14 Kansas State leads number 20 Arizona 147 at half Kansas leads UNLV 1716 which is being played at the Sporting KC soccer stadium with the injury we're going to run to a commercial break real quick and when we come back we'll have first and goal from the eight right right here on kchs [Music] you're watching blue Pride football on kchs thanks for the colum quarterback Club [Music] he [Music] welcome back to Columbia Eagles football on kchs presented by the Columbia quarterback Club Brody furo is the injured Eagle as he comes off the field under his own power kind of sort of false start on the play as a loss of five brings up first down and goal from the eight 657 in the third quarter like 75 checked in Dan quivo bro fur here on this first and goal from the eight double stack once again four down linemen three linebackers middle linebacker is Cam Janet he's going to step up shows Blitz now he comes off quarterback good job by the Eagles getting in the back field right away quivo to first one make contact like 71 as well 71 Owen Mankey crawling back to get to the quarterback gain a one k musk up back there as well good stop by the eagles only a gain of one second and goal from the seven need a big stop here 625 left in this third quarter same formation Taylorville heads good success out of this formation going to be quarterback to the right side penalty flag thrown C janick in the back field making a play gain of one see what the flag is Cam's holding his shoulder again do you if you're Coach G if this is on the offense do you accept it and push him back false start against the tornadoes why is it a false start you play out the entire play yeah I agree Janet comes off Dylan Robinson coming on Jan who was questionable to play tonight decided to suit up after having a somewhat of a shoulder injury last week good to see him out there but came off on that last play kind of holding that shoulder so hopefully we can get him back in the game second and 12 from the 12 trips to the left side they're going to look in the middle of the end zone it's going to be another screen pass going to try to get to the right side and it's going to be into the End Zone number one for the tornadoes tornado can't stop that play that screen's been beating us up it's the same screen that we used to beat other teams up on though back in the day looks like they're going to keep the offense on the field try to tie the ball game up here as the cheers says block that kick make a stop you need one here bad ball I bet they got a play for the quarterback here looks like they're going to be in somewhat of a heavy set quarterback going to go under Center two tight ends sniffer back to the left side he's scooting in going to be quarterback going to keep he's going to look to the back of the end zone he's got a guy open and it's finally [Music] thrown two-point conversion is good so that takes the score Taylorville 21 Columbia 21 604 on the game clock we're going to run to a commercial break and whenever we come back we'll bring you some more of the third quarter ball game all kned up [Music] love Nick here thanks to com quarterback club we get to watch K football live at kchs welcome back to Taylorville High School where the Eagles and the tornadoes are tied 2121 604 in the third quarter Taylorville had the ball for 6 minutes right there to start the second half and they had all that momentum going into the half after a big Drive put together on a couple penalties to get in the end zone 21 13 and then great drive there to start second half off tie it up going to be caught by janick at the 20 going to try to make something happen he's going to keep his feet moving good return there out of janic takes it to the 36 so the kicker just kicked the ball off from the 40 the T landed at the 36 he kicked the T 24 yards so 16 yard return unofficially I've given up on keeping stats over here just enjoy the game out yeah call it Eagles got to get something going on offense a little bit of panic mode setting in on the sideline got to make something H happen or at least have a good drive tight end left Nelson left High snap brought down handed off to Nelson who's going to run to the right side put his foot in the ground put his shoulder down gain three maybe four gets it to the 39 yd line Second and seven good to see a little bit motion to start off this drive see if we can get Hicks a little bit involved got this wide side of the field with the linebacker playing kind of right in right in the middle of him doubles to the left side sniffer back left running back right hand the ball off to him he's going to set his foot in the ground good blocking for the Eagles good job by the Eagles seven yards first and 10 columia don't get a stupid penalty second guy always gets caught we saw that week one at modern day good blocking all around for the Eagles right there maybe one block away from having a big game y stock blocking out there is not easy as a receiver especially if that Ball's coming on the wide side of the field you got two three four guys flowing the ball first down Eagles Nelson Mosen man going to fake it to him it's going to be Hicks around the left side here he's got enough 3540 30 yd line great game by Logan Hicks there gets knocked out of bounds around the 25 yd line good play call there as a reverse fake gain of about 30 I want to say quick math be about 30 yards clock tiing 450 left in this third quarter Columbia on a pretty good drive here start off this third quarter after Taylorville scored on the first one fake it to Hicks give it to Nelson nothing going onall carrier tack loss of two or three Los of play two clock keeps ticking though that's all right we'll take that Bryant going to be lined up at the tight end position once again with almost a trips set to the rights fake bag's gonna have to scramble now late hit we got it looked like Mason just scrambled there it was going to be a pass able to pick up the first down it looks like with a a shove at the end of the play maybe going to be an extra 15 for the Eagles to put us into the Red Zone we needed to catch that break right there needed that break bad personal foul against tornadoes ref still spotting the ball here going to be around the 11 yd line for the Eagles it will be first and 10 first and 10 from the so one yd line gets you a first down here so you can play around with a couple plays not play around but little leniency here on the offensive side of things going to send Nelson in motion he's going to fake it it's going to be the reverse again the Hicks and he looks like he's going to walk into the end zone for an eagle touchdown ran that play probably two plays ago with Hicks on the little counter fak to Nelson great play call there by coach Horner to get Logan Hicks in the end zone and the Eagles Take A 2721 lead pending the extra point here by Keegan Thompson see if we can make this a seven-point game been a very entertaining game so far snap is good good hold kick is good kick is good that takes the score Columbia 28 Taylorville 21344 to go good play call there Jared first one of the night get yourself a touchdown I think that happened last year yeah I get that luck sometimes yeah great great couple play calls there by coach Horner though I like have we seen that little end round I think we saw it at modern day once or twice I think that's what Logan might have scored on if I'm not mistaken but great job by Mason selling the fake to Jace everybody thinks the ball's going to him because that's what we've been doing all night sending him in motion and kind of uses it as RPO with Mason and Jace but that third option comes in with Logan Hicks running that counteraction great job by coach horer recognized that great blocking by the o line and there was no one on that left side tackle Hicks Eagles Take the Lead great Series right there the Eagles had to have that series whether you were going to hold the ball for a long time to calm everything down or you were going to score picked up a couple first downs got Lu on a late hit down there to give us extra 15 and we had first and 10 on the 11 which is what we should have had earlier like you said so we had eight eight almost eight plays to run inside the 11 if we needed it but it only took one believe this is Mason Cunningham on the kick and it is going to be caught at the 12 yd line going to try to get up the middle are the tornadoes nothing really going but a good hard run brings it up to the 37 yd line the torado now you got to get another stop come on Eagles D I want to see a big play by either Hudson Bryan or Cooper W here try to set the edge maybe try to punch that football out try to get another fumble recovery and I think momentum's back on our side a little bit after Taylorville came out and scored got to keep our composure here yep yes we do 337 left Taylorville is going to take over on 38 yd line first and 10 doubles running back left three down lineman for the Eagles four linebackers get out there CP good tackle open field tackle loss of five nothing going Cooper W out there to make the play It's almost like I knew he was going to make a play right there called it now they're going to run the ball up the middle going to go incomplete oh no they're rolling out this way now anytime they like they like running the roll out when they got trips watch out for that screen pass as well doubles left trips right empty backfield quarterback sets up that snag right in the middle again good for a first down and a lot more from the 33 to the 33 nope 33 to the [Music] 29 get they're getting on the ball we better we better turn around and get ready cuz they're already on the ball ready to snap first and 10 doubles to the right side on the play quarterback's going to have to pick it up make something happen gain of two and again Eagles struggling to get back we've mentioned that a couple times now yeah they got to be ready cuz right here Taylorville knows you're a little bit of sleep on a Long play like that especially the lineman who aren't used to running that far down field running back takes it up the middle going to be a good gain another third down it looks like third and short third and two hear the coach from over here saying get down and ready and I've been I would have been doing that all the first half too we tired when they did it on that second Drive of the game went down and scored quarterback's going to go up the Middle look how they're splits linemen are right on top of each other quarterback's going to go under Center 155 thinking a QB Dr sneak here yep QB sneak good for five first and 10 Ball's going to be down at the 16 and 3/4 yd line I think they should keep running that play we haven't been able to stop it all night T night they're getting three four or five yards of play quarterback's got a pretty good arm on pretty good arm on on him on him though I cannot talk Alex that's all right quarterback going to hand it off up the middle number two is going to run Straight Ahead good run gain of four Corbin gonna check in for minky Big Boy swap getting on the ball again quick up and at him going be second and five here pretty much same formation all night snap it to the other side good job by not falling asleep Logan Hicks and Cooper white like Cooper wanted to come inside a little bit for the for try to get that running back but quarterback kept it bootle great job of Logan to stay home third and three here and we've had third Downs it's been the story of the Eagles defense all season long see if we can try to get a stop third and three minute three quarterback going to stay in shotgun tight end right sniffer back right pistol back running back he's going to go up the middle and W boy he going to be short I think he is let that clock keep going I don't care fourth and one I'm going Dono up the middle I know I'm what I'm running if I'm Taylorville coach STP acting like we're important up here we can't get out of his way 15 seconds on the play clock 30 on the game clock so they're going to have to call play on this fourth and one this could be a big play here and they're going to line up in shotgun running back to the right side it's going to be enough for a first down barely I don't know if I like that play call I would run QB sneak right up the middle but take it to the quarter works out Taylorville to the come on S seconds on the game get us to jump off sides maybe I don't know four seconds didn't get it off no way got to like make sure those home field officials know that they did not get it off and as the third quarter ends it was a quick one Eagles are leading it 28-21 on kchs presented by the Columbia quarterback Club we'll bring you the fourth quarter right after this he [Music] thanks Columbia quarterback club for making it possible for those out of town to tune in and watch us play at kchs go Eagles [Music] fourth quarter action Eagles lead up by seven first and goal from the six a good game here that we've had all night all going to be down to a fun fourth quarter thanks once again for all of our sponsors and supporters for making this happen Victoria simser photography for getting the head shots and game shots Sharky classin he sends us some pictures as well it's a team effort up here on kchs to get these broadcasts out to you TI and left sniffer back left pistol back running back going to be a bootleg to the right side Nelson's going to be on defense quarterback's going to tuck it he's going to dive for the pylon he's going to get into the end zone touchdown Taylorville Baron scram for thech that's just a good play out of your senior quarterb back right there knowing what he's got and first and goal you don't take any chances if you can get there get there see if he can miss another extra point here that'd be nice missed one in the first half to make it 2113 which was the halftime score they came out tied it up 21-21 we went down the field took the lead they just went right back down the field trying to tie it back up good snap good hold kick is up and missed it again missed it again missed it again again coach Kendall called that he was out on the field before I think the officials even knew what was going on where'd he miss it far left boy my death perception's terrible thought he pushed it right we need that heck yeah Eagles lead at 2827 now 1153 so I hate the I hate when the offense kind of takes it easy keep your don't get conservative that's a good keep running what you've been running all night try to take a little bit of clock off try to punch one in to make it a little more difficult for Taylorville but if you're coach Warner I mean I think knock on wood but I think we've scored every Drive we've had the ball knock we've only had four possessions wow that seems shocking to me or did we turn it over one time on Downs I can't remember in that first half but uh we might have I think we were like a foot [Music] short down here on to our right yep you're right so I think we're four for five then go out of bounds again out of bounds take it and that I mean you can tell just special teams matter in games like like this compared to getting the ball around the 15 yd line which we did in the first two kicks make him re kick by Keegan pinning them inside the 15 and then missing extra points blocking punts which led to a Columbia score now they got to scoot back five yards I believe and do a reick Jace is GNA come up to the second level Janet goes to the back level see if we can get the ball in Jace's hands over there try to use this wide side of the field on our sideline I would drop Hudson back a little bit and towards the or and towards the middle a little bit Yeah cuz it's obvious they're wanting to keep it out of Nelson's hands y k it out of bounds again now they send it deep go to bounds this side it's going to out ofs and make him re kick again I love cat and mouse love it go ahead I'd put Nelson in the middle of the field now and just let him go go get it scoot back five more yards to the 30 I think it'll be now how can so how can you hide they're wanting to kick at the janx so how can you hide janic I'd put janic maybe up in the second row do you drop Coupe back yeah or now I guess you can put janic back which it looks like he's going to if they kick it out of bounds now it's going to go out over there there and that's where we're going to get the football they like kicking it from that hash I don't know why they don't choose to kick it in the middle you've kicked it out of bounds three times tonight this what I'm saying special teams can matter now we can get good field position here as long as we don't fumble need a good return maybe get it to Midfield now they had a different kicker out there was the left footer he's going to be caught by Hicks at the 26 yd line he's going to try to go to the left side he's going to get to about the 38 so all of that probably for where we would have started in the first place that's where the Eagles offense is going to take over 62 yards ahead of it trying to get into the end zone one more time big drive here you got to take some clock you got to get in the end zone been a fun game back and forth it seems like been a one possession game besides opening 14 nothing Eagles lead but since then Taylorville has fought back down one point 1149 flag on the what's the penalty there's another flag illegal procedure kicking team FAL start kicking team another five yard penalty so you had two out of bounds had a false start on the kicking team where's the ball going to the 25 oh my gosh re kick again let's bust it now that would be nice my bet they kick it oh no betting in Sports no betting in sports there is betting not not high school sports not for money at least I have uh me and uh trainer James sepich every year he's from Washington and got family from metamor it's a big rivalry up in Central Illinois we bet Donuts every year two long johns I think he's a chalk of milk I don't remember anymore kick goes deep going to be caught by Hicks at the 30 he doesn't know if he wanted to hand it off to Nelson or not he kept it so we're going to start over at about the 46 yd line this time no laundry no laundry on the field finally so I wonder if number one's more of a Precision kicker because as they just sent it deep that's when the left footer came out5 y Eagles are going to take over 45 yd line 1145 on the game clock now coming off the field with the balls again smiling as always two tight ends sniffer back right running back right handoff up the middle good for a yard or two looked like that was Hicks on the carry maybe a half a yard not much carrier keep the clock ticking on the play takes the ACR 45 46 second down and boy we've lost the field here injured tornado player on the field official timeout for an injured tornado really like this field out here purple and gold I like the numbers how they got a little offset Shadow on them on the field nice Press Box up there I love the Press boxes that have the uh Upper Deck Upper Deck up there yeah scoreboards beautiful with a little video board on top of it got Play Clocks on each inzone see Sonic from here I want some tater tots oh yeah it is over there some more scores are coming in here from Zach looks like it's just going to be a cramp for the injured player out there Nashville leads wesland 42-0 Triad leads Alton 36117 kokia beats Granite City barn burner 76 to nothing dang even got some fans to turn around at that score there I think there was a college game last night most points scored in an FBS game since like 19 80 something they scored 80 it was 87 to 10 final score think it was South Alabama and somebody so second n 1129 Eagles made a pretty good showing up here for the long drive fans are sticking around they've been rewarded been a good game all the way around as resumes we can get a little bit of a flow here going after a couple penalties on that kickoff and then injured clock should be started it was a run play it's still not starting shouldn't the clock start yeah oh boy motion man Nelson quarterback keeper up the middle lowers the boom near a first down I think they're going to give it to him Mason vaguely oh throw it throw it come on gain of nine are they going to give him enough for a first down they should they will first and 10 Eagles good run Mason vagle you know how bad I would have flopped right there to get 15 oh man sometimes you got to man take one for the team I forgot you're a LeBron fan that oh syy other go man all right on the football tight end left look like a heavy Back Field here Nelson fake it Hicks left side up the middle now good for three not a bad little run good job there by Taylorville making the adjustment on that play had some success on it earlier got to let that play clock go now 10:35 30 seconds on the play clock start slowing it down a little bit but got to keep the foot on the gas pedal 1025 five clock still ticking I mean I would take the play clock down to under 10 every every play right now if I'm the Eagles maybe under seven or six seconds looks like coach Warner slowing it down I guess you know high school kids are still going to be ramped up and ready to go so good job by him slowing it down I like this come on going to be a pass through the hands of Logan Hickson you don't say that very often now clock stops 10 minutes boy you don't say that very often with Logan now you got third [Music] down see what coach Horner wants to do here try to get into a manageable fourth down or if not if you want to try to pin him deep inside the 10 I think coach herner is going to keep his offense on the field no matter what here I don't think so I'm going to keep this ball on the ground and I'm going to pin him see what he wants to do if he picks up four to five yards here it's going to be a keep Again by vagle he's going to get near a first down you think about how you think about it fourth and maybe two the carrier could also burn a timeout here if you're coach horer to guarantee you get a first down but I think I want that clock to keep running and you run your bread and butter send Jason in motion I'm going hard count you can always call a timeout if you don't like what you see tick twoo Mason still got 20 on the play clock snap it early now you can yep so now he's going to think about it probably call timeout here once that play clock winds down yep all right fourth and one 917 Eagles lead this week three matchup of the two one andone teams 28-27 I believe that's our first time out of the half now do you go that little offset janic running back quarterback thing what do you even call that I guess it's just like a wild cat set but I think you go to what we saw earlier with that little jumbo heavy set you can always go QB sneak which we haven't seen a lot for Mason in this year but it's a long two that you got to get so we'll see what coach Herer wants to draw up here big play coming on fourth down 917 left Eagles up by one point 2827 got a big fourth down we'll see what Taylorville wants to do too if they want to put a couple more guys on the line of scrimmage ging reports that it is absolutely pouring at home right now so thankful that we're up here unfortunate though for songs for soldiers show rocks on though right usually I would guess yeah as long as there's no lightning I would think it does oh we came to the ball quick Alex we are in that wild cat Jan going to keep it to the right side great Push by The Eagles offensive line and the three running backs that are blockers good play Eagles Janik almost didn't he was like oh my gosh that hole is huge I don't know where I want to go with this one great play Columbia Eagles i' keep the same formation fans are wanting it [Music] too looks like we are yeah with those three lead blockers up there and Keegan Thompson Logan Hicks and jce Nelson I wouldn't want to mess with that I mean you're taking your two linebacker your linebacker and your defensive back on the right side they're out of the play another good blocking scheme by The Eagles good run by cam Janet pushing the pile now out of the offensive line gain of eight I think if you're picking up yardage like that coach Horner is going to keep keep running that there second and two and if they're not going to make an adjustment like I said you look at number 15 over there 23 they're not yeah they're not even now you've got it yeah 11 on nine now gron number 23 is going to have to stay home there's nobody over there back Lanes there too look at that good Vision there cam janic offensive line showing up right here on this drive unders eight minutes now in the fourth quarter Eagles have had the ball for four minutes now Mason's gonna come back in for cam great job three plays there by cam Janet pick up the first down and then two plays to pick up another first down for the Eagles now vaguely they're going to keep the same formation vaguely is just in the game now I called it with 13 seconds to go in the play clock that's all right lower the boom on him baby I can't wait for the day that we line up like this and one of those running backs come out of the back field everyone's looking the right side running back goes left 23 still not in the play they need to sh they need to shift him over cuz in the middle of the field all you have is 14 and five is somewhat in the middle of the field right and you look at how far back the Corner's playing here number three yeah at the goal line they don't want to shift out of it keep it going vaguely the quarterback three running backs will be his lead blockers they're going to go to the outside five yd line slips again I think they're going to probably call it chop block if I had to guess it's usually where that area goes look like Hudson on that left side he's the tight end he went low for a little bit of a chop block we'll see what they say yeah chop block and I'm sure that's on Hudson Chop block I think we had one of those last week as well called on the Eagles so that happens when a defensive lineman is already engaged up top and somebody hits him low looks like Janet comes back in for vagley we had a good drive going there clock should still start now that it's amazing that last time whenever there was a penalty they didn't start it when they were on offense now it's started timeout Taylorville about time they're going to try to make an adjustment so second and 12 from the 13 Eagles offense looking good right now now you got to start thinking about too what kind of leg does Keegan have in your accuracy and everything a field goal is huge I don't know second and 13 I mean you can go back to it if they don't make an adjustment because like you said those two guys are not even in the play it's 11 on nine middle of the Field's been open a lot tonight do you try going to play action to the middle kind of like on what Hudson scored last week I don't know if you want to play action on second and long I mean you could but then you risk of getting sacked and it's third and very long do you think they're going to bring pressure on second long or do you think they hold off till third we'll see what kind of formation we're in here if we're in that Wildcat again we need to get somebody else in the middle of the field but we'll see what coach Horner wants looks like Mason's kind of out of the Huddle Cam's in the middle of it so most likely going to be in that Wildcat formation once again on second and 13 until they make an adjustment on that other side see what the Eagles got coach hner still coaching after the boys break the huddle second 13 ball on the 18 637 like we're putting Jace back there now that Wildcat guy going to shift to the left love it now they're all messed up on that defensive side going to play to the left jcece to the left side Jace behind the big blockers he's going to be good for about seven if he would have stuck his foot in the ground and gone to the outside I don't think anybody was out there they got about third and eight oh man Mason going to stay on the sideline here most likely stay in the same formation we'll see if we have another option out of this but we really haven't really needed it big play here on third down third and nine going to run it to the right side Jay lowers the boom gets it maybe a yard boy there there's been a lot of guys slipping down here at this side of the field keep your offense on the field here yeah I think you do then you got to make them go 90 yards try to score a [Music] touchdown Mason checks back in gonna go little spread formation with Cam Janik as the upback Jace to the left Hicks and Thompson to the right as receivers oh boy satue Liberty to the left side it's got Hicks loss of three turnover on Downs Eagles and I don't know if I'm a big fan of that play call there trying to get a little bit too pretty I think you run your bread and butter and just try to get as many yards as you can up the middle what's been working for you all night eag come up good job by Taylorville staying home first and I don't know what the blocking really looked like there oh baby onepoint lead 514 Taylorville has got to go 87 yards if they want to take the lead of course they can take the lead with a field goal make it a two-point lead touchdown Columbia still in it great game here this is where Jared starts getting nervous yep my hands are sweating a little bit two tight ends sniffer back pistol back fake the hand off quarterbacks can keep it nothing going on who's that in the backfield for the Eagles right away that looks like musk up number 52 Carson musk up that time gain of two y second down that clock is ticking we need it to tick tick tick try to try to force a couple third Downs here don't let anybody behind you if you're a corner or safety you just heard samel watch the screen trips to the left side running back left roll out left got a deep ball down here with hicks's Garden number one under again nothing going on no penalties good job there by Logan Hicks you see that change of speed when read the wide receiver's eyes he's like oh crap got to get back great job there by Logan no one where the ball's at no one where his receivers at no contact great job not getting any pass interference there now you got third and eight 430 left clock does stop on an incomplete pass I mean if you're Taylorville here you got to punt the ball if you don't get it here that a lot of time you can't call it timeout here either those are going to be needed in the end so you got to have your play call that you want here pass I'm calling it I'm going quarterback up the middle they' just spread everybody out trips to the left side doubles right quarterback looking to that hook to curl quter keep nothing going brought down fumble on the play I think it's recovered by The Eagles no we get it we got it they called him down called him down called him down the official over on our sideline calls him down number 73 for the Eagles Lincoln Corbin number 75 Dane quivo both in there called him down on the field biggest play of the game so far here come on D Cooper showing Blitz come on give me a false start or something doubles running back to the right hoop showing Blitz he's coming off the edge it's picked up incomplete turn over on Downs Columbia eagle gets the football see I don't like that I don't like that if you're Taylorville cuz now Columbia can take as much time as they want inside the 25 yd line you got to punt that ball as crazy as everything's going you got and you got to trust your defense sometimes you just got to you got to trust your defense and hope they can get a stop hope they can get a turnover but the way things have been going I mean I guess they thought Columbia's been driving on us all night with the run so great stop by the defense there and we've kind of made adjustments on that snag route since the last one they caught for about 40 yards and starting this wild cat once again cams running to the right side good wall the blocker spin move hold on to that football py inside the 10 ydd line first and goal for the Eagles maybe close second and a half he needs to be holding that ball with both arms running through that middle you never know when somebody could come punch it out 315 and and running if you're coach Warner you love this right now up a up one point and you're definitely telling cam not to call for the ball until it's under five seconds on the play clock how aggressive do you get on a touchdown do you go for two put it away nope oh I'm putting it away I think you don't I think you don't want to score too early I think you try to you got to get a yard and you got get a yard and fall down and make start making them call timeouts and try to try to waste that clock a little bit so then if we do score they have no timeouts on the offensive side of things so I think you try to get go QB sneak and then you for you force them to start calling timeouts because then you'll have first and goal from about the nine yd line thanks once again to all of our sponsors making this happen thank you to the listeners for listening letting us know where you're listening from been a good night here up in Taylorville Lisa Oglesby at Edward Jones bought Chick-fil-A for the boys and it seems like it's working right now 253 left big second and inches we'll call it also thank you to Freshly pressed we didn't mened them last week with everything going on we were still trying to figure out sound and everything was going crazy for us freshly pressed of all the work they've done in the last two weeks and everything that they do they're doing flags for guys yard signs for not only football every Sports so freshly pressed look them up on Facebook and get all your customized Eagles gear there so Jared's saying they're going to go down after a yard first and goal I think you should try to get a first first down here causes them to start calling a couple timeouts then that clock will just tick for four downs Janet going to be the quarterback going to run to the right side he's got a wall of everybody in front of him he goes down at the three yd line Jared you're a genius I just watch too much football cuz Todd Gurley did that on the Falcons one year and it screwed him scored too early they went down scored went for two and they lost the game now do you just take a knee no I think you still run the ball just wait wait till that play Clocks I mean I don't know because if you man it's a tough tough dilemma that Taylorville is in right now not calling timeout just letting that clock tick but what else you going to do if you have to get the ball back down one score quarterback to the right side Janet goes down again he was giving himself up yeah that was a little sketchy there Timeout on the field Taylorville yeah that's tough it looked like Janik was giving himself up a little bit on that play which that is I mean as a linebacker or a guy on defense that is tough you're at you're inside the two yard line and you never think a guy's going to give himself up on the two yard line but at the state of things right now with two 11 left timeout going to be second and we'll say one and a half yard line in kokia conference play tonight Roxana beats Civic Memorial 5112 Chester beats freeberg 3114 I do think this is neat in just two weeks time the learning curve that's already happened you look at how many guys are out there right now I remember in modern day coach Horner wanted something out of a timeout had to call it another time out because not all the offensive guys are out there yep now you see every guys that's involved on offense cuz you never know if somebody gets hurt and you're next up got to go in there if you're not used to playing certain position that you're normally playing so second and one Janet comes off vaguely is going on yeah with Furlow out we got a new center in the game probably haven't practiced going under Center very often look like it is Lincoln Corbin that's going to snap it to Mason vagley see if we can get a QB sneak here Mason under Center what'd he do right there look like he almost he took a knee short make him call another timeout that's okay with me clock is still ticking couldn't tell if he was couldn't tell if he was trying to take a knee if he was trying to I love that though now they're out of timeouts yeah and you got 2011 then you you punch one in here you're going to force them to go it's only third down I still I'm taking so they're out of timeouts correct I think they have one I think they've only burned two here oh I think they burned it on first and second down now now they're out they took one earlier in the half down here to left right so now they're out I'm going to take a knee we're at 2011 on the game clock right now call our timeout and talk about it after you take a knee or you you look it I hope Sharky's getting a picture of that right now I don't think that can get any closer to the goal line without going in shy and hoe are right down there and it looks like he's taking a picture of it Mason's out of the game here so looks like we're going to be back maybe I mean I would keep Mason in the game and just take a take a knee let the play clock go down to about 120 and let's just say that you don't convert on the yeah they got to go 99 yards to win the game with no timeouts so great great job here by the coaching staff in my opinion on this last drive to make them burn their timeouts now you have a chance to score here see what happens Mason back out there again same formation under Center they're trying to draw us a false start doesn't happen Eagles are going to get into the end zone Mason vley touchdown columia [Applause] still a huge play right here to make it an eight-point game I don't know I'm almost more scared of them going for two the way they've been kicking tonight great ending drive there by the Eagles to make it seven-point lead hopefully an eight-point lead after this Keegan Thompson Pat Mason calling for it good snap good hold kick up and boom right down Broadway two-minute warning here in Taylorville Eagles lead it by eight 3527 we're going to stay with you here big two minutes here two minute warning all starts with the kick and got to pin them deep [Music] this is where the parents now whenever my favorite phrase in all of football when we kick it off everyone's going to just start screaming get him what do you think they're trying to do oh that drives me nuts get him block that guy 35 push-ups it's that time for the Eagles cheerleaders and they got them all done did you do that right now absolutely not I don't think I could either no chance could you run a mile right now do I have to have a specific time under 10 I probably could yeah be hurting I could get it done all right here we go Eagles let's go two minutes eight-point lead Keegan in to do the kicking not really sure what happens I think that was just a bad kick kick I don't know what just happened there but that just changes a lot of things right there yeah it does not sure I don't I think that would I it looked like he tried to do that too did he try to Pooch it 10 yards 20 yards farther all right Eagles D here we go oh that just changed a lot still no timeouts two minutes to go Eagles lead it by eight Taylorville is going to have great position starting at the 45 if you ever needed a stop this is the one you need trips to the right side doubles left you got to keep them in bounds if you're the Eagles defense Eagles timeout coach Germaine not happy excuse me timeout no timeouts left in this ball game Coach G goes directly to the Back Field defensive backfield number 18 Cameron steals out there so is that like your Nickelback coverage most likely yeah looks like 11 pool is out of the game now so probably got your nickel package in and his job is do not let anyone behind run past you that is your job so now that's the Eagles final timeout oh man I don't know why didn't we kick it deep coach Warner is going to rub top of his head ra right now oh I just have a sick feeling it's going to end on a hail Mar play in the endzone let's not hope for that trips right doubles to the left Bunch empty back field quarterback going to be a screen pass and it's going to be a good wall of blockers Cooper's going to try to make a tackle it's going to be brought down by Logan H that ball defense be ready second and six we've done a good job adjusting to that screen pass minute 45 up to the ball right away trips to the right side running back right going to be a roll out to the right side 15's looking deep he's going to sling it deep he's got a man wide open and it's going to go incomplete way out of bounds intended for number four got behind Jace and you look at coach Herer and Coach Germaine they're both yelling at steel to get back there like you said you have one job if you're that Nickelback player that's nobody back there third and six good job by the defense so far quivo comes off casing muscot back in so see if we can get muscot or I like the MUSC brings off the edge Lin Corbin with the power he's been in the back field a couple times empty sides he might be off sides he's very close to off sides BL don't call it okay good going to throw to the little slant once again Little Hook to curl area going to be brought down this time by the Eagles at the 34 and it's that hook to curl that's beat us all night I think their guy even almost lined up off sides ball at the 35 yd line minute 23 need one stop doubles running back to the left ball in the right hash going to be a play action quarterback's looking deep he's going to have to throw it that's intent is there anybody over there he was out of the he was out of The Tackle Box like barely how barely good pressure there I think that was musk up and somebody else Coach G pulling the big guys off putting the smaller faster guys in man that was close to being yeah I think he got outside a tackle box with those two guys rushing him cuz there was no receiver in that area but does stop the clock 108 Eagles still up eight points 3527 ball on the 34 yd line Second and 10 doubles running back to the left side quarterback going up the middle this time he's going to be hit by cam Janik brought down by m vaguely gain of three clock still ticking under a minute now Alex our side needs to get loud here coach Kendall Matt coach her they're getting everybody going come on defense trips right side doubles to the left quarterback he's looking for that hook to curl area that's wide open [Music] [Applause] again looks like he's going to be enough for the first down going to give it to him with 39 seconds left ball on the 23 clock is ticking quarterback under Center spike it spikes it right tackle moved a little early thank you call okay good gonna say he's the only one to move besides the quarterback flag on the so it's going to be a 5 yard penalty first down down and clock should start after they place the ball and tell them to run it right yeah because if it's a false start that play never happen so it should go to 25 seconds but yeah Kendall's doing this so it should start right whenever they tell him so I mean you're going to lose a second or two we'll take it tlor needs to be because they're going they should do the same thing it should be another strike looks like clock is not running I don't get that I do not understand it at all but that's all right quarterback's going to fake it he's looking to the end zone Nelson's over there ball goes incomplete 25 seconds remaining good job there not falling asleep on the double move Nelson in good Pursuit coach herner and Coach Kendall can barely take it down here on the sideline pacing themselves 25 seconds remaining second and 15 ball at to 28 woohoo Friday night this is awesome Alex this might be one of the best games we've had ever Colin I'm not even lying this has been fun second and 15 coach Kendall telling the crowd to get loud doubles running back left quarterback's looking deep he's looking to the end zone he's going to Loft it up and it's going to be intended and go incomplete fourth and 15 now third and 15 third and 15 third and 15 third and 15 for the Eagles defense thing with Taylorville here I mean I know you don't have timeouts but every shot you're taking is a vertical to the end zone I think you can you could have got a couple out routes maybe a couple Crossing routes try to get out of bounds a a few times but I think they're a little nervous of us protecting that sideline and forcing the clock to keep running 19 seconds remaining doubles running back to the right side get him K quarterback going to step up into the pocket oh no he's got a floater man out of the running back back dropped it and he dropped it oh you don't have to be good if you're lucky boys coach Horner can't even look you don't have to be good if you're lucky we'll take those drop we're out of timeouts he's going down to Coach G and want to call a timeout but he can't we don't have any Cas was there in that back field comes down to this folks 13 seconds fourth down and 15 here we go for the eagles they need to make one more stop scoot back B scoot back 13 seconds ball at the Eagles 27 quarterback steps up he's looking to the end zone he's got somebody in the middle of the end zone it's going to be intended for number four give me that pick interception I believe that's jce nson give me that ball game pick it off in the end zone ball game Eagles wow I got chills what a game we got lucky on that running back drop in that ball [Music] Alex 4 seconds remaining Eagles can knee this one out you don't have to be good if you're lucky wow what a finish here in Taylorville Hees job Victory formation bigle going under Center just don't fumble the snap hand off knee ball game Eagles win it 3527 [Applause] what a game under the Eagles offensively and defensively to get it done great game all the way around here in Taylorville getting a little nervous there my heart was starting to beat a little bit but great job by the Eagles defense stand up strong great job by the secondary not letting anyone get behind him besides that running back dropping that pass on that sideline and it would have came down to a two-point conversion and doesn't have to come down to that anymore as the Eagles Walk Away 3527 here in Taylorville as we head into conference play like you said this is a big win for the Eagles this week hey I told you on the way up here I love our be defensive backs this year I told you at the beginning of the broadcast and they came through just like we expected them to as the Eagles win this one once again like you said a lot of momentum now going into the conference play and two home games in a row so two and one now get you can beat roxan and freeberg at home move to four- one you're looking like you're in pretty good shape so these next week or two we need to we need to really be ready and realize what's ahead of us I mean we're two and one we we won two games all of last season so got a lot of these kids should should feel pretty good about themselves into a hostile environment like this an hour 45 minute road trip um half half day of school all that stuff that happened last week um tough week for the community but great job the rally around um o line played great tonight both sides of the ball offensive line and defensive line um it's all around great game Mason probably played I think the game of his life um in especially in that first half through three or four great great balls um to Hicks and a couple um to jayon Nelson but overall a great job by the Eagles yeah I mean I don't know what else you got to say after that it's a good ball game and uh was fun excited to go home with the victory boy coach Warner there you watch him in the postgame talk very animated like always and uh they're already screaming and yelling so going to be a fun bus ride home next week like you said going to be blue jay Knight against roxan uh going to be going live on kchs once again at 6:30 and uh man what do you I what else do you have to say about tonight I don't know I kind of want to keep talking I wish it would have kept going that was probably my favorite broadcast uh that we've ever done but yeah heck of a game by the Eagles like you said coaching that came down here to the final touchdown that drive was like five minutes Alex that was a very good drive very well coached and it was very well executed out of the players too I I 100% agree great job by coach horer and Coach Jermain and all the coaches on that sideline um and like you said by the players to execute it um it's not easy uh whenever you see a if you want to score a touch down right in front of you but great job by cam Janet to get down a couple times Mason took a knee at the two in line two in yeah at the two inch line I mean some guys can be selfish and want to score a touchdown and just just to hear their name called but great job by the offense cam janick great job closing the game out um and then Mason bagely punching in at the end to give us the eight-point advantage and at the end the win all right well we're going to be wrapping it up here on kchs Eagles improved to two and one after the thrilling Victory here tonight 3527 thanks once again for listening thank you to Alicia Oglesby for the chick-fil from Edward Jones thanks for the sponsorships thanks for TJ making the computers work we made it all work here tonight Josh wasn't here yeah we made it work from Taylorville Eagles Victorious 3527 we'll see you next week and uh go Eagles baby go Eagles baby a

also the girls high school and girls in boys High School cross country teams will travel to Indiana Wesleyan for the Wildcat Invitational that also begins at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow also the Middle School volleyball will head to Norwell Middle School for the Norwell invit tomorrow that also begins at 9:00 a.m. at Norwell Middle School also girls varsity golf will have the ACAC tournament at Cross Creek indicator that event begins tomorrow afternoon at p.m. correction the ACAC golf tournament tomorrow begins at 11:30 a.m. at Cross Creek Golf Course also on September 16th The blon Varsity tennis team will travel to Norwell at 4:30 p.m. also on the 16th at 6 p.m. the JV football team will travel to Woodland to play against the Woodland Warriors September 17th at 5:30 p.m. girls volleyball also will be playing Woodland at bluon Middle School gym also happening on September 17th at 5:30 Middle School football that will take place here at fedf Park field against Woodland also girls varsity high school volleyball will play at Bluffin High School on the 17th next week against Woodland on September 18th again tennis going to going against Fort Wayne Bishop lures here at bluon high school that is on September 18th beginning at 5:00 p.m.

