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to showcase our great school for eighth grade students and prospective future pupils that is all until the next meeting and I hope that I may return with a fully positive Resort uh fully positive report next month as well thank you for having me thank you Mark and [Applause] welcome we're going to uh skip a little bit this evening because we have a lot of presentations later so we're going to start with board committee reports then we're going to go to public recognition um our first board committee report is residency and security and commissioner Santiago could you please read those minutes thank you president Paris The Residency and and security committee meeting agenda Tuesday September 10th the meeting took place on Tuesday September 10th and began at 5:06 p.m.

a.gov this is Katie great thank you so much you're welcome okay any any further comments or questions this is Britney I don't I don't have a question I just have a comment um my family has directly benefited from the death line project and I just want to say what a great program this is and I am so thankful that we have been I thankful for the support that they always give to families um in the death line community and I think what their work their work is incredibly important and I'm just really glad to have them around thank you Britney anybody else thank you again we appreciate that thank you so before moving on to 1.3 we are going to kind of flip things around a little bit and we are going to move 7 point not yet uh may I interrupt you uh Donna Williams is not here yet uh she appears to be stuck in traffic I'll try it after okay never mind we're not going to flip things quite yet um we're going to go on and move down to 1.3 call to the public for agendized items um the first person I have on my list is Elizabeth br house hello superintendent rikman board president Kel assistant superintendent katov and board members hello my name is Elizabeth Libby Brouse and I'm a preschool teacher at pdsd and the president of the Arizona school for the deaf and blind Education Association asdb EA I am commenting today with the support of and on behalf of ASD Bea which we do have some new members at at this board meeting today we're excited to see information and discussion of developing an H policy on the agenda today we noted that there are many H policy examples provided and we hope that those combined with the ones that we shared with board president kifl in December 2023 help begin to demystify what an H policy entails if you need access to the district policies and asb's notes and comments on those policies I'd be happy to share those again members of asdb EA made the choice to work at as DB because we have found community and we believe in the school as well as our students and families working at asdb is our livelihood we are looking for a seat at the table where discussions and decisions are happening that will shape the future of our agency not only do our students lives depend on that future but ours as employees do too just a couple of days ago superintendent rikman sent out a vlog update in that email she asked how will asdb continue to offer the best education and support to our students in 2034 with some considerations in mind she asked a second question in order to sustain asb's purpose and giving our students the best education and support possible how does asdb prepare for this future a as dbea believes that we have a responsibility to help be the solution for these challenges our agency faces we want to partner in a formal way with the board and superintendent on improving the working conditions retaining and attracting highly qualified staff and offering a unique perspective to the challenges we Face we can do this work in solidarity through a co-created h policy we hope that this is the first step in developing a partnership of supporting our students now and preparing our agency for the future our students depend on it and we depend on it thank you thank you the next person is Christina H hello good afternoon I'm Christina H and I'm a PR school teacher here at pdsd I've been with the agency since 2016 when I started my internship at Region 2 or formerly known as DVR as a young professional what stood out to me and what I remember while interning as an itinerant teacher while getting my master's degree from the University of Arizona's deed program were two things one the dedication everyone had to their students their families and the districts and the services we provided was UND deniable two the constant flow and collaboration of knowledge feedback shared responsibilities and expertise that we all partook in between my in between my supervisors Nancy and Patty at the time our director audiologists Sarah and Carol and fellow teachers Libby Trish and Marine to name a few seeing that willingness to collaborate between all of these professionals no matter the Tas task was not only admirable but moving so moving in fact that I said this is a place I want to work and grow in and eight years later I'm still here from an intern in college itinerant teacher at DVR and now at pdsd campus as a preschool teacher I ask the board to please consider helping ASD Bea with co-creating an age policy because what better way to continue a collaboration of expertise skills feedback and shared responsibilities then between all those professionals directly and its Union to be a part of thank you thank you moving on to um 1.4 information item superintendent report superintendent Annette rikman good afternoon president kifil board members acting assistant superintendent catch off or in catch off and the asdb community Welcome to our September 24th board meeting here 19th sorry I want to mention that the assistant superintendent Shaya Cooper will not be here she is on medical leave currently you have her written report and so if you have any questions related to her written report we have the executive director of it and HR and business services here here that are able to answer any of your questions so I'd like to continue our discussion from the last two board meetings about the importance of stability in the organization to support a culture of growth and of planning for the future especially when there are modifications and changes occurring there are things that we have to do to keep the organization stable first we have to stay true to the roots of our core values and our mission that include our beliefs that every student can learn grow and succeed our mission that says we are committed to Excellence in Innovation and providing education to all students in the state of Arizona who are deaf blind and death blind we are also committing to Excellence of innovation in our leaders ship in our collaboration in our Partnerships the second thing that we have to have as continued stability in the organization is clear goals and we have that thanks to you we have a strategic plan that is devised of the four pillars to excellent in communication and relationships to outstanding student devel velopment to superb organizational culture and effective resource management and then the third thing that we have to have for a continued organization of stability is a strong stable leadership team and thankfully again we have that and we have a leadership team that is truly committed to growing a thinking about out the future fostering growth so when we talk about developing a good plan the question is what's a good plan a good plan can survive the reality of the world reality we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow we can't predict the future a good example is in 2020 the covid pandemic shut down the world nobody predicted that that would happen so we have to have a plan that's also flexible fle flexible in its thinking flexible in its timelines something that allows for error a good plan has to be frugal very cautious and careful in how we use our resources so when you think about the plan and then you think about the outcome we know that the outcomes are never exactly what we thought they would be so we have to have some flexibility some movement in the outcomes similarly as well so if you keep that in mind how as we have this discussion about developing a plan for the future so the first thing that we have to do is we have to think about the future and in that we have to examine the environment we're in we have to scan our environment externally and internally externally what do we need to be looking at one thing that we have to look at is birth rates what's the number of babies being born currently comparative to last year five years ago 10 years ago 20 years ago because it's changing changes are happening and they are happening fast and what does that mean for us for the next 10 years and as it's affected by the birth rate the second thing that we need to look at is our state support the public education my question is the state legislature their priority will they continue at the same level of support for public education including asdb that's in question the third question I have is that the state support for the infrastructure of the state including the facilities our state is not funding the maintenance of facilities so what does that mean for asdb those are the three things and another question is qualified teachers professional staff interpreters OT PT when we're looking at our undergraduates and our graduate programs those students who are graduating with degrees that we want the number of those students is continually decreasing so how are we going to compete with the other schools for that reducing of qualified pool of people that are we want to come here and that we want to retain here so those are four questions and there may be other question but those are for that I can think of as we scan the external environment we also need to be looking internally at asdb the internal environment and the first question is the enrollment entrance of our students we had this information going all the way back to 1912 we have a lot of data about our enrollment so as I look at our enrollment our Trends what does it mean for our future in 10 years what will our enrollment look like I wonder the second thing another question is our students I just met with about 10 students this morning and I think they were first grade they came to the L building and I was looking at who these young people were and there were two death blind with their canes one was clearly with an intervenor and holding on not letting go to their ey a their instructional assistant our students their needs are changing when we predict 10 years from now what will our students needs be how are we how will we meet their needs so a third thing that I think we have to look at is our current staff our teachers our professional staff our staff how many will be retiring how many quitting in the next 10 years and how are we going to replace them and if they're not out there then how are we going to grow our own we need to look look at our facilities too because as you know the Tucson campus our facilities are aging and there's a lot of repairs a lot of Renovations here as well we need a lot of repairs a lot of Renovations and we are it seems every day that something else is breaking down we have the master facilities plan but where exactly are we getting the funding for that overall our funding our resources what are we needing support how are we supporting our program all of those internal environmental things that we have to look at looking at our data and figuring out what is it informing us what is it what story is it telling us about here so when we start discussing about our plan for the future we need to check our statutory requirements both federal and state that is the first step we have specific Arizona State statutes that say the purpose of asdb is to provide education to students who are de blind Etc we have to look at those statutes as our purpose they are the requirements we have to follow to comply with IDE EA as well there are other requirements that are we are bound by but we have to look those over first and then we are able to look at our own policies the policies that you have reviewed and approved those policies tell us in administration how to operate the agency and how we are going to run the organization so those two build the foundation and then we are able to develop a plan we do already have our strategic plan that you the board developed in 2021 this year is the fifth year of that plan and we are beginning to develop the Strategic plan 2.0 that will span 2025 to 2030 I will bring this plan for board revision and approval but currently it is still at the internal level where we are discussing and figuring out what the next 5 years could potentially look like for us other plans are going on other planning is going on as well for example our c re accreditation if you all remember in 2018 we got our first agency level accreditation from Advanced Ed now they've changed their name to cognia we just went through the re accreditation process and we submitted our self assessments our theory of action and then last week cognia interviewed several board members and members of the leadership team in order to collect additional information about our agency cognia has already informed us that we will be issued that reaccreditation they will submit a report to us in the near future January or February with the results of their review but last week Tuesday they did provide some feedback to us the positive feedback here says we have a strong culture of providing support that is aligned with our four pillars in our strategic plan our leaders are motivated to move the agency forward in a positive direction and improve services for our students we offer a wide range of services to our students all across the State of Arizona one individual from Utah said that we provide more than what they've seen there for their students who are deaf heart of hearing Blind and Visually Impaired and de blind and the fourth compliment they gave us was when they interviewed two of our board members those board members said that the agency has grown and improved a lot within the past eight years because of my leadership and they noted that things we need to consider um for improvement they suggested to revise and improve our data they want to make us to be more relevant and useful currently we are collecting a lot of data five years ago we didn't have enough and now we are overflowing with data but we're still not using it effectively to guide our decisions so we need to revise the data to so that it isef beneficial and helps us and we can all look at the data and use that in guiding our decision-making process they recommended we Implement a formal program of evaluation we have evaluations but we don't formally do program evaluation they said that our teachers need training on how to better Engage The Stu our students in their learning process and they said we need to continue our focus on Recruitment and retention efforts including mentoring opportunities coaching opportunities and certification programs that are under the agency's umbrella so that gives you a sense of cogia perspective on us so I just said we have the master facilities plan we have the budget plan that we have submitted to the governor's office and will and do so every year we have other plans but now we are starting the conversation of how can we take all of these plans and integrate them into our next strategic plan 2.0 so right now those conversations have just begun we want our strategic plan to be intentional and have benefit for all of us so again those conversations are happening now I'm going to close with two final thoughts first is that when you add or modify a policy that heavily impacts ASB it impacts how we are able to provide educational support to our students so I ask that you take your time to seriously review and consider and look through the impacts of the decision that you have in relation to our policies the second thought is that because of all of this as well as the changing environment there really is time for us to focus on planning for the future so maybe next February the board could have a work study session and have a discussion and analyze our fiscal resources because of course finances uh we have to consider we need finances to do anything I know most of you are not interested or you might feel not competent enough or knowledgeable enough about the financial piece at the same time we really do need our board members to have an understanding of our revenue and our expenses and how we allocate our finance Financial Resources so I do suggest February having a work study session so that board members have an opportunity to learn more about our financial resources and then we could continue ongoing work study sessions moving forward thank you for listening and for thinking about these things I've brought to your attention I'm now available for any questions this is board member both Annette I appreciate your comments sorry I forgot to to mention that my name is Linda speaking here um there's a lot of things that we need to take into consideration as we move forward however I would like to have those important things brought to us in work study spe study sessions so that can we can get a closer indepth knowledge I have several questions about several topics that you just mentioned but I think that might be better addressed in a work study session where we can come together and analyze and work together to brainstorm our way into the future I do appreciate all of the comments that you've made today I'm sure that President Kel has been taking several notes and I really appreciate the time Annette this is Suk I do have an additional comment or question um I agree I do think we need to sort of roll up our sleeves and dig into the financial aspects of it and really get a better understanding than you know most of us have of the finances with asdb but I'd also like to see some comparison for lack of a better word in how other districts are run because I think that's key for folks to understand um because you know we while we do operate as an Lea we are still a state agency and so that does impact us and I think we really need to look at sort of both sides of that coin um but I'm all in favor for a work study session on that I appre appreciate um your comments and I we do have a lot to think about moving forward does anybody else have any questions anybody on the phone no hearing none I'm going to move on do we have Don have Donna not yet not yet okay all right we will move on to um 1.5 information item assistant superintendent of curriculum in and instruction assistant superintendent catch off good afternoon board president kifil member of the board members of the board superintendent rikan and the asdb community it's hard to believe that we're about 1/8 of the way through the school year these always go so fast wow both campuses our Early Learning Program and our itinerant programs do continue to have Staffing shortages which includes shortages in interpreters and BR list shortages so similar to last year I want to publicly thank the principals the directors and all the teachers for continuing to be creative and trying to find ways of how we can provide the best education possible while we struggle through these shortages speaking of working together and teamwork in Late July following a foundations framework a training all ASL interpreters at asdb gathered for the second annual interpreter Summit at Phoenix College this was an amazing experience as our interpreters were able to learn together and I commend Dr Jennifer scarber and her team for the hard work in putting that together both superintendent rikman and I were able to make it down there and sit through some sessions and it was a quality event in late August our Early Learning Program had their 2024 Statewide conference where they continue to build on their vision and Mission I was able to attend one day and met with many passionate staff some new and some who have been with us for quite a while all of them had great questions and I can't wait to do some ride alongs with them just as superintendent rikman and I have now scheduled to do some rideal alongs with our itinerant teachers in northern Arizona later this fall one more thing about the Early Learning Program the Arizona Early Intervention Program which is referred to as azip and is sort of the counterpart to a they divide the state into three cohorts each year a cohort is selected for monitoring but because asdb provides services across the entire State we are monitored every year uh asip started their site visits with us about three years ago and today at azip site visit here they recognize asdb for meeting requirements three out of three years the azip director told me that you know sometimes the term meeting requirement sounds like a c but she said it is close to impossible to meet criteria so the fact that we've done it for three years is really uh quite an an undertaking uh this achievement is an example of the dedication of our ELP providers and I do want to congratulate Dr Kendra Benedict and our ELP team for the hard work I snatched the certificate from them because I wanted a prop for the board meeting so Dr Benedict if you want to come on up here and take this yes [Applause] right uh our leaders are also doing a great job promoting asdb across the greater Arizona community since taking the position as the Statewide director in July Jason Lily has been traveling all across the state meeting and presenting with special educate special education directors and staff in places like pintop sholo Window Rock Paige Tuba City nog Galis and Yuma regional directors Rosetta Hicks Greer Martin Parish and Jason Lily were also joined by our ELP director Dr Benedict and sped director Dr saris satilly at ad's Ida conference ni where they present as a team uh for a breakout session that was titled the umbrella of Services Under asdb the session received a great response and there were many questions that continued to happen after the presentation ended um one thing that has been made very clear since our last board meeting is that asdb will have some tough decisions to make as we move forward and as superintendent reikan mentioned so eloquently in her latest Vlog uh with the community some of these decisions will be hard I hope we will continue to work through them as a team and continue to show that we can work together and making these decisions Abraham maslo who's famously known for his maso's hierarchy of needs once stated that in any given moment we have two options we can step forward into growth or we can step back into safety in the case of asdb I think maslo is wrong uh stepping back into safety I do not believe is an option for us anymore between the Deferred maintenance costs Rising on our two campuses the state Bud budget shortage and the projected decrease in births across Arizona I think asb's only option is really stepping forward into growth luckily I feel we do currently have a team and a board ready to work together on these tough decisions and I look forward to seeing what kind of Amazing Ideas we can create in closure I do want to thank the de blind project today for having a presentation which was uh requested at the board from the board the board also requested two other items at the last meeting and we'll have those ready for the November board meeting the first was a presentation about our ELP program and the second was our academic outcome data so expect both those presentations at the next board meeting thank you if you have any questions let me know any questions anyone on the phone all right yes Mike go ahead um I don't want to call it a uh open meeting PP but uh I'd like to actually go back to the previous item because what Orin said certainly ties into that um we I think when he said we're already in E of the year into the school year it kind of just made me all of a sudden realize that you said we're going to do a a study group uh in February it seems like we putting that off a little too long particularly when it comes to finances which is going to be really fundamental or foundational to some of the it's not necessarily decisions being made but it would be to um to at least including that to some of the decisions making or at least input to it so U I just want to put out there that we may want to at least consider if there's other reasons that we can meet February to have some work I agree with Linda and W and I have talked about this at other work studies that we find them very valuable for us but actually have an opportunity to talk and share ideas and get a understanding of some of the issues because it's not really open to board meetings and we can certainly re report but for us to actually have open dialogue the work study groups are my far that so I'm just wondering if we have that opportunity maybe put one or two in between here do you want to say anything to that this is Annette we are now in the process of collecting the data there's a lot of data that we're inputting into a spreadsheet trying to analyze and do what we've been saying that we should have been doing all along is to look at our data analysis to interpret it and then use it to guide our decisions so the most recent educational team meeting executive team meeting the assistant superintendent Shaina Cooper shared some of the spreadsheet with the leadership to provide some ideas of data that we are looking at right now and trying to analyze trying to figure out how we use this information to develop a plan for the future so we are still in the internal analysis portion of our plan and it is we're just starting to share our thoughts with the board in Jan we will at the January board meeting and the February work session and then moving forward from there so it's all ready moving quickly is it as quickly as we want no but we need to take some time here to do some of the analysis internally ourselves first okay U so that's also including the uh just the kind of financial information sharing that get people up to speed with with uh how financials are actually reported and understand them so you're doing data analysis that would be included in the financial presentation yes for example we are looking at our staff numbers and we're doing comparisons comparison analysis so back in 2018 we had [Music] 574 full-time equ equivalence we call those FTE in 2024 we had 5133 FTE understanding that in 2023 we have 500 which means that 2018 to 2023 we have been successful at reducing the number of Staff just normal progression of analysis for every position that we make sure that is essential and if we need that position or not and we may not rehire automatically some of those positions but every position goes through a review to make sure that it is essential because the mindset has to change for the agency it's already changed so 2018 to 20 574 FTE to currently 500 in 2023 2023 we purposefully added positions several positions I think we added maybe 20 positions because our leaders were saying it's too much stress we're spread too thin we need more help supporting with special education we need support with Career and Technical education we need literacy instruction so at that point we had to decide to add those positions but as we added it was 20 and you could see our FTE now we have 513 so we're still less than the 2018 so that still shows the success but the questions becoming can we sustain that can we continue with 513 how much funding do we have to be able to bring in to support the FTE so that's the kind of analysis that we're doing so other analysis that we're looking at is our payroll because we pay salaries every two weeks so we have the historical data that we can compare to from 2018 and we compare it back to 2018 and we can look at how much we paid out in pay rule in every two weeks and we bring that forward and we look at our increases that we've extended to staff and I'm surprised from 2018 to 2024 we have increased our salaries all together it equals 10.8 million so we have to provide our staff I mean we've done it we have been providing salary increases and at the same time reducing the number of staff and increasing the salaries so we have to be able to balance and we have been able to balance that until last year and we're no longer able to sustain and balance that so now we have to figure out how we're going to make this sustain how are we going to continue to provide our staff with salary increases while the number of students we serve is decreasing meaning our revenue is decreasing and we are not investing in our facilities we're not doing the repairs we're not doing the renovations we haven't been doing this for a long time so this is the kind of analysis that we're doing right now that I don't think the agency has done has ever done so those are the kind of things internally that we're discussing that we're looking at that we're figuring out that the data is informing us of how we're doing and how we're comparing and then the results that end story that I bring to you the board so that you can take the lead and figure a plan for the future with good data with good analysis with a good understanding of the agency and what you have that historical comparison that it's not just finances but the staff the academic a achievement are all part of those things that we should be paying attention to that in the past did we pay attention to it I don't know but now we are anything else Mike no no that's that was a pretty thorough answer um I was really just wondering I didn't know was going to be that level of analysis and uh results being presented at the work study but if that's the case in a few months or certainly don't want to push uh push an agenda too quickly so if that's forthcoming for February that's something um we're all looking forward to because that's a a lot of information right there so um and if that's indeed the case then we'll we'll be able to proceed more quickly than maybe we were expecting because we're going to have a lot of on the table within just a third of the year so that's good thank you any other questions all right um hearing none I'm going to move on I'm going to move 7.5 um the udman report at this point um if we could have Donna Williams come up good evening thank you so much board chair knel superintendent rikman assistant superintendent cheze off Tire board and asdb family I made it let me tell you it was a feat but I am here and I so appreciate you accommodating my schedule for today all right so I don't know if we're going to be running the PowerPoint but I did have a summary I submitted both slides and a written report the written report is certainly more detailed um but I'm going to take just a few minutes with you this evening and talk about the slide presentation so just in summary um in my role I certainly continue to engage staff and the public in an effort to resolve concerns and also streamline processes and my activities during this reporting period have ranged from consultations to mediation to focus groups in fact the last time I was before you my report rep Focus solely on the focus group activities and results and so I won't spend a lot of time on that this evening I'll focus on the other items tonight in terms of the Continuum of services that continue to be available through the UN budsman um I continue to perform the full range of unbd services being a resource um of information all the way to conducting mediations and helping resolve interpersonal conflicts and other conflicts so as we look at the aggregate data from the reporting period which is January 2024 to June 2024 um there were so typically we have the form right that's been circulating for folks to use folks aren't using it but that's fine um two people did and uh of those two requests one was from a staff person and the other was from a parent um one of those was an informal complaint and the other was a policy concern the remaining approximately 18 users contacted the UN buds person via phone text or email I also responded to um 200 email during the same reporting period between the two email accounts so I have a Donna Williams account and I have a um busperson account and both were utilized probably equally as much um in most of those instances those matters were result olved with either subsequent email replies um in some cases um others required more detailed um uh resolutions that could include some research on my part or directing parties to other services or even setting up um consultations um most of the email contacts were information Seekers um people asking questions who what when where why how um and I was able to answer those questions and certainly once a user's questions are researched and answered or the user is directed to the appropriate resource for their answer the matter is considered closed and addressing user concerns via email appears to be the preferred method of communicating with me um that said um of the 200 or so email and the dozen or so phone calls that I received mostly related to policy or procedure inquiries or in a personal conflict um the matters were typically resolved through email again phone calls or subsequent consultations um the reasons um have varied um and the pie chart will show you that um the breakdown is approximately um the majority of them were uh process or procedure questions and that represented the the largest segment of inquiries and that would be followed by interpersonal conflict and then informal complaints and then policy questions I would say that during the same reporting period um I also participated in the planning sessions for the newly developed online complaint filing system and we're now live with that system um it's a little too early to report on the progress of the new automated system or the impact that the new service might have on unud Services overall but I do anticipate being able to share more on this topic during my next report which will cover July to December so look for that um again just to um reiterate um my last report regarding the um focus groups um I I I wanted to just reiterate kind of the opportunities that those follow-up focus groups presented um in an effort to just kind of solidify kind of the messaging around um what people were thinking during those sessions and so some of the opportunities included um instituting some level of accountability measures for example to track our communication efforts as you know we're working tirelessly to improve that at the agency um in the way of formulating a comprehensive uh communication strategy um and certainly what came out of those discussions was the need to um have some level of accountability for how well we're doing in that effort also implementing some Anonymous feedback options folks still want opportunities to share their concerns um with some degree of anonymity um and I think that um it it's appropriate to accommodate them in some respect um to being able to do that and also creating more opportunities to interact with you the board um in informal um environments and then finally connecting with more staff in the outlying areas um you know we're a large agency we're not like most school districts we have um facilities and staff all throughout the state and so what I heard over and over again is sometimes they feel left out and so um more efforts probably should be garnered um towards reaching those folks in addressing their needs and then finally just to talk about the uh comprehensive communication plan and that's ongoing we continue to make progress in this regard um all of the efforts that I mentioned previously from the focus groups are in an effort to add and bolster the communication strategy and as we continue to receive feedback from staff we'll continue to add to the pl framework one of the things that came out of the focus groups was the need to equip leadership with more Tools in their toolbox around having the very difficult conversations that um assistant superintendent cze talked about um and that you have talked about um and that we'll talk about in the coming um meetings and so one of the ways to do that is through training and one of my suggestions was crucial conversations and it's really um an opportunity to give staff some skills around having these really high stakes conversations because we're going to be having a lot of those um in the coming months and so I think it will help um facilitate those conversations and make them more engaging and more productive and so the first introduction to this training happened last week at the steering committee meeting and as we meet um as a leadership team um that training will be ongoing and so I'll have more to report on this training and how it's going um during my next report and one of the things I um emphasized in my last report and I will reiterate for this report is um underutilization um of the unbd services by the public maybe they don't need me I don't know but one of the things that we can do is certainly reach out to parents um in various ways such as using parents Square um we can utilize social media more um more of the web page advertising and marketing and then we also considered video shorts um including ASL um just to get them messaging out and so I look forward to working with media and other departments in the agency to get some of that work done in conclusion um I logged in approximately 148 hours during the reporting period that's consistent um six months over six months for the last two years I would say um and really I think the volume and tener continues to be enough for the amount of hours that I'm able to devote to this work again the most prevalent concern um con shared by users continues to be in a personal conflict no surprises there but I do think that as we improve upon our communication strategy as we build skill in the area of having crucial conversations um that need too will also decrease over time um and we'll continue to have focus groups so that we can kind of get a pulse on where staff is on the important issues that impact their uh daily jobs and that will also be um food for us to use to make improvements in the agency so with that my next report from this office will be in 2025 I believe it will be in the January board meeting and I'll cover the reporting period again from July 2024 to December 20124 that concludes my report I'm happy to take any questions thank you any questions yes this is Linda thank you very much for your presentation it was very comprehensive I appreciated it and it did give me some thoughts what I'm considering right now is as you said a family um engagement is not high I'm wondering about the deaf Community as well um in and the interpreting communities um how is engagement there is that something to um consider how can we bring the communities on board because of our pillars our four pillars we want to be engaged with those community members um and we do seem to see some distance so how do we make that connection and bring those folks in is that something worth um contemplating for in your role for your next uh plans your next session plans absolutely I think anytime that we can incorporate uh Greater Community engagement especially with the umut um umut person's office that's a great thing and so I am interested in having those conversations and trying different Strat strategies to bring those communities on board um in case there's a need for my services and even if there isn't just for my own awareness um of those communities and their needs so thank you for bringing that to my attention I appreciate it thank you any other questions anyone on the phone all right thank you so much I appreciate that thank you okay we're going to jump back up to 1.6 which is an information item um and since assistant superintendent of agency operation and support services is not here um you have the report in front of you do you have any questions there are staff here that could address them all right hearing none I'm going to move on to 2.1 um approval of the consent agenda items um which would be 3.2 5.1 6.1 7.2 7.3 and 7.4 I mov is it working yeah oh I move to approve the consent AG agenda items 3.2 5.1 6.1 7.2 7.3 and 7.4 I have a motion do I have a sec I second I'll second okay we have two seconds thank you all those in favor say I I I I I any opposition the consent agenda items pass moving on to action item 3.1 approval of new District agreements and that would be assistant super attended um catch off good afternoon uh we do have three new contracts uh if you have any questions please let me know any questions regarding the new agreements I am open to a motion I move this is Lynn I move to approve the new District agreements I have a motion do I have a second I'll second second thank you Britany um all those in favor of accepting um the motion say I I I I any opposition hearing none motion passes okay I can move this up a little bit okay moving on to action item um number 3.3 approval of 301 per performance um hold on things are popping up at me thank you extion item um 3.3 approval of 301 performance-based plan for um 2024 to 2025 assistant superintendent catch off good afternoon board president and members of the board every year we come forth to you on the 301 checklist uh for your approval if you have any questions about it I have Michael Olivier in the audience who can come up and clarify that for you I have a question this is Lynn um is this the same as we did last year let me see if I can get it looks familiar I believe a lot of it is the same but as this checklist goes through the organizational development Division I do uh ask that the director can clarify anything for you sure good thing hello good afternoon everyone can everyone see me okay okay thank you my name is Michael Olivier I am the director of the organization Development Division OD and the process this year is more collaborative we're asking for more feedback from our teachers for the 301 process when we're talking about the selection we've narrowed it down previously each department had their own items for example ELP the campuses we've now created one draft where individuals can select from an option of three and they can also select a specific goal they would like to work on based on their interest so after polling our teachers many agree that they would like to keep the form as is or revised based on some feedback than thank you thank you you're welcome thank you thank you any other questions or discussions otherwise I will entertain a motion this is Lynn I move that we approve the performance-based plan for the 301 monies for school year 2425 this is Linda I'll second that motion I have a motion in a second all those in favor say I I I any opposition hearing none motion passes moving on to 4 um 4.1 information item Finance report Kim bitr director good afternoon board president kifo superintendent rikman assistant superintendent chakov members of the board asdb Community I will try to keep this slower just shout if I'm going too fast you have been provided our most recent board report that covers the financial data for June 2023 and 2024 this data was covered in more detail at our most recent Finance commit meeting held on Thursday September 5th with board president kif and board member Gordon also in attendance were superintendent rikman and assistant superintendent Cooper in addition to the June Financial reports we discussed the budget that was submitted to ospb the office of strategic planning and budgeting on September 3rd in this budget proposal we included two funding issues one was for transportation and one was for related Services both of these costs have increased since becoming an Lea and the agency has not been funded as an Lea the full budget submission is available for your perview on our website the total student count provided in the board report for August 1st 2024 shows 1,922 students compared to 2,1 178 students as of July 1st 2023 a total decrease of 256 students registration was still occurring at the time this Report was generated however we have been seeing a decrease in the student count in all areas campus students have decreased by 35 Regional cooperatives have decreased by 106 preschool by 113 and birth to three by two students When comparing the student count to June 1st of 2024 there was 2,27 students that's a decrease of 105 compared to the August Camp the decrease in student count will impact our funding for Budget fiscal year 2025 since the instit institutional voucher the fee for service and the classroom site fund are all based on student count as of June 1st we had about 504 full-time equivalent which includes 8.5 full-time equivalent instructions at FBC foundation for blind children at that time we emplo employed 79 staff there are currently 164 vacancies across the agency that we were recruiting for the highlights of the June 2024 financial report show a total revenue of 62.2 million which was 700,000 lower than the June 2023 revenue of 62.9 million the major difference is the decrease in the general fund and the receipt of the fee for service Revenue The General fund is lower since we received 1.1 million in one-time funding for transportation and $866,000 in capital Improvement funds during budget fiscal year 2023 the fee for service Revenue was lower because of the delay in get getting the invoices out to the districts this is all offset by an increase in the federal grants and the classroom site fund the budget fiscal year 2023 obligated expenses of 64 million were 4.2 million less than budget fiscal year 2024 obligated expenditures of 68.2 million the increases were in payroll of 2 million professional and outside Services of 2.6 million offsite offset by a decrease in equipment and transfers out the the overall picture for Budget fiscal year 2024 shows that we will be using about 1.6 million of our cash balance to meet our obligations for the year for Budget fiscal year 2023 our revenues exceeded our expenditures by 2.6 million if there are no questions this concludes my report for our financial data for June Kim this is Linda I have two questions for you first of all um you mentioned enrollment numbers um and I'm I have some questions especially with the decrease in the 0o to three and in preschool you mentioned over 100 students decreased um so I have questions about that but then also because of these decreases how will that impact the funding for our next year and for for years into the future what does the picture look like um I don't know if now is the appropriate time to ask those percentages or what does the potential decrease of our budget look like as we see these enrollment Trends continue into the future and how can we manage this fiscally I know that we need more work as far as data and Analysis but if you have something off off hand to uh recommend that'd be great so first I want to say that these numbers were before registration was completed and I have talked to Dr kend Kendra Benedict and the numbers for like FBC those were higher than what I originally reported by another 20 students she said she had some extra enrollments so the October 1 numbers that I'll report on in November should have a more accurate count since all the students should be entered and those are the numbers that we report to ad Arizona Department of Education um I did mention that our student count does affect our funding as far as the institutional voucher the fee for service and the classroom site fund one thing that I do know is the classroom site fund per pupil account the cost has going up we were getting $758 per student in 2024 that's going to so even though our student count is going down that's going to increase but I don't think that's enough to offset the difference in the number of students so yes we will definitely be in that analyzing that right so put okay just wanting to know not enough if you have a quantifiable how much not enough but no thank you and and this is Suk I will add this is some of the things that we will be looking at they will have the data for us in the February work study meeting any other questions for Deb this is Lynn hopefully this is an easier question um just looking at the actual expenditures I was just wondering what personal services that's salaries okay yeah that's I saw that in a number of places was curious yes thank you anybody on the phone have any questions or comments no thank you this is Su again I'm going to make a a plug here again to say we could use another board member on the finance committee and even if you don't feel competent in this area it's a great way to learn um they go through things very specifically and in detail we have time to ask questions so I'm just putting that out there again if you want to learn more about this before we move into a work study joining the finance committee would be a way to do that that was my PSA for tonight okay thank you thank you okay we're going to move on to 6.2 information um discussion and possible action item um education organiz ganizations at asdb and we do have the option to go into executive session um for any consultation or legal advice with our board's attorney as it relates to this item yeah this is Linda I would move that we go into executive session to discuss this issue with the attorney I have a motion do I have a second thank you Britney I have a motion in a second all those in favor say h i i any opposition okay we will move into executive session um pursuant to ARS 38 43103 A3 the board may vote to go into executive session which will not be open to the public for discuss consultation for legal advice with the board's attorney as it relates to this item and we will um go into it move to go into executive session at at I'm going to say 5:40 to give people a break before and get everything reconnected Deb did I do something wrong oh she's okay nope I think we're good okay so let's say um 5:40 we will begin executive session that way we can give folks a break I'm bringing yeah I am I'm bringing it because I do want to look at you I can do it I I will have lots of questions I'm sure e e e oh so we don't have to worry about it okay AC okay cool y on the motion to go into executive session Lind was the one that made the motion who second Britney Britney I miss that it wasney do it it's okay it doesn't it doesn't bother me I just was like I didn't know it did that so I'm still kind of learning I wanted to let you guys know because I know then said she didn't really like this one they're phasing out more dos it's going away this is kind of the redoing with some things that it does have I there's still things in there that I don't really like that I brought up at the conference and I said I like this better over here well it's hard because it like this is so big that on these screens I feel like I keep going 125 130 14 you used to be able to yeah yeah and I I do like being able to have the different tabs open but I I need to bring my own Mouse I brought mine because I can't do this thing either makes me crazy me too yeah it must be it must be our generation I I do the same you want to make your screen bigger you can go up here make it bigger well I can do it here too they have a little plus and minus here but every time you move to another page it goes back to 100% And what I didn't like about the when you open to try and do the minutes that's why I had attach them the other way because you go in here and it brings all this and still shows the all the attachments and I'm like that's just taking too much room but I get why they do it because that way you're somebody's reading the minute you can just click on what was approved you know but and I get it but even though I'm just picking all right okay what do we have here do you do you want to read my motion testing okay okay do we have everybody do we have everybody on the phone I'm here I've got Mike is Britney there I'm here okay I'm here um give me one second [Music] are yours thank you got old school pen okay all right I think we're ready to resume um we'll start back up into the open meeting at 6:25 p.m.

our panelist will include uh Dr Penny Ling um she's uh a clinical psychologist who teaches at um quinac Dr Allison Bell is a pediatrician who lives in town and uh we have uh Amry wienberg and Kristen Shanley amar's an elementary teacher Kristen's the English department chair at DOD and they are both former treasure Public Schools teachers of the year uh as well as uh Doug Levens who's the executive director of the chesher YMCA so uh it should be an interesting panel discussion um probably about an hour where we'll ask some uh scripted questions and then give the opportunity for people in the public uh to ask any questions of our panelist as well so uh looking forward to that on October 29th hope to see you guys there thank you Dr son Mr White you have comment thank you yeah you said 7 PM yes is that a I'm thinking Halloween is a Thursday this year so that's a Tuesday yes okay that's before Halloween and and Allison is a high school classmate of mine 1990 cool thank you Mr gero um I I don't know if this would be illegal or not but could well it's not illegal that's never a great leading for a question but let's let's go for it could I ask that that October 29th meeting be put into our calendars or is that you know or would that then create an illegal meeting of it wouldn't be posted as a meeting per se um it's not a meeting of the board that mess things up if like we if you all show up th that's perfectly fine this is a it's um Community event just like if you all went to the football game on on Friday you know if you all stood there and discussed board business business like a de facto meeting that would be problematic but you can all attend um you could even sit together you just can't discuss board business like you can't say hey what do you think uh we should do on the budget this year you know that would be inappropriate but certainly all be there and you could certainly all like I said even sit together as long as you don't discuss board business okay um and then secondly um I'm not sure if you commented on this but what do you think the um tone was in the room during your meeting for for the uh the reading assessment was it better than last time or it may depend who you asked but I you know I thought it was pretty good um you know I I think um they understood the frustration that we had um and I think our frustration stems from our deep and long-standing commitment to teach the science of reading and how that may not have been interpreted not necessarily by them there was a if you if you remember there was a a consultant group that did the evaluation and so you know we're trying to reconcile some differences which can always be a little bit challenging um and I wouldn't say you know that they rolled over for us or that we you know um said okay we'll buy every program Under the Sun you know what we uh kind of came to the agreement on is trying to learn a little bit more about uh what they can do to support us and how we can get closer to what their expectation is and I feel pretty good about where things ended in the meeting so are there any deadlines that we have to meet or anything like that or July one 2025 is the deadline to be like fully compliant um but you know I think we're committed to work together over the next couple of weeks to see what we can do to to close that Gap thank you good night yeah I was just going to add that in that room I think the tone was very much one of commitment to hearing what the people around the table had to say on both sides that's definitely an improvement yes Mr White thank you so I know the policy committee is going to be working on um social media policies use of devices in school but even before we get there I've already been told that I'm a mean dad who just doesn't understand fifth graders um my understanding is that Norton has a uh Norton's policy is probably a little bit stricter than it was last year um I'm just curious at a school level do you have any sort of broad Strokes you could share about what's happening as directed presumably by the principles or by you sure thanks for the question Tim you know our administrative team read the book too and um the research and data is undeniable um and you know with that group and with other groups I've said that um it's really the emotional equivalent of smoking uh it's really that detrimental for kids and you know I said hey you know what we're only going to allow middle school kids to smoke at lunch people would think I was out of my mind right um because that is out of your mind because it's it's so unhealthy we know that about cell phones we're not permitting cell phones during the day we're much more rigid about it um in all levels including chesher High School um chesher High School is developmentally different you've got young adults there um and so there's there are different parameters there but you're still not taking your cell phone to the bathroom you know chure High School which is a massive departure um so you know yeah there's it's much more stringent and and at the open houses our principles uh explained not just the process but there was a lot of emphasis placed on the anxious Generation Um I'm sure I know Mary was um talking about it with her group I just happened to know off the top of my head today that um there were 17 requests for books from dot uh to read the book um that we got after open house so and that was early this morning so um I know that uh they people are hearing the message um and I hope that uh you will be just like the other mean dads in fifth grade you know by the time it's said and done that you won't be you won't be alone yeah I mean your kid will tell you you're alone I mean that's how all of our kids do but yeah I'm the worst ever yeah yeah we're all terrible human beings and you know but I think there's Solace and know KN that other parents are terrible human beings too and because that's the biggest thing that I hear from parents is really didn't want to get my kid a phone but um you know I didn't also I really was petrified that they'd be left out they'd be the only one without it um and if there's a broader social commitment to not doing it then there's security and it's better for our kids so I think a lot of people are buying into that conversation and that's why I keep saying I think education is a critical component we have a rule in Connecticut a law against speeding everybody does it anyway you know it's it's one thing to have a rule it's another thing to be educated and and people quit smoking not because it was against the law but because they knew it was going to kill them and so you know we're educating here families and and kids and staff to recognize the detrimental nature of social media and you know I think in two short months we made significant inroads we're connecting with you know Doug Levens from the Y um Sean Kimble is reading the book uh uh John gock the um Parks and Rec is reading the book Youth and Social Services Michelle picillo um the preschool uh directors in town are on board you know I'm doing a workshop for them I think early next month so uh I have Carol were planning the lunch for the high school kids that read the book that I offered it to so you know we're making sign significant inroads I think um especially for the relatively short window we've been working on it but it's that important that we have to keep pushing hard thank you yeah I appreciate that I I don't think it was a story that you had shared I think it was something that I had read um associating social media device use with cigarettes and people may not see it today but I think it was a story I read and it was someone talking about how they in the 1950s were served cigarettes with their lunch at school this is something that you do yeah um I don't know if that's true I I find it plausible I but that's what that's what was conveyed to me somewhere um anyway uh I want to take it one step further I know I've probably did some people been annoyingly preachy about this but going beyond the kids and this is something that I'm working on personally we as adults have to I do believe it is important for us to model for the kids and um so starting with the teachers in the classroom but beyond that us at home and Society in general I have my phone I look at it during the meetings I generally jotting down a question on notes so I can wait my turn and as the question um nonetheless I I I do think it's really important for us to model for kids they're going to probably often follow what we do and the less we're doing it at you know times when we probably shouldn't be the better off the kids will be the better off frankly society would be I I'm not a big fan of social media in general um but anyway that's that thank you I appreciate that um I just wanted to commend you and your staff uh for it appears using the captive audience of the open house to talk about the book uh was at the e8th grade open house and Mrs gorillo and uh Mr Murphy yep um uh gave a think a 10-minute presentation about the book um and you know looking around the room it seemed like maybe even after they received multiple emails and asked to participate that some of those parents still seem to be kind of surprised by the whole thing so it's was great they you use that of audience time to kind of talk about the book and and tell them that copies are available and it's just an important issue so yeah yeah it is like you know everybody's super busy you know and I know that this might be hard to believe given the fact that I have 1451 followers on Instagram but people don't care when I send out an email it's shocking to me too um so I I you know you have to find a lot of different ways and the um the parents and staff who came to those book clubs they they put together a lot of strategies we collectively designed strategies and that was one of them making sure that at open house we're really driving home the messages you'll hear it again at parent conferences um because I I had a parent sign up uh really late and it was like what what you've had 15 of these already they didn't know um and I I appreciate you know as a parent how busy we are and you may may miss it so we're going to keep the message going um the panel conversation is really a great opportunity so I appreciate you guys sharing the word ironically posting on social um and getting things out there so we do have good attendance particularly from people who may not have been in the choir yet you know that are not aware of the message thank you Dr s although I do have an idea how you can improve your following do like a podcast of the book oh okay I was afraid you were going to say have like Marlene dress up like The Brick dancer from Australia that would definitely fantastic yeah I think that would that would probably get more than try that first please you heard it here Marley what going in your going in your I was waiting for giata to be Gata but then you brought that up so that's better you have a question oh well we have figure out the button uh we have old business if anybody has any old business to discuss um know and then new business I don't have a report I just have a comment I'm really excited when we um signed to move you know schools being built and then next week we have another scheduled meeting too on the 26 with NextGen so that's very exciting I'm looking forward to that as well as the ground break in December so things are moving along so we're really I just can't wait till opening day um the other piece um I want to mention there is the cave conference coming up right Carol so if board members have not yeah the convention um was it October no November so any board members that are able to attend I highly recommend it and um November 15th and hopefully we'll be hearing some really good news prior to the 15th so I'm gonna what town is it in uh M no it's the my Mystic Maria in all right it's down like exit 90 or something is the point so it's close to an at least an hour 15 probably close to an hour and a half Drive okay and it's a weekday Friday Friday until Saturday got it thank you and they usually have a very powerful opening ceremony which I've appreciated for the past couple years I don't know Mr GLE you've been to and Dr herin if you want to speak to any of the ones you've been to um but I think it's just good to kind of a network with the rest of other districts and then hear more on what the state has to say if you can make it please do so um and then just to the point of the chonic absentee question I I believe the state does have um a grant that if need be we can look into for engaging Learners um but I I also believe that we do a really good job in engaging Learners so which is why we have a high participation rate for our testing and so forth so just a thought for future um outside of that we have those meeting dates that we talked about um there is a motion here but I don't think we're doing that okay yeah no because we have it scheduled for September 23rd which will be our Boe Personnel committee meeting um at 6:30 and then we have the September 26 meeting joint meeting of the Boe and ngbc um location okay so the Board of Ed conference room on um on the 26th September 30th will be the joint meeting of the Boe and Town Council 700 p.m.

