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e e e was all right uh Julie let's call the Mee meeting to order please can you do the roll call please Caston Ken Dawson here chosa here Charelle Fuller here Jenny hagstrom here Terry pavich here Don rener here rahan Hashim here and Jason tro here thank you all right thank you having a quum let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance you guys came in I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all all right first order of business is approval of minutes can I get a motion from the Board of Education to approve the minutes of the August 19th 2024 business meeting the August 19th 2024 closed meeting the September 9th 2024 Workshop meeting and the September 9th 2024 closed meeting so move moved second Terry moves Chris seconds thank you Terry pavich hi Chris janosa hi charl Fuller I Jenny hagstrom hi harck Caston hi Ken Dawson hi and Don rener I mocean carries uh item number four reception of visitors Julie do we have any um slips thank you turn it over to you Hank for item number five getting there good evening everyone uh the first one uh board members will remember this from year to year there is an administrative teacher and salary benefit report that must be post on the website every year by a certain date and then we must inform the board that we've done so we have done so all right uh the next one uh we have our two uh associate principles for athletics here this evening uh we're joined by uh Dave Rose who's new to the district and Brandon Murphy who's been with us for the last year and they're going to walk us through two topics this evening uh the first one is a discussion of co-oping boys gymnastics I'll turn it over to these gentlemen here right uh to kind of go further than just the uh the information that's in your packet as well um but this conversation as we looked in some history as Dave as he mentioned Dave is in year one and I'm in year two now within the district uh we looked back at some of the board notes and we saw that this came to the board actually in 2019 as a discussion item and uh since then though there's been a lot of change throughout the state of Illinois with boys gymnastics so if you can see in bullet there one ihsa which is the governing body for All Sports in Illinois for high school no longer sponsors boys gymnastics as an official ihsa sport it's currently classified as an emerging sport um it's listed that with a lot of sports that are actually growing um but this is the first one that we've seen actually go that direction the opposite action but it is currently classified as that and just in case it ever continues to grow back to to the classification for classifications to go to that they're looking for about 10% of the school uh student uh School body in Illinois participation to reach that threshold to become an official sport um last year though was the first year that the iosa did not recognize a state sponsored in in voice gymnastics to have a state series The IH sgca which is the state coaches association did and we have members of our uh District our student body that did participate in the state tournament last year and we're recognized for that it is also we are uh a members of the west of Burman conference and this boys gymnastic is still a sponsored sport within the boys gymn uh within the West ofb Conference uh to do that you have to have over half the schools in our conference that still have that sport so if you have over half the schools that represent that sport then it's considered a conference sport last year you can see in the post here 23 24 four numbers uh at dgs and dgn we see those numbers as as a good as a spot that we still have a participation level that could with a co-op could grow to even more and uh with our staff we could do this in a safe Manner and also be able to participate in multiple levels of where our current athletes skill levels at um we're bringing this also Dave and I with conjunction of already talking and working with our head coaches uh from both schools so they're in favor of this as well this proposal um we believe this would continue to provide opportunities to be meet the threshold of a co-op it has to continue to provide opportunities uh cannot take an opportunity away from anybody uh we believe this could have possibly uh long-term cost savings just for a few things as in maintenance things like that equipment cost over time because You' be facilitating one school instead of two schools for supplying those um and then really it's the appropriate level though of skills and we have a wide range you to be able to take our coaching staff and be able to put uh athletes in the proper skill sets in within that level right now we have some in certain levels but not enough to maybe go to that level so we wouldn't go to that competition which since they just don't go um so that by having a co-op we'd be able to offer an opportunity to more students at a at a better level for them safely uh I just say Co-op so what we're going through at this process any Co-op that is offered through the ihsa which our district already offers multiple co-ops between the two schools in conjunction is always valid for a two-year window so if we approve a co-op it would be good it would go to the ihssa for a final approval even with it being an emerging Sport and that would get become a granted for two years so any questions on I guess boy jymnastics Coop would this have any impact on the number of kids who can participate in the sport would it be a become a cut sport or would all kids who come and try out be find a placement on the team yeah boys gynastics has not traditionally been a cut sport we don't believe this would ever get to that level uh if we got to that level we would probably be recommending to go back to individual School body at that time okay I would say boys gymnastics is a fantastic Sport and um discipline that it teaches perseverance I mean it's just a fantastic sport unfortunately it's being downsized and eliminated from a lot of the universities as well so anything we can do to continue our program I think is fantastic I agree MH we were here a few years ago having the same discussion about girls gymnastics there were a lot of concerns about would this lead to the demise of girls gymnastics would this destroy the program in the district I think the evidence is to the contrary right um and really groom uh you know I I think that uh we've already seen the potential and the opportunities that come with gymnastics being co-opt in this way and you know if it turns around it goes the other way and starts growing to the point where you know it it builds back up again and the numbers are pointing to needing different programs we just come back to the board and talk about a program at each side of a town but uh so far it has worked over in in girls gymnastics I have no reason to believe that we wouldn't be on the same trajectory here with boys MH so since we had it before do we have all the equipment already and do the coaches of the girls so we have coaching I saw and you're think girls coaches coach the boys or who coaches uh they have different staffs we do have members that represent both but they're different seasons and we do have they are fully staffed at this point okay and the equipment is there it's really the long term if there was repair needed for those things but we' be able to combine those and combine if there was that and we do have graduates from Down's Grove South I know um over the past what four or six years that have competed at division one level so there have been talented gy gymnasts that have come out of our schools yes for sure all right so any concerns it's not an action item but it would just be good for Brandon and Dave to know if there was any reservations on the board's part of them moving forward with this process so that if eventually we have a step that ends up back in front of the board uh you know we knew to look into that or to address that concern con er uh as we go through this process yeah I'm fine I don't think so right hearing none fantastic go for it thank keep moving forward gentlemen all right uh s we're going to be here to talk about this and there's been a few board members that wanted just some updates on how our athletic programs are going across the district I figured we'd monopolize their time this evening and have them give uh an update on athletic programs across the district uh so that's next topic and I will click when you guys tell me to uh all right yeah this uh first slide here is just kind of a very general overview of uh the athletic programs at both high schools uh a lot of you probably already know some of this information um but just kind of for the sake of of kind of getting everyone on the same page it's just kind of the broad uh Strokes of of Athletics in in d99 um we're both members of the West Suburban Conference the West bbon Conference is broken up into two um kind of subc conferences uh North as part of the silver uh and South is part of the gold um both schools historically have been very competitive uh had had a lot of success in in their uh respective parts of the conference um and it's it's I mean it's arguably one of the the most stored conferences in the state of Illinois so it's it's I mean it's a great uh great conference to be a part of um and also kind of leaning into that gymnastics it's one of the only conferences that's so recognizes it so it's a it's a great opportunity for for our kids in this area um so we have 58 total sports that are offered uh between the two high schools uh with about 180 teams uh which that includes all the lower levels as well um and those are are broken down into you know depending on what sport it is you could have a JV level um or a sophomore level and then your freshman and freshman a and freshman B levels um so we are supporting uh quite a few programs and and um giv giv students a lot of opportunities and a lot of choices uh in their Athletics uh number of coaches uh we have about 230 coaches uh that are paid um or stiped between the two schools that does not include volunteers um doesn't include you know game workers things like that um just goes to show just the sheer number of individuals that are involved in supporting these programs uh whether it is directly coaching uh or helping us manage events and and things like that um facility management is just listed in there obviously we've done a great deal of work uh the last year or so um in updating the facilities uh and it's a great um emphasis for our coaches athletes um I mean we've gotten a lot of feedback from parents and and all stakeholders that that have seen those those boards the fields and all that so um it's it's a big emphasis for us and and um a point of Pride for for both programs um emerging Sports uh we we just mentioned um kind of gymnastics there uh as listed as an emerging sport some other sports that are heading in the opposite direction um as far as increasing numbers and and increasing popularity um in the conference uh is boys bowling um so just just kind of mentioned it there just to kind of get it on your radar that uh boys bowling is growing in in specifically the the West Suburban Conference uh as well as girls flag football um this one was just approved last year and it is skyrocketing uh in in popularity typically when a sport kind of breaks through that emerging sport into an approved sport uh it typically takes a couple years for a lot of schools to kind of adopt it um I think the best example would be lacrosse within recent memory where um you know you had a handful of schools that that adopted it and then throughout the course of several years um it's it's consistently grown uh girls flag football is it's exceeding that in initial popularity so uh that is an emerging sport um in Illinois as well as the West Suburban Conference and and we've obviously gotten some questions and some interest uh within d99 too so just wanted to highlight that um we do plan on sending out a a d99 student interest survey it's something that's been done in the past just to kind of gauge you know what our students are thinking about uh we anticipate that in that survey that that uh fight football is going to be uh highlighted on there um so we'll we'll be sending that out probably in October um and and get those numbers and kind of go from there when we look at the emerging Sports one thing that the Board needs to be aware of is there's been quite a a number of emerging SP sports for women that have shown up in the last few years and girls flag football football is another component in there where you see boys gymnastics dropping off uh we're going to need some male Sports to fill in to keep that equality across the two