e e e so that I did so everything looks working is there anything else that I need to do hear the board um right now people talking as I'm sorry I know she did go up after theard oh cuz we her nie is think yeah we're good to go and thank you sir and I'll follow up your presentation on my screen um for your our busiest time right now a list of thank you no no it's okay um so we are Live President may I have a u motion to go back into second okay a motion by Miss Sylvia Hendrick is there second second by Miss Kathleen Vance all those in favor Juan buia M Kathleen Vance M syia Hendricks M and Mar Stevens M motion sorry okay uh we are now in um regular session um motion now to adjourn this special board meeting motion by Miss Kathleen Vance second second by Miss anamarie Stevens all those in favor Juan wendia mppo Sylvia Hendricks mppa Kathleen Vance mppa Anna Marie Stevens mppo motion Carri okay we have adjourned the the special board meeting at 9:06 a.m.

to 4 p.m. I have the state here every day with me so yes sir can you elaborate our facilities walkthroughs that we conduct so oh and then and then we do like we do facilities walkthrough me and Ruben have done it before um but then if you see that I've put on my agenda on my on my board reports that um Chris as a custodia supervisor he's actually doing them with um the lead custodians and the assistant principles then and that's more for cleaning but when they when they when they see like uh things that that need to be repaired that's when the assistant principal will let Chris know to get back to me because I can't do all those meetings because I've been doing a lot of stuff with the with the with the contractors and stuff so he's letting me know you know if there's if there's stuff that needs to be repaired if there's toilets or whatever we're getting we're getting but the new system that we're using for f fmx we've added a few more people from the school sites so they can add a lot of more add a lot more of the um work orders to that so that's been helping um but like and then you get to remember um the trust comes out here um when I first came the trust hadn't been out here in many years so that I've had the trust yearly do inspections we them out and a lot of it and that's where you get some of the emergency when when you see the funding that we need for emergency projects you know safety projects that's where that's coming in into fruition yes okay and those are the results of of the inspection yes ma'am yep that's good uh board member uh Hendrick um part of what we do as well um we have a report card that we put together as part of our system instructions in place um in collaboration with now the custodian lead and that report report card inspects every single classroom and it gives a score and a grade to every single part of the classroom and which we identify um trending information or or areas that we need to focus on so depending on the school and depending on the capacity of the custodians some of the schools they inspected um by semester some of them right now are going to be inspected monthly in which the the lead custodian the custodian R Ross and I we engage in a walkth through for the entire facility to be able to um give a grade to every single room in that school and and that includes not only the cleaniness N but also identifi some areas that need to be addressed um we identify any leaks any loose faucets uh any windows so all those the prevention that in the long run is going to pay off back to you Ross um let's see what else I want to say so if you want to go back to the the further part of this uh presentation um where it says projects 2024 project 2025 so this is some of the stuff that's on our radar that we're trying to get done um it just depends upon you know funding and stuff like that um this is stuff that's been on the you know more or less been on the rider since I came but we tried to get a lot of the other stuff completed because it was smaller dollar amounts so now now we're starting to reach into the higher um amounts and and if you look at the like the HVAC the project that's actually coming the project one that's actually coming to the end when they finish the completion of the Intermediate School the last 11 units will be put on that school and then we'll have all brand new HVAC throughout all the school district except for there's uh and that's including housing except for just a couple that are on like the admin building and and transportation and stuff like that so so where where it says you know the balance this is how much is remaining for them for us to pay them the $429 764 and and the current amount spent you see is $5 million you know so that and a lot of this money came from Esser and I can't tell you the exact that would be an Allison question or kentina but it came from Esser and impact Aid so that's how we did that um and like the teacher remodeling housing if you look down remember we just spent five when we did our walkth through we spent 500k and did the houses that we remodeled so at some point you know it's do we look at uh doing more housing and at some point do we look at adding additional new housing that's what I was going to ask yeah about whether or I know there's a lot of stuff that I have to get to with TOA I have to get to with the the land people that are with the res you know here um because that is you know it's it it's their it's your land it's their land that they they're the ones that are going to tell me where I can and where I cannot put stuff um because because of the sewer needs and the water needs and the electrical and stuff like that oh but we yes our as community members have to go through the same thing yes ma'am yep yep so I just know it's a lengthy process that's what I've been told so no surprises I mean it's just like that wherever I mean even if I yeah absolutely yep so so that's where you see a lot of these 2024 25 24 2024 2025 projects um and it's just small stuff I know one of them that uh people have been hounding me on is as you come in that I uh when you come into the intermediate school parking lot here I know it's a cluster in the morning so I think we I think I've found the suggestion r on what how to fix this for about $122,000 we'd actually put a curb up when we when you would drive in there would be a curb from from on your right when you got into the parking lot all the way around up into where the kids would be able to cross it and then and on the other side of the curb would be a sidewalk sidewalk would curve around and then there we would have where the stop sign is they would actually be able to walk across and so that is our I met with a few Road people or not Road people but um some uh people that do roads and and parking lots and stuff like that and then and then we'll take all those curb stops out because I've seen cars drive over those curb Stu yeah so we would take the curb stuff out and they would actually be we would line it parking lot line it stuff like that so that's one of the ones that's on our next Horizon we did put a stop sign over if you come back from the housing come this this way we put a stop sign to slow people down because they're coming through here and they're not paying attention and that's sure what we do if you come out and sit here for like a half hour during when school opens you'll see the the cluster and it's been like that since I've been here so I always worried about the the kids coming across there when cars are coming in out as I'm like they're small and if anybody's not paying attention yeah but I hear you so if if that puts emphasis on it I think we need to make sure that something care of yeah safety Miss uh Anna I just want to say um like Juan mentioned when we came in I think um there wasn't there wasn't an efficient way of monitoring this until you came in and I I do appreciate the hard work that you do to make sure that things are being monitored um that our warranties are being met and that you are looking for funding or resources to help us move forward and you can see it like you can see it and our on all the campuses they're beautiful they're well taken care of and there are things that been addressed that been longstanding so I do appreciate all your efforts thank you I know when I get on my soap box when I'm in a zoom meeting with the state they they try to cut my time off let them have it I said my kids are just like Scott skill kids yeah I get the same amount we get the same amount of money so that's what we've been arguing right now oh well means a lot Miss Vance um I just want to say that I I think you are a true director of operations thank you um compared to what we had before um you have a whole list of projects that need to be taken care of we've never seen that before um prior to you coming on board you have uh not only the projects that are being taken care of and um are on the radar now but you also have a wish list yeah and that's something that is part of um moving forward with the planning you you know so I really appreciate that um and in the questions in the beginning before I looked at you know your presentation I see now where the projects are complete what those projects that are still in progress and and um pretty much the phases that you're at so I really appreciate all the hard work that you've done and it's it's a lot more than we've seen yeah and um like was said earlier our buildings are beautiful and we know that they're they're being taken care of because you know you have this this this uh ideal of future correct and and so um just thank you for for coming and being part of our community thank you thank you thank you Miss Hendrick do you have anything or you okay you okay um yeah I think that um there has been a change in um identifying and planning for a uh a better way of um maintaining and adding and doing everything that's possible to make this school district what it is today you're welcome thank you for that and um I know I keep asking you about somebody is somebody going to retire and thank you for answering me but um again uh you're doing a terrific job thank you thank you yep the only thing I ask you is I just need employees um I'm short I'm I'm I try to I send my my staff out they're asking you know relatives and people who live here um but I need more grounds people because if you see everything's growing up since it rained and you can see the nation is trying to clean up their their buildings now because of the rain and I know it's supposed to be supposed to rain again this weekend but we just need more grounds people I've been running them pretty much rampid you know with overtime every week just just to get caught up um how many do you have now I have five and and I need I usually have seven you need seven yep and I usually have five maintenance guys and I right now I only have two so guess who's been you know doing a lot of extra help on the weekends and we've been coming in and doing stuff and I don't want to really go out and hire I mean we do hire companies you know like the electric because because a lot of it's electric you know the guys that we have aren't established enough with that and we do hire some extra plumbers a company to come in but I don't want to go out and just do like the the easy stuff we need our staff to be doing that to get caught up on everything and oh well are we advertising all this that's a whole new conversation no that's later in the day that's that's a different department in a different conversation and and there's also a planning place that we're going to be coming uh before the governing board to see if you support that as well um and I didn't include my order charge because we're trying to figure out I'm trying to ask Ruben you know if we should change my or chart to help me out a little because I'm burning at two ends of the candle more or less it's it's it's been a lot lately um is that on another slide the or chart no he didn't include it he said cuz he's it's it's developing work in progress It's developing work in progress we have a draft but we have ideas and how we going to rearrange it so he can actually be a husband and a father that's good absolutely yes support that th% recommendations I've been in a few tables and this regarding your need for anybody not only not only do districts also have opportunities for occasional hires that they will pay for jobs that are needed so whether it's yard work or grounds work um that might be a good conversation to initiate the other one is the college has as far as I know looking at different types of working programs even onetop has working programs where they will pay them and all they need is the work that they need to do um so there are different opportunities that I think that they have St or they have clientele that need positions um and I don't know how well or when one stop right one stop yeah me and Ruben have we've met we've met with that program so anytime and any moment like if there's something that you need that we can help with I understand but you know I'm just for the sake of Y the public and if there if there's any instance that we need to press on like hrdc again for programming on what they need to do do we we obviously have the jobs we just need the the individuals that are able to do so and if there's any way that we can cut some of the we enter into some sort of partnership as opposed to going through all the red tape which ends up being difficult for a lot of people but nonetheless I think that there are opportunities I just wanted to put that on your radar and then make those recommendations Miss Anna I was also going to say I know we had discussed like getting like seniors or students to come out out um giving them that experience especially those who are you know have credits yes and then um I know Toc does have like their apprenticeship program and they have to finish so many hours so I think it would be really great to work with them I think the only thing that was discussed was they had said to be 18 I think that was the and transportation and transportation yes sir what was that what was the king of PR clearance what was that what was the first part you mentioned uh 18 they had to be 18 years old transportation and fingerprint clearance yep those were the three things that we've talked about before you've talked with them no we've talked about it but I think Ruben's probably talked about it at length with I'm pretty sure that we do have a lot of V purchases that are over 18 but I think they would then make that effort in providing them the clearance and whatever they need yeah right fun conversation as well no I understand I just I just know that that obviously you're doing as much as you can without more support you get pulled in different directions I know I know Mr Fox he's been an advocate of trying to get some of the kiddos over there once they graduate yeah to come over because he's got some of them that are a lot older than 18 so he's been trying to to to push them towards us but that I think they're going elsewhere I guess which we do have some interns and transportation yeah another tiny little recommendation and this probably got not does fall under operations but maybe overall for the district um I always thought about naming our buildings and some of the some of the identification of buildings I think there's only one that says gym or even Library well and and that was going to be we were going to talk about that when we did the weatherization okay if you saw remember when we did this building I actually had them paint the the shiny silver to Black so it pops out a little bit more so we were going to be doing that to those buildings cuz I know a lot at the secondary have to get moved because like the weight room is the weight room anymore the band room or the band room or what it's it's not the band room anymore it's it's something else we just have to move a lot of those signs out and I know at one point you guys talked about um having it in your language your spell so that would be another discussion once the weather is A's done we can come in and put new signage up after that start love it thank you for having that on your radar it's coming but it just has to be okay I only have enough time in the day and again just putting out there Mr Das sorry I'm going to explode pick me pick me pick me jeez but and if if you guys ever want a tour again I am always open you know even if it's just oneon-one and you want to tour and it you don't want to bring the whole group like we've done before in the past I'm I'm up for that yes ma'am I just now remember I know was another thing we're going to talk about when we did the tour we talked about training for the high school students and um intermediate schools about being respectful and doing a comparison of like how it looks at primary compared to like high school yes ma'am and I are you still having those issues and dealing with them yes so has have you had those discussions with students it is something that is expected um but what I'm I think the next step is going to be U the accountabil accountability part is show me evidence that you have done it and how is it improving so I think that's on my end that I need to follow up on that's good I'm glad you have orders go ahead Mr Diaz um I want to go back to a plan and I want to go back how is operations helping a the plan and I want to address um uh by doing so I want to address how important this is to our community uh so they can see how even operations it's probably one um just as Transportation one of the greatest and most important part in how we can reach our three-year plan when I came um almost 5 years ago I was hoping to uh looking at the day that we going going to be at the maintenance level not only on the repair or the Band-Aid level um and also in the beginning of the year during the kickoff I was asking for a responsibility not to walk the path but actually leaving a footprint behind and it having said that I I want to highlight and comment not only Ros but also the governing board in terms of how the footprint is Left Behind and and the Legacy Left Behind um Ros I want to thank you for the amount of time energy effort and I want to thank Lisa your wife for her patient in in in the process as well because of the amount of hours that you put in in in in in place and the hours that right now you're also sacrificing with your children and and to be able to be on top of everything else the amount of money that you brought into the district it takes time to to se the money and and and to advocate for that money and and the Savings in the long run um not only for the money the initial investment through sfb and for us to be considered as part of the agenda and the priority but it is the level of infrastructure that is being brought and supported through the governing board the amount of money that is going to be saved a legacy that you leaving behind as board members is not only the academic it's not only the financial not only the hiring the the superintendent but it is the Legacy that the buildings they going to be in such a great conditions for 10 15 20 years that is going to save money along the way and our responsibility as a govering board to now over um the system in place is now is going to be show me evidence of the meanings in place show us evidence of the meanings in place so that we don't get back to the um being in a ho that we at one point we did not know how far it or how long it was going to take to be able to fix everything how is that important to to our threeyear plan five years ago it was hard to focus on the instruction when I kept seeing that buckets were in the classroom uh hold in the brain uh when when water stains were all over on the panels um when there was a uh stains on on By the Light electricity um how can students teachers and and administrators focus when they' being pulled in different directions when the building or orru is not in place so what I want to thank Ross and his team um on behalf of our students is uh because of the level of change in in in the way fixing and building and and and and and and put him in place is now taking away those destructions uh from administrators and teachers so we can focus on what here the main priority which is keeping our students safe and also keeping our students um learning at all times uh the amount of work that you have done to also work uh with it te Tech Support to to ensure that alarms are working to make sure the response are working and and and there's so many things that have been done in the last four years um that is impressive uh in in in a short amount of time the last part u u that I want to think earlier when you started your presentation you said that my kids are just as important as Scottsdale's kids the word that you use was my kids part of our vision that students will be loved and for you instead of saying these kids or those kids you said my kids and by you saying that I want to thank you for valuing that this is is coming from a place of your heart and and and also um the challenge is we'll continue to work on on the our chart so that you can not only continue to support our district our our kids uh but also yourself that's all one of the things real quickly I want to make sure to challenge and put ourselves to the test on is is trying to be as competitive as possible with um compensation for the positions I know that they're not the positions that are what would you call Professional or or you know but they're important the kids feel good when their campuses look good and we need to acknowledge that the pay needs to be better and so I I that's one of the things I just want to mention because I think that there's a lot of efforts we can make um sometimes more money isn't isn't the isn't the issue I think more well sometimes more money is the issue sometimes um I think above all having a good manager which is like your also pretty good so I I really appreciate that you're here again and I want to thank you and your family and everyone else for the sacrifices that making for us to our children all of our children your children our children everyone um of the nation so I appreciate you thank you thank you let's give him a hand see in the in the summer for for an update remember T you let me thank you number okay have a good day bye bye well sir okay uh let's Roll Along I'm sorry we're behind schedule everybody um moving on to number or to the next presentation from transportation department president Mia U members of the board um it's a true pleasure to share I mean to present our partner um Mr B Keith B uh to be able to present an update on his threee plan um also another person that um when we decided to partner with um with beine I never in a million years expected or anticipated that the actual CEO was going to be helping us in oversee and and living in the nation I cannot be he has many districts that he work but we get the privilege to not only having the support of the beine but also somebody that is also sacrificing being away from family and his own children to be able to support the very needy superintendent that you have and thank you morning president Benda esteemed members of the board superintendent Diaz sisa who always lets me into the building which I'm very appreciative of and our very fine Finance individual Miss Clementina good morning to all of you thank you for this opportunity to address you today real quickly I'm going to take my first minute to just take you down memory lane this month September is my oneyear anniversary officially you partnered with beine so just real quickly remembering prior to September of 2023 District had five running yellow Fleet buses and two White Fleet buses to cover 12 routes so that's a total of seven units doing 12 routes students arrived up to an hour and a half late to school the district received numerous complaints of course I don't have to tell you this uh because the buses failed to have functioning air conditioning the district did not have a heavyduty diesel mechanic and routine bus maintenance had been deferred for a significant period auditable records did not exist a majority of the fleet had tires that were below the legal limits multiple buses had been stripped to their parts to keep the few functioning buses running the transportation department lacked leadership and did not have a vision or clear understanding of their mission drivers were frustrated and morale was extremely low hot overcrowded buses coupled with Community complaints made it difficult to attract new employees to the profession the department had a single dispatcher with a split shift that left the phones unanswered much of the day the department responses to community cerns were were untimely at best and the stress of attempting to perform the basic role of home to school and school to home Transportation while understaffed and short on equipment left many student discipline issues deferred and or unaddressed that's where we started a year ago and so simple changes uh the first thing we needed to do was really identify what are our objectives in the department they weren't written we didn't not have them and so U on the first uh slide for my uh three-year update our objective support student achievement and learning by fostering regular attendance through the provision of Safe Transportation Services that are broad reaching for the community on time and consistent if the bus is not on time and not consistent we're going to miss students that is counter to the board's objective of having 90% attendance or more we have to get those kids to school if the bus is running early we're going to miss students so we have to be on time and consist consistent our second objective is to support student development by having sufficient personnel and enough vehicles to allow the students to participate in educational athletic and extracurricular activities as the board deems appropriate and then our third objective maximize the Department's fiscal responsibility so these were the charges uh given by um superintendent Diaz to Mr B when he arrived to the district be efficient have enough equipment make sure you have enough staff a saved money let's get to work okay so here we go I'm going to tell you I'm going to include you now in how I was walking to the department and we're going to start with um miss this is now disfat V and I'm driver B I'm coming in early in the morning oh I'm sorry so late I am you know the babysit intro for my grand kids this morning and if I get my bus in the next five minutes and I can do quick pre trip I probably won't be too late for the kids I need my keys so I normally uh Drive bus can you get me my keys for bu please well they're in the're right over there in the thing you can go and get them get the keys they're right up there in the green container you'll see oh this is how it functioned in our department here we go keys I normally Drive bus three can you find bus three for me please oh my God please hurry now go ahead and put them down you need to find three three there you go now if she loses any of these I'm in real trouble on Monday oh my goodness if you can't find them then just keep going I need bus three that's the one I need this is not in order please hurry I need three I don't want to be late on my route and I'm so sorry I'm running late but this is this is how we started coming into the department wow three quick quick quick H she's shaking like she's you sure there's a bus they're not in there no oh no maybe the dri took them home and left them in their pocket or maybe still out in the bus no three well you better I'll better call the Calla she drove it last night activity see if she has it okay so now we're going to move over to to dispatcher buendia and uh we can't find three the driver's not answering the phone they're not in the bus what am I going to do now okay so I could use bus 42 so let's see if we can find the key for bus 42 quickly quickly I you're burning time I I got to get out there and get started I got 43 no that can't use 43 that one's on another run that's another driver I need 42 that's the only one I can use 42 42 quickly quickly no I got to do my pre-trip I need 15 minutes you're making me late oh no that's 23 no 42 42 come on come on come on oh oh dear I just feel the time bur still no they're there they're there they they're in there they got to be there 42 42 oh good you can put all those others back I'm go and IUN around and all boom I hear a loud noise I I oh no oh no what am I going to do uh 42 42 42 and I go to the back and oh my goodness 42 turbo intercooler line what happened it blew out it's gone I can't use that bus that whole line just boom right on out that bus is unusable okay so don't need 42 anymore that's got to go into the shop so boom there we go dispatcher Hendrick I need bus five we're going tohe and try we can't use this one it's broken we can't find the keys for this one I need the keys for bus five quickly quickly the time is burning the parents are already arriving at the stops their kids are out there waiting and I still haven't even left the yard yet so quickly quickly I need five here you go keys for bus five oh good job good job out I go I'm going to do my pre-trip now I'm doing my pre-trip blah blah blah blah blah and oh no the driver that's been using hasn't been doing very good pre-trip look at that belt oh my look at that can I use that is that safe for me to use all the ribbing are missing that could break while I'm out there with students I can't take that bus oh no in back in I can't use bu I oh boy the time is burning kids are waiting that one's not going to work so let's go ahead and pass our keys over to dispatcher Stevens and she's going to find me bus 33 bus 33 quick quick quick the time is burning you need a new belt but we don't have time to install that hi Transportation I've been waiting for the bus for 10 minutes is my child is my child did they miss a bus no no the bus is on its way it's probably about 10 to 15 minutes late okay we've been waiting it's raining out there 33 33 quicker quicker got to find it we got to find that I got to get going quick quick quick yeah can I get the number to the superintendent I'm doing my transportation is not answering can I please I need to talk to the superintendent the dispatcher cannot take that call right now because she's very busy they're not answering got but no turn signal you need a turn signal switch go put that in the bus right quick and then I'll be ready to go right not going to happen right coming in I can't use 33 so that goes back in and then it goes over to dispatcher Diaz there you go and very quickly I need bus uh beline bus number 92 92 92 I didn't show up I forgot I woke up no no no no dispatcher go go go go 92 we need it 92 right there Find 92 find it find it oh my goodness nope somebody took it not here there it is there it is all right my trip finally I'm on my way on my way uh to pick up my kids what's a simple solution to this organizing organizing the keys right unbelievable simple simple simple solution requiring people to turn in the keys what is it a keyboard right there very simple right keyboard so that's the first thing that was the first major change we made in the department keyboard simple bus three out of service T not using it this morning no you can't take five da da so there you go so simple solution to use our time wisely I was literally stunned by this and this is what that we were doing every day trying to find our keys big project all right now let me take you back to so clearing the land um we didn't know where all the buses were when we got here so the first thing to do was find out what shops the buses were in it took us a while the hardest one for me to find was Warrior one there was no record nobody knew where it was uh calling a number of shops in Tucson we finally found the bus we had so we had to identify all the equipment we had to figure out what wasn't working uh we needed to get enough buses running fortunately with our partnership with beine we were able to use some lease buses as we started to build our routes back up again three of our buses uh were very very tired uh they're the ones that were getting close to 300,000 and ultimately hit that and the district was very wise and sending those to happy bus land and then uh the board and the administration was very supportive for the Department in acquiring um actually uh five school buses and then one White Fleet bus which has really really helped us and then we put in place a schedule for regular maintenance for our equipment uh moving on to our routings we evaluated all the routes for efficiency we created at that time four additional routes to accommod odate the student needs with the goal of reducing student transport time and then we also uh were researching student management providers and making appropriate recommendations of which we ultimately recommended the transfinder which I'll address here in just a little bit oh the slides are working perfect then uh building the structures if we go to the next slide building the structures um recommending again that we replace at least two of the unreliable higher higher mileage buses again being financially uh conscious we don't want to gold plate dead horses in other words we don't want to spend more than the wholesale Yellow Book of a bus to fix it if it costs more than that then we're better to replace it Miss Hendricks so what would the mileage what with the required mileage or you know you would evaluate and say we got to put this in because it's a mileage so it really depends on the equipment um the design life of a bus in a traditional urbanized District is usually about 15 years but because of the size of the nation and the number of miles that we transport students we put on a lot of miles and I'll cover that in just a little bit I've got a little chart for you with some fun facts on it that we'll be able to talk about you'll be able to see what type of mileage this district is doing so we really are not going to get 15 years out of most any piece of equipment because of the mileage we put on so really we're looking at a lifespan of like six to 10 years at the most before we're going to be having significant investment issues with our equipment so um so what what I've uh really looked at doing is some of our equipment which isn't designed for this area is trying to maximize that Equity get that traded in on equipment that will meet the needs of our district and then uh we did so we looked at creating additional routes we reviewed the special needs runs uh we target our student capacities we had a number of buses that were overloaded just extremely extremely full and again that's not conducive to students transporting they look at the bus that's full they don't want to get on we're not going to hit our 90% Target for attendance if they're not riding the bus they don't come to school uh then uh Personnel uh hiring additional drivers we partnered with uh the the Tucson folks to try and bring in we've advertised locally we've hired local drivers as well as bringing in folks from outside of the community uh We've created some new positions um tried to help morale by creating a team building activities we participated in the wellness activity uh last spring came in third for the district and uh again building that um uh partnership with our team and then fiscal responsibility probably one of the biggest things uh there really was uh the fact that we uh converted the district to using the red Dy diesel fuel which was saving the district the 26 cents per gallon Federal excise tax which you're not obligated to pay I think we were the last District in the state that wasn't using it uh I was not happy with the vendor because technically in my mind they should have made the recommendation years ago to use the red Dy but that does save you around $3,200 every time they deliver fuel so the district will recognize that saving for years to come um and then another philosophy that I think is very important our big buses are very very expensive they are now like 180 to over $200,000 a piece for a big 6 passenger bus we were using those buses in the department to do activity runs where you may have half a dozen or a dozen kids so you're taking this big piece of equipment and putting tons of miles on it wearing out that asset and so I put a new philosophy into the department where we're going to use the little buses and we've been working on getting those up we had four or five of them that just had been sitting there they were all broken none of them were working we've gotten those running and now we're using the smaller buses as much as we can as much as they're available on those activity runs when the student loads warranted those buses are a lot less expensive to replace so let's put the miles on those little buses and that will we itle extend the life of our bigger more expensive units so uh Fleet looking at hopefully purchasing uh at least another two buses uh this next year we're going to continue to trade in as best as possible when we can get a new bus some of those that don't meet the requirements of the district um I'm going to give you some exciting information and update on our routes and our person so thank you so much for that I do have a little supplement which does have some fun facts in it for you and if we can if we can just pass those out that'd be fantastic so again our mission at the top again wanting our our transportation system not only safe but broad-reaching on time and consistent that's our objective and then uh just some fun facts so I I was told when I arrived that uh the nation is about the size of the state of Connecticut and so I looked it up on Wikipedia and by golly it sure is it is a lot of geography it is like just covering an entire State um the fleet composition now uh we have 21 uh yellow Fleet buses that are owned by the district we have uh three to five as needed that are leas to help us accommodate our routes and then we have 50 15 White Fleet vehicles that are assigned to the department I then put together a little uh chart there the bus fleet age and years so you can see last year 23 24 uh we had 19% of our buses that were 0 to 5 years of age 58% that were 6 to 10 and 23% that were 10 plus so with the acquisition of the new equipment that the district was able to provide to the department you can see our 0o to five has increased to uh uh 43% uh our 6 to 10 has reduced down to 34% that was traded in those buses that had over 300,000 miles and then our older units those ones don't have very much equity in them and that's why they're still in the fleet trading them in doesn't provide much value back to the district so we'll probably continue to run those through the end of their useful life so that number I don't anti anticipate changing too much so this year we are running uh 19 routes and then we have 7 to 10 uh activity runs and those depend on uh participation how many buses that we need so I did print this to save paper on both sides so if you jump then to Fleet mileage uh you'll see that our average uh daily route miles are uh 2,621 uh for our home to school and school to home routes our activity miles which we run activities Monday through Thursday that's 534 so uh total average daily mileage of 3,155 mil per day so project that out over the 180 day school year this district is running over half a million miles uh every year so in four years that's 2 million miles that you're going to be spreading over your existing Fleet uh the longest daily route for a mainstream route that's route 7even that bus does 308 miles a day so when you multiply that times 180 school days you can see that that bus is going to put on 55,940 mi in a school year we put one of our new buses on that already that we we haven't even had Buzz 44 a year yet it's already over 31,000 miles so it will hit that Target of 55,000 Mi before the end of this school year the longest daily mileage special needs route does 382 miles so that bus is going to run 68760 miles this year uh and just again fun facts minimum number of oil changes for our student transport Vehicles 10day period you can see we're going to need to do at least 110 oil changes so almost almost every day we're we've got to be changed the oil on something now it doesn't work that way because it doesn't spread itself out so evenly so some days we'll do seven oil changes in a day uh not just you one because of the needs of the equipment and then another just fun fact approximate number of gallons gallons of oil that we'll need for this year 440 gallons of oil that's a lot of oil to use so then I also prepared for you percentage of the yellow Fleet in each mileage category just so you can kind of have a sense of where our Fleet is so