the the lesser of the two potentiality is there um so the three vendors gaining their seniority are maniacal me ziko life um which is just breit and his spice company and the last one is upperhand fish and that was not not in the correct order I think upper hand fish actually has the most seniority of those um or no Z anyway it doesn't matter it's all written down so when we do the process it will all be accurate this is what happens with uh we work 12 plus hours at a food truck rally the prior day to this meeting um so so yes so that will be happening uh and the Stalls that are available currently are stalls uh 1032 8384 and then 102 103 104 um and so that is the deal and of course for those of you that know how the process goes those numbers are very much subject to change that's just how it begins but anytime anyone SW swaps out a stall um that changes and I know this is always an interesting question especially for new dailies getting their status because they're like well I want to say that I'm G to get stall 10 and it's like well there is no guarantees there will be a stall 10 by the time their turn comes in the move up um process so that is the deal that I have with that it should be pretty straightforward um we're definitely not having as many people in years past move up um but we are still very quickly turning over um you know compared to the past so like I'm I'm aware of that because again these folks are all vendors that have started since I've been the market manager so that's how quickly um we are turning over now so it's you know probably within like a three to five year more on the three side um currently but that could be could be changing in the future um we did have a vendor who was going to relinquish their seniority um but they decided against that decision so we would have had more people um but that changed uh in the last month so that is a difference there uh but otherwise you know that's where we're setting and who knows what the future will hold for next year there may be more available still um but that's where we're at for right now so I don't know if folks had any questions or comments about that process or anything like that all right well that's great so um but again if you're curious about the details it is very very specific in the pmac uh rules or the Public Market operating rules sorry wrong wrong acent um but but that's there and I did share those details as well with all the vendors over the last few weeks um what the process looks like and all that so great but yes that will be those new vendors though that's a huge thing for them yes yep and it's a big thing for anyone really if people want to change a stall people want to add an additional stall for annual vendors that are eligible that's also possible now um theoretically it's also possible for parking to become available but you know those are few and far between uh when those come up so it's probably just going to be stalls this time around great that's sort of the biggest um operational thing going on for vendors um in my updates the next one is events and I did some foreshadowing of that is that we had our September food trk rally last night um it was our largest of this season I think it may be tied for the most of last year um which was 21 total which is a lot of those were food trucks um about and then the other five were popups or food carts so people that have smaller operations like the succulent is one example of that or right spice kitchen um and you know we did a lot a lot of leg work to try and get the marketing out um uh lonea and I flyed I flyed at Washington Community College she flyed all over town in an arbor and on campus um we also included the announcement in a few um student list reses um we had a ton of social media marketing on it so we you know we tried to go our above and beond and it was well attended but not as well attended as we would have liked um just for that sheer number of trucks I think the downside of yesterday as well is it was very hot um you know it went from Beyond being nice weather to people do not want to be outside although so sort of our August weather um for returning for continuing um but again you know we did everything that we could from a marketing standpoint but it's another lesson that we had sort of already learned last year um that it seems as if our right number is you know no more than like 16 to 18 is kind of our magic number um the other thing we had trouble with this time around is we had trouble securing music um part of that is we reached out to multiple people that were just not available there was other people that you know we did not have enough funds to entice them so it's a combination of the two but we reached out to multiple musical acts that were just not available and the other thing I should say about the food trck rally it's got to be a very specific type of music it's got to be loud is the one thing uh whereas like we have plenty of really great jazz musicians that come play uh but it's not really the best venue for them because they do get drowned out by the generators so but unbalance we did have beautiful weather so that was great and we made just under $1,000 in revenue for the market um through just rent so that's the other upside of having a very big rally um but you know I'm not sure that it is the best option because you know it ends up us feeling badly that the trucks aren't doing as well as they could um although there were still people selling out there were still people with lines but some of the folks you know you could tell they they weren't doing as well as as they had hoped but anyway I don't know if folks have any questions or comments about that item and then I'll tell you about other events great um the last thing I will say too about that is we did have one new vendor uh joining us which is schwarm MF from ipy so we are expanding our Cuisine representation um but and we also o did have four fully plant-based trucks and carts last night with many others offering plant-based options so we do have all of those bases covered and I did talk with veano Italiano um owner Rosie yesterday about maybe next year we could do one of the rallies be fully plant-based so only bringing um that and I know they've she had wanted to do something like that before um but we were just like yeah we can't add other events but we thought maybe for next year that would be an interesting Twist on on stuff would be to just make a fully plant-based event great well in terms of other events um we had our September cooking demonstration last Wednesday during market and that was conducted by just jpr from zika and that was very successful um very well attended people really excited to taste the items he also basically made like a five course meal um so there was a lot of different things going on he showcased at least eight um farmer products of course with his spices um and it was just really wonderful and they expressed interest in maybe participating again for next year so um it was really great and it was going to be the last of our series that we had another person who is interested so we decided to add an October cooking demo which will be October 9th and that will actually be a Tempe uh making demonstration led by a woman named py sulaman who is an immigrant from Indonesia so it will be a very very authentic uh Tempe making workshop and she has in the past done similar stuff at the library um similar demonstrations at an Republic schools and other places around town so we're really excited for that coming up um and the good news for that too is that um they found more money in the grant for from Michigan farmers market Association um so our full series is covered um by them for this year which includes everything from paying the participants a $150 honorarium um allowing them to purchase up to $50 of produce and other items from Market vendors for that and then all of our sampling and you know everything else so that's pretty great so that's where we're at with those events um other events that are ongoing is we're right in the middle of our Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra partnership we've had two concerts so far Wednesday during Market there was the Reed Trio that came and gave a great concert um we also had the brass quintet from um the prior Wednesday and then this Saturday is going to be the string quartet so it is going to be exciting and we need to figure out where in the world we will fit everyone because it's going to be a very full Market um with move up you know and encouraging other people to be there that may or may not be there normally um so that's fantastic we've also had a really lot of success this year um because the other part you may remember from last year or not is that we uh are able to give out free vouchers to our food assistance customers once they come to the office they swipe their card we say hey do you want this voucher it's good for up to four concerts any concert that the symphony is playing the entire season that they can go to um and if they want to go to one they can bring up to three people with them or if they want to go to four concert themselves they can do it people are really excited about it um we and I think we still have some tickets left but we've given out a large portion what do you think Hannah you're you're closest to the pile so I think we've got about 20 left um okay yeah yeah it's just a lovely partnership with the Symphony they're really great to work with yes yeah it's been fantastic we hope that they continue doing this every year and it's not just us they are doing concerts at other farmers markets they've been doing concerts in Chelsea as well as Ipsy um so it's a really great uh thing and also yesterday uh we had the sister city delegation from tubigan uh Germany visiting the market we met the mayor and there was sort of a hilarious story there whereas Fiel thought that he was the mayor of Ann Arbor who she has never met because they do look pretty similar they are both tall they look extremely similar they dress the same they somehow have the same mannerisms yes it's very yes it's a little bit Eerie yeah she realized when she said but you have a German accent and he said but of course um any anyway that was the tidbit that I heard yesterday but they really enjoyed themselves they were very excited to see the market I know a lot of them were plotting a way to come back on Saturday to shove it in their SK very very busy schedule to see if they could uh do some more shopping before um they they headed back so that was uh pretty great and they told us a lot about their City Market um right in their City square and stuff like that so there was a lot going on and then of course yesterday we had an arbor open um had their annual field trip to Market so right around the exact same time the concert was happening and the delegation was there there was over 150 uh first and second graders getting snow cones from Carol and uh you know generally enjoying the market space so there was a lot going on yesterday both during the market and after the market and then I don't know if I have any other updates it's just we've been working with musicians as it comes beyond the symphony sometimes we have the two Stevens Jazz they've been coming a few times uh we're excited to announce that the library wants to continue the partnership from this year and you know be more planned out for next year which was something we've been trying for for a while um so thanks for the leg work uh that Hannah put in on that thanks for the reference um from a regular customer that helped make that happen so it was a really great um partnership again and again they had such a good time they want to come back for more days and uh more stuff coming next year um and then the last thing I have in just in terms of just events uh we've been having a lot of really great Community groups coming this year we've been having OSI there um with their climate interns pretty much every Wednesday with a few exceptions um so that's been a great partnership the shelter Association of Washington County has been tabling recently um Samaras was actually at the Food Truck Rally last night so we've been having a lot of good consistent community groups um veg Michigan also last week they were U promoting their 40-day plant-based challenge um and they were giving out um free samples of plant-based food made locally as well so we've been having a lot going on on the Wednesday markets and then a very consistently full uh Saturday market as well so I don't know if I'm forgetting anything Hanah in terms of events but I think that's a a good overview any questions or comments great it sounds like it's been a really busy busy end of summer that's really exciting a very vibrant environment yes it's been great and part of it we weren't sure um what the challenges in terms of space reduction would hold due to the trailer um because the trailer office we've lost about 11 spots in The Sandlot area as a result um so we have had to get creative and bring back some of the sidewalk spots which will most definitely be in use this coming Saturday I think we're probably going to use every inch of space that we have I did a maap uh map draft due to anxieties about where we going to fit everyone um so so yes it's been very very busy in a good way all right so next item is just vendor updates um which is a great segue from what we were talking about in terms of busyness um so for most of the main season we have had a moratorium on bringing on more vendors simply because we weren't sure what our space constraints would be we didn't want to overpromise and then not have enough space for regular vendors um but with that said we have had two applicants that we thought were very very strong um so we have brought them on one is a new peanut butter person that has been at Market um at least probably about a month now Mitten peanut butter company it's all handmade different types of peanut butters that they make um they've been very popular so far and they' have a lot of um experience at other farmers markets and now they're just joining us too and then the other one is Unity vibration kombucha wants to come back I know they were a vendor years ago long before I was here um but they are not going to be selling their kombucha because they are considered beer so they're not actually a able to sell it at the farmers market but they're going to be selling their other um beverages which is a non-alcoholic line of um things like that and they will be restarting on Saturday um so look for them and that's really exciting for those who don't know them they are very well established uh business in Iolani um that has been in operation for a long time and again was a previous vendor so we figured you know that was kind of a no-brainer to bring them back on plus we don't currently have kombucha at Market um because Apple Blossom who is the one that we had before is based in Lancing and it's hard for her to get down here plus she has a tap room and other markets up there um so that's another reason why both of these classes got on they were things that we did not have same thing with the peanut butter we had someone who was doing peanut butter last year that was at at Market pretty sporadically um but so we did have a need in terms of that too and yeah so so that's where we're at in terms of new vendors um but still we're getting inquiries we'll see uh we'll see if we bring any other folks on before next season the only one that's kind of a question mark right now that I need to look more in their application is somebody that actually sells um worm castings and worm products for Gardens and Farms wants to apply or has applied and wants to join us but we'll see again if we have enough space but anyone right now we pretty much said you know getting in before November is going to be really difficult um and November 1st is sort of our unofficial time when things slow down slightly but not very much just to the point where we won't be completely overflowing and just full so but yeah let let me know if there's any questions or comments about um vendors in that regard cool um well maybe I'll just bring this up then because I know a lot of people people really wonder and I've had a vendor ask me this on Saturday as well um wondering you know why we don't have as many farms coming in why we don't have as many farms in the past and as you all know as we've talked about before uh we just don't have those folks applying um we do give priority usually to farms and then anyone else that wants to come on you know they have to show like a really strong support for our local community in some way right we know that Unity vibration does Source some of their stuff locally we know that the vast majority of our prepared food people um do buy items at the market from our vendors um as the basis for their food so I just wanted to reiterate um that when we are assessing new applicants when we have space um the priority is always for farms and then it is also about if it's a prepared food if it's a value added item if this is item that we don't have we is part of the equation if it's an item that this person is using the majority of their product um from local sources that's another uh thing and then the other thing is you know can they make a commitment to the market because we have a lot of people that say hey can I come once this month and try it out like no that that's not how it works like we have to have priority for people that um really can make a commitment to be with us on a regular basis uh and then the last thing too is that we need to have them show us a level of experience right because if it's somebody who's like oh I just started this business it's going to be great I want to start at the market um no you know because we are so full and there's so many other markets so we refer them to other places and we say Hey you know once you build up if you're still interested come back and see us in the future um but we have so many people especially make Goods uh folks that are like oh I just started baking this one thing can I come to Market and yes no so um um again just to reiterate the folks that are bait Goods at our Market are folks that are incredibly exceptional in what they do and have an emphasis on local sourcing um so and same thing with Artisans you know we have very very limited space on Artisans so this has to be an incredibly amazing product that we do not have represented yet that is within line with what we do you know local sourced ingredients something unique organic non-toxic if it's body care products stuff like that so just to reiterate I think it's important to address from time to time that we're not just letting everyone in that applies most certainly not we're very very restrictive in our uh application process and review and it does take us a long time um to make these decisions as well because we want to make sure we are um weighing all of the options but yeah so I don't know if anyone has any comments or questions on that otherwise we can move on yes Han or sorry Emma um I was just wondering so you had said there was sort of a moratorium but you let those two and how many applications have come in during that time um well I will say there was the unfortunate mishap of us missing our mail for multiple weeks so I don't know if there was ones that were mailed during that time period I had a feeling there was maybe at least one cuz someone had left a message saying I was wondering about my application I was like I have no idea who this person is I've never seen this application um but uh I would say maybe 10 at least 10 to 15 Hannah say 20 so I would definitely between 10 and 20 yeah yeah it's a range you have to tell a lot of people know but yeah yeah yes yes we definitely tell way more people know then yes by far like it's not even it's not even in the same sphere the upside with Artisans though um if it's a quality product we do refer them to the Sunday market um where with baked goods you know it's hard to refer a person with baked goods because again there's so many markets that are in the same boat as us and that there's so many bited Goods that want to participate um so that one's a little bit of a harder one whereas at least the Artisan Market we have alternatives for them and again if not the Artisan Market itself then there's you know kindlefest and and special events um like holy bones and stuff in Ipsy too that we can refer them to if we had to but yes it is a very high volume and definitely the most popular class of applicants is Big Goods no doubt about it um probably followed by Artisans then value added than Farms so thank you yep any other questions or comments on that item before we move on all right everyone's favorite update facility and repairs um so this morning we had a meeting um me and park Ops folks and um Park planner Adam Hero at the market uh because we are hoping to see soon get an awning over the door of the market office trailer because due to condensation and Rain there is lots of Dripping happening onto people onto things onto signs um so we met with them to see sort of what that would look like to fix it and the original idea they had was a bunch of posts that would obstruct people's walking access so that was uh sort of nixed and they're going to redesign but they do not need a buring uh building permit or anything like that because it's just going to be a small you know maybe two posts like this with the little awning sticking out and then it will be bolted sort of under um the trailer so that was a meeting we had and then it also turned into a meeting of prepping for demolition meaning making sure we know that we have to you know make sure the electrical grid is transferred to someplace else so that we don't have any ruptions during Market same thing with the water although when the demolition happens of course the water will be off for the winter um also talking about you know making sure that it is in the mix moving portapotty moving the Pod all of the things that we're going to need to do um no later than December end of December um because the demolition will be beginning um for sure mid January um and then there's also other items too that were left behind behind by the janitorial staff um and then the other option too is we spoke about if there were any items that were not going to be salvaged by the city whether or not um vendors could have the option to have access to these things if they need them this could be anything from like bathroom sinks to Old photographs that are up inside the building right because everything else has been moved out we're really talking about the last bits um or like the vents in the bath you know like things like this would probably be thrown away um unless but we did want people to have the opportunity to salvage if they want to um but yes but we have just started the conversation of coordinating all of those items with that said um repairs and other broader conversational things have somewhat been on hold until we can um have a better sense of this Market planning process right in terms of the steering committee in terms of the visioning um but again if it's an emergency obviously we're fixing something right if I don't know if something is falling on someone it will be fixed but it's you know but if it's like crumbling concrete that's probably going to have to wait because unfortunately you know that's happening in so many places um and that will be part of the the overhauling um but in terms of the demolition the other update I did receive is is when it will be um demolished they did plan on removing the sidewalk from that area and I know Adam talked about this this in his presentation um but just to give more updates they're going to put asphalt down they're going to put some concrete down so that we can reclaim that space as we figure out what's going to replace it we can use it for stalls we could potentially use it for prepared food if we wanted to musicians like we can do a lot of things with it um but that is part of that um I did ask them about the trees behind the office building a few of those may have to come out um as part of the demolition but unfortunately some of them are struggling uh with health anyways um so that is potentially coming to and they did say as well when the demolition is happening that entire area is going to be cordoned off they're probably going to take the benches out for safekeeping as the demolition happens and just um fence off that whole area so it can't be um accessible and people can't injure themselves in there but then once it is laid down um we should be able to use it again and with that we may have to move the shed it was still somewhat unclear um about you know where that would go or if we had to actually move it um and then unfortunately because of the demo we will be losing some vendor parking spots um temporarily so and it's unfortunately all the people with assigned spots um but we will just reassign those spots to the other side of the sand lot and other places in the market which should be okay because this is going to be winter um so it should be no problem at all um bringing folks to the other location um because they have a deadline of the last week of April because they are on contract to be done before Wednesday Market starts in May so that's at least what I was told today uh so that's the the most recent update that I have about that project the other um element I will say is that Adam is going on paternity leave in less than two weeks um so we will have somewhat of a delay in um the visioning process uh because we need to kind of wait till he gets back to to start that up so any comments questions concerns how long will Adam's leave be he gets three months okay great yeah anyone else well I will say to you I know we had talked about sort of the bird netting I don't know what the status is I have heard nothing at all um about it since we inquired um with Park Ops but I would assume again it all has to do with the holding pattern of everything waiting for the visioning process so apologies on that I know we were hoping that we're were going to get really close this year um but it has not come to pass as of yet and the same thing that is why there is still a hole in the concrete over behind the Pod area um because they don't want to touch it because that area is going to be in the demolition footprint anyway um so as unfortunate as that is um that's why that has not been filled in either if folks were wondering all right any last things on that great okay so moving right along with our construction updates um so we continue to have a few issues of diff difficulty excuse me working with the folks um constructing the 3:30 Detroit Street development um on Wednesday again there was some job site people parked in parking spaces uh on Detroit Street I tried to talk to them I said hey you know I thought you could park under the building what happened to that and they said oh our vans are too tall so it has not been fully fixed but of course it is better than it was but that is still something that is happening um and we've had a few issues where the noise has been incredibly loud without any warning uh on a Wednesday market and there was a Wednesday Market um what what was the exact date on that Hanna do you remember was that the end of August the food demo incident or the when that day well I guess it was when Mary's demo was happening or it's that same day August um so like the beginning of August mid beginning to middle of August 14 yeah so August 14th was a really bad day I was not personally there um because I was Ill but uh that day was so loud that no one could hear anything all the way down at tantre stall on Fourth Avenue um so it was really bad uh and we did have to talk to them and trying to get them to be better at communication um but that you know has not really happened yet but the good news is they say soon they will be buttoned up and working on the inside almost exclusively um so so hooray I guess hopefully that will happen soon um in terms of the other side the 121 Katherine project um they have been wonderful to work with in comparison they're really easy to get questions from you can talk to them if there's issue but they have a continual problem of blocking the street um this happened even yesterday where a massive DTE vehicle with the trailer um was just just parked right across from the market trailer uh on Fourth it was actually blocking in Market customers in their parking spots uh and there was one customer that was actually trying to leave uh as that was still parked there um so that's been an ongoing issue was it was causing traffic in all directions um and you know as I mentioned before there was one day where they had what like eight dump trucks parked up and down forth um for blocks in either direction so it's been a big headache um and it makes us a little bit wary about um when the Brun Court project goes and that's the other thing to be aware is that there's probably going to be four construction projects happening concurrently one of them being ours um when the demolition project moves forward um maybe we'll get lucky and that they will be delayed on the Bron court and that won't get started for a long later and that maybe we can get at least one completed um but knowing our luck we'll see how that goes so just be aware that this is something that's going to be happening and I know we already have incredible headaches as is um with parking pressures and people perceiving that they can't get to the market and you know this that and the other thing but um it it it you know it's going to get worse before it gets better and we just need to you know try to do our best to persevere uh as difficult as it is but again the thing that is great is the 121 Katherine Street is desperately needed affordable and Supportive Housing and that the parking spots that we lost in that parking lot many of which will be replaced in the underground parking that they are putting in so that is a a great concession to think about um in in the long term as we navigate these short-term uh frustrations and yeah they're also loud too the drilling um especially but I think that is all oh yeah sorry go ahead yeah how long does the um City think the demolition Project's going to take for the the market building they say it should be short but their window that they have is mid January to the end of April they're not allowed to do construction prior or after that in terms of the demolition but it should be quick as far as I know once it actually begins I don't know if this is what you're asking Lisa but I think it's like 10 to 14 days um is hopefully the contractor will realize that they don't want to be negotiating all those trucks moving in and out to um with all the other construction projects well the other thing too is it's the same um contractor that's working on multiple City Pro projects so they have sort of a schedule right there's like the 720 1 um North Maine is sort of their main staging location so the upside for us is that they're only closing off a portion of the lot because they're staging most of their stuff over at that other site on Main Street um and if it if that were a different case we would be losing a lot more access than we are but that probably will be complicated um moving stuff from that one location to the market and back but they did say prior that 10 to 15 days once the demolition but you know I've seen the movie The Money Pit I'm not g I'm not going to say two weeks is the actual time frame so but they do have that window of mid January to end April any other things on that so it's going to be a hard hard slog but we're getting there and uh town did have a meeting with O'Neal construction about the 121 site um last week but we couldn't make it because it was during our cooking demo um and everything like that so let me see if there was anything else that update that they provided um let's see give me one second all right I thought I had it more accessible in my all right oh so and this is also something now that I'm talking about ter Car Town I realized I forgot so um in terms of events although it's an event that we don't host but kindlefest is going ahead this year um and it will be the first Friday in December at the market and they are also going to do their satellite location again at Liberty Plaza so and I know Jeb you participated in that last year and some of our other Artisans did as well as well as other regular vendors unless you heard otherwise maybe we should confirm that the Liberty Plaza is happening because I hearing now so really well it is part of their application app location okay hey there you go yeah well who knows remains to be SE well I'm sorry that I said something if it's it's not confirmed I always say sign up for both and get one right that's true but I know there were vendors asking me you know which one should I apply for which location um but we'll see yeah great um okay so what they said in the update about the 121 Katherine they said and this is me reading from their notes on updates they gave to the Cary Town District Association members the construction site will keep a similar footprint through late 2025 by late October mid November they should be working at grade on the site and then starting to work to build up um they are hoping to complete the top of the building in March um and they have been encouraging their job site folks to park in the ant Ashley lot so who knows perhaps by the time well maybe our demolition will be done before they're done or after they're done or maybe we'll all be concurrent but that is the the most recent update I have from O'Neal through the mouth of K Town District Association all right and that is all I have for General updates so I don't know if any people have any specific questions or comments and I guess that was also folded in to the renovation demolition update which I did not do on purpose but that's what happened oh goodness any other questions comments about any of those those things because I clearly jumped ahead without meaning to all right great one comment too thank for the document that you sent along with the the little history of update that was super super helpful um and wonderful in context so great that's a really good basis for kind of going forward and giving some memory and some context to kind of the last 43 years of trying to get vation going it's it's been a long and complicated path so yes and I should mention lunia was not able to be here today but if anyone has any specific questions um you can definitely reach out to her directly if you would like or we can talk about it here or both he found out so much and did a really great job summarizing everything yes she is amazing yes super awesome she went through so many files so many files and digitized everything so yes it was a Herculean effort and it was well done as well great yeah thanks for that and thanks for reminding me to mention if you have questions for her she would be happy to speak with you about it all right um so and this is this is you Jeb you asked for this agenda item to be put on for the next meeting scheduling or the inperson meetings that is so you have the floor oh well thank you yeah no I I think we were just trying to find the date for the next inperson years coming to an end quickly here so um I'm not sure but looks like that would be October November December and December makes people squeamish especially because it's late later in the month close to the holiday so right October and November does anybody have any thoughts so my only constraint is I know I'm away for the October but I'll be here for the November so but that doesn't need to be one way or another but just that's what I have yep so the next one would be what October 17th would be our next meeting believe so and then November 21st yeah which would be you know not not Thanksgiving week week before that the week before um the only thing for me is that um in person is is kind of a lot after a whole day of Food Truck Rally the next day or the previous day but you know it's up to you all when you want to um when you want to schedule that in person when's the next Food Truck Rally it is October 16th the day right before because it's third Wednesdays and then we're third Thursdays I I don't want to speak for Jeff I know I'd spoken with Jeff earlier about it we were thinking November would probably be better for okay most because this is out of the worst not the worst but the best of the growing season perhaps right but yeah especially the way that this weather has been going I think October 17th is going to be a big scramble getting stuff out of the field for sure so then let's plan on November that seems November 21st then okay all right it's November 21st all right well I will let the clerk know and usually like I have no idea what space is available and they just say this is what's available and that's why we've been getting the basement um and I just did want to remind folks that they don't have the hybrid capabilities there so when we do the inperson folks that want to be remote cannot be other than you know maybe listening on CTN or something like that um but just FYI but they are recorded they can watch the true they can't simultaneously be there yeah right but they can't participate in public comment in the same way yep yeah great Stephanie I know Adam will be on M paternity leave but could Remy come and give us an update too it was really nice to have him there and when we were in person the last time yeah I mean we can ask him I don't know if there's anything really different that's going to be happening by then um because again all we really need to do is get everything out of the building and wait for demolition um but I will definitely ask him if he's available any Reflections on all the information lunia put together things like that thinking just thinking about uh the community engagement as the next step on the project after the demolition all right I will ask him about that actually that followup too is to kind of it's like how do how do we leverage and it's really great information and there's a lot of like we kind of it seems you just read it it's like we're going to kind of do the same thing again and we'll do the same it's like well can we can we are we using that or can we leverage that yes because there's a lot of it there it's amazing it's a really it's a beautiful archive so yes it's definitely been shared with Adam um to inform his planning process and give context to the market in that way so it's it won't just sit there and it has so far if that's helpful yes very yes and does it have a permanent digital home so in other words well so lunia scanned all those documents she's created this document um I know a lot of that was just sitting in paper files in the office so now does this have a digital home where it can be there for parks and other Market managers and things like that sure yeah sorry organized all of our files as well like all of our digital files so like everything is findable and ordered and when she archived there's a very specific she could be a librarian it's all very organized and accessible for the future um I thought you meant like is it on our way website for I don't think that it has a public access at this point but there is a digital home in the files that is readable and findable uh very easily okay I just wanted to mention that the library's been the other place that that keeps a lot of the history of the Anarbor Farmers Market too if you want an external home for that documentation to in term L digital a lot of the stuff that the Library had already done like we have a market history link on our own website that links to a lot of that and we also have a link that I need to update but it has a lot of like the articles that have been written about the market too that's also linked to our website so we have records of all of these things and I think some of them were already digitized but it's more of like the very very old things that she found that were not available yet that she did include and add to our records but no we have very extensive files on everything that's all fine I'm more asking about the sustainability of the files if the market computer falls apart or you know things like that just just thinking about digital sustainability it's all in the park server so okay F none of our files exist outside of the parks City system no although we do have a desktop because we wanted to have a potential for backup and not have the obses issue um that laptops are more prone to so now we are very dialed in I mean we have an the entire it Department uh at our becking call if needed in the city so no we are completely completely covered all right let us move on is there any um new business or I guess that was for you to say Peter I'm sorry go ahead no no problem no problem yes item age any new business do business seeing none all right item J second public commentary all right is there anyone who would like to provide a public comment if so it's star n raise electronically raise your hand we'll give folks a number okay I am seeing someone who would like to speak all right go ahead state your name after you unmute hi can you hear me yes now I can wonderful another reason why to Great reason to have inperson meetings um because I watch it on the computer and then as it nears the end I have to call on the phone because you're like three minutes ahead of what it is on the computer so it's very confusing but anyway I'm glad I got through thank you for scheduling the next inperson meeting it is really important one quick thing um when we're watching the meeting on the computer I hear everyone very clearly except Peter Wolf I don't know what's going on I can't hear him it's like your your volume is so low you we can't out here in the computer world we can't hear you now when I go on the phone and I listen to the meeting I can hear him perfectly fine so I don't know what is is going on there but anyway I just want to thank thank everybody for being there again we appreciate you we are listening out here and we do Care thank you all very much for your time I appreciate it and we'll see you at the market Debbie marks by the way Debbie marks thanks Debbie thank you D you're welcome guys thank you is there anyone else that would like to participate in public comment I know we have le one more person listening in and we'll give them a moment just in case I am not seeing anyone that wants to participate all right well seeing no other than we'll go to item L adjournment at 6:25 p.m.

e e e good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the September 19th 2024 general meeting of the Clifton Board of Education please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the repblic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you Mr shahad roll call please miss bassford here Mr brunc here Mr kova Mr kova is a few minutes late Mr Mahia he's also a few minutes late Mr Santiago here Mr siano here M Warez here vice president Danny president Paris here we have a Corum commissioner siano could you please read the mission statement absolutely the mission of the Clifton School District in an open and reciprocal Community Partnership is to provide all students with a quality education to develop the skills necessary to become literate lifelong Learners who are responsible and productive citizens contributing to a Democratic Society in an everchanging world thank you the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right to the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act the Clifton Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be publicized by having the date time and place thereof posted at the city clerk's office Clifton Public Library administration building senior citizens Nutrition Center on cable TV in the local press on the district's website and mailed to presidents of parent teacher organizations this meeting will be tape recorded in accordance with policy 0168 and we will start with our student representative report welcome Mark good evening esteemed members of the Clifton Board of Education my name is Mark tarany and I will be the student representative to the board of education for the 2425 school year I am a senior and have attended Clifton for four years participating in multiple Sports and clubs such as the high school's Key Club where I have dedicated dozens of hours to giving back to our community Through volunteering this is my second year on the student council and I also hold the title of investment Club president as well as chess club co-founder returning to my current position though I hope to continue the great work that has been done in the past by previous Representatives I'm going to do my utmost to make sure the students of CHS have a voice not only student council or student union members but that all the students can share their opinions on a larger stage this year we are planning to implement Representatives on the grade level who will be able to observe and report to me their true feelings concerns and queries of each grade level so that I may more adequately represent the Clifton student body in front of the Clifton Board of Education uh this being the first meeting and so soon into the school year there haven't been any complaints or concerns brought up to me deemed necessary enough to be brought in fromont of the Board of Education and all has been able to be resolved within the school taking a leaf out of the previous representative J wit's book I would like to quickly run through the important upcoming events on the school calendar on Wednesday the 25th there will be a back to school night at the high school followed by a home football game on the same Friday the 27th the homecoming football game will be the following Friday along with homecoming dance on Saturday the 5th there will also be a CHS open house on October the 10th at 6 p.m.