genders in the the number of offerings that we have uh so just something that we'll be keeping a close eye on in the coming years does it need to be offerings or does it need to be number of participants no it's it's off opportunities that we have well if you go with the flag girls flag football would bowling boys bowling be the emerging thing that you could balance it with it could be although at the same time we have boys gymnastics fall although we maintain it as a sport falling out of ihsa so maintaining that helps us keep an equal number of opportunities but it's something we keep a close eye on as we look at emerging Sports and well for the first time I it's an emerging sport but it's a a change in status for boys gymnastics yeah I just say list right now about a dozen emerging Sports um and some have are close to the like becoming an actual sponsor sport and some have been on the list for decades and haven't really gr taken off that's kind of where Dave was alluding to how flag has rapidly grown within a two threee window unprecedent that we haven't seen another another Sports in the past mhm where where did Sports emerge from do they emerge from other high schools in the country or the college level down or is it all over place it's a combination a lot of times it is top down where you'll see it at the Collegiate level and then sometimes it's opposite sometimes it's youth up so you see it on both ends a different ways um girls flag is now a Collegiate level sport too and they kind of did this in hand in hand and in a lot of conjunction with the NFL um so you saw a lot of support from the Chicago Bears in Illinois as in others other pro professional teams in other states as well and they really help get get the sport off the ground mhm okay cool uh so I get the privilege to talk about our coaches and some of the expectations we have uh for our coaches um we see Athletics not as really an extra but really A co-curricular as as strictly a um an extension of that classroom uh coaches that coach at a high school level have to be uh follow a lot of guidelines and follow a lot of policies and starting with our own so you'll see we have a coach's handbook that is um also in like our employee handbook then our coaches have a specific one too and a lot of those mirror a lot of the things that are listed in our core values itself um such as effective communication what does a student uh relationship look like as a secure relationship we want every one of our coaches to work with our athletes so the athletes feel like they're seen safe secure supported these are the things that we we talk to them about as well and that they're using the proper channels to communicate not only with their athletes but also with their families community members things of that nature uh besides our own local handbooks that we work with and it really this was a great year it was the first time that um I think maybe in our district definitely recently big part was that Dave and I are both within first two years uh but this year uh we had to kick off the school year with an all District 99 coaches meeting uh usually we have our own individual one but we put all coaches for North and South in the same room and went through a very clear message from a district level uh kind of going through those District level policies not maybe building specific but things that they would be we would like to you know make sure we're adhered to from that District lens as well so that that was a great kickoff and a great way to kind of start the school year and go and some of those are just a lot of them are reminders and review some things besides our own policies every coach has to go through the ihsa guidelines they have to go through testing each year as well as meet the standard to what a high school coach can be so they either have to have a coach's license or be a certified teacher um and then each year have to reup some some protocols well they all have concussion testing performance en enhancing drugs hate speech these are all just some of the parameters that coaches go through as well uh and then we have our own conference we mentioned before the westurban conference just last year was in its 100th year of being a conference so it's the one of the most established conferences in Illinois and one of the longest standing with the amount of the pro uh schools that had not left the conference and stayed stable those conferences in each sport we have our own guidelines so if you're whatever coach you are for that sport besides the coaching guidelines you have to be able to understand your own specific Sports guidelines as well and adhere to those as well um prior to all that but besides just our conference our state our our our handbook we have obviously regular preseason meetings as all coaches meet with their counterparts within the conference and go through and have a preseason and a postseason meeting in case they want any changes within the sport within the conference as well so they advocate for our school and represent our school in the conference meetings in those pre and postseason meetings in conjunction with Dave and I as we go to our our monthly meetings and and speak on the behalf of the conference from our district as well and then uh we asked every coach to also have a preseason parent meeting and our Guardian meeting and and we're always a lot of times we're a major part of that as well so that's that's a lot with our coaches big part of though is that they're this is uh that extension from the classroom uh next portion here is obviously the most important part the athletes um so with the athletes and and we stole this kind of subtitle here from from South uh building on tradition and forging the future um which again kind of highlights the uh that Athletics are again an extension of the classroom it's everything that we value um educationwise in d99 and how can Athletics go and be um an extension of that and improve those skills and retach those skills and and all that so um the students much like the the co coaches um have a lot of of rules and regulations that that they um are expected to follow the biggest one is the d99 student code of conduct uh every athlete 247 365 um needs to abide by those by those rules and those uh those regulations um if if they do violate the code of conduct there are consequences um it is a pretty lengthy process um involves obviously counselors teachers um it involves Us in in just kind of making sure that if there is um a slip up that we address that uh that they learn from it and that they can take the appropriate steps with support from everyone involved to to uh to improve um they also need to meet ihsa eligibility requirements um that is primarily academic requirements uh they're required to pass 25 credits um during the course of a semester uh they have to um have 25 credits at the end of each semester if they don't meet that requirement uh then they are in um ineligible um so there's um 29 different sports uh that that our athletes again can choose from uh we feel that you know we we do a great job of of providing those opportunities for our students and we're continuing to look for those opportunities which is again highlighted by the fact that um you know we're looking into these emerging Sports and seeing if there are other opportunities for them uh and then taking a look at these surveys and things like that to see if there's something that that were missing that the students would be would be interested in getting involved in um and then uh community Outreach there so uh as far as fundraising uh with our individual programs uh there is a portion that's tagged on to that if they are going to be reaching out to community members and doing some fundraising of their own uh there is a uh a kind of a a philanthropy aspect to that as well so it's a way for our athletes to kind of give back to the community um and that's I've seen that take in my my short time it's taken um several several different shapes I mean they've done stuff around the school I know some do stuff around the community um it's just again a way to say thank you and and give back and and really get involved with the community um and then of course the the benefits of being an athlete and I think this is universal regardless of what what school you're at um it provides leadership opportunities um it leads to success in the classroom you obviously have additional um eyes on you it's the coach the athletic director um it's the ihsa requiring uh that that you meet the grade requirement so there's just an additional level of support for our student athletes um provides postgrad opportunities and then again um connecting to to the school and the community in ways that that um you know you might not otherwise be able to um without uh without Athletics any questions for uh Dave or Brandon thank you both for being here this evening but hopefully this provides an overview of our programming questions that you have for them have you seen just in in sports like do you look at trending kind of year to year and see like if if a sport is really growing dramatically over the course of a couple years or declining and do you like any examples of that like what are some of the sports that might be growing most at each of the schools or declining and yeah we we we see this at a um kind of Statewide level um most of the sports that are offered at the 29 sports are offered here we fill almost every single level that's a conference level at both schools so our our numbers have been very stable uh within the district but there are some sports that we've trended with with our opponents within the conference or within other schools that we compete with that may not have all the lower levels so if we're competing at four levels they might be only competing at two or three and then we need to go find another opponent that week when we're playing them for that other third or fourth level and that happens and sometimes it's that's a little tricky every once in a while to go find just one level out of one other team but um so it is a few Sports over time that have done that but I the trending is kind of in that emerging level um boys gymnastics was in that difficult spot and um and that's kind of where we're at with them right now but um I think overall between the two schools that I've seen so far in the competitions we're pretty we're pretty stable with our numbers yeah and we we do get registration numbers at the end of every season and then we can look at those at the end of every year too just to kind of see year in and year out what sports you know maybe dropped a couple athletes what are what are gaining a couple athletes and then um you know sometimes it's just any given class of students maybe just dropped a little bit in interest and then in another two years you'll see it go up again um but then I mean sometimes you do see a trend where you know 10 years ago maybe you had 100 kids and then all of a sudden now you're down to to 20 and those those registration numbers kind of give us an idea of um just like to speak specifically I know in our in this District I know a lot of growth has been in volleyball so girls volleyball has grown greatly in the last decade all over the place but we've seen it here as well so we added we've added a coaching member we've added we've added staff we've had we F fill every level so these are things that I think we've seen girls volleyball is taking a big increase I'd like to say I think um d99 Athletics is something that we all should be very proud of in our community we definitely have one of the elite programs in the state of Illinois um you know the positive impact Athletics has on our students is immeasurable both success in the classroom leadership teamwork it breaks down a lot of the barriers that Society puts on each other and the athletes are like brothers and sisters and it's it's really a very um special thing uh in addition to that I'd like to highlight we have two down Grove South alumni one who competed in the Summer Olympics in track and field and another who is currently a member of the Chicago Bears not to mention we have have numerous athletes who uh have earned division one scholarships every year so it's something that we really should take pride in and I thank you guys and all the coaches for everything you do you left out the Downers Grove North alumni who is a member of the um Buffalo Bills there we go it's endless and North High par Olympian right yes yes so with that White Sox and we there's another South with the Yankees too so it's very impressive and and currently in track and field and cross country we have athletes both men and women which are top in the country which is amazing yes appreciate that I think too you know one