our units 0 to 50,000 miles that's 25% of our Fleet 50,000 to 100,000 is 8% of our Fleet our biggest population of equipment is between 100 and 200,000 that's 59% of our Fleet is in that category and then 8% of our V vehicles are currently over 200,000 miles and then we want to make sure that we're looking at performance measures are we using the equipment efficiently are we getting the best return on that are we running at capacity so what I put together for you is uh our Fleet utilization as it relates to our mainstream uh student uh transport data so this doesn't include summer school or the commuter or any of our special needs routes what it does is just include our mainstream routes and so you'll see for each route I've included for you the amount of utilization so you'll see like uh route two is 100% well route two is a 56 passenger bus and on average we're carrying 56 passengers in that bus so that's 100% well let's jump over there to Route 15 and if you'll see that's 174% Mr B how can you get 174% utili utilization and the way that works is uh that's a 47 passenger bus but it's carrying 82 students how is it carrying 82 students well they're transporting taking our students to the high school and then they go and do a route for our primary run into the primary and so 82 students are carried on the bus so that's how we get to the the7 74% so you can see cumulatively the average for our district is 108% that is a good number for you so that just shows that we are properly utilizing uh the fleet next page uh Personnel currently have uh 12 employees in our department that are compensated by the district 16 employees that are compensated by your partner and then uh looking at our White Fleet this is an area that we may need to address for the future but just to give you a sense we we do have um five of the White Fleet multi-function activity buses these are ones that can be driven by District Personnel or the transportation department they do not require a CDL but you can see the unit numbers and then you can see what type what model year they are and then where they are in terms of their mileage uh we were able to get one new White Fleet uh this year that a26 has about 8,000 mil on it now but we're very appreciative for that you can see that a22 is uh it's now I think 204,000 mil since I did this report uh and continues to grow some of those we may want to consider uh replacing in the future and then the White Fleet cars uh those are the vehicles that uh you folks oftentimes get to use or our teachers we also use them as student transport vehicles uh also for our parent liaison uh anyone that needs to go to training uh you can see the model year how many miles are on those just for your information um if we flip then to the next page um I talked about the red Dy diesel I talked about uh where we came from so I'm going to go down then to the bottom half of the page a year later um this is what really reflects where your transportation department is at we have 21 regularly maintained yellow Fleet buses with functioning air conditioning tires with legal tread and properly maintained auditable records uh we still have three to five lease buses with air conditioning available as needed to cover breakdowns or routes for district buses on field and activity trips we have uh five operable White Fleet multi-function activity buses that can be used by non-cdl drivers we have 28 Department Personnel to include your director office manager assistant office manager routing coordinator a White Fleet coordinator two rotating diesel mechanics two dispatchers with overlapping shifts so that we have full coverage in the office during normal business times uh Community concerns uh with student discipline issues are being addressed in a more timelier manner the department morale has significantly improved um I talked about us participating in the spring Wellness activity and we do know and understand our vision uh if you jump to number three this is I believe one of the most exciting things and one of the biggest successes for our department and I wanted to bring that to your attention today uh we inherited routes that were designed to require buses headed to the furthest communities they had to make multiple stops inside of sales and so they were making stops and delaying our students that live furthest away from getting home and so the philosophy needed to change we needed to restructure that um change is difficult especially when you've always done things a certain way but we wanted to make sure that we address that issue uh we wanted shorter routes with less overcrowding which we found um you know would really help improve student Behavior reduce vandalism uh and some of our drivers have apped that by making the structural changes that we did uh the vandalism and disciplinary writeups have been reduced by Approximately 80% so by adding the three routes that we did and uh readjusting our philosophy and how we did our routing uh we were able to go through and calculate out that our students districtwide are riding 10 hours and 25 minutes less per day that's an amount of time that they are not sitting on the bus and I put a perfect example in there for you uh which is our um our intermediate students on Route 14 and 15 used to spend an hour and 40 minutes on the bus that is seat time sitting on the bus those students are now on the bus 20 minutes a day do you see the significant amount of time that they are saving that's time that they can spend with their families time that they can do their studies they're not sitting on a bus and so that really was our objective and by putting those additional three routes on there we were able to make these structural changes to assist our students so I just put a big number in there 1,845 hours uh a school year that our students are not sitting on a piece of equipment so I wanted to highlight that for you because I believe that is one of our Department's biggest achievements and then just real quickly talking about Fleet composition uh we do have uh some of those rear engine buses left and uh they're vacuum cleaners which is why we need to move them out okay so here's an air filter there you go air filter air filter nice this is how they're supposed to look right brand new this is about $60 for this F little piece of equipment right here and because of area the geog operating in these have to be changed out out between 2500 and 5,000 mil now I'm going to show you one that has been in a bus for one week that is a rear engine oh wow okay so make it easier [Music] oh wow oh no Ross rear the rear engine buses that our district Needs Bus Sports and you know what I found when I got here rear engine bus is where I had drivers go like my bus isn't running good it's not getting air I I don't have an air filter so let me just take it out oh my gosh running without ail you know suck the Eng yeah that right there that completes my uh presentation we have a lot to do in the future my recommendation to the district is to continue to update the fleet I know it's a significant an investment but we've got to continue on that track we've made wonderful progress to date but a fleet our size with 19 routes statistically we need to have 25 buses you've got to have backup buses because sometimes the hose blows out back ordered six weeks I can't get this host for six weeks can I go to AutoZone can I go to AutoZone or or and get this hose not a chance look how big that is has to come from the dealer 6 weeks back or the bus is down can't use it no power belts where are those belts finally got them in you know how long it took three months to get these belts I was running because couldn't get it so it's important to have backup in spare buses do you order equipment and stock them so we are doing a better job of stocking and that is part of my objective for the future so when I come back next year if you still have me then my next objective is to really tackle into to our manage Fleet Management site we have all kinds of parts that we purchased in the past I have probably half a dozen alternators for Chryslers guess how many Chryslers we have in our Fleet zero none I don't have any Chrysler cars in my fleet so we made purchases in the past and invested dollars in resources that aren't not beneficial I have a lot of sorting to do because I will go through those items and find out what we can use and then we need to Surplus property those that we can't and then make sure we're stocking the items that we need on a regular basis like air filters and belts and those common use items um The District administration superintendent D is um has been very supportive of our department we always can get uh feedback and assistance that we need uh we're in the process of trying to get a uh trip bus with some of the Esser funding that's left uh we tried to use Warrior one and uh unfortunately you may have heard it didn't quite make it to its destination and we don't have a single bus that's under 100,000 miles to send our teams out and so um I uh asked Miss Cornell if there was any way we we sacrificed a department truck we sacrificed some golf cart I said we really need a bus for our kids we need our kids to be able to participate and know that they're going to make it back home and uh so we were able to find a bus uh and by trading one of our uh special buses in get the price down where it would be affordable for the district there's something that we need to think about I want you to be aware for the future we do have the 2027 emission standards that are coming into play the dealers are indicating to me that they are anticipating a 30% increase in the cost of a bus those buses will start showing up in 2026 so if we think about the trip bus that we're getting which is uh $244,000 if you add 30% to that that would take us to about $317,000 for that same bus so the more equipment that we can acquire over the next two years will ultimately have a significant savings for the district in the future and so just as we're thinking about where our priorities would be uh I wanted the board to be aware of that and we will make work whatever we need to um we still by having your partnership with beine we are able to bring in lease stuff still uh We've budgeted for that to help cover when buses go down or if we have to wait 6 weeks for ose it's invisible to our students they don't see it because there's still a bus showing up to get them but I know with the board's fiscal responsibility just wanted you to be aware of that as you make your decisions for the future as well that completes my presentation I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have and I do promise to clean up my mess thank you sir yes Miss uh Vance well thank you Mr B I enjoyed your presentation and the connection you have with the board and the little scenarios that we done um and I do want to say you know I really appreciate everything that you've done um for the district ever since you came um we've seen changes in the transportation department that's that's amazing you know with with the number of buses The Fleets um the cut down on the um on the times um with the kids getting to school and um you know the morale all of the things that you do for your department you know it's just really I really like where our transportation department is right now um I also just want to say you know I want to thank the um your staff for everything that they're doing because um you know our children when they are picked up they're the first people that they see um from the school district so and then when they go home they're the last person that they see from the school district so that's really you know it means a lot to me to know that um they are there for children and that you know that they're keeping them safe and our and our Fleet is safe um for our children because that really is important um I know at some point there is going to be a um a way where parents can monitor um when the buses are where the buses are and um that's going to help a lot too so I'm looking forward to that in the future and I just really enjoyed your presentation and your personality I just love it thank you thank you and just to follow up on that very quickly because you brought up the transfinder uh we are in the process our staff is having training every Wednesday our dispatchers are in the process of pinning all of our students the again unique feature to our community is is we don't have physical addresses and that's how the system is designed and so we are having to manually pin each student stop and so that's information coming from our drivers where does that student get on making sure we get their name then getting that into the office and then finding the student in the system and then going to the map finding them on the map and pinning them in so that we have a definite location for them uh most districts take a year to implement this process our Target is five months uh we have my I I've hired a routing coordinator that is really helping us with that and his uh objective as long as our dispatchers are able to finish successfully pinning everything hopefully before our fall break he will then take his fall break uh to try and work to kind of finalize that part of the system and then we're going to start a soft roll out in other words we're going to pick a couple of routes and start monitoring to see how they work and ultimately build it out till we'll have a full release I'm equally as excited about that I'm looking forward to it but we don't want to roll it out until it's ready to go we want it to be a success for the community if we roll it out too early and there's too many hiccups uh then uh it won't be viewed as successful and people may have an adversion to it so we want to make sure it's totally ready to go before we again and thank you for your very kind remarks thank you sir no I just want to make sure to express as well um some of the well more so the the evidence that we're able to see and hear or feel is refreshing CU I feel like even as a former student you know when we think about some of the things we had to endure not well yeah endure basically because then there was no AC at all in any bus and you open the window if any moment you felt like you wanted hot air blowing in your face but I feel like as much as we can we are able to you have really given us a huge um amount of of course your passion and your your respect for for what you know your your your job and I really want to say thank you above all for for for being able to to bring that to our district um I want to also thank you for this information um because it's going to help us as we go to naph we go to DC and this is the information we need to say look at what we're doing with the funding that you're able to give us give us more because speaking my language it absolutely is 100% funded by if we didn't have those funds this is not possible at all and I want thank you because I think this is really important for the community to also be very aware of Mr Diaz to some degree and any moment any time that we're able to have conversations even with hrdc and everyone else involved hey Nation or anyone else if you're not going to be able to support us or if we ever lose impact 8 this is what we're going to come asking you for because we don't have this type of of opportunities without those um without their support and without about us having this information so thankful for that you mentioned and I want to make sure that I that I don't go over it without um addressing because it's been my hard point you know I'm going understand very hard on this is that you know there there there was a need that we really knew was uh where we're at right now and I want everyone to understand that that that does not mean it's halfway supported you in that position or anyone in that position who has overseen the transportation department is there to do just that and there's no ifans or butts about it like granted you mentioned like of course with anything new there's there's some push back or or things that you have to kind of get through but in that line of um um like for my first question is I really want to be able to see an organizational chart and so that it's not any question as to who and what and where um present it and hopefully at a later date if not if it's not ready now so that we're not having any questions to that or that there's absolute clear understanding of because and I really love that you're here again um but I also don't want there to be any misunderstanding when you have to go look at any other things that you're working on as bline is not just responsible for B USD it has other responsibilities exactly where does that fall in line with who who's you know what I mean um and any other areas that you mentioned Also earlier like like this routing coordinator um so that we're aware um and for the sake of any questions that might arise directly to the superintendent um should that ever come up the other question I had not question but other thing I wanted to ask specifically about was the concerns that are there any concerns that you might have uh you mentioned one of the like recommendations I wouldn't call it a concern are there any other recommendations you might have when it pertains to that transport ation environment and or the department in that I know you noted on here Personnel District employees and contract employ I don't differentiate that because that is not what we were here to do it wasn't what Our intention was as the board you're all transportation department period stop it is not whether you are a district employee or whether you are a contract employee that is the the system we set up or agreed to was that it's all transportation department if we have to fill in some of those roles with a contract employee then then okay um and I want to make sure again to express that I I I I have to stress and support you in every way that I can and the and the superintendent to try and get rid of that line or get rid of that that conversation to any degree possible um because of what the success is and I hope people will take away your knowledge and your ability your the the ways and means that we're seeing is directly what we've been able to see from operations obviously we want a them people from here to be able to do these things 100,000% but we cannot go without acknowledging that your expertise and your knowledge in this field is Way Beyond what we were able to see prior to and so I hope that to some degree we're also encouraging that if hey if you don't want to see me here then I want you to watch and learn what I'm doing because this is what you're going to have to be prepared for if you want to run a transportation department and you're from the nation you have all these ideas and these comments and concerns and complaints because I 1,00% agree that I would love to see Thum in Thum spaces however these types of instances where we're having to break down these types of things we never saw before I've never seen it and it's not because it's not there it's that we didn't take the time or the care or have the the commitment to do so and it's going to help us you know those types of things those types of conversations courageous conversations and those types of things are going to be able to help us in the long run um so again I want to 100% say that as much as we been able to hear and see and and be able to take off of our shoulders when it comes to hearing the the complaints about Transportation the next part is is definitely making sure that if there is something we need to be mindful of uh as a board um you've been able to give us that information share that information um that uh example you gave just earlier it's it's mindblowing but obviously that's how we were operating forever and it makes me feel really embarrassed as a community member I know you didn't mean to intend that however as a board member now I I I it gives me way more it makes me want to pay way more attention to what we're we're putting forward and and putting in systems or you know those expectations so I'm very great grateful that you are here and that you're able to share as much as you have um but I also want to make sure that we are also aware that agreements that we go or enter into and or the reasons that we had to go seek someone is because of where we were at the time and that doesn't mean that it it has to remain that way but we have to be ready to be able to do much of what what you've been able to do for us um and it comes with the price tag and I don't mean that in disrespect I mean that with with the clear understanding to the community and to everyone involved that it is important um that we treat it with that kind of respect and understanding and transparency because people think a bus is a bus you said 2 $200,000 you know what I mean or or not knowing that these types the buses are not meant for this type of area I didn't know that and I'm sure I mean that's not to say that we're naive about it but obviously we are and need to be better about how we're we're we're operating and I'm grateful again so that's all I wanted to say and I do want to be able to to see the organizational chart um I want to stress again Transportation should never ever be dis like District or for bline it is all Transportation it is all B USD it is all there's all a common uh core responsibility and expectation and there's no reason and and I think if we're going to continue to have that conversation then there's going to be a point where we're going to do away with the entire thing and I mean for the sake of of why we did it was specifically for a specific reason that we wanted to make sure we were maintaining individuals who were there for uh a long time and had built up um retirements and whatnot there was no other reason to to have any kind of differentiation between BD and bline we have a transportation manager and director and that is the man standing before us unless he does deem someone else um responsible for that and I also want to continue to encourage you to to I know you're living here or have been and um I'm thankful that you've taken it upon yourself to to like make yourself so available to be able to pull us out of almost The Trenches um but also I also want to respect that you you probably have a you know a life and a family and want to be able to to not have to not have to you know car take us so much so I want to make sure that we're also preparing um for for for the eventual like passing of the torch I guess was we we should always be willing to to train the next person coming up and be like all right you know I'm doing this now I need you to watch me and let's move on from here from from there so that's all I wanted to say I really really appreciate the much as much information as you provided um and again for the sake of just the transparency that I feel like this board is deserves I mean the community deserves from the board is that we're pressing on those types of of uh that information and pressing on that type of expectation but nonetheless I I cannot thank you enough um for you've been able to do this far so thank thank you Mr President um I will I do have an organizational chart so I will get that to our transportation leison Mr uh Diaz and um have that for the next board report we can just do that as an attachment if that would be approprate so you can see the organizational chart um thank you for U allowing us opportunity to Mentor other people I have tried twice it hasn't worked out yet but I I'm continuing to try and train people in the department to take leadership roles I'm not uh 25 anymore or 24 22 22 you know there's going to be a time where Mr B is going to probably want to retire and my commitment to this board and to our superintendent our district administrators to the B USD Community as a whole is my I promise you that I will leave your department in much much better shape than I found it and uh we have had a success we had a student last year that interned with us and he now is a full-time employee with us in the department so he's homegrown he went through the alternative program uh was looking for a place to land I worked with Mr Fox I got him in there interning he loved what he was doing he's now on our payroll so uh when when the board sees those numbers of where those paychecks are coming from our employees that's really just for you yeah because when we're over at the department I don't care where the staff gets their check from when you're over there you're a transportation specialist you're there for our children that's we're all doing the same job we don't care where your check is coming from that's not important thank you so that's just for you to kind of see the numbers of where things are coming from but over there that's invisible maybe there's a few that you know are a little bit concerned because tradition Al things were just handled locally in the community it is a big change for them but um I try to be fair equal I listen I have an open door policy and nobody gets their hands dirtier over there than Mr B yeah thank you sir thank you Miss Hendrick well thank you and um for the real life uh presentation that you did showing us where we were at and obviously with all the that data and the information you've shared of where we're at now and it is a positive thing I think in relation to the um the the um what is it called the where they're going to be able to tell where the buses are the tracking the the tracking what called oh yes the yes with the changes that you've made in the department we're kind of getting ready for that so with your objective of uh on time and consistency I think that actually is preparing for that so that way there won't be any issues of okay it's here and why isn't it here and you know all that all that stuff so but I think that that that's that's a good thing I think that they're used to that and that's how they're going to go and that's how they're going to keep the tracking working the way it's supposed to be excellent um and the other thing is obviously yes um as one mentioned uh with the um impact 8 obviously they're always asking you know well how you know how how far do you have to go how many miles do you have to go and obviously this gives us all that information that we can share you know at impact a and keep that funding going because they want to see that they want to see where's their money going and do we need to include do we need to increase that and obviously I think with this information they will I don't know but hopefully well we we can always hope so but I wanted you to have those numbers and again they're performance measures so that you have some evaluation of your department how are you successful or you're not successful you've made a big investment in your partnership yes and is there a return coming back to the community into the district and that helps you evaluate it are we doing our job are we doing what we committed to do when we came in and these numbers help demonstrate that you know Mr be you running the buses at 20% capacity why do you have 19 routes and you know you've got three kids getting up each one no this gives you the hard number so you know exactly so when you're looking at you know saving money in a department well do you want to trim routes I don't think so because you're already at 108% average capacity that means somebody's going to be overcrowded you need the 19 routes that's where they're set can you fit 56 students onto a bus we're not all designed the same way we could probably get Mr Diaz and Mr B and a seat together but I have students different bodies typ type we're all made different they need a seat so we have to be cognizant of that and Target our numbers so we can accommodate the needs of our children in the community but I like the fact that you even uh consider the amount of time they were spending on the bus that obviously because we were do we were having a lot of um um um behavior issues you in regards to you know because of the amount of time they were on the bus and I thought I think that that was a good change thank you positive change you know and you know in regards to their behavior you know because it you know they're in school all day and they're they're on the bus in the morning they're on school all day then they're back on the bus in the afternoon and obviously we don't want to we don't want them to be on the bus forever I appreciate thank you and and thank you for your presentation and I'm going to make this short thank you I I appreciate that and I think I grew up on a a small farm and one of my first businesses I had 300 chickens and I would Market the eggs and I found out when the pin was too small and you had a lot of chickens in there what did they do they picked on each other now not that our children are chickens but the analogy is the same when you get them overcrowded then you end up with uh discipline issues they start to pick on each other they're hot they're crowded they're all crammed in if we spread our kids out and give them a little room to breathe it makes life a much better place and that's what we've noticed by taking care of those overcrowding issues that we were having we've spread our students out and we've build in a little margin for uh capacity so that if we have new students moveing into the community we don't have to redo all the routes we can still fit some kids on our bus Miss Stevens I just want to say thank you um I was really helpful to hear like hear your presentation but also looking at the realities of what you had to deal with um I appreciate the numbers that you presented you can definitely see and I and to be honest change is hard and you're going to deal with people who want to want to be there and they not want to be there um but you could see the effects that it's having in your department just like the grounds I think it's over time it's going to it's going to get to where it needs to be and I think sharing that information is helpful but it also gives us information to share with for us to get more funding because a lot of times are the rule communities they're like you don't need that if you don't need that um you know we can operate on this in a city but it's very different so I appreciate your efforts thank you thank you um real quick real quick real quick I lost it Mr Diaz I'll be quick um it goes beyond words um how your department is supporting the 3u goals um it is without transportation we don't exist um I want to thank you as a new superintendent last year you partnering and choosing us uh to be able to be part of our journey and our Legacy I remember your level of expertise has also allowed me to focus on all the areas that needed also my attention uh to be able to meet our goals so by you embracing the challenge uh that we had in transportation um is giving me quality time to spend with my um instructional team and and and spend time in the classrooms and uping complaints or trying to find out where is the next bus that broke down um I want to thank you for your report uh it's probably the best report uh Transportation um I have ever seen without the amount of information um I said it before uh I can only play by having real chips um in the in this game and by you providing that report you also building capacity your presentation is not only a line but it also is building capacity about among ourselves to know how to support you I want to I a shout out to my transp ation team because of the sense of urgency it's uh you being here and and every time I pick up the phone and I need um an immediate answer um you quickly pick up that the two speeds that we need um fast and faster and the ability for you to understand our sense of urgency that based on what you do that requires a quick quick intervention on the areas I want to thank you for that I want to thank you for your expertise um because I went to school to how to teach students now how to maintain a department and by you taking the patience and and build capacity with me uh and understanding what is my role and understand why is it important um you are providing me with invaluable information and how I can best support my students and my transportation department um I again I don't don't have to tell you how you your your department is meeting all of our goals because without you we do not exist um thank you for Willing your willingness in in partnering up partnering with uh bab G and fire school district and by giving us VIP service by having you here living in the nation and extend my appreciation to your wife and children as well may I may I real quickly make a couple of maybe suggested like reports back to the board um regarding transportation and then this would kind of help us in the long in the long run I think um not only looking at what our what our Fleet might be but our Personnel um I know we talked a little bit about video um surveillance is uh being available in some of the buses to what degree and how does that help us um how does that look if we're utilizing or not utilizing bus AIDS what has the success been with bus buses with the bus a and without I only say that because sometimes we do have overcrowd in is and if we throw another Personnel in the bus does that kind of take up space as far as what we could use for students as opposed to a transportation Aid um and it maybe a a little breakdown when you do an organizational chart on overall uh Staffing and I don't think we need names or anything but just event like what does it look like and what is what is being brought on like he mentioned for the purpose of of what is you know what is being brought in to supplement what we what we're missing and what can we do to fill those so we're not supplementing it because I know it comes at a different price the other thing is when you mentioned um buses being on standby now are are we paying for buses on standby because I know we had to pay to rent buses correct you are they are on site but you are only charged if they're used miles okay good okay okay so if the bus is here I think beline has seven buses here right now okay um I've never charged you for more than five I uh this calendar year last year we had more because we didn't have as much equipment uh and again they're only you you're only charged if they're used uh we we have two wheelchair buses that the district owns both wheelchair buses have been broken for the last week we have a wheelchair student that needs to get to school good so we brought another bus from Tucson uh so that we could accommodate our wheelchair student okay that way we still were able to transport the student to school uh so they're here but you're not being charged unless they're actually utilized okay thank you I appreciate that anything else if not appreciate you again thank you thank you did you want to talk about my meteorological qualifications as well with the board no that's goinging that we need more training on guys U just for the board's um information it is lunch time so I don't know if we want to do a working lunch as opposed to breaking for lunch and then let the directors continue okay can we do that that was my recommendation yes are they here uh is the culture language Department going to be here um we do have a transportation challenge that occurred I was informed okay um and I have already um contacted my next director to go ahead and address the issues um based on um Life Unexpected situation that occurred um to on my next director um I think we can move on into the director special ed vales upon bringing our when you're talking like in this it it's hard to like hear you you're talking into it it's hard to like hear you yeah you're kind of back up a little bit I like my my deep voice in the microphone I understand but your but okay so culture's not here which is fine we're going to move on to ESS can we grab lunch so we can do that while she's presenting maybe okay thank [Music] you directors please get some food some food before he gets I can bring you the food come and in this I'm for [Music] get like 14 guys the food is going to get cold wait everybody huh we'll wait till people get but thank you okay awesome did you get some lunch lunch get some really good oh for thank you for your kind remarks we got it place kind of good s really I like which one did you try no [Music] are you going to na yeah you late my work considering what it's to be I still might I wasn't going to go and then my boss was like yes I want you to go oh good but he hasn't like haven't met on it cuz he wants me to go mly because he wants me to present with some people but he's like yeah I want you to go I'm like oh okay I should I you right now he might change his mind the more we wait but wait did we get you the ticket and everything no I'm going to work oh got you oh so I'm the only one are you going mhm okay who's going Monday who's coming to the tour Monday I want you coming with me on Monday what time is it at day we leaving at 7:00 um I'll let you know I have to okay check with Sten huh do I tour well it's you can only have much fun but I think golfers that not used to having teachers I think we were too noisy I'm going to go ahead and turn it over right now for our working lunch to the exceptional student services department director go ahead Miss bis SK good afternoon board President W board members and Mr Diaz so thank you for joining us on a Saturday um I feel my board reports probably not going to be as uh eventful as Mr B so I apologize so um as you know this is going to be about my third month kind of being in this role and so it's been a bit of a roller coaster um but it's been exciting at the same time there I didn't realize the depth of the role of the es director has in the district so it's been sort of um a learning curve and it's been a lot of learning in the last few months and I appreciate everyone sort of being supportive of me in this role helping me through these challenging times and um especially the guidance that I've gotten from Dr pedigree and from Mr Diaz and all the principles at the sites so it's been like I said it's just a learning curve I'm learning and um but it's been also fun in in getting to see the students and being on the various campuses and so um I'm definitely enjoying enjoying it but there have been challenging moments the same time so again you know we're still celebrating the vision here at our um district and here are some of our wonderful students that I have the pleasure of working with and the this is my my purpose this is my why this is why I'm still here okay so looking at our three-year process um year one clearing the land year two building the structures and I really feel that this is sort of where I'm at is the year two and part of building those structures is learning about what does ESS do what is my role here in the district and a lot of that has to deal with ad and compliance that's what I'm learning about about so um I'm definitely gaining a lot of um knowledge in regards to our student information system which is synergy and how Synergy works with um in conjunction with ad and the importance of understanding um reporting State reporting and state um compliance and so it's been really fun um being sarcastic but it's been a lot of information I appreciate Tech being patient with me and I really think that um all of our teachers all of our ESS staff they're starting to to learn how to use energy we're getting it we're we're getting an understanding and we're getting there um it was a bit of a learning curve for everyone because everyone was so used to a um e IEP Pro so we don't use IEP Pro anymore now we use centergy so everything's in Synergy so um it's nice that we still somewhat have access to IEP Pro because a lot of documents may not have rolled over so we're kind of learning that we also keep um hard files on files so our hard copies on files so to ensure that we have all the data we need in regards to our students um so again that's still something we're still kind of working on and then again with building structures we're also commun um continuing to make those connections through the community um I actually have I actually with aora our ESS prek teacher are going to be making monthly meetings with um special services through the donath the nation and also with the head starts um I guess previously they used to meet once a month in regards to the students and the referrals and that hadn't happened in years so they're happy to um they're happy to have a monthly meeting back put in place so that we have that communication we have those transitions in regards to um any of our um referral students coming to us so it's been great in that sense in building those communic or building those um connections again um what's also great is getting a chance