in attendance from administration were Mr Jenaro Mr doctor Miss zenola and Mr Mountain Board of Education members in attendance were Mr Santiago Mr kova Mr siano and president Paris Mr doctor provided an update on the residency investigations since June The Residency department has found 20 students who were attending Clifton schools but did not reside in Clifton they have all been removed from the district he also explained the process for a student to register and attend school in Clifton and assured the committee that the district is compliant with new state legislation Mr Jenaro provided a brief overview of various new security products including staff IDs which contain a lockdown button no decisions were made on the purchase of any new products Mr Jenaro also updated the committee on the imple on the implemented largescale event security protocols these protocols were utilized at our first football game of the year and worked effectively finally Miss Nola discussed the review of the Moa and the Clifton police as addendums were proposed to the state determined Mo MOA Mr Mountain reviewed the wide range of summer projects which were worked on and completed in July and August he also updated the committee on the status of various initiatives which the district is implementing and expanding Mr Mountain no explain the district's use of filtering systems for student access throughout all grade levels the meeting adjourned at 6:26 any questions thanks very well thank you commissioner Santiago um next please uh commissioner Suarez policy minutes thank you president Paris the policy committee met on September 10th board members present were myself commissioner Mahia commissioner kova and president p Paris Administration in attendance were Mr Jenaro Miss excuse me uh Mr Shahara and M Rosel items of discussion uh first item was use of school facilities Mr shahada has been collaborating closely with the home and school associations hsas across the district to Gather Comprehensive documentation of their 501c3 tax exempt status this update will include a detailed report along with formal recommendations outlining the next steps to support and guide the hsas in acquiring and or maintaining their nonprofit standing once the information has been thoroughly reviewed and verified Mr shahada will provide an official update to the Board of Education this update will include a detailed report along with formal recommendations outlining the next steps to support and guide the hsas in maintaining their nonprofit standing the recommendations may also propose strategies for enhancing collaboration between the district and hsas to further benefit school programs and initiatives the committee was not in favor of making 501c3 designation a requirement to use school facilities at no cost more than half of the current organizations do not have 501c3 designation enforcing this requirement would adversely affect fundraising and student-based initiatives by many existing hsas PTO and booster organizations the committee was in favor of maintaining the current practice of fee and and non-fee based application determination via the business office item number two student dress code K through2 update Mr Jenaro has been actively collaborating with various stakeholders and diligently working together insights and best practices the policy has been updated to be broken down by grade span K through 5 and 6 through 12 a holistic approach has been taken to provide General guidelines for building admin but will still be uniformed districtwide item three student smoking vaping this is a mandated policy that the board of education is implementing that is addressing the use of tobacco and electronic nicotine Delivery Systems on school grounds and at off-campus school sponsored events this policy acknowledges the health safety and environmental risks associated with tobacco and 's use emphasizing the importance of providing a safe healthy and tobacco-free environment for students staff and visitors the policy prohibits the use possession or promotion of tobacco products and ends on school property and outlines enforcement protocol for students staff and visitors as well as educational efforts to prevent tobacco use thank you any questions thank you commissioner Suarez uh commissioner siano please Municipal Alliance minutes please thank you the municipal Alliance committee met on Monday September 24th at the administration building and started at 507 present at the meeting from the board were myself president Paris vice president Lucy Dany commissioner Anthony Santiago and from the administration Mr Jenaro the Acting Superintendent present from the city where Nick volano the city manager councilman Latona councilman Cog and councilwoman Rosemary Peno the agenda consisted of six topics topic one was school safety we were following up on signs in Crossway Market the city manager reported that most School Crossings in need of repainting have been addressed though additional painting or signage cannot proceed at this time due to a lack of City funds some areas remain incomplete due to upcoming road paving but work will resume once Paving is finished he plans to request Council authorization for funding to support further updates and will provide a crosswalk status report to the committee Mr volano also shared updates on the pending pedestrian safety improvements including speed table and bump out trials these trials will be piloted on dwas Saline Road and around Third Avenue and Clifton Avenue near Main Memorial Library once data is collected the city will evaluate the results to determine the best course of action the project will also incorporate solar power pedestrian signage in designated areas topic two was the status of the CCMS tunnel improvements this city has engaged State authorized contract contractor to begin improvements on The Tunnel located near Christopher Columbus Middle School which will include installing an elevator for handicapped access on the Fifth Avenue side and an extended ramp on the Christopher Columbus side councilman Cog noted that a $100,000 bond lion item was tabled at a previous city council meeting Mr volano aims to add this to the agenda for an upcoming meeting and will continue to update the committee with any developments during future Municipal Alliance meetings topic three was 244 Hazel the potential of a charter school the city manager provided a status up update and confirmed that a developer has submitted a change of use request for the Hazel roadside seeking to shift from the previously approved Apartments to a charter school this proposal will be presented to the zoning board for review and approval regarding the property's potential use as a charter school topic four was sewage bills a discussion was held regarding the recent billing of sewage fees for all school buildings District received invoices for these fees which had not previously been charged to the district president Paris raised concerns about the implementation notification process timing budgetary impact and the calculations used in shifting this expense from the city's budget to the schools the initial invoices total over $70,000 it was agreed that follow-up discussions will be scheduled between the city manager and Mr shahada assistant superintendent of business to determine the best course of action moving forward topic five was new business uh Dr Dany initiated a discussion about traffic concerns during arrival and dismissal times at CA B Mr jenero informed the committee that collaborative discussions between the Boe and the CPD regarding traffic and student safety at all schools have been ongoing for several years each school has been utilizing their school safety climate and wellness teams to develop building specific plans which include drop off patterns and adjustments to parking lot layouts to address these concerns the school district will continue to collaborate with the CPD to explore potential Solutions president Paris inquired about the on three Apartments noticing I'm sorry noting that the council still needs to approve the number of units and determine if the development will fall under a pilot program councilwoman Pino expressed concerns about schools taking children cell phones away during class particularly given the anxiety surrounding school shootings Mr jenero explained that even when the students are asked to put their phones away they remain accessible at the back of the room he further highlighted that cell phones contribute to bullying issues disrupt academic focus and in the event of an emergency can spread misinformation through social media Mr Paris informed the committee that there are ongoing discussions at the state level regarding a potential ban on cell phones in schools councilman Cog inquired about the stakeholder feedback survey for Pope John Paul and how the district plans to use the results Mr jenero emphasized the importance of stakeholder feedback in decision-making and noted that the initial survey results would be shared at the upcoming Board of Ed meeting after all this we scheduled the next meeting deciding that the municipal Alliance meetings now will take place every other month with the next session tentatively scheduled for November 4th in the Boe meeting room the meeting ended at 5:55 notes were respectfully submitted by Alan Paris thank you commissioner siano any questions I do yes commissioner sores thank you president Paris uh if the space is approv for the charter school what responsibilities come on our lap um do we pay for the space and what jurisdiction excuse me jurisdiction if any do we have for that space uh Mr jaro you actually this is uh something Mr shahada will best be able to answer sorry yes so if it's in Clifton the charter school and they take Clifton students there we are the pass through for the money from the state so whatever it is the per people cost at the time it's like 19 Grand right now if that Charter SCH to pop up today we would get the money from the state and then have to just funnel it off to the school so no more no less thank you any other questions uh the policy mitted I incorrectly put Joe Canova instead of Tony so I'm going to swap that out tonight okay thank you make that correction okay we're going to move to uh public recognition now this portion of the meeting is open to the residents and non-residents of Clifton for the purpose of addressing any subject matter pertinent to Andor directly related to the operation of the Clifton Public School District residents and non-residents are requested to sign the register provided for this purpose and to State their names addresses and subject matter comments are limited to 5 minutes per person issues raised by members of the public may or may not be responded to by the board all comments will be considered and a response will be forthcoming if and when appropriate the board asks that members of the public be courteous and mindful of the rights of other individuals when speaking specifically comments regarding students and employees of the board are discouraged and will not be responded to by the board students and employees have specific legal rights afforded by the laws of New Jersey the board Bears no responsibility nor will it be liable for any comments made by members of the public members of the public should consider their comments in light of the legal rights of those affected are identified in their comments and be aware that they are legally responsible and liable for their comments we do have someone in the um virtual okay let's start with the virtual room [Music] then bless you hi we have Franklin G uh if you would unmute your microphone you are on the Clifton Board of Education meeting if you'd like to make a public comment we have Mr Franklin guito if you'd like to make a public comment okay we're going to leave him in the waiting room and we'll let Elias Ragsdale speak hi we have Elias Ragsdale if you would unmute your mic can you hear us you're good you're on all right good evening uh Mr Jero Administration Commissioners and the course of citizens out there my name is Elias ragale number four on the battle this November and I'm running to have a seat on the SLI Board of Education fortunately I couldn't be there today um but I'm committed to being at the meeting in some aspect uh so here I am joining on Zoom like I said I'm running for the Board of Education I'm running mainly on two things not on two things but because of two things that I think I can bring to the board first of all a unique experience graduating from the high school not that long ago a couple months ago um I bring a unique experience that no one else running or even just on the board right now has many of the programs implemented by the board currently or recently I've literally experienced I know one thing I can think of that we highlight almost every meeting is the PBIS um program I was a part of the pbsis program when in high school um and I think experience you know is obviously very important but we come to the experience and being at a place you know for a long time is the passion behind it and I believe I have the passion and the um energy to really do this for the past three years I've been disent Union president and in that I've been at the meeting speaking at each and everyone just like this on behalf of students or citizens um about daily things that students face um with the hope of course of bringing our schools together and making them the best we possibly can I do believe that schools and the school system itself is the most important foundation of any community and the future of clion depends on a school system system of today so I invite every single one of you to check out my social medias it's all Li for clip on Facebook or Instagram or INF at RX forcon gmail.com um and remember to vote November 5th and make sure you vote number fouras R thank you all good night thank you thank you Elias are there any others in the virtual room yes hi you're at the Clifton Board of Education meeting this is public comment can you hear us hi sorry are you making a public comment tonight for the meeting um this is the first meeting I've ever attended so I I don't really know how it works or whatever I was just listening live but I wanted to get involved my my son just started the Speer School this year oh okay this is the public comment portion so do you have a comment for the board this is the public recognition Okay um is this where I would bring up the topic of like Spar school not having um a playground for required time to go outside daily this is the portion of the meeting where you can express your concerns okay yes that's my main concern um so our School seems wonderful and I love the teachers but there's no um there's no playground at the school and they aren't required to go outside daily in those times that they don't go outside they do have a wonderful gym accessible to them which I totally appreciate but um that's my concern okay uh could you share with could you share with us what school she's referring to okay thank you okay did you have anything further no thank you so much thank you have a good evening all right thank you are there any others that's it okay motion to close motion to close second uh motion by commissioner Brun Shack second by commissioner Mahia uh now I would wish to invite anyone to the podium who would like to speak this evening seeing none motion to close comments second uh motion by commissioner brunak seconded by commissioner Mahia okay we are moving to superintendent comments now so Mr Jenaro you have the floor thank you president Paris I'd like to begin by recognizing a very special person in the audience today here for her first Board of Ed meeting uh at this newly renovated boardroom uh and she holds a very important position in the district a position that many people don't even know exists and her title is the assistant to the assistant superintendent uh also known as my mother uh so I'd like to just recognize Miss Linda Jenaro uh she she's here this evening to uh take her granddog home after a presentation and I'm hoping not to embarrass you too much through some of those presentations uh but on the serious know I do want to move forward and share an update on Dr roosi uh we are thankful to report report that Dr Roberto is doing very well both physically and mentally uh the doctors are very pleased with his progress and he continues to remain thankful for your prayers and your good wishes uh the outpouring of support from the entire one Clifton Community has truly been incredible and humbling for him uh he is presently doing cardiac rehab four days a week and is feeling healthier and stronger every day and of course depending on how well this Rehabilitation continues and whether or not he graduates from the program will deter uh when he will return uh but right now he is confident he'll return no later than the first week of November uh and as always we look forward to his return and are glad that he is prioritizing his health uh we will continue to keep you updates as we receive them uh next we want to move forward uh to a very important topic uh which is the pope po High School the 2nd the 6th that goes by a whole host of names these days uh last week the district launched a community feedback survey using the qualtrix platform allowing for stakeholders to complete the survey in multiple languages uh followed by a brief overview of the facility including the capacity of students get house uh some of the generic needs of the district uh the survey did consist of three questions with the most important being specific to four potential uses of the building uh one of which would have an impact on each of the grade levels from prek all the way up through High School uh we would like to thank everyone who participated as your insights and feedback are valuable as we consider the best path forward for this significant ific addition to our district resources and to share the results we have two of our individuals who have truly been spearheading this initiative and Endeavor uh from both the facilities and legal side as well as the curricular and educational side and as both our assistant superintendent of business uh Mr shahada and for curriculum instruction Miss cus Lovich who will share with us the findings of uh of our uh survey that's a slow okay oh yeah good evening Commissioners um community members we're here to share with you the results of our preliminary survey results for this potential new space as has been shared repeatedly over the last two years since the pandemic we've experienced a over doubling of our ESL population more than a 20% per increase in our special needs population our preschool population continues to grow and to meet the universe of our needs we still need well over 20 preschool classrooms we continue to need space particularly for programs that that actually come with class-size caps but still require full-size classrooms the every school in our district has been making moving classrooms around we've built added walls built some additional classrooms in spaces that used to be multi-purpose rooms in order to maximize the existing space for our student population growth but so many of these programs again requiring full-size classrooms have limits such as preschool being limited to 15 students in a fullsize classroom many special needs self-contained classes are limited anywhere from 8 to 12 or 14 students depending on program also requiring a full-size classroom our space needs are most dire in grades roughly 4 through 8 possibly nine but all across the district we are utilizing ing every available classroom space as a result the board the forethought uh to allow Mr shahada to go and enter into negotiations for the potential leasing of another property in town which is the Pope Paul site and we um I've been looking at the academic side where our needs are and we just recently put out a survey today's survey is the first of several to see how we can best reflect c community sentiment as well as District needs and budgetary priorities in order for us to move forward we're currently in those negotiations the survey was sent out um on the 10th to nearly 20,000 recipients though that survey then was um sent out subsequently four more times to everyone who did not respond to the survey a text message went out to every phone number um that is every phone number of all of our in and outof District placement parents they were all emailed four times if they did not respond and received the text message with follow-ups to those who responded saying they did not receive the survey so we made sure that it was sent yet again we also surveyed our students in grades 3 through 8 our teachers pushed out the survey to classrooms and in grades 9 through 12 our students received the surveys to their Clifton email addresses we use the qual tricks platform because it ties every response to a legitimate email address as opposed to when you kind of put up an anonymous survey and a bot will take over and just start filling out answers so we know and we can link all of our answers to real people associated with the Clifton Public Schools whether they are parents students or staff Mr shahada I don't even know what's like to us good evening guys uh so for those of you who've been around as long as I have uh it's a handful of you guys you know that obviously this was a building that we have been looking to secure for you know for north of three years now um I'm pleased to say that we are in the closing stages of leasing this property from um the dases and I'm here to share the results with you guys so we had an impressive response rate with over 20,000 individuals across four questions although not all the questions were mandatory on average each question received about 5,037 results responses excuse me as Janina mentioned we initially sent out approximately 15,000 emails followed by five reminders this strategy yield at a response rate of 33.5 58% to put that in perspective a typical presidential poll requires a sample size of just 1500 participants we have more than triple that figure this single data point gives us a strong indication of the community sentiments so here the first question was select the best response the response that best describes you this was broken down um by the grade level and by Community involvement overwhelmingly the middle school and Elementary School students had the greatest response question two that's the it's the bar gra for that which of the following uses for the potential property would you consider most beneficial for the district um it was revealed that the grade 6 through eight would have the biggest impact in our district followed by a specialized high school academy uh while we are still in talks of what we are going to do internally we know that a specialized high school academy would just be way too costly and right now our biggest pressure points are the middle schools they have over you know 1,500 what for how many kids in that 12200 in each School roughly but the all the classroom spaces are taken particularly for those specialized small programs correct so you know internally that's something we want to examine and like I said this is just one of the data points that we are going to be using to make a final decision uh questions three and four were focused on gauging Community opinions regarding increased space in options so here was kind of just on a sliding scale of how well do you think um do you think the Pope Paul building can serve the Learning Community uh overwhelmingly everybody's extreme moderately are very well and question number four do you believe the potential lease of the Pope Paul building could positively impact the students almost everybody was in agreement that it will just I guess just for the single fact that we need the space and parents staff members who enter these buildings see how many kids are being dropped off and in these classrooms every day and it's not the optimal environment for learning now junina going to bring us home so this survey is just one of the steps in this process there may be other surveys coming out after this one um we are also in the process of engaging a demographer to look at the demographics and verify give us that information that we need to ensure that what we're looking at is indeed the correct way to go um we will then be looking with together with the board to evaluate budgetary priorities uh for this project and then engaging with the board for some collaborative decision making in order to get um a decision on the books uh by the time we hit budget season at the end of the Fall um so that we can potentially move forward with an opening of next September uh whichever however the decision may fall so thank you so much Commissioners community members um everyone here thank you [Applause] thank you Miss kusich and Mr shahad next we'll move to actually president Paris we still have a one more presentation for a superintendence report okay uh and we're going to go where no dog has gone before with this one uh we're going to begin with a brief presentation that was put together by S Rose uh so we'll start there and then we'll we'll take it afterwards careful behind you all wag and a heart [Music] Che [Music] smile the big DC SP games and a Bo of you'll see there with his gentle heart doing his now join the [Music] you make everything feel [Music] right so so thank you for that much deserved Round of Applause for Sam the rose and she put this together from the presentation to the lyrics and you outdo yourself every time Sam uh so what we're actually going to do tonight is transition into uh a therapy dog presentation um that we're going to entitled who let the dogs out uh so as I say I might embarrass my mother at some point tonight it's going to be right early on because to begin uh this presentation I'm going to start by singing the lyrics of one of those catchy uh that will songs that will just kind of stick in your head time and time again performed by the bad men and it goes like this who let the dogs out you all know that song you all know the lyrics uh first off this not my addition my my audition to be the next American Idol just to add some context to what we're doing and never in a million years that I ever think that I'd start a presentation at a Board of Education meeting singing and barking but it really just kind of fits in this case uh because tonight's presentation is on our Clifton therapy dog initiative uh and to say that that this initiative has been a success would simply just be an understatement uh through this program we've been able to serve as students and staff in ways uh that humans simply could not because dogs are just like that I guess they just know how to fix you without ever saying a word so the beginning of this story with what's called a vision and and we Define a vision it's one of the most important aspects of being an administrator something that we drive in admin Academy with several our Cadets being here this evening uh and a vision is the ability to see things that have not yet come to pass but always continuing to work towards that goal uh it comes at a cost and not just a financial cost it's commitment uh it's sacrifice it's time it's passion but at the end of the day we recognize it's all worth it because everything that we do is for our kids so we want to share a brief history of how it started uh for those of you who have experienced the cliff instruct presentation at new staff orientation you understand how we teach staff to to tap into and unleash their inner rockar by following the four chords of Rockstar success one of which is the D chord which stands for dreams and we encourage our staff our administrators our supervisors to dream and dream big for something that we refer to as a big unreasonable dream or a bud for short and and one of my buds was to find a way to bring therapy dogs to our district so in order to achieve this Bud we had to do our homework uh it was research on the benefits of therapy dogs and animals in schools networking with other districts who have already had successful programs reviewing policies determining funding coures uh as well as determining the cost benefit ratio which we'll talk about later uh we were attending workshops and it was truly what we consider to be an all Hands-On deck approach uh even last year at the New Jersey school board's convention commissioner bassford and and Lou Ross our director of Human Resources attended workshops on therapy dogs and this was all done in an attempt to get this program up and running and then once we found what we're going to do we had to find a way to put the Clifton tires to it never Reinventing the wheel just adding our touch to fit what we do in Clifton from School Safety and Security through pbsis and through Counseling Services of course we recognize the importance of therapy dogs uh as Educators we pride ourselves in making data driven decisions and research shows that there are positive impacts that therapy dogs have on our students specific to achievement uh from from reducing reduction of stress academic engagement learning perspectives uh to name only but a few uh so once we had our vision and our plan was in place it was time to move forward and introduce our first four-legged furry friend Chewbacca affectionally known as chewy uh and because this was our first attempt to launch launch something of this magnitude our belief is that we wanted to get it right we wanted to make sure that we had a dog uh that could Service as many of our students falling under the hypoallergenic class uh classification and well there's no such thing is completely hyperallergenic it does significantly reduce uh the likelihood that students and staff with allergies can be impacted uh we also want to make sure that these dogs were professionally trained not that I doubt the abilities I have to train a dog uh but when it comes to the safety of our students we wanted to ensure that we had the right people training uh here you can see in this picture this is a picture of our four-legged friend chewy uh and Bailey who is one of the greatest uh trainers that we've ever come across and we're exclusively working with just her because of the success we had uh from there we decided to partner with pride and prejudoodles um this was done for a whole host of reasons after extensive research uh what we found is that this is an organization that specializes in breathing and training service animals basically what they do is they will take dogs and identify dogs from each and every litter that demonstrate the temperament the demeanor the personality to go into Service uh and then what they do is they remove those dogs and assign them to live with a professional trainer in this case Bailey uh for three months where where they go through three months of extensive training on basic commands control just to get them ready to serve as therapy dogs ironically chewy comes from a lineage a family of service animals his parents his grandparents and even great-grandparents were all service animals through pride and prejudoodles and once we had this up and running we decided in September of 2023 to introduce chewy to the one Clifton Learning Community uh we utilize chewy primarily for counseling services whether it be small group therapy uh crisis situations behavior modification plans of course one of our big initiatives in the district is positive behavior support in schools so whether we utilize chewy for secondary tier interventions of course student and staff incentives extended recess and things of that nature and and other things lesson plans for example uh we have had so many staff members utilize chewy as part of what's called their announced observation uh the mechanism in which they are being evaluated to determine uh their efficiency as educators are predicated around their lessons involving chewy it it's just been a lot of fun uh last year we recorded over 300 visits and and events basically chewes everywhere classroom visits pbsis booster events counseling sessions uh as I said part of behavior modification plans sporting events security trainings he's attended plays and musicals talent shows Trunk or Treats even community events uh as seen in the pictures he had a meeting with mayor Grabowski who was a star on his hit television show here in Clifton he attended CA family Funday uh he also attends Mental Health Works in other events and most recently he aired on NBC News kids with Lou Holtz as the host simply put chewy is in high demand just this past week while visiting some of our elementary schools uh chewy and I encountered a student outside uh experiencing what we consider to be an episode and his mother was trying to assist getting this young man to the building our school counselor even our security specialist but to no avail and chewy and I happened to walk over and the instant we came the episode stopped the tears were gone there was a smile in his face I had chewy sit right beside the student who immediately started to stroke Chewy's fur and you can just see that that level of anxiety lifted I got down to a knee of course getting back up was more of the the issue uh but I told this this young man said hey uh chew is here to visit your friends in school but we're not really sure how to go can you help us get chewy inside to show him around and just like that this young man hopped up and never leaving Chewy's side or his hand on his back escorted him into the school this is just what we do for our students but following that the very basic principle of supply and demand uh the demand is high and the supply is just chewing myself so we recognize the need to expand I would be remiss if I did not take this opportunity to thank and recognize this board of education and Dr Rober toy for their unwavering support in making this Bud come true because as I pitched the idea for expansion there was without hesitation unanimous support to grow and that is when the vision of this initiative suddenly had a change what we decided to do is start to find a way to build a team expand upon our current program with the ultimate goal of one day having a therapy dog assigned to each and every school but in order to do this we're going to figure out what would be the most coste effective yet beneficial so what we decide to do is what we call option A and option b uh where we sent uh an interest letter to all of our staff members to see who would be interested in joining what we call team chewy uh option A was for individuals who are interested in in serving as a Handler for additional chewies uh pride and prej bread and train service dogs ready to hit the ground running and we also explored an option called option b which allowed for staff members who currently own pets of their own to go through an extensive training cohort of 11 months and at the end would be tested and certified to serve as a therapy animal in our school close to 100 staff members were interested in joining team chewy and then we had to explore the cost benefit and to be full fully transparent with our community the training for one of our chewes costs are our district just over $133,000 and unfortunately to what I would like to refer to as the Nay sers within our community who suggest that this investment in this initiative is a waste of our resources one they are unable to truly comprehend how impactful this is to our students just like the story of the young man at the elementary school from this past week two they don't understand how an investment in this training could potentially Save The District's hundreds of thousands of dollars uh students who are part of a behavior modification plan for school phobia or anxiety if any the event we had to make a decision to send that student to an added District placement could cost our district up to $100,000 a year per student including Transportation excuse me and tuition and not to mention in all instances that we involve chewy and intervention each and everyone was deemed a success and number three in my opinion there is no price that we can put on happy and excited children as evidenced by the slideshow that Sam showed earlier there was nothing but earto ear Smiles across the faces of our students and our staffs just for chewy being present so after much consideration we decide to go with option A which is additional chewies the next part of the task is choosing who's going to serve as our handlers uh one of the trainers that we worked with in this case Bailey what she always advises us is what's just as important as selecting the right dog is choosing the right handlers so Dr Rober toy and the executive cabinet got together to Det determine who would serve in this capacity and what we decided to do is just use our data and understood that the the primary purpose and usages of chewy involved pbsis incentives as well as Counseling Services uh while there were several strong candidates for both option A and option b Central admin in the cabinet felt that this decision in many ways was what we call a no-brainer and to ask the individuals that oversee both the pbsis program and counseling services to serve as their Handler and our new handlers are Miss Paul R goza from pbsis and Miss Jessica tremble from Counseling and as a result we now have what we call team chewy uh for the first time I would like to introduce the newest members of Team chewy handled by Paula reg goza Kobe and handled by Jessica tremble Teddy and this may get interesting [Applause] uh both Teddy and Kobe are about six seven months old and are still undergoing uh the most important part of their training process which involves the bonding part with their handlers uh as well as What's called the transfer of command uh by no means are they ready to be deployed into schools uh but what we are hoping is is that uh through our training with Paula Jessica and myself that we have our pups ready to go sometime mid to late October uh so when we have our chewy request forms we will have to change them to what we call our therapy dog request forms uh so to answer that rhetorical question that the Bala men said in the song Who Let the Dogs Out it's simple Clifton let the dogs out and that concludes our superintendent report w e just see the sheer drao that our commissioner faces as we do this just imagine with 12 or 13,000 students are going to feel as these dogs are deployed throughout our district e oh Mr Jal is coming back yeah we could we can swap out board numbers for dogs if you want no he doesn't have to oh mark you don't have to stay the whole meeting if you don't want to you're certainly welcome to but we understand you may have school work etc but your call go for no you need you have to stay unfortunately okay we're GNA move on and thank Mr Jenaro for that fantastic presentation and what an exciting time to see the beginnings of our therapy dog program next will be oh she's leaving oh okay next we'll have a presentation by uh Miss uh kusel levich she's our assistant superintendent of curriculum and she'll be presenting an overview of our summer programs hold on to your seats for this one folks you need it remember our bet once again good evening Commissioners ladies and gentlemen of the audience our community um this evening we're going to be giving you a brief overview of all of the many summer programs that took place this summer we had over a thousand Clifton students participating in our programs and that does not include our general High School Credit Recovery summer school that was another probably 400 students um so we had well over a thousand students participating in the programs that you're going to be hearing about now uh we have many of our aspiring administrators um Mr jeno's Cadets uh were the coordinators of these programs so you're going to be hearing from them as they each give you a brief look at what our students were doing this summer in Clifton so with that I'd like to start with our jump start academic Readiness Title One K through 5 and Minds in motion program you and I could just adjust it here okay good evening president Paris vice president Dany board Commissioners Acting Superintendent Mr Jenaro and the Clifton Community my name is Kimberly fusa I have been the title one K through five summer program coordinator for the past six years unfortunately our principal for all of the summer programs Mrs RB was not able to make it tonight but I would like to take a moment to acknowledge her as she oversees all of these wonderful programs that you're about to hear and they are successful due to her continued support and guidance and also being that we have so many programs that we're going to be speaking about we did take some time to put a lot of information on the slides but we're going to go very quickly and then you can look through them later if you'd like a more in-depth view of the different programs I will be presenting four of the summer programs The Jump Start program the academic Readiness program the title one k to5 program and the mindes in motion program these programs uh ran from July 1st through July 30th from 8:30 in the morning until 12:00 noon some of our Title One coordinators could not be here tonight but um just to explain what coordinators were at which buildings uh the principal of our summer programs Mrs warb was at school 17 along with our Title One School 17 coordinator Mr lesie I was at the school 4 uh location and at school 12 was Mrs Ray our jump start program is a program for students who are going to be entering kindergarten it is a time for them to come the summer before they enter school and work on various social academic behavioral and emotional skills essentially giving them the jump start they need to enter kindergarten The Jump Start program at school 17 had 27 students and we had three classes consisting of about nine or 10 students each the majority of the students came from school 17 CA a and CA B The Jump Start program along with the academic Readiness program focus on teaching the students how to uh use materials properly follow directions share with others it also focuses on on basic color review recognizing letter and numbers and developing gross motor skills at the academic Readiness program at school 12 we had 15 students and one class with several teachers just to ensure that they had the individualized attention needed uh the majority of the students were from school 12 in that program in terms of our Title One program as mentioned it does uh cover students in kindergarten through grade five we had three main locations School 4 school 12 and School 17 schools 4 and 17 had students in grades kindergarten through five where school 12 only had students in grade three to five the reason for this is as I will speak about in a few moments school 12 was the minds and motion location which is for grades 3 to 5 that program starts after lunch so we have the students in the morning take part in the same curriculum the title one curriculum um and then from there and they have lunch and then they go to the mins and motion program after we also had two additional classes at the boys and girls club we had a k And1 combo class and a third and fourth grade combo class overall we had 200 students enrolled in the title one program and um the numbers were fairly even they were a little low in grade two but every year it changes last year our numbers were the largest in grade two so it really just depends in terms of the three main locations we had 77 students at school 17 61 at school 4 and 62 at school 12 and School 17 being the biggest building uh looking at that number it might seem low but in school 17 we also have the jumpstar program and the title 3 Program which um you will hear about shortly in terms of our curriculum the title one program focuses on language arts literacy and Mathematics and it was designed to remediate and reinforce the essential skills of the previous grade while also accelerating students to enable them to master the Readiness skills needed for Success at the next grade level as well in terms of the language arts liter ly program it focuses on balanced literacy focusing on the two domains of reading and writing and for mathematics students use the hands to mind curriculum something that was very exciting was we brought the high-intensity tutoring sessions into our summer Title One summer program this year the high-intensity tutoring sessions started in the spring we had a lot of success with this and brought them to be part of the summer program what that was was students were able to partake in 30 minute small group virtual lessons led by a private certified instructor and they were able to experience this between four and five days a week alternating between mathematics and language arts literacy this did this was wonderful because what it allowed was for us to be teaching in the centers and then having more of that onetoone uh student teacher interaction we focus for language arts on K to2 using the foundations ready to Rise program and then for 3 to five using the trait crate plus and just like the regular school year students also used the Raz kids digital program in grades K and one and Mayon was used for students in grades 2 through five and this was to make sure that we kept enhancing their reading skills in mathematics as mentioned before students enjoyed the hand to mind lessons um this program empowers students to learn by doing and uh students also continued to use imagine math and imagine math facts as they use throughout the regular school year students in grades 2 to five they also used the defined stem program and the Imagine roboy continued where they were able to work on coding during the summer and pomptonian did a wonderful job with supplying all of our locations a bagged breakfast to go students were able to come in as they entered received a bag breakfast go to their classroom unpack have breakfast have a morning meeting and then they were able to before dismissal come down to the cafeteria and have a served sitdown lunch pbsis the program as you know is a districtwide program and um about two years ago we wanted to start bringing it into our summer program I'm going to be speaking about the pbsis program at school 4 because that was the school where I was and then shortly after this during the title three program Miss Videl will speak about the pbsis program at school 17 in terms of the pbsis program we've seen seen what an incredible success it has been but um what we wanted to do was we started talking about it last year and understanding that we really wanted to create a program for the summer program just as in the regular school year every school has their own individual motto and theme and um specific overarching expectations for that building so what we did this year at school 4 was we met with the staff prior to the program and created our own version of the pbsis program for these summer students coming from all the various schools because being that they came from all different schools they all had different overarching expectations mots themes and Etc and we came out with the shine um the shine program where we asked the students to be safe honest inclusive neighborly and enthusiastic we asked them to shine bright all summer like a diamond and with that we gave out our diamond dollars as incentive tickets these incentive tickets were given any time student was demonstrating any of our overarching shine characteristics and every Friday we were able to have weekly Raffles where we created a raffle wheel with various prizes one of those uh prizes being a student announcer for the day so students really enjoyed that and if it was not one and there happened to be a morning you know where um we weren't having a student redeem a prize we alternated between grades and had students who wanted to do it who may not have won the prize so the students were able to visit the main office give the flag salute some announcements speak about the meal for the day and then they were allowed to create or bring in an inspirational quote they like to share with the school um and the students really enjoyed that another thing we did with the pbsis program was um we created a attendance incentive where we created golden diamond dollars and every day that the students attended the program and attended on time they were given gold and diamond dollars in which they held them in the classroom until our final day of the program where we created a shine celebration and during that celebration we had team building activities we had Minute to Win It games we had our yearly Raffles and we had our um attendance incentive lastly the minds and motion program at school 12 as I spoke about before this starts after lunch and what this focuses on is grades 3 to five and it provides them opportunities to explore a wide variety of stream science technology reading engineering art and math and with that something very special about the program is that on Fridays they have field trips and as you can see they visited space farms and Sandy Hook in addition we had um a lot of fun activities for them such as the theme days Community week where we did see our district therapy dog and Acting Superintendent Mr jenero our Clifton Police Department visited we were able to use the Star Lab Planetarium and we were so lucky to um our Central Administration to allow us to give the kids at the end of the program a laser light assembly which also focused on stem and our school shine celebration uh where they received a giveaway gift to remember to shine bright all summer and wear their sunglasses so it was extremely successful and um thank [Applause] you thank you so much Miss vitola that was four different programs at a lot of different schools um now I would like to introduce uh Mr Stewart for our summer acceleration student support program thank you so much for the the thoroughness of the largest program that we have and now our virtual program good evening I'm Miss uh Matt Stewart I coordinated the summer acceleration student Support Program along with uh Miss Lucas uh so basically we focused on math and literacy curriculum concentrated on reviewing and reinforcing skills that students learned during the previous school year uh and this enabled students to basically Focus and uh we demonstrating Mastery was not attained our program did have to be virtual this year due to uh referendum related construction projects at school 2 which we're grateful for the projects um so each day students had fizzed uh we had social emotional learning lessons twice a week with a school counselor there was also reading recovery offered to students each day and our students also participated in the uh online tutoring with Imagine Learning our our program Encompass students from schools 1 2 3 5 8 9 and 16 basically the non-title one elementary schools uh we continued our virtual pbsis program teachers were encouraged to shout out at least one student each week who demonstrated positive online Behavior students who are shouted out had certificates delivered to their homes by myself along with the teacher sending uh positive emails to their parents and Guardians uh each student that was shouted out were entered into a raffle and they won prizes such as sports equipment and art supplies and then here are some pictures of our students with some of their work uh as well as students with their uh certificates thank you thank you so much and now our Middle School Academy with miss haward hi good evening uh my name is Lisa Hayward um I am a teacher at CCMS but this summer I had the pleasure of first time running the uh Middle School summer Academy um it was held at Clifton High School okay um so our program is a free program open to all of the middle school students in Clifton it offers a unique opportunity um to experience the curriculum with a Hands-On approach uh it focused on strengthening the essential skills in math and language art Arts but we also added a new course this summer um where we were able to have social studies intertwined with science and stem um the students engage with the curriculum tailor to their upcoming grade level um and making sure they were ready for the upcoming school year some of our highlights for this uh this summer we introduced that new um course called integrated uh it's a long title but integrated literature through the social studies lens and stem activities which was incredibly well received by the students and the staff the staff really enjoyed teaching it um and with the Summer Olympics having like happening at the same time we were able to incorporate a lot of cross curricular um lessons and activities Legos building all intertwined with the Olympics it was great um we also instituted the PB pbsis reward system where they were awarded for exceeding classroom expectations and also participating in some fun weekly trivia challenges um either about the Olympics or about the um the soccer finals that also happened at the same time so a lot of sports infused um activities and it was it was great the staff successfully piloted and implemented the smart pass hallway system um which is now being implemented at both CCMS and woodro and at CCMS I can speak that it's going very very well the staff are are getting used to using it um and it's it's helping maintain and kind of reduce the the hallway traffic um for our students um like I said before I was at Clifton High School we had students entering seventh entering 8th entering 9th it was funded by Title One and local funds um I had 26 teachers and they were phenomenal I've have told them a million times uh they were great in the entering seventh grade uh group we had 51 students registered and completed the program and with a average class size of 12 entering 8th we had 33 registered um class size of eight and then entering 9th we had 21 students and an average class size of 10 so total of 105 students um and some of our pictures um these are just some of the the really great integrated activities um with social studies language art stems all together we had competitions they had challenges they went outside the kids really had a great great great time um and then here were some of our pbsis winners and then some of the topics of our um trivia questions from the weeks thank you thank you so much and now I would like our team coming up for the IC program good evening everybody my name is Justin Louie and this is Maggie wo Tera saski and along with Jason lewitz our supervisor of fine and Performing Arts we make up your administrative team for the integrated summer experience if you do not know our program and we are very grateful for the opportunity to have this program it is a 4-week intensive where students and teachers learn and engage through handson and student Le uh programs this year we provided opportunities in science math coding and newly added this year with social studies and the Fine Arts our students had the opportunity to learn different medium through ART instrumental music band and Orchestra and musical theater we also had an opportunity to add had singer songw writing class which the students loved this year we found ourselves at school 3 and a huge shout out to Mr Oliver and the staff over at school 3 for helping us uh provide our students with a great building uh tiptop shape and that was pretty hard over the summer as it temperatures Rose around 80 90 degrees on Su days our 35 uh CHS student volunteers along with our 21 staff members had opportunity in 16 days to learn and explore all their subjects and in in those days we even put on a full production and showcase this year we also concluded our program with a satisfaction survey and we are confident in this program because our teachers and we come back every year excited to give these students opportunity but the survey was great because it just resolidified our thoughts and we had included some shots from some mentorship classes uh their theater program and our coding classes as well as band and singer songw writing and we' like to once again thank you for the opportunity for having this program and your support every time thank you very much thank you so very much and now we move on to our elementary school title 3K through 5 ESL and family literacy program good evening my name is Francis Vidal I'm a high school teacher uh grades 9 through 12 I had the distinct pleasure of being the coordinator for title 3 on grades K of 5 uh where we host a title 3 ESO program for our multilingual students at school 17 being overs by our summer principal Miss Joanna har this is Miss cross she was the E she was the ESL coordinator for our adult family literacy program which we all also hosted at school 17 this year title 3 ESL program we have students enrolled from the district schools from the districts that are are enrolled in title three programs we had a overall of 142 students we held uh 12 teach teachers and the title three program only is housed at school 17 this is some of the highlights of uh the staff uh this is our third year um where myself and Miss Patrick we spearheaded a pbsis program for the summer and the unique part of the summer program that we also initiated was that we included staff members and community members and these are some of the themes and uh highlights throughout the summer titter three program focuses uh summer program focuses to support multilinguals by enhancing their English proficiency sorry my alleries today is getting the best of me um uh and by enhancing their English proficiency and helping them meet grade level academic standards the program is specifically designed for students who are eligible on the title 3 and enroll in ESO biling programs in a title one schools school 12 13 14 and 17 key areas to focus include not limited to but include language development and strengthening students English language skills in Reading Writing speaking and listening academic support providing instruction reinforcing in core subjects like Reading Writing Math and Science title three program integrates differentiation instruction and target support aiming to close the achievement gaps and Foster academic success for bilingual and ESL students um parent and family engagement is also one area of focus where we encourage involvement of parents and families in their children's education supporting the child's language and Academic Program similar to title one we use some of the materials Foundation methods r K reworked uh ready to rise for grades one foundations uh for grades one and two crate trade for grades three and five and for math will use service en hands to mind and now with that said I will pass it over to miss cross good evening uh you okay my name is Miss cross and I had the privilege of coordinating and teaching the family literacy program this summer which served an average of 12 participants daily the program included writing grammar phonics using our wonderful foundations program vocabulary practice citizenship test preparation as per the request of the participants and life skills training the program was you the program was highly successful with several participants achieving notable outcomes one securing a job in transportation using a resume that we developed together in class um another obtaining a job interview within a district um and a third participant passing her driving exam and crediting our lessons on giving directions um we are proud of the program's impact on our community and we look forward to its continued success and that is a highlight of the last day program celebration uh School 17 continues to support our district vision and initiative of pbsis this is our third year as I mentioned that um we are we have spearheaded PVSS a version of PVSS in the summer with that said I would like to also highlight that now I'm happy to report not only elementary school but middle school and high school programs I also have taking this initiative of um spearheading some version of pbsis in the summmer we continue to give use uh fun um reward systems not only to reward students in reinforc positive behavior but also students uh were celebrating every year uh every Friday for showing the um the strengths that we were looking for um we also did uh an another layer where we include our staff members also the adult ESL um parents also took part of our e uh pbsi celebration on Fridays that encouraged and Foster positive culture within our school a 17 program and it was just a wonderful opportunity not only to reach our students um support our district initiatives reach our students but also strengthen the community bond between Clifton and our communities thank thank you so much ladies and now our Middle School multilingual um enrichment program with Miss roginski that should be good good evening everyone and I'd like to thank you again for not only allowing me to be part of this program that started about 20 years ago and that's continued to grow in facets of adding different curriculum adding different ideas and being able to really develop um skills for students as well as social emotional needs for our uh many Global Learners so our six through eight middle school program was housed this year at uh CHS all the students come from the magnet school of Christopher Columbus Middle School so that's all the English language Learners so title three students uh those students were primarily made up of our largest um groups of Spanish Arabic Turkish and Ukrainian speakers as well as Hindu Albanian Macedonian and some others about 70 students were enrolled in 68 um over the four sections that we've had normally we have some that have a little overlap due to proficiency level so we try to accommodate them by proficiency level as well as grade level so sometimes there might be a class of beginners grade six to and seven or just an advanced eighth grade class it really depends on the population we receive every year our largest group this year was eighth graders we had about 40 eth graders so they made up the majority of our students okay this is also a tuition um free academic enrichment program and I like to take that academic enrichment um or terminology enrichment uh really to Heart our multilingual Learners really focused on an everyday schedule of science technology math social studies and language arts literacy and a very Hands-On approach uh we use the outdoors as you can see in some of the photos um students really got to develop skills that they could bring to the outside world so not only being able to speak read and write in English but really apply those skills when they're trying to negotiate with others doing a lot of um team and group activities uh not only did they get to use the computers for technology but we really branched out Lego building creating models uh science was very experimental math as well as you'll be able to see some of the pictures um a lot of measurements and other activities outside we are also able to this year fortunately go on a a field trip a social studies based field trip to Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty uh which was well appreciated by the staff and the students um in addition to our everyday um acclimates for the students we have citizenship and overall effort awards for students um not really academically but this is based on our different pillars of success for the students and teachers recommend students and it's kind of a raffle and we give uh gift cards around the community that students could easily access with family members every year we try to bring themes uh that are going on globally for example Americana traveling around the United States States and as you could see the Euro Cup the Copa America and then the Summer Olympics were some of our uh topics that really lend themself to the Hands-On curriculum um yes that's messy there but the other pictures are students enjoying um the fairy ride to the Statue of Liberty okay thank you so much for allowing us to continue these programs for our Global students thank you very much and now we move on to high school School ESL summer enrichment with Miss T vera good evening my name is ivant Vera I am a teacher at Clifton High School this summer I have the opportunity to work at as an ESL coordinator in the high school with 16 students to enrollment the program emphasized language acquisition through both academic and social interactions with PBIS students were recognized by the teacher with a certificate along along the lines with a gift card using our four pillars of the high school teachers receive of breakfast as a token of our appreciation as students engage in a cross-curricular activity such as cagin hunt where they had to work together to solve variety of challenges such as math history science and art the students went on a cultural field trip to LS Islands to in the Statue of Liberty where they learned how previous immigrants ared in the country aligning how they feel and how they arrive to the country as well the students participated in a day full of activities related to the Summer Olympics that took place in France this year students were very engaged in all of the activities they created um um different animals with different things that they have found throughout the outsides of the grounds and insides as well along the lines with uh making sure that their heart rate and the outside um activities were accurate and they aligned this through math as well thank you thank you so very much um I'm going to present about project adalante very briefly uh project adalante was an additional high school program that we have um in Project adalante we have a collaboration with um with K University um Miss yokasta guen who normally um coordinates this program is at her CH just like Mrs horb is at her child's back to school night tonight um we had over 20 students going down every day spending the day K University throughout the month of July into early August and this is the beginning of a yearlong these students that committed to the summer also commit to every Saturday throughout the school year almost every Saturday throughout the school year um and they earn college credits uh while developing their English language learning uh English language skills and this also models the opportunity for these students to participate um in higher education upon graduation from Clifton High School um this is just an example of one of the echo fashion shows where they were integrating Arts and Science down at the college level at cane and with that I'm going to present our extended school year program probably one of the core uh highlights of our summer programs good evening everyone last but not least it's my pleasure to introduce the extended school year or esy program which is our summer program provided by the special services department from our fearless leader Mrs Rolo to our supervisors Miss be abdrabo miss Karen Pon Miss Kristen chy as well as our esy principal tce Patrician who couldnot be with us tonight Mr Duca Mr parim myself Miss Fitzpatrick and Mr Hudak who are the coordinators for the program um so yeah my name is Thomas Hudak and I was one of the coordinators at school 16 along with Miss fatrick um so to determine eligibility for the program it was based on the recommendation at IEP meetings and some of the factors that determined eligibility for the program was the severity of the students disability um esy is provided for students who have an IEP who would be severely impacted by an extended break in instruction and that meet esy criteria another Factor was the regression of behavior and skills interruptions in instruction Maybe result in children with disabilities losing basic skills and taking a longer time to regain those skills once school is back in SE session um also recruitment of skills and behaviors um the program is an excellent opportunity for recommended students to maintain identified skills to prevent or avoid substantial loss of previously acquired skills uh the goal is to assist students with disabilities on targeting IP goals and objectives for emergency uh emerging skills and maintenance of skills and self-sufficiency skills and the maintenance of the program is with a focus on IEP goals it's not meant to help students reach their full potential and get ahead um we had 308 students who were recommended for esy um from preschool through the 12th grade um however attendance is not mandatory but is encouraged so I'm going to introduce Mr DeLuca who's going to talk about the next part of the program hello I'm Mr DeLuca our our esy program um used individualized program support we um we used a preschool curriculum and a great appropriate uh Ela and math curriculum for our students we focused on meeting the needs of our students IEPs uh through maintenance of Applied behavioral analysis discret trials our related services and specialized Transportation um our Behavior Uh Behavior implementation plan and our one to1 par professional all of these were provided as needed to meet our students iep's needs um and we also integrated social emotional learning into the program through social skills and mindfulness activities I'd like to introduce Mr Parham to bring it home hello I'm Joshua Parham uh just a brief overview of the esy program this summer uh to help prepare families of recommended esy students we offered a parent Guardian meet and greet with our esy Administration and staff uh that was offered a week before the start of the program our program ran July 1st oops whoops wrong button uh July 1st through August 13th it was a six week program that ran Monday through Friday uh from 8:30 to 12:30 uh the program was split between two buildings CA B and school 16 at CA we had approximately 178 students uh they were preschool self-contained and K5 llds and ABA students at school 16 we had about 90 students uh K5 ABA programs 6-8 llds and ABA programs as well as 9-2 communication impaired multiple disabilities and ab programs uh esy was equipped with ample staff including site nurses counselors educational Specialists coaches special education teachers related Services providers including speech OT PT as well as behaviorists support staff which included classroom AIDS and onetoone Par professionals as per the students IEPs as well as our security Specialists uh we also coordinated with transportation and food services this uh made sure that we considered uh all the students allergies and dietary restrictions and July and August menus were provided beforehand so that parents and families were made aware of our menus uh one of the main and important elements was making sure that our school security and emergency drills were met uh so not because of that we made sure to follow the Mandate for school security drills throughout the summer which included two drills per month back to this one so here you'll just see a few snapshots of the memories made this summer as we learned and grw it together at both programs including CA B with the visit from chewy of course and then at school 16 you'll see as well some memories made using our pbsis program with our students in which we modifi to meet their unique needs and reward them for their abilities at their level and presented them with Awards throughout the summer which created Everlasting memories for our students Building Family bonds enjoying our time together at CA B and school 16 additionally we'd like to give a big thank you to our Board of Education our Central Administration and all the wonderful staff that helped make this program possible thank you we had a great summer and we look forward to doing it doing it again next [Applause] year thank you as you can see it takes a village it takes all of our staff members from our administ ation to certificated to non-certificated Personnel custodians um transportation Pompton and everybody was involved in making sure that these over thousand students were able to have a successful and productive summer and most importantly it also takes the parents getting those children here to these programs to take advantage of these learning opportunities so thank you so much for a wonderful evening and ladies and gentlemen thank you all for your amazing presentations [Applause] thank you Miss kusich and and thank you all all the staff that helped provide these wonderful summer programs for our students um it's truly appreciated and it's wonderful work that you're doing uh lot of I think a lot of people don't realize what happens in schools I think it's everybody's on summer vacation um but you provide some very important enrichment for all of our students and that is greatly appreciated thank you so much okay Mr shahad reminded me we need to adopt the minutes from uh our last meeting so um have a motion to adop motion by commissioner bassford by commissioner Mahia roll call please Mr shahada M bassford yes Mr Brak yes Mr kova obain Mr Mia yes Miss Santiago yes missano yes Miss Suarez yes vice president Danny yes president Paris yes motion carries I will hold my announcements to the end uh moving on any unfinished business okay seeing none uh commissioner bassford could you please read our expression of condolence yes it's my it's my honor to do uh whereas on September 12th the community noted with sorrow the passing of hen McKenna Whiting and whereas Miss Whiting has served the Clifton Board of Education and the children of Clifton faithfully and conscientiously for 20 years Mrs Whiting uh started her career in 1995 as an elementary school teacher until her retirement in 2015 ien uh gravitated towards her young students with special needs and they were likewise drawn to her she thoroughly enjoyed old children and she loved her time spend teaching special education basic skills grade 1 and grade four at school number one NOW Thor now therefore be it resolved that this resolution be forwarded to her bereev family to serve as an expression of the great Regard in which Miss Whiting was held by the Board of Education the Administration Employees and pupils of the clipon public schools and be it further resolved that the contents of this resolution be noted in its in their entirety in the official minutes of the clion board of education for future generations to peruse dated September 19th 2024 thank you commissioner bassford and our condolences to The Whiting family moving on to education and AD Administration topics um commissioner Suarez could you please read our Hispanic Heritage Month Proclamation certainly thank you president Paris whereas Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated annually from September 15th to October 15 15th to recognize and honor the rich cultural contributions history and accomplishments of Hispanic and latinx Americans who have played a vital role in shaving the diverse tapestry of our nation and whereas the Clifton Board of Education is committed to promoting diversity inclusivity and cultural awareness within our school district and acknowledges that our Hispanic and latinx students families and staff members contribute significantly to educational and social fabric of our community and whereas Hispanic and at Americans have made enduring contributions in fields such as education science art politics business sports and entertainment enriching our society and inspiring future generations to reach their fullest potential and whereas through the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month we have the opportunity to educate our students and Community about the cultural heritage AG traditions and achievements of Hispanic and Latina Americans fostering mutual respect understanding and unity and whereas this observance provides an occasion for all of us to come together as a community appreciate the vibrancy of Hispanic and Latin cultures and reaffirm our commitment to ensuring an inclusive and Equitable educational environment for all students now therefore be it resolved that the Clifton Board of Education proclaimed September 15th to October 15th as Hispanic Heritage Month within our district and encourages all students teachers staff and community members to participate in events activities and educational programs that honor the Heritage and contributions of Hispanics and Latina Americans and be it further resolved that we urge our Educators to incorporate Hispanic and Latina history culture and achievements in the into the curriculum promoting a deeper understanding of the contributions made by Hispanic and Latin latinx Americans to our society and be it further resolved that we call upon all residents of clipon to join us in celebrating his Hispanic Heritage Month by participating in cultural events engaging in discussions and fostering an environment of respect and appreciation for Hispanic and naan me members of our community in witness whereof we the Clifton Board of Education do hereby set our hands and cause this proclamation to be affixed on this 22nd day of September in the year 2024 thank you thank you commissioner Suarez all right um looking for a motion to approve under Section B education Administration items number one through 16 motion second motion by commissioner brunak second by commissioner bassford any discussion I just had one quick question yes on uh ea4 um that's just a pass through that's not going that's not hitting our budget right the um where we're giving yes okay any others okay roll call Mr Shada M bassford yes Mr brunak yes Mr kova yes Mr Mia yes Mr Santiago yes abstain on the A3 Mr siano yes Mr Warz yes substain on ea3 vice president Danny yes president Paris yes abstain on B3 motion carries okay under section c Personnel um motion to approve items 1 through 47 motion okay motion by commissioner brunak seconded by vice president Dany any discussion saying none roll call Mr Shad that is personal that's person yeah that's Personnel we have one of ourly appointed hires here the audience to speak okay we haven't voted yet okay very well M bassford yes Mr brunak yes everything except p43 p43 abstain of my name only Mr Canova yes p43 my name only Mr Mia yes obstain to p43 my name only M Santiago yes Mr siano yes M Suarez yes abstain on P39 vice president Danny yes president Paris yes abstain on C 43 my name only motion carries we have someone who' like to make comments this please come up to the podium hello good evening everyone um I'd like to first introduce myself my name is Genesis Vasquez I you just appointed me thank you um as the supervisor of Counseling Services I am beyond excited and thrilled my heart is jumping out of my chest right now um thank you to the Clifton educational leadership team um for believing in me and thank you to you the Board of Commissioners thank you so much um I also want to say thank you um to Mr doctor for being here to support me morally I promise to give you my all I pledge to give you my all and to do what's in the best interest of the students and to always put them first thank you and have a good night thank you and all the best um next is uh section D Finance facilities items 1 through 13 motion second to approved by commissioner bassford second by commissioner Mahia discussion roll call Mr Shada M bass M yes Mr kova yes Mr Mia yes Mr Santiago yes misso yes abstain on f13 check 109 935 and 10543 sarez yes abstain on f13 check 8414 vice president Denny yes president parison yes motion carries and that moves us to board member comments and we will start this week uh commissioner Suarez is up first thank you president Paris good evening everyone I trust that the new school year has had a great start and hopefully all the bumps have been smoothed out by now or are in the process of being smoothed out uh so far this year I've been able to attend my first ever Clifton football game and I was so thrilled to see the camaraderie and pride among the stands I look forward to um a great athletic season and to cheer on all the Mustangs uh coming up this year um and I know maybe I mentioned it over the summer but the IC program was mentioned um during the presentation I just want to reiterate how fantastic of a program that is um and just seeing the students uh perform was absolutely fantastic um I'm also sincerely excited about our therapy dog initiative I had the privilege to meet these beautiful dogs before today and experienced so much joy I can only imagine all the good they will do for our students and I'm proud to be a part of the team that made these amazing service animals enrich the lives of our students um also uh for the parent who attended the meeting today via Zoom thank you so much for your feedback um recess and time outside is near and dear to my heart so I appreciate you Shar Shing your concerns um I really believe that all students deserve adequate time outside to move their bodies and to play with their peers um that said um outside time or recess is a mandate so talk to the teacher and or your principal to see um about that to make sure students need at that age 20 at least 20 minutes outside so definitely follow up with that um but I thank you for sharing your concern um and then last but not least happy Hispanic Hispanic heritage month I know I shared that with the community a little bit ago but this one is from my heart um from September 15th and October 15th our Clifton Community gets to celebrate the Myriad of cultures that are under the umbrella of Hispanic heritage as a p proud Puerto Rican myself I sincerely appreciate the time to celebrate not only my Heritage but all of Latin American uh cultures um and that said as we celebrate All Latinos this month let's make sure to extend respect and dignity to our friends and Neighbors who are human beings immigrants new to this country regardless of their documentation status they work hard and contribute greatly to our society and that said thank you all everyone have a great night and have a great month see you next time thank you commissioner Suarez commissioner siano thank you first off welcome back to school with the new Academic Year in full swing our athletic programs are also back in Action I had the pleasure of attending various football games soccer matches and gymnastics meet and I must say I've enjoyed every minute of it I plan to attend as many as I can with my schedule allowing for it and I feel really good about what this year holds for us thank you Mark for the student rep report good luck on your new role and thank you for keeping us informed I'm looking forward to it uh the report on the summer programs thank you very much for that that was um I'm glad everybody's still learning and we keeping their minds active that was very thorough uh I also want to wish everyone a Happy Hispanic Heritage Month it's important to recognize and honor the rich cultural contributions history and accomplishments of Hispanic and Latina Americans I do want to take a moment to highlight the outstanding work being done by Mr hamda the principal of Clifton High School his dedication is truly remarkable he knows most of the students by name which is crazy in that school he engages with them and most importantly has earned their respect just a short time ago we had frequent fights at dismissal right outside my office on cax now despite the chaos of traffic fighting I don't really see as an issue we're incredibly fortunate to have someone who genuinely cares as much as he does about one of our most populated schools hats off to him and all the vice principles I also want to talk about Mark jenero and the therapy dog initiative it's simply amazing and inspiring to watch watching this program grow and hearing students talk about how the presence of a therapy dog like chewy calms them before a test or turns a bad day into a good one is heartwarming as someone who experienced anxiety as a student I know how beneficial such a program can be I always had pets at home and I still do and there's something incredibly soothing about the love and compassion of an animal I like you won't be satisfied until we have a therapy dog in every school I'm behind you 100% on that when we see something working so well the only logical step is to expand it I am happy to announce that music together at the Clifton Art Center is backed by popular demand uh this is something for Ames and children to spend quality time together H with classes at the Clifton Arts Center with the incredible amazing talented Kim latiano it's Thursdays October 3rd 10th 1724 and 31st from 1 to 1:45 last day's Halloween they're going to have a big blowout for that it's for ages 6 to 5 I don't think it's ever too early to get the mind going with the Arts and Music is amazing and there's really no one better to teach you than Kim latiano I'm going to end this with a special shout out to my friend commissioner bronc happy birthday buddy you are really good people and you're a blast to be around I'm very happy with the friendship that has developed between the two of us uh thank you all once again and have a good evening oh that was good so I cut it I don't need that negativity in my life thank you commissioner SI commissioner San Santiago please thank you president Paris yes welcome back again to another awesome school year um all of our staff all of our students strive to succeed get involved in extracurriculars um attend our events just try and make your whole experience great by doing that um happy Hispanic Heritage Month so um my dad was a Korean War veteran um Puerto Rican and he's in heaven now but um you know know uh I think a lot about him uh especially around this time but um in addition he so he was in What's called the fifth infantry and uh there's a famous 65th infantry uh Puerto Rican regiment called the baners who um you know uh received medals and were critical and um were very instrumental in in the war and there was a documentary on them and so for Hispanic Heritage Month I'm going to be attending uh a viewing of that uh doc mentary Saturday night in um Fort Lee and it and it goes to uh support um a the B baners uh Park a Veteran Memorial Park in Perth Amboy which has a very large Puerto Rican community so I'm looking forward to doing that um there is a Hispanic heritage the second annual Clifton Hispanic heritage Carnival starting tonight through Sunday um I'm glad to see that I remember the carnival that was at at CCMS which was by the HSA I believe for many many years and stopped so I'm just happy that there's another Carnival that kids can go to in the fall it feels like you know you come back to school you got to have like a back to school carnival so I'm glad it's there so that's from tonight through Sunday um the summer projects amazing um thank you to everybody involved I know it's a lot of work and makes such a difference to our students the dog you know chewy program been supporting of it from the very beginning I'm glad to see it uh expanding and you know we can we can quantify and do the ROI and tangible dollars we can figure that out we can do that but like Mr jengar was saying you know the impact that it has on a on a on a student you know that's also worth something too right that's valuable too um it may not be dollars um but it is worth something to see the the difference that it makes in our students um so just happy to see that expanding and continuing um that's all I got thanks so much good night thank you commissioner Santiago commissioner Mahia please good evening ladies and gentlemen um I first like to congratulate all our athletic teams that have been doing so great this past um month although although some of them haven't been winning as much as they want to um that's just part of the process honestly you just got to give it time and the wins will come eventually um I do want to I know it was mentioned before in the very beginning about not having a playground at one of our schools and I know it's very difficult especially having a limited budget and everything I want to ask if it was possible to possibly explore other grants back when I worked with americore something that we did was partner up with specific um collaboratives um one of them was with the New Jersey Devils and they actually helped us build a playground not just for the school but for the whole Community I don't know if that's something we could probably do maybe reach out there's another specific Foundation I think it's the kellock or the Costco Foundation that they help build um playgrounds for schools specifically um maybe we could explore that option but I also um want to say sometimes it's the space you know what if we don't have the space I know that's going to be big especially where the school is located um the next thing I want to say is how you know proud and ecstatic I am to see all these summer programs happening um many times people will tell you well these are brand new programs these are brand new no these programs have been going on a long time I remember attending these programs back when I was in elementary school and a lot of people like to push it that PBS pbsis is relatively new it is but back then they still had similar programs that are very much the same thing that our students are learning today so I'm happy to see that it's still growing and I want to see it maybe expand a little better especially I know now we're planning to do it in the high school as the year comes um I look forward to seeing how this can grow in the future I mentioned it um to our superintendent on finance here we could probably get a medal for one of these I seen some school districts get a medal for actually doing summer enrichment programs like this for example like gear up the McNair program something similar to that hopefully you know maybe with that little connection we do have it might be possible um but besides that um thank you for that wonderful presentation to our all of our coordinators um happy Hispanic heritage months as well I want to give a little story I was at a flag raising a few weeks ago um and it was a Latino flag raising um a Puerto Rican one they were uh specifically talking about how the vision and the bias of being Hispanic has changed throughout the years and a story in particular um caught my attention um he was talking about how back then people would refer to has Hispanics as waiters um people who clean dishes and you know that brought back memories to me because the story sounded very similar and he was saying how now many Hispanics especially within my generation are now doctors lawyers um council members Board of Education people um and I'm happy to see that that perspective has changed thank you uh good evening um I'm hoping everyone's been able to uh adjust from their summer schedule to the new uh school year schedule I know my daughters it's been a little difficult in the morning but uh we're getting there uh I just want to wish everyone a great year this year I attended both the school 3 and CCMS back to school nights they were well attended um I got to see a lot of parents and and teachers and smiling faces so it was nice to see that uh the one PSA PSA I will say is please volunteer for your hsas um so they are a small group and they do help fund uh everything that they do inside of those schools the field days and the field trips and everything so please give back if you can uh even just a donation or if you can participation that'd be that'd be great um and I am glad to see the expansion of of the uh therapy dogs for kids in schools I know that I've seen chewy at events and you see the kidss faces light up and you know whatever's on their mind that kind of goes away and they they get to play with the dog and hang out with him so I think that's really cool um and just happy birthday to Mr brunak I even know it was your birthday try to keep little profile thank you thank you commissioner Kenova commissioner brunak please good evening everyone thank you everybody for those of you who reached out to me for my birthday yesterday uh also yesterday I had the privilege uh in this in our district we had the grade schools back to school night and I had the privilege of attending school 14s back to school night last night want to thank all the administration and staff for the wonderful presentations about their expectations for our students including Miss Fitzpatrick who's here tonight so I don't even know if she ever sleeps cuz she was there late last night too so it's amazing to see her as well uh over here more that a portion of the presentation includ including included requesting that the parents join that respective school's HSA these are independent organizations made of parents who volunteer their precious time to help fund raise to help support School me needs this sometimes this is items such as educational materials equipment field trips and sometimes even in teacher professional development but it's tough at some schools to get some volunteers and I'm asking parents even if it's just one or two events per school year to try and volunteer at some of these HSA events for your respective school and it doesn't stop in grade school either there are also Middle School hsas commissioner Kenova has volunteered his DJing experience to these I'm pretty sure uh he confirmed that but I believe he he has and the HSA officers they cannot do this by themselves I want to shout out to all the HSA officers out there who helped make it out who who helped make it happen among them at Christopher Columbus Melissa scriba and a bunch of them that I know personally at the grade schools nii Gorski yesie bbau Jennifer Lee and everybody else who helps make these organizations and the functions at that respective School happen thank you for your time and God bless America have a good night everybody com thank you commissioner brunak commissioner bastard please yes good evening um a PSA for the Clifton health department on Saturday September 28th at between the hours of 10 and 2 at the boys and girls club they're having an embracing abilities a disability and information and resource fair with a lot of different um resources included please stop in and support your local health department and all the um other community um organizations that are going to attend shout out to all the students and staff teachers as we kick off the new school year a special thanks to those who go way above and beyond each day to make the difference in the lives of others getting out and about in the community as much as we can um with our schedules it's a great way to con and we're we're all trying our best as Commissioners to get out um happy Hispanic uh heritage month it's an important time to honor the rich uh history diverse cultures and the significant contribution of the Hispanic and Latino communities I look forward to participating and learning more personally on my own level and um with anything that I get invited to I will be there welcome to Mark our new student rep uh welcome to the board wishing you all the success in your new role looking forward to working with you happy happy birthday to our colleague Mr brunak I hope you had a fantastic day yesterday um congratulations to the chewy team this is a hard one we are incredibly proud to witness the Implement implementation of this program it is inspiring to see how the seed was planted and is growing from one chewy that has sprouted into a full grown chewy team I am really this really touches my heart this one uh how it's expanding and flourishing the impact of your dedication to Mr jenero has already taken root and we can't wait to see how it continues to grow so thank you from the bottom of my heart um thank you m cucha levich to the comprehensive summer program offerings I'm pleased to know that the impact of these programs will provide long long life lifelong value to our students and I'm happy so happy to see about the ESL program tonight when you uh gave us that overview how it impacted those three adults and their lives home run for this board and I hope that we as a board can expand this program um to grow to reach even more adults in the needs of the language and support of the community so whatever we can do to support you to the Clifton Community welcome back to anybody you know how to get a hold of me thank you and good night thank you commissioner bassford vice president Dr Danny uh thank you Mr President Paris so I'd like to say thank you to all of the presenters um for presenting that really comprehensive summer program and really thank you to everyone who just makes the summer programs happen um from you know the custodians the administration the teachers the pomptonian just everybody um because it's just so nice to see the smiles on the children's faces and of course you know seeing chewy putting the smiles and it put a smile on my face and I know when I saw chewy here it was like you know it always gives you that warm good feeling and um just to say about the summer program as I was looking it's just so comprehensive and what's so nice is that you know there's something for all the students of all the grades so that's that's really good I mean from enrichment programs to accelerated programs so it's really nice to see what the district is doing um I'd like to say good luck to the new student representative um happy Hispanic Heritage Month um happy Russ Shish and Yan kapor To those Jewish people who are celebrating Happy indigenous people's day and happy Columbus Day and I know I've already told you Mr brunak happy birthday but happy birthday thank you thank you vice president Danny happy birthday Mr brunak um something since since our last meeting that that happened um the new staff orientation uh I think a lot of us quite a few of us attended it was a wonderful event with I believe over a hundred new employees and a vantastic motivational team building session led by uh Mr Jenaro where everybody gets to learn how to rock and roll and drum so uh congratulations on a very successful orientation and all the best to our new employees for a fantastic year um the band camp band has the Mustang band completed uh two weeks of band camp and they had their parents night and we were also invited to uh take a look where they showed off some of their skills uh their marching skills some of us got a chance to participate and learn how to March a little bit like a Mustang band member does um the band was also at the street fair this past weekend the van Avenue street fair if you haven't had a chance to see them yet come on out to a football game um or I think they'll be in the Vets parade and I think they'll also be at the Harvest Fest and a um in November there'll be a uh North Jersey Regional uh band uh Exposition also to my fellow Commissioners just a reminder next week is uh Pake County School Board Association meeting right here in Clifton at Marios uh if you haven't registered yet please do so um should be a great meeting and then one of our featured speakers is Mr shahad I believe so should be a good meeting um Thursday September 26th uh the Mustang band will have a fundraiser Smash Burger so if you're hungry and you like burgers Smash Burger is a great place to go at 5: to 9:00 p.m. Thursday September 26 as a fundraiser for the band um just going to repeat what our student representative said earlier about October 10th is a c our C CHS open house uh I also like welcome our student rep Mark and really appreciate that he's going to get involved representatives from each grade level for input I think it's a fantastic idea um look forward to the information he brings for us that's all I have for today cooking with oil tonight okay uh any new business to be discussed okay seeing none we'll move on I was waiting for him to put the mic on yeah um we will have executive session uh today we have a number of legal and Personnel uh topics to discuss it should take approximately 20 uh to 30 minutes and um a motion to motion motion second that's what he was waiting for motion by commissioner Santiago and second by commissioner Mia see you soon 5 minutes 5 minute recess Mr President you can certainly have a 5 minute Rec yes enjoy e e e we can vote on it all simultaneously what are we doing Judy I did no such thing I'm trying to get you guys to go home and see your [Music] families okay welcome back from executive session uh roll call Mr shot please M bassford present Mr brunc here Mr kova here Mr Mia yes Mr sanago presente M missano here here M Suarez here vice president Danny here president Paris here we have a quorum thank you uh looking for a motion to approve under G executive session items number one sorry items number two through S M motion motion by commissioner bassford one second seconded by woman second commissioner Suarez she uh roll call Mr Shad what is going on M bassford absolutely yes Mr brunak yes Mr kova yes Mr Mia yes Mr Santiago yes abstain on the ex7 missano yes Miss Warz yes vice president Danny yes president Paris yes abstain on X7 motion carries thank you uh motion to adjourn JN second have a great evening