of the benefits of having you here um is to maybe talk let you tell us about some things that might be some pain points or things that maybe you're that you struggle with um we've been discussing facility rentals a little bit you might have some comments on you know things like that or when you know how how you feel about I'm too new to complain I'll just say I'll just say I I am a I am a swimming Advocate and I know that there's a lot of Sometimes some pain points around both pools um so you know there's there there's a lot that's been put into our facilities um but there's probably things that you might need too and this this would be the time to say it I I appreciate that offer um and I'll will take you up on if I if I get to that point um I came from a a previous employment that we had a swim team without a pool so I'm very grateful for all the things we have in this district and all the things that were just provided in the last in the last uh cycle and that are continuing to be developed so I know there's discussions that going to continue and then we're lucky to be a part of those so we'll continue to be a part of those appreciate it and the rental aspect the direction that we're going with with rentals and and growing those I think is it's great as far as uh a community outreach aspect and giving our kids access to our facilities before they're even at the high school level um but obviously there's growing pains with that and it's additional stressors on the facilities but I think the benefits of that outweigh some of those costs and pools it's a great opportunity for kids there's always regardless of what school you're at the the pools are there's there's hidden hidden cost to maintain oh they're not so hidden I yeah yeah how are the uh both the coaches and athletes enjoying the new digital scoreboards the new astro turf fields the new tracks I've gotten a lot of lot of positive feedback from from both all those members right all those stakeholders from community members that come up and discuss those and then uh we're getting ready to have Homecoming this weekend so we're excited about to Showcase that off this is only our second second home event so we're outside inside we got one right now so uh both a lot of our teams have made highlight kind of hype videos to really uh showcase off those boards and really make themselves Visual and um it's it's real exciting cool great yeah um when my daughter started High School um she immediately joined the cross country team and that experience um helped with the transition from Junior High to high school immediately she was surrounded by upper classman who would invite her after practice to go to Culver's when she's 14 or 15 years old and can't even ride in a car with friends um that kind of experience just backs up what you're talking about as being a co-curricular um it it is an extension of the classroom and the things that she's learning in being a part of a team um taking on leadership roles as a captain it's it's just as important in my mind as everything that she's learning in the classroom so I Echo your sentiments and I applaud you for um saying that tonight um another point that I'd like to raise with you is is the importance of solidifying relationships with um the um local clubs and athletic teams at the junior level um whether it be soccer swimming lacrosse football basketball um partnering with those organizations who are sending their kids to our high schools and having our coaches at North and South develop relationships with those with those clubs um and even potentially sharing some of the same philosophical ways of how to coach um could bring um ex you know fantastic benefits at the high school level that I think would both benefit the Junior programs and our high school programs so um I would just ask that you guys keep that in mind I'm sure you're already looking at that um but I think that's really important um and I'm going to I'm going to ask you again cuz Jenny asked you I'm going to ask you again I'm going to put you on the spot um do you you know Brandon you've been here a little over a year David you've only been here a few months um so it may be premature for both of you but what do you what do you guys see as the strengths that we have here at District 99 with regard to Athletics and is there anything that you feel that there are weaknesses as as far as how we approach Athletics are we doing anything not you know that isn't supporting you know Athletics uh I'd really like to hear some comments it doesn't have to be all Rosy tonight that's okay I got you um really what you just said means a lot about the connections and that's the work that we're kind of really working on uh I know that's coming up in future board meetings that's why I was going to let that kind of happen naturally sure but um that work is a passion I think of of all of ours that we see as as a benefit as well those those connections with with the feeder programs or youth programs however you want to word those out uh with our staff with our community with our school um the connection you you mentioned about your daughter starting as a freshman that can just start earlier not guaranteeing anything but they feel comfortable walking in a building they there's Pride already established at a at a youth age that when they walk in they feel very very at home and we want to just start that earlier so that's something I wouldn't say is a pinch point or a hurt point but something that I know that's been working on and we're real excited about as a future possible outcome uh what is our strengths is our people uh we have some amazing amazing coaches that um that are there night and day all week all the time I've been in a lot of places been around a lot of sports and our coaching staff are very very dedicated um I I live in the community I see this I see them in the community working even uh in their craft and I also my my children will go to go to this District um and I see it on both in both schools the amount of work that the coaching staff put in and that's not uh that's not always the case at every school they're this they're they're they're passionate about what they do um that's more than just their job they don't think of his job they this is who they are this what they do this what they love so I say that is our strength our students um then learn that as freshman or hopefully you know sooner they come in they fall in love with it that passion starts with dealing within them and that's why you're seeing as you mentioned some of the greatest success in the state and even National levels CU these some of our student athletes are taking all this and and running with it literally so I think if there's anything to work on it's just building those connections continuing that making sure that's our Focus here's one uh great connection since we're talking about gymnastics right here in Don's Grove we have Premier Gymnastics which is um fantastic world class program and on both the men's and women's level and they produced numerous division one athletes as well as someone who competed in the Olympics uh recently so that is a great uh opportunity for a possible connection yes I I have a son and I have a son and daughter that are at that gym right now as we speak oh wow I completely is aware I'm very aware about Premier there's uh as Dave mentioned and we're the one of the last conferences has almost every member school that still has gymnastics because of the historical value of the sport and in our in our conference um so as you're seeing in our area it is still here it is still present in our communities it's just Statewide you saw some drop off but that's why we we're still advocating to offer it as a within the district great great I I just wanted to add kind of based on what Don and Don and um and oh gosh I'm thinking can't get your name here I wanted to say that it's um important to with you guys coming in I know we're asking about what is working what isn't working you guys bring an embedded base because you came you know a different background than being here for a long period of time please um feel free to share too any best practices as you guys come into the role there are things you know that were happening or you've experienced or just we we want to hear those kind of things too I know we're doing a lot of things right and but as you know what's happening in athletics and if there's changes or just thoughts we we welcome all that too it doesn't have to be just centered around kind of um here bring your outside experiences to weeks up that and then the next thing I wanted to share is that to piggy back off done my daughter started cross country too she started prior to coming you know as a entering freshman and it was an amazing experience for her her as well I actually probably help cross country cuz any parent that stops me as they're talking about their kid becoming an entering freshmen and they're like I don't know what should you know I I tell them all about cross country and experience and the fact that my daughter had the opportunity to develop friendships like you said well upper classman and she felt comfortable like these were people that she you know had something in common with and she didn't wasn't treated like she's you know I'm a freshman I can't hang out with those guys so that is really um something that I think that we do a great job at I had a parent call me talk to me about an income her her daughter was transferring and in as a junior and I talked to her about you know what she could do because obviously she didn't have the opportunity to have friends for two years here already so um all great stuff yeah so thanks Jen and I know when we start the school year we we meet with every student pretty much uh all incoming fresh and everyone that's the first message anybody that's walks into any school gets is get involved um whether that's Athletics which we hope for in a lot of ways but that doesn't for everyone and then there's activities as well so we we try to make sure that they're involved and we ask for two things at least get involved with two different things we like you to be in activity and Athletics if possible but not be in two of them um and you see that in our numbers as well and if your to your question of is is it's kind of been repeated of of what else can we do or what's best practices I Blown Away with the strength as well is the fact that you asked that question that we we're always looking to evolve here and that's that's one of our our mission statements and we're right in there and our values um we're we're not just status quo and we're just going to do what we did last year because that that work it's always what can we do better take those best practices and grow from there so actually one last thing if I can add just like a paino that I do here so my daughter is a senior and I think there are certain sports like cross country and others that are no cuts that you can participate but I I know other senior parents you know kids will play for example volleyball um and the teams get smaller and smaller as you get older and so I do have friends whose kids have been playing a sport for you know more than high school perhaps and then they get to senior year and and they get cut from the team because it's small so like I don't know what the solution to that is but it's a difficult time to like pivot and you know you're so used to having an after school activity so I don't know if there's any conversation around that but I just we've had a few people come to the board over that it it is a topic um and I feel grateful my daughter's on a no cut Sport and that wasn't her experience but I don't know if if that's something you experiened you do you talk to parents about that or is there any solution to that I don't know I just that is one that I hear from my peer senior parents about yeah that is uh tryy out week for the sports that have actual triy outs is the hardest week of the of the year um we have conversations with the families coaches do with the athletes it's a it's a difficult process a lot of it is is because of levels or facilities and constraints it's not just on numbers it's there isn't just where it's at and the spacing a lot of times too so but it's it's a something we don't we take we don't take lightly it's a it's a process that's that could be very difficult and we know that somebody could been doing this a long time but we want to offer a lot of things though and that's why that's why we have a lot of different opportunities for them as well yeah I will Echo that that it is the coaches worst day of the year if they are in a cut sport um especially when I mean cuz these coaches are they throw their entire lives into their programs and into the kids um so