to um network with other districts because I'm getting to see what other districts are doing and how their ESS program works because like I said there's a lot there's there's a lot in our department so it's been great being able to network being able to um connect with other other directors connect with other professionals um I actually have a meeting set up with um a transitional specialist from Bale School District because I hear great things with Vil and their transitional program from high school to postsecondary for our ESS students so I'm really excited to see what's working with them and how we can bring it some of those things out here and maybe even pull in some Community Partners and making sure that we have those um in place for our ESS students when it comes to transition because that is a very important component because my son is actually going to be going through that process soon he's going to have to go into some a transition program now that he's leaving high school so something like that is really important to me and I want to ensure that our students out here on the nation have that same opportunity and um another thing that I'm sort of trying to put in place also is building capacity within our staff um a lot of our staff members are here and they love our they love our students students so that's why they're here so they want to continue to be here but it's also important that they are are getting um that professional learning and they're developing and they're learning about what is out there so another thing I'm trying to put in place is just building capacity within our staff so I'm encouraging them too to look out for any sort of professional learning that they might come across and helping them register for those things okay and um so it's been a busy few months and um when we kind of go into our district wide stretch goals in the next few slides I do kind of go over how I want to um in how I'm incorporating ESS into those disher goals okay we go next one again some of our lovely students there and special I'm so excited about Special Olympics I didn't know if you're aware but the intermediate campus will be joining us um some of the students there will be um have gotten their physicals in and so miss Wood's going to be assisting too and so we're really excited about having a bigger um Special Olympics team this year okay um really quick before I go over the goals um these are some of the things that have to be reported to state so one thing that I'm working on right now are post School outcomes and with post School outcomes this is a survey where I actually have to reach out to students that have been exited from our sped program and I kind of have to see what they're sort of I guess what they're up to are did you enroll in school are you um you know sort of how has how has what's sort of your transition into the real world and so with post School outcomes that is a survey that I have to complete through ad and I have to reach out to about 20 students I think this year and that's due at the end of the month and then parent student surveys this is actually very integral and this is something that I'm going to ensure that we have um more compliance when it comes to the survey because it's a survey that is required from the state and it requires our families to answer this in regards to um the ESS service Services their student has been receiving through our district so um in the past the survey hasn't been really completed thoroughly and um I'm hoping that this year that we make sure to at least have I would say 90 100% of our parents filling out that survey because that's not happened in the past because that that provides us critical data to see how we can improve our program moving forward and that is due at the end of the school year the parent student survey and then we also have the student data Integrity reports this is actually checked on a daily basis this is actually the reports from state if there's any sort of Errors when it comes to enrollment and comes to our services being um reported incorrectly we receive this enti report and that's something we have to check on a daily basis through um ad and October 1st data collection oh this is a big one this is the big one and that's due in a few weeks this is actually ensuring that all of our students are being counted in our state reporting system and based on these numbers that's going to determine the amount of um funding we'll receive for the following year so this data collection is actually very vital and um it's very important that everything is is being reported correctly and um so we've get we I've gotten started on making sure and checking um The rosters for each each um campus to ensure that students are being reported correctly um parentally Place private school students with disabilities this is actually through um the preschool department so because of our preschool we have to um we have to ensure that not only are they entered into our student information system but we have to make sure that we have that connection with Head Start because our I don't know if you're aware but our preschool teacher Miss um kopus will provide services to um Head Start students and to any students that are unable to come to the school to re receive services so they will provide services in the home and that a lot comes from State referrals so that's something that um comes from State referrals that we have to follow through with yes underneath that right now so so right now I think with Head Start I think we have about four students that will be serviced through Head Start and we have two students that might be serviced in the household and they have to drive out there but we're trying to make arrangements to see if if they can come to the school to receive services that would be for OT Miss Rodriguez that would be for speech um Miss paa and that would be Miss aora Koopas also do they have a general location where they are no um I I think we have one as far as manager Dam oh okay yeah that's a trip yeah and so that's one student I think that's out there and so they kind of have to see um if they can work something out with a maybe a maybe meeting at one of the head starts because they do have connections with head starts and they are going to be meeting with um I know they go to H sales um Head Start they also go to Vin and to Pinal and so there's several students coming but referrals are something referrals from the state will be coming into US year round so this isn't something that there's this a limit on this some this is something that will happen year round and um yes so here we go oh last one is Special Education data dashboard this is something new that's sort of been put into our portal um and this is actually fairly simple data this is due at the end this is due in July and all this has to do with again is student exit data if any student had left our sped program it'll be reported and we just have to confirm that they left um we have preschool transition data and again that's any students that are in preschool going into kindergarten or maybe they were exited also from sped so that's preschool transition data um students without disabilities any long-term suspensions or expulsions any of that will be reported to State and I just have to confirm um that that had happened or and in discipline data again that's why it's also crucial I also have to work with the APS in regards to inputting any discipline data to ensure that that's being correct um correctly reported to state for our ESS students okay and are you finding any uh instances where you're having to correct a lot or or no yeah there yeah there has been it's funny cuz there is a little when it comes to the data there is a little bug that we've been noticing and we've kind of been talking with tech it kicks our kids out of the system and so they're enrolled in our school they're still here they're getting services but when I when we check there might be an error saying that um they had moved or they were exited and that's not always the case so we have to go back and we have to fix that okay um and then once We sync it back up with State then it shows up again as then it's fine then it's cleared up but that that's a little bug we've been noticing in our system okay thank you okay and stretch goal number one again stretch goal number one focuses on 80% of our students will score 70% or better on the essential standards in ela and Mathematics so one thing that's important when it comes to the stretch goal is that there is a collaboration happening between our sped teachers and regular education teachers and any service providers so we also are working together to ensure students educational needs are met and again that's coming with IEP meetings that's coming with any concerns so any time any collaboration so any collaboration between our ESS teachers and regular Ed teachers is very important um one thing another thing that um is really important this year is inclusion so when it comes to inclusion we need to ensure that our sped students are provided access to general education to the maximum extent possible so we want to ensure that they're being included that they're supported um we definitely want to build that Independence in them so that's why inclusion is so important is just to build that Independence in those students um again it's to and to promote support student engagement and promote increase students Independence and provide transition services to assist students to successfully transition from high school to the adult world and I think that's our ultimate goal is to make sure that you know not only gaining independence but when they move on to the real world is and building those skills in them Andy that's my favorite little picture there in the Middle with he's come such a long way that little one such a long way Miss B can attest to that so it always makes me happy when I see him um stretch goal number two again is um so another thing this one is attendance 90% attendance by teacher grade level by school by content and a new thing that actually has been um implemented in Synergy is something called service tracking so our Ester our ESS teachers now will have to um put they'll have to include when they work with their students within the portal or within the I don't know how to describe it what is the student information system yeah they have so what service tracking is is let's say a student gets 30 minutes of OT Services a week so the OT person will um have access to this portal where they will actually put in the amount a minutes they actually worked with the students and just included notes of maybe what they did during that time and it keeps track of the services the student had because we want to make sure that any minutes that are listed in their IEP that they are in compliance and they're getting those minutes so that's what service tracking provides it's just ensuring that we're that our students are getting those minutes and we're in compliance and that we don't owe any cons compensatory services at the end of the year year so um that's and it's been some and so usually in the past what teachers do or have some of them still do just because they like to have it but they've been keeping um handwritten notes they'll keep handwritten notes but now it's easier where it's actually attached to the student it's it's portable I can go into the system and I can see the service history for the student and see to ensure that the student is getting their minutes um so that's also great about Synergy um and then again the IEPs and monitoring making sure that um those minutes are being met and also you know if our students are missing a lot of days you know what sort of attendance interventions can we can we put in place for them we also need to make sure again that our students are being included in any sort of celebrations districtwide or within the school okay so again um clearing the land you know we first year we got Synergy we're still kind of working with that I think we're getting better at it we're having a better understanding of of synergy and all the components that it offers um building the structures building the capacity um and staff for staff development and again bringing in that transitional piece the rehabilitation research and Training Center I do know that Miss bird cell is still in contact with the teachers at the secondary and this is a big goal for her also so we're learning more about um BCU and how it can um benefit our district and I think a big part of this again is connecting through parents and families through those surveys um it'll provide a lot of information to us moving forward what we can do to improve and maintaining so for me when we think about maintaining success um for the next years is f focus on maintaining Success Through continuous professional development focus on increasing student learning continue to collaborate with Community agencies to ensure students success now again um being in this role I'm starting to learn there's so much out there and um so it's really exciting to see um what I can bring in to support our teachers I know that um the funny thing is I went to the ad ad conference last week and I ran into um my son's old um physical therapist she known him since she was three so it's amazing to always run into her and see how she's doing and she actually works for ad now through the ass assist of Technology um department and she was like oh my gosh Val there's just so many stuff medy can get this medy can do that and I could do she's like let me come to your where where are you at she's like I can come to your District I can show your teachers all this stuff she's like we got 8,000 8,000 pieces of equipment in our warehouse for students to use and she was like I need to show your teachers I need to show them what they can do how it can assist our students and she's just like so excited and so it's great that I can bring that positive energy in and she can show us um all this technology available to our students um it you know it could be as simple as one-handed controllers because medic does have um CP so he's only one-handed so she's one-handed gamer controls like those things for them or um also speech devices to help our students that may be non-verbal or have you know a hard time sort of communicating those type of devices and so um it'll be fun to see what she can bring and how that can assist our students but it's just things like that building those connections and um seeing how not only seeing how our students can flourish with with these these new devices but also um building that capacity within our teachers and when I had mentioned this to a few teachers they they had no idea that this was available to them so it's exciting and I look forward to to doing that to bringing that okay do you have any questions Miss B um thank you for for your report um I know you're just now starting and um I just want to just commend you and you know in the two-year building the structures that um you've already kind of um have a list of everything that you want to do and everything that you see for the future and I really like that I really like that you've taken that that initiative to move forward in that way so um I just want to say thank you for that and then I guess in in the um you know the the the site videos that we see um each month I would like to see more of our students um exceptional students in those videos because it is important for that that for them to be included and those things so I just want to say that and thank you what I really appreciate this is I am a part of the district walkthroughs and um I really appreciate that they include an ESS classroom anytime that we do those walkthroughs so I'm glad that all of our um District administrators are also kind of getting a view into the classroom yes I agree I think that um when the need was there and the board was was recommend it you know yourself for this type of role or this type of opportunity I call it an opportunity I know you see you're having some like you know I know I get it and like 100% agree with you like there's there's always a a uh a little curve but obviously I think that as much as you have shown and and the reasons that you were recommended for the role uh I think really shine through and your your your ability to be able to not only um relate but extend that relation Beyond just yourself to everyone else that deserves it and I think that that's going to be U um greatly out shown or shown in the near future as much as you've been able to use the Frameworks that your um superintendent our superintendent has been able to provide across the board I want to continue to to encourage you to you know put in for whatever you need to be successful um I think that this again has shown we want to be able to see the successes but we also know that we need to be supportive of training and and getting that expertise to the level that we not expertise but that understanding of differences or changes or whatever it may be um we try to go to bat as much as possible when it comes to pushing back on some of the things we see and it's un unfortunate that you know exceptional students or students that are difficult get pushed aside and it's very evident that the state doesn't care sometimes and yet you know we're really really trying to be emphasized that we don't have that luxury to just send a kit somewhere else here there's no way that they're going to get anything so I'm really grateful as well that you are coordinating or trying to work with and again it's whether it's reg I mean mandated or referred by the state um that we're able to provide something you know what I mean for those students that are in manager Stam I I work in in goall now and I see how much and how hard to the millionth degree it is for not only us to be able to to operate a school district at this this capacity or or large or the the vastness of it but that we also have to go to those distances as well as staff and and buses not just buses but now you know our staff to be able to help support those things um I think it all goes back to really pressing on the support that we need from the nation from the state from federal government and all that stuff that it helps us to hear this and to be able to take it to the next step and push for whatever we can to help support it um so I just want to thank you for for giving as much as you have thus far I know um I think as a parent a relate as well that that it's hard to have to differentiate or have to put things down at sometimes when it comes to the kids and I'm getting emotional I don't know why anyway um I think that there is always an opportunity for us to be able to be to be supportive of of one another and I'm really glad that you're in that role to be able to do that for our accept um that's all I want to say and thank you for the report um I do better be mindful of what we're being given through the year and I look forward to seeing what you're going to be able to do in the next you know school year and after that and after that but you know um you miss hendri oh sorry no I was gonna say I I always when I think of ESS on the program I always think in in the past um I don't know if you remember Mr n Angelo or Mr Randall but to them they were my shining stars because they were non-stop always in in the community always talking to families always yeah and and to see that level of dedication that's something that I aspire to yeah well I remember that Miss Hedrick um thank you for your presentation I do have a question um regarding the survey oh the because I remember doing a survey last year oh for yes so I don't know if the results of that survey ever yeah they they um I do remember that survey because like I said we didn't receive as many as we hope to receive back but the ones we do receive we do input into the system and it gets sent to ad and they kind of compile all that information for us and they send it back and I know um in conversations I had with Dr pedigree she really wanted um to there to be more participation with that survey she felt that there was a lot of um knowledge a lot of data in there that would be useful for us moving forward so thank you for being one of our parents to fill it out cuz I know that it we got it it was very important information and it really helps us and I I appreciate that you are going on your uh going out joury out to get more information getting input from and visiting other programs that actually you know we can use here you know even though they're in another different location yes but you know I think that you know it's great to to bring in new new yeah new ideas and how to we best serve and it's it's really interesting talking with people they might be only be in too song but they're always willing to share that knowledge and spread and come out to a new community they always are or they'll find a way that's what I I've kind of just having conversations with people that's kind of what I'm happy about that they're willing to do that and they yeah so at the law conference I did attend um everything you need everything you need to to know about idea teachers parents uh board members uh administrators it was an interesting um session it is to learn more about and I think uh there was a a significant um kind of uh the things that we don't we're not part of as board members I am as a parent but um where there there was a governing board Administration te secure services and providers and then you go the other way up where there's the IEP decision making M and then the um and then the I which is consists of the IEP team Administration no governing board of course parents you know yeah which you know obviously something that as board members we don't see but we know that that that that is happening you know so uh but it it it is interesting how how um and and because I've I've I've had a my old has had we've and he's actually uh test you know when he you know High School the last IEP he got his college but I like the idea of the transitioning working on that type of of um idea on G getting them to transition easier into either High School College whatever they want to do exactly yeah they themselves have goals you know and and we want to work with them and make sure that they're they're you know aspiring to them and actually um that is required that is something that is required of us is to um start the transition process and start having those conversations with the student about age 15 and that'll be something that is included in their IEP when they turn 16 so um that's something to look forward to there are a number of um sort of surveys or inventories that um our ESS teachers have access to and they can you know ask what do you what do you want to do like what are you looking forward to and just getting those um ideas and kind of um guiding them through what is out there what's available to them and sort of opening their eyes to what what we can do so I'm glad that that's something that's been put in place um because that is something I've been going through with my son too like what can we find for him after school okay um okay Miss Stevens thank you thank you for all your hard work I know transitioning into a new role is hard it can truly relate to your uh position and uh um just realizing that you know there's a lot of work that goes into developing a program and trying to move forward but then having those support systems that you have the people that have been doing it I think it's great um I like this almost the same thing syia was talking about I was thinking like it's wonderful that you are making these connections with other school districts and finding resources that would be valuable to us um and also looking at how can we help those students um transition and what can we do be to be supportive to that like as a school board like what can we provide what should be done on our end to make sure that we are providing those services for students because we do want to provide those opportunities for them to think about like what they want to do and may it may not be college but is it like a job is can we help them grow some skills or find some kind of training you know those things that um come along with it so I just want to say thank you for all your hard work I couldn't do it without everyone that's been so supportive and I appreciate everyone being so um patient with me as I'm going through this Sor Diaz okay um Valerie Miss Valdez um I want to thank you all the positions all the executive positions are very important but this one has a special place in my heart I appreciate your character I appreciate your ethics I appreciate your growth mindset I appreciate you being the voice of reasoning and not reasoning and advocacy it's important for me that the person that holds this position understand the value thank you for because within two months you building a plane what fly you're a person who believes in excellence and your experience as a teacher and as administrator most important as a parent being the lean an ambassador for students that you bring what I wish my two siblings with special needs had at one point and they never did so to see it the way you developing your humbleness and the way you growing yourself into a completely different position and bringing new experience as a parent and as a student I'm very grateful for if this is what you accomplish in such a short time I'm looking forward to see what our students are going to benefit from thank you for what you do thank you and I yes it is very very personal to my heart you know that and that's why it is important that I I want to ensure that our esess students have a voice moving forward um because I meet with parents every day and um I want to ensure that they know that I'm trying my best that we're trying our best you know to that they are going to be successful in life and it is very personal to me thank you the last thing I want to say I think I will definitely want to support what Miss Vance said and and that inclusivity um it's strange to feel or think that you know family members or even um for instance my own niece you know you don't think about those things being I mean we've never ever treated her as if she's had anything wrong with her ever so when when or if knowing that we can have some effect on long-term like capability like you know just just being a person and being able so hearing that you're also bringing or finding individuals who have more that we can provide is also really uh um it's really I'm really grateful that you have that you that you've made connections and you're making connections and that we're able to to somehow um provide even more for our students um and again I think it's as far as whatever the need is in your on your end to maximize that effort you know definitely don't feel I'm sure you I'm sure you don't but don't ever back down from from batting for them one 1,000% to us or to Mr Diaz on on the needs because I think that um we have um we all definitely have uh the want want to be able to support whatever it is that you need to be successful and and to show uh what we can from our district so um thank you again and appreciate your time and and effort this morning being with us and for your present Miss uh Stevens um I had a question so I had a parent well a parent call me um just recently and was asking like resources um that b USD had because this student had been out of school for a while um and asking about um services that are available she felt like she was behind and so I started asking her like does she have an IEP and she's like I know when she was younger she did but she's been kind of floating different schools and like not being here and like going different places anyway um so I I had recommend that she had reach out to you and even Reuben but I was telling her um if you find out that she has an IEP I'm pretty sure that they can do that so my question was like when you run across those situations where people are kind of like jumping around around at different school districts and do you normally follow up to see if they have the IEP and all that stuff and what can be done for students in those situations yes that it's actually that's actually a pretty common thing that kind of happens within our district um I know that our office managers are really great about asking families that you know when they're registering the child or if they have any questions you know does did the child receive any sort of services through school or had an IEP sometimes they might not even know so once they kind of tell us the enrollment history of that student CL schools they might have attended um our our office managers will reach out to those schools and will um try to locate that information so um there are people that we can contact in other districts that can inform us that's good so if they at least can give us an idea of where they were last enrolled or where they might have received Services we can always reach out to those districts great they will provide it thank you good all right thank you again have a [Applause] good we'll go ahead and chug right along and turn it over to our finance and grants Department's presentations um Miss Clementina Carlow first or both [Music] yeah I think we do oh miss Cornell oh I don't know do we I have this one the pig is that one oh the pigy bank okay I got it yes one yeah short and sweet all right one over there are we starting with this one no I'm the grants one this one yes all right uh good afternoon everybody good afternoon board superintendent Diaz uh my my part of this presentation is pretty quick but um I know it's our three-year plan moving forward however to do that I kind of need to show you guys our last five years of Grants okay um mostly because I want you to kind of see how we've been very inflated the last couple years the last three years especially um because of all the Esser grants and all the Esser money and um not just Esser but all of the ARP grants um and just other random grants we've been able to pick up from the state and from the federal government and then I wanted to make sure that every that you guys could see how how many are are ending and so we are going to be this year this year especially we are you know $10 million less in our grant allocation and so um we also not not only are we losing some of the federal funds like Esser and all of those but um the federal government has also cut Title One the esa and so those first four grants up there you will notice how from FY 24 to fy2 we've we've taken a hit on those um Title One about 880,000 less uh title uh one neglected and delin qu is about 2,300 our title two is almost cut in half at 38,000 and then our RIS which is the rule in lowincome schools that one was all the whole thing we didn't get any allocation this year um yes ma'am is there a reason why we didn't get any funding from that it's the the whole Esa was cut from the federal government and so when they allocated it to us we didn't receive an allocation um thankfully I knew that back in March and so I was able to maximize our current grants and move a lot of things out and into Esser and so we'll have a carryover it just won't come in until December so um last year like specifically for RIS we had about 30,000 last year um I'm going to be able to carry over about almost about 25,000 so I just don't want to list that as an allocation because we didn't we don't have it but it is going to carry over um same thing for title one uh there is a limit to how much we can carry over and so I I got to the Limit and then I stopped spending in title one and so we'll carry over it's about 180,000 and so that will help along the way and when is that going the carryover usually comes in December at least last year December or January we'll see how ad they're they seem to be a little delayed this year so um yes but hopefully that will happen sooner rather than later do you think uh the recent politics are going to impact yes what's Happ that's why it's being delayed yes that's also why I haven't I can't really assume what we're going to get in the future each year um I do think the election's going to have a big impact on Title One funding um one way or the other also in our state elections whenever the new state the superintendent of schools is elected each year I mean depending on who it is that's going to impact funding as well so um one of those another one that has been greatly impacted is our CSI funding which is the next one comprehensive support intervention um our CSI Grant if you see the last couple years it has given us it has funded a lot in our schools and that that is specifically the primary inter interm mediate and then middle school and late in the the grant um we had already actually completed our application and we had over 800,000 in our grant this year they they told us just about two weeks ago that it was going to be cut and we only ended up with 159,000 so we had to cut a lot of it out um thankfully I had conserved some of Esser and for right now and so Esser was able to pick up most of that uh we did have to cut some travel things like that out so but any position that was being currently funded we've been able to kind of pick up either with either impact Aid most of it with though with Esser so things like SFA um uity a lot of that stuff that was in the CSI Grant I just kind of moved it into Esser and so it it really saved us for this year because it yeah they cut you know 700 $100,000 so it was a big cut um if you move down a lot of our other grants have gotten cut or have decreased um but for instance like our idea basic and prek those fluctuate and it really those depend on enrollment of our ESS students and we will have quite a bit of carryover with that Grant so um we're looking pretty good with those those numbers um I do want to point out our J grant our J money because our enrollment has increased in all of our CTE programs um we've actually gotten a quite a big increase in our allocations so last year we got about 71,000 and this year we're getting 177 so that was our final count with the Jed funding um what how is that all being spent can you it's it's been for all of our CTE programs so for instance our a our um Auto our digital Communications digital photography our um and our new home health that's going to be starting so um a lot of that JT funding is going it goes to all those programs it pays for all the equipment that we use um last year it paid for the whole culinary area that was put in at um secondary so a lot of our carryover from PR previous years was put towards that so we didn't we didn't we only carried over this year about 20,000 and that's all going to go towards the home health program so we because we have to buy all the equipment for that and all like the hospital what is the timeline to roll out the home health program um well we had wanted to do it this year but we got kind of got ahead of ourselves so we are going to do it next year so we have the teacher and we have her and she's doing an elective program not the home health aid program itself but she's doing like an elective that helps get the kids yeah the foundations so it's um like Anatomy basic anatomy um and then terminology medical terminology they're going to go over because that's all things that you know they can they need to know for a home health right so right yep so this year we're going to be purchasing all the the equipment for it so yeah and then uh there's other ones down you guys can see there's other grants um our rise Grant it it only decreased just because we of how we were spending the money so but um other than that most everything kind of is staying the same so that's our five year that's that's the last five years of Grants and so moving forward I our allocations are are probably going to be similar to this instead of the last couple years so all right and then my next part of this are my goals um so with our federal and state grants we really do have to we have a lot of regulations behind what we can fund but we do have four main areas where like our Title One title two RIS uh neglected and delinquent um CSI where all those are funding and so first is with effective and relevant instruction um this is really targeted towards the stretch goal number one so we want our students to be successful um so through the federal grants we uh continue to support after school tutoring we're going to continue to do summer school I know in the past Esser has paid for all of that so I was able to get Summer School into Title One and our after school tutoring is now in the atsi Grant this year so we were we are going to have to cut back a little bit on what we do but we still are going to be able to have it so that's a good thing um we continue to provide additional resources to each school campus each campus is different what they want and what they need is different and so I really try to work with them to figure out what exactly they want their money spent on it's not my decision I'm not there I'm here so um as long as it fits within the grant and within their school IAP they can fund it and then our district math and Ela coaches those are both funded through title two and Title One um next part the seal I know the State of Arizona is really trying to kind of cut back on seal funding however we as a district are committed to funding oural program and so um we still we have theal director we have counselors at every site and we have Behavior specialists at all sites and I split fund those between different grants so um professional development this is really key towards still again having our teaching staff prepared for our students and um our new teacher induction that comes out of title two funding and then a lot of the PD Avid Kagan uh whatever content-based PDS we use the cultural PDS those are all Grant funded too and then finally culture and Community involvement most of this funding for like our culture teachers our culture program that's all title six funding um our family and Community director that's she's her she's funded out of title one as well as our district parently asons and then parent and community events are all Title One and title six so um we want to try to continue to fund all this stuff without having to dip into impact Aid and use up that funding so that can be used for other other things so and that's any questions um m b do you want to go first any questions um I don't have any questions but I like the way you done the breakdown of um the grants that ended so that we know that you know there's no more funding in those areas um and I know it's a lot for like the title the grants and stuff that we have to know about so I'm really appreciate that information I'm still I'm still learning it I'm still new this is my first time really as you know full full year so yeah it is it is your first time you're you're very new at this and and you're doing uh a terrific job in that so thank you for for all the information that you've shared thank you I just want to share the same I think that you're coming from you know teaching and and all of that you kind of have a whole different um um experience and view of it but again I think when when whenever the opportunity comes that we're able to to be presented with opportunities to be able to see someone um have an interest especially but also to to say you know this is something I want to be able to try and and get into um I I'm just overly excited to be able to see and view what you've been able to present um it helps us a th% especially and I want to say expressly because we are definitely always at the mercy of someone beyond our control and we need to be mindful of what it is and how we need to I know we can't again all legislation and laws that that we're we're not um we don't have a technical hand in but I think for the sake of the community's understanding that it is important who you vote for and it is important that you're mindful of where they stand on education and these types of things which is why again I'm really grateful that we are given an opportunity to be able to be in spaces spaces just lisped in spaces that um allow us to be able to voice these types of instances that we're very much that we very much see observe and deal with as members of the community so the more that we can have as much information as you're able to share the better um and I'm just really grateful that you've been uh able to dedicate as much time as possible I know we can't expect everyone to to be you know 1,00% every day and especially with with what uh with anything that comes in life and I want to say expressly thank you so much for being able to remain committed and here and and doing as much