okay it's 4 o' we can start in 5 4 good afternoon it's 4 o'clock and I'm going to call the um asdb board meeting to order um Leticia could you do roll for us tonight sorry Britney are you on the phone do you have that with you Su I am on phone and I can grab my binder give me one second okay I can do roll thank you perfect um we'll start with Linda B present uh I am present myself ber banan Colette chman here Lynn Davidson present Michael Gordon here uh president Kel here Katie sinko not present and then Earl Terry thank you Britney and this is Katie this is Katie I'm here awesome welcome Katie we'll move on to 1.2 information item asdb death blind project presentation by Lisa yarelli and Amy tlop interim assistant superintendent um catchup ready okay good afternoon board president kifl superintendent rikman and assistant superintendent katov thank you so much for inviting us to give you some information about the Arizona death bline project my name is lisan Carelli and I am the director of the def line project and with me today are the two def line Specialists Pat Jung and Amy trup all right the Arizona death bline project is is funded from a grant from the US Department of Education Office of special education programs this grant funding comes from Ida Part D which is the technical assistance and dissemination part of idea each state and several territories of the United States has a death line project and each state administers their def line project Grant differently some are housed at state Departments of Education some at state universities and some like ours are lucky enough to be housed at schools for the deaf and the blind All State de line projects are part of a national network that is led by the national Center on De blindness our project is responsible for providing technical assistance and training to all schools and families in Arizona not just those that are part of asdb as the Director of the Arizona de line project my primary role is Administrative I submit the application for the grant every five years I submit the annual child count and the annual performance reports the real work of the de blind project comes from our def blind Specialists Pat and Amy they're the ones that provide the technical assistance and training to the families and staff of students who are de lined services from the deathline project are unique we serve families students and their families from birth to age 22 and we remain connected to the family throughout their child's education we are the one constant during each transition of the special education process we remain connected no matter where the student student attends school as long as the student remains in Arizona while we do not provide direct IEP services our support has a direct impact on the educational programming and outcomes for students we have been very fortunate to have the support and encouragement of the asdb administration to collaborate with all areas of the agency Pat and Amy work in partnership with the campuses itinerant services and the Early Learning Program staff they regularly go on home visits with our ELP providers to provide information and support to families of infants and toddlers who have been newly diagnosed they provide training to the campuses on De line strategies and also provide targeted and more intensive technical assistance to teams when requested currently we have targeted ta plans open and ongoing to support teams on the pdsd campus and are currently establishing some new ta plans for our newest teachers on the Tucson campus for our itinerant programs Amy and Pat attend region meetings to provide an overview of information on De blindness and the different levels of support that the de blind project has to offer which is is at no cost and available to all districts this connection has led to multiple requests for technical assistance from partnering districts one of our most important initiatives is to provide ongoing training to staff who are serving in the role of the intervenor an intervenor is a staff member who works one-on-one with a student and is specially trained to ensure access and inclusive ity they provide a bridge to the world for the student who is De blind the intervener facilitates access to information communication and social emotional well-being this year we are taking a little different approach to our intervenor training program in that we are providing more specific student training so that the intervener is better prepared to support their student communication and learning needs for those who are not working as an intervenor but would like to learn more about death blindness and the role of the intervenor we offer free online training from the national Center on De blindness the open a open hands Open Access training modules are available on their website in addition to intervenor training we also provide two series of virtual trainings during the school year that are open and available to all staff our first training for early intervention providers was held on August 30th the topic was play based dep bline strategies other topics that will be covered this year for early intervention are American printing house for the blind materials for birth to three tactial skill development and cortical visual impairment the other virtual series that we offer for our K12 providers we call our virtual drop-ins our first session was held on August 28th and the topic was understanding Usher syndrome in the 21st century over 70 people attended the training which is one of our largest sessions that we have ever held other topics that we're offering this year are orientation and Mobility for de blind Family Support Services and tactile symbols as I said all of our trainings are open to anyone if you would like to attend our mailing or at be added to the mailing list to receive notifications of our upcoming opportunities please just let one of us know when we can add you to that list I also want to mention our web page which has General resources and information about death blindness there's also a link for providers or families to make referrals to the def blind project and a contact us feature to request our assistance the web address is azde blind project.org thank you all for your attention and interest in the work of the death bline pro project and we're available to take any questions thank you I do have a question you mentioned the child count um can you give us an idea of how many children within that age range have been identified here in Arizona so I believe you were in the web in the website or the database last are we at 230 okay and and that's within the the technical ver to 22 okay thank you approximately 230 like we just got a new referral yesterday um so it's ever changing and we you know of course update it every year take the kids who have left us the kids who have graduated um and no longer receive services from schools we update that information um and try to connect them to the Helen Keller National Center excellent thank you you're welcome does anybody else have any questions I do this is Linda Bo I have a question do you have an individual on your team team who is themselves deaf blind or deaf or blind to provide that level of support that personal experience do you have someone on your team or is that a plan that you're trying to incorporate into the future so at the moment we do not but absolutely would welcome a member of the def bline Community to be a staff member on our project um we do have an advisory panel where we do invite uh members of the death Community to be with us we haven't met for a while Co kind of um put it aside but we we I plan on bringing it back I just haven't yet so um we would welcome that anytime there's an opening um anyone is welcome to apply so I would welcome it wonderful thank you any other questions thank you very go ahead Katie I'm curious uh thanks for sharing first of all the information is uh very informative but I am kind of curious how can members of the death Line Community join that advisory panel what what's the process or how does that work in order to so to join um please just send me an email email and let me know of your interest like I said we we haven't met in a while and so your interest really uh notes to me that we need to bring it back and I would love to have members of the dep Line Community on our advisory and start that up again do you need me to repeat to uh give you my email address yes that be great sure thank you sure so it's Lisa L IA dot Yen Carelli which is spelled y n c a r e l l i at as db.

and for wait I got to find my for agenda item 6.2 um I'm open to any discussion or action I would like to make a motion this is Lynn based on our executive session discussion I move that we ask the aag's office to conduct further research on the legalities of the H policy for asdb I have a motion do I have a second I second all those in favor say I I I I any opposition or exstension so this will continue to be an information and possible action item on the agenda moving forward thank you okay 7.1 information and discussion item for uh and and possible discussion of policies it should be ACB ACAA GB K G GCB GCC i n j DB and j i i Maria Murphy director of policy and government relations I feel like there should be music behind that good evening Madame President superintendent rikman assistant superintendent members of the board and the asdb community for the record my name is Maria Murphy I'm the director of policy and government relations you have the red lines of the aforementioned policies before you I'm not going to repeat all the titles again no public comment was received in regards to these policies what I can tell you is that um most most of the G policies were actually driven by Governor hobbs' um executive order regarding paid parental leave and so we were required to create a paid parental leave policy and because paid parental leave affects the other leave policies it only made sense to go ahead and make those changes at that time so do you have any questions for me in the meantime though and I'm assuming that those are first reads yes ma'am they are first reads okay so no action on those tonight okay no ma'am any questions for Maria anybody on the phone have any questions or comments no thank you no all right thank you very much thank you all right then moving down to agenda item number eight call for agenda items for the next meeting um 8.1 call to the public I have not received any calls to the public for non-agenda items so it would be 8.2 agenda items for the next regular board meeting for um which is scheduled for November 14th of 2024 in Tucson um I would consider I would please continue to put the H policy as a information and possible action um any other ideas for the next um agenda if not you can always reach out to Annette or myself prior to the next board meeting hearing none moving on to agenda item 9.1 adjournment that's me this is Lynn I move that we adjourn this meeting I have somebody second second all those in favor say I I I I I okay um motion passes the meeting is adjourned at 6:29 p.m.