when you have like in in your um example when you have a a kid that's been in program for three years they're going to be a senior coming into your program um and you're trying to do what's best to try and put the program in in you know a good position um and unfortunately you're kind of backed against the wall and and you have to cut that player that you've developed that relationship with that you know is is just as passionate as you are about that sport um it's a incredibly difficult decision to make um and they do I mean no coach is cutting a player unless they absolutely have have no other choice um but it is a conversation we have um and um like Brandon said it's it's why we offer so much it's it's so and like you said senior year is tough to to redirect and go towards something else but you know hopefully it's you know there's an opportunity in another sport or another another club or another activity that we offer that that you can go and and and cut or non-cut or is it equal or like are most sports non cut or most cut is it a equ mix it's a mix it's a mix um you know this end this we're about we're kind of getting close to the end of The Fall season as well so I don't know but see you mentioned senior it's tough even at the end of the season cuz a coach has to make a decision that week and that's hard but 97% High school athletes at the end of this season if you're a senior and this is your last season as fall only about 3% of athletes continue on to the next level um in any in any way U and about 1% are actually getting financial aid in in in capacity so it's very rare uh we're seeing a higher percentage of that in our district uh but it is something that as coaches even these last games these State series it's an emotional ride all the way through their whole their whole journey so it's something that we understand very well can you talk a little bit about how you um like determine how many coaches are needed especially in the no cut Sports when you don't do you know if you don't have a sense until possibly registration if you're going to have 30 kids or 60 kids if you need an additional coach yeah how is that how is that determined um for the no cut Sports a lot of times it is trending we have summer camps we have things like that so we kind of have have an idea what's coming in those relationships benefit that too a lot but we do have a process if if if U if a program needs an additional stien or additional coach that we work that process through a coach has to Advocate and show show that data show those points which if it is a lot of growth rapidly that's very easy to show um and then we can demonstrate and take that up up to the next level to get approvals or not um and then some sports it just depends on spacings may eventually have to become a cut sport if it had to be but but traditionally non- Cuts stay non-cut but I mean if you had like 30 people in one season and then suddenly 50 You' see me advocating for a couple extra coaches away I don't there hard is it hard to fill you know cuz these aren't these aren't long seasons is it hard to some some are um some we we're we're lucky here we have a lot of of of staff that are either capable within our within our buildings um or we have volunteers maybe already on staff that if there was an opportunity and they and we needed them they they could jump in more regularly um so I think we've been able to do it here so far I'm a year two but so far I've seen these things um traditionally though numbers growth things like that are are really pretty patterned we rarely see that like a flag would be really rapid that was something that had taken off um and same with opposite if numbers shrink for some reason we would evaluate those staffs at that time as well so it kind of works both ways yeah and I I think just going to the the question that was asked a few times as far as you know what additional support there could be um this is I think the same at every school you're at um we're talking about how athletes getting involved whether it's sports or clubs or whatever it might be makes them better in the classroom uh gives them a better experience I think the same is true for coaches um and I think or teachers rather I think teachers that are invested in the school outside of the classroom whether that's being a a sponsor for a club or being a coach um I think a lot of times you see not only are they better teachers but um I think a lot of your best coaches are also teachers um just because they are so closely related um they're building those relationships with the kids in the classroom and then after school um and it's something in again I've only been here a very short time but it is very apparent in d99 that there are a lot of coaches that teach in the buildings um not only that there are a lot of teachers that live in the community um and I think that goes a long way in building successful programs um not just wins but just those great experiences I mean cross country and and track have had a lot of success but also they're great programs that kids just enjoy being a part of um and I think having community members and teachers that are also involved in in clubs and sports um is a huge part of that so uh it's kind of a something that I think is is already a strong point but I think it is something that that should continue to be kind of highlight highlighted when when we're looking at um you know coaches and teachers and and that all right any other questions for Dave or Brandon no but I I think uh the amount of questions and interest uh maybe uh call for not necessarily a uh twice a year but maybe once a year for them to come back and Report would be a good thing in the future I this being my second set on the board I can't remember the athletic directors ever coming in my first stent on the board uh so I really appreciate you guys coming here tonight um the board is interested in athletics and does see as it as an as an extension of the classroom so um we're very glad to get an update from the two of you and uh hopefully we'll see you back sometime maybe next year uh to give us a update on how things are going we'll be back second semester for reporting on our strategic plan stuff so yeah that be that's great yeah and it's related to you know the student involvement and numbers and all that so so it'll kind of fit in okay what we're talking about and vice versa there's anything specifically you want us to talk about please let us know too okay thank you all right make sure you guys have nothing going on in the buildings and would like to stick around the whole evening but thank you for being here you're both welcome to head out thank you thanks guys thank you thank you appreciate you all right uh the next one is Scots and this is an action item uh this evening yeah so the state of Illinois is and isby is um Gathering more specific data around Bowling and harassment and so um we made some internal code changes um so it's not affecting the consequences or or that it's just really as you see it um just breaking it down into more categories and you can also notice on there that they're looking to gather information on um you know the Cyber aspect um of bullying and harassment so um you could see all the code changes that we're proposing Implement and Scott this doesn't change our practices just our recording way we record it so we can report it is so um you know once upon a time I did practice in school law um not anymore but um some of these could be done offsite right um like C harassment sure um can we discipline students for actions that occur outside of school um we can if there's a Nexus back to the school so something happens outside of school say for like cyberbullying and it it causes A disruption and is affecting the school then yes we can okay so we're very cautious though in identifying where those things do create an Nexus and we recog recogniz that we are not the social media police the police are the social media police right and uh there are people in the community that wish we were and are looking for us to be that solution for their child's online experience and that's part of the reason we've been communicating to staff or to families to start this year of like parents need to be aware of what's going on there and if it's happening out in that space it's parents and the community need to to to supervise that space we are when it crosses into our our environment but we are not the primari primary Defenders of the social media space what about um on these does AI come into play because I just saw a big U segment on the news tonight about um where they take people's faces and put them on AI bodies and you know I mean that's really frightening that would fall under the same category like what you're seeing there it would either fall under some kind of harassment or cyber harassment you know that type of a a piece if it's somehow connected back into the school environment right so I mean cyber bullying is bullying right and harassment or bullying using AI or any other technology it still just I mean it comes back to bullying harassment you know however we segment that out it isn't allowed right regardless of which tool you are using to harass somebody is really Irrelevant in the whole scheme of things right if it's harassment it's harassment whether you do it writing on a piece of paper or posting on an online Message Board is irrelevant from the whole of we're responding to that as if it's harassment okay have we gotten to the point where we have we're um entering any information about Ai and our uh Communications I know as your mentioned falls under you know cyber um bully and a cyber harassment a um AI but are we are we at a point where we're having to talk about that from any perspective in our technology yeah we we talk about it you know on our administrative team we've done some professional development in the building with our staff on it um but like you said it is just it's technology right it's you know uh so we we don't have anything that calls it out specifically but it would fall underneath the existing policies as they are it was actually mentioned at the um curriculum night for the I went to the senior parent one and they were talking about applying to colleges and they actually not specific to d99 but they talked about you can use AI to start your application but when you to write your essay or whatever but you know you need to finalize it by so I feel like some teachers are doing a good job of kind of incorporating it right like so that was one example recently that's a perfect example even in using it for you know for good yeah writing your your essays and things like but anyway I digress I just thought I'd ask about it in the way of this yeah all right any other questions for Scott all right like our other changes uh just procedurally so the board's aware the way that the student handbook works is it is officially board policy we are allowed to update it in real time and then take it to the board for approval right if we see a change that we need to do to respond to something so I believe Scott this is already existing in the online already updated we have updated the online policy now the board is bringing in line their approval of those updates if in the future we ever reached a spot where right now you were like no right we'd have to roll back this isn't one of those cases but I just take this as an opportunity to emphasize our procedures and protocols and how the student handbook works so tonight we'll ask you to approve that and then that technically that online handbook comes in line as board policy and when there are changes that impact consequences or whatever we obviously communicate that to students right yeah this one is more of a proced thing behind in the background so all right uh tenative budget uh we've been talking about this for the last kind of eight weeks with the board um jury apologizes that she can't be here this evening uh we as a board changed the date of the meeting remember so we wouldn't have backtack in September she had already had a vacation plan so was uh she chose that over us at my encouragement so uh but as she has been keeping the board updated over the last several weeks Tammy is also here to answer any questions if if you have them uh this is the overview of what we've already communicated to the board right uh and including the last several meetings we end up with a projected deficit of is primarily caused by the state reduction in uh corporate personal oh come on Tammy what's the personal property replacement tax thank you I always stumble on that acronym uh so that reduction was obviously we projected a 14% has been shared it came in at 30 32.6 yeah 32.6 which was an additional reduction of $367,000 plus uh to to get