as you can to be able to do you know what you need to um and above all um ensuring you're taken care of as well uh but other than that I think that I I just want to say thank you so much for your presentation Miss hendrickx I think your math background helps maybe just a little bit a lot yeah thank you for your presentation and all this information that you shared I did have a question the title one Nick neglected and delinquent uh sounds negative I know it does but what is it um so the the state has a definition neglected and delinquent student uh delinquent is like jdc students in jdc um neglected has different definitions but um we we have to send in C like students who have been suspended a lot they could be counted as neglected sometimes um students in the group home so that's the we we have to submit numbers and so a lot of that funding goes to the sunrise house oh I see so that's where most of that goes okay all right well thank you um I know that um you actually you know I know have to work closely with Clementina because it all has to do with with finance and I think um now that U we have Clementina here I think you will better have a better sense of you know what we have what the money can be spent on and and because I know that Clementina has a clear clear idea on pretty much which you probably have to provide to her on what these grants can be spent for yeah yeah I know that specifically grants are you know you have to spend them for specific things yes that and even though somebody thinks well can I can I use that Grant and you'll have to say no because it you don't it doesn't fall under the qualifications of so but um but I think all the information on the numbers and the the dollars that they're presented here thank you you're welcome Miss Stevens and your goals I'm oh sorry your goals and your initiatives are actually you know something that is good for us to know you know where your where uh what you're looking and working toward bye Miss Stevens I was just going to say the same thing I love this chart I'm like man I could use this for work format thinking about like projections and all these things but I it's very um easy to read and understand um I do have a question in regards to like the funding of like all these different grants are you guys seeking new grant opportunities and like what are some of those areas um just because like I see in 2005 25 there's a lot of them that are no longer going to be available so what is the backup plan um and is there ways that we as a board could help with seeking out some of those opportunities or making um making it easier for you um because I know it is it's a it's this is a hard job to do but I think you do a great job um and I'm really grateful for how you broke this down um because it makes sense to me thank you thank you yes I'm always looking for different opportunities um a lot of these things can be rolled into Title One um a lot of this is because there was extra money and so the state kind of with all of the Esser like or the covid regul or legislation I guess there was a lot of money out there and so that's where a lot of these grants kind of came from but a lot of I just kind of roll it back into title one so I was able to save money by moving it into a different Grant and then now I'm going to have to move it back so yeah a lot of that's what wor what's going to happen well I I think it kind of goes back to like systems and expectations and I want to say specifically for the for the two of you the team of you and to our superintendent is really breaking down what are the absolute needs I know there are wants there are always wants and you know that and and and breaking it down to be like okay obviously we want our kids to be achieving but that comes with cutting of certain fun streams that we've had for a long time because we had to have them intervene inter interventionist and all that stuff but now I think we as a board also need to understand that when we start to perform at a level that is more uh I don't know in the eyes of of the state like oh they're doing good they don't need that yes then we need to be mindful or you know think differently about how we're going to approach it we know we still need that but obviously we have to have hard conversations and discuss how do we continue to move forward if we're not going to have that influx of funding so I'm grateful again that that we're able to see this information but I think taking back and essentially looking at and maybe you have already and maybe this is what we're going to hear or or maybe we will um but having that hard conversation with and I know we do but maybe it needs to come down to well this is what we want to be able to support or or look at when it comes to tutoring like you said it's going to look different we're going to be able to do it but not to the degree that we have been okay so then I really really want to impress and express that as a school district we try to do so much and I really really need to try and have the community or the Nation or somebody step up to some degree to help us help to capture what we are trying to fund at the same time do abs and C's so I you you know it just needs to be said and I think that it's important for us in this capacity to have that conversation and say you know a lot of people do ask why does the school do all that because nobody else is and if we didn't we wouldn't have any kind of successes because there are impacts that are just not specific to the classroom there's so many things happen to them on the way in and in the way out and that affects them being academically successful so I'm grateful that we that we continue to to press on and try to like we said maybe look at what what are the what are the next steps um but I think ultimately making sure we're being transparent with everyone that here's what we're dealing with and what we will be dealing with and there's no surprises and and I know that that's something we don't ever want to surprise someone with when it comes to a position or something that we're used to having all the time so I just want to make sure that we're expressing that from this standpoint and if anyone disagrees of course but I just want to make sure that we're we're saying that Mr Diaz sorry or go ahead M hendrickx just figured out the significance of the pig it's a picky Bank oh yes I also just wanted to say with the information that you've provided because you know this is a large part of our oversight and I think it helps us you know in in what we can do and what we can approve and you know just the over the oversight of everything yeah thank you anyone else Mr Das um Miss Cornell where are we on our goal of reaching 122 Million by the end of 2026 I Believe Miss car I will have that in her in her report with the impact all right so we'll get to that but also I want to um give you a shout out uh for a couple of things um not only your math background your teaching background but I think there's something more important which is common sense um your ability to bring common sense and bring it into very simple terms um yes we are looking into then what are the next two years are going to look like and it's going to be under the basis of safety stability and as well as savings um it's great to have great dreams but if we don't have a path to be able to be financially um sound um they will be detrimental we do have a long list of things that we need to take care of um but it's not until we see where are we and we going to go that is going to give us a path in how we're going to be able to achieve those but I want to uh than the time that Miss Cornell uh has taken because she was the first one to ring the alarm and says hey we don't do something uh we're going to going to go bankrupt in about 3 years and by her putting the charts and putting the numbers in a way that yes it it will give us that um slap on the face to say we need to do something differently and by her taking the time in building infrastructures or the structure to give every single uh director a budget and say you put the numbers here and it's going to tell you when to stop um and and it is a going the extra mild and giving us Clarity on what to spend and how for how long and and be her ability and common sense of of playing around and juggling the money to make sure that we maximize the different budgets and I agree one of the um moving forward um now that the systems will be in place in the stability of of what how our money is how far money is going to go to is find ways and and also start looking into who can support us and and looking at what um grants we are eligible and and and get the capacity for somebody that can support us in in writing those grants um and that we are eligible to I know that's something that you already do but also to increase the amount of energy in Grants that we are eligible that will have a direct impact um the success of our teachers and our administrators is thanks to the support of you miss car's office as well as Miss darlin's office so I thank you for what you do and I appreciate you um your ability to continue to build your career and your profession uh within bosd um impacting out the greater uh Community thank you man appreciate [Applause] it open um f penix oh yeah can we take a little like five minute no four minute three minute take a short break I'm when you guys come back I'm going to say you guys you're done you're all done um my understanding is that she emailed it to us because we check your emails please I sent it to you and okay let me forward it to you guys because I am having a hard time opening myself um and board it includes your board and your other email so please double check and refresh your inbox did you send it to the TCC both and our system as it continues to update less and less it's allowing me to send it to your other emails so I'm going to need support from the governing board members to th check your VD emails or find a way to check your VD emails because it's our firewalls now are starting to give us more problems in sending it to outside of the organization email I just forward it to your B USD email I got it in my you did okay yeah you won this one first M car is that yours historical one is that a are you doing the historical one first Clementine which one are you doing first historical business the PowerPoint oh the other one my back hurts been sitting to Long your back hurts yeah cuz I'm not used to sitting down oh I work standing up you're used to standing up I I stand up 90% all the time oh there's so much food Ruben thank God oh got more food wacamole really wow you want guacamole a little bit do you want me to bring it in a cup yeah just do you miss going to district meetings I went I'm actually M go over [Laughter] everything you fill your bottle with tea did you fill your bottle with tea oh cool yeah okay chocolate good I need you up for the last they have for dessert for lunch I want some Reese's cups I want some Reese's Cups yeah thank you we need one more and Mar be cold hopefully not I not cold what's for lunch um but I'm old that's why every to imaginable ring beans Chum guess Chum fake the fake no I don't know what was put on the board so they told us to upload it to a link and I did but that's not what got on there I don't know what you guys have on the agenda do this nope I don't mess around I don't I don't do cartoons or anything like that I don't do fun I'm sorry or funny thank you it was in the email yeah well that I think that was from like two years ago or something yeah you can just throw it away this one yeah really um I don't know what the miscommunication was it's the system in place is that we have a Tracker where people place a link and then the L think um is what is being used to put it on the agenda um somewhere in between a different PowerPoint got into that no it's part it doesn't the following slide is CFO 2025 2026 and 2027 right I'm sorry this one that's the one we going to look at that the correct one the one posted I mean the one shared via email it's correct the one on the agenda I'll talk to to go like that oh well I couldn't even get into it it's having a issue I couldn't get into that one either we're live okay um going go ahead and turn it over to miss car Okie doie good afternoon board president buendia governing board members superintendent Diaz I will be presenting the three-year plan board uh three-year plan here at this [Music] Retreat and he's out we can follow along okay so um the CFO goals are to support each site Department within budget capacity to achieve the three-year strategic plan by ensuring timely ordering prompt payment processing and providing HR Payroll Services with accuracy and timeliness the business office continues to evolve and find ways to streamline and improve processes while ensuring federal and state guidelines and requirements are being followed and I just want to do a shout out to Allison because although I miss my ex-or husband or work husband Jose I really really appreciate the work that Allison does and the detail that she puts into her work I really really appreciate I feel like we're on the same wavelength so that's really really good um I want to present financial information at board meetings that are concise and will also provide administrators with Clarity and better understanding of how to attain goals annual surveys will allow for improvements in any areas needing refinement and provide training based on results of survey to Aid in achieving goals so I have um darn here if you have any questions regarding Human Resources but for um the threeyear plan for human resources for 2025 uh I have contracts up there and that's to make sure that they are submitted in a timely manner ensure that teacher certifications are current um focus on recruitment update application software and uh darling can get a [Music] little what are you doing um get into a little bit about the software applications I know that the software is very cumbersome we're on HR human resources and so um Sadia and darline are looking into other opportunities and seeing if um there can be a a soft a different software that can help them um facilitate the process better um professional development certification so um they're going to be part of the is it aspa and that's for HR specifically and possibly get certified in human resources and also um provide notary services again so basically the same goals carry forward to each year but just refine each of those goals every year um and then the next page do you have any questions for darn at this time or do you want to wait till the end of the uh go ahead we we can or is she um I we're just no this is it for HR um we have the goals is to ensure contracts are available soon after board approval hiring and recruitment recruitment will allow for schools to obtain teachers needed to achieve goals and professional development will allow HR to gain tools needed to help staff and to keep up with the latest legislative updates that's not on this slide or what the next one oh the next one proven the next one resources I guess one of my questions that I have asked earlier when uh transportation in regards to their positions um short of positions for drivers and um and Etc but um is how is that process I mean are we look are we how are we advertising and I think we're I I don't know if I'm mistaken but if for transportation I think we only kept the senior drivers close to retirement and anybody else it's on him to to get the drivers he needs since it's outsourced oh really yeah where he's so we're not we're not advertising within the school district no that's his it's his company so he if he it's my understanding he's the one that does that since they they're not technically our employees but I thought we were looking for I thought the positions that were not not built were positions under the school district am I mistaken yes because I feel the only ones that we do have are the ones that with seniority that my understanding is when you contracted with the the with beline is that we would keep them so they wouldn't lose their their retirement correct okay I think you're talking facilities facilities needed fa I'm sorry yeah yeah facilities positions he's looking for I think he said I was mistaken Sor no it's okay facility and what's the question how are we um advertising and getting people to apply for these positions where on the website post office miss m darling can we get her that mic so that people can hear you want to come up here and it's fine we can just bring this one it's okay and then you can um Pima Community College has also um allowed us to post our positions there on campus um and there is I think one in Mesa that we a community college that we had reached out to and so STI has reached out to some of the the different colleges that have contacted us and we've asked them you know hey would you be willing to post you know some of our positions and they have agreed to so um you know in in that you know we posted I know we talked about um what is being offered outside the district as far as wages uh we've lost one person like in transportation because the nation's wages were more than what ours was and so that's the problem is that they'll stay here for a few years get experience and then move on to um like the nation I believe some of the um not just the nation but like uh um Kiki Association the TOA they offer more I I know we had uh one individual that was with our maintenance and he got hired with toua and so I mean it's it's always that you know they're going from um our our wages is not what other wages are and and I know one of the things that I've always have questions on is do I have to uh leave my retirement the same because for Arizona State Retirement their uh percentag is is uh straight across the board it's 12.4 one a little bit over 12% that the percentages that we keep from the employees check and and with the nation you're uh I think theirs is like 4% up to 7% that you can have taken out of your checks so a lot of them will ask you know well can I adjust that and so I think with that it's more in their paycheck but less in their retirement especially for our younger ones our younger employees okay so it's more um wage competitive okay well and I I think um darl and hidden on the head where the younger um ones their focus is on right now how much am I getting in my pocket right now and not really focused on retirement and then you blink and you're old you know don't blink well no I I agree I agree but I think that that's not even sometimes an option for some people because with the way that the the economy is now everything so much more expensive that and and this was brought up um or at least I wanted to bring up which is kind of case in point for how we're what we're seeking or trying to find solutions for um I think we really need to highlight I agree with you on the benefits um the retirement is a benefit it might hurt right now but in the future it's going to benefit you the the board approved the two weeks off in December who you know that's a huge you know the time off plus you get vacation plus you get sickly plus you know so there's a lot it's very rich the benefits here are very rich the district still pays 100% of the health insurance um not all school districts do that so I I don't know I mean you get the days off that coincide with the students if you have kids there's a lot of benefits and I think sometimes um that's not highlighted it's not just about the salary but all everything else that comes along with it now I was going to bring up that there was an individual who recently requested to be moved one step below because of the instance that they couldn't afford yes so you know that caus the question what is or what isn't what is it is it a benefit or is actually not um and I are making really hard decisions on how to do that and get kind of basing it on where they're going to work and what they're going to do yes but one of the questions specifically to to the conversation that was kind of dived into a little bit but I do have questions um specifically to let's say an outsourced Department SFA SFA m it's a b or beine um whatever their hiring practices may be they still have to abide by and follow all of our policies requirements though right no no so depending on they don't get asrs they don't get the benefits that our employees get no no no not not those policies uh regard regarding like required documentation required appropriate uh information that's necessary for them to hold the position to drive to we don't check any of that they they're required to ensure that they're following the guidelines okay but but it's not on the district to ensure that they are following the guidelines as long as we have that agreement that they're out we're Outsourcing this department and this is what it is so if they get audited the audit any kind of findings is going to be on them will it impact us it could but it's not on the district that's good to know yes the other thing I want to make sure to to stress is yes when we entered into that agreement we wanted to be able to help and protect those that had seniority yes and were able that had a significant amount of a pot because they had been here so long um to me if there's going to be ever any question again I would have to really seriously considered and proposed to the board that we not move in that direction anymore because it's seems to be what is this dividing line between B USD and bline sorry no you're all beline you're all transportation we Outsource Transportation you might still get a check from the from the district because we do keep your retirement but I mean I'm just I'm just voicing it because I think it needs to be but ultimately that knowing that now what what what you just answered I think is just important to kind of understand especially on arant but other than that um I'm glad to hear that you're looking at a new system for some sort of tracking of all of the applications and all of those things because and this is one of the things we talked about earlier with trying to engage the community members through the sunrise house on how to utilize technology because that's one of the major factors that I see or hear is well they didn't get back to me they're not going to it's going to be in your email you know what I mean or or there's a process it is cumbersome I mean cuz when even when I had to reapply again it's just like oh my gosh this is such a pain in the butt yeah um it is cumbersome and if you're not really familiar with technology then I mean they can just say forget it I don't even want to go through this process so that's why they're going to not only for their benefit but also to make it easier for the applicant to the software and maybe that's going to help us to to fill some of those positions because it been Hassle and I think that's why I really wanted to to voice and have the conversation but I'm glad that you mentioned that you're looking at something new and so they did find one but of course me being me I'm just like okay can you make sure that you check with other school districts that are similar to our demographic and to our size and make sure that it's really the best choice that we make so they're going to go ahead and reach out maybe to the tribes up north the public just to see what software they're using um and then see if if we can compare to what the one that they found actually so questions for HR you okay yes sir go ahead it is such a complex um topic and they requires multiple Solutions everything is a domino effect for instance um these are very low paid uh compared to other jobs um and they the more I feel that we also invest in building an infrastructure in which they can have opportunities for housing here it will also increase our our recruitment um I do believe that extending um now a part of the advertisement that now that we can they can bring a fifth wheel and connected that might also bring a possibility to say hey if how housing is an issue if you have a fi wheel if you can afford a fith wheel or if we have more housing um that is Affordable that it will be able to bring them into the community um it it is in addition to everything else that we're doing to advertise um we also have the Cure codes um and and as we go into the districts that's part of the conversation these are the vacancies that we have if you know anyone please have them come and reach out to us um I this is one of the areas that I I think um I I I I will continue to seek advice from other districts and other rural districts to see what else they're doing to be able to recruit and keep and maintain um positions for classified positions um it's it but I feel that is going to require multiple out ofthe box solutions for this that I I continue to uh I will continue not only collaborate with my departments but also with other districts to find out how they're doing it you've you've probably had this convers ation but it's good to bring up because I know I saw Miss darn at at at the um at a meeting at tocc regarding like um like work educ work education programs and how do we maximize those individuals who are seeking some sort of internship or some sort of need that they have to F and how are we trying to be trying to Capital capitalize bad word how are we trying to give them an opportunity to be able to do that and and Max maximize their skills here and what do we need to do to work on some sort of agreement or something to be able to do so I know it probably goes all the way back down to trust or insurance respon insurance requirements and all of those things fingerprints all of all of that stuff that I need we need to make sure it's in place but ultimately those types of solutions and those types of efforts I think we could I mean I'm sure because I've in the experience that I've been able to observe is the need but at the same time you are still almost handholding those individuals because they are very green and but do not know how to write a resume which again is another portion that we require as as as any kind of employer and so we do have to kind of give them a template and say this is the template of a resume if you're not familiar here's what you can follow I just need to know dot dot dot and some people don't go that far but that's why I'm hopeful we can start to think different ways or means to even put that inside the classroom somehow I don't know I mean you know these are things that people continuously bring up to us about literacy financial literacy or or even just how to get a job types of of issue or Solutions so there are a lot of different things that I think we can look at to maybe be into some sort of internship program but I I leave that to to y'all to figure out if that's something we can do to just maybe even capture the students that are that last year I saw a lot say they wanted to go into the workforce why didn't we onboard all of them and bring them all into some role or position with the district whatever it may be we have things at least to the degree that they can enter into um with a diploma um but again I don't know if we can also look at uh positions that maybe don't require driver's license because not everybody does have a driver's license they don't have transportation they don't have a vehicle so maybe we can work with companies to I mean our insurance or whoever to say these are positions that don't technically require we prefer a driver's license but maybe we can work towards it or something um just trying to to provide some insight into how do we boost boost up the the community and at the same time F positions that we've had open for a very long time um the other thing uh to mention was uh health insurance and our options if if possible on any other opportunities that we might be able to seek I know it's it's not the best thing we probably want to do at all but again like you said there are a lot of benefits but I think that when we list them out um and the conversation we had when we approved this past um years's health insurance I've sat here for the last couple of years and not been impressed like not been like I mean I get we have a lot of use of of the health insurance just why our premiums go up but you know if I'm never ever in the hospital and so and so was always in the hospital and I have to pay for for them being in the hospital all the time I would feel a little bit like okay why does that why does that have to hurt me rather than benefit me when I'm it's almost like your car insurance right because they you they tell you hey you know we can give you the lowest rate and then the following year there's an increase and it's like but I didn't I didn't get any tickets I didn't so belonging to a pool is a little bit different where um they pull all the districts together that are in the right health insurance and unfortunately I don't know what our track record is here but if there's a school district that has a lot of claims it's going to affect everybody in the pool um equally to based on our um number of students so oh yeah and Healthcare is not going down so something's wrong if it's going down it's not going down so I would say to expect an increase every year um because that's the real reality of Life the cost of everything is going up not down with inflation so um I think I don't know if all employees take advantage of the insurance but I mean one of the that benefits are to work at a school district that offers it is to have it I mean so many times people something tragic happens and they don't have insurance and then they're really out of pocket a lot of money so um I don't know how to get around that I I think that we're getting the best benefit that we can um belonging to a pool because I don't believe that going outside of that we're going to get a B deal okay I think i' still and I think the board was interested in still seeing some options rather than just go with what we've gotten so far so hopefully that's something we can bring forward in the next for the next school year at least I think at times we've even gone they've even actually did an RFP in the past on behalf of the district okay um but yeah I think that's something that they can continue to do and then and then if we can maybe hear more later on those different types of opportunities like positions that don't require driver I mean I don't know what that what that means but I know that there's some flexibility if necessary I mean to the degree that we can my experience with with jhr and and and how you know you you overall present the positions and the requirements and all of those things there might be some flexibility but again I leave that to y'all but I don't know why it is is it on there that they have the required to have a driver's license to get to work is that why it's on there so I I know for like the bus Aid we did make that a requirement even though they're not actually driving the bus they're sitting on the bus but when you look at the reasoning for it it was you know if something happens to the driver and that bus Aid has to step in jump in and do something is it a liability for the district that that person did not have a driver's license and didn't you know yeah they don't know how to drive a bus but at least we have a little bit protection say okay they're not supposed to be doing that you know what's going on and and knowing that in in in order to make sure that the district is not liable for something we asked that you know be included that the bus Aid should have a driver's license just to safeguard that in case something did happen um the for the maintenance because they drive the district vehicles from uh school to school as well as the grounds Keepers they drive those uh the district vehicles from school to school um that was a reason they're they have um that on their um uh on the job description um I know um our custodians don't have it but we do have several like the leads that are driving some of the uh District Vehicles so the requirement um if they ask for a vehicle with uh Transportation they have to do the background check and provide a driver's license even with the district every year if we're using a district vehicle we're supposed to do a 36 month um driving record and then provide our driver's license to Transportation so they know that we're we have a valid license to operate the district's uh Vehicles so I mean if you're using it to go to you know we go to um Career Fairs and we go to different places and so making sure that we're you know we have that ability to do that so and that's an an insurance mandatory thing it's a liability happens and yeah because you have to get that driving record but if they're not driving I agree I mean if they if they're file Clerk or if they're answering phones they're not I mean obviously a person who's managing that role or that position would know this is all they're going to do this all that they will do how they get to work it's not my business but I know that they're here and they're do they're doing they're doing what they need to um but I understand those roles that are liabilities and we need to have them but I'm hopeful that we can try to look at things that maybe can help okay I have a comment sorry qu Miss um in all the the discussion about the insurance and and and the the rates going up and stuff I know that um Wellness programs um we could benefit a lot from that um instead of waiting until we're really sick and and having to and we do have one too yeah is that s that does s that does that um I think um maybe even more so I know she does um reach out every once in a while in the emails and I can't remember if it's monthly or what but I think that that maybe should be more often so that way you know we can really think about and I know as we get older we really think about you know taking care of ourselves but uh the younger generation you know that that's going to be coming and it's going to be affecting the rates that are we currently have yes and our insurance does offer a program I don't know if you've heard of the verta program where um It's Kind it's almost like a keto um to help control diabetes um yes so that there's several employees that took advantage of that and are being successful so that's really awesome mhm yeah so and then also um with the driving you know way before um that was actually part of um the the high school you know that you get your driver's license and it's part of all of about becoming an adult about driving and um voting those were the two main things that were really stressed years back and so you know I think that um although I understand that that point of view of you know really wanting to get people in positions but we are a small town and um you know a lot of people drive without their license but when you go outside the boundaries it's going to affect um your parents the insurance is going to go up you know all of that kind of stuff um so that consideration but I do understand that part um about getting you know people in the positions that may not need or require a license but it is a liability so just want to say that thank you and I would say maybe even a thought of like the position is is contingent on you at least moving forward with getting those things you know what I mean as opposed to just saying well you don't need it you don't have to get it no no no that's not what I'm saying I'm saying put a foot in the door give them some confidence give them some support some let them self prosper and be like hey don't forget in the next six months you need to start working on or submit your your driver's license you have the position we're happy to have you but I'm going to have to make a decision coming Bas just with the understanding that they can't drive a school or you know vehicle or anything like that yeah the more that we can lift up the community members it's the better for my yeah and and one of the things I do want to mention is that um some people think it's really hard to get your license um and in fact it isn't that hard um I have a daughter who um well two of them both of them they just recently got their licenses but one of them she was very scared to to even attempt um the written part and yeah she she didn't make that first attempt but the second one she did and then she was like on the road it was just this whole emotional thing like you guys set me up for to for to uh to fail and stuff but she done it and so it's really easy it's just taking the initiative to study and then just going out and do it and if you don't make it the first time it's okay you you actually kind of understand what's coming and then you get better at it so so um for those of you that don't have your licenses yet get your licenses and just try and keep trying don't give up it's I I think it's a generational thing where a lot of these kids are like no I'll take the bus or nah she can take me or it's strange to see um I think my my goddaughter who's younger than my her older brother was so excited to get her permit and it's like I don't understand what's going on right now you know because they're they're just don't have that ambition to get their driver's license they don't yeah so I hear you Mr Miss Stevens goia oh syia no okay so I know this kind of Falls in line with this um we talked a lot about like how can we provide training for some of these students I'm not sure if we ever hired a new career person at BHS not yet so that is some and are there Services being offered that would have been beneficial to those students who were there so Kathy talked about voting about driver's license about resume writing about like thinking about careers or thinking about those things those things need to happen in order to help those students who are seeking um either employment or or even going to college but those things are really important and I think we have the opportunity to do that and if it's not being done now I think it like something should be be done even though we don't have somebody in that position that then maybe somebody should be coming in and offering those types of services to students so that they can have those skills underneath their belt to get or in their twool box to get them ready for going out into the world because those are things that I seen when I was there when I was working with USD students last year was that the majority of all those students I want to say at least over 50% of them said they didn't want to go to college they wanted to work they all wanted to get a job and so like well we have these people who all want to go to work but where are they did they join the workforce was anybody helping them get prepared for that you know those things I think are really important um to start thinking about miss you have something yeah oh Mr Diaz um so far this is what I noted uh that you want me to come back um and Report how we going to seek ways to have internships how to we going to uh boost our recruitment plan and also how we going to be more aggressive in collaborating with some organizations so that we can uh provide uh opportunities for upcoming um future prospective employees yes sorry you can continue your your presentation do you want me to go with the other departments cuz you changed the I did I'm so sorry it's okay I mean I can go to the other one if no no let me go back Human Resources uh are we here yeah hey hey pay now thank you okay so basically just like in all our departments we want to refine um the process we want to make sure that um there's a focus on correcting common errors increase proficiency have um the staff attend professional development and this goes across the three years to refine um The Experience and if you go to page down um the payroll goals are to attend meetings workshops and conferences to stay current with the latest legislative changes and to continuously improve the payroll process provide excellent customer service and cross train within Finance so that third goal is eventually you know once he gets to be an expert on that um purchasing basically the same thing provide training to other staff um I we have a a very new team uh in finance we have probably three that are have been there for longer bit so we want to make sure that they are able to work up to training um in credit card and bank or conciliations increase proficiency and professional development and we're really proud of our um Gan accounts and purchasing rather who's a product of the school district and she's a really sharp gal so again the same goals within the three years um assist the goals would be assist and provide training to sites and departments as needed attend meetings workshops and conferences to stay current with the latest legislative changes and to continuously improve