process so I think we can give him a pass but our wonderful representative was who is here with us tonight is Lydia GLE and you may have heard her sing the national anthem for us any number of times but Lydia is absolutely an outstanding student and that is such an understatement she maintains an impressive 4.46 GPA amidst more involvements that would make even the most energetic person and exhausted she's a dedicated leader she serves as the captain of the girls cross country team vice president of National Honor Society and president of students against destructive decisions sad Beyond leadership Lydia is deeply involved in a variety of activities including honors choir CHS drama mock trial and unified theater if you haven't had the opportunity to see her on the stage you must come to one of our Productions this fall she will be there um she has a mil she has so many talents they're boundless and her commitment to her peers shines through her mentorship in unified science and music and as I said before she's incredibly kind her academic Ambitions include pursuing a biology related major with a minor in Spanish with plans to follow a Premed track toward becoming a doctor Lydia's dedication perseverance talent and genuine curiosity andure she'll achieve her goals her work ethic her leadership her passion just make her an outstanding standing choice to represent chesher high school as our Board of Education student Representatives so welcome Lydia welcome thank you Dr [Applause] Gad all right and the next uh Dr s oh you do have a presentation it'll be brief you're ready to rock and roll go for it so there are just a few announcements for tonight as everything is still starting to pick up um to begin with our false Sports captains attended the SEC leadership council meeting yesterday our captains partnered with other schools to create a plan to demonstrate official appreciation throughout the year on that same note the CHS fall pep rally is planned for tomorrow to kick off the fall Sports season as well as the first home football game this is always a fun highly anticipated event both by students and faculty intended to wish all the CHS fall teams good luck in their Seasons Switching gears CHS has renamed their advisory period as ram ram time during next next week's Ram time students and faculty who participated in the the Student Book Club program will meet in the library for a discussion along with the celebration also next week CHS will sponsor a club and activities Fair during lunch waves on Thursday the 26th this event showcases the Myriad of student run clubs available at CHS and promotes students to take the opportunity and sign up for leadership for membership excuse me each year uh CHS welcomes the reunion groups to tour the high school the alumni typically attend a Friday night football game along with holding their reunion accordingly CHS will welcome the class of 1974 during the the weekend of October 4th and 5th to celebrate their 50th class reunion lastly that same weekend the CHS marching ramb Bend will host Music in Motion an event that invites other High School bands to participate in a competition of marching bands as you can see there are there are tons of incredible activities planned for just these next few weeks as well as of course for the rest of the year thank you great thank you Lydia board members have any questions comments Dr herrian just want to say welcome and we so appreciate apprciate when the students give their reports uh each month so thank you for being uh part of the part of the gang for the this school year thank you guys anybody here in the reunion for no I always look forward to also the music emotion having been a band Mom myself so I'm excited about that so thank you yes and we do appreciate having you guys cuz you tell us like the real news honestly so thank you for being here of course um Dr solman we have the presentation of the teacher of the year sir sure um at this point I'd like to welcome D little principal Amy O'Brien to introduce our feature of the Year thank you everyone very very happy and very proud that this teacher is at our school she has been a model for teachers students uh one of her strengths that I know she's most proud of is the relationship she builds with her uh students and also with the parents and also all of the teachers she has a little fan club here this evening um without further Ado I'd like to invite Christine diorio up to the podium okay good the spech the speech Days Are Over official [Applause] the bowling [Applause] and then Dr son I Believe Miss car is here to present actually uh Dr Gad will be introducing our par educator of the Year tonight oh it's so nice to introduce you this evening our par educator of the year uh she is the recipient of the anarie Murphy par educator of the Year award and it was established by the Connecticut State Department of Education and the school par professional advisory Council to recognize the very important role that par Educators have in supporting student achievement we are very honored this evening to introduce Elizabeth Crawford our 2020 the 425 par educator of the year [Applause] it [Applause] conratulations awesome I want to just again congratulate you both and as a former teacher of the year myself I I just my advice is have fun with it totally and and thank you both for all you do for our students and families thank you um next item if there are any audience members that would like to come to the podium and speak please do so just getting my wait time in for a minute look like we're GNA have uh testimonials from the fan club there for a minute yeah come please [Laughter] do we'll give it we'll give you a few more seconds if you you know seeing no audience we're going to move right to our committee reports and the first committee update will be curriculum um and I think I'm going to pass this to you Dr herrian for some of our updates sure so we met curriculum committee met on September 9th and we were we had several informational items um Miss Solano presented an overview of the chesher curriculum Council process including how that process leads to textbook adoption um also specific two questions from the Boe uh subcommittee on social studies Tim Galvin provided he was in attendance and he provided an overview of updates to US history with the adoption of the new state social study standards and it was noted that social studies will begin their five-year self-study this school year for the final presentation in the spring of 2026 uh we also were informed of the Connecticut State Testing results and Miss salana will give us some details um at the end of my report we talked about we got an update on the um right to read waiver I believe that uh some of our people went to a meeting with the Connecticut State Department of Education but that was after our meeting so I don't have anything to report on as far as that's concerned um Marlene also shared highlights of this year's curriculum writing Institute um and we heard about that at our last Board of Education meeting so um I don't think I need to go into details on that unless anyone has questions um we were informed of overnight field trips uh Florida Keys for chesher high school during February 12 through 18 and um dairyfield Park Manchester New Hampshire for Chester high school and that will be November 8th through 11 of 2024 so Dr re shared details of two out of state overnight field trips for Cheshire high school students this year the first is in anticipation of athletes qualifying for the boys and girls cross country New England championships which take place at da Field park in Manchester New Hampshire um I was told that there was that that was just a thing that we weren't really anticipating we were it it was a done deal as far as as far as the committee was concerned not too much pressure on the kids the second is a stem Focus trip to the Florida Keys uh through destinations unlimited um with they'll visit the Florida Aquarium the Museum of Science and Industry uh Babcock Ranch Edison Ford winter estate this all sounds very sciency and sounds like a fabulous trip and with that I will turn the sharing of the State Testing results to M Solano thank you Dr haran bear with me as I put our slideshow up on the screen okay a VOA hold on oh okay we go all right so I'd like to preface this State Testing overview by describing a little bit of how we use these results so this is these are results of the smarter balanced assessment which is given in grades 3 through eight it's also the overview of the next generation science standards assessment that is given in grades 5 8 and 11 okay Mike oh okay uh and it's also an overview of the SAT results that are given to our Juniors so our grade 11 students and I sort of look at this as um one of the like you're going to the doctor and you're you're getting some blood tests to see your health in that one day out of the year to kind of get an idea of how are you doing or what what do you need to work on from a health and wellness standpoint when we look at these results we're looking at a a lot of things we're looking at overall health and then we're also looking at any changes that we need to make to curriculum and instruction so aside from looking at teachers will look at individual student test results to determine where individual students need to make growth when we look at it from the district level we look at it to say do we need to make changes in our curriculum are we seeing patterns over time are we seeing growth are there programmatic changes that need to be made what what are the numbers what is the data telling us so not only can you see it on these nice fancy screens that are in our room now but you also have a copy in front of you so take a look at this this first slide which indicates Smarter Balance achievement for grades three 3 through 8 you see in front of you 5 years worth of data 2018 2019 remains our highest which is also quite true for State results and then you can see what's happened since the pandemic and that we are making gains back towards that 201829 level of achievement so this is a healthy indicator of our students achievement there this indicates ban three and four so that means that students met or exceeded the goal for their grade level and we are at 76.1% for ELA and 73.5 for math so we've surpassed in math where we were in 2017 2018 not not quite to where the level we were at 75% only two points away and Ela is going in the right direction a little bit flat from from the year before this next slide gives you an idea of growth so the smarter balance assessment looks at both a growth rate for example Tim gets um a certain score on the smarter balance assessment and he needs to make 100 points of growth the next time he takes the test in order to meet his growth Target even if he gets 99 out of 100 points that doesn't count for the growth rate that is a binary number that means either yes you made the growth or no you did not there still may have been growth but it's not recognized in that growth rate number of a student that achieved 100% of their points the next one the average percent of Target achieved looks at the percentage of the growth Target that the student achieved so if we're talking about making 100 points of growth and you make 99 points you're doing very well and that percentage is calculated so every time I touch it it moves so you can see here that 67.8% of our students have an average or an APTA score of 67.8 so 67.8 of students are achieving their growth and 50% are achieving their growth rate so that's laa and then the second column is math so they're they're quite similar for 23 24 I ask a quick question sure how is um growth rate the target growth rate determined that's there's a metric there that is built in by the statisticians up at the State Department of Ed who determine with the testing company what that level is and it's in it's it's individual for every student for every student this next visual um before you move on so um does that mean so let's say the growth point spread was supposed to be 100 points and the uh student gets 99 does that mean they don't make that means they don't make the they don't make the growth rate yeah so improved 99 points and was almost there yeah that would be a no for the growth rate but for the APTA for the average percent they would get the points there okay that would be that's the average student grew what percentage of their target so on average our students in ela grew 67.8% of their target our average student got to about 70% of their target and their target isn't necessarily grade level their target is individualized based on where they started and so uh that could be a little challenging when you have higher achieving students you know the growing that much further Beyond growth rate it's going from9 95 to 98 it's right you're talking about going above their their grade level you know even if you look at somebody like new Kanan who's always at the top of the performance they they don't have super high growth rates always either so um those are a little tougher to achieve when you have high achieving population thank you I think the other thing that's important to point out here is and and the percentages of students who took the test is not reflected on this sheet but this is all students are taking this test except the most severely impacted and even for students who have disabilities they are taking this test students who take special education students who are multilingual Learners students who have moved here and still don't speak the English language they are taking this test some students who have an impairment may take an alternative test and that's still you know considered in this data Tim I thought students were allowed to opt out if they chose yeah okay because what I thought I heard you say a second ago is all students take this test like 99% of students take this test okay got it no I just want to be clear on that thank you and you know I I don't think it's a bad thing to take the assessment it's um it's dramatically shorter than it used to be um it's it is provides us a good snapshot about each child's growth and where they are uh gives us great feedback about what we're doing so I encourage kids and families to take it but I understand that some opt out but it is a small number as Marlene just said yeah no that's all I was was wondering about and I I'm not as we've discussed before I'm not a fan of standardized tests anyway my kids take it right and I'm uh my oldest has taken it and I'm fine with it I just there's a lot of different thoughts going on but no as far as what we do you know I'm definitely not discouraging anyone from taking it I think it it makes sense from a pedagogical perspective to help you thank to help the the kids mostly in the district thank you so this slide breaks out the just in a different way the ELA growth for grades 3 through eight on the smarter balance across the last five years and then we're going to look at the math in the same way so not a lot of variability we are always striving to do better we are always striving to um best that 2018 2019 year but we also look at our scores compared to the durg that we're in compare them to like communities and to the state so if we look at now switch over to the ngss this is the science test you can see that we've made some some improvements here and I know you've all been listening to me talk about ngss training for a number of years and this is really a multi-year process to train teachers in how to meet the standards of the ngss because it is so vastly different from the way that students were measured before and the way the standards were written before so you can see that our fifth graders 78.3% met or exceeded the Target in e8th grade 71% which is an increase up from 65 66% so that was a nice healthy bump to see that increase and our high school continues to make strides in the right direction and landed at a 68.6% of students meeting or exceeding the target this is a breakdown of grade five so from 80 to 78 still sort of flat but um again that 2018 2019 isn't isn't too far away yes yeah um so some of the trends here are not ideal from what I'm looking at the numbers but just generally speaking for any numbers that are down from 1819 is that in your opinion uh re related to covid learning loss was definitely related to co that is the major okay yeah so it really is a nationwide thing with anything and this this if you if I were to show you and and then the couple of slides coming you'll see us in comparison to the state and the dirt and I think that that's true of Connecticut understood thank you not everywhere but over sure yeah just generally is what I'm wondering about yeah thank you so here's some of those dur comparisons for grade five we're fourth in our dur and you could see that the difference between a 78 and an 82 is pretty small this distance between between second rank in the durg is also small 78.3 to 79.1 we've been floating between first and fourth for the last the last four or five years here's the history we were first out of our 18 similar durs in 1819 then we were third then we were second then we were fourth so that's that's where we're living in those first four rankings then you look at grade eight nice increases over the years we went from 68 to 65 to 71 the the time and energy that those teachers have put into writing curriculum over the summer and the work that we've done with Consultants through the Connecticut Science Center have certainly paid off and this year we are ninth in the Durk we've gone 9th 9th 12th and back up to 9th for rankings again that's in science now we look at grade 11 there's a nice story here in grade 11 we've had some of the highest achievement on the ngss test that we've had in four years at 68.6 so we've been incrementally creeping up ninth in the dur similar to the middle school but a significant difference from 14th 15th 10th well not significant from 10 to 9 but but still trending in the right direction that's 11th grade science thank you yeah and one of our problems that I think is facing everyone absenteeism how much of a factor is that in terms of the numbers well I mean just if you know if you don't know that's fine we don't have a direct correlation but we do know that if our kids aren't here then they're missing that information and because this test is fifth grade e8th grade and 11th grade it's cumulative so it's not as if you know they these 11th graders hadn't had this test since 8th grade you know so there's some there's time span in there it's it's a a test that's measuring skills over a vast number of years and so this is something we impress on families with children who have chronic absenteeism which is by definition 10% of the days of the school year or more so if you're here for the full year it's you've missed 18 days or more and we had out coming out of covid there was a national phenomena and we weren't exempt from it that we had high chronic absenteeism and we worked diligently on that last year and brought it down dramatically but to Marlene's point if you've missed 22 days in each of the preceding year even if you got it down to 15 now which is a relative win that's a lot of missed instruction uh the equivalent of nearly half a year um for some kids uh with their chronic absenteeism so that that comes back to haunt you and so we really try and nip that in the bud um at the Elementary grades and for obvious reasons yeah I guess I I guess I'm wondering if I'd be curious if we could do it if you have the pii the personally identifiable information and could anonymize it and just look at the absent kids who are generally absent into break it out into absentee kids and non- absentee kids and then if the state did that then have a comparison I'd be curious about it I don't want you spending a bunch of time on that I've looked at it it's it's shockingly not disastrous oh okay it's not good you know foric but you know I would have hypothesized it would have been worse okay so that's interesting thank thank you so but it's it's not good sure yeah thank you okay so now we can move on to the SAT this is a five-year look back of this SAT test this is the SAT school day so this is what the state uses as their state assessment for all 11th graders in Connecticut and in in um at the high school there is one day where students take this test they can still take it outside of this as many times as they need to but the the SAT school day has become what the smarter balance test is for our grades 3 through eight students in grade 11 so you can see that in English language arts we went from 71.1% of students meeting or exceeding The Benchmark to 80.2% of students meeting The Benchmark so I think that's a definite celebration the team there put a lot of work into it they put a significant amount of work into looking at the data and really digging into what might be holding students back and made some shifts and changes and I think we're really pleased with that result um if you look at the math math is was at 52.1% and resulted in a 49.5% of the students meeting or exceeding The Benchmark so that's where our focus is that is where the the next level of work is calling if you look at the dur B rankings for ELA we are seventh out of our peers and if you take a look at the math we are 14th in the durg of our peers and I like to look at where the top schools Madison and Grenich are at 60% of students meeting or exceeding so we're about 10 percentage points behind that again we I can talk a little bit about some things that we're doing to address that as well um sure go ahead Adam um yeah I just wanted to comment um I know you and uh Mr hanlin had commented on all eth graders next year taking algebra and I know um luckily I guess my son did well enough last year he's taking algebra this year in eighth grade and um just thinking back on how um just looking at this math score how having potentially let's say an extra year of algebra um to when you're preparing to take the SATs because like you know he's been doing his homework and I'm like hey that's an question make sure you pay you know pay attention to that you know it's Al like that they're being exposed at an earlier age and that every next year every eighth grader will have that earlier start I think is yeah I think it's G you're going to see a a pretty good Improvement there so let let me speak to a few of the things that we're we're doing with that um but before I do I just want to comment on our the ELA in the State ranking treasure High School is ranking 17th out of 124 districts and in math they're 23rd out of 122 districts so I just wanted to make sure we got that in so one of the things that you know Adam that you're alluding to um and I want to swing back to what I originally said of how we actually use this data to make decisions and why it's important to us even though we know it's a a snapshot in time right we know that teachers have data based on the assessments that they're doing on a regular basis in class they have the class work they have what they're seeing and and what students are are presenting to them every day is is a larger part of what happens but last year at the end of the the term we got some of these results back for for our sixth graders and those sixth graders we saw that 60% of them were at that level four which is exceeding the grade level standard that told us a whole lot about students Readiness for the next level of math at DOD and so the decision was made after we really examined all that to make sure that we were offering pre-algebra for every student at do and we weren't having these these different levels so now all students can take pre-algebra in seventh grade the other thing that we did was to make sure that moving forward that all students will have the option to take algebra in 8th grade knowing that some students may need a second year of algebra they can do that as freshmen so they can they can move ahead but they can still get that second boost of algebra that many kids might need and that and that's okay there's still a pathway for them to reach higher level math classes um the other thing that we did was over the summer there was some summer offerings for students who were already at the high school who needed that confidence boost who who were because of the results that we saw we reached out and offered the summer session to students who just wanted to boost their skills and we did that with about 15 students over the summer and our our Math teachers from the high school taught that the other option that we had that school counselors worked on with students and with the Math teachers was to offer students again who might have needed needed that opportunity the opportunity to double up on those those PR those basic math skills not basic but algebra geometry in those earlier grades in order to to be able to be more prepared for later math so there's a number of things happening um we we're also going to be talking about what we're doing with some of our ninth graders and we'll we'll share that once it's a little more formalized at the curriculum committee meeting in October so the conclusions that we came to for this is that these indicators are really of overall all Health we have consistent achievement in GR 3 through eight we have the ninth highest achievement in Connecticut for ELA and math that's that's really good um I talked about already about the 60% who are above grade level in sixth grade and how that's led to changes we have consistent increases in our ngss achievement and we have plans that were're saw that our our systems and structures are working so that CCC review process is yielding the right results the plans that they developed in ela resulted in successes on the on the SAT and other areas too but we're talking about the SAT and State Testing tonight and then um we're we're really trying to you know do what we did in ela in the other areas so we can continue to see those gains I think it's worth noting also that you know just eight nine years ago we were 35th in Connecticut in terms of our overall achievement rank now we're ninth so um you know we're staying the course making modifications as needed addressing addressing the areas that need um more attention but feel pretty good about the direction overall you have a comment thank you yeah so just just to repeat what I what I think we're looking at is espa 338 NG GSS 5th 8th 11th and sat 11th grade so it's a bit of an amalgamation of a few different got it um and one question about this last the previous slide it said we were 17th that of4 or 23r so we have 169 towns in Connecticut I know we've got Amity School District region 16 I thought we had more than 124 School District so what do those two numbers represent high schools and okay yeah so there are high schools some that didn't have enough kids to take the test to qualify got it for the public scoring so the the point is that this is these are high schools only it's basically it's pretty much representative of all the high schools in Connecticut it's not like oh these are the high achieving ones we'll pull those out and then we're yeah we're 17th okay got it yeah we're 17th of the lowest 124 no but uh you know it's it's there are there are a limited number of high schools because of regionalization sure thank you any other board members comments questions thank you Miss salano for the comprehensive report I do want to just kind of acknowledge you know it is looking like we are trending healthy still um but there are areas and I appreciate what you're doing to kind of put mechanisms in to correct certain things um and we all know that when you start changing and modifying that there there's going to be a slight dip because we're trying to get used to our practices and so forth too so kudos to you for doing that um and then also the SAT went digital and we did not get any sort of support analyzing any of the questions and so forth so that's a huge amount of work that the high schools have to do to prepare for um understanding the the new format of and the new questioning as well too so I think we're we're trending like you said Dr s in the right direction Mr gripple um that brings up a question so for SATs not everyone takes the sat right so at the high school all of our 11th graders need to take the SAT it's the state assessment it's not just some students so the same the same description that I gave to you for the smarter balanced assessment that our multilingual Learners must take it our special education students must take it unless we're only talking about our most impaired students who do not take this test so every student kind of gets a free yes test yeah yep and we would encourage you if you're even thinking about going to college take it you know and certainly is Marlene said we have students take it multiple times this is one of the times they take it but we encourage you to take it and to take it seriously um and give us feedback I mean not taking it seriously is a problem that we've tried to address like I'll just check it out check out the format take you know kick the tires a little bit and then I know I'm taking it a month from now I'll take you know I'll really put energy into it we're trying to make sure every but everybody in Connecticut faces that so then that leads me to the next question is how reliable is the data if everyone is taking it but not everyone is really serious about it well it's the same as any other high school in Connecticut our kids are no different than the kids and so it's just sort of like built in that there's a percentage when we're comparing ourselves to each other um yeah because well because well what I'm thinking is so we're at uh was it 50% for math for the SATs but if you're I'm just say if you're taking a test it's easier to sort of fake your way through the the English part than it is the math part if you don't know math you don't know math but English you can kind of you know fudge it a little bit I don't know Dr gad's in English speaking to Educators here I'm not sure they're G to agree with that her into the chair over there but uh you know some you know some people may not be talented in math may just without knowing it be more talented in it you know just language and reading and stuff that's all but you do need language in mathematics don't forget you do but math is you have to really kind of commit to it in my opinion someone who is math challenged I'm an accountant I'm still math challenged there's tools any other board members no awesome you guys did a lot of work in the curriculum committee um anything else Dr heran we work hard for the school district I see that that's a lot going on there we have great leadership thank you missana we have a great team um up next Mr masana is not here but he is here in spirit however Dr Solen are you up to the task I certainly am um so in your packet you have the couple of different it items first the financial report uh in the summary I mean you have line item uh overview from August 31st but you also have the overview uh summary as of August 31st right now we've limited expenditures to 50% on the discretionary funds what you see reflected in this budget report um is limited with respect to our encumbrances uh we haven't encumbered the full year of Transportation or salaries um so the number looks a little bit lower uh than reality uh we uh will have that for the end of September report will encumber those things so first business meeting in October uh you'll start to get a clearer picture but we're on track um at this point as I think Vin mentioned in the last meeting we've locked in most of our utility costs with the exception of natural gas which we're still on market pricing for so um generally speaking you know we're we're humming along for pretty early in the year um are there any questions on the operating budget before I go to the medical benefits report it's still pretty early oh NOP is okay just one quick one um uh lunch accounts uh are we is it going a little more smoothly this year so far um no I I don't think it's going worse but it's not dramatically better um and so you know I think what is better is how we manage it uh the other thing that's a little bit different but uh doesn't dramatically impact us financially is the fact that uh if you qualify for free you get or excuse me if you qualify for reduced price meals you receive those free now um which is of a tremendous benefit to those families um because if you reduced cost that even that Delta between the rout produc price meal and the entire cost of the meal that's meaningful for families um so I'm grateful that those families don't have to worry about that because as we've discussed before the threshold for free meals in Connecticut is kind of disturbingly low like you have to make such little money it's a federal standard so um it doesn't you know in a state where there's a higher cost of living and higher income still doesn't work out for a lot of families so that's better but um I can get you an update for our next meeting on where we stand exactly in in relative to last year at this time too thanks for the question thank you I would add that there really is a national conversation going on right now about just providing school lunches to all kids but um you know I suppose it needs to go state by state right now but I'm you know I'm kind of hopeful that we can just you know have that we can just feed our children at school and someday it won't be this huge accounting issue that Boards of Ed need to go through but that's just my my comment on the whole thing thank you for indulging me sorry um one last comment um my comment before about the SATs is U my own personal opinion and uh more of a a street assessment than anything else was Dr Gad I balled you that badly that you felt like had I bet she was had to come clean all right the uh next item anyway medical benefits Reserve fund um you know we only are two months into the claim year uh cuz obviously we haven't closed out September claims yet um well the August claims were better than the July claims they still fall a little higher uh than our Target um that leaves us with 1.53 months in reserves I'll remind you that our Target was 1.88 million uh per month in this month's claims in August when I say this month August came in at 1 280 so you know about 100,000 off the um the the standard so it's not terrible you know it's exactly 129 779 but um you know we're hopeful that as we we roll into the year the claims continue to fall and allow us a little bit more Reserve um and that's that's uh you know not I think we're in a decent pace right now um but but again more as uh Luther Miller always says more will be revealed after uh next month great thank you Dr s next item is um any board members wish to report on any other standing committees no okay um we have several minutes in the packet to approve so we do need a motion to approve the minutes of the September 7th meeting as well as the September 12th meeting um the September 7th was our opening of schools meeting and then this the 12th was the NextGen uh joint meeting uh with the board it's listed as September 5th in the minut okay thank you it's the fifth okay so we need a motion for the fifth and the 12 Dr or Mr White moved that the chesher Board of Education approve the minutes from the meeting held on September 5th 2024 you want me to continue please move that the chesher Board of Education approve the minutes from The Joint meeting with the ngbc held on September 12th 2024 is there a second Mr eki any additions or Corrections beyond what was just previously mentioned no yeah just just the acronym for anybody the ngbc the Next Generation School building committee thank you um okay we need to take a vote to approve as presented all in favor unanimous thank you Carol I have a motion in front of me but it's not oh I'm like this has Wetlands has nothing to do with although you want to pass it to Tim maybe um next item Mr secretary are there any correspondence would you you like to share with us or I have uh no correspondence to report all right that's unfortunate thank you and then Dr Solen for the superintendent's report please thank you so much um lot to cover from the start of school year but I'll try and keep it quick uh I'm excited to report that robotics is underway and um if you're one of my 1451 followers on super cheser you saw a i you saw a post I had to look up what my handle was that's how I know there's 1451 my hopes and dreams this year I went into a classroom it's not uncommon to see my hopes and dreams posters for the year and uh this one got me really excited my hopes and dreams this year is to build a robot so you know it just sometimes you grind on the board or is a central office administrator or a member of the CF and you maybe don't realize how the impact you know decisions and efforts you make have on our kids um that's really cool you know to I I was so excited when I went in and saw that um also 1451 followers is my desperate plea cuz my 15-year-old won't think I'm cool until I hit 1500 so you know please join me on Super Treasure anyway science team is that Twitter that is Instagram Instagram I'm sorry yeah thank you thanks for the plug there ad um science team at chesher high school we have if you recall from uh last year we had uh Miss Barker the science department chair come in with a group couple of groups of students that were engaged in a science program with the Science High School in Soul South Korea uh the Republic of Korea they're preparing for a trip in November uh they'll be there from uh November 16th through November 23rd they're getting really excited they had a meeting last night with teachers from Korea to talk about you know the the expectations there so it's really exciting that they're prep preparing for that journey and representing uh tresure High School internationally really cool I wish them luck and I can't wait to hear when they get back we'll have them come and share their experience um along those lines are we do have two guest teachers here from gangam do Office of Education that's in the south of Korea they are uh housed at Highland they've become really well acclimated uh and our staff has really enjoyed spending time with them learning from them and vice versa so that's been a great experience I wanted to share want to celebrate the uh do little best buddies chapter they were um recognized as an outstanding best buddies chapter nationally uh just this summer so special shout out to Christina viu and uh Brian jakara Matthews Christina is a former I par educator of the air uh Bree a teacher at uh tresure high school and they are the mentors for our do little do little best buddies program so shout out to them we can't wait to have them next month and recognize them uh public um reading update uh as was mentioned um by Dr herrian we did have a a meeting with the Department of Education and I heard Adam in the back of my head I almost dressed as Braveheart when I went to the meeting but um it was uh a really productive meeting to be honest uh we met I I have to give a lot of credit to Deputy Commissioner um Dr Charles Hughes um I mean it wasn't oh yeah sure we just approve you uh there was nothing like that they're not going to re-evaluate our um our application if you will but uh there was a real emphasis on how we're addressing the science of reading uh so I want to commend Marlene and and Kevin hanlin um but also Pat Castle is our district reading specialist uh she introduced herself as the art AR fact in the room because she has been um focused on reading for decades and is incredibly knowledgeable and was able to really convey how uh organizationally we address the science of reading and how we're committed to that and I think um it gave time for pause and perspective taking on the on where we are and uh where the state could help us Bridge any gaps that might exist so uh again I want to thank Dr Hughes and and Pat Kevin and marleene for their their work in that meeting yesterday um uh yesterday was a super busy day with the state that was um you know a couple hour investment up with uh the reading but uh spent three hours yesterday on a call with the Department of administrative Services reviewing the plans for the North End School uh that all went according to plan um so we're feeling really good about where that stands we're continuing to cruise along I gave a presentation Tuesday morning at 7:30 to the economic development uh commission here in town and uh about the the school development if you have not been past Maran Road uh recently that site it's it's amazing to see the transformation there uh we're excited so that uh the level that pad off the let it sit for a number of weeks to make sure there isn't significant settling um and then in December we'll start instruction so we're right on on path uh you'll start to see things go up in December and it's it's exciting to think about um finally uh two last items uh I'm excited to share with all of you your chesher High School Board of Education season pass for athletics so VIP uh seating at uh all of our sporting events hope that you can come out and cheer on the Rams um anticipating more great Seasons from our student athletes at CHS unless you have a meeting at the same night that kind of stinks but anyway um and finally uh no meeting would be complete without Tim's update on the anxious generation so um I'm excited to announce that we're going to host a panel conversation about the anx generation at chesher High School in the Thorp Auditorium on October 29th at 700 p.m.

right here in town council chambers and then we move into October already October 7th will be policy committee meeting where we're going to start talking about that cell phone policy um that will be held at 7M at the central office boardroom as well October 10th is the Board of Education open Forum meeting 7:30 here in town council chambers October 17th Board of Ed business meeting 7:30 here at Town council chambers and then last in October we have October 21st curriculum will meet at 7 p.m. at the central office boardroom um I'd say that going into October we do have rashash Shana off um for the students at least on October 3rd and um October 14th we have indigenous people inali American day um both schools and central office are closed and with that um Dr heran is there a motion to adjourn sure I move to adjourn anyone want to second that Mr grippo all in favor of adjournment unanimous we are fully adjourned thank you

to showcase our great school for eighth grade students and prospective future pupils that is all until the next meeting and I hope that I may return with a fully positive Resort uh fully positive report next month as well thank you for having me thank you Mark and [Applause] welcome we're going to uh skip a little bit this evening because we have a lot of presentations later so we're going to start with board committee reports then we're going to go to public recognition um our first board committee report is residency and security and commissioner Santiago could you please read those minutes thank you president Paris The Residency and and security committee meeting agenda Tuesday September 10th the meeting took place on Tuesday September 10th and began at 5:06 p.m.

a.gov this is Katie great thank you so much you're welcome okay any any further comments or questions this is Britney I don't I don't have a question I just have a comment um my family has directly benefited from the death line project and I just want to say what a great program this is and I am so thankful that we have been I thankful for the support that they always give to families um in the death line community and I think what their work their work is incredibly important and I'm just really glad to have them around thank you Britney anybody else thank you again we appreciate that thank you so before moving on to 1.3 we are going to kind of flip things around a little bit and we are going to move 7 point not yet uh may I interrupt you uh Donna Williams is not here yet uh she appears to be stuck in traffic I'll try it after okay never mind we're not going to flip things quite yet um we're going to go on and move down to 1.3 call to the public for agendized items um the first person I have on my list is Elizabeth br house hello superintendent rikman board president Kel assistant superintendent katov and board members hello my name is Elizabeth Libby Brouse and I'm a preschool teacher at pdsd and the president of the Arizona school for the deaf and blind Education Association asdb EA I am commenting today with the support of and on behalf of ASD Bea which we do have some new members at at this board meeting today we're excited to see information and discussion of developing an H policy on the agenda today we noted that there are many H policy examples provided and we hope that those combined with the ones that we shared with board president kifl in December 2023 help begin to demystify what an H policy entails if you need access to the district policies and asb's notes and comments on those policies I'd be happy to share those again members of asdb EA made the choice to work at as DB because we have found community and we believe in the school as well as our students and families working at asdb is our livelihood we are looking for a seat at the table where discussions and decisions are happening that will shape the future of our agency not only do our students lives depend on that future but ours as employees do too just a couple of days ago superintendent rikman sent out a vlog update in that email she asked how will asdb continue to offer the best education and support to our students in 2034 with some considerations in mind she asked a second question in order to sustain asb's purpose and giving our students the best education and support possible how does asdb prepare for this future a as dbea believes that we have a responsibility to help be the solution for these challenges our agency faces we want to partner in a formal way with the board and superintendent on improving the working conditions retaining and attracting highly qualified staff and offering a unique perspective to the challenges we Face we can do this work in solidarity through a co-created h policy we hope that this is the first step in developing a partnership of supporting our students now and preparing our agency for the future our students depend on it and we depend on it thank you thank you the next person is Christina H hello good afternoon I'm Christina H and I'm a PR school teacher here at pdsd I've been with the agency since 2016 when I started my internship at Region 2 or formerly known as DVR as a young professional what stood out to me and what I remember while interning as an itinerant teacher while getting my master's degree from the University of Arizona's deed program were two things one the dedication everyone had to their students their families and the districts and the services we provided was UND deniable two the constant flow and collaboration of knowledge feedback shared responsibilities and expertise that we all partook in between my in between my supervisors Nancy and Patty at the time our director audiologists Sarah and Carol and fellow teachers Libby Trish and Marine to name a few seeing that willingness to collaborate between all of these professionals no matter the Tas task was not only admirable but moving so moving in fact that I said this is a place I want to work and grow in and eight years later I'm still here from an intern in college itinerant teacher at DVR and now at pdsd campus as a preschool teacher I ask the board to please consider helping ASD Bea with co-creating an age policy because what better way to continue a collaboration of expertise skills feedback and shared responsibilities then between all those professionals directly and its Union to be a part of thank you thank you moving on to um 1.4 information item superintendent report superintendent Annette rikman good afternoon president kifil board members acting assistant superintendent catch off or in catch off and the asdb community Welcome to our September 24th board meeting here 19th sorry I want to mention that the assistant superintendent Shaya Cooper will not be here she is on medical leave currently you have her written report and so if you have any questions related to her written report we have the executive director of it and HR and business services here here that are able to answer any of your questions so I'd like to continue our discussion from the last two board meetings about the importance of stability in the organization to support a culture of growth and of planning for the future especially when there are modifications and changes occurring there are things that we have to do to keep the organization stable first we have to stay true to the roots of our core values and our mission that include our beliefs that every student can learn grow and succeed our mission that says we are committed to Excellence in Innovation and providing education to all students in the state of Arizona who are deaf blind and death blind we are also committing to Excellence of innovation in our leaders ship in our collaboration in our Partnerships the second thing that we have to have as continued stability in the organization is clear goals and we have that thanks to you we have a strategic plan that is devised of the four pillars to excellent in communication and relationships to outstanding student devel velopment to superb organizational culture and effective resource management and then the third thing that we have to have for a continued organization of stability is a strong stable leadership team and thankfully again we have that and we have a leadership team that is truly committed to growing a thinking about out the future fostering growth so when we talk about developing a good plan the question is what's a good plan a good plan can survive the reality of the world reality we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow we can't predict the future a good example is in 2020 the covid pandemic shut down the world nobody predicted that that would happen so we have to have a plan that's also flexible fle flexible in its thinking flexible in its timelines something that allows for error a good plan has to be frugal very cautious and careful in how we use our resources so when you think about the plan and then you think about the outcome we know that the outcomes are never exactly what we thought they would be so we have to have some flexibility some movement in the outcomes similarly as well so if you keep that in mind how as we have this discussion about developing a plan for the future so the first thing that we have to do is we have to think about the future and in that we have to examine the environment we're in we have to scan our environment externally and internally externally what do we need to be looking at one thing that we have to look at is birth rates what's the number of babies being born currently comparative to last year five years ago 10 years ago 20 years ago because it's changing changes are happening and they are happening fast and what does that mean for us for the next 10 years and as it's affected by the birth rate the second thing that we need to look at is our state support the public education my question is the state legislature their priority will they continue at the same level of support for public education including asdb that's in question the third question I have is that the state support for the infrastructure of the state including the facilities our state is not funding the maintenance of facilities so what does that mean for asdb those are the three things and another question is qualified teachers professional staff interpreters OT PT when we're looking at our undergraduates and our graduate programs those students who are graduating with degrees that we want the number of those students is continually decreasing so how are we going to compete with the other schools for that reducing of qualified pool of people that are we want to come here and that we want to retain here so those are four questions and there may be other question but those are for that I can think of as we scan the external environment we also need to be looking internally at asdb the internal environment and the first question is the enrollment entrance of our students we had this information going all the way back to 1912 we have a lot of data about our enrollment so as I look at our enrollment our Trends what does it mean for our future in 10 years what will our enrollment look like I wonder the second thing another question is our students I just met with about 10 students this morning and I think they were first grade they came to the L building and I was looking at who these young people were and there were two death blind with their canes one was clearly with an intervenor and holding on not letting go to their ey a their instructional assistant our students their needs are changing when we predict 10 years from now what will our students needs be how are we how will we meet their needs so a third thing that I think we have to look at is our current staff our teachers our professional staff our staff how many will be retiring how many quitting in the next 10 years and how are we going to replace them and if they're not out there then how are we going to grow our own we need to look look at our facilities too because as you know the Tucson campus our facilities are aging and there's a lot of repairs a lot of Renovations here as well we need a lot of repairs a lot of Renovations and we are it seems every day that something else is breaking down we have the master facilities plan but where exactly are we getting the funding for that overall our funding our resources what are we needing support how are we supporting our program all of those internal environmental things that we have to look at looking at our data and figuring out what is it informing us what is it what story is it telling us about here so when we start discussing about our plan for the future we need to check our statutory requirements both federal and state that is the first step we have specific Arizona State statutes that say the purpose of asdb is to provide education to students who are de blind Etc we have to look at those statutes as our purpose they are the requirements we have to follow to comply with IDE EA as well there are other requirements that are we are bound by but we have to look those over first and then we are able to look at our own policies the policies that you have reviewed and approved those policies tell us in administration how to operate the agency and how we are going to run the organization so those two build the foundation and then we are able to develop a plan we do already have our strategic plan that you the board developed in 2021 this year is the fifth year of that plan and we are beginning to develop the Strategic plan 2.0 that will span 2025 to 2030 I will bring this plan for board revision and approval but currently it is still at the internal level where we are discussing and figuring out what the next 5 years could potentially look like for us other plans are going on other planning is going on as well for example our c re accreditation if you all remember in 2018 we got our first agency level accreditation from Advanced Ed now they've changed their name to cognia we just went through the re accreditation process and we submitted our self assessments our theory of action and then last week cognia interviewed several board members and members of the leadership team in order to collect additional information about our agency cognia has already informed us that we will be issued that reaccreditation they will submit a report to us in the near future January or February with the results of their review but last week Tuesday they did provide some feedback to us the positive feedback here says we have a strong culture of providing support that is aligned with our four pillars in our strategic plan our leaders are motivated to move the agency forward in a positive direction and improve services for our students we offer a wide range of services to our students all across the State of Arizona one individual from Utah said that we provide more than what they've seen there for their students who are deaf heart of hearing Blind and Visually Impaired and de blind and the fourth compliment they gave us was when they interviewed two of our board members those board members said that the agency has grown and improved a lot within the past eight years because of my leadership and they noted that things we need to consider um for improvement they suggested to revise and improve our data they want to make us to be more relevant and useful currently we are collecting a lot of data five years ago we didn't have enough and now we are overflowing with data but we're still not using it effectively to guide our decisions so we need to revise the data to so that it isef beneficial and helps us and we can all look at the data and use that in guiding our decision-making process they recommended we Implement a formal program of evaluation we have evaluations but we don't formally do program evaluation they said that our teachers need training on how to better Engage The Stu our students in their learning process and they said we need to continue our focus on Recruitment and retention efforts including mentoring opportunities coaching opportunities and certification programs that are under the agency's umbrella so that gives you a sense of cogia perspective on us so I just said we have the master facilities plan we have the budget plan that we have submitted to the governor's office and will and do so every year we have other plans but now we are starting the conversation of how can we take all of these plans and integrate them into our next strategic plan 2.0 so right now those conversations have just begun we want our strategic plan to be intentional and have benefit for all of us so again those conversations are happening now I'm going to close with two final thoughts first is that when you add or modify a policy that heavily impacts ASB it impacts how we are able to provide educational support to our students so I ask that you take your time to seriously review and consider and look through the impacts of the decision that you have in relation to our policies the second thought is that because of all of this as well as the changing environment there really is time for us to focus on planning for the future so maybe next February the board could have a work study session and have a discussion and analyze our fiscal resources because of course finances uh we have to consider we need finances to do anything I know most of you are not interested or you might feel not competent enough or knowledgeable enough about the financial piece at the same time we really do need our board members to have an understanding of our revenue and our expenses and how we allocate our finance Financial Resources so I do suggest February having a work study session so that board members have an opportunity to learn more about our financial resources and then we could continue ongoing work study sessions moving forward thank you for listening and for thinking about these things I've brought to your attention I'm now available for any questions this is board member both Annette I appreciate your comments sorry I forgot to to mention that my name is Linda speaking here um there's a lot of things that we need to take into consideration as we move forward however I would like to have those important things brought to us in work study spe study sessions so that can we can get a closer indepth knowledge I have several questions about several topics that you just mentioned but I think that might be better addressed in a work study session where we can come together and analyze and work together to brainstorm our way into the future I do appreciate all of the comments that you've made today I'm sure that President Kel has been taking several notes and I really appreciate the time Annette this is Suk I do have an additional comment or question um I agree I do think we need to sort of roll up our sleeves and dig into the financial aspects of it and really get a better understanding than you know most of us have of the finances with asdb but I'd also like to see some comparison for lack of a better word in how other districts are run because I think that's key for folks to understand um because you know we while we do operate as an Lea we are still a state agency and so that does impact us and I think we really need to look at sort of both sides of that coin um but I'm all in favor for a work study session on that I appre appreciate um your comments and I we do have a lot to think about moving forward does anybody else have any questions anybody on the phone no hearing none I'm going to move on do we have Don have Donna not yet not yet okay all right we will move on to um 1.5 information item assistant superintendent of curriculum in and instruction assistant superintendent catch off good afternoon board president kifil member of the board members of the board superintendent rikan and the asdb community it's hard to believe that we're about 1/8 of the way through the school year these always go so fast wow both campuses our Early Learning Program and our itinerant programs do continue to have Staffing shortages which includes shortages in interpreters and BR list shortages so similar to last year I want to publicly thank the principals the directors and all the teachers for continuing to be creative and trying to find ways of how we can provide the best education possible while we struggle through these shortages speaking of working together and teamwork in Late July following a foundations framework a training all ASL interpreters at asdb gathered for the second annual interpreter Summit at Phoenix College this was an amazing experience as our interpreters were able to learn together and I commend Dr Jennifer scarber and her team for the hard work in putting that together both superintendent rikman and I were able to make it down there and sit through some sessions and it was a quality event in late August our Early Learning Program had their 2024 Statewide conference where they continue to build on their vision and Mission I was able to attend one day and met with many passionate staff some new and some who have been with us for quite a while all of them had great questions and I can't wait to do some ride alongs with them just as superintendent rikman and I have now scheduled to do some rideal alongs with our itinerant teachers in northern Arizona later this fall one more thing about the Early Learning Program the Arizona Early Intervention Program which is referred to as azip and is sort of the counterpart to a they divide the state into three cohorts each year a cohort is selected for monitoring but because asdb provides services across the entire State we are monitored every year uh asip started their site visits with us about three years ago and today at azip site visit here they recognize asdb for meeting requirements three out of three years the azip director told me that you know sometimes the term meeting requirement sounds like a c but she said it is close to impossible to meet criteria so the fact that we've done it for three years is really uh quite an an undertaking uh this achievement is an example of the dedication of our ELP providers and I do want to congratulate Dr Kendra Benedict and our ELP team for the hard work I snatched the certificate from them because I wanted a prop for the board meeting so Dr Benedict if you want to come on up here and take this yes [Applause] right uh our leaders are also doing a great job promoting asdb across the greater Arizona community since taking the position as the Statewide director in July Jason Lily has been traveling all across the state meeting and presenting with special educate special education directors and staff in places like pintop sholo Window Rock Paige Tuba City nog Galis and Yuma regional directors Rosetta Hicks Greer Martin Parish and Jason Lily were also joined by our ELP director Dr Benedict and sped director Dr saris satilly at ad's Ida conference ni where they present as a team uh for a breakout session that was titled the umbrella of Services Under asdb the session received a great response and there were many questions that continued to happen after the presentation ended um one thing that has been made very clear since our last board meeting is that asdb will have some tough decisions to make as we move forward and as superintendent reikan mentioned so eloquently in her latest Vlog uh with the community some of these decisions will be hard I hope we will continue to work through them as a team and continue to show that we can work together and making these decisions Abraham maslo who's famously known for his maso's hierarchy of needs once stated that in any given moment we have two options we can step forward into growth or we can step back into safety in the case of asdb I think maslo is wrong uh stepping back into safety I do not believe is an option for us anymore between the Deferred maintenance costs Rising on our two campuses the state Bud budget shortage and the projected decrease in births across Arizona I think asb's only option is really stepping forward into growth luckily I feel we do currently have a team and a board ready to work together on these tough decisions and I look forward to seeing what kind of Amazing Ideas we can create in closure I do want to thank the de blind project today for having a presentation which was uh requested at the board from the board the board also requested two other items at the last meeting and we'll have those ready for the November board meeting the first was a presentation about our ELP program and the second was our academic outcome data so expect both those presentations at the next board meeting thank you if you have any questions let me know any questions anyone on the phone all right yes Mike go ahead um I don't want to call it a uh open meeting PP but uh I'd like to actually go back to the previous item because what Orin said certainly ties into that um we I think when he said we're already in E of the year into the school year it kind of just made me all of a sudden realize that you said we're going to do a a study group uh in February it seems like we putting that off a little too long particularly when it comes to finances which is going to be really fundamental or foundational to some of the it's not necessarily decisions being made but it would be to um to at least including that to some of the decisions making or at least input to it so U I just want to put out there that we may want to at least consider if there's other reasons that we can meet February to have some work I agree with Linda and W and I have talked about this at other work studies that we find them very valuable for us but actually have an opportunity to talk and share ideas and get a understanding of some of the issues because it's not really open to board meetings and we can certainly re report but for us to actually have open dialogue the work study groups are my far that so I'm just wondering if we have that opportunity maybe put one or two in between here do you want to say anything to that this is Annette we are now in the process of collecting the data there's a lot of data that we're inputting into a spreadsheet trying to analyze and do what we've been saying that we should have been doing all along is to look at our data analysis to interpret it and then use it to guide our decisions so the most recent educational team meeting executive team meeting the assistant superintendent Shaina Cooper shared some of the spreadsheet with the leadership to provide some ideas of data that we are looking at right now and trying to analyze trying to figure out how we use this information to develop a plan for the future so we are still in the internal analysis portion of our plan and it is we're just starting to share our thoughts with the board in Jan we will at the January board meeting and the February work session and then moving forward from there so it's all ready moving quickly is it as quickly as we want no but we need to take some time here to do some of the analysis internally ourselves first okay U so that's also including the uh just the kind of financial information sharing that get people up to speed with with uh how financials are actually reported and understand them so you're doing data analysis that would be included in the financial presentation yes for example we are looking at our staff numbers and we're doing comparisons comparison analysis so back in 2018 we had [Music] 574 full-time equ equivalence we call those FTE in 2024 we had 5133 FTE understanding that in 2023 we have 500 which means that 2018 to 2023 we have been successful at reducing the number of Staff just normal progression of analysis for every position that we make sure that is essential and if we need that position or not and we may not rehire automatically some of those positions but every position goes through a review to make sure that it is essential because the mindset has to change for the agency it's already changed so 2018 to 20 574 FTE to currently 500 in 2023 2023 we purposefully added positions several positions I think we added maybe 20 positions because our leaders were saying it's too much stress we're spread too thin we need more help supporting with special education we need support with Career and Technical education we need literacy instruction so at that point we had to decide to add those positions but as we added it was 20 and you could see our FTE now we have 513 so we're still less than the 2018 so that still shows the success but the questions becoming can we sustain that can we continue with 513 how much funding do we have to be able to bring in to support the FTE so that's the kind of analysis that we're doing so other analysis that we're looking at is our payroll because we pay salaries every two weeks so we have the historical data that we can compare to from 2018 and we compare it back to 2018 and we can look at how much we paid out in pay rule in every two weeks and we bring that forward and we look at our increases that we've extended to staff and I'm surprised from 2018 to 2024 we have increased our salaries all together it equals 10.8 million so we have to provide our staff I mean we've done it we have been providing salary increases and at the same time reducing the number of staff and increasing the salaries so we have to be able to balance and we have been able to balance that until last year and we're no longer able to sustain and balance that so now we have to figure out how we're going to make this sustain how are we going to continue to provide our staff with salary increases while the number of students we serve is decreasing meaning our revenue is decreasing and we are not investing in our facilities we're not doing the repairs we're not doing the renovations we haven't been doing this for a long time so this is the kind of analysis that we're doing right now that I don't think the agency has done has ever done so those are the kind of things internally that we're discussing that we're looking at that we're figuring out that the data is informing us of how we're doing and how we're comparing and then the results that end story that I bring to you the board so that you can take the lead and figure a plan for the future with good data with good analysis with a good understanding of the agency and what you have that historical comparison that it's not just finances but the staff the academic a achievement are all part of those things that we should be paying attention to that in the past did we pay attention to it I don't know but now we are anything else Mike no no that's that was a pretty thorough answer um I was really just wondering I didn't know was going to be that level of analysis and uh results being presented at the work study but if that's the case in a few months or certainly don't want to push uh push an agenda too quickly so if that's forthcoming for February that's something um we're all looking forward to because that's a a lot of information right there so um and if that's indeed the case then we'll we'll be able to proceed more quickly than maybe we were expecting because we're going to have a lot of on the table within just a third of the year so that's good thank you any other questions all right um hearing none I'm going to move on I'm going to move 7.5 um the udman report at this point um if we could have Donna Williams come up good evening thank you so much board chair knel superintendent rikman assistant superintendent cheze off Tire board and asdb family I made it let me tell you it was a feat but I am here and I so appreciate you accommodating my schedule for today all right so I don't know if we're going to be running the PowerPoint but I did have a summary I submitted both slides and a written report the written report is certainly more detailed um but I'm going to take just a few minutes with you this evening and talk about the slide presentation so just in summary um in my role I certainly continue to engage staff and the public in an effort to resolve concerns and also streamline processes and my activities during this reporting period have ranged from consultations to mediation to focus groups in fact the last time I was before you my report rep Focus solely on the focus group activities and results and so I won't spend a lot of time on that this evening I'll focus on the other items tonight in terms of the Continuum of services that continue to be available through the UN budsman um I continue to perform the full range of unbd services being a resource um of information all the way to conducting mediations and helping resolve interpersonal conflicts and other conflicts so as we look at the aggregate data from the reporting period which is January 2024 to June 2024 um there were so typically we have the form right that's been circulating for folks to use folks aren't using it but that's fine um two people did and uh of those two requests one was from a staff person and the other was from a parent um one of those was an informal complaint and the other was a policy concern the remaining approximately 18 users contacted the UN buds person via phone text or email I also responded to um 200 email during the same reporting period between the two email accounts so I have a Donna Williams account and I have a um busperson account and both were utilized probably equally as much um in most of those instances those matters were result olved with either subsequent email replies um in some cases um others required more detailed um uh resolutions that could include some research on my part or directing parties to other services or even setting up um consultations um most of the email contacts were information Seekers um people asking questions who what when where why how um and I was able to answer those questions and certainly once a user's questions are researched and answered or the user is directed to the appropriate resource for their answer the matter is considered closed and addressing user concerns via email appears to be the preferred method of communicating with me um that said um of the 200 or so email and the dozen or so phone calls that I received mostly related to policy or procedure inquiries or in a personal conflict um the matters were typically resolved through email again phone calls or subsequent consultations um the reasons um have varied um and the pie chart will show you that um the breakdown is approximately um the majority of them were uh process or procedure questions and that represented the the largest segment of inquiries and that would be followed by interpersonal conflict and then informal complaints and then policy questions I would say that during the same reporting period um I also participated in the planning sessions for the newly developed online complaint filing system and we're now live with that system um it's a little too early to report on the progress of the new automated system or the impact that the new service might have on unud Services overall but I do anticipate being able to share more on this topic during my next report which will cover July to December so look for that um again just to um reiterate um my last report regarding the um focus groups um I I I wanted to just reiterate kind of the opportunities that those follow-up focus groups presented um in an effort to just kind of solidify kind of the messaging around um what people were thinking during those sessions and so some of the opportunities included um instituting some level of accountability measures for example to track our communication efforts as you know we're working tirelessly to improve that at the agency um in the way of formulating a comprehensive uh communication strategy um and certainly what came out of those discussions was the need to um have some level of accountability for how well we're doing in that effort also implementing some Anonymous feedback options folks still want opportunities to share their concerns um with some degree of anonymity um and I think that um it it's appropriate to accommodate them in some respect um to being able to do that and also creating more opportunities to interact with you the board um in informal um environments and then finally connecting with more staff in the outlying areas um you know we're a large agency we're not like most school districts we have um facilities and staff all throughout the state and so what I heard over and over again is sometimes they feel left out and so um more efforts probably should be garnered um towards reaching those folks in addressing their needs and then finally just to talk about the uh comprehensive communication plan and that's ongoing we continue to make progress in this regard um all of the efforts that I mentioned previously from the focus groups are in an effort to add and bolster the communication strategy and as we continue to receive feedback from staff we'll continue to add to the pl framework one of the things that came out of the focus groups was the need to equip leadership with more Tools in their toolbox around having the very difficult conversations that um assistant superintendent cze talked about um and that you have talked about um and that we'll talk about in the coming um meetings and so one of the ways to do that is through training and one of my suggestions was crucial conversations and it's really um an opportunity to give staff some skills around having these really high stakes conversations because we're going to be having a lot of those um in the coming months and so I think it will help um facilitate those conversations and make them more engaging and more productive and so the first introduction to this training happened last week at the steering committee meeting and as we meet um as a leadership team um that training will be ongoing and so I'll have more to report on this training and how it's going um during my next report and one of the things I um emphasized in my last report and I will reiterate for this report is um underutilization um of the unbd services by the public maybe they don't need me I don't know but one of the things that we can do is certainly reach out to parents um in various ways such as using parents Square um we can utilize social media more um more of the web page advertising and marketing and then we also considered video shorts um including ASL um just to get them messaging out and so I look forward to working with media and other departments in the agency to get some of that work done in conclusion um I logged in approximately 148 hours during the reporting period that's consistent um six months over six months for the last two years I would say um and really I think the volume and tener continues to be enough for the amount of hours that I'm able to devote to this work again the most prevalent concern um con shared by users continues to be in a personal conflict no surprises there but I do think that as we improve upon our communication strategy as we build skill in the area of having crucial conversations um that need too will also decrease over time um and we'll continue to have focus groups so that we can kind of get a pulse on where staff is on the important issues that impact their uh daily jobs and that will also be um food for us to use to make improvements in the agency so with that my next report from this office will be in 2025 I believe it will be in the January board meeting and I'll cover the reporting period again from July 2024 to December 20124 that concludes my report I'm happy to take any questions thank you any questions yes this is Linda thank you very much for your presentation it was very comprehensive I appreciated it and it did give me some thoughts what I'm considering right now is as you said a family um engagement is not high I'm wondering about the deaf Community as well um in and the interpreting communities um how is engagement there is that something to um consider how can we bring the communities on board because of our pillars our four pillars we want to be engaged with those community members um and we do seem to see some distance so how do we make that connection and bring those folks in is that something worth um contemplating for in your role for your next uh plans your next session plans absolutely I think anytime that we can incorporate uh Greater Community engagement especially with the umut um umut person's office that's a great thing and so I am interested in having those conversations and trying different Strat strategies to bring those communities on board um in case there's a need for my services and even if there isn't just for my own awareness um of those communities and their needs so thank you for bringing that to my attention I appreciate it thank you any other questions anyone on the phone all right thank you so much I appreciate that thank you okay we're going to jump back up to 1.6 which is an information item um and since assistant superintendent of agency operation and support services is not here um you have the report in front of you do you have any questions there are staff here that could address them all right hearing none I'm going to move on to 2.1 um approval of the consent agenda items um which would be 3.2 5.1 6.1 7.2 7.3 and 7.4 I mov is it working yeah oh I move to approve the consent AG agenda items 3.2 5.1 6.1 7.2 7.3 and 7.4 I have a motion do I have a sec I second I'll second okay we have two seconds thank you all those in favor say I I I I I any opposition the consent agenda items pass moving on to action item 3.1 approval of new District agreements and that would be assistant super attended um catch off good afternoon uh we do have three new contracts uh if you have any questions please let me know any questions regarding the new agreements I am open to a motion I move this is Lynn I move to approve the new District agreements I have a motion do I have a second I'll second second thank you Britany um all those in favor of accepting um the motion say I I I I any opposition hearing none motion passes okay I can move this up a little bit okay moving on to action item um number 3.3 approval of 301 per performance um hold on things are popping up at me thank you extion item um 3.3 approval of 301 performance-based plan for um 2024 to 2025 assistant superintendent catch off good afternoon board president and members of the board every year we come forth to you on the 301 checklist uh for your approval if you have any questions about it I have Michael Olivier in the audience who can come up and clarify that for you I have a question this is Lynn um is this the same as we did last year let me see if I can get it looks familiar I believe a lot of it is the same but as this checklist goes through the organizational development Division I do uh ask that the director can clarify anything for you sure good thing hello good afternoon everyone can everyone see me okay okay thank you my name is Michael Olivier I am the director of the organization Development Division OD and the process this year is more collaborative we're asking for more feedback from our teachers for the 301 process when we're talking about the selection we've narrowed it down previously each department had their own items for example ELP the campuses we've now created one draft where individuals can select from an option of three and they can also select a specific goal they would like to work on based on their interest so after polling our teachers many agree that they would like to keep the form as is or revised based on some feedback than thank you thank you you're welcome thank you thank you any other questions or discussions otherwise I will entertain a motion this is Lynn I move that we approve the performance-based plan for the 301 monies for school year 2425 this is Linda I'll second that motion I have a motion in a second all those in favor say I I I any opposition hearing none motion passes moving on to 4 um 4.1 information item Finance report Kim bitr director good afternoon board president kifo superintendent rikman assistant superintendent chakov members of the board asdb Community I will try to keep this slower just shout if I'm going too fast you have been provided our most recent board report that covers the financial data for June 2023 and 2024 this data was covered in more detail at our most recent Finance commit meeting held on Thursday September 5th with board president kif and board member Gordon also in attendance were superintendent rikman and assistant superintendent Cooper in addition to the June Financial reports we discussed the budget that was submitted to ospb the office of strategic planning and budgeting on September 3rd in this budget proposal we included two funding issues one was for transportation and one was for related Services both of these costs have increased since becoming an Lea and the agency has not been funded as an Lea the full budget submission is available for your perview on our website the total student count provided in the board report for August 1st 2024 shows 1,922 students compared to 2,1 178 students as of July 1st 2023 a total decrease of 256 students registration was still occurring at the time this Report was generated however we have been seeing a decrease in the student count in all areas campus students have decreased by 35 Regional cooperatives have decreased by 106 preschool by 113 and birth to three by two students When comparing the student count to June 1st of 2024 there was 2,27 students that's a decrease of 105 compared to the August Camp the decrease in student count will impact our funding for Budget fiscal year 2025 since the instit institutional voucher the fee for service and the classroom site fund are all based on student count as of June 1st we had about 504 full-time equivalent which includes 8.5 full-time equivalent instructions at FBC foundation for blind children at that time we emplo employed 79 staff there are currently 164 vacancies across the agency that we were recruiting for the highlights of the June 2024 financial report show a total revenue of 62.2 million which was 700,000 lower than the June 2023 revenue of 62.9 million the major difference is the decrease in the general fund and the receipt of the fee for service Revenue The General fund is lower since we received 1.1 million in one-time funding for transportation and $866,000 in capital Improvement funds during budget fiscal year 2023 the fee for service Revenue was lower because of the delay in get getting the invoices out to the districts this is all offset by an increase in the federal grants and the classroom site fund the budget fiscal year 2023 obligated expenses of 64 million were 4.2 million less than budget fiscal year 2024 obligated expenditures of 68.2 million the increases were in payroll of 2 million professional and outside Services of 2.6 million offsite offset by a decrease in equipment and transfers out the the overall picture for Budget fiscal year 2024 shows that we will be using about 1.6 million of our cash balance to meet our obligations for the year for Budget fiscal year 2023 our revenues exceeded our expenditures by 2.6 million if there are no questions this concludes my report for our financial data for June Kim this is Linda I have two questions for you first of all um you mentioned enrollment numbers um and I'm I have some questions especially with the decrease in the 0o to three and in preschool you mentioned over 100 students decreased um so I have questions about that but then also because of these decreases how will that impact the funding for our next year and for for years into the future what does the picture look like um I don't know if now is the appropriate time to ask those percentages or what does the potential decrease of our budget look like as we see these enrollment Trends continue into the future and how can we manage this fiscally I know that we need more work as far as data and Analysis but if you have something off off hand to uh recommend that'd be great so first I want to say that these numbers were before registration was completed and I have talked to Dr kend Kendra Benedict and the numbers for like FBC those were higher than what I originally reported by another 20 students she said she had some extra enrollments so the October 1 numbers that I'll report on in November should have a more accurate count since all the students should be entered and those are the numbers that we report to ad Arizona Department of Education um I did mention that our student count does affect our funding as far as the institutional voucher the fee for service and the classroom site fund one thing that I do know is the classroom site fund per pupil account the cost has going up we were getting $758 per student in 2024 that's going to so even though our student count is going down that's going to increase but I don't think that's enough to offset the difference in the number of students so yes we will definitely be in that analyzing that right so put okay just wanting to know not enough if you have a quantifiable how much not enough but no thank you and and this is Suk I will add this is some of the things that we will be looking at they will have the data for us in the February work study meeting any other questions for Deb this is Lynn hopefully this is an easier question um just looking at the actual expenditures I was just wondering what personal services that's salaries okay yeah that's I saw that in a number of places was curious yes thank you anybody on the phone have any questions or comments no thank you this is Su again I'm going to make a a plug here again to say we could use another board member on the finance committee and even if you don't feel competent in this area it's a great way to learn um they go through things very specifically and in detail we have time to ask questions so I'm just putting that out there again if you want to learn more about this before we move into a work study joining the finance committee would be a way to do that that was my PSA for tonight okay thank you thank you okay we're going to move on to 6.2 information um discussion and possible action item um education organiz ganizations at asdb and we do have the option to go into executive session um for any consultation or legal advice with our board's attorney as it relates to this item yeah this is Linda I would move that we go into executive session to discuss this issue with the attorney I have a motion do I have a second thank you Britney I have a motion in a second all those in favor say h i i any opposition okay we will move into executive session um pursuant to ARS 38 43103 A3 the board may vote to go into executive session which will not be open to the public for discuss consultation for legal advice with the board's attorney as it relates to this item and we will um go into it move to go into executive session at at I'm going to say 5:40 to give people a break before and get everything reconnected Deb did I do something wrong oh she's okay nope I think we're good okay so let's say um 5:40 we will begin executive session that way we can give folks a break I'm bringing yeah I am I'm bringing it because I do want to look at you I can do it I I will have lots of questions I'm sure e e e oh so we don't have to worry about it okay AC okay cool y on the motion to go into executive session Lind was the one that made the motion who second Britney Britney I miss that it wasney do it it's okay it doesn't it doesn't bother me I just was like I didn't know it did that so I'm still kind of learning I wanted to let you guys know because I know then said she didn't really like this one they're phasing out more dos it's going away this is kind of the redoing with some things that it does have I there's still things in there that I don't really like that I brought up at the conference and I said I like this better over here well it's hard because it like this is so big that on these screens I feel like I keep going 125 130 14 you used to be able to yeah yeah and I I do like being able to have the different tabs open but I I need to bring my own Mouse I brought mine because I can't do this thing either makes me crazy me too yeah it must be it must be our generation I I do the same you want to make your screen bigger you can go up here make it bigger well I can do it here too they have a little plus and minus here but every time you move to another page it goes back to 100% And what I didn't like about the when you open to try and do the minutes that's why I had attach them the other way because you go in here and it brings all this and still shows the all the attachments and I'm like that's just taking too much room but I get why they do it because that way you're somebody's reading the minute you can just click on what was approved you know but and I get it but even though I'm just picking all right okay what do we have here do you do you want to read my motion testing okay okay do we have everybody do we have everybody on the phone I'm here I've got Mike is Britney there I'm here okay I'm here um give me one second [Music] are yours thank you got old school pen okay all right I think we're ready to resume um we'll start back up into the open meeting at 6:25 p.m.