rid of the original deficit we projected we made the reductions listed there technology outplaced tuition Communications Transportation uh so we end up with that overall deficit uh projected of 29 or uh greater than the original projected number uh we are continuing to reinforce with uh employees throughout the District of the ways that we can you know make decisions reduce that with things like electrical use Transportation decisions purchases uh printing a whole bunch of different ways that we can chip into that over the course of the year we anticipate through that and other administrative decisions that we will close that deficit number over the course of the Year barring any unexpected changes um but we're asking the BR the board tonight to approve uh that deficit of $55,850 which puts our fund balance at a projected 6.1% at the end of the year which is well above the board mandated threshold of 3% uh there's a couple of slides in here to go into details uh I'll turn it over to Tammy to see if there if there's any questions you can ask them of Tammy as we move through these next couple of slides uh otherwise we will then open a public hearing for anybody that wishes to comment on the budget after this presentation so returning revenues I don't think anything in here has changed significantly other than cppt uh board has seen this before any questions in slides here a reminder the big reduction is obviously interest rates you've already seen federal rate change on that we're doing Tammy and jeree have taken measures to try to protect those interest earnings already this year uh but we do project that would be a reduction there's nine cuts Federal 8 is obviously reducing wither funds going away and funds from the the pmic any questions on revenues no okay then returning from before expenditures have been adjusted within there with those items that I outlined earlier uh you can see the biggest reduction is capital outlay because we moved some of those projects into summer projects using those Bond proceeds otherwise things stay pretty close to what we expected questions on any of the expenditure no hearing none uh fund balance this is what represents that deficit you see there at the 455 8.40 in the tenative budget that overall reduction in the fund balance ends up at uh total fund balance at the end of this year project rejected at 6.1% uh you can see that we do have a significant deficit in the educational fund but we do have surpluses in other areas you will see us making adjustments when we come to you with the proposals for the levy in December January that amount of time to try to equalize those funds moving forward or those funding accounts moving forward uh are there any questions here on on balances Tammy on the budgeted revenues the 114 879 number and I was just comparing that to the page one Revenue budget of where it seems to show 115 134 now can you explain the discrepancy there between the 115 134 and the 114 879 it's not huge where was the4 um fund balances operating funds one more I think yeah so revenues is saying 114 879 projected for budget but when I compare that to the revenues on page one it's 115 134 uh cuz on if you go to the fund balance tab that 255 um working cash below the 114 mhm oh two of those total yes okay so you're pulling out the working cash Revenue When comparing it against expenditures mhm yeah because there's no expenditures in there okay hold on Tammy you got put on the spot what is a working cash revenue is that just interest on the working cash okay okay thanks well I'm glad you were here Tammy it would Tak me a while to find that one any other questions on this I would just reiterate what we talked about last time for the Public's benefit is that instead of attempting to uh take away from our expenditures and potentially make cuts um we've decided to adopt a budget that shows um uh a little bit of a negative balance but we're going to work very hard through the school year to try and uh diminish miate that you know that shortfall to the best we can while still properly maintaining our fund balances well above our policies so I feel comfortable moving forward with this budget personally absolutely all right thank you uh one more thing uh per state law we are required when we talk about the budget to present to the board and to the public what our cash balances were as of the end of the last fiscal year those are on display for you here um I think that meets our requirement I correct Tammy so um the only thing I will say is that uh these fund balances include the tax money we received in um May and June um we defer some of that tax money that's why the differences from what you were seeing in the previous slide with the fund balances uh at the beginning of the year are different from that so that's the main difference in District 99 we try not to spend the money until we have it so that's why the numbers look different Not a Bad Thing to practice yeah wish the government would do that all right uh so uh with that uh we can move move on to the public hearing after okay um do we have any slips or do we have any members of the public okay we still technically have to call the hearing um so I'm going to open up a public hearing to receive public comments on the 2024 2025 tentative budget um seeing that we have no public participation um I will then close the public hearing on close it we'll need a motion to close Okay um can I get a motion from the Board of Education to close the public hearing on the 2024 2025 tentative budget so moved second Terry moves K seconds thank you very much Terry pavich hi Ken Dawson hi Chris Espinosa hi cherl Fuller hi Jenny hagstrom hi Eric Caston I and down Runner I motion carries okay moving on to item number just I have update the board that thank you for that uh for Freedom of Information requests we have received them updated them and they're available on the website okay okay sounds good um item number seven of the consent agenda before the board votes on the consent agenda is there any agenda item a board member would like to pull out of the consent agenda for further discussion hearing none um can I get a motion from the Board of Education to approve the consent agenda as presented which includes a personel report appointment certified transfer position classified appointment exempt and appointment classified B Personnel report retirement certified resignation classified C August Financial Pages d student trips e acceptance of donation uh Jerry SMC from t99 and F settlement agreement so moved second Terry moves 10 seconds Tre pavich I Ken Dawson I CHR Espinosa I charl full hi Jenny hagstrom I Cara Caston I and Don rener I motion carries and a huge thanks to Jerry for that donation yeah yeah item number eight recommendations for Action um can I get a motion for the Board of Education to adopt the 2024 2025 budget as presented so moved second uh continuing theme Terry mooves and Ken seconds thank you Terry pavich I Ken Dawson hi Chris Espinosa hi charl Fuller I Jenny hagstrom I car Caston I and Don Runner I motion carries uh item number B can I get a motion for the Board of Education to approve changes to the student parent head book discipline code so moved Chris moves second Cara seconds you just miss I'm done hi thank you cara Caston hi Ken Dawson hi cherro Fuller hi Jenny hagstrom hi Trey pavich I and Don rer I motion carries item number nine do we have any old business uh yes uh returning our uh the policy committee report recommendations this is the second reading of policies for the ones projected on the board uh these all were reviewed by the policy committee uh came to the full board at our last board meeting uh I have not received any feedback or comments or recommended changes on these these are all all emerging from press recommended changes uh and it is the administration's recommendation that the board approves these revisions this evening any questions this evening yeah this is second reading okay do we do you need a motion yep I need a motion for the board to approve the policies as presented okay um can I get a motion from the Board of Education to approve the policies as presented so moved second Chris moves was 10 seconds for you Chris Espinosa hi Ken Dawson cherro Fuller hi Jenny hagstrom hi Tre pavich hi carck haston hi and Don rener I motion carries item number 10 any new business no new business item number 11 um Julie do we have any slips from visitors no sir thank you item number 12 um Jenny can we get an update on lend please oh Cara's gonna do it right Cara so we went to the um kickoff meeting for the year um I did have some notes uh sorry um we had updates on um ebf which stands for evidence based funding okay and they talked about the four tiers um and a representative typically a superintendent from each tier School kind of gave an overview of what that funding means to that tier we are tier one correct tier four we're tier four okay sorry about that um then we got some other updates on um hot topics busing certifying uh bus drivers and keeping them in districts they don't go take other jobs um a few other topics and then we broke out into groups with elected officials and heard about their kind of agenda for the year I think that was the high points yep okay sassad I don't think Charelle has had a meeting yet we had one with the Chris Chris is CHR Chris now I'm getting lost sorry no that's my fault uh not since the budget passed last month you have one coming up though right I think um I think so yeah yeah because you'll have to approve the final yeah budget so uh we met last week uh with the group of superintendents this more of the managing board uh you know they're off to a good start to start their school year um they're they're kind of lagging behind uh in Staffing like we were the last few years where we've been able to kind of get away from Outsourcing pair of professionals they're still needing to Outsource a great number of them so that's an area that they're looking to close their gaps in new executive director getting up and started um so you know it's like a a new superintendent in the school district right so a lot of finding out what's going on around the district and moving forward but they they're off to a pretty good start uh eles so that's kind of what we heard last week Terry can we get a update from the foundation yeah um uh we uh were discussing the grant rollout um and it went well uh the first deadline is the end of the month so if anybody wants to turn in anything I guess I'm speaking to the um to the staff um the end of the month and we're also talking about um future ideas for the Mark McDonald fund um we're trying to figure out exactly what to do with that um uh we didn't raise as much money as we thought we would and um we're still going to try to raise more money but uh we've got to figure out what to do with that once we get some and and then uh we had a a meeting with Hank to talk about things that the district might need and uh what kind of projects were in the in the works that we can help with and um so it gave us some ideas and we're going to be hashing that around um in the October meeting so that's it thank you Jerry Ken any updates from my ASP yeah there and we're having there going to be two exciting events this fall in a ASB the first being on Wednesday October 30th the D division meeting and that's going to be held at the Carlile in Lumbard and it's a great opportunity for us to meet our peers and network and I'm hoping that we'll have good representation from our board I know I'm planning on attending and I'm sure Terry is and hopefully other board members will as well and then in November we have our joint annual conference which is the whole state getting together for networking meeting people conferences training it's a outstanding event this is only my second one but uh definitely looking forward to it as I'm sure all of us board members are so it's exciting times and uh tying back to a topic this evening on the October uh 30th meeting the focus will be Ai and its impact on education so it it's well worth umer and we would like to see as many people uh from our board come to that meeting so please please put that on your calendars and let Julie know um because it's really important that we keep this going preliminary notes right Julie remind me I I got a little lost said what you were talking about car the car October 30th Wednesday October 30th at 6:00 okay it's in preliminary notes if you want to look back I think I RSVP for it but I just want to be you're supposed to attend in costume sh I'm going to be a butterfly that's a good that's my middle child's 35th birth day thanks Ken uh any report on the downers grow plan commission cherelle at this point I do so I had the opportunity to attend the