the purchasing process cross train within finance and provide excellent customer service and then we have accounts payable um we want to make sure that timely payments are made stay uh attend professional development stay current on fixed assets close out purchase orders on a regular basis same goals throughout the years and the goals would be to assist and provide training to sites and departments as needed provide sites and departments with deadlines and adhere to the deadlines provide excellent customer service attend meetings workshops and conferences to stay current with the latest uh legislative changes and to continuously improve the accounts payable process so I think that's it for that does anybody have questions on any of those no all you position yes yes yes sweet have a really good team so the historical and projected this one yes okay the projected one so I know um Mr buendia you had requested that we go back and forward so I started with fiscal year 21 I don't know if it's really hard to read but we did the actual um revenues and expenditures for both M and and impact dat and you can see what the numbers are there um let me pull up my Excel so you can see um in fiscal year 21 there was a budget balance if you go all the way to the bottom an M of 158,000 and uh 15 million in Impact Aid and then in fiscal year 22 there was a $389,500 million in Impact Aid and then in fiscal year 23 there was a budget balance of 1.6 million in m and 8.7 million in Impact a so you see where it starts to drop and then I know that I I didn't know about the goals that were put in place for impact a but it looks like it's going to work because if you look at fiscal year 24 and we're pretty close to closing those out we're going to end up with a 4 million budget balance on M and that's primarily because a lot of the expenditures uh we try to maximize all the grant funding and exra funding that's going away so um that's really a healthy budget balance carry forward for ML and then 11 million in Impact Aid and you can see progressively if we stay conservative that we can continue to have a budget balance and I just want to remind the board that um in November when it comes time to vote there's still something that can affect the ml budget balance and that's a aggregate expenditure limit with the state and that's it was over a million dollars that could affect the district if they don't move on it and if they don't change the legislation so even if that does happen um there we can either use the impact Aid or the m to decrease the budget somehow but it looks really healthy right now again if we stay conservative and you can see out to fiscal year 30 um that there's still a healthy balance the 13.5 million start dipping a little a little bit into the reserves but 6.7 and and it I'm really being very cautious right now because I really don't know what the true picture is going to be this year we still have eser funds that we're still utilizing so the true picture going forward is going to be fiscal year 26 where there is no more covid funds to help out with the school districts and we'll get a better picture of what the expenditures look like moving forward so I don't know if you have any questions Miss B anything I don't have any questions I just um want to say that it's good to see that you know you have it spread out all the way to 2028 on um the funding that we you know possibly have actually to 2030 oh I only see 2028 oh okay because I had to my screen why that view okay yeah so so thank you for that report and I'm really glad that you're back with this Clementina I mean I'm like totally totally and I know I know um there's transparency now whereas before we didn't we we didn't know that there wasn't so I want to thank you for for everything that you're doing and and everything everything that you fixed everything that when you came in you know um the people might not know what you had to deal with um and us as a school district um kind of didn't know some of the things that were that you know were happening and and we should have been aware and um we weren't it wasn't brought up um with previous C CFO so um I really want to thank you for everything that you've done to help you know clean up with the audit and and moving forward so thank you for for that thank you for the opportunity thank you um I just wanted no questions of course I think that you definitely have been able to respond and provide anything that I've that I've made requests for I know the board has definitely been been in receipt of a lot of different information like Miss Vance mentioned um but I did want to try and set a little bit of a goal um and I know again that this is kind of plays more will play into the superintendent plans um I'd really really like to see if we can possibly um work on how we're compensating those um classified roles um as opposed to already on it okay I know thank you already on it I just um I wasn't sharing uh some preliminary information that we're going to bring to the board so um if you look at the spreadsheet you can see on line 13 where there staff increases okay and we'll be able to um play with the percentages depending on where we're at with the real numbers um but yes we're projecting um increases based on information that was approved prior where you all have the details and I'm just going by the information that was provided to me so um you can see up there what the it's it's on the spreadsheet so that where it says expected um staff increases yeah under FY 26 they're all worked in into it yes mhm okay now I yeah just going to be a matter of who what employees are going to be the focus so I know that this year and for January 2025 we're still going to be under the $15 an hour at the state so that's going to be good for bosd because bosd minimum is already above that yeah so going forward in 2026 um that's going to be a good time and we don't we don't want to wait a whole year but when the work agreements for classified staff go out we want to make sure that we don't have to do a midyear adjustment and make sure that we allocate enough to cover or whatever the minimum wage is going to be the increases are so okay we're on it well I'm glad yeah thank you that's that's primarily all I had I think that definitely again so yeah I don't know if you noticed that line that's that's putting the salaries in there so if you look at the estimated expenses we're being super conservative that line 11 is an increase year after year and it could or could not include salaries so on top of that we're including salaries you know what I mean because if I take a percent of the prior year and say I'm going to increase the expenditures by 2% and we're giving a 2% increase that's being super conservative yeah so it's it's included in there okay all right surprise not to me everybody else I mean to me yes but everybody else as well miss Hendrick um I know that the the majority of this these amounts especially with impact a is dependent on enrollment yes so I'm hoping that we're doing a white white recruitment effort uh because like of course you know um the these obviously are dependent on the numbers that we we we report especially and then also it is dependent on attendance mhm so you're right impact date is enrollment and the M funding on is on the average daily membership yeah so I'm glad that we're we're working toward and all schools are working toward increasing that um in order I I mean you know and and it's not because we want to be you know we want money for you know the US here but it's only because we want money in order to provide the type of services I think all our students and education and and learning and everything you know that falls under what we have what we can afford keyw yes keyw so um but thank you for providing you're welcome the uh the Outlook of now and of previous and then moving forward I think that that makes it up but again you know I guess as a school distri we all should work toward trying to um increase that in in one way or another but um thank you and I'm glad you're back thank you thank you it's good to be back Miss Stevens sorry I'm really struggling here um but I am listening I um I am really grateful that you're here um there's so many things that we struggle with I guess you could say prior to you coming back evolve and change yes but I am extremely excited that you're here and you're back um and I just appreciate your efforts thank you thank you seor Diaz Señor wendia um Miss car thank you um for your presentation uh we are very grateful that you're back um a couple of uh pieces of information that I want to recap um and let me see that's the wrong one I need to close all the ones that I don't need um is the close that one close that one um it's our initial objective you have invested and thank you for for investing um a total of 12 hours to get to know the organization um what our goals are and most importantly the systems in place which is a thing for this year now you know where we're heading in with instruction now you know how every Department almost we have two more um they aligning to our goals um as part of building the structure structures um that is married to what reports or evidence are we're looking at to see the structures are working or not so that's where you fall um in and play an important play uh important part in in this system it is accountability the shared accountability um as you can see it's we right now we have clear goals uh we we have clear steps that we want to get to but the next step is show us the data the show us that we H in the right direction and what are you going to do when it doesn't show that way we have been conservative and and and you can um be or we can reassure you that the next steps that we going to be moving forward in the next couple of years um it is number one um because of where we are in as we getting our our our reserves stabilized is going to give us flexibility in in in with our budget to determine how far to stretch it or not but everything that we've been doing for the last year and a half is now foreseeing how are we going to be sustainable and be on top of the game so I think the steps that we took and how conservative we were we were in the last couple of years is going to put us on the on on that Vanguard um but everything that we're going to move forward now some of the priorities that we're going to start including is number one we have a list of items um that are going to help us to to um make our our district more safe um there's a list of items under safety that we need to uh begin working as a budget allows it um in the long run it is going to allow us to to reduce a list the next one all of the decisions that we make and that we approve that they're sustainable not only next school year but in the next three four five years and the last one is continue to find ways in how to we save money um being conservative including how do we become or even invest in h uh in in in grant writing um and attack as many grounds as we can that will help help us offset um and free some of our M of some of our impact day funding and uh continue to focus on retaining and and recruiting um I look forward to continue to bring updates um and continue please invite you uh to any opportunity to get to know the instructional uh system that we have in place as well as the operational uh structures that we have in place by being active participants um on behalf of my staff I want to thank you for your investment in time in getting to know and understanding the behind the scenes I hope that by now you start seeing commonality among everyone in the direction that we're heading so we can continue to speak the language what I am expecting and I need from my govern board is the same level of understanding sustainability um and continue to give us the opportunity to show you the systems in place and the data that show us that we meeting our goals and continue to demand and expect from us and direct us and what additional information we need to provide you to to build capacity or we can uh show that we heading or or reaching getting heading closer to our get um meeting our goals um or also not to stick to a goal or a system that is not working to quickly uh have uh bring a new system in place um if a system is not working uh president Mia um I thank you for your leadership and and our Gover board for your support um questions comments um we are to Mercy okay is there anything from the board Reflections um thank you uh superintendent di I really um I have to say that you know all the directors that we have here at B USD are doing an amazing job under your direction so I want to thank you for that um for coming in and having those the mindset of the the three-year plan you know it it's it I know in the beginning it was we were all over the place and then when we started um clearing the land and um and now in the second year you can see it all coming together and I really really appreciate that that there is a plan in place and it's not all over the place like it was so I know that you're doing an amazing job with the directors with your staff and for you for the directors you know we have the best directors you guys are all doing an amazing job and I look forward to um the upcoming year you know being accountable the systems in place all of that is I I just can't wait to see your three so thank you no just just to to share as well I think that you know as as a board um the the I don't I guess we could call it Comfort or assurance that I feel like we've been able to have in these past year and a half or so has been really I think that people forget or or or tend to not realize that you know we as board members you know we we I don't mean to bring up money but we don't get paid we don't get paid to do anything like this um it's all voluntary we all try to do and express and do do with as much as we can on our time um we may get reimbursed here and there but it's at a at a rate whatever they decide you know and so it is it is important that everyone understand that this role really is you know something that we have to really want to do and feel like is important to do and and commit to um so I'm hopeful that the directors can look at this board and feel as as as much as you know I feel like I try to do with the board members to to be present and to be visible and to be understanding and knowledgeable like you said or or at least to some degree feel comfortable in that you know you know we're not just sitting here with run-of-the-mill questions so I thank you for for for letting us have that same mindset or that growth mindset or that understanding on how to pose certain things because it is important for us to ask but I'm really grateful that we get a lot of guidance as well and at the same time it's not to be treated as though we don't know but so that we're we're better at what we do as a board and to the public I know that that it is important that we we also are committing to how and what we are asking or what we are looking at because of very Public Notices that that make it look like we don't know what we're doing or we're just willy-nilly with how we move and move forward and that's not the case you know in any effort this board has been has tried to be as supportive and knowledgeable and and support what is proposed um by the leadership and again we are not the operations you know what I mean we're not those the persons carrying out we trust and and support that individuals are are are really understanding what it is they're supposed to do once we give the okay for it to move forward um like to like to miss Vance's point we have I think the utmost confidence right now in the team that you have and in that you as our our only employee um are leading us and guiding us in a very very good way so um I want to continue to to express my commitment in essence of trying to push and work with you on getting the community to be at the same par and level because I think that that's where we we can do all of the amazing great things at the school but once they step off our grounds we don't have that control anymore meaning we don't have that impact on them because they go home to something that's not what they're getting at B USD and I think that that's a good thing and it's also a bad thing that we need to make sure the community is much more aware of that education needs to be prioritized and not just spoken about during I don't know election season it needs to be shown and given and actually you need to be present too um so that's that's primarily what I'm grateful for as far as being able to be a part of the board and hear and and engage with you all and thank the directors so much for every month that they put work and effort into their reports and that we were given this opportunity to be able to ask questions and they were very quick to respond which is also very refreshing and good so that was that's it for me Miss syrix I just want to say thank you for your leadership um I think you're doing um a terrific job we have great Communications with you and I know that you provide that the same thing for your staff um you know whatever questions we have you then relate or you you look for Solutions or you find the answers and of course immediately you know respond to us and I thank you for that um because we don't have to wait for days and days for answers but um some well most of the time I I I pretty much get my answers immediately and thank you for that um and and again to your to your team to your leadership team I I know that being part of a leadership team is a lot of responsibility and a lot of work um just because you know I I'm in that same position and I know that um that dependent on whatever your Administration decide for the school district as a whole and then again co uh provide that information to us we really appreciate that and as we move forward we in turn will support you know in in in whatever it is that um is best for the school district you know we have to do our work too in res in in our research you know in our you know making sure that we we are reading every you know all the information that you provide for us each month um I remember um the late Cliff Pablo when he was a board member I think I visited his home one time and and he had like binders and binders of what you know on his bookshelf you know because he was he was adant in in doing so you know making sure he would he had every information he needed in order to make his decisions and I think in turn we do the same and I think this board you know I am glad so glad that you know we have new and young bases here and I look forward to more um upcoming um and um I think I have one more year left and I I'll I'll then decide you know retirement or not but as as long you know as long as I can't you know I always say as long as my mind's working I'm good you know but um once I start slowing down then you know I I'll know because you know I I I'll know that it's best for the school district you know and and I really appreciate your young and thoughtful ideas and and and um Communications and reminders you know I know you're always reminding Ella and I you know and um I thank you for that and I thank you for being part of this board okay Miss Stevens I want to say thank you to your leadership team I think you all are doing a phenomenal job and it may be years of service to being a first year or walking into this new position but having a a leader who believes in your capability and pushing you cuz I've seen him and I know how he is you know but he he definitely pushes to get the be the better like best out of you um bring out your best qualities um highlight what your skills are um so I appreciate that um in the instance when I did was around I can see how you all work as a team together and how everybody has their own talents that they bring to the Forefront and um how they come together to make sure that jobs a job is being done and it's being done for our children and for our community so I truly appreciate everybody who's here because you're here because of the children of our community and that's what we all are here for is to change um and provide education to the and our children and to provide opportunities for them to learn and grow and to provide love for them um so those are great things that I really appreciate about being on this board um it it has definitely changed my perspective during the time I have been a part of the board I gained so much knowledge just sitting here and I don't walk into a room pretending like I know things because I don't I don't know everything and I'm always willing to learn um and I'm grateful for Reuben um for providing opportunities not only for his staff but us as a board members to attend conferences to attend trainings um and also just to give us opportunities to learn and making it um when we are doing these Retreats thinking um thinking critically about how we're impacting our students and how can we improve that what can we do to provide a a system that's going to be beneficial for everybody across the board so thank you Reuben thank you thank you all Mr Diaz thank you for your thank you all for your your kind words um I I want to especially thank all L the parents that made the choice to join bab G High School District and ENT trusting us um each one of the children and the most precious uh possession in their lives uh I thank you for choosing bab Comm fire School District um I also want to thank um not only my directors but also every member of our team across the board that they're giving me the opportunity to be their voice um and be aliases on between the board the community and I am very blessed very grateful um of every single member of of our team um that in the patience um I want to thank you all um for entrusting me I I've never been a superintendent and I want to be the best superintendent ever that you've ever had and that comes with a prize and understanding that um that requires courageous conversation and challenging each other um and I also thank uh the the community for giving me this great great opportunity to serve um as a superintendent and being a voice um we have a lot of work to do um there's a lot of read in many places that we need to work on and I think if we continue to understand that our priority is meeting our goals make sure that the next generation is going to be supported and and and get what they need including our resources for our team and the part of what makes us strong is our differences in different points of view that at the end uh by challenging and supporting each other is going to pay off in the long run um we have a lot of work to do um and we don't have time for distractions um um and I will continue to need my body of the govering war to continue to set the tone on that direction and hold us accountable thank you for your trust thank you for your commitment thank you for your learning thank you thank you okay um at this point we're only on adjournment is there a motion toour Move Motion by Miss Sylvia Hendricks second second by Miss anamarie Stevens oh to look say Kath okay it is 2:39 PM we are adjourned and just for the record we're going to be cancelling our second our special second special board meeting until everybody can be here so we won't be having a special board meeting for The public's information this afternoon forgot to thank the guy walking out with the food a okay have a good day thank you bye guys thank you

oh [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] go for it I hereby call the workshop to order and she's got the paper here I called the to order the workshop for Bullhead City School Board on Thursday sept mber 12th 2024 at 5:30 p.m. um roll call Linda saski present Charlene Diaz here Fred rushon here Sheila Barnett here we have several documents to discuss right you do have several documents discuss Madame President and board members excuse me I seem to have acquired a frog um okay so if we look at these in order um I put together first uh just a a one-page document that we can give out to U you know U employees and whatever I mean this is just an informational document uh about about this whole uh process so um any comments about well comments or questions about that one okay um since we're not with only three houses it would not be cost effective to hire a proper management company and so we'll split the we'll split the responsibilities among current Uh current employees and um uh so you see those Folks at the bottom um I haven't really spent a whole lot of time talking with them about those roles so uh if they were here right now they'd be looking a little surprised but um Mark knows his part and of course Kristen knows hers I haven't spent much time talking with Eileen and Becca at this point but but they both know that they have a they have a role in this so um and I'm sure that as we go along those roles may change you know who does what may change a little bit in terms of figuring out how how to make the flow work um the next document is an is actually a new uh proposed new policy uh I chose not to make it all red for you because that's what I usually do with the new pieces but this is an entire new policy um I did look uh did go to uh pull up from uh policy Bridge uh from nine other districts in the state that have teacherage their policies and um uh and then worked from those there are more than nine believe it or not at this point uh but um I kind of pulled a representative from you know representation from across the state and um and it turned out that a couple of them were pretty similar so I knew that they had worked either with the same attorneys or with the same people at asba uh to do those uh one of the things I did in in uh did differently than most of them is that I made this policy brief and made it just a really General policy some of the uh ones that I pulled were really very much like what I have shown you in these regulations they made them very detailed and a policy from my perspective and from what I've been trained just needs to be the big picture you know the the 10,000 foot View and uh so that's how I how I designed this one um and once again I didn't start from scratch I took language from various others um Fred caught the mistakes but I have I have a problem third paragraph down okay where it says every effort shall be made to ensure that the housing program is self-sufficient and that funds normally available you see that that one yes I really think that that should say no funds will be taken from the instructional program we have to I agree with you but we have to be very careful because if the program if any of our alternate budgets um uh face over overruns we have to cover them from M so uh uh if you recall I'll give an example from other districts that you may have heard about so uh you may may recall some that some other districts talk about uh we're in the red we're in the red every year in Food Service we're in the red every year in Food Service well the truth is they may be in the red in terms of what they took in either from uh you know the fees that they charged to students and reimbursements and all of those kinds of things but the truth is at the end of the year if they're in the red whatever amount they're in the red has to be paid out of m&o so uh I agree with you Melinda and but I'm I'm concerned that if we say um that we will ensure that the program is self-sufficient that legally we're kind of in a bad spot because it's not honest now we can word it that way but you just need to recognize that if for some reason we're in the red we have to cover that so so if if just sake of argument this happened to occur um and I I was trying to sign and listen and stuff of course did you did I hear you say that if there was some kind of a shortage that you would probably go to m&o we would have to okay so is and if I'm correct I don't believe that M and instructional are the same oh yeah instruction is is a is the biggest part of M maintenance and operations it's operations all right yes yeah I was just thinking might have been a there might have been a great question a wiggled room there but and I think this is one reason it's like with the preschool I mean the uh Child Care Center Program the reason we watched that budget so closely all of last year was that we wanted to be sure that we were not did not end the year in the red and we did not um were we much in the black no but we were in the black okay um and I think that's particularly the first year I think for any year but particularly the first year of something when you really don't know what your expenses are going to be um uh that you watch literally every every month and um and if there were you know if there was an appearance by four months in that we were going to be seriously in trouble I be coming back to you with um regardless of whatever you all end up deciding tonight for the rent I'd be coming back for an increase in that uh because it has to be self-sufficient um it it has it's a budget that has to be self-sufficient and um so you know we would we'd be watching very very closely but in our in our PRI in the dayare the preschool um it was written so that it that it was so going to be self-sufficient yeah but I don't think we wrote a policy okay I don't think we wrote a policy see I would I when I talk about this you know and people ask me about it I say no there's no not going to ever be any M funds coming out and if you want it to be worded that way let's make it that way I mean if that's what the board wants this is your policy you notice there's no C up there indicating that it's copyrighted by the asba this is our policies so uh if you want it to be that way then I'll make it that or I've been talking to people in the wrong way no I tell people it's going to be self-sufficient too I'm just careful in these that we have the legal language because the reality is is that what if it's not then where does that money come from to cover that cost well it would still have to come from from minino I mean however we word this it's still going to have to be covered that way yeah um but I think it lends and I think Melinda's point is it lends weight to it when you say it will be self-sufficient you know I mean it lends weight to that this is just the first reading of this right it is the first reading but this is a good well and it isn't even a first reading right now I mean it will be in the meeting later but the thing is that you know you can make the change now and this is why you do Workshop so whatever your pleasure is as a board what are the legal ramifications though if it's not in the wording if we take and say it's self-sufficient then we have to go and take M&L that would be my concern is it's not going to change the outcome I mean we would still have to C we would still have to cough up the money for the difference um uh this just gives us a little legal wi wiggle room I think also that what it might do is excuse me um and I think maybe this is and I don't know I'm not trying to read your mind Melinda but the thing is that you know it it it emphasizes to me as the superintendent Stuart you will make sure that it operates on its own well I'm sure you will anyway well but the thing is we're not just talking talking about me as a as the superintendent we're talking about the person in this chair so um you know and and we would always hope that whoever's in this chair would be doing that okay but but it puts emphasis on from your perspective as a board to the superintendent you dang well better make sure this thing is uh operates independently that's the difference in the wording and I'm okay with that the word diminish doesn't mean that we won't use it it just means it won't greatly affect it in my eyes the diminished but at the same point in time we would still as a board have to approve using M for that would we not no no yeah because it would be it would affect the it would affect the final uh uh budget revision probably um actually what it would affect is not so much the final budget revision as it would the amount of money that rolls over to the next year you know presuming we don't presuming that we don't spend every penny of the budget for the current year I think that my problem with this is that it uh it's a big hole it is a hole it's a big hole for me that somebody in the future can say okay well we don't have to worry about that because we'll just cover it and that's exactly why I was kind of trying to read your mind that that when if that hole is not there I prefer the hole not being there but then I'm only one of four and CU because I can see somebody taking advantage of it and just saying it's okay we'll just check chalk it off you know someday when we have an m&o that is overflowing you know somebody may just say well just use the money and and pay and and which which violates the letter of the law and violates the you know because the letter of the law is that teaches need to be self-sufficient see and I look at it the other way when with it being there that it's more of like can't we can't go over that it's got to be self-sufficient so it's almost like a reminder that you need to make sure that it's but just says every effort okay so they only have two efforts this year and five efforts the next year you know yeah and that is I think for me that would be the wording is it's just the wording of effort not diminished I should I think that it should say will be self-sufficient and not diminish instructional programs okay so that's what I think that's that's not what these guys are well we could do that simply by ending that sentence right at the end of sufficient I want every effort Tak out so what if it said reasonable rat shall be charged for the housing uh so that the housing program is self-sufficient Bingo is that okay with you guys yeah that'll work for me okay Sheila yeah yeah because we know that in the end where it's going to come from the money if it's an overage but this just takes that out there like I said as long as it's not something that legally is going to be an issue yeah I would take you want that next person if it's not you to know this is it this is what we expect exactly and if there is an extenuating circumstance for some individual person I'm sure that we could at least talk about it well you you mean for an individual person who's paying us rent correct oh well we yeah that's in the other paper or the the the the five people who are listed there that yeah I was they kind of like your trustees sort of I mean you know that's kind of the the group of people who are going to review the applications and and actually the whole group will not review the applications it will probably be the I mean in fact in one of the documents it says it's the HR person and me and um the others because the facilities person doesn't care why we're you know why we're selecting somebody payroll doesn't care why we're selecting somebody um and and in truth it's not anybody else's business you know uh it the number of people who know the reason that the per that the people are applying for for use of these uh units um it's not anybody else's business but one of the people on that list was uh a rent manager yes it's our it's our P it's our um payrolls person and I'm just calling that person the lease manager because that's the person who's going to take the leases after the decision is made who you know who handles the leases keeps the records of the leases is making sure that payments are done you know the paperwork but they would be the first person to know whether there's going to be a problem right yes that person's going to know if there's a problem that would that this that just puts a little bit of yeah force behind it okay and if you know notice that um uh the second paragraph here says the superintendent or an appointed design shall be in direct charge so you know I'm not I don't want all my fingers in this pie nor should I have all my fingers in this pie um but I want a finger in the pie U but desing knees are going to be doing the rest of it that's the others yeah have you thought about having one other person either a board member or somebody else to be on that selection process we could do that one of the things I noticed in in fact for one District but and it's a it's a a one of the districts on the Reser on one of the reservations they actually have this whole full-blown committee um uh which I found to be U rather interesting because um uh because on the reservations if you don't happen to be a member of that tribe um you there is no other housing you know only the district housing is available to you so it's kind of like well okay why would we need a committee to decide why would we need a committee to decide that this group of individuals uh uh should be allowed to have the housing when if you want them to work in your District there's no choice right um but I think the issue there was uh is and it happens to be a district with which I'm familiar I think the issue is then uh is that committee helping to decide for any vacant units for employees who are tribal members um uh and and how can they deal with that in an equitable and Fair Way um and so that part made sense to me of why they needed that committee um um was for the for that situation not their folks who were non-native um um but in this case I'm not sure why we would need a bigger committee so I kind of went with what the districts that are not tribal District you know not public schools on tribal lands what they were doing and they really were very much consistent with this idea of the HR person and the superintendent my only thing is I like uneven numbers when it comes to stuff like that just because if there's a tie breaker you know that's just the way that I look at things if you have the uneven then that's one other person to kind of break the tie that is true that is true but I could also pull the superintendent design card and pull a third person in if I needed fair enough which I would do I wouldn't try to pull I mean I I expect that we're going to have quite a few applications we may we may and then as I was putting all this together I realized that some of the people who might that we think might apply might not because of some of the restrictions that we have yeah I saw some of those restrictions that's that'll be a next topic I'm sure okay any other uh suggested changes on this we'll make sure that we uh get the wording changed for this uh for the second reading okay okay okay and then regulation a um I made this just very much General conditions um uh so and and thank you Fred for pointing out some things some inconsistencies between ra and RB um um I will point out to you at the bottom of the first page where it talks about about occupancy uh some districts had very specific uh things there about how many people could reside in the residences and um and I sat and thought about okay what have been circumstances in our district what might that look like so they they might have had things like um a married couple and two children or a single parent and two children and they very specifically listed those things um but we frequently have we frequently in the past have had um teachers who just come right out of college so they're single they don't have a lot of money they've rented houses or apartments in the community you know a two-bedroom apartment and it's two single teachers or three-bedroom apartment and three single teachers and I thought well I could I could have a humongous list here of the possibilities that we might face uh and so I thought let's just go with a general uh you know a general kind of thing here um uh that would allow us then to look at those specific circumstances and make the decision based on that but you still have control over it still have control over it yes so I could see a situation where it's a young married couple and and another single teacher you know I can see that kind of a situation um uh or even two other single teachers you know depending on the circumstances and and like I said the list could get really long of what the potentials are it's easier just to kind of keep it General and let us depending on the circumstances any other comments about ra can you scroll down please C and the terms are for a year now go back up to the top ter something in here about early ter by the tenant 30 days notice right there in that paragraph and that if there would be a penalty at all uh no we didn't we didn't consider a penalty okay if they give us 30 days notice that's pretty good and that's that's on either side for uh just not to renew the lease we have shorter time frames if the if the person the tenant uh is uh terminated from their position or they choose to leave earli or whatever we have a really short