thank you to the community um for being here we appreciate you okay thank you thank you Mike thank you Britney have a good evening thank you have a good evening I it always pops back up

our panelist will include uh Dr Penny Ling um she's uh a clinical psychologist who teaches at um quinac Dr Allison Bell is a pediatrician who lives in town and uh we have uh Amry wienberg and Kristen Shanley amar's an elementary teacher Kristen's the English department chair at DOD and they are both former treasure Public Schools teachers of the year uh as well as uh Doug Levens who's the executive director of the chesher YMCA so uh it should be an interesting panel discussion um probably about an hour where we'll ask some uh scripted questions and then give the opportunity for people in the public uh to ask any questions of our panelist as well so uh looking forward to that on October 29th hope to see you guys there thank you Dr son Mr White you have comment thank you yeah you said 7 PM yes is that a I'm thinking Halloween is a Thursday this year so that's a Tuesday yes okay that's before Halloween and and Allison is a high school classmate of mine 1990 cool thank you Mr gero um I I don't know if this would be illegal or not but could well it's not illegal that's never a great leading for a question but let's let's go for it could I ask that that October 29th meeting be put into our calendars or is that you know or would that then create an illegal meeting of it wouldn't be posted as a meeting per se um it's not a meeting of the board that mess things up if like we if you all show up th that's perfectly fine this is a it's um Community event just like if you all went to the football game on on Friday you know if you all stood there and discussed board business business like a de facto meeting that would be problematic but you can all attend um you could even sit together you just can't discuss board business like you can't say hey what do you think uh we should do on the budget this year you know that would be inappropriate but certainly all be there and you could certainly all like I said even sit together as long as you don't discuss board business okay um and then secondly um I'm not sure if you commented on this but what do you think the um tone was in the room during your meeting for for the uh the reading assessment was it better than last time or it may depend who you asked but I you know I thought it was pretty good um you know I I think um they understood the frustration that we had um and I think our frustration stems from our deep and long-standing commitment to teach the science of reading and how that may not have been interpreted not necessarily by them there was a if you if you remember there was a a consultant group that did the evaluation and so you know we're trying to reconcile some differences which can always be a little bit challenging um and I wouldn't say you know that they rolled over for us or that we you know um said okay we'll buy every program Under the Sun you know what we uh kind of came to the agreement on is trying to learn a little bit more about uh what they can do to support us and how we can get closer to what their expectation is and I feel pretty good about where things ended in the meeting so are there any deadlines that we have to meet or anything like that or July one 2025 is the deadline to be like fully compliant um but you know I think we're committed to work together over the next couple of weeks to see what we can do to to close that Gap thank you good night yeah I was just going to add that in that room I think the tone was very much one of commitment to hearing what the people around the table had to say on both sides that's definitely an improvement yes Mr White thank you so I know the policy committee is going to be working on um social media policies use of devices in school but even before we get there I've already been told that I'm a mean dad who just doesn't understand fifth graders um my understanding is that Norton has a uh Norton's policy is probably a little bit stricter than it was last year um I'm just curious at a school level do you have any sort of broad Strokes you could share about what's happening as directed presumably by the principles or by you sure thanks for the question Tim you know our administrative team read the book too and um the research and data is undeniable um and you know with that group and with other groups I've said that um it's really the emotional equivalent of smoking uh it's really that detrimental for kids and you know I said hey you know what we're only going to allow middle school kids to smoke at lunch people would think I was out of my mind right um because that is out of your mind because it's it's so unhealthy we know that about cell phones we're not permitting cell phones during the day we're much more rigid about it um in all levels including chesher High School um chesher High School is developmentally different you've got young adults there um and so there's there are different parameters there but you're still not taking your cell phone to the bathroom you know chure High School which is a massive departure um so you know yeah there's it's much more stringent and and at the open houses our principles uh explained not just the process but there was a lot of emphasis placed on the anxious Generation Um I'm sure I know Mary was um talking about it with her group I just happened to know off the top of my head today that um there were 17 requests for books from dot uh to read the book um that we got after open house so and that was early this morning so um I know that uh they people are hearing the message um and I hope that uh you will be just like the other mean dads in fifth grade you know by the time it's said and done that you won't be you won't be alone yeah I mean your kid will tell you you're alone I mean that's how all of our kids do but yeah I'm the worst ever yeah yeah we're all terrible human beings and you know but I think there's Solace and know KN that other parents are terrible human beings too and because that's the biggest thing that I hear from parents is really didn't want to get my kid a phone but um you know I didn't also I really was petrified that they'd be left out they'd be the only one without it um and if there's a broader social commitment to not doing it then there's security and it's better for our kids so I think a lot of people are buying into that conversation and that's why I keep saying I think education is a critical component we have a rule in Connecticut a law against speeding everybody does it anyway you know it's it's one thing to have a rule it's another thing to be educated and and people quit smoking not because it was against the law but because they knew it was going to kill them and so you know we're educating here families and and kids and staff to recognize the detrimental nature of social media and you know I think in two short months we made significant inroads we're connecting with you know Doug Levens from the Y um Sean Kimble is reading the book uh uh John gock the um Parks and Rec is reading the book Youth and Social Services Michelle picillo um the preschool uh directors in town are on board you know I'm doing a workshop for them I think early next month so uh I have Carol were planning the lunch for the high school kids that read the book that I offered it to so you know we're making sign significant inroads I think um especially for the relatively short window we've been working on it but it's that important that we have to keep pushing hard thank you yeah I appreciate that I I don't think it was a story that you had shared I think it was something that I had read um associating social media device use with cigarettes and people may not see it today but I think it was a story I read and it was someone talking about how they in the 1950s were served cigarettes with their lunch at school this is something that you do yeah um I don't know if that's true I I find it plausible I but that's what that's what was conveyed to me somewhere um anyway uh I want to take it one step further I know I've probably did some people been annoyingly preachy about this but going beyond the kids and this is something that I'm working on personally we as adults have to I do believe it is important for us to model for the kids and um so starting with the teachers in the classroom but beyond that us at home and Society in general I have my phone I look at it during the meetings I generally jotting down a question on notes so I can wait my turn and as the question um nonetheless I I I do think it's really important for us to model for kids they're going to probably often follow what we do and the less we're doing it at you know times when we probably shouldn't be the better off the kids will be the better off frankly society would be I I'm not a big fan of social media in general um but anyway that's that thank you I appreciate that um I just wanted to commend you and your staff uh for it appears using the captive audience of the open house to talk about the book uh was at the e8th grade open house and Mrs gorillo and uh Mr Murphy yep um uh gave a think a 10-minute presentation about the book um and you know looking around the room it seemed like maybe even after they received multiple emails and asked to participate that some of those parents still seem to be kind of surprised by the whole thing so it's was great they you use that of audience time to kind of talk about the book and and tell them that copies are available and it's just an important issue so yeah yeah it is like you know everybody's super busy you know and I know that this might be hard to believe given the fact that I have 1451 followers on Instagram but people don't care when I send out an email it's shocking to me too um so I I you know you have to find a lot of different ways and the um the parents and staff who came to those book clubs they they put together a lot of strategies we collectively designed strategies and that was one of them making sure that at open house we're really driving home the messages you'll hear it again at parent conferences um because I I had a parent sign up uh really late and it was like what what you've had 15 of these already they didn't know um and I I appreciate you know as a parent how busy we are and you may may miss it so we're going to keep the message going um the panel conversation is really a great opportunity so I appreciate you guys sharing the word ironically posting on social um and getting things out there so we do have good attendance particularly from people who may not have been in the choir yet you know that are not aware of the message thank you Dr s although I do have an idea how you can improve your following do like a podcast of the book oh okay I was afraid you were going to say have like Marlene dress up like The Brick dancer from Australia that would definitely fantastic yeah I think that would that would probably get more than try that first please you heard it here Marley what going in your going in your I was waiting for giata to be Gata but then you brought that up so that's better you have a question oh well we have figure out the button uh we have old business if anybody has any old business to discuss um know and then new business I don't have a report I just have a comment I'm really excited when we um signed to move you know schools being built and then next week we have another scheduled meeting too on the 26 with NextGen so that's very exciting I'm looking forward to that as well as the ground break in December so things are moving along so we're really I just can't wait till opening day um the other piece um I want to mention there is the cave conference coming up right Carol so if board members have not yeah the convention um was it October no November so any board members that are able to attend I highly recommend it and um November 15th and hopefully we'll be hearing some really good news prior to the 15th so I'm gonna what town is it in uh M no it's the my Mystic Maria in all right it's down like exit 90 or something is the point so it's close to an at least an hour 15 probably close to an hour and a half Drive okay and it's a weekday Friday Friday until Saturday got it thank you and they usually have a very powerful opening ceremony which I've appreciated for the past couple years I don't know Mr GLE you've been to and Dr herin if you want to speak to any of the ones you've been to um but I think it's just good to kind of a network with the rest of other districts and then hear more on what the state has to say if you can make it please do so um and then just to the point of the chonic absentee question I I believe the state does have um a grant that if need be we can look into for engaging Learners um but I I also believe that we do a really good job in engaging Learners so which is why we have a high participation rate for our testing and so forth so just a thought for future um outside of that we have those meeting dates that we talked about um there is a motion here but I don't think we're doing that okay yeah no because we have it scheduled for September 23rd which will be our Boe Personnel committee meeting um at 6:30 and then we have the September 26 meeting joint meeting of the Boe and ngbc um location okay so the Board of Ed conference room on um on the 26th September 30th will be the joint meeting of the Boe and Town Council 700 p.m.

and for wait I got to find my for agenda item 6.2 um I'm open to any discussion or action I would like to make a motion this is Lynn based on our executive session discussion I move that we ask the aag's office to conduct further research on the legalities of the H policy for asdb I have a motion do I have a second I second all those in favor say I I I I any opposition or exstension so this will continue to be an information and possible action item on the agenda moving forward thank you okay 7.1 information and discussion item for uh and and possible discussion of policies it should be ACB ACAA GB K G GCB GCC i n j DB and j i i Maria Murphy director of policy and government relations I feel like there should be music behind that good evening Madame President superintendent rikman assistant superintendent members of the board and the asdb community for the record my name is Maria Murphy I'm the director of policy and government relations you have the red lines of the aforementioned policies before you I'm not going to repeat all the titles again no public comment was received in regards to these policies what I can tell you is that um most most of the G policies were actually driven by Governor hobbs' um executive order regarding paid parental leave and so we were required to create a paid parental leave policy and because paid parental leave affects the other leave policies it only made sense to go ahead and make those changes at that time so do you have any questions for me in the meantime though and I'm assuming that those are first reads yes ma'am they are first reads okay so no action on those tonight okay no ma'am any questions for Maria anybody on the phone have any questions or comments no thank you no all right thank you very much thank you all right then moving down to agenda item number eight call for agenda items for the next meeting um 8.1 call to the public I have not received any calls to the public for non-agenda items so it would be 8.2 agenda items for the next regular board meeting for um which is scheduled for November 14th of 2024 in Tucson um I would consider I would please continue to put the H policy as a information and possible action um any other ideas for the next um agenda if not you can always reach out to Annette or myself prior to the next board meeting hearing none moving on to agenda item 9.1 adjournment that's me this is Lynn I move that we adjourn this meeting I have somebody second second all those in favor say I I I I I okay um motion passes the meeting is adjourned at 6:29 p.m.