September 16th meeting because we didn't have our meeting that night so there are a couple public hearings there was one for a p petition seeking approval for special use for trade school so I thought that was pretty interesting and timely for me coming to U being there that night and hearing that um they're interested in in pra School uh the property is located northwest of the intersection of Wood Creek Drive and Lake sty Road um with a common address of 3110 Wood Creek Drive the other thing is the petition that was um interesting as well is that there was a petition seeking approval for a zoning map Amendment from our four residential detach house 4 to be three General Services what that means is that on that particular lot which is known as 814 and 818 Ogden Avenue which in uh 4244 for am Street Downers Grove Illinois they're interested in resoning that for Andy's Frozen Custard yes however I don't know if it's going to make it because there was quite a bit of um Community uh consent around um lighting and traffic andies are pretty well lit but they did share that they were even willing to turn down the lighting because um um we have a different lighting Cod than other um areas about what level of lighting we could have on the Ogden so very interesting meeting I don't know where that one would go because there was quite a few Community people concerned that live in the area about the traffic the noise the lighting where exactly on Ogden is that is that where the um Boston Market no that's Westmont that's Westmont Walgreens is a thousand Ogden Ogden and Maine is ,000 so two blocks east of that East from my understanding it's a vacon it's a open lot that's been open for quite a number of years is what the next to the speedway is that yeah that little I saw it um on the map um it looks like it's closer to um you down in that area kind of going on often down there well that's Westmont isn't it no I'm going toward um oh the other way the other way yeah nor so it's 8 814 88 Ogden if you want to put it in the um Google it'll show you the location so more to come on that I'm not sure how that's going to turn out based on um the community speaking to the plan commission about their concerns around those items yeah than sure thank you thank you um as a reminder our upcoming board meetings uh next one is October 7th there'll be a workshop meeting here at the ASC at 6:30 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23rd 2024 can I have a roll call please Mr G present M Johnson pres Dr Mario present Mr fer present Miss Simon present present please stand for I'm sorry here oh sorry sorry please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all okay tonight I have the pleasure of introducing to you the newest faces and very important voices at at our board table our student board members through an application and interview process we have selected a member and an alternate representing each High School these students have shown tremendous dedication and commitment to their school and a willingness to contribute to the board refle to our board reflecting the values we hold dear we are eager to see how your insights and perspectives will enrich our conversations and decisionmaking processes we welcome student board member for ASO East High School senior hope rier joined by alternate senior sahana [Applause] muin representing asgo high school we welcome student board member kie Parnell joined by alternate senior Trey [Applause] Williams okay I'm going to ask all four of you if you could come to the center and face out to the audience and we will all ask our board members to join for a photo you thought there was going to be some big question thing did I say what did I say call Ky I think you should be in the center let's give one more [Applause] round very cool okay we're going to ask Hope and Callie to please take their seats at the board [Music] [Applause] [Music] table and now we're going to ask you to give a speech no speech prepared just all right good evening board um and Community it is uh great to be here this evening I want to invite next Dr zmy to introduce to us uh take us through a nextg residency announcement and update I do want to say that this is really becoming the shining star of the Innovative and Leadership work that's happening in our district and I want to thank uh Dr zonki for your leadership in this regard good evening board thank you Dr kelati uh tonight is a a great night to celebrate our inaugural residence um and we're very excited to have them here they look great tonight everybody's got great swag on really excited for that and I want to introduce um uh Miss anamarie candelario who's really been the architect of our Residency program and in addition to that um we have had a wonderful partnership with our oea and oesp partners and we have an OA member who is a teacher on special assignment Reagan sth who is also helping with The Residency program and mentoring so I will turn it over to them thank you um good evening um it has been five months since NextGen began we are so excited to share this moment with you on September 23rd where we are here to celebrate sd308 inaugural cohort of teacher and leader residents and mentors so first we want to thank our partners um and we have some special Partners in the audience so we have a university present at Dr Gant and Dr Barnwell if you could say [Music] hi um I can't highlight the meaningful collaboration between Aurora University and 308 uh together we co-created our mission and vision during our work with the national Center of teacher residency I can not stress enough the shared commitment around engagement and breaking down barriers for our Educators so for our residency we do have three goals we go there they are okay uh number one is we want to increase our certified teachers in the high needs subject areas such as special education and our dual language within those High needs areas we want to make sure that we are increasing our retention and engagement of those highly effective staff members lastly we want to increase our student performance and we are planning to do that through u means of our residency we're building our teachers and our leaders in District in hopes that um our our students will see the benefit of that as well we are proud to welcome a cohort that reflects the cultural and academic needs of our district our cohort represents um 48% % uh educators of color compared to traditional programming of 20% um our 24% of our educators are uh bilingual compared to a national average of 9% in traditional programming and we are really close to achieving that same level of mentors of color as well um when we're looking at 21% but nationally it's 29 and so just looking at the data right now um our our mission of creating a culturally diverse um cohort is on its way with the first group so we've added some key metrics on which we are measuring our success so far we have 21 residents most of them sitting behind us um which of those 21 60 of them want to be special education teachers 60% uh we have 24 of those 24 % of those teachers who want to be in dual language are an English language learner teacher so when we're looking at those spots that we need to fill in the future we got a couple behind us um when we ask their satisfaction about the program so far 90% of them said that they were satisfied with our program well 95% of their wonderful mentors are satisfied with the program as well and as of right now we set an interest format at the end of last year we have 52 individuals interested in the next cohort for teachers we want to send that out again um to see if we can recruit more additionally we have 10 individuals in our leadership pathway many of them are back in the back over there as well um these individuals are completing Au while getting leadership training from the district and 94% of those leadership residents expressed that they were satisfied with the district supports and so now we would like to introduce you to the 2024 teacher residents um we would like to take this moment to celebrate them so if you are a resident please stand up thank you um at the very end we're going to take a nice really large picture because you know I love social media um so you guys could take a seat thank you it's been wonderful being a part of each one of these residents Journeys we've got to know them personally and professionally um and they are already leading this work with passion Innovation and purpose and we would like to introduce to you um the first uh one of the first residents to speak um for a testimonial Isabelle Garcia if you can come up um she is a sixth grade dual language teacher on an emergency licensure track she works at plank Junior High and she's been in the district for 2 years thank you good evening um as an introduced me I am in Plant unor High and the way I started is I was over a teaching position I was working as a long-term stop at Plank and I accepted the challenge without fully knowing what I was stepping [Laughter] into my motivation was personal as I was worried about the future of the Dual language program um one of the students was my own son a sixth grader then now he's a freshman here at OE uh what I didn't expect was how quickly I will fall in love with teaching these kids I um despite the challenges which were many challenges uh my passion for dual language education grew stronger and I knew I had to stay how I fa the LMA I am teaching with the transitional bilingual educator license and because I decided that this is my path and I will finally give in um to teaching because it was always something that was after me and I was saying no but finally I gave in I like teaching so I looked into several options including Aurora University which is uh where I got my bachelor from and they have an accelerated program a master's program and I also looked into an online Master's curriculum at and bilingual cultural studies at the University of Illinois but neither uh path with my niece because one required leing my position as it was a full-time teach um student um I had to be a full-time student there and the other was in a licensure program so that's when xgen came into the picture so I was like what is this so it offered me the opportunity to pursue an education I need while continuing to teach a plank where I have built meaningful connections and I mean like family connections it feels like family to me I mean their family as I attended classes and professional development sessions through next gen everything in my classroom is started to to click it was that aha moment it was like the light bulb I was like oh that's why and the program has been very instrumental in my growth as a dual language teacher and I expect to learn even more and I'm very thankful for this opportunity and I continue to doing what I love at vening in my career thank you thank you um we would now like to we would like to invite um John Borman um he is a teacher resident he wants to be a special education teacher he's first year in our district and he currently is a co-teacher of record in Long Beach evening everyone good evening I wrote a few words here so you know bear with me I've wanted to be a teacher since I was a kid honestly I can't imagine pursuing another profession I started taking courses um in college to become a teacher and then my son was born uh life shifted and I had to change my priorities I began working full-time at a job that I was work I I a job I held since I was 16 for seven years I worked long hours missed basically every holiday every weekend um eventually I moved to a different company with a better balance but the work there it felt purposeless I I started exploring new career paths but I kept coming back to teaching then my friend Aaron who's over there I think hey Aaron Gleason she introduced me to Anna Marie no it was over then wasn't it and then that's where everything started to go downhill you were recruited instantly so I I learned about the nextg residency for career Changers uh after interviewing I accept it I think in 24 hours um it's funny cuz uh when I told my kids I was going to be a teacher they kind of looked at me like I I remember my dad uh my my oldest saying dad you a teacher and then my daughter was like Dad can you even read I I can um but in just over four uh four months I've grad I've completed one course I'm in the middle of another uh I've been co- teing with my incredible Mentor Andrea Mrs deidon back here somewhere where you at um but but honestly this program's really truly changed my life um it's granting me the opportunity to fulfill my childhood dream uh of becoming a teacher um um as I transition into the classroom I've been Guided by zaretta Hammond's ideas from culturally responsive teaching and the Brain