time frame for that days or something days Days five days um oh yeah it's in it's at the bottom of the next yeah uh next paragraph and then um we certainly buil in uh plenty of language for if there's damage material damage other than just normal wear and tear uh to the unit you know so if there's any material uh damage that things have to be seriously replaced and and those kinds of things um uh we have vinyl flooring so there's we don't we have no carpet um you know I can see people putting things on the wall and there's going to be some you know fill in some patch some holes and some things like that but um but I don't see with the surfaces we have uh in the unit um it's not impossible to to do un you know serious damage not never impossible to do that uh but normal wear and tear is not going to be particularly hard on on the surfaces in this in these units either do we have any is there anything in here I don't remember when I read this About Pets yes or raising chickens in the backyard well a very specific stuff in R RB okay so ra is just very general stuff about you know the terms of the lease and the rent and the uh utilities and the maintenance and those things when we get to RB then we're very much more specific okay um so do you want to do you want to go to RB just scroll down a little bit more I wanted to just right there right there so it says that okay at or before so I was just concerned about the board getting locked into to just being able to do a rate change in May but it's at or before the May meeting okay all right where are you seen that it's in the first paragraph of rent oh know why I didn't see the word may I like the fact that you're taking it right out of the rent or out of the paycheck yes that's going to save a lot of trouble it saves a lot of trouble it's for both sides you know it saves the renter problems it saves US problems processing fees yeah okay scroll down one more please C thank you thank you thank you right there yeah the utilities was one of the things you wanted to talk about yeah um and after I spoke to you I came sat back down and Charlene had a an excellent idea I thought do you want to tell him what your idea was what I was telling him is that with the um water and electricity if we can legally say up to so we put a cap on those utilities and then if they go over that cap then they have to pay that that overage that protects us from you know having this exorbitant electrical bill true you know for for one of the the houses that's yeah I mean one of the things we intend one of the things we intend to do is to put in a programmable the programmed thermostats so that we set them uh but I like your idea the thing is right now we don't know what to set as that cap yeah so I I like the idea and I think we could probably incorporate that and but we don't know what that cap would be right now I'm wondering if Mac could figure it out based on square footage yeah maybe that's a great idea it is an excellent idea that that was my first there's no gas involved no gas no gas and I can check with the city on water yeah water for me is usually about I know sometimes it's been up to $60 which I don't understand I don't have to pay it because it's in my rent but I've seen bill come in for 50 bucks I liveed by myself so it's relatively low yeah it's I think that's high for living alone well it's paying that pays both Water and Sewer oh that's true yeah okay they're charging you both one yeah mine's 47 mine are two separate I get two separate bills CU we have Bermuda water ah and I and so I get a bill for the sewer for each one yeah for the water yeah that makes sense I will look into that and we and we don't have these on the agenda for tonight because you haven't app approved the policy yet so I can make those changes before uh next meeting yeah cuz I know I have a 900 square foot home that I rent and I'm paying almost $50 a week right now for electricity and it's low compared to most people and I keep it at about 75 so I mean that's and then what does it run what does it run in the winter next to nothing right so part of what my thought is I'm on a budget plan so I know what m you what the average is and as I was telling Fred a few minutes ago when he was pointing out a couple of these things my house is 18800 Square fet I keep my thermostat at in the summer at 77 or 78 and at 69 in the winter um and um and so my electric bill for average for the year is just about $105 so even though we've had this horribly hot summer um I'm I'm still in the you know I'm still away in the black and in terms of my payments for them these houses are 1300 Square ft so in my head I'm going $100 for electricity is probably pretty pretty close for the year not for July necessarily but for the year probably so I mean that was my guess that's all I was doing was guessing so but I bet MEC could come I think they can and that's a really good idea I will check with them and and and I like your idea um Charlene of setting a cap yeah I think protect it does protect District yes and maybe the the cap should be set on whether it's a heating season or a cooling season you could do that or you could just say the average okay yeah we could say the average monthly bill yeah you know they do those where you can see year to year I'm sure they can figure out what and then you average it and if they go over it for that month that just means somebody's going to have to monitor that though well and we intend to do that anyway because we want we need a Year's worth of data to figure out you know to figure out if our our proposed rent is is appropriate we need a Year's data it's it's kind of like um with the with the child care you know we we needed a Year's data to know uh how you know how we can fund that and when when Michelle needs to not have people there and when she needs extra and you know that kind of thing you you have to have a whole Year's worth of data uh to make to make those calls but we can make better better guesses uh if we have better data so I those are great ideas thank you that's a beautiful that's a great idea yeah yeah awesome idea Char okay any others on ra okay so in RB we're much more specific you'll notice uh that we have definitions and the first one is pets dogs cats birds and fish um uh I had Mark go through these Mark Scott go through these yesterday because I figured his his eye as the facilities manager you know his eye is going to be a little different in terms of looking at these and uh of course he would tell me that we would not have any pets and I said this is a pet friendly neighborhood uh that we determined early on um but that doesn't mean that pet pigs and and uh you know cattle and horses and whatever hamsters and I don't think you can have those inside City Limits anyways what's that I don't think you can have pigs and stuff in the city limits anyways you'd have to get to Mojave though well but you know you can have I mean what about a pot belly pig may maybe somebody might consider that a but we're very specific here on what that is and then um and you notice the definition of weapons um one of the samples that I had had an excruciatingly detailed uh list of weapons and I asked Ben about that I said I kept it pretty General um as general as I could and I said but there was one that I had that was I mean literally was like listed all of the things that could be considered um and he said no this is a better definition U because the more detailed you make it the more loopholes you allow people to find by saying but you didn't list X so uh he actually recommended that we keep it this way um so we start with those definitions then we have the obligations of of the district um um and I'm not going to read all these to you you have had a chance to see them um but I do want you to note C that we are providing stove refrigerator microwave garbage disposal washer dryer and window treatments um so that just makes makes it very you know movein ready for people to bring furniture and their personal items and and and move in and then you notice that there's an annual inspection so there's an inspection before people move in and uh one annually if they're going to be there more than a year and then one when they leave yeah I like that I thought these people were not going to be that any kind of lengthy period we've said one to two years one to two years one to two years uh with an A A third-year optional under certain circumstances and I put that there intentionally because if we happen to have any of our foreign teachers are J1 teachers in these units uh for the most part they're only here for three years anyway um and I think it would be uh unkind to have people live someplace for two years and then say Oh for your last year you have to move um so in general you know I would probably approve those for the third year uh if if that were the circumstance and there might be other circumstances as well but it's intended to not be permanent housing for anybody it's intended to be a step for anybody who's planning to stay here so for instance if we uh if we finally can get some H1B Visa people here uh that we would want to be keeping for years um then they would have the one to two years and then they would need to find something so we depend on the kind of Visa if we're talking about our foreign teachers um and then you notice on the second page the tenant responsibilities and we're pretty specific uh with with those things um I will tell you that Mark's a contribution to this uh is um where is it oh my goodness oh no it's in the it's I'm sorry it's not in the responsibilities it's later in the prohibited practices um so these are the responsibilities of the tenants these These are reasonable for me when I read them today yeah I don't think we're asking anybody to do anything unreasonable here not at all no I don't think so either and then you can see the allowed practices um I anticipate particularly in a house a house where uh if we had three individual teachers for instance that they might want locks on those bedroom doors I don't see that as an unreasonable request yeah um and we're not putting them in initially but I can see that that would be a reasonable request and we would do that and then on this page uh section B about alcohol drugs tobacco and weapons uh we're referring very specifically to policies that we have um and um and then in this packet is uh a requested U um proposed change to policy gbea um that distinguishes um um allows the use of medical marijuana um and personal consumption of alcohol in that property only not in any other school district property um and for the medical marijuana proof of uh proof of uh that um you know that requirement or that Health thing and you can see that in that policy that change in that one um but that these other policies still apply so this is a no smoking these are no smoking properties I was going to say do we designate I didn't see the no smoking but it is no smoking so they they'd have to smoke their marijuana outside probably yeah yeah so you I mean so it's no smoking that's under an item three and um um yeah well but this says can be consumed within the employee home well it it could the medical marijuana could be consumed within or could be smoked in the house but nothing else they can't smoke at all on the property regular nicotine cigarettes or Vapes or any of those things on the property at all okay and no weapons so if this is somebody who has has weapons they cannot have them in these properties okay um and then you can see some very specific things about the pets and again a remind what we consider acceptable pets since the properties are not fenced it's unlikely for us to have annoying barking dogs and and you know whatever outside they can go down to whenever we get the pet Park done uh can go down to the pet Park but it's not like they can go to work in the morning and their dog is outside barking and bothering everybody in the neighborhood and that kind of thing or Barbe is going to be allowed yeah I think they could do a barbecue that's a that's a piece of equipment so yeah I don't see any reason not to okay and um Fred pointed out the discrepancy here on guests from the two uh two regulations so I'll get that fixed um which would you prefer the the two weeks or the three nights what is it the two two weeks I think it's reasonable if somebody's coming from overseas to visit okay okay one of the things I had a question about was um the prohibited practices app uhhuh when you're saying installing so if they have a porch swing glider kind of thing that's a piece of equipment it's okay they just can't attach it to the property right can't attach it um the one that uh the one that uh Market suggested that I hadn't even thought about was um uh um washing cars I didn't even think about that and uh no we don't want them washing cars so uh item I well on item F Port swings are listed as being prohibited but right yeah they can have the freestanding one but not installing it to hang from the hang from the ceilings the ceilings of the porches are uh stuckos so you know we don't want them digging in the stucco so they could put up a temporary fence for their dog though nope we said no fencing it says no fencing that doesn't mean portable one that they yeah unless they just put that little portable one of those little right Melinda one of those little freestanding ones maybe are you talking about for Animals their dog or cat well CS yeah I wasn't even thinking about that what I was thinking is you know they want to come and put fence posts in and is there going to be gravel in The Yards okay so you don't have to worry about like babies with the fences and stuff then they're not going to crawl on that and if we missed anything for a prohibited practice that you want to add to the list please let me know yes sir sure might want to put shots so current rabies uh Records I would say vaccination and proof proof of okay vation okay excellent idea okay I'd have a heck of a time cuz one of my dogs choos the collar off the other one oh a yeah well and and I did think about I wasn't thinking so well I was thinking about the tag so I have three cats and I don't call her any of them but I have the I have the proof you know that they that they have the requisite U shots but um they don't wear collars so um my dog just chooses collar so the the Ry little thing tag is in my office at at home yeah that's exactly where mine are yeah right where you can find but they're going to have to be collared though if they have to take them out to go to the bathroom anyways because they only need the leash yes yeah other things on RB okay um then you have exhibit a which is uh the rental agreement and uh uh I had a sample of a a typical seven page six font six point font uh rental agreement from uh one District um and I shared that with Ben and then I shared this one of course with him and um uh the key thing for not needing that six or seven page whatever uh is on the second page where I've underlined because we will make sure that the tenants have copies of both R and RB um and that and that they will sign that they've seen them in and read them um because other when I read through that multi-page document all it did was restated all of these same things and it struck me as being redundant to have all the same language in the agreement when we had when we had it here and so uh Ben said that that this would be fine and uh probably a much more workable lease for us anyway uh as long as we really made made sure that they understood that all of the things in these two docu or in those in our a and RB apply have you considered a limit to the number of children that would be allowed in a household well I think that gets factored in when you know that occupancy thing I mean it's a three-bedroom house and and four children might not be unreasonable but beyond that would be difficult not that people don't do it because they certainly do at 1300 ft with carport that means it's about 1,00 ft no the the 1300 does not include the carport Oh I thought it did no no even that the the bedrooms are still small they are small okay um then you see uh um uh exhibit EB which is the rental application and you note that um one of the first pieces of information that we request there is the reason for the application because excuse me because that will be a critical piece in terms of making a decision of yes or no for you know the applicant um and then um you also notice at the beginning of uh at the top of the second page uh the the the two uh stars that go with the um um uh multiple multiple residents um and that all adults in the household must pass a fingerprint check on all adults so if the wife is the teacher the husband still has to have his ivp y yep okay all adults must pass fingerprint and I looked up that I don't know if it was this one but I looked up one of them that restricted had reference to Arizona state standard and basically that was anybody who was convicted of a fony and that kind of stuff it's right there uh potential residents that have committed any of the offenses listed in ARs 15512 and if you look at that that's the list of things that's very much that we have in our job applications that have to do with um uh felony things uh uh assault on children uh domestic violence I mean there's a whole list of things and and they apply to to these folks as well and if you uh if you missed it in the other part which you may not have um but um uh these people can't run a business out of these homes either so now to me that does not preclude the fact that if if the spouse of one of our employees is employed on at the on the basis of working at home say on a computer I don't know that I would forbid them from doing that uh because that doesn't have any potential damage to the house or any of that kind of thing but but what we're referring to there is somebody uh okay I'm going to do a car repair business in my driveway or uh you know something like that as opposed to somebody who's going to be sitting in a computer working selling things on eBay is not going to be probably not a big deal probably not a big deal unless they're storing filling that carport full of Ebay things that might be a problem then that falls under unsightly W it certainly does and it potentially uh prevents them from not parking on from Park from not parking on the street so those the street is not designed for parking um uh it's it's a narrower Street street so by city code there's not supposed to be street parking on that street so uh potentially four vehicles can be parked there two in the carport and two in the driveway um um and but if the carport is full of stuff and they have three vehicles that's going to be a problem okay because there's no place for that third car except clear down at the End of the Street in the park the public parking maybe is there a provision in here I'm just thinking out you know grasping and stuff sure but perhaps mention something that that no uh Motor Vehicles or anything like that can be parked anywhere else than in the carport and on the driveways it is in it is in RB is it yeah okay it can't be parked in the the front of the house or something I think it said Park in designated places and leave the street clear for Access by maintenance trash collection and fire department vehicles and then uh I think keep in mind I've read so many of these I'm not I don't always remember which ones I put in didn't uh but I think I had one about um uh no more than one vehicle per adult so if there are three adults there could be three ve Vehicles okay um and we did have as H and the prohibited practices operating Vehicles dangerously noisily or unlawfully street legal motorcycles may be driven as long as they are not a nuisance and the drivers are lawfully licensed okay and then the speed limit is for vehicles is 10 miles an hour in the in the Housing Development so okay um okay anything else on the application okay um probably won't spend much time on this but you can see the checkin checkout uh condition checklist which is an exhibit and um uh this one Mark paid a lot of attention to said he thought we had all the bases covered here and then finally the um gbca uh which is um my recommended uh change to that policy by adding the part at the bottom that's in red which essentially gives permission for the use of medical marijuana and for smoking uh uh uh I mean for alcohol not smoking for alcohol uh on in the house for on the premises in moderation so once again that's a policy change so it's on the agenda tonight as a first reading uh for you to consider for for next month okay and we have a second item which will take me about two minutes okay item 4.1 or 1.4 okay so last month uh the parents in the um called to the public brought up a couple of concerns so one of the concerns had to do with uh children um uh not getting to sit where they want to sit so they can sit with their friends at lunch or at meal time uh beginning in kindergarten our students sit with their class at lunch and that continues through sixth grade uh it's never been any different than that that's the way it's been this year I would as a footnote I will tell you that uh ordinarily by Junior High then because the kids are in different classes and whatever they go to lunch uh the seventh graders this year uh were had problematic behavior in the cafeteria at the beginning of the year and so the principal took away their uh right to sit wherever they wanted and whatever and U they are sitting with the students who were in the class they have right before lunch um to their credit students came uh probably students who were not misbehaving uh came to the principal and said um can we uh can we earn it back and so they figured out a a a plan that the seventh graders can earn it back so uh the parents complaint um the parent who complained her child is at the middle school so students all you know her child is not in any different situation this year than in the past um that you know the students sit with their friends they then go to recess and they can hang out with their friends at recess um so that that's not a change the other question had to do with uh not communicating not being able to communicate on dojo um that something had been shut off there is a uh there is a part of Dojo that is not like a communication between me as a parent and you as the teacher uh where General comments can be made and uh we had some parents who uh decided to treat that little feature like the social media and were ranting and saying inappropriate things and so the School site turned off that feature because students can see those comments and it was not appropriate for students to be seeing what uh what those parents were writing so that piece was turned off uh uh for people just to put their opinions and and do that kind of thing nothing was turned off uh that involved communication between parents and teachers Bingo okay so too bad nobody's here to hear that well but maybe they're watching on a live stream could be they may read the paper I hope so so okay do I have a motion to adjourn the workshop I'll make a motion that we adjourn the workshop is there a second I'll second the that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred Rushton I Sheila Bernett okay I call to order the regular meeting for Bullhead City School Board on Thursday September 12th 2024 at 6:22 p.m.

[Music] n [Music] n [Music] a [Music] n [Music] here we go pack your bags and let's hit the road as Columbia takes on its farthest road trip of the season from one cornfield filled City to the next the Eagles make their way through God's country to Taylorville and take on this violent tornado offense in week three action after a dominant victory in week one the Eagles were grounded and put in a cage thanks to the dogs last week from dominance on offense to not getting anything going and playing crazed on defense but then letting a lot of things go for positive yards let's see how the Eagles respond for Taylorville they've proven they can sling it around a bit and they can put up some points heck they're averaging 36 points per game already Coach G and that D has their work cut out for them will the Eagles be able to tame the tornadoes enough to improve to two and one or will they fall to one and two before Cahokia conference play buckle up folks the Eagles are in tornado country and looking to make it a happy bus ride home we are bringing you CHS football live right here on kchs for a night whenever we thought that it was going to be raining from the sun up to sun down we don't exactly have a view that looks like that but it's a lot better than being cold and wet up here in Taylorville Illinois as your one inone Eagles will take on the one and one Taylorville tornadoes here in week three action of the ihsa football season Alex schimmer and Jared Germaine joining you once again here in Taylorville we got our own little Press Box up here we got a little we're going to be outside for the first time this year but it's good to be back here on kchs and we'd like to thank once again this broadcast is brought to you by the Columbia quarterback club and without them we would not be able to get this going so Jared we come in here week three action make the 100 mile trip good day for football yeah feels nice out here Alex like you said we got our nice little uh patio with The Stairway to Heaven that we had to walk up here so um nice little field here I've never been here I think the last time we were here was 2018 we'll talk about that a little bit later um but yeah good night for football so Columbia comes into this game and we had to have our pregame meal once again was sponsored and this is where it came from this week X I'm Aaron PA and we' like to give a quick shout out to Alicia be and Edward Jones for providing us a team meal allowing us to play our bestest stomach full of food go Eagles so thank you to Mr P and Mr Hicks for thanking alicio Oglesby at Edward Jones the boys were able to get Chick-fil-A this week and that's just a quick and easy thing that they can hop on the bus get up here so thank you Alicia from Edward Jones for doing that once again Suns of the American Legion were last week and week one was who where did they get the week one meal from I can't believe I forgot that our lure brothers that's what it was lure Brothers got them Emos so thank you to all of our pre game meal sponsors um and if anybody would like to sponsor one contact us or coach Warner we'll get you figured out while we're there I got to ask you what's your favorite Chick-fil-A sauce what do you get ketchup ketchup only oh man no Chick-fil-A sauce no Chick-fil-A I am so P you're boring you're boring I am the most picky eater there is so you give me a spicy chicken sandwich no pickle no pickle either man you are boring I mean you're shaking your head I got TJ over here he's shaking his head at me too I mean yeah that's all I need I don't need anything special now you take away the flavor from the meat that you're EA okay I'm okay you'll go for that no no all right I like my Chick-fil-A sauce and my Ranch so well that's all right let's talk a little bit about last week Jared before we start talking about the offense we're just going to talk about the game as a whole and uh totally different game than what we saw in week one yeah uh I just feel like our offense couldn't really get anything going um and every third down that we got into we just couldn't get off the field um but I think overall we just got beat up front um water was just more physical and bigger up front and we just we didn't have an answer to that and that's two years in a row that waterl honestly they've dominated the game yeah um coach Herer I was listening to his pregame speech he talked he said you know you guys got embarrassed last year I mean heck what we 61 yards of offense he said you know you guys got barrassed last year and I think the other night it was borderline the same same out outcome for the Eagles um could get into it couldn't get into it but couldn't get off the field was the main thing I feel like yeah and that's what coaster remains hold the def is about getting to that third down maybe third and five third and six but waterl was sometimes at third and four third and three which is tough to stop tough uh tough to defend um whenever you have those guys up front that are just uh running the ball a lot I mean they had I'd say over three or four kids with 10 plus carries last week as well so they had a bunch of running backs in the back field that we had to account for um a lot of different counters and stuff so um but this week's going to be a little different I think Taylorville is going to throw the ball around like modern day did in week one so um we'll see uh what our def can do uh tonight so let's talk about the offense from last week a little bit really uh not a ton going again 154 yards total offense 116 yards on the ground 38 passing yards I think Mason was only like three for 12 through the air and uh rushing wise I think it was led by Jace James once again um Jace Nelson I'm sorry Jace James I said that last year same name J jce Nelson uh led the way with on the ground attack and uh the Highlight though getting in the end zone was Hudson Bryan at the end of the game that's a good way to cap it off oh yeah spectacular last week I know it was a rough week for not even him and his family but the whole community of Columbia so it was nice to see him get in the end zone and um hear those hear those fans yell for him um there was nothing better uh than the cap off with a touchdown that night go to the defensive side of the football now uh dominant dominant game out of waterl and like I said earlier it was a different defense I mean I think from the way we talked about with modern day and you watch the guys fly around and make tackles and hit people now I'm not saying we didn't hit people last week but week one totally different defense what we saw and the arm tackles is one thing that we talked about multiple times with everybody yeah and I think our defense last week was kind of putting a different scheme with Mason and Keegan Thompson coming up playing that linebacker position where they're normally playing safety or sometimes corner so it was nice to have them in the mix um but yeah it was a lot different couldn't couldn't tackle the running backs when we needed to on third Downs um that was pretty much the whole story of the game 254 yards rushing for the Bulldogs 124 through the air 369 total yards and we were getting some updates uh waterl statition was up with us at one point they had the ball I think it was for 27 minutes and we were like minimum I mean I don't want to say I think it was like nine or 10 minutes it was not very many so and they had almost 203d Downs that we had them to and they were 11 or 12 for 20 at one point so and we were one for seven yeah and that and that's that was the whole game right there and you look at a lot of times too whenever the defensive side you said you know you get to that third and three there was a lot of times it was third and 12 and they were converting and a lot of time they they were still running their bread and butter they would just run the ball maybe get it to a fourth and five and we still couldn't get off the field um and get turnovers on downs but um like coach owner and Coach man always said just on to the next week they they beat our butt last week you got to put that behind you and get ready for tonight and when we talk about last week and everything that was going on um a tragic week no doubt about it but there was light with all of that too the way the two communities came together in Columbia and waterl but also Beville East still this week they showed their support uh last week a team from Poria Louisville they're showing their support and then you come back home and you look at somebody like freshly press Creations um and Amanda Wagner and uh her crew that they did everything from t-shirts to helmet stickers to handkerchiefs wristband they did everything that they could have done and on Wednesday I believe Tuesday or Wednesday they put out a post that said um we're going to do the t-shirts for the family in honor of Hudson or Crawford and so on Tuesday or Wednesday they put that out there 651 shirts were sold in 14 hours she had to cut sales off and say we can't do anymore we're out of stuff yeah and and the timing behind it all she said there was six eight people down in their basement trying to get everything together so great job by freshly press to uh do that and get that all in and it was a long week for him but it was able to get done and now we try to move on a little bit our thoughts and prayers are still with um Jacob Nelson who is still in the hospital so thoughts and prayers go to him and they still stay with the Bryant family as well as they still navigate this tough time with all that being said we're about 15 minutes away from kickoff we're going to run to a commercial break real quick we'll take you to last week's recap of how uh week two went with waterl and we come back here in Taylorville we'll give you this week's outlook on what we have in front of us right here on KS [Music] one 3 let's get started [Music] oh that's real good [Music] St ocean man is Jace they fake the hand off and go around Liberty go the right side with hick he's got to make of Liberty gets into the end [Music] man fakes the hand off going to look in the middle of the end zone he's got H Bryant Bryant Forum eag touchdown welcome back to Taylorville and kchs Alex and Jared once again coming to you and uh we made the trip everyone is not everyone there's a lot of people going to songs for soldiers this week so good luck to them they had beautiful weather it turns out like I said we were worried we were going to be a rained out mud pit up here in the turf but uh hopefully songs for soldiers has a good night uh who is it Chris Jansen tonight and then JY blossoms tomorrow I'll be in backstage with uh Coach G doing uh meet and greets tomorrow so excited about that and songs for soldiers everything that they do uh usually we have Dustin on but been a crazy two weeks weren't able to get them on maybe we'll get them on after the uh after the week's over and have him talk about the the weekend that it was you ever been to songs for soldiers uh yeah I think when I was was younger uh before I started playing High School football cuz it's always whenever we have an away game um and I think back then they only did one night of it for started didn't they yeah it was probably five years ago I bet that they finally did two nights got into two night I don't think I've ever really really went so we look at our schedule this year here we look at it every week but uh obviously we're in Taylorville tonight next week we go back home and we have Roxana for blue jay KN it's going to be a big one and you look at who I mean like I said we've talked about all those nights one thing mentioned though freeberg military appreciation night is going to be that night um all vets and active military personnel can come in for free uh it'll be paid for by the sons of the American Legion they were supposed to do that with waterl got pushed back so they're going to do it again with uh that freeberg game so let's look at where our opponents are this week mod day 0 and2 goes to 2 and 0 Effingham they'll be hosting that game pretty much everybody's at home this week last week most people were on the road two and waterl hosts Centralia 101 101 Taylorville 101 Columbia roxana's 101 they are going to be hosting Civic Memorial didn't expect them to be two and0 but uh getting it done this year freeberg is 1 and one vers Chester who's one and one that's a pretty big game there too uh a lot of small town field there for sure East Al Wood River and Marquette 0 and2 Salem vers Mount Zion Bree Central 2 and0 takes on red bud and Jerseyville goes to Charleston they're right up here I think near us I have no idea might be in the same conferences they are they both Apollo they might be so you look at that where everybody is tonight and uh some good games I'm sure we'll find some more East St Louis uh just talk about good games they get to play tomorrow they're playing A team out of Philadelphia though so uh that'll be exciting for them they're already beating a team from Georgia and where was the other team oh lyola Northern Illinois an AA school and they dominated that game too so let's talk about East Side for a second they go three and0 potentially against nationally ranked teams then they're going to play their conference five games and they just cracked the top 25 in ESPN's in the nation yeah oh and then they play IMG Academy in week nine think about that let's just say hypothetically with their non-conference schedule they go 0 and four but they go five and0 in conference so they're five and four in the season how' you like to be that number one seed like yeah we're n and0 we're going to be the number one seed and then all of a sudden nope have fun with these sides so that luckily that's 68 football we don't have to worry about that too much so let's talk a little bit here about what we have tonight we got a beautiful landscape I mean we got Bean Fields off to the right we got the baseball field that it's about 390 to left field and it's about 190 to right field Center Field's way out there but you got a the silver monster as TJ called it back here in right so you got to get it up and over got the shock putting looks like a little practice field over to our right and uh they're Grand stands going from about the 25 to the 25 their bands making the way out now for the national anthem so it's getting a little quiet and over here to our left is the original um tunnel which this was the first place that we saw the tunnel uh back in that 2018 playoff game and that's what got us to think hey we need to get one of those back at home so did you announce that game yourself I did you were you I was an all Miss I know yeah see you later I had I had it planned already I didn't think we'd make the playoffs you know hey we were up here and I was in this exact same spot nothing's changed up here so we look at beautiful landscape here sun setting here in front of us as Taylor ville's band gets ready to take the field and as they do the officials make their way out on homecoming night here we're going to run to a break 9:30 until game time we'll let the national anthem get through and when we come back we will have a breakdown of this week and the kickoff right here on kchs good evening football fin [Music] he [Music] e for [Music] n hi my name is Cameron Janik Mason vagley and we'd like to take a second to shout out Matt K on his 25th year as a ball boy in Columbia Eagles Organization no GP still can't believe you said once again thank you to you're still worried about that catch up only catch up on your Chick-fil-A SA or on your chick-fil sandwich that's that's crazy once again thank you Matt for 25 years we're gonna keep honoring you all season long for all the work that you've done down here as the Eagles ball boy so Jared let's talk a little bit more about here tonight Taylorville offense they can put some points up they can sling it around a little bit Yeah I think last week I think we saw they had a shut out didn't they 34 nothing 34 nothing and then week one there was close game against only 43 38 38 yeah so um scored over 30 points in their last two weeks to start off the season so um I know coach she's defense is going to have a have a battle tonight so see if we can uh try to match their uh scoring on the offense of side of the ball Columbia comes into this game and is playing Taylorville like we said in the Apollo conference 773 students in their enrollment uh the only third meeting between the two programs most recent meeting was was September 8th of last year Taylorville wins it 15 to nothing last time we were in Taylorville like we said November of 2018 and Taylorville put up 45 points I can't remember what 23 yep 4523 in that game so series record goes to Taylorville uh 0 and2 for the Eagles 0 And1 in the regular season 0 and one back in the playoffs so uh Eagles got their work cut out and obviously with it being homecoming week going to be a little bit more exciting here for the tornadoes and everybody here in attendance here tonight so make sure you let us know where you're listening from tonight we haven't haven't had that opportunity to ask that question yet as we've been always trying to battle the uh the sound issues the video issues I've got text already that we look and we sound good so hopefully that's the nobody's lying to us there so thanks for uh sticking with us we're learning this on the Fly and we're trying to figure it out as we go so