box at po. box 431 Columbia Illinois 62236 and like I said without them we wouldn't have a broadcast this year for everybody listen to so thank you to the Columbia quarterback club for making that possible and Jared let's talk a little bit more about last week real quick before we jump into tonight we talked about how much we thought the defensive backs were playing great this year and that stepped up big all night with open field tackling with keeping plays in front of them and then obviously the interception in the end zone I think most of it too was on first and second down you got to win first and second down like we didn't do against water two weeks ago um they would have those easy second and shorts into third and shorts and then get those first downs so I think that was one of the biggest things last week was um on first and second down winning those downs and then forcing them into a third and long and um trying to get that ball back that brings us here to Columbia for the first time since uh what week two we were here now we get two weeks to be back at home I think we got the stream going up and good right now we got lucky last week I think but now I think it's skill now we got two weeks in a row where everything's working we've got Callins going on now we've got a a button over here that we can talk to each other over over live talk it's it's getting cool up here and uh it's going to get exciting hopefully these streams keep getting bigger and better and uh one of our sponsors this week is electrod door and they brought our pregame meal for the boys tonight my name's Cameron I'm Logan and we'd like to take a second to say thank you to electrod door and Matt Brooker for providing a team meal before the game and for sponsoring the colia football team go eag go Eagles thank you to Electro door once again Tequilas Jared what's your favorite meal of Tequilas burrito ALC Carbone really steak with cheese on it and can't beat it can't beat it probably got beans and rice and stuff with it too y i i go call me a child you called me a child last no it's not that bad come on now it's it's not that bad but you eat Chick-fil-A with ketchup that is just that's a crime and I go to Tequila's chicken rice and cheese it's all you need I don't need any of that other stuff no I don't need tomatoes I don't need sour cream and lettuce and that's just all filler you don't need that you need you need the basics that one's fine not as bad as last week so that well good I'm glad I'm I'm stepping up in the world then hey that makes it a little bit easier you know you say I'm getting better and everything but as the play-by-play and the main dude you put me right in the middle of this post right here in the 50 yard line we're going to have to SC a little bit so uh hey let's talk a little bit about last week now um most exciting game you said that you enjoyed I enjoyed the 2019 game up in Prairie Central against Fairbury that was pretty good game we didn't leave Victorious though so I'll put last week up on top I think overall it was just it it was just like I said earlier it was whoever had the ball last felt like uh was going to win and we had everything going against us driving almost two-hour bus ride um I know they had a half day last week on that Friday so you didn't know if guys were going to be focused and ready to play but um played really good overall o line and dline played really well um we ran the ball dang good um and then we saw a couple different formations from coach orner that he's used in the first couple weeks um putting cam janick in that little Wildcat position that was probably one of the best best things that happened in that fourth quarter um taking about six minutes off the clock for us to punch one in I didn't realize it took uh until Zack Dy texted me that last week's win was the 300th win I thought it was the week before but how said now the ihsa has got an extra one in there that we never even played the game he said so last last week was the 300th victory for Columbia High School um at Taylorville and it was the first time we beat Taylorville believe too yeah we went into the game 0 and2 uh had a playoff loss and a regular season loss so first time winning in Taylorville and 300th win overall and like you said let's talk about the lineman real quick I said that they didn't look that big Taylorville but then I looked at the stat sheet those dudes were huge and our line offensively and defensively did a great job and I think that's based off the first two weeks we our o line and D line were kind of struggling a little bit um when especially when your dline um is getting pushed back three four yards that makes it a lot harder for your uh Corners uh safeties and linebackers to come up and make tackles so um last week was a great job by the dline um just to get in that back field and uh lose yardage on first and second down let's go ahead and talk about the offense real quick and we've talked about nothing but good things consistency is the first word there uh it's the best that we played I thought best that I saw Mason vagle I thought as well and then the Uglies like we just mentioned great night all the way around 226 yards on the ground 91 yards through the air I think Mason was six for 10 on the night uh try it here on this stat sheet six for 10 91 yards for one touchdown he threw the ball to three different receivers Jay Nelson had three receptions for 31 yards Logan Hicks two receptions for 46 and Keegan Thompson had one reception as well and uh you go all the way around great game offensively for the Eagles I thought all night yeah and the stock blocking has been uh really impressive too um having jce Nelson and Logan Hicks in motion a lot of the time times uh we're going to read a dend or one of the linebackers so Mason's done a great job of reading those two guys um and giving the ball and our stock blocking like I said has been great we have a lot of outside uh runs in our in our package so um it was nice to see wide receivers go out there make good blocks and um try to get those running backs some open space one thing that I enjoy seeing too out of our two-headed monster we'll call it as as running backs you got Jace he's got the speed I think on one of the uh plays you even said show him that speed M he's got the speed he's got the foot work the agility he puts his foot in the ground and goes then you have Cam Janet coming in who's surprised me tremendously this year I think and he's not afraid to put his foot in the ground he's going to lower shoulder on you and we got Hicks that we could put back there as well so having I think I said this week one but when you have three running backs that you can kind of mix up and sometimes you put them all in on the same play like we did last week in that Wildcat we'd have three upbs with Cam janic just following them right up the middle and I bet uh it was 11 verse N I remember talking to Coach George up in the Press Box um during the game he's like if they're not going to change anything on the defensive side of the ball keep running the same play and that's what we kept doing um and o line was doing great just making open spaces for janic to to work and they always say defense wins championships I'm a quarterback I don't believe in all that stuff you got to have the points but last week's defense fewest yards allowed for the tornadoes all season coming into the first two weeks uh they had 277 yards and 199 rushing and then uh passing and then so then rushing we gave up 187 yards I think rushing gave up 124 I'm sorry I had those backwards and then the rush pass everything was doing good we just did a great job all night for him and then You' go over to points scored 38 points in week one 34 in week two and then we stop them for the uh 27 points defensively did a great job all night and I think the LA the biggest thing of that game was in that fourth quarter when uh we were just trying to milk the clock a little bit and the coaches were trying to make Taylorville call all their timeouts and we were able to do that um I know he took the lead later in the game and gave them the ball back with I want to say two minutes and no timeouts so um overall it was a great the last 10 minutes of the game were were awesome and then let's look at you know different D Ben don't break when I say a different D I left that up there for two weeks now we played great defensively against Moder day and then I put different D because when we played against waterl it was a completely different defense it was a different defense last week it was very similar to what we did against Moder day yeah and I also think that something that's been good for the Eagles defense this year we're not really giving up big plays um I know last year we gave up a lot of big plays uh whether it be third and long or even third and short um we let a guy go past us over our head so um that's been something huge for this Columbia defense this year um forcing punts um forcing turnover on Downs um and getting that ball back for our offense and then I said in the beginning of the broadcast kept everybody in front no arm tackles made good open field tackles the best thing though you don't have to be good if you're lucky thank goodness they needed that last batch of popcorn because that running back slipped out of the back field and oh no that's all you said and if that dude didn't make the popcorn we would have been in a little bit different spot but you know what it sometimes you got to have those breaks this year hopefully it's our year last year we how many times were we in games and we never caught that break and then you couldn't get the victory so it was a great game all the way around last last week some of the stats you had one sack out of the weekend Keegan Thompson had that one interception with Jace that's the only thing you need to talk about give me that and uh Hudson Bryant and Keegan Thompson eight total tackles Hicks vagley and Furlow had seven and one thing that I will mention right off the bat here we talked a lot about Cooper W and his blitzing and everything koop's not afraid to stick his head in there I don't know what he says on the stat sheet it can't say much cuz he's little guy but he'll get in there with them big uglies and have no fear yeah he's not afraid of any contact and he he does his job uh through the first couple weeks so um all his job is to really force force things back inside and not a lot of guys want to do that because they're afraid of contact but he does a great job of lowering his shoulder and letting those linemen come to him and let those other linebackers come up and make tackles and I got got a little dog in them too because if somebody comes up and pushes them he's going to turn around and yeah he's going to look at him first he may he may try to retaliate but he's going to size him up at least so he's not just going to run in there and go all crazy we're still 22 minutes away from opening kickoff here it's blue jay night forgot to mention that and uh one thing that I do need to mention as well last week I kept saying Alicia Oglesby Alicia it's Alicia Oak lesby I didn't catch on that I was doing that and everyone's made fun of me so Alicia my apologies thank you from Edward Jones for donating last week's team meal and uh hopefully I'm I need a pronunciation guide up here with us from now on I guess so 21 minutes away we're going to run to a commercial break when we come back we're going to talk to you about conference play because it is the opening week for conference in the kokia conference we'll talk about the schedule what we have coming up and then we'll talk all about this big rock SI team coming in and uh a good match up what we have so stay tuned on kchs [Music] he [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] there [Music] you are listening to Columbia Eagle football live right here on kchs this 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Sharky and and how he came up so thank you to tines for doing that once again for us and uh we got a birthday shout out we need to give for we a couple hours early but we'll give it to him anyway Scotty G coach Germaine gonna be 50 again we'll call it yeah we'll just keep it there right yeah that's fine with me all right we're running through doing all of the test out here now we've got smoke machines this week air horns going off somebody has a drill up here I think too um that's an air horn so pretty cool stuff so Jared let's talk conference week this week week week one um we've talked about it a couple times we've showed you Columbia roxan Central Salem freeberg and East Alton Wood River that's the Mississippi division the large division um then you have two other divisions of smaller schools wesland Chester Oakville Redbud Sparta carile or your medium Illinois division cascy as the smallest new aens valm Dupo Steeleville Marissa and Lebanon don't forget Dupo swaps with Oakville whenever it comes to football season other sports they stay separated um your thoughts for the kokia conference this year um who do you who do you like who do you think's going to finish in first and where do you think everything goes well the last year or two has been it's all been roxa so that to start off your conference play with uh I believe they went nine and0 in regular season last year as well one overall yeah yeah so I and I made it to the semis I want to say so played a lot of football last year so I think Rox Santa is probably the to W the circle uh this season but you you always know freeberg and Central are always going to be those rivalry games um especially Central um late in the season um when there's a lot of playoff predictions going on and um so yeah I'd probably say Central and Rox Santa circled on the uh on the schedule for me but I mean opening up conference play against Rox San at home you you got to love that as a as an eagle that's a big thing you get to open up at home is the biggest part I love the most yeah um you know it's always a big physical game we talked we'll talk a little bit later with the series and how everything's going but um I agree with you I think roxana's got to be up top re centrals coming in they're three and0 this weekend so you got to respect them we can throw a wrench and some fires and then I think the other three like you said freeberg is always a big game so the other three I think will be down in the bottom half but hopefully we can stay up in the top half hopefully we can stay in the top one too and lock yourself into the uh the playoffs that you know your conference representative and uh but the big game tonight is going to be Central and freeberg playing each other you look at our schedule though the remaining schedule the big thing to notice and to note Military Appreciation Night is next week it got moved from week two um so don't forget all retired and active military get free admission thanks to the sons of the American Legion and it is our red night um everywhere everyone is asked to wear red and that stands for remember everyone deployed freshly pressed Creations did some shirts for everyone once again and Amanda is going to be making those shirts this week um for everybody where are our where are our opponents uh mod day they do not have a conference they're going to be going to Madison waterl opens up MVC play at Triad that's a couple of three and0 teams going there Taylorville and Mount Zion in the Apollo conference one and two vers two and one obviously then we go into the CIA conference games roxanna's here 1-2 freeberg host 3-0 Central and like I said said that's a a odd game because of how big of a rivalry it all kind of turns into being y then wood Rivers two and one kind of shocks me is they're two- one and what shocks me more is Salem's 0 and three um and then you go down skip those next two games go down to Jerseyville one-2 at Civic Memorial who's two- one and that's an MVC game as well correct I think so yeah so lot of good football games coming up here and uh the next couple weeks kokia conference always fun anyone can win any night and uh it's going to be exciting next couple weeks yeah I think even going back to last week that's that's it's a big win um getting out of Taylorville coming back home two and one start conference play you get two conference games right in a row here on your home turf so um I think last week was was real big for this team look at the white hat down here he's doing his KY athenic 25 yards of uh getting some leg lifts in now he's got some high knees stretching it out got to be ready always ready on Friday night let's talk uh Howe stats what he gave us this week once again always has a bunch of stuff and uh coming in Rox Santa 520 students I believe yes 520 students in their enrollment this year and with that they're probably one of the smaller Tok conference schools so yeah got to be real close to it series all time Columbia leads it three and and two they're two- one in kokia conference play lost last year won the pre previous two years not just lost last year we got our butt kick last year and not only did we win two years ago it was a lot of fun two years ago yeah he's going to score and then the uh one other loss was in the play or yeah one other loss was in the playoffs back in 03 14 to nothing then you got to go up to the 2019 game uh week 10 game played up here Columbia wins at 5628 Jared I don't know if you remember that um that was one of those games had a great feel great flow to it and all of a sudden the penalty flag started flying and we just lost feeling in it and you know it was a week 10 game who cares we won I'm not mistaken I think that was the Donovan Bieber game I think he had like three touchdowns that game and almost 200 rushing yards uh in that game against Rox Santa so um we'll see uh we got three running three uh Horsemen running backs uh this season so we'll see if we can get our run game going uh here tonight well let's tell you a little bit about roxa rox's 83 years of football they're in year number 84 408 wins 340 losses and 12 ties so they win 53% of the time coach Wade sorry I cannot pronounce the last name not really sure so we're not going to botch it I already botched enough names as it is he's in his six season he's 30 and 28 for a 51% win last season the shells lost in the semi-final they finished the Year 12-1 got beat in the semi-finals to Mount Carmel 63- 48 that was one of those games that who had the ball last was going to win and I think there was a a late punt return or it was a special teams play that sealed the game but then Mount Carmel went up and played somebody in the state championship I wish I knew who it was oh it was Byron and that was 69 to7 state championship final score so the cool stat that I love the most here and it just shows coach Germaine and the defense and everything that uh he can do last year the Eagles lost the game third 37 to nothing I'm not yeah 37 nothing after that they scored 45 or more points for 15 straight weeks getting into this season so just shows you how good Coach G can get that defense and he's going to have to have it here tonight and I can already tell you him seeing 37 on the scoreboard he was probably not happy with that either but um we'll see if we can get some points up on the board tonight and um because I know this season they're averaging over 40 points a game again so um they're going to be in that Wing to offense so our defense is going to have to come and be ready ready to play in the 15 weeks where 45 points or more were scored they have one week in the 30s which was us after that six weeks in the 40s eight weeks in the 50s that is just incredible this year they got beat 4755 and then they won 5726 to Red Bud and beat Civic last week 51 to2 so it's going to be a lot of fun and like you said you got three running backs back there who are going to be dominant here yeah the last three weeks they've had 345 rushing yards 326 rushing yards 286 rushing yards so like I said that D line and linebackers are uh might might see a little bit of a a different scheme on the defensive side of things but um we'll see what coach G's got drawn up look into the takeaways this year and giveaways it's kind of a neat stat how he keeps track of week one we had two interceptions we threw two interceptions but we also had two fumble recovery uh we had one F recovery and an interception I think or vice versa I can't remember off the top of my head week two we were even and then week three we had an interception so we're plus three on the season and that's a good stat that you want to be on the plus side of yeah and uh like I said having those three running backs you're never really going to have a guy in that back field that's a little tired so it's nice to have a little rotation back there um and uh see them ready to play on the time of possession week one the Eagles had the ball for 20 2 3 minutes and 3 seconds week two was very alarming 15 minutes and 29 seconds waterl just dominated time of possession and then last week Eagles had it for 22 minutes and 33 so with them running the ball as much as they do tonight Eagles are going to run the ball a bunch too so I look at how many points could be scored tonight but if they're going to keep running the football there may not be a lot either yeah and it's all going to start up front uh we'll see if we can get anything going uh early um I know that they're going to they're probably a little bit bigger than us but um I think we might have a little bit more speed than them so we'll see if we get on the outside edge a little bit uh maybe throw the ball a little bit tonight but like you said we're probably going to see a a lot of running rushing attack tonight the one thing that I do enjoy seeing though too they gave up 517 yards in week one 390 in week two and then last week just the dominant game against Civic Memorial 195 so you look at Jerseyville and red bud they were able to put up some yards and put up some points and if our line and our team plays like they can and they've done could be a lot of fun here tonight in kokia conference Play We Are 6 and a half minutes away from kickoff coaches have started making their way down on the field like we said it is blue jay night so I'm sure that's um causing a little issues you got those little guys up there we're going to try talking with Steve Bieber and Jason Stapleton at halftime when the band is done just to get them they're the President and Vice President you were a blue jay player back in the day I never was I'll ask you the same question I ask every year how cool is it to play Blue Jays and then get to come out and run on Friday night it's it's pretty awesome uh growing up uh being around football my whole life I mean um all you could wait for is whenever you run out that tunnel on a Friday night but um it's even better whenever you have a Saturday game and you see a couple of those high schoolers come watch you play um talk to you after the game a little bit always get you a little bit more pumped up seeing them in the crowd so um I'm sure uh the Eagles tonight will be pretty pumped up knowing that all the blue jay Community is here um watching them for our second home game of the year I think it's cool too whenever the Blue Jays they get their jerseys the high school kids go up and give them their jerseys I think this year there was about eight six or eight kids that did it um so it's neat for them to come out and do that as well so they're getting ready the Blue Jays are making their way down now moms are waving to the kids blue J players are coming down they're just now getting onto the track they're going to take off running and there they go they're taking off having fun getting run out on Friday night got the varsity got are coming up a little bit later so lot of excitement here going on tonight on Blue J KN cool picture I thought too Xavier vaguely was leading him out a couple years ago and now he's on varsity football so pretty neat to be a part of and now here come the varsity Eagles I'm surprised not one kid fell there good little run I asked Stapleton the other day I said did you ever have a kid fall he goes we did have one little guy Take a Tumble he goes and I had to run out there and try to bear hug him and get him out of Harm's Way so well whole slew of kids man they're still R kid down there too kid with a cowboy hat on start tonight for us up front what's the guy on uh is it Varsity Blues oh yeah he's got a cowboy hat on is there a character that does that yeah I can't remember his name well we're getting ready to get underway I do not know where Roxanna went I just looked over on the sideline they're not there might be in the woods everyone sneaks down to the Wilderness over to the far left kind of sneaks down into the creek bed these officials they're still stretching you got to be ready Alex I mean if one of them goes down tonight it's not because they didn't try to stretch it out yeah liquid IV it is hot you don't do voice stretches before the game I do oh you do on my way here I yeah what what rap song do you sing I can't say I had somebody text me last have a couple cuss words in it I had somebody text me last week they're like is his music that bad absolutely I don't even understand what they're saying you're singing along with them I need I need the close caption so I can follow along with them yeah like you said it is hot though out there Alex yeah my truck I guess one day the thermometer quit working it was 76 degrees so I looked down the day and well over 76 so we'll see you know the Eagles typically in years past we were the team that was always cramping up all the time and knock on wood this year hasn't been a problem so hopefully that'll be a thing here tonight and with as quick as this game could be you hope everyone's in shape looking down here at the blue crew coming down must be on haian night here tonight everyone's all decked out in what would be I think those are floaters down there floaties floaties yeah not floaters some Hawaiian shirts it's like they're all going to the L out Homecoming coming up I don't know who what football player asked a female to go to homecoming but I saw his mom was getting the sign out and everything getting the flowers so they were setting that up today so that'll be cool hopefully we can see what happens there who'd you go you go with a date every year or you go with friends I went with a date you went with a date yeah we'll leave it at that all right fair enough work rox's making their way out on the field now two minutes before kickoff we're going to run to a break real quick and when we come back we'll have the national anthem and first kickoff in Kia conference we'll be right back on kchs [Music] school's very own Junior RC the color guard is commanded by Cadet Lieutenant Colonel car compes other members of the color guard include Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Xander Noel Cadet Captain Sarah Tudor and Cadet senior master sergeant Hunter corbus ladies and gentlemen the national anthem [Music] week four football just about underway here in Columbia at the multi-purpose field Columbia's going to come out white pants blue tops and their white helmet Roxana good luck trying to figure out what numers going to be doing anything tonight red pants white jerseys yellow numbers maybe a red outline on the numbers not sure the red helmet we'll tell you though number three for the shells is going to be one of the main threats we're going to have to worry about tonight their running back is Andrew Ellis he's doing great things this year averaging 14 yards a carry and that's 29 carries for 418 yards seven touchdowns he's the big dog this week after that you go to Mason Crump number 20 he is going to be TW where is he at there 34 attempts 209 yard yards five touchdowns six yards average quarterback Shawn Mayberry doesn't throw it a lot 23 times he's completed 15 of those though six of them for a touchdown so can't fall asleep in that secondary back there 309 yards so he's averaging 20 yards per completion so Jared with all of that being said you got to play the game it's Eagle football time it's Eagle football time week four action first round of the Cahokia conference play all here in front of us roxan is going to set it deep Hicks and Nelson are your deep men standing at the five yeah I remember Evan Wells last year 21 carries for6 he glad he graduated Friday Night Lights underway in Columbia as they send it deep and it's returnable for Nelson who steps into the end zone for a Touchback might be the first Touchback we've seen this season so now we show the offensive line coming out here tonight and no different starters everybody's still staying the same as they did last week and uh you look at the offensive line though did a great job last week going to have to have them do it again tonight see what we come out in if we want to go spread most likely will looks like we got Jace Keegan and Logan Hicks lined up as those receivers with Mason doing the quarterbacking once again going to be double tight ends here going to be Janik and Bryant as tight ends empty backfield ball in the middle of the field starting at the 20 yd line motion man Nelson nothing going looks like they're going to show a blitz out of a safety coming closest to us see what that backside wants to do as well motion man Nelson hand off up the middle put the foot in the ground lowers the shoulder gets four good tackle there by the linebacker number six Max ottery had he not made that tackle there's a lot of green grass ahead of him I think we've opened with that play every every single week this season and I think it's been positive yards every time so they probably know what's coming but still can't stop it going be second in about six Jace last week 16 rushes 83 yards I think that the first game he didn't have a 100 but he still averaged five yards a carry pretty much starting right there at the same spot single receiver to the far left side it's going to be Thompson going to be a fake handoff up the middle vaguely he's got enough for a first down he's staying on his feet keeps moving four more extra Yards First and 10 after a gain of 10 and already looks like we're going to be a little bit quicker up front can't tell 51 maybe on that defensive line was a little slow getting off the ball so we'll see if we want to move towards him a little bit run the ball towards him we look at Malachi Baker over on that far side too number 61 right next to him big dude over there they don't have their sizes though double tight two running backs to the right side single receiver left motion man this time it's a bootleg Begley's looking at Keegan he's got him at the 45 good for another first down he's still on his feet he's got the sideline 3530 20 he's got to get going he makes the man miss 10 in zone touchdown e Eagles what a block by janic too man right on the sideline great catch by Keegan Thompson to take it the distance 66 yards for Keegan Thompson puts the Eagles on the scoreboard first looks like there might be a penalty flag back where's the flag I don't know Mason talking to the white hat right now holding on the offense look like oh that's just a dagger great play call too had everybody flowing to that left side of the field think they called the crack back here did they on cam they might have that would be a terrible call but because I don't know what else you would have wanted him to do because he was going to make a tackle there on Keegan and it's about where I don't know man yeah hey that's all right good play we still got five yards six yards out of it man all right so now you got to do it again first and four now for the Eagles after the penalty going to be single receivers Thompson down here against the sideline tight end left motion man Hicks fake it to him Mason keeps it he cuts back he's got enough for a first down gets to the 48 yd line first and 10 for the Eagles great job by the o line to start off can't ask for uh anything else if you're running backer if you're Mason vaguely there clearing out open space for another first down first and 10 now it looks like we're came up to the line of scrimmage real quick earlier now looks look like we're slowing down a little bit more 10 minutes on the clock in the first quarter tight end left same formation once again motion man this time is going to be Nelson they're going to fake it going to be a vertical looking deep now they're going to have to cut back nobody's making any moves and it's going to go incomplete one thing there when you look at where your two receivers they're both down at the 20 yd line they're over 30 yards away and that's whenever you're scrambling there you need to see that as a receiver come back come back to your quarterback and they were kind of right next to each other running down the field I would have lik to see Keegan or Logan get towards the middle of the field make that other safety have to come over but got lucky there too with an incomplete pass arm was coming forward second and 10 going to flip the formation motion man this time is going to be Nelson to left side going to be another nope it's going to be handoff this time I thought it was a boot he's never faked out with a boot motion I like that going to be a gain of six Jay Nelson on the carry sorry it's gain of four bring up a third and six yeah that was was a great fake got third and about six here see if coach Warner wants to stay on the ground or put it in the air looks like cam janik's going to be that upback in front of Mason tight end left doubles to the right side pistol back Nelson Bley takes the snap hands it off not much going that time going to be a loss on the play had it sniffed out I think I'm punting man what a killer man yeah it looks like they are bringing the punt team out had everything he wanted on those first three four plays then on that one they called The Penalty on that we scored on we had everything going our way cam made a great block I thought on our sideline but ref thought different I like you said that's one of those plays that the kid's going to make a tackle what are you supposed to do bringing pressure off the right side low snap oh my God he tried kicking he tried kicking on the ground it's going to be picked up going to be good field position for roxan I don't think I've ever seen that it's going to be picked up there was pressure off this side closest to us it was a bad snap there's a lot going on on that play roxan is going to start with great field position they're going to be on the 42 yd line Cooper W and Logan Hicks right there the two of them doing great things linebacking crew as well all of them cam you throw them all out there but like I said coupe with what he does in the blitz not afraid to put his nose in there he's going to have to do it tonight as this Roxana team typically keeps it on the ground and they look like they got some big boys over there on the offensive line Looks like we still got furo minky and it looks like Lincoln Corbin if I'm not mistaken first and 10 for the shells double tight double wing single re or running back try to get him in motion I think that was Ellis in motion going to fake it to him but it's going to go up the middle gain of eight leading the way with the run that time looked to be number 20 Mason Crump so you got Crump is your leading rusher Ellis is going to be a wing back and they're getting on the ball quick they're going to hand it to Ellis around the edge he's going to try getting up the middle he does going to try to spin not able to the ball come out come out I didn't even see that I didn't either looks like it was recovered by the shells and it was recovered at the 24 yd line that's enough for a first down shells 750 in the first quarter looks like 14 Hayden hubard playing a little cornerback tonight all sorts of new starters for the defense this week I'll have to read them off I wasn't able to get them all in the computer and in two plays you've had your safety and Corner making tackles that's not a great start up the middle this time gain of five who is that on the carry 20 yeah I think 20 is going to be their tail back behind quarterback and I think that number two Ellis or three Ellis is going to be on that far side as that uh Wing back like to use a lot of motion I guess with the Run they moved Hicks and W and janic all three of them the linebackers this week hand the ball right up the middle nothing going good job good adjustment that time it'll be a gain of two because of the hard run but really a mess of players in there I would assume that's going to be Mankey as your nose they're going to give minky the The Tackle watch the football [Music] here now if you're roxan you're loving third and short you got two plays to get two two yards see what they do here up the middle once again going to be close might get a stop on the play they're going to Mark him a yard short good job Eagles defense like was in there again as well one of the last guys Corin all three of them in there so now you got a fourth and short [Music] six5 ball at the 15 yd line if you're Nelson you can't fall asleep out there by yourself you're probably not going to do much tonight showing Blitz is janic blue crew getting into it under Center going up the Middle with the quarterback he's going to have enough for a first down only by about a yard though good job there by the Eagles trying to make it tough gain of two first and 10 from the 13 yd line going to be a lot of ground and pound like we said Eagles kind of on their heels right now inside the Red Zone see if we can get a false start or something to stop their momentum single receiver split out wide toss left side Cooper's going to have to fight off his BL he's able to it's going to be brought down though by The Eagles number 14 Hayden hubard after a gain of about six so so far it's all been Crump and Ellis got to watch out for number 22 Zeb Catz Merck he's another option down here as well number four is your motion man they're going to hand it off he's going to stretch it out to the left side he's going to have two blockers out there he's going to get in for a roxan touchdown number four Luke Hartman on for the touchdown there gets into the end zone 524 really nothing going for the Eagles there they had everything blocked well roxan did and good stalk blocking out of your wide receiver and a good hole for the running back to get into man that touchdown kind of drained all our momentum on this side yeah the one by Keegan had to come all the way back good snap good hold kick is very good and that takes the score on the Cory Pharmacy scoreboard roxan seven Columbia zero 524 remaining in the first quarter we're going to run to a break we come back we'll show you the Eagles offense on kchs [Music] love you next year thanks to come quarterback club we get to watch come football live at kchs welcome back to Friday Night Lights where the Eagles Trail the shells 7 nothing an unfortunate penalty there we're thinking as we just talked that it had to be on that crackback block took away a touchdown from the Eagles but hey that show we can move the football we had a pretty good drive of unfortunate punt set up good field position for the sh so we'll see what the Eagles offense can do this time another booming punt that's going to go into the end zone for another Touchback so the Eagles are going to take over at their 20 yd line see what can get going this time we'll see if coach Warner wants to throw the ball if he wants to keep it on the ground had a lot of success in that first drive running the ball especially on those first three four plays that opened up that big reception to Keegan first and 10 from the 20 doubles to the left side tight end right that's not going to T be a tight end it's going to be two tackles to the left side I guess he'd still be considered a tight end on the right side is going to be Bryant sniffer back left pistol back Nelson vagle takes a snap fakes the handoff he's going to have to tuck it and run gets back to the original line of scrimmage good decision by Mason they were looking for the now route but it was covered gets a yard look like we yeah like you said just a quick little outout to get in our athletes hands in open space and let them make a play great job by the corner over there to run through that stock block and make it tough to Mason or for Mason to get that ball out there had to take it up the middle for only a yard Bryant came on Cooper came on or Bryant came off Cooper came on low snap again wanted another screen but wasn't able to get there so Mason's going to tuck it he's going to gain two and that was thrown off on the snap all starts with the snap Eagles will have a third down and eight right around the 4minute mark as the clock is going to keep ticking we're at 420 right now so now you got third and long coach Warner usually not too many play calls here on Third and long but especially if you're a run heavy offense we'll see if Mason can get the ball out of his hands quick here here see if we can get a a good snap to start it trips to the right side running back right going to be a roll out to the right side they got coup cp's going to make the catch he's got to get up field he's tripped and he's going to be short short close looks like maybe it's a first down we'll see where they're going to put it it's got to be a first down it is first and 10 thanks to the catch of Cooper W somebody at Buffalo Wild Wings hit the button and threw the sprinkler head up coup was able to dive and get the yard to gain let us know where you're listening from once again had a lot of people letting us know last week so let us know this week into the boundary this time doubles tight end left two tackles to the right everything's going into the boundary we're going to run it into the boundary lot of room in front of him go Jace Nelson he's at the 50 where he gets tripped up it's going to be a gain of 23 first and 10 Eagles into shell territory 324 to go in the first half first quarter I think he gets faster every game he looked quick right there going through that hole Eagles right up to the line of scrimmage they're wanting to go quick everybody set same formation they're going to do the same thing they are it's going to be Nelson again to the right side he's at the 40 good stock black out of Keegan 30 yard line officially now to the 27 I'd run the same dang play Two Carries 40 yards I think unofficial math see when you low him to sleep with that couple runs like that those corners and safeties will kind of forget then you can sneak janick or Brian out of the back field or in that tight end position they're going to run the same play once again to the right side he's going to have to make something happen really not much going that time number 75 for the Eagles danne quivero was your lead block and wasn't really moving too quick kind of clogged up the hole a little bit he's going to he's your left tackle trying to get out there he's got his hands on his hip he's gas it is a warm one I'm going to say Nelson's in motion there he goes f it to him hand the ball off to Hicks underneath he's got the 2520 gets stood up at the 20 is Hicks but it brings up a third down and three little reverse counteraction I don't know what you got the official terms what do you call it I guess that's just the regular counter action I think we saw that week one at modern day Logan was able to score on it I believe and then I think we saw it last week as well down in Taylorville got third and three here see what coach Horner wants to do if he wants to keep it in Jay's hands try to get another first down doubles to the right side tight end the left handed off and nothing going like 71 I think that was on minky y yeah four down territory though if you're the Eagles I imagine going to be a loss of three minute 45 in the first quarter left fourth and six officially got to get it here got to get a good drive and give yourself a chance and a little confidence here two tight end or two tackles to the right tight end left fake the motion with Nelson 10 seconds on the play clock still got time Roan's moving around everywhere now like Jan out of the back field here Hicks is the motion man bootleg set up throw at the 20 he's got to get up field and I he's going to be close again see if they're going to give it to him we needed the 22 we'll see what the official gives it they did not get it looks like he's a yard short on that turn over on down on Eagles I think on that one I like to see cam just get up field not you don't need to make any pretty plays just get up put your put in the ground and yeah get vertical like you said official timeout looks like Mason's already little gas too with only a minute left here in this first quarter roxa getting the ball back looks like there is a Timeout on the field 107 got a lot of heat lightning all around us here tonight I don't think you can cancel for heat lightning right no in the way that what do they call it the globe or something like that now that's on the school that keeps track of all the weather so we would know if it gets bad enough yeah looked at the radar didn't look like anything really alarming so 107 to go here in the first quarter Eagles defense is going to have to make a stop like I said you can't fall back too far you got to try to keep this here and uh keep it a competitive game but as many points as this roxan off defense scores you really can't get down two scores in the amount of time that they just keep the ball on the ground uh I mean first down they're getting three four yards second down they're getting three four yards so every time they get the third down it's a third and three third and four which is uh pretty nice whenever you run that Wing T and you got a big old line so columia defense is going to have to figure it out a little bit especially up front because you don't want your safeties making most of the tackles John dob is going to be coming in as your right end quivero down in the grass as well along with musk up will probably decide he'll probably go strong side I would imagine probably got to give those big boys a little breather right now double tight double Wings single receiver to the right side of the formation motion man's going to be four they're going to pass it this time can't fall asleep over there and it's going to be be incomplete thanks to a drop on defense Cameron steel he was right there with him but just had enough separation that the kid was open but dropped it I don't know what number the receiver was over there I think every year we say this that uh whenever you make a jersey it should not be white and yellow yeah I think Wood River had that a season yeah I don't like that play call I'm rock Santa though I mean you're up seven nothing you've been running the ball down Columbia's throat so I think he should have kept it on the ground there try to get to the the quarter with the ball this time it's going to be end round with Ellis he's going to get to the 25 to the 30 first and 10 after about a 12 yard gain it's really nothing fancy it's just good blocking and good running and it's hard to stop I know Nashville back back in the day was Notorious for running this type of offense so um and you can always have extra little gadgets off of it but like you said it's pretty simple they probably only have three or four plays and then a couple add-ons off to the right side this time good lead blocking good job Eagles getting to the ball gain of three good job by the Eagles good job Hicks there to force it back in as that uh I think he's playing Corner over there as he moved he's moved into a linebacker position a little bit now but it's what you got to do you got to win on first and second down in these types of games force them into those third and Longs where they're not really comfortable running those type of plays 10 seconds now remaining in the first quarter they do get the playoff going to be an end round once again good job there by Hudson Bryant getting off of his blocker getting the tackle and that's going to take us to the end of the first quarter Eagles offense were able to get things moving just can't get it into the end zone they're going to be all right Eagles defense is going to have to make a stop when we start the second quarter right here on kchs [Music] nah [Music] welcome back to Columbia multi-purpose field here on kchs Eagles Trail this one 7 nothing as we start the second quarter they've got a third and three ahead of them need to get the fans into this one here yeah cuz I don't think you're in four down territory they're going to go up to the ball quick going to be an end round to the left side it's going to be tackled in the back field case and musk up and Cooper white gaining nothing fourth and three janic holding that shoulder again hurt that two weeks ago against watero banged it up a little bit last week looks like he's still a little banged up going to be fourth and four punt team is going to come out for roxan this is where you scream watch the football this is a bad spot for off sides here we blocked the punt last week we did we brought the house see if coach Kendall and coaching staff want to do the same thing here don't line up off sides either Nelson is back to return this punt motion man it is going to be a punt they get it off very good punt going to be caught by Nelson at the 25 yd line he's going to get up field get in front of his blockers gets to the 35 40 lowers his shoulder knocked out of bounds 44 good return of 19 yards setting up the Eagles there and good good spot in the middle of the field it's a flight show over there right now down to the South I don't know if waterl I don't remember if they were playing at home tonight or not but they're getting lit up if they are all right see if offense can get something going here Eagles offense is going to take over at the 44 yd line 1103 to go in the first half down seven nothing like I said two pretty good drives I think see if we can get in into the Promised landan here love going into the boundary here coach Horner does doubles to the left side tight end right motion man Nelson to the left he's going to use the boundary he's getting to the 45 lowers his head knocked out of Bounds at the 50 gain of six we had one of our listeners viewers whatever you want to call them just text us the holding penalty is not a very good holding penalty apparently according to the replay that's our next week we got to figure out how to get replay on here yeah that'd be pretty cool TJ needs one other thing that he's got to do he just sits there the rest of the time same formation this time it's going to be handoff up the Middle with over there he's got good blockers in front of him he's got a first down he's at the 40 3530 lowers his shoulder he's knocked out at the 27 yard line quick math that's going to be a 24 yd run great job by coach Horner once again running that first play on first down into the boundary and then using that wide side of the field with Hicks using his speed bringing that fake hand off to Jace to the boundary again great overall play by Columbia there good stalk block out of uh number one Bryant I don't know if he kicked the guy out or if he had to go out and get that corner that's way out there but whoever he got he got him good janik's going to be your sniffer back it's going to be a hand off good job setting the foot in the ground got to the original line of scrimmage don't know what happened there out of Keegan's guy but that's who made the tackle stalk blocking has got to be one of the hardest things to do in football it's hard especially if you know the ball is coming like your way and you're that one block that can make the difference it just it's difficult we're going to go same formation ball in the middle of the field 10 minutes to go Eagles had the ball for a minute now got a lot of yards out of that one minute doubles to the left side motion man is Keegan this time they fake it to him G it in the middle of the field now vaguely is going to have to tuck it 2520 they're going to call another one that's the same play did they call throw a flag no but Jay with another crackback block and they didn't call it there if Mason could have had that fake and just stood up and threw it now he had Logan in the middle of the field the safety bit out on the uh far wide receiver Logan got skinny up the middle he had him wide open but had to tuck it I was looking at the middle of the field at that and then I noticed that Mason was running so that's how quick that all had to happen first and 10 now at the 16 yd line 945 flipped the formation Nelson's the motion man and they fumbled it I think going to try to a double reverse or something Keegan came this direction looked like Mason wanted to like throw it up kind of toss it to him but Jace was looking for the handoff now you got a loss of four there and now you're kind of on your heels again you don't got a lot of play calls on second and 14 so see if we can get to a manageable third down probably in four down territory so I'd say you got three plays here try to pick up another first down and get it to first and goal you don't have a lot on second and 14 you have even fewer on Third and 14 going to be a pass out to the wide side it's going to be Nelson who's going to get near the original line of scrimmage third and 10 you got maybe two more plays maybe he gets knocked out of bounds for a gain of two so now you just lost a couple of those plays that you had in the book 845 third and 12 official asking to stop the clock not sure what's going on me either everybody's kind of just looking [Music] around I guess coach Warner's wanting to get a the right play and he's letting the play clock go down so it's going to be third and 12 8:45 eagle Trail it 7 nothing we're assuming we're going to be in four down territory as we're at about the 18 yd line you only need to get about seven here you don't need all 12 on one play yeah one of the biggest plays up to this point going to be these next two plays see if coach Herer wants to go for it all or like you said just try to get six or seven yards to get you to a manageable fourth down we have listeners in Cuba Missouri again this week thanks Mom and Dad for listening every week at least we know we got one or two I guess and we have Coach owners mom in Tennessee now listening I don't think she's missed a game in all the years that we've done this we need to check that Illinois Nebraska score 73 Illinois aren burner all right what do you got drawn up here uh I like a little roll out to this side fake a hand off to the right use this white side of the field maybe get cuz I mean look at their safeties in Corners they're playing at the sticks so you can get Hicks on a little Arrow Route here just get him an open space I just stand up and throw it to him now on an out route man throw a slant right now or just an arrow get try to get to this pylon they're playing 10 yards off yeah fake quarterback keep to the right side good blocking good cut Mason keeps his he's at the five he's got a first down he was one slip up away it was that sprinkler head again got him it's going to be a first and goal from the four you would have thought they took the sprinklers out when they put Turf in but apparently not first and goal from the four Eagles offense come on 8:30 clock ticking vaguely looks like he's going to come off quarterback will be cam Janik saw this a lot last week really like how physical cam is of a runner big supporter of this play call here formation maybe wait for the play to be happening Brock s shifts over to the right side that's all right cams got nowhere to go keeps his feet moving but there was no blocking really for him at the start of that play it looked like he still tried to get outside there when you're inside the seven yd line try to get as vertical as you can Malachi Basset coming off vaguely takes his spot on the field not in the formation little difference there in size he running Arrow Route here he can beat him empty Back Field doubles to the left side motion man Nelson fake it quarterback up the middle lead blockers lowers his shoulder might get to the original line of scrimmage going to be third in goal from the four now 725 ACI it out there if you would run a let's just call it a fade out of Keegan to get that corner to turn his head away and you throw your arrow that you're wanting out of hicks Hicks I'll take that all day even a bubble route just catch it and get it out there into his hands I think Herer knows that this is a huge play right here again you don't need all four or five if you can get two or three get yourself a little little bit closer but think he's going to burn another timeout here but a pretty big play play call pretty big play here with 648 in the first half mean you got two plays to score you're inside the five got two plays to get four yards so run your bread and butter I think having Jason Mo motion here opens up a lot of things maybe putting Hicks in that back field we'll see what coach Horner wants to draw up here with 648 left in this first first half Roxanna does lead s nothing so I'm here in the huddle with Coach horer you know what I'm thinking what are you thinking I'm thinking that fade out of the far your call him your ex receiver get him out of the way get that corner out going Arrow out of hicks like you said even a now just got it and then his and then just let him be an athlete he runs the ball hard and he's going to take on a a pretty big defensive back I don't know yeah if Keegan can just get to this corner pylon and look Hicks is lining up way more inside closer to the lineman so we'll see if he wants to makes a shorter throw now yeah sniffer back left left is Janik motion man they're going to hand it off up the Middle with Hicks he's going to have to make something happen nothing going loss of one maybe to the original line of scrimmage loss of one fourth and goal from the six now roll out let your quarterback yeah let Hicks get to or no let Thompson get to the pylon somebody try to find an open void Mason can tuck it if he wants to Fourth and goal from the five 620 remaining in the first half 20 seconds on the play clock big play Here Boy the eagles look like they're just kind of lethargic right now just walking around even pistol back maybe shaded a little bit this way use the wide side of the field going to be a quarterback rolling out he's looking for janic nothing going he's going to tuck it still nothing going he's got the five yd line Mason's going to get Knocked Out of Bounds at the three turnover on Downs on a big drive there that the Eagles had a shot at getting some points but now rox's got to go 95 yards there's a penalty on the play see I like running that type of play on third down so then if he has to throw it away he can no loss of yards see the officials are talking to each other it is going to be on the Eagles are going to decline the penalty white hat is going to tell us something soon guess he doesn't have to if you don't want to though now this is this is a big drive though 558 left roxan does get the ball coming out what's the penalty when the official smacks his two fists together I don't know huh that's the penalty that's called but roxo is going to have 96 yards ahead of him now of Columbia multi-purpose field Turf I don't think it would be a targeting oh that would he would be hitting his head I think then they'd have to send it up to the booth for the official replay does he have to come off he just took his helmet off to tie his shoe that would be the dumbest rule in football but big drive here for Rox Santa they do get ball coming out if they can take a lot of clock off go 98 yards we'll call it 90 96 but also if you're the Eagles hope for a a bad snap here over the head a fumble false starts something push him back even further quarterback under Center turns around hands the ball off dive up the middle good for about four and Jared to your point need to snap over his head he's under Center if they snap it over his head we got a problem a bad snap all right we'll go with that gain of four hickon vaguely in on the tackle clock still ticking under 530 now here in the first half second and six quarterback going to be under Center once again guy in motion is number four he's going to fake it to him drop back to pass intercepted intercepted by vaguely Nelson and vaguely there but now I see I don't understand that play call off I'm roxa you got five minutes you've been running it all over the field against this Columbia defense and you decide to throw the ball stop the clock on Third and long which you're not known for having a lot of third and Longs because you're running the ball majority of the time so we'll see if they want to throw it again here on Third and seven Eagles fans getting into it here on the sideline they're going to go up the middle again a good strong push going to be short see I a yard get that you're getting four yards a carry and you decide to throw it on second and long cuz now now it's decision time if you're Rock Siena if you want to go for it here on fourth and one and not get it you're giving Columbia the ball inside the 15 yd line looks like they are going to stay on the field watch the ball watch the QB sneak here be a timeout looks like roxana's head coach is out of at the 15 now he's going to take a timeout roxan I think the eagles only had 10 out there 2 four 6 8 10 now there's 11 so they were only going to have 10 out there I think muscot came on a little late and you got to pump the ball here cuz then you're I mean I man their offense is good they they can get one yard right yeah that's what you're that's I'm going to play Devil's Advocate I'm the offensive guy I can get one yard and if I'm coach your man I'm saying all right go ahead go for it I'm going to bring the juice here right over the center CU most likely you're going to have motion that turns into the tush push what we like to call it which is banned now right uh somewhat it's one of those gray rules yeah like it's still legal but there's like a couple things that go into it to where they don't allow but that's every year they change the rules up big play here though 442 left fourth in short see if Rox Santa decides to bring that offense back out and go for it inside their own 15 yd line looks like they are going to punt it now watch out for the fake pter going to be standing right at the goal line come on get your bad snap yeah see this B this is where it's over his head watch the football here here come on Fourth and short punt team is on Nelson going to be receiving this punt Hudson Bryan almost gets in that back field it's going to be fair caught and Dro by Nelson scrambling for it on the fumble looks like Columbia is going to retain possession scary moment there he had it all along oh boy hey good field position for the Eagles offense 45 46 yd line with 430 left too so you got some time on your side here if you want to punch one in tie this game up head in the overtime overtime head in the halftime 77 hey we'll have overtime later it'll be fun you'll be crawling underneath this table CU you can't watch I do that every game you don't even have to crawl you'll walk under it wow oh another low blow oh two weeks in a row gosh I didn't really need to stop with those all right Chick-fil-A catch up man motion man Nelson fake it up the middle this time I believe that's Janet nope that's going to be Hicks gain of two I like the motion though out to the outside go up the middle gain of two second and eight 415 in the first half trying to get the fans going here good crowd once again for the Eagles going down the sideline roxan packed their side too have a couple of roxan fans over on this side beautiful night for football running back left and a pistol back they're going to Fumble the handoff picked up and loss of six maybe seven brings up a third and a lot like I said the offensive line this week just looks a little slow mhm and how many snaps has that been now between snaps and fumbled handoffs a lot of mistakes here but that's all right we're only down 7330 third and 15 now if you're a coach Warner you got to try to let a little time off if you're not going to be able to get anything going yeah boy if you're going to let your Defender be this far off of Nelson over here just throw it to him now let him make Corner's going to burn his final timeout I mean there's nobody within 10 yards of him unless it's number 63 which based on size I think Jace is going to outrun him we're going to go to a commercial break real quick as this halftime approaches pretty big play Third and 14 307 we'll be back right after this he [Music] welcome back to kchs broadcast brought to by the Columbia quarterback Club third down 15 ball at the Eagles 49 yd line 307 they Trail this game 7 nothing been able to get some things going and then some unfortunate penalty and a fumbled snap there motion man Nelson going to be pistol back this time motion again they fake it to him looking for a screen pass going to be caught by janic but hit right away going to be even loss of more timeout roxan clock keeps moving it's still ticking they're going to have to add some more time they're probably going to add 10 seconds to the clock I bet close to it yeah that play did not work had Jace line up as a receiver send him in motion to that pistol back and then sent them in motion again to that right side then come back to the left side on the screen pass to janic and got blown up pretty quick be fourth and long most likely punt it here try to pin roxan deep with under 244 left now probably going to add some more time like Alex said so now you have to have a good punt yep you have to have to have to 255 so they had what 11 seconds back on good math I couldn't remember if it was 44 or 43 I just said it fourth in Forever for the Eagles Mason vagley doing the punting can't see what number is returning he's standing about the 17 yd line Mason good snap this time a low punt that's all right it's going to roll this time and it's going to be returned at the 15 number 42 down there for the Eagles misses the tackle a stiff arm and could have had him at the 22 instead it's going to be out of Bounds at the 39 yards and when you look at the teams right team right now like everybody's walking off the field walking back onto the field look like we're out of it but it's only seven nothing and you've been inside five yard line a couple times so do we know the timeout situation they might have one left going to be a hand off to the left side going to be a gain of a couple do we just have 12 on the field there no he came off he was close roxan getting on the ball quick after that gain of five counter coming at us good job there staying home L Hicks and Thompson great job third and three two 15 and counting in the first half ball at the 46 and A4 yard line don't fall asleep over here if you're Jace either there's hand off to number three Ellis he cuts upfield jumps over a guy and he's punished there by Keegan Thompson first down though look like their wing Mech went in motion and then the lineman stap snapped down I think that'd be two guys in motion but maybe not they're going to run the same play it's going to be a play action this time quarterback's looking deep he's got a man over here and it's going to be caught stiff arm off stepped thr the flag touchdown shells got him on a double move he heisted up for the last seven yards though that should have been a penalty kale Hester for the touchdown there eagles still got minute 42 we can still try to salvage a little bit here you're going to have 80 yards it's been two touchbacks out of the kicker kids in the band need to look out they might get this P off the dome right into the tuba that takes the Cory Pharmacy scoreboard with a minute 42 in the first half Roxana 14 Eagles zero that's a pretty big play right there and could be a good big dagger but like I said we still got a shot on offense see what happens coach stump we were talking before the game and he said the one thing you got to do and the one thing that we're going to look out for is one of the corners falling asleep and I'm not saying he fell asleep Jace was right there but just a step off it's good Ball by that quarterback can't take that away from him either put it right on the money and it looked like Jace was like you said step or two behind him kind of face guarding him didn't really get to see the ball whenever it was put in the air wide receiver a able to pluck it and walk into the end zone High Step Into The End Zone who' we say had that touchdown um kale Hester K Hester yep number 11 he's had eight receptions 178 yards three touchdowns averaging 22 yards a catch one plays just like that that's what that's what they're known for when they run the ball so much low your corners and safeties to sleep a little bit that's what happened right there Jace was coming up playing the run a little bit wide receiver slipped out touchdown shells 142 left here in the first half see if we can get something going right before halftime this one might be returnable if it gets out of bounds even better we'll take it last week it took four kickoffs before we finally accepted the penalty I think if you're coach Warner though you got to take it on this first one it's going to be at the 35 ydd line and as much as that dude's booted it tonight yep you don't want to risk another Touchback there and lose 15 yards basically Eagles will have minute 42 down 14 nothing been able to move it all night I like that problem is you can move it all you want if you don't score you don't win that's how this game works it is yeah you have to have more points points than the other team yeah the kids in baseball love when I say we need some points trips to the left side I like it doing something a little different here Here Comes Your roll out this way running backs to the right side I believe that's going to be janic he's gonna stay in the pocket and they're gonna throw it to him to the right side he gets up field he Ducks it down gain of eight got to have a play call ready to go second and two from the 43 I don't think I've ever seen Mason throw a little check down Route he didn't even look for the far routes though come on you got to go minute 20 good eight eight yard gain there yeah like you said 120 left need to get something going this time there's that bubble to Cooper good stalk block 45 50 45 again to the 40 he's going to be out of bounds good gain there for the Eagles about an 18 19 yd reception first and 10 that's what I kind of wanted whenever we were inside the 10 yard line just get it out in your playmaker's hands and let them make a play especially whenever they were playing five six yards off the receiver a little momentum here 109 left this time look how many defensive backs Rock SI has right now they only have three down linemen and they're moving around at all times two linemen now nobody on this left side run it to the left just running ISO left yeah ISO left good job Mason good call 30 yd line Cuts up field 25 yd line don't think you have to spike it first and 10 ref took a tumble there hopefully he's all right hey as much as they were stretching earlier he should be good 101 at the 25 yd line Looks like Mason just set his own ball serving for the ref who took a tumble there under 60 seconds now trips to the left side running back janic left you got to go quick come on there too much time timeout Roxana I think that's a good timeout they're gas they don't know what's going on I like that there yeah and on that play they had not even a lineman in a three-point stance he had two lineman on the right side but absolutely nobody on the left side of the line Mason just caught it and went going to be 49 seconds remaining in the first half eagles need a score here 14 nothing Shell's lead still feels a little warm out here a little warm is right first and 10 for the Eagles now when they come out see if roxa has things figured out on the defensive side of things now we'll see what coach Horner wants to draw up here I think we one time out you think we have left I Ro should be out I think we have one we took two on that one drive where we got stopped at the four yeah we've been on this side of things this whole first half just can't get any points out of it would really love to make this a one possession game under 50 seconds now trips the left side ball on the right hash motion man low snap fake it vagle is going to have to step up now he gets to the original line of scribbage now the problem is you got a guy 30 yards away from you you got to go trips to the right side now it looks like they're calling for 35 seconds this is going to end I think in the first half is going to be a Hail Mary to the end zone hopefully not hopefully we get in first trips to the right side running back right 20 seconds a lot of time off that time middle of the field janic incomplete great play on the defensive side that was your second and 10 play so now you'll have third and 10 16 seconds and it falls incomplete stops the clock that's great give you guys a chance to catch your breath 16 seconds now you're thinking about they're going to be guarding those Sidelines trying to tackle you in bounds third and 10 trips to the right side rolling to the right side good job sealing The Edge vaguely throws it kind of just Chucks it it's under thrown Falls incomplete fourth and 10 11 seconds to go I think they were wanting a different play call there looked like two guys were running in the same area somebody without calling what the play was ran the wrong route that play hasn't changed since 2007 so here you're probably just going to throw it up in the end zone I don't know you can still get a first down and if you can get out of bounds going be in this empty set only three linemen for Roxanna going to be verts down the middle vagle is going to have to scramble gets it out going to be caught by Nelson at the 10 he's got the five and he gets knocked out of bounds do we have any timeouts we got two seconds you got to Clock IT the ball stops that's awesome that it got thrown away that's okay gets us up to the line of scrimmage got to get set get set get set get set clock starts and it's going to run out of time runs out of time you had everything that you wanted right there I know if you're Nelson you catch that on 15 yd line and you think time's going to run out but you got to know how much time when you catch that ball you got to know get out of bounds as quick as you can he got the first down and tried get into that end zone but comes up a little short we're going to head to halftime and when we come back we'll have the Columbia Eagles marching band Eagles Trail this one 14 nothing going into halftime [Music] he n [Music] oh [Music] n [Music] let [Music] you [Music] I e e e Z e e e love Nick here thanks to call quarterback club we get to watch K football live at kchs welcome back everybody to kchs where the Eagles and the Roxana shells are in a good one here currently the shells are leading 14 nothing and we'll talk a little bit on our thoughts of how that first half went two minutes ago before they add the additional three minutes on the play clock for everyone to warm up Alex schlimmer here for halftime and I am joined with Jason Stapleton the vice president of the Blue Jay organization as it is blue jay night tonight Jason thanks for joining us it is man it's a great night thanks for having us is this your favorite night of the year you know it know it your anniversary is your favorite night and this is second well just don't tell my wife okay I won't she's probably watching I bet you she's watching so Jason thanks for joining us up here tonight uh it's a fun night for you guys we had everyone coming out running out onto the field tonight there was a whole slew of them nobody took a tumble we saw talked about how you yeah I watched I watched it yeah so let's talk a little bit about the Blue Jays as an organization to start how many teams do you have this year how many uh players do you have all that kind of jumbo well it's a uh it's a great year for the Blue Jays we uh we have four divisions we have freshman sophomore JV and varsity and uh this year we're a little stacked on the older uh Edge we got uh two varsity teams and two J a team so about 130 kids and uh six teams it's a great year so is that probably one of your biggest years that you've had it is uh in a while yeah we we've had we've had this many teams before um but uh this is this is uh making a stretch out a little bit with as many kids as we have and the good thing is is you have the room and the ability to to be able to stretch out we'll talk a little bit that about that here in the future but blue jay night let's talk about that in the kids perspective if you can uh how cool is it to see them come out and how much do they love doing it it's awesome man I mean when you before we even hand out the game jerseys and do our old and pepperi night these kids are already asking hey when what night do we get to practice at the at the high school field when is blue Jan I when am I going to get get to run out with the uh with the big kids right and uh you know they they look forward to it they love it the Blue Jays really appreciate it uh we want to give our thanks obviously to the school board and to coach Herer for including us in this night and uh you know obviously a lot of those those high school players that are out there right now came through organization and when you see the little guys look at those big boys and their eyes just light up and and uh they want to carry on that tradition and that's why we love tonight and we talked about one of the pictures that we have of the little guys running out years ago Xavier vagley he's leading away he's now a freshman and then a couple other kids that are in that picture are still playing football today officially unofficial I think there's 22 guys on the varsity roster that played at one point with the blue J or organization and like we've talked already Jared up here was a blue J player you're a blue J coach now or are you just VP uh uh coached for many years I actually uh stepped down uh I started the year and uh coached all the way through August and decided that we had so much help at the varsity level that I wanted to focus on the uh the organizational part of it so I stepped down but been coaching for many years uh trying to make sure that uh that everything's ran properly and that the organization's in good hands but yeah we're doing great so one of the big things that happened this year you have a new announcers Booth with some extra storage that you needed tell me about that and how that project got started and how it is to where it is today so we've had this building fund for many years now and uh they actually started it before I came back which I've been back with the organization for about six years now and uh you know we've been growing it slowly and surely all these years and uh you know this year we decided hey we're going to we're going to reach out we're going to reach out to sponsors we're going to reach out to the city and and and and take them a plan it wasn't a concept it wasn't hey this is what we're thinking about doing we already have this in place we just we just need some funding right so uh we reached out to the uh to the city and want to give thanks to the to the city council and and Mayor Bob Hill uh Doug brim Mike sander uh for everything they did for us to get that building going this year and then of course I I don't have time to you don't have time to list all of our sponsors but the order Foundation really stepped up for us and uh and helped us out big time because that building would not be standing today ready for football tomorrow uh without their uh support and you've already had a couple home games you got six home games this weekend three on Saturday three on Sunday I saw Ralph up there he was painting lines today had it all mowed and everything yeah so let's talk we're not going to name the sponsors in the fundraising but how do you how we'll talk fundraising how do you do it uh you have your blue J meet shoot uh that is always in November this year it's going to be at the legion once again so tell me about your fundraising and how you got things where they are today so one of one of the biggest ones we have is our meat shoot or is our meat shoot and we do that in usually the Saturday after Thanksgiving we moved it up this year uh we're getting low on time here brother oh you're good we keep going we can go into the third quarter but uh you know we also have our our beef raffle in the begin beginning of the year our meet raffle um you know uh every kid sells tickets and and that's a big one and then obviously Columbia days where I'm slinging 900 hamburgers meat Burgers Holton man got to have them got to love Holton so now if somebody wants to get involved and wants to be part of it let's say you know contact sport it's a lot of head injuries and all that you guys are all heads up all your coaches are heads up certified yes we are and so all the equipment and everything it's all funded the parent doesn't have to bring anything forward correct no no we uh it's it's not uh it's not travel ball it's not uh we're where you're buying your kid that $300 bat every year uh playing uh select baseball paying all those big fees uh we pride ourselves on keeping cost low and we do that through sponsorship and through all of our um all of our fundraising so when your kid comes out low cost might cost you hundred and something dollars and uh but you don't have to buy him a single thing to keep him protected and we are heads up certified all of our coaches are out there the parent ever has any question about uh safety uh any one of our coaches can answer those questions I believe the website was up on the slide a little or the screen a little bit earlier um so I believe that's Columbia or no it's Blue Jays football blue jay foot.org yeah and then you can go to Facebook look up the Columbia Blue Jays uh football I believe too and you can get everything on there we're getting ready to start the third quarter here it's going to be number five Mason Cunningham doing the kicking H Columbia needs a big stop here on this first series going to bounce at the 24 pick up at the 20 good job there by Logan Hicks getting there but misses the tackle got the outside and it's going to be a big return for Roxana we're going to see if we can make a tackle and we do at the 25 yd line believe that's going to be number 42 Ricky Prader makes a tackle and boy if that's what you didn't need that's it right there Jason anything else you want to talk about about Blue Jays real quick well I I just want to say that uh we have a great organization uh we're very healthy uh we're very safe um if if you want to have your kid come out um please bring him out reach out to us if you have any questions reach out to the board uh we're there to do everything and we just really again just appreciate uh the Columbia school board and Coach Scott Herer for allowing us to do this and I really appreciate uh you guys and uh kchs for allowing us the opportunity to get the word out man well it all starts with the little guys and gets them up to where they are today going to be a quarterback sneak right up the middle gain of two and Jason one thing that we donated to as a quarterback Club you guys needed some new lights we did you used to go up to the legion and practice Under The Lights now you can't do that you guys have all uh mobile light stands that you can move around and quarterback Club as a quarterback gets under Center real quick going to be a handoff right up the middle nothing going good job by the big uglies maybe a gain of one if that big number 73 for the Eagles leading the way Lincoln Corbin yeah I I I think one of the things that we uh we pride ourselves on are trying to be self-sufficient so we wanted to make sure that we had everything we did uh run to the left side nothing going once again good job there by the Eagles defense now you need to get a stop let's talk football real quick all right fourth and four what are you going to do you bring in gono I'm uh I'm I'm going to stay status quo here I'm going to pinch those big boys in make sure we're a pound and SE Gap here and uh keeping them from bellying us here I don't I hard count there didn't work quarterback back under Center motion man three Ellis handed off to him on the outside good blocking out there and it's going to be enough for a first down into the end zone maybe short knocked out of Bounds at the three had a chance at getting them behind the line of scrimmage but instead a gain of about 15 man Alex I'm GNA have to get Jared back in here I feel like I'm uh I'm some bad luck here on this first drive we needed a huge stop here under Center motion man give it to him right side stretch play to the outside nice T stood up and tackled big hit there Logan Hicks yeah so yeah so uh we we did we we got lights and they're they're going to keep hurrying us up here but uh yeah we we got lights and and we're self-sufficient as an organization I think the city loves it we love it as an organization and uh you know we we don't ask for much we really don't as an organization we try to we try to take care of everything ourselves and and uh that's why we have those fun rers and the amazing sponsors I mean and and our sponsors cross over right so they they're they're out here sponsoring uh Columbia Eagle football they're sponsoring a lot of whoa that was a nice uh little streak of lightning there hopefully that's far away but uh about 20 miles away I think good good uh but uh yeah we want to uh we we want to make sure that uh that our organization is self-sufficient and that uh we're taking care of everything that we need to take care of on our end and and it makes things a lot easier well thanks again for joining us us up here on kchs Blue J night always a fun night it's awesome man now we need to get an eagles Victory here we need to start with a stop got to get the ball moving we're moving the ball all night we just we talked a little bit a lot of the guys up here in the Press Box I could see a 2814 game if we could just catch one break and one play and have a couple things go our way but in the end uh it doesn't matter what it should be I think that early keeg and Thompson touch on that was called back kind of took the the wind out of the sails a little bit there early and uh had us on our heels and they started bellying us up the Middle with the big old boy so uh we get that under control I I think we can get back in this but we need a huge stop right here quarterback's going to go under Center I believe number four was the injured shell looked like he was just lost his air moce man they're going to go up the middle though going to be spun out good tackle good job there number 73 Lincoln Corbin getting in the field first might have been Coupe and Mason cleaning it up Jason thanks for joining us up here tonight Alex thank you appreciate kchs for having us tonight no problem thank you we're going to bring Jared back in third down and four motion man again quarterback's going to keep it this time good defense now we're going to have to make a tackle on the scrambling quarterback a bunch of high hits nothing going though now we're going for the football good job swarming to the ball Eagles defense fourth and goal now like fur was slow to get up on that play going to limp off looks like muscot came in for him fourth and goal from the three big play here coach germain's jumping up and down about something on that sideline is going to try to get to the outside Hicks is over there with them did he reach for the pylon he did not short turn over on Downs that's the stop you needed looks like he reached for that pylon but Hicks was there quick enough to knock him out of bounds and that right there is a huge play cuz they score go up three scores but now you're even in a little dilemma here you got to go 99 yards which our offense has been able to put together some good drives tonight just haven't been able to punch any in the end zone janic is going to be a running back quarterback is vaguely comes off 857 when the Eagles are going to take over at their n or at their one foot line Janik takes a snap runs to the right side he's got enough for close to a first down on the first play of the first second half now Malachi comes off Mason is going to come on after he talks to coach hner down here gain of 11 first and 10 got a little Breathing Room 830 left in the third quarter see if the Eagles can get something going here and try to get some points up on the board big stop on the first drive motion man Hicks hand off no yes it is off to the right side Off to the Races 2530 3540 getting brought down at the 30 44 yd line big run of 33 yards Logan [Music] Hicks that's all we've kind of done tonight just get our athletes in open space and there Logan good enough to get to that outside edge cut it up field was faster than a couple of those linebackers took a safety in a corner to bring him down good run Logan Hicks now we got to get some momentum boys Double's left side handoff Nelson outside Miss stalk block out of Coupe he fumbled he fumbled was he down and you could I could hear coach stump over here right next to us throw it the Keegan now cuz their corner is playing seven yards off this outside receiver and Keegan Thompson I don't know why we haven't thrown an hour out all night our athletes are going to beat them throw it now throw a slant throw a bubble we've been doing it all season long with our stock blocking and just getting it out there in open space we'll see if coach Warner wants to use this side of the field into the bound like he like he loves to do doubles the left side motion man Hicks fake the hand off vaguely keeps it good read good blocking good job making a cut puts his foot in the ground steps up field he's on the shell side of the field penalty flag it's going to be a late hit out of bounds hopefully I think vagle was out of bounds and he got an extra shove hopefully there's no talking going on initial indications that it's going to be a first down Eagles looked a little soft if say so myself on the push there but we'll take anything we can get Mason's got to learn to flop a little bit is going to be a personal foul on the shells so another 15 yards I believe and to get the ball all the way up to the 30 yd line on that right hash see if coach Horner wants to use this wide side of the field again or if he wants to go into that boundary six 48 now in the third quarter looks like janik's going to be the running back to vy's right oh man a lot of movement that's the play that kills the drive right there potentially hopefully not F I think it's been five plays since we've been on our own one yard line and we're already down here in their territory you can't have that right there yep you cannot loss of five there first and 15 on the false start throw a now R yep you have seven yards three guys over here with two Defenders we're going to throw the bubble is all night long Cooper He's going to read his blockers he's going to get back to almost the original line of scrimmage four yards though I'll take that all day long second and 11 is Cooper a fast runner right away or is he quick he's he's quick not fast doubles to the right side single receiver to the left empty backfield motion man Hicks hand the ball off got to stretch it out wide bad block out of stalk blockers going to be a loss of three third and 14 get seven yards here you don't need all again Cooper comes on Bryant comes off 540 left in this third quarter go trips left into the boundary lineman shifts over late running back right vaguely looking to the right looks to the middle of the field he's got a in there they're going to be incomplete now what do you do if you're the Eagles do you try to pin them I think you're oh man I think I give them a long field it's a tough decision to make here but you don't have very many fourth and 14 plays looks like offense is going to stay out on the field going to flip the formation put Jace single receiver on this side with trips to the right this time the corner steps up trips their right side running back right roll out right vagle sets his feet now he's going to have to throw it he does it's caught by Cooper it's enough for a first down at the 20 yard line gets knocked down at the 18 but that's okay gain of 16 penalty flag at the 36 yard line he was fast enough just fast enough had two open receivers on that sideline too looked like CPE ran a little Arrow Route and then you had the sideline hitch out of the outside receiver still see trying to see what this flag is going to be not be a holding penalty that's around the area hopefully you can say they might have had a hit on the quarterback up high could be a roughing the passer that's what I'm going to Hope Columbia is walking up towards the ball foul roughing the passer defense going to take it first and 10 Eagles 512l going to bring up a first and goal now at the nine we've been here all night long just haven't been able to get in the end zone so we'll see if coach Horner had a couple adjustments at halftime on that o line front or if he wants to just get it out here in Logan Hicks hands right now throw a bubble route have him get to that pylon doubles to the left side tight end right pistol back about eight yards deep he's behind vaguely I'm assume that's Nelson they're going to run the bubble throw the bubble what do you think the halftime talk was like at halftime what were the adjustments um think it was a one-sided conversation yeah I would say so now that's going to be the loss of five on the play second and 14 444 on the clock like you said the bubble is there again and Hicks looked to the sideline right after that play kind of got blown up but I mean if you have one-on-one with the the corner and the other receiver doing the stock blocking and then it's one-on-one with Logan and linebacker safety and I'll take that all day empty backfield Hicks motion man bootleg to the right side he's going to throw it to Chase and it's going to go incomplete third down and 14 Jace was there threw it a little High Falls incomplete 420 and on that play people forgot about Logan Hicks out of the backfield on the fake handoff he was wide open on this side as well Mason would have just had to throw in a little 15 yard pass through the air but wanted to take a shot down the middle of the field again third down again 14 yards don't need them all around one play trips to the left side into the wide side of the field a lot of open room in front of them run bubble here with Jace to this left side they're going to move and it's a false start now out of her left tackle send him in motion but scoot it back a little bit more Owen Mankey the left tackle jump there oh they called delay game that's all right we'll take that sorry Owen put a penalty on you Mason you got to watch play clock so third and 19 now going to go same formation janik's going to be on the left side now he's going to go to the right side you're going to go Blitz from the left vaguely middle of the field dropped Hicks tried running before he caught it again you had Coupe over here a little wideside by himself and they well they kind of the linebacker kind of blitzed there kind of took Cooper away on that play but I mean great job by Hicks to run that snag route just not able to haul it in he was in the right spot probably would have got to around the 10 yard line and you'd have fourth and 10 shot to the endzone but now you're going to have about fourth and 19 I don't know if you think about kicking it with Keegan here don't know how much of a big leg he's got but see what coach Horner decides to do most likely we'll keep his offense on the field see if you look at what happens when we put our running back to the right side they shift their linebackers to the left and they're coming off that off the weak side do you like if you do that you know where they're blitzing from do you like knowing where they're blitzing from or do you put them in a pistol back then you let the defense make up your their mind and then that makes up your mind as well yeah I mean kind of depends where 22 is to be honest with you if they have him in motion they're most likely knowing it's he's going to have the ball or uh Mason's going to pull it and do it with his own leg so we'll see uh who we have in the back field here or if coach Horner wants to go empty set and make them have more def defensive backs on the field 416 on the game clock fory Cory Pharmacy scoreboard reads 14 nothing shells huge Drive huge play for the Eagles especially after getting that big stop on the one yard line Hicks able to push him out of bounds to keep this at a two-possession game and then to drive almost 99 yards until we had a couple of penalties to push his back we're going to talk to Brenan W Who's down on the field after this drive trips to the left side running back right roxan bringing the house vaguely middle of the field throws it behind Cooper Falls incomplete so again you got to another good drive out of your offense keep stalling out like you said those drives dve Killers couple penalties that push you back after you get a couple first downs it does some damage for your offense and now roxa going to come back out with 412 left in the third quarter with 14 nothing lead see if our defense can get another stop here and give our offense a chance to get some points on the board going to be four down lineman for the Eagles motion man three fake it to him up the middle they go not too much going on he slips out of a couple tackles though and it's going to be good for about a 25 still on his feet goes out of Bounds at the 46 gain of about 27 though 18 steel comes on the field as hover comes off holding onto his arm quarterback up the middle middle gain of three not much more roxan is yelling wanting to get up to the ball again right away ball at the 49 yd line 340 in the third quarter left ball start left guard he's pulling early we're going to send it down to the field with Brennan white at about the 40 yard line Brennan down there on the field what's the feel like with a night that Eagles have had a chance but just can't get into the end zone well um it's uh it seems to be quiet down here I mean I think we need a we need a boost of energy something to pump us all up um it's uh tight game I mean we just need we need some energy we need to get alive we need to feel some I mean you got H here uh injured on the with the trainer we we need some life we need we need to get back in this we need play action double move down the end zone it's going to be Jace on the play and it's going to be incomplete good defense there and that might be the play that you need right there great defense D that so the offensively they're moving the ball Columbia's moving the ball like crazy tonight how can we get into the end zone here we got to do it at least twice and how can we do that tonight um we just got to we got to rely on our guys we got to we got to push we got to we have to use our top dogs here get Jas Nelson with those two big plays 30 yard run and 20 yard you got Thompson with that6 I mean we just need to use our players jump it good pick picked off Mason vagley picked off Mason vagley Eagles are going to take over and he need I mean you need to do plays like that hey you get play like that it'll work all right thanks brenon we might call you whenever this game gets into overtime we'll call you when you're on the field awesome all right thanks brenon good play there Mason vagle that was one hand too Alex was it yeah Mason's that thing Mason's going to take over with the offense now with the 44 yd line maybe that's the little boost we can get here and our defense has been playing good all night one big play that they scored on on that pass and that's pretty much the only big play we've given up we just can't score you need points 303 for the Eagles in the third quarter left trips to the right side motion man Jace lets him get across the field vaguely is going to throw it turns into a Blitzer turns into his own man it's going to be sack loss of nine it's not good whenever you run into your offensive lineman nine yard deep and Mason kind of just scrambling around there trying to find any open space just to get rid of the ball looked like he had Nelson but too many defenders in his face not able to get the ball out sack loss of six we'll call that seven actually and go empty now sniffer back left tight end right single receiver right doubles to the left side closest to us motion man Nelson quarterback keep to the right side gain of about three brings up a third and 13 now 210 on the game clock it's big play here I don't think you try to get it all like you said earlier we've been in these third and Longs all night but here I don't think you're in four down territory so big play coming up 50 and Ticking in the third quarter eagles need to get something going here before this fourth quarter starts 140 trips to the left side we got too many guys on the field play clock at four trips to left side vagle is looking left now he's looking in the middle of the field and it's going to be incomplete CP kind of stopped running tried setting up and vaguely thought he was going to run deep I was about to say whenever Coupe ran onto the field I didn't see anybody come off coach Warner calling for punt minute 25 that's the first bad Drive I think yeah out of the Eagles after getting a big interception by vagle defense keeping us in the game with a couple key stops but offense just can't really get anything going look how far back the returner is Begley gets a pun off bounces at the 36 checks up a little bit pick it up and the Eagles are going to pick it up at the 33 see how quick the officials want to flip the field here the Eagles just look kind of Gass yeah we got to get something going you like you said you got that pick you got that turnover you needed and it just nothing came from it thanks once again to our sponsors for tonight and every week we appreciate it thanks to the Columbia quarterback club for making this happen electrod door for tonight's pregame meal that came from Tequilas we need a Speedy Gonzalez here or something happen there you go Blue J Knight pretty good crowd for both home and away need an inch a lot of touch touch Downs oh I like it hand off to the left side big hit there by Thompson and vaguely keeps the clock rolling though boy Lincoln Corbin was just driven about 12 yards yep can't have that happen looks like another shaking up shell got Shell Shocked on that sideline over there trainer came out right away we're going to go to a commercial break with the injured shell 1 minute exactly to go in this week four KI Conference matchup [Music] a [Music] you're watching Columbia football live presented by kchs thanks to the Columbia quarterback [Music] Club welcome back back the injured shell was over on their sideline and as soon as they picked him up he was off the field second and five quarterback handoff running right at us good job Logan Hicks containing the edge but a gain of five or six going to be enough for a first down 50 seconds in the third quarter looked like 57 there John do was able to get in that back field just not quick enough to get to that running back 30 seconds remaining in this third quarter and off up the middle nowhere nothing to go Cooper W back there making the tackle along with number 18 Cameron steel could take us to the quarter only 20 seconds to go big play there like I said in the pregame if you can win on first and second down you're always giving yourself a chance win there on first down now you got to Win Second down roxan is going to get one more playoff up the middle nothing going again gain of one that's going to bring up a third and 12 when we come back for the fourth quarter of this kahok conference matchup your Eagles are trailing 14 to nothing on KCs [Music] a [Music] welcome back to kchs fourth quarter action Eagles Trail at 14 nothing don't forget next week we have another home game it will be against freeberg always a big game sons of the American Legion will be paying for all retired and military personnel to get in so look for the pass gate on the right side of the main entrance and that's where you will be able to tell whoever is writing down names there and the sons of the American Legion will be paying for it because it is Military Appreciation Night Columbia a quarterback Club will have a tailgate starting around 4:30 with all of the parents in the perch no they call that the nest over there or is that the perch it's the perch over there in the parking lot third and 12 12 minutes to go in the game Big third down here scoop and score pick six anything a stop we need it pass play double move Jason is there musk up forcing the quarterback Nelson's over there nothing going and it's going to be Pi push off on them that's going to be on on them I think I don't know if Jace actually ever turned around though that might be a problem too I think that's two guys that are he pushed off Jace didn't turn around I think it could go either way I think you're you're able to face guard as long as you're not making contact Jace might have made a little bit of contact there but looked like the receiver threw him out of the way to try to get to the ball and it looks like it is going to be against the Eagles wow be a 15 yard penalty automatic first down that's two weeks in a row a bad ball has caused a huge pass interference and again third and 12 you get a stop to get off the field but you can't get off the field because of a penalty first and 10 from the 44 yd line and if roxan is smart if I was in there she was I'm running this clock down as much as I can they've been getting three four yards a carry don't even think about throwing the ball here Force Columbia to get another stop and try to get some points end round good job Cooper white catching on to the outside good job Mason musk up and Bryant to make a good tackle gain of two so you one first down there second and nine clock still ticking one 1120 left in this game same play once again this time they go out wider this time get them out of bounds there's going to be a penalty flag on the play okay ball went out of bounds should be on 64 I don't know hold either a hold or like a chop block went kind of low on Coupe is going to be a hold against the shells also watch the replay from the what we thought was a holding I think they call block in the back yeah in close very close first drive of the ball game left motion man this time it's a bootleg bigley's looking at Keegan he's got him at the 45 good for another first down he's still on his feet he's got the sideline 3530 and I mean if you're cam janic there I mean you're not just going to let that guy tackle your guy right so I mean great heads up play by cam I mean at least make some contact there but I guess it was too much contact for them to throw the penalty flag second and long good job case musk up getting to the Back Field good job by the rest of the Eagles getting into the back field and it's going to be a loss on the play Third and even longer and this is when you need the Bluer everybody's sitting down now I've never seen a student section where everyone's sitting you probably got your 15 seniors up there in the front everybody else yeah they're trying to get him up sitting down this is a big third down here third in a country mile I hope they throw it here and it goes incomplete or pick I'll take that too I just want the clock to stop now the blue crew is getting up third down and 21 fans getting into it here Eagles bringing Blitz it's going to fall out it's going to be an Eagle football no no it there was two Eagles back there that's the break you needed oh and it's recovered by roxan G to be another big lost man oh man Bryant was right there looked like Bryant and might have been one of the linemen I couldn't tell which one but jumped on and the ball kind of just slipped out of their grasp here's my question the clock stopped right now we're at home so I'm not going to say anything it's happened to us I mean it is not moving at all like I don't know why it stopped at all there's been 30 SEC oh now it's started game delay of game delay of game thank you delay game Roxana that's going to be another 5 yard penalty so now they're going to have the ball at the 35 yd line they need to get to the other 35 here's a question you try to block it like we did last week right here we need something that's not even a question you got I think I think you got to bring the juice juice here and and watch them run a fake get a little bit of momentum getting this ball back or we'll see if they want to kick it the Jace if he make something happen fourth and 31 good snap bring the pressure it's going to fall and it's going to give a great Roxana bounce to the 34 yd line with 939 on the game clock we had everybody there just didn't make contact with it but on a side note good job not touching the punter is that an automatic yeah I think so great job not touching the punter then there's running in the kicker and then there's roughing the kicker I don't know what the difference is one is if you hit the plant leg one is if you hit the any other body part kicking leg all right 939 Eagles offense been moving all night nothing to show for it though drips to the right side running back right typically this is a roll out play going to be a bubble route good job poer W good blocking out of your guys in front of you we've been saying that all game haven't we gain of a few see where they're gonna give it to us Cooper W for 11 yards in a Columbia Eagles first down he's got to have four or five catches tonight keep it going like you said there's that bubble we've asked for all night it's open it's one-on-one I tell you what the game is so much easier up here I love it it is so much easier I don't know why they don't do things more often I think coaches should not be on the field at all every one of them should be up here empty backfield motion man Hicks to the left side fake it quarterback up the middle I'll take that all day seven for the Eagles they're going to give him six nope they're going to give him seven depends on what official they're going to go with right now you got you got to think coach Horner is probably thinking in the back of his mind N9 minutes you got to score not not too quick but you can't let that clock get under about 7even six minutes cuz then roxan can take a lot of time with that Wing te offense N9 minutes remaining going to be an empty set here with tight end to the right side motion man Hicks coming right at us fake they do hand it off actually first down to the 40 3530 lowers his shoulder Out of Bounds at the 26 big gain there for the Eagles 19 Yards First and 10 we've seen these plays all night we've been getting these big chunk yards I want to see how many first downs we have with no points on the board I bet it's close to at least 10 yeah oh every bit of that yeah did he get out of bounds looks like he did the clock stopped that's good same formation here I think doubles to the right side motion man again they're going to fake it it's going to go on got a lot of room get outside the left side and he gets out there 20 15 almost but it's another first and 10 I think if janic holds that block for a quarter of a second longer we might be saying touchdown Eagles but that's all right I'll say first down Eagles good Vision there by Hicks he could have cut it up field but had that safety screaming hard towards him able to get on that outside edge first and 10 with 830 left now and we need a touchdown doubles of the right side moving the running back to the left uh sniffer back left tight end left motion man false start I don't know where the ball is it's going to be a pass and it's going to fall through the hands I think it was a little high for Nelson a little low for Bryant incomplete Nothing Hurt second and 10 8:15 to go ball at the 16 yd line that was almost a ball game pick right there yeah well the good thing is clock stops get your breath I believe we still have all three timeouts so coach Warner most likely going to keep those in his pocket for in case we need a stop if he has to burn one for a bad reason he might yep blow a head gasket been a part of those conversations before they not good doubles to the right side sniffer back right running back motion to the right going to keep it with Nelson cut to the 15 good tackles there otherwise it was going to be a touchdown house call 8 minutes now in counting third and nine and a play like that can matter because last year Jason Nelson is probably keeping that on the outside and trying to gain as many yards and he probably loses about four or five but then you get one yard there you're still at third nine got two downs to get a first down big play here on third down see if coach horer wants to go little trick play action this is a new formation here fake the handoff boot rolling to the right side throws it to the end zone for Janik and it's going to go incomplete not a bad ball though that was the only spot that he could throw it Janik was the only guy that was going to make the catch but now you got a fourth and nine that was just a simple little roll out bootleg to this side look like you had Crossing routes across the board fourth and nine probably the biggest play of the game so far right here with only 730 seconds remaining 140 big play here motion man Nelson fake the handoff throwing across his body up into the end zone and it's going to go in complete turnover on Downs again for the Eagles 731 remaining in the ball game I like the roll out thrown to the wide side of the field I want to know our total y we got to be over 200 yards Alex with no points on the board it's frustrating I can only imagine what coach Horner feels like right now your offense has been playing pretty good all night defense has been pretty Sol solid just can't get any points on the board great job by roxa defense inside the Red Zone every time to stand up straight they got first and 10 for Roxanna starting on the 15 yd line time is definitely on their side now going to be a stretch to the right side Coach G was trying to get somebody moved over there brought out of bounds stops the clock will take it gain of six maybe Keegan gets credit for the tackle man oh man had a lot of chances tonight it's all right it's not over 724 need a bad snap or something they got to do something wrong mocean man going to get the football cuts it back up the middle met by a ton of eagles good tackle I think that was Mason that got up there and stuck the running back gain of one third and two something you also got to think about here on defense whenever there's a big pile like that somebody's got to be the one to go in there and try to punch that football out try to get possession back in this game because you got to you're going to have to score touchdown here if you get the ball back definitely going to have to score a touchdown to make it a one possession game but third and three here under seven minutes see if the Eagles can get the ball back and try to make something happen they got the heavy boys in the Middle look like quick movement on the right side it's going to be first down for the shells and again out of bounds look like that right tackle might have got a little quick off the ball but it goes unseen it goes for about 10 yards first and 10 Raiden Myers comes running on for the Eagles I didn't see anybody run off Hicks comes running off now clock still stopped 6:36 sweep to the outside good job Cooper blowing the play up good job there by m and steel again steel making the play that play was blown up though by Cooper hitting the pulling guard or tackle whoever it was caused it to stretch out wide now you think about not yet calling timeouts I don't know six minutes left now you got a loss of one there offsides Eagles Bryant jumped second and 11 going to turn into second and six or seven depending on where this spot is call it six dob goes on Mankey comes off under 10 seconds on the play clock clock 545 on the Cory Pharmacy scoreboard roxan still up 14 nothing motion man fake it to him quarterback keeps it tucks it runs weird play call I don't like that but they're still going to get positive yards seven missed block or tackles Keegan is able to make the tackle penalty flag comes flying in from about 20 yards deep Doug Steinman is the back judge tonight got a good arm on him local guy I guess it's a holding can't really see you want to call it a holding penalty sure holding on the shells so 531 so now if you get a stop on third down say it is clock is running third and long I think you bur I'm burning one then you can still have two Eagles got to get the stop first second and 14 eight 520 sorry there's movement everywhere good thing they caught it it's all right second 19 now coming up why couldn't we have these earlier we're going to be asking ourselves a lot of questions watching film this week yeah a game that could be in our hands pretty easily have the least tied up right now should be at least 144 we've had the ball inside the five three times with no points Eagles players are trying to get the fans into it here big play second and 20 mocean man out of the play going to hand the ball off up the middle jumps over Coupe penalty on the play like I said if there's a stop here if this penalty is not on the Eagles I'm burning a timeout 449 looks like he hurdled a player I don't know if that's still a flag look like white was the one that got hurdled what's the uh motion for that does you official left does he have to jump over oh that'd be awesome whatever I don't know whatever this was so coach owner is going to decline it got to think about calling a timeout maybe well it's only 25 seconds too you don't you're going to save yourself 14 personal foul [Music] declined look like he put up third down yeah he declined it it was second down that entire time yep I thought it was third down that's why I was saying call the timeout yeah it was second and oh the holding penalty was the the took I guess okay third and 15 449 clock will start on the officials ready can't fall asleep out here if you're Ste now you follow Jace on that other side now you call a timeout here if you get the stop looks like they're going to run that play clock down under five seconds till they're going to get this play off motion man out wide it's going to be a stretch play and it's going to be brought down good job running the alley Mason vagley timeout timeout Eagles fourth down great play Mason vaguely running the alleys loss of two ball at the 22 23 yd line we're going to run into a break real quick while there's an eagle down getting stretched out we'll be back to kchs right after this [Music] and you're watch comb live on kchs welcome back to kchs huge fourth down and 20ish maybe it's 17 eagles look like they're going to bring the house looks like we get set up in good field position here too let's have a punt return back punt gets off going to fall at the 49 and it's going to give a roxan a bounce and they shouldn't touch it just let it keep going until the officials want to stop it and they're going to stop it at the 41 409 remaining in the ball game Eagles Trail 14 nothing have had ample of opportunities to get into the end zone haven't been able to get it done but that's all right you still got 410 two timeouts you only need to get in twice should have got in about five times now so be all right but you got to go Tempo we were in on the third play of the game yeah I think that set the tone yep definitely did but not over yet still got a chance trips to the right side running back right single receiver out wide to the top of the formation bubble Thompson catch good stalk block and get chased from behind good job good tackle there you literally get five six yards of Play why you let like I get the kids hurting over there cramping up or whatever but get on the football yeah be ready for the next play you get on the football right away if somebody doesn't see him you call go and their trainers aren't even out there yet like I said don't forget next week sons of the American Legion paying for entry for the uh retired and active military personnel I don't know who's supplying our meal next week before the freeberg game after that we go on the road to Wood River maybe Wood River or Salem we go on the road to Wood River Salem comes here for homecoming we go to Central in week eight Jerseyville comes here for week nine senior night hopefully we get a week 10 week 10 we're going to be hosting a game here let hope we're going to need some magic to happen here tonight and getting the end zone two time oh there's two injured shells there somebody over on our side didn't even see them oh big boy in the middle of the field can't even get up they're going to have to roll him over you can stand up some way different just a little south of us at halftime waterl Trails Triad 7even nothing are they at Triad I don't even remember yeah I don't know been a good one we expected this to score in this kind of game here tonight they sure ain't scoring 40 points tonight what they're used to the last couple weeks I thought tonight would have been a 30 to 30 score I thought both teams yeah I thought it well maybe not a final 3130 final with the home team having more points trying to play Shout and there is nobody moving to it except these two J kids right in front of us that's a good uh good wedding song grip dancing down there he was raising the roof all right Eagles offense let's get something going here doubles running back to the right side clock does start too second and four ball at the Eagle to 48 yd line vaguely look looking deep got a bunch of guys in his face he's going to throw it and it's going to be a miscommunication and it's going to be intercepted at the 10 yd line intended for Hicks big return coming at the 25 and that's where the shell is going to be tackled Hicks started running towards the middle of the field vaguely threw that to the outside of the field looks like Keegan just got the wind knocked out of him a little bit now you look at all the eagles walking Now Yep looks like Aaron P checks in for Keegan Thompson on this defensive drive he was able to make that tackle on the interception there got 333 left here now time is all on Rox Santa's side now three are wild 333 eagles with two timeouts left see if we can force a turnover or something Eagles showing Blitz they do runs up the middle C janick first one there to make contact second one there case musk to help bring him down gain of four five second and five good to see Thompson back up and in the game looks like the eagles aren't going to burn any timeouts and let that clock tick a little bit more if you're rock Santa you're not snapping this till under five on game or play clock under three minutes now running back up the middle this time cameraman was late getting over there looks like eagles are going to burn their second timeout going to be a third and one with 233 left in the ball game now you're waiting for a miracle here to happen no push-ups for the cheerleaders tonight had a bunch of them last week got the new smoke machines quarterback Club bought got to see them whenever the guys ran out on the field tonight but haven't been able to see him much after Matt vley helped a lot built some cases for him look pretty cool when they're working I mean Jerseyville putting up 55 points against this team that's kind of I bet you making me shake my head a little bit I don't know I don't want to feel like a homer and out of line saying this but I feel like the eagles should have put up 35 tonight yeah it should I think it could could be we should we should had at least 14 at half it should have been at least 147 I want to say at half but I want to know how many snaps we had inside 20 yard line Looks like we jumped that's one of those things you start pressing right now hard count offsides Eagles is going to be a first and 10 you start pressing at this point and uh start making those mistakes we haven't really made too many of them this year that'll be a fresh set of downs first and 10 from the 40 play clock will start right away and that timeout hurts right there oh yeah you oh it doesn't yeah that was coming out of a timeout yep so you come out of a timeout and you jump man that hurts even worse Eagles showing Blitz and they bring it stretch to the outside mcups over there and so is Nelson Jace now the third timeout for the Eagles here yep should be I believe that number uh three is signed to Northern Illinois is that where it is Rox yeah I think he just signed a couple days ago nothing big explosive out of like I said earlier it's not a very fancy big offense it's just they just put good plays together like I said earlier they probably only have five six plays they just run it different ways and they had a couple add-ons to uh their counters and whatnot 226 still it's going to be second and 15 from the shell 35 dob comes running on good job I haven't mentioned songs for soldiers we're going to try to get Dustin on next week good concert last weekend and uh another hopefully profitable year I don't know if you'll have those numbers for us next week but I know freshly pressed they did the red shirts they're going to be donating I think it's around $1,500 from the shirt sales so good job by them and another nice donation that Dustin will be getting Dustin and crew will be getting motion man Eagles jump again second and 10 now again out of the timeout yeah that's it's almost unacceptable Eagles are about as deflated as the helmet is over there I never understood that when I mean the football is literally right in front of you just watch it up the middle nothing going third and 12 now they gave him the original line of scrimmage Owen mcky gets the tackle third 72 Dylan Robinson coming off believe do went on approaching 100 seconds left to go in the game this is all but over yeah no timeouts to account for for the Eagles roxan gets a first down here it is over but they're not going to get it ox's going to burn one here boy this has really started to drag here if we jump off sides right here I might walk off this podcast or this broadcast make sure we mute your mic first don't just slam it down thanks for listening once again it just looked we had about 170 viewers last time I looked so thanks for watching I know a lot of the boys they go get together after the game game and uh watch the game on replay and like I said whenever the coaches watch film whenever they watch film it's going to be a lot of disappointment I think had our opportunities to get in the end zone just couldn't do it we can say that all day long and again a different offense or a different team your defense has been the same I feel like the defense has done their job but offense has been what fizzled out that one play that Nelson kind of got beat on on our Sidelines been the only really big play Big yardage play of the game balls on the turf Eagles recover Eagles recover the football okay minute 31 I didn't even see the ball hit the turf but look how they're walking around you just got a huge turnover yep you go a huge turnover and they just walk around you got a chance at wouldn't coming back yet all it takes a score onside kick and another quick score and we're headed to overtime see if we can score quick here empty backfield motion man Nelson guys in motion almost Statue of Liberty nothing going that Statue of Liberty the first time we tried running it too uh whenever we got the touchdown out of it they were very close to having two guys in motion yeah because I think we send we got to get somebody off the field I think yep Bryant's coming off 111 now in the ball game come on Bryant get off the field Bud going to go trips to the right side running back right typically what we line up as when we're going to roll out rolling out to the right side vaguely look deep Chucks it deep he's got Bryant over there at the 5 yd line he's got Bryant for a first down first and goal at the three yd line oh there's Keegan I said Bryant I just watched Bryant run off the field Keegan great play great throw there I go anouncing names wrong out of bounds about one and a half two yd line the corner is a little shaken up and to get back in the play Eagles got to get on the football goes out of bounds though so clock will stop I know you got their the shells on the on their heels a little bit going to go with Cam janick at that wild cat got to get in on this play you have to get in on this play Bryant there we go chanic right side touchdown Eagles said Brian again cam Janet good from about three yards I guess for an Eagles touchdown all right give yourselves a shot here all set up by that huge play vaguely to Keegan Thompson there's those smoke Machines working now I'm not talking early but if you do get that onside kick here and you score I think you go for two I don't think you you win in overtime against an offense like that no but we have everybody out there hopefully all starts with this makes it a seven-point game if he can hit this one good snap good hold kick is up and he's been pretty solid all year Keegan Thompson has been and it's good that takes the Cory Pharmacy scoreboard with 46 seconds to go shells 14 Eagles Seven huge play Keegan Thompson great run cam janick so does he know the difference between a squib and an onside kick here like compared to last week I hope so he said he just missed it last week we were calling for a squib and we had a perfect onite all right down to this kicking off at the 40 ball has to go 10 yards before we can touch it and they can touch it whenever they whenever they want they can bounce off of them at any point we can recover pick it up scoop and score into the end zone that'd be cool wouldn't it yeah hoping for a lot though it's all right you don't have to be good if you're lucky we said that last week right yeah you had a good finish last week we're going to have another good finish tonight give me a crazy bounce right here Keegan put that ball in the air let cam go hit one of those front guys and have your fast guys and jce Nelson and Bryant go down there and try to recover the football Rox needs to scoot up they're about 13 yards come on Keegan onside kick coming get a big bounce get a big bounce get a big bounce get on the ball why do we not pick it up that is exactly what we wanted oh that was perfect that is exactly what we wanted we just didn't go get it recovered by the shells oh my gosh and that's going to do it if you ask for what you want out of an onside kick you just got it that almost went like 12 12 yards Alex like that's what I was just saying they were way back they weren't on the 50 that's what you want and that's where it's going to end though for the Eagles on a great great onside kick that one hurts man Rox they might have to run two plays we'll see what the white hat makes them do 40 seconds they're going to start should be the play clock now and that's going to do it they don't have to run another play play that's going to end tonight's game roxan 14 Columbia 7 Colombia is going to fall to two and two Roxanna improves to three and one roxanna's lining up like they're going to run a play they don't have to going to do it anyways yeah it just hurt his fantasy stats there lost a one oh man what a heartbreaking loss for the Eagles when the Eagles watch film tonight tomorrow Sunday whatever it may be that's going to be a hard one to watch and opportunities glore couldn't get it done like you said earlier ton of yards on the offensive side of the ball just no points to show for it yeah overall I think we got beat up front like we did in week two again tonight um it all starts up front and I think in that first first half we really couldn't get anything I mean we could get stuff going we just once we got inside that 10 yard line we couldn't punch anything in the end zone we had a couple stupid penalties that pushed us back out of the um Red Zone but I mean overall we were right there with them the whole whole time defense played great just couldn't score enough points yeah got to have more points in the other team once again thank you to the sponsors tinies for the food up in the Press Box for all the volunteers Alicia Oglesby last week going to say your name right this time thanks for donating and Matthew Brook with electrod door donated Tequilas this week for the pregame meal Eagles fall 147 Heart Breaker and uh there's just really not too much to say about that one different game than what we saw last week and uh got to recover you got freeberg coming in town next week you know that's going to be a lot of fun and uh it's all we can say here tonight after this week four matchup like I said Eagles fall 2-2 roxan improves to 3- one one and0 in the conference and uh got to go from here that's going to do it for Josh on the camera TJ on the computer Jared and myself we'll bring you week five football in kchs next week Friday night 6:30 pregame show go Eagles baby