which Anna Marie made me read but she writes the brain is wired to make sense of the world through story especially stories that carry deep emotional meaning um this resonates with me because when I think about my own path into teaching I realized that these deeply emotional experiences both profession and personal they have they have shaped me whether it was missing holidays family gatherings during my old career or the joy of working with students now uh each moment is a is a part of the story that I can bring into the classro and I want to help my students see the value in their own stories and help them connect learning in their lives so I want to thank the Board of Education District 308 and everyone involved in the nextg residency uh for your support of this incredible program you've given me a second chance that most people never get um I found a community of wonderful classmates co-workers and friends and most importantly for me I found purpose again I'm excited about the future uh to make a lasting impact on my students and their families and the school Community here at 308 thank you [Applause] now we want to take a minute to recognize our um resident mentors so if you're a resident Mentor please stand up so these individuals have an average of 17 years in education an average we're luy to have these open-minded indiv Innovative individuals guiding our residents one of our resident mentors is going to speak for us today Mary where you there she is Mary is a fourth grade teacher at Hunt Club she's been in the district for 16 of her 25 years of teaching and we are lucky to have her Mary shw fourth grade teacher at Hunt Club Elementary um thank you for having me and thank you for having me part be part of this program you two are truly amazing and your passion um is just contagious so thank you um almost every teacher you meet will share that they had a dream to be a teacher when they were younger like me most teachers were inspired by a teacher who instilled a love of learning confidence and belief that they can change the world teaching is my passion I have dedicated my entire adult life to teaching and learning alongside my students after 24 years of teaching when I sat in the first residency program meeting in May I was very tired but I was also inspired empowered and led to remember my why each year with our students is a gift we are provided with the opportunity to change students lives and now with this Residency program we can Inspire support and learn alongside future teachers as well in our classroom we are Scholars Scholars push them M themselves outside their comfort zone set goals and know that they always have more to learn through this program we are modeling that for our students every day my am amazing co- teer Krishna kambi and I are able to build rapport with students provide small group instruction and share our experiences about learning in this program with them when Mrs cambia is not present the students immediately asked where she is and look forward to her return we are a team in the classroom The Residency program provides opportunities for residents to learn about new Innovative tools which are then shared with us at school planning with my co- teer has provided me with new ideas approaches to instruction and excitement for trying new things this is what learning is truly all about this is such an amazing one-of-a-kind program and I am excited to be part of it and I look forward to seeing it evolve and grow in the future um we would now like to highlight our leader residents um these 10 Brave individuals um embarked on a new type of leadership endorsement it's the new alternative principal lure and so we'd like to celebrate uh these wonderful individuals that have persevered um through this program thus far um so if you could please stand if you are a leader resident so we would now like one of our uh leader residents to speak this is Ellie wooden she is a leader resident an instructional coach at Boulder Hill she's been in the district for 20 years and she is also a resident mentor good evening and thank you for giving me an opportunity to share my experience with the leader um leadership Residency program here in 38 my name is Ally wooden I am celebrating my 20th year here in sd38 I have spent that my entire educational career at um Boulder Hill Elementary School which I love um during my tenure I have always been incredibly dedicated to the Youth of our school district and I highly value continued education through my work on committee mentorship from amazing 308 leaders and my role as instructional coach I started to feel a pull towards adding leadership to my certification mid last year I began to hear about this new and Innovative Residency program 308 was embarking on I attended a number of informational sessions and found that the leadership Residency program was not only incredibly timely for me on my next Journey but I could not think of a better outline for a program it was truly meant to be this program has afforded me the opportunity to achieve my goal of obtaining a leadership certificate alongside a group of amazing colleagues and at a very little cost to me there was not a single reason for me to let this opportunity pass me by while being the pioneers of new and unchartered territory we have endured some challenges along the way but with the unwavering support of amazing colleagues and mentors I continue to feel assured and excited for what's to come I am confident the program is only going to continue to grow and flourish with each coming year that brings me to the next and likely not my final invaluable opportunity and that was learning under the leadership of anamarie Kario I practiced your name like a million times CU to me she's AMC so Anna Marie brought the resident leaders together and created an unexpected community in my life inside this community of amazing Educators we have grown laugh and began creating bonds that I can only imagine will be longlasting I am deeply grateful for this opportunity and excited for what lies ahead so last but not least we're at our moment of gratitude but I would love for our site School principles to take a stand if you could stand up [Music] so they are super brave for taking on this program and continue to do it with a smile so we are so appreciative of them um and so for our moment of gratitude um we would like to thank the board of education for um believing in the power of education and the impact that it touches um the cabinet and the human resources department are Union Partners our building administrators our mentors our teacher leaders and of course the community um we are so grateful for this opportunity and a way just to build community so thank you so we would like to um call the groups up for photos with the board um first we'd like to start with the teacher residence if the teacher residents could come up and take a photo um if our Au partners and our principles could also be part of this photo as well it's going to be a big photo [Music] I'm good just so you feel like somebody is appreciative of everything say you got squeeze in there [Laughter] [Music] we can have our mentors Now teacher res out and then ment [Applause] should we put you right up front we'll hold you this yes for a second jemy maybe May [Music] [Applause] did you try itar look goodar tried something some Seas [Applause] or thank you for coming that was so kind of you so we appreciate you being here where's the thing so make sure she's set up oh yeah I think Jared Jared did you like the squash did you like the squash I didn't try it we were we were just discussing it was sometimes [Music] got find a gr Ulta I'm looking to Ulta let's do it I [Laughter] don't got money what Amy ursul wants to know if you're mad at me no not about this about everything else she said just everything else so I'm okay it's Monday we lose she's talking to Tuesday Wednesday THS that's the white even though everybody left can I just say one thing about NextGen um I remember when I was in college and was getting a really good grade in my uh my English class and I did the extra and my teacher wrote back to me my professor wrote back to me why did you do extra credit you're already getting AA in this class and I said well I'm going to take every opportunity and I looked out at all of them and they are some amazing human beings that are doing the extra credit they're already amazing and then they're doing the extra credit and it's just and all have their own life stories of what they're going through and it's just really powerful the testimonials that we heard so I'm grateful to have it in our district yes indeed Amy I think yeah um I just want to say you know I'm so disappointed to not be there in person tonight to see this presentation and see um you know everyone's faces and hear you know see the faces with the testimonials and all that I just can't say enough about um how quickly and how how great how much great progress there's been in such a small amount of time um so kudos to to everyone involved so well aligned with our needs so well done um you know for the beginning phases of a program like this uh I want to thank everyone involved um you know teacher residencies are really as I think a lot of you know are gaining ground in in the in the field and this is such a great case study for what can really the power of them and districts um you know a lot of those residents without a Residency program would never have stepped into a career in teaching um that's my impression thus far and that's what programs like this can really do so I look forward to them really having a long and fruitful career uh here at at uh School District 308 um I wanted to say too there was a graphic on there about our residents of color I think it was 48 % of our our our residents are our teacher residents of color uh and the graphic was compared to national Center for Teacher residencies as well as um I think um Nationwide but really when you think about we what we want as a board of education I believe is a representation of our students in our in our teachers and so what we're looking for is parody and if our I think our students are around 51 or 52% students of color and 48% of our teacher residents our residents of color that's the exact type of you know numbers I think that we're looking for um are we taking questions or is this more of like a presentation you welcome to bring questions and then we can um I can follow up yeah so um I just have a couple questions um I know that there was another Grant out there so I would just like to hear about when uh eventually when we would hear about that I think that will impact likely how many of those interested candidates we can support in the future uh I saw like 52 C or 52 potential um interested uh teacher residents um and then um what else the site schools who are the site what are the sites that those residencies are are at I heard Boulder Hill I think plank was another one um I would just like to know what those site schools are um and then you know we need to tell people about this so I'm hoping I think the Board of Education would support us sharing this with others um you know I've often been asked how do you know when something is successful and it's when other people are knocking on your door asking what are you guys doing over there with your teacher Residency program and so um those are just a couple of my questions uh but kudos to to all thank you so much so uh great questions and feedback um I will say that in terms of the um there was a teacher quality grant that we were pursuing a Federal grant we did not get that um but the good news is that we got really helpful feedback we were the really one of the I think one of the only non-university Le grants that applied for it and so we can say when we say we were a small fish in a big p we were really a small fish however we did get feedback and it's going to be a good opportunity for us as we think about the future um we are also Pro pursuing private grants one of the highlights of tonight's presentation and you saw it really evidence we had representation from Aurora University here so they've been extremely generous in in both their time but also in their contributions to this effort in terms of the kind of scholarships and additional funds that they've provided I don't have those exact numbers but we can bring that to the next meeting they have been ex when I say extremely extremely and we're really thankful for that partnership um Dr zmy do you want to add anything and then whatever we want to wait till next time we can yeah absolutely uh good questions Dr Mario um I know we'll be partnering with the Communications Department to get uh some further information out to celebrate uh through stories and through