thank goodness TJ was here tonight he got everything up and running for US is this our first personal Press Box we've ever had you think we're here yeah for sure Eagles make their way out onto the field after Taylorville just did looks like we're going to have captains tonight cam janick Logan Hicks Hudson Bryant and Mason vley I think they've been the uh captains pretty much every night I did not see that they do a coin toss before and we just missed it yep all right works for me we usually miss him so maybe they're going to go ahead and uh do a reenactment that'll be nice if they do so we can see what's going on Jared if you got three keys to the game tonight what are they uh going back to last week I think we got to get big stops on third down I think that was the biggest thing against waterl uh we we got him to third down almost every every uh Series so I think just getting off the field and trying to uh trying to get off the field I think that'd be number one um the second one would probably be just you got to be ready you had an hour and 45 minute drive on the bus all the way up here so and you had half day at school so hopefully some of these kids uh ready to play Friday Night Football and my third one probably just be uh have fun obviously we conference play starts next week so um we got to we got to get ready for conference play um two two home games in a row after after this one so if we can win this game go to two- one and maybe sneak two more out get the four- one that' be looking pretty good and that's I I agree with you you got to get out of here with the win uh if you follow that two losses you can get in you get in at six and three but if you get it five and four you never know and with the way the conference is freeberg and Central you always always know it's going to be a competitive game so Santa's been pretty good as of as of lately last years quartal Team all right with the coin toss it is going to be Columbia looks like they won it see if the white Hat's going to make a motion on what happened he's confused he's trying to figure it out I guess he never made a motion of what was happening coach look kind of confused to receive Eagles are going to receive the football so the offense is going to start out with the football so we'll see how Mason vagle does at quarterback like we said Jay Nelson been leading the way at running back so going to be big we'll look and see if we can figure out who the starting offensive line is not too many big dudes on the on the stat sheet right here we'll see what they look like when they come out uh it is highlighted number 78 he's a sophomore he's 510 300 lb so he might be out there and there is a senior 74 6' 300 lb so other than that it looks like everyone's pretty much the same size as we are um so we'll see how things go but it's all going to start with Coach Kendall and the uh kick routine return team we'll see what if coach Horner got any uh tricks up his sleeve this week see if he's got any different formations he wants to run or if he wants to keep doing bread and butter with Jason Nelson and Mason in the back field with the uh sniffer back so we'll see if uh see what coach owner's Got Tonight one thing to mention cam janick last week was out uh he tried to play a little bit but was out with a shoulder injury is slated to start tonight they're keeping everything the same but we'll see that how he uh handles that and how that shoulder holds up he is going out for the opening kickoff though so Jared I got the 40 yard line everything to my left is gone I got the sh or the shed side here under a minute now as Taylorville makes their way out for kickoff and it's Friday night just like they're supposed to be under the lights again sun setting in front of us little breeze this is perfect you think an eagle's ever flown through a tornado I'm Eagle is my favorite animal of all time so I bet you it has bet you it flew right through the the Eye of it hopefully we can do that tonight Dixon Nelson back deep Janik and Bryant look to be at about the 23 yd line we'll see how things get going here in Taylorville in week three action going to be a returnable kick at the 15 yd line see what kind of wall we get set up number three is back there right away tries an arm tackle doesn't work we're going to get to about the 35 nearly the 40 yd line and that's where this Eagles D offense will start starting offense tonight nothing Strang in everything like I said staying the same thank you to Victoria simow are photography for uh putting that up there for us but like you said nothing's nothing strange for that eagle offense we'll see how things go tonight looks like Taylorville is going to open up at a three-man front two linebacker look yep empty backfield for vaguely ocean man is Nelson they're going to hand the ball off to him try to stretch to the outside he's going to have good blocking all the way around he's got enough that's going to be a colum Eagles first down on the first play of the game great St block there by Logan Hicks getting to that I couldn't tell if it was a linebacker or the safety coming up but great job to just get up up there put his hands up just enough time for Jace to get right behind him and get a first down so one play 12 yards for the Eagles nice little start there let's hopefully keep that going all night night long going to be flipped formation Nelson's the motion man they're going to fake it quarterback keep tries to lower his head going to have nothing going though they're going to give him a gain of one that's it second and nine V VY is that what V is that what they just side tornado defens line a yard on the put the ball at the 47 yd line Second down and N what's 44 listed as over there Alex he looks like a pretty pretty big kid playing nose looks like he's 5800 right over the center coach Horner making sure they see that they need to reset the play clock where' we start this drive on about the 38 yep 38 37 call it 38 this time they're going to hand the ball off to Nelson left side he's got good stalk blocking again he's going to gain four but that's going to at least give you a manageable third down and five already seen a lot of motion like we've seen the first two games with Jas Nelson put your defense in a little bit of a bind whenever kid with the most touches gets it early so we'll see what we have on this third call it a long five and a line up in that empty set again going to go doubles to the right side two Wing backs really in on that left side over there tight end left they're going to give the ball off to Nelson he's going to make onean Mick great feat gain of seven first and 10 for the Eagles at the tornado 35 yd line we talked on the way up here Jared in between your terrible music like always the uh that awareness out of Jace this year and the footwork is fantastic yeah and I think his vision's got better over these p this past year I'd say um really getting better looking looking down field see where those Defenders are going to come from going to be a handoff once again to Nelson he's going to get up field and he's going to kind of lose his footing that time go right into the tackler gain of two he's got four carries already tonight 25 yards to start it off we're going to try to keep stats up here we'll I already screwed up on the first play though we're going to give it a shot far though only Jason Mason have carried it so yeah well I gave the first Carry to vagley so he got the second one we'll see if we can get a figure you ain't hoe man you're not ho no I'm not Howie doubles to the left side single receiver to the right sniffer back right going to be a pass play vley is looking to the left he's got oh he had hick deep now he's going to try to force it to the left side see if Hicks can make a catch he's nearly caught it man like you said you had the hitch right there and then he tried to force it in the end but it falls incomplet intended for Hicks well looked like a simple smash concept there with slots running a corner and the uh outside receivers are running hitches and looked like the corner and the safety bailed with Hicks and had Keegan Thompson close to the first down marker but Mason wanted to take a shot down field going to bring up third and eight and I think you're in four down territory here it would be third it' be about a 50 yard field goal so so here I think you want to run the ball too cuz if you throw it incomplete now you have a four an eight I think you go back to your bread and butter and try to get a touch to Logan Hicks or Jay Nelson you got to think that they're going to bring pressure three down linemen going to be two linebackers it's going to be hand off to Hicks he gets behind his big blockers he's going to get near the first down I think he might be a two yard short but at least it's a fourth and three and o line already looks a little bit better than they did last week opening up a little bit of space already I know we've ran a lot of outside zone or Jacksonville if you want to call it but it's a big play here on four fourth down same formation for the Taylorville defense doubles to the right side motion man fake they're going to go back reset coach Horner is going to call a new play fourth and three pistol back now is Nelson going to be a handoff going to go to Jace he's got to get up to the 25 I don't think they're going to give it to him I don't think they're going to give it to him like he almost got tackled or out of the arm tackle there but by the by a foot couldn't even reach the ball forward so tornadoes are going to take over first and 10 tornado will take first very good drive there by the Eagles you just come up short so let's see what this defense comes out to be now couple changes here for the Eagles defense this week they are going to take janic out because of the shoulder injury it's going to move Keegan Thompson to a linebacker and put Aaron p as defensive back safety next to vagley other than that everything else is staying the same so we'll see how this new defense will do quivero win in as your defensive lineman as well going to be a pass play just a quick hitch it's tipped at the line of scrimmage and it's completed good job there by the Eagles big number 77 Brody furo got his hand up there but it was still caught by the receiver looks like we're going to see a little bit more of Aon pool tonight as well with uh cam janick not playing on the defensive side of the ball see Keegan and coming up playing linebacker a little bit with Cooper and Hudson briyan on those edges trying to force everything back inside and to move some guys around Eagles are going to go fourman front two linebackers it's going to be a handoff up the middle good push there by the Eagles defense gain of two brings up a third down let's get off the field this week like Briant fur in there on the tackle fur great job of getting low can't go anywhere if people grabbing your ankles right right that's what he did there able to bring him down be a third and one watch the football here third and one pistol back sniffer back right going to be a handoff up the middle and it's fumbled picked up by the quarterback Hudson Bryant there along with four other eagles and it's going to be a loss on the going to be a loss of two on the play quarterback is the punter looks like he is going to go back in a punt watch the football again here too Return Man is going to be Nelson eagles look like they're going to bring the house oh we got there a bunch of blocked by The Eagles HS straight up in the air it's going to be pretty much picked up where the punt happened and the Eagles are going to have great starting field position on this drive you called that you said we're bringing the house here who got the block I it look like Hicks Hicks it looked like furo was the one to kind of jump for the ball wouldn't have mattered where the spot was cuz you I don't think you can advance it there so great job there by the defense to open up this ball game see if we can punch one in here early in this first quarter this is where I'm aggressive I'm going for the end zone right after the turnover get the ball at the 22 yd line to start this drive Eagles are going into a huddle this time see how it goes looks like Hicks is GNA come off Keegan Thompson in at receiver now looks like we're going to be in a little bit of a h looks like heavy we brought it back Alex running back Nelson seven yards deep under Center is vaguely it's going to be hand off to the right side Jace puts his head down good job there a little powerful run gets two yards Nelson the ball pick's going to come back in looks like 21 hobill is going to check out it's going to go let's see how many down linemen they have this time they were running three pretty much everything we saw still got three those linebackers are up close got five in the Box real real close to the line of scrimmage going to be Nelson to the right side good stalk blocking once again again look like some of the linebackers and linemen got off their blocks going to be another gain of three brings up a third and four Lincoln Corbin there was trying to get that outside leverage on that D end couldn't really get there first guy to touch Nelson going to be third and four 540 remaining here in the first quarter been a lot of run plays here for the eagles only one pass attempt like to see a little bit more motion doubles the right side tight end left they're going to hand the ball off and there's no blocking whatsoever going for the Eagles going to be a loss on the play we got a loss there of the back for the tornadoes on the will the Eagles with a down theing at Fourth and five let's see what coach hner has in mind this time feel like on that first drive having that motion involved made a little difficult on that defensive side but see if coach orner is going to burn a timeout here and try to get good play call looks like he is going to do that we have a timeout Timeout on the field like you said a little bit different field than what it was last week already The Eagles I mean about 40 yards rushing just this fast and this quick so you look at last week whenever the Eagles rushing came in at 116 they averaged 4 and2 yards a carry Nelson led the way 12 rushes 62 yards vaguely n rushes for 26 Logan Hicks four for 28 so Eagles it's no no hiding they're going to be a run heavy offense on that defensive side of the ball last week I think leading the way was uh Hudson Bryant with I want to say 14 tackles so um here in his name last week was awesome getting in the mix and then scoring that touchdown so big fourth down here we'll see if he want to involve uh Brian on this play like you said motion right now would be a good thing just to kind of screw some things up and we've seen a bunch already this year a ton of motion out of coach horer and the offense but like you said that's something that causes Coach G and the defense fits so they're going to be just using it against you know what what hurts us we talk about how we have the Press Box to ourselves but we still got the coaches up here with us so I tell you what don't lean on the handrails either oh yeah they're wobbling things are yep I did it earlier doubles to the right side an extra tackle to the right side tight end left sniffer back left running back left going into the boundary here going to be a fake handoff pass play across the middle he's got Hicks Hicks makes the catch in the end zone touchdown Eagles great play call there by coach ho middle of the field wide open Hicks gets it into the end zone six nothing Eagles 445 in the first quarter that's right there is coach hner is kind of known for Ling those safeties to sleep thinking it's a run the first two drives and then boom on fourth down you got Hicks running the slant route right across the middle of the field with nobody really guarding him so great play called by coach Herer and great job by the offense there punch One In The End Zone early on for the Pat Keegan Thompson good snap good hold kick is up almost got through the upright and good so with 445 remaining in the first quarter the Eagles Take a seven nothing lead we talked about needing to get off to a hot start and they did it so the Eagles all started though with that blocked punt yeah and on that what was it third third and one they had a bad snap which I mean thank you for that but we'll take it any day of the week but like you said right before the uh play started on fourth down you said it looks like we're going to bring that house and and we did and it paid off what yard line did we have the ball on there it was 2 yeah we'll call it a 21 yard touchdown pass from vagle to Hicks so now if you're the Eagles kick team Keegan's done a great job kicking this year I think he's averaging hold on let's just get the stats out here real quick which packet is that in Jared you got too many of I got too many papers up here Eagles through week two Keegan Thompson doing the kicking H where does that say it on their back page kicking stats eight kickoffs 402 yards averaging 50 yards a kick we'll take that in the week 10 yard line I guess is that good math that's good math look I already gave up on their stats I wrote two things down we're just going to worry about our offense they don't have very many yards they had eight yards on that first drive so let's hopefully Eagles defense keeps him there nice showing for the Eagles after a 100 mile trip for an hour and 40 minutes Thompson's going to send it deep and another good kick and like Jared said it's going to be caught at the nine got an extra yard out of it and look at that eagle defense getting down there nothing going L on the way by Cooper white and they're going to be brought down at the 20 yd line good job by the Eagles there about four or five guys down there right away to make the tackle we'll see how this Eagle defense does they're going to be led three down lineman going to be number 71 Owen Mankey he's going to be the nose and then you got your DNS Dane quivo number 75 Brody furlo 77 going to be four linebackers just like always Cooper W hegan Thompson I believe that's a 52 out there muscot Hudson Bryant's going to be your other linebacker Hicks vaguely p and Nelson your defensive backs quarterback keep right up the middle nothing going Cas missed an arm tackle but he's going to be brought down Hudson Bryant and Brody Furlow gain of about four look like they just let KAS come right through the uh Back Field there tried to make a tackle but like it was just a simple wild cat quarterback was able to get a couple yards call it second and seven they're known for throwing it right they do a lot of fade routes is what you seen on film defensive backs playing about their normal seven eight yards deep looks like it's manto man with all the defensive backs a lot of blitzing going on up the middle and it's going to be caught by number one brought down by number 22 jce Nelson third down and two after the big hit great read There by Nelson it was a simple Arrow Route by the uh inside receiver slot and Nelson able to read that right off right off the snap come up and make a great tackle only a gain of about CAU one Cooper went on a blitz but he actually hit the guard and it looked like another linebacker I would assume it's going to be Keegan came around the outside of him so doing a little bit of games up front for Coach G doubles all the way around running back to the right side it's going to be a time out for the tornadoes and we're going to come back and when we come back there's 321 remaining here in the first quarter Eagles lead it seven nothing [Music] you are listening to Columbia Eagle football live right here on kchs this broadcast is proudly brought to you by the Columbia quarterback club for 14 years the Columbia QB Club has donated over $100,000 to CHS and other youth Leagues with one event in the summer and one in the winter there are plenty of ways to donate to the club check out their Facebook page or visit their website at www.

[Music] go [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] receiving the ball for blon number 3 to keeper [Music] Craig Craig takes the ball up to the 30 yd line that will be first and 10 [Music] luy quarterback number 13 Aon best keeps the ball best gains about six yards on the play brings up second down and three yards to go for the Tigers [Music] [Applause] the ball gain of four yards brings up another Tigers first down that's right first first down and 10 for the Tigers ball [Music] on best the ball to number twoos the play brings up second down and nine ydd for the Tiger [Music] bl's quarterback Aon best carries the ball for a gain of about four yds down for blin and five to go ball on the 47 yd line [Music] [Applause] number [Applause] [Music] [Applause] very good [Music] s that's step one two test one two check one two blon Cooper Craig on the carry a loss of about one or two yards on the play [Applause] call one [Applause] [Music] go go go go go go go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] help [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] bu [Music] we Happ [Music] I [Music] y [Music] [Applause] let go let's go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on Def [Music] get [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I [Music] you do you do that [Music] the [Music] [Applause] T right testing testing mike check testing 1 two three can you hear me now hey thumbs up all right great the Blu and Harrison School family is proud to partner with Riley Children's Foundation benefiting thousands of Children and Families who receive Care at Riley Hospital Indiana's only nationally ranked comprehensive Children's Research Hospital gifts from our school community help Propel lifechanging pediatric research provide outstanding patient care and family support services and fuel the experts who make it all happen we are proud to announce that in 2023 2024 blon Harrison schools achieved Red Wagon Corporation status for the 16th consecutive year with each School raising more than $1 per student we are honored to welcome guests from East Allen County Schools this evening also a 2023 24 Red Wagon Corporation Susan miles from Riley is here to help celebrate with with us tonight and to recognize bluon high school and bluon Harrison Middle School as red wagon sponsors each School raised more than $5,000 in last year's Riley campaign two of Riley Hospital's iconic red wagons the main method of transportation in the hospital will display a special license plate honoring the high school and middle school gifts tonight each School receives a copy of their license plate to add to their trophy case on behalf of Riley patients and families from across Indiana and thank you for your generous and dedicated [Applause] [Music] [Applause] support SC to number 11 Aaron Str is complete one blon's Cooper Craig carries the ball for a gain of two yards brings up second down and eight yds to go balls on the 44 yd line [Music] [Applause] bluff's a in best with the carry brings up another Tigers first that's right first down and 10 ball on the 45 yd line [Music] best hands off to blon's Cooper Craig for no gain on the play brings up second down and 10 yds to go ball is still on the 45 yd line for the Tigers for best to BL Baron stor strer catches the ball around the 32 yd line brings up another bluon [Music] [Applause] tiger first down and 10 yds to go the 32 yd line for the Tigers [Music] Cooper Craig on the carry takes the ball for a game of about three yards that brings up second down and seven yds to go [Applause] [Music] Cooper Craig carries the ball again for the Tigers brings up third down and four yards to go ball is spotted on the 25 yd line [Music] touchdown [Music] tiger bluon jaon best carries the ball for a bluon tiger touchdown [Music] w [Music] best pass for the extra point is no good that brings the score of bluon Tigers 12 Woodland zero fans thank you for the support of the blunted football team with the pork chop dinners there are pork chops being sold in the concession stand four pork chops for $20 four pork chops for $20 being sold in the concession stand at this [Music] time e [Applause] [Music] AB abam Garrett's by BL is returned for Woodland by number 10 Shaden Snider tackle made by the Tigers number 18 Alexander mecklin Snider carries the ball up to the 47 yd line brings up first and 10 for Woodland [Music] ball carried by Ashton jqu for wman [Music] ball was carried by number six Drew Fleek there was a flag on the play personal foul face mask defense a 15 yd penalty result of that will be a first out [Music] ball is placed on the 29 yd line brings up first and 10 for the Warriors [Music] number 11 for wooden keeps the ball Tyle outen The Tackle is credited by number 30 gab ball brings up second down and three for the Warriors ball in the 22 yd line [Music] ball carried by Woodland number four Jake L play picks up the first down for Woodland first and 10 at the 17 yd line [Music] Woodlands number 11 Ty Lowden keeps the ball Lowden gains one yard on the play brings up second down and nine La connects with number six Drew Fleek for Woodland that brings up a first down for Woodland ball is placed on the 5 yd line [Music] Woodland's number six Drew Fleek carries the ball for a wooding touchdown keep the Woodland extra point by number 43 Evan Coke is good that brings the score Bluff and tigers 12 Woodland Warriors 7 e [Applause] wi EV Co with the kick Bluffin number 884 Eli Burch Returns the ball to about the 33 yd line brings up first and 10 for the Tigers [Music] bluffing Cooper Craig carries the ball gains about nine yards on the play that brings up second down and one ball is placed on the 42 yd line [Music] blon's pass is incomplete that brings up third down and one you [Music] number 32 coer Craig for bluon carries the ball up to about the 47 yd line and that brings up another Bluff and tiger first down that's right first and 10 at the 47 yd line for the Tigers [Music] [Applause] Cooper Craig on the carry for the Tigers a gain about two yards on the play brings up second down and eight yds to go [Music] Cooper Craig carries the ball again a gain of about four yds on the play brings up third down and four ball is placed on the 47 yd line [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Bluffin quarterback Axton best keeps the ball for no gain on the play that brings up fourth down and four yards for the Tigers [Music] time out bton it's their second time out of the half in case you missed the first announcement there are pork chops being sold at the concession stand right now four pork chops for $20 [Music] e [Music] Bluffin punt by Abram Garrett stops down on the 20 yd line brings up a woodland first down and 10 Again ball placed at the 20 yd line [Music] Woodland carry by number 10 Shaden Snider a gain of about three yards on the play brings up second down and seven ball placed on the 23 yd line Woodland's number six Drew Fleek with the carry takes the ball up to about the 28 yd line Woodland third down and two yds to go bluon tackle made by number four Coulson tle this the end of the half your halftime score bling Tigers 12 Woodland Warriors seven fans we encourage you to stay in your seats as we will have the homecoming presentation here in a moment followed by the bluon bangal Brigade performing right after that [Music] d [Music] spe [Music] bar we [Music] for for good evening and welcome to blon High School's homecoming the coronation ceremony it is time to present this year's homecoming for representing the Freshman French freshman princess Gracie fry daughter of Clayton and Lindsay fry she is escorted by freshman Prince Dawson Lee son of Gary and Lisa napel up next we have our sophomore Representatives the sophomore princess the Sierra Hicks daughter of David hick lazy Haron and Jon Watkins she is escorted by sophomore Prince e Blair son of Jeff Blair and Aaron [Music] [Applause] Blair next representing the Juniors the Junior Princess is Conley Al daughter of Andy and Abby alt she is escorted by Junior Prince Elijah Burch son of Elizabeth [Applause] Burch finally our senior king and queen and king nominees our first nominee for Queen is Alisia Hera daughter of Lauren Markley and Seth Markley she plans to attend college for design in the future alysia's Favorite High School memory is hanging out with her friends after football games our first nominee for King is Cameron Williams son of Lydia and David Williams After High School he plans to attend PFW for a degree in Sports Marketing Cameron's favorite High School memory is spending time with teammates during practice in the summer and before games our second nominee our second nominee for Queen is averiana petty daughter of Annie and luk Petty her future plans are to go to IU Bloomington to study Elementary education Avery's F favorite High School memory is getting ready before dances with her best friends our second nominee for King is tabin freeze son of Laura and Alan freeze he plans on studying mechanical engineering at Purdue Fort Wayne or at Purdue West Lafayette C's favorite High School memory is skipping school to go to BPA state to hang out with friends our third Queen nominee is Isabella Stout daughter of Katie Stout and Chris M she plans to go to St Francis to be an ultrasound tech Isabella's favorite High School memory is having the best core friendship of Marin Tressa and Avery our third King our third King nominee is Gabriel ball son of Wayne and Sarah ball After High School he plans to work at Fox contractors gab's favorite High School memory is winning two sectional champions for football the underclassman representative and Senior candidates were voted voted upon by their respective grade levels the 2023 homecoming the 2024 homecoming queen is Alicia [Applause] Hera the 2024 homecoming King is Gabe ball congratulations to the 2024 homecoming Court enjoy the rest of the football game thank you how about another big hand for all of the homecoming Court Prince and princesses and our king and queen look [Music] at this time direct your attention to the football field as the bluff and Bengal Brigade will perform under the direction of drum major Tristan Alt [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] now [Music] I like [Music] you [Music] [Applause] h [Music] [Applause] [Music] no [Music] you [Music] care [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] great job to the BL and bangle Brigade [Music] a the bluon athletic department would like to thank our bluon athletic booster club for their support of our athletes and recognize them for their hard work and dedication to provide resources to our athletes the athletic booster club who runs the concession stand and your purchases tonight goes back to the athlet athletes that you see tonight and those athletes you don't see we all have been blessed to have the bluon athletic booster club support our kids stop by the concession stand tonight to buy your snack or become a member of the booster club to continue supporting bluon Athletics single memberships are $25 and couple memberships are $40 e looking at the athletic schedule for the coming week tomorrow the boys varsity tennis team travels to Madison Grant for the Madison Grant Invitational that begins at 9:00 a.m.

as we look ahead into the calendar We wish all of our athletes best of luck in their future competitions [Applause] the BL also like to thank the bluon Pizza King for their delicious pizza in the hospitality room tiger fans please visit our local pizza king and thank them for all that they do for our school and community [Music] yeah e [Music] for [Music] for [Music] lon's Abram Garrett's kick is grabbed by Woodland number six Drew Fleek the ball is placed on the 30 yd line that will be first down and 10 for the Warriors [Music] carrying the ball for the Warriors number six Drew fleek he is brought down by Bluffin number 18 Alexander meckling [Music] [Applause] [Music] ball carried by Woodland number 27 Ashton jackaway brings up a first down for the Warriors ball is placed on the 41 yd line tackle made by Bluffin number 57 Mason [Music] [Applause] box W fumbles the ball and it is recovered by the Tigers [Music] BL and tiger first down now on the 39 yd line blon's best keeps the ball a gain of about one yard that brings up second down and nine ball placed at the 38 yd line [Music] best hand the ball off to Cooper Craig he takes the ball up to the 35 yd line tackle made by wood number 85 Oliver Adams brings up third down and six for the [Applause] Tigers PR the snap encroachment on the defense that's a 5yd penalty it remains third down the ball is placed on the 30 yd line third down and one for the Tigers [Music] ball is handed off to Craig for the tigers with a loss on the play that brings up fourth down for the Tigers and about three yards to go [Music] [Applause] Eli bres complete for a bluff touchdown [Applause] the BL point after is no good the score now is bluon Tigers 18 Woodland Warriors [Music] e for [Music] [Applause] for the ti is recovered [Music] by l tigers number 25 Marshall Gerber collects the ball on the kickoff BL and tiger first down and 10 ball placed on the 35 yd line [Applause] bluon Axton bestest keeps the ball picks up a gain of about four yards on the play second down and six yds to go for the Tigers ball is placed on the 31 yd line [Music] [Applause] BL jaon best keeps the ball again and with that he picks up another Bluff in Tigers first first down for the Tigers ball is placed on the 18 yd line [Applause] first down Ling J with the reception and SC the tiger first touchdown [Applause] Bluffin point after is not complete but that brings up the score Tigers 24 the Warriors seven [Music] [Applause] go you got this you [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh BL J Garrett's kick is CAU by with number 10 Shaden Snider there is a penalty flag on the play start [Applause] personal foul Blindside block R turn team first down wood after the Woodland penalty it brings up first down and 10 placed at the 23 yd line Woodland quarterback number 11 Ty lowen keeps the ball he gains about three yards on the play tackle made by BL number 55 Taven PR that brings up second down and seven for the Warriors ball placed on the 26 yd line [Music] [Applause] Warriors lowden's pass is incomplete that will bring up third down and seven for the Warriors this way this way [Applause] oh ball is carried by Woodman number 10 Shaden Snider he is brought down by bluon number 14 Aaron Jessup that brings up fourth down and one for the Warriors ball on the 32 yd line [Music] [Applause] [Music] Woodland carry by number four Jake L earns a first down for the Warriors tackle made by the Tigers number 30 Gabe ball ball is placed on the 38 yd line for a first down for [Music] Woodland with carry by Drew Fleek he is tackled by bluon number 34 Griffin Morgan the loss of about three or four yards on the play brings up second down and 13 for the Warriors official timeout injury all [Music] Woodland ball Carri by number six Drew Fleek there is a penalty flag on the play [Music] holding offense it's a 10yd penalty he's second down please put 315 on the game clock 315 on the game clock after the penalty that brings up second down and 23 for the [Music] [Applause] Warriors lowden's pass to number two Carter Fleek is complete for a first down for the Warriors he is brought down by the Tigers number 25 Marshall Gerber after the large gain on the play that brings up first and 10 for Woodland ball is spotted on the 41 yd line Woodland's Ty lden is down on the 43 yd line that brings up second down and 12 for the Warriors [Music] [Applause] blin tavin freeze with the [Music] sack that brings up a third down and 20 for the Warriors ball is spotted on the 49 yd line W Shaden Snider with the carry little to no gain on the play that brings up fourth down and long for the Warriors [Music] the pass by lden is incomplete that is a turnover on Downs that will bring up a first and 10 for the tigers at the 50 yd line [Applause] best turn the ball off to people Craig with a large gain on the play with his run that brings up another Bluff in Tigers first down into the third quarter [Music] h [Music] [Applause] [Music] fans have a nice round of applause for our bluon high school cheerleaders for keeping us positive throughout each and our football game [Music] best keeps the ball for the Tigers and gains about four yards on the play that will bring up second down and about seven yds to go spe [Music] Axton best keeps the ball again for the Tigers and gains about one yard on the [Music] play tackle made by Woodland number 32 James golden [Music] another carry by axon best for the Tigers takes the ball up to about the 30 yd line that will bring up fourth down and four for the Tigers the Warriors tackle made by number nine Eli Punk [Applause] ation hands the ball off to Craig for a large gain on the play and that will bring up another bless Tigers first down woodon Warrior tackle made by number 10 Shaden Snider on the play ball is placed on about the 14 yd line no gain on the play for the Tigers brings up second down and 10 [Applause] T down [Applause] super on the car for blon p touchdown brings the score BL and 30 W seven [Music] [Applause] the point after by Abram Garrett is no good the score remain remains Blu in 30 Woodland seven me [Music] ch [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] kick is returned by woodam number 10 Shaden [Music] Snider tackle made by Bluff number 21 Bryce Patrick the ball is spot on about the 26 yd [Music] line the Warriors number six Drew Fleek with the carry a gain of about two yards on the play will bring up second down and eight for the Warriors [Music] [Applause] a fumble on the play and the Tigers recover the ball BL and will begin with the ball on the 30 yd line the fumble was recovered by block and number eight dean grizer [Music] ball carried by Blu number 11 AJ strer he is tackled by Woodland number two Carter Fleek a gain of about eight yds on the play brings up second down and two ball placed on the 22 yd line [Music] weling super carries the ball for a large gain that will bring up another Bluff and tiger first that's right first down ball is placed on the seven yd line for the Tigers bluffton's Cooper Craig with the carry takes the ball down to about the one yd line for the Tigers that will bring up second down and goal ACH ACH [Music] [Applause] [Music] touchdown Tigers welome Cooper Craig with the [Music] touchdown that brings up the score Tigers 36 Woodland s [Music] [Applause] the extra point for Bluff is no good score remains blon 36 Woodland s for for [Music] [Applause] Abram Garrett's kick for Blu and is returned by with the number 10 Shaden Snider for a very large gain on that play takes the ball down to about the 30 yd line play no flag on the play after the long return that brings up first and 10 for the Warriors ball at the 30 yd [Applause] line carry by The Warriors number four Jake l tackle made by Griffin Morgan for the Tigers no gain on the play brings up second down and 10 W fumbles the ball on the play it is recovered by the Tigers number 64 Cooper Jenkins on the recovery Tigers will pick up a first down now on the 30 yd line for [Music] [Applause] BL and carry by number 23 Parker Barnes gain of about nine yds on the play that makes second down and one ball on the 39 yd line [Music] Barnes carries the ball again for the Tigers and with his gain it brings up another Bluff and tigers first down that's right ball is placed on the 45 yard line the pass is caught by blin's AJ strer a gain of about four yards on the play that will bring up a second down and six for the Tigers ball at the 49 yd line [Music] the ball is carried by the Tigers number 23 Parker Barnes that brings up third down and three for the Tigers [Music] block Parker Barnes with the G brings up another Bluff and tiger first and 10 for the Tigers ball placed on the 44 yd line [Music] the Tigers take a knee on the play e [Music] as the time winds down that will bring our final score for the game blon Tigers 36 the r Warriors 7 we'd like to thank all the fans for coming tonight from Woodland High School and also all of our fans from bluon [Applause] once again fans thank you for coming out tonight we wish you a good evening and if you can help our custodians out clean up your area as you leave tonight you see any trash pick it up and put in the trash cans for us we sure appreciate that wish everyone a good evening tonight and drive safe on your way home [Music] [Applause] [Music] me all e w [Music] he okay to one night tomorrow's day miss my [Music] know for for B [Music] you for [Music] the hope you have a name he's a banker y'all he's a Banker Real Estate Group heon maybe you can help not good as me I told to buy that right great [Music] are [Music] much how much money I don't got money