e [Music] n [Music] H gets off it's going to go to the left side they kicked it away from vaguely it's going to be picked up by vagle at the 33 he's going to run he's going to get to the 35 he's going to try to make something happen he's got the right side he's got blockers to him in front of him he's going to make one man miss he got himself the sideline he's at 20 he's at the 10 five Eagles touchdown Eagles that's going on no penalties on on the play it is a touchdown for Dominic vagley 67 yards and I can't believe what just happened that's going on my [Applause] [Music] broadcast 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 intense for number four give me that going to be P interception I believe that's J nson give me that game pick it off in the end zone ball game Eagles boy oh boy did we have some fun last week in week three football and it sets us up here for Cahokia conference in week four give me that Jared Eagles survived last week they survived the tornadoes after the hour and 40 minute bus ride had a great night up in Taylorville and it all came down to the one play and the one thing that Jared didn't want he didn't want that Hail Mary to be in the end zone with a game on the line and that's what he got and the Eagles defense stepped up huge yeah it was probably one of our favorite games uh that we've ever called if I'm being honest with you but yeah last week was a fun game up in Taylorville um it was pretty much felt like whoever had the ball last was going to win um but we were lucky enough to get an interception the gim me that at the end of the game there so um great ending to get in the conference play now tonight's broadcast like every broadcast this year is brought to you by the Columbia quarterback Club if you would like to get involved with the Columbia quarterback Club look at for their website Columbia QB club.com there's ways for you to get involved on there if you'd like to donate you can donate and checks are accepted to their po.