social media uh you had asked about the five site skills there Long Beach uh Hunt Club Fox Chase southberry and plank um and we have been very fortunate uh to have uh our site uh site building principles really Embrace um this the type of support and then our our relationship with Aurora University has just been barn on um we meet with them we've met with the provos the provos came out to our office learn more about our school we were just at uh an evening on the state of Aurora with mayor Richard Irving last week where we're highlighting the great things that are occurring the last weo for a variety of issues so our partnership with with Aurora University is is going to take us a really really long way um I I've I've mentioned before in a few different ways I think we've we've we essentially have taken the teacher shortage away with our residents we would we would be um very almost perfectly staffed right now with our residents uh where we will be a year from now doesn't mean the work's done we got to continue our work uh we we recognize that there's areas within our system also like our related Services psychologist social workers OTS pts we're going to have to continue to to be creative with University Partnerships um like we are right now with special education and multilingual but we're in good shape so more information to come more updates to come and uh success is very very bright as Dr katti would say thank you so much you're welcome thank you okay we're moving on to 5 point1 public comment so we're going to start with our public hearing on update e-learning plan so we will have two opportunities for public comment tonight the first opportunity will be during the public hearing on the updated e-learning plan which we are about to convene if you wish to make a comment about the e-learning plan please make it during the public comment portion of that hearing which we will convene next on the agenda if you wish to make a comment about some other matter unrelated to the public hearing you may do so during the second opportunity for public comment agenda item 7.1 so we will now hold a public hearing on the updated e-learning plan this is a public hearing convened by the Board of Education of community Unit School District 308 regarding the updated e-learning plan at this time I would like to ask Dr K to give any additional information updates on the e-learning plan so um as we spoke at the last board meeting um our up dates include changes to the junior high and high school time to be in alignment with a 5H hour school day um where our Junior High and high school will both have student support time available to them at the junior high level it will be a 20 minute class period and at the high school a 25 minute class period there is no recommendations for change at the Early Childhood or Elementary level okay thank you very much are there any public comments there are not okay so if there are no public comments um I would like to ask our board members if they have any comments at this time no okay nothing additional so at this time we will close the public hearing on the updated e-learning plan did you have a comment okay wait did you say introduce yourself I'm hope freier um I was gonna ask did you say you changed it to a 5H hour day so currently our e-learning plan is that our remote day matches the school day like period by period minute by minute just like if you're VI are in person so what we're shifting to is a modified day for our e-learning day so it will be more in alignment with a 5H hour school day so it would be a shorter um remote period for the junior high and high school yes so these are just in place if we were instead of taking an emergency like a snow day when we're doing e-learning across the district so this would be in placement or in place of a e-learning emergency day okay at this time we will close the public hearing on the updated e-learning plan 6 7.1 6.11 oh 7.1 that was the answer your question all these numbers it's bound to get confused so now we want to welcome this evening we have a board we have a aark presentation uh we want to invite then uh thank you for joining us this evening Mr obafemi Miss satar U introduced the group from arar and speak to why they're here tonight thank you um arar is here to speak to you about the updated food service plan and some new initiatives that they have planned to enhance the program even further we have today Megan Patty and executive chef Natalia I know just to before they we we heard the community we heard board member before we did the RP and uh after the selection process aramac won the RFP but there was a recognition that there's some work that needs to be done to get us to where we need to be and one of the process that we're using is requesting that aramac comes to the board quarterly to provide an update about food service and to also afford the board an opportunity to ask questions related to aramax Performance so this is the first of the quality meeting for this uh school year thank you all right thank you good evening um thank you for allowing us to join tonight and we look forward to these um these quarterly meetings to come in here and present to you and share the exciting things that we're we're doing within the community um so tonight we're we're excited to tell you about our participation and some things that we have started already through the year um we're going to step through our participation and what we're driving to increase that participation we're going to talk about our communication strategies that we've already started and then we're going to talk about um kind of what we've done differently compared to last year so I'll hand it over to Patty can talk through your participation hi I'm Patty alexakos and I am the general manager for um the asgo account thank you very much Dr katti similton and um board members um wanted to step through our participation um comparison from school year 24 and current school year 25 um the metrics we have up here are from the end of August um breakfast um the end of August 20 uh school year 24 we saw about a 4.1% participation at the start of the school year and for the beginning of this school year end of August we landed at about 5.4% which was an increase um about midt about a week and a half ago um we're already sitting at about 7.8% um at all levels we've seen an increase elementary junior high and high school um participation numbers going from August to September almost doubling in participation there um for lunch um our participation metric at the end of August for school year 24 was at about 26.7% and for school year uh 25 end of August is 33.8% um August um mid-september is trending at about 40.2% in climbing um I do want to make a note the difference with our service days for school year 25 we had the heat advisory day um so the El Elementary was in service however Junior High and high school were considered we're having remote day that day but since elementary was in service that is considered a service day so it is skewing the numbers a little bit so we actually would have been at higher participation had um Junior High and high school been in um the last box is our equivalent meals and what that means is all of our allart snacks when a student buys um a second entree or if they get like a milk or if they want any of the snacks that are afforded to them under the um snacks um that is considered an equivalent um meal the participation in 24 at the end of August is about 4.7% and um this school year at the end of August we were sitting at about 5.6% um September's is climbing to about 7.

e e e aif ful president Hil yes Nolan yes papis here buy Here Gorman here you motion second to approve tonight's agenda so second Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes pepis yes fi yes Gorman yes motion is carried I will review any budget changes so each of you should have received a budget presentation it's posted on the website um the presentation um I updated with the revisions that we had made from the ACT August board meeting till now um just in a quick overview the revenues um we got a specialed orphanage number and our corporate personal property tax came in we got actuals instead of the estimates so those both went down so the net change of those two is 71,0 65 um the TRS on behalf payments is more a number that's a note in our audit numbers it's not really it's it's recorded as a revenue and an expenditure so it Nets to zero in the budget um it's included on there I got a better estimate from what our auditor said our number would be this year so that's where the 1.3 comes in but you'll see the offsetting on the expenditure one on the other page so for the expenditure side most of these expenditures um are either reassesment for new hires might have come in cheaper or more expensive depending on what came in um we have um let's see mentors we had a couple supplies so for the biomedical and digital Graphics Supply we added a new a line item just specifically for that one to track it um more salaries these were re classes from different areas um just re classes here there's your TRS on behalf payment for your $1.3 million Library grants this was a library Grant we had it all in one account we split it by schools so we can track it by schools better um and that feeds into a couple other surveys that'll make our life easier and then so the total adjustments for the Ed fund is 1.

e good hello it is 6:30 so we're going to go ahead and get started for those that are able if you wouldn't mind standing for the Pledge of Allegiance please Al the United States of America and to the for stands Nation indivisible with liy and justice for all we are missing Mr Schultz tonight but we still have a quorum so I will call this meeting to order Dr Phillips thank you Mrs wien thanks everyone for being here this evening we' like to start each meeting with reminding ourselves and each other of our mission vision and core beliefs as a district and our vision is that bcse is the choice to learn work and play our mission is to develop expert Learners by partnering with our community to invest in people and our core core beliefs are that we all can rise to the challenges high expectations that learning is most effective when we have Choice flexibility and see relevance wouldn't mind to get us started sure no problem wouldn't mind to get us started sure no problem thanks for asking um many of you know that last a week ago Friday evening um we received notification of a threat that came in through social media to some of our students and specific school um it was a little bit surreal as I looked up at the football game at North High School and there was a 12year old or so just a few rows in front of me who was holding the same screen that I had just looked at on the text that came in watched him turn to his parent that he was sitting next to and show it to the parent and they shook their head and then the kid kid just swiped on to the next to the next post so it is a sad commentary that that's where we are today that we have to address threats to direct threats to the safety of our students and our staff in our schools but I want to first and foremost um thanks thanks thank those who worked to get it right last week um because it was there was a lot of pressure um to act and act quickly and the police departments involved the individual detectives who gave up their entire weekend to CH uh chase this case down um instead of working to get it done quickly they worked to get it done right and so I want to thank them for both their time and their attention to making sure that that's the case also just want to ask again to remind families please talk to your students to your children um and clarify what it means to see something and say something what it means and what it does not mean and of course it means report something that you see directly to a school official law enforcement Andor apparent it does not mean to click or Elevate that post that message in any way um and any student who does so will face consequences um so report those directly to school members parents uh or a or law enforcement um the last thing I want to point out is that um thank you to those in the community that reached out with a sincere desire to help um we um our fourth core belief there states that our community and School District district are stronger when we partner with one another and it's sad that none of us individually can guarantee that we will not have a tragedy here in Columbus Indiana but if we all do our individual part together as a community we can dramatically reduce the likelihood that something like that will happen and I want to thank again the community members and law enforcement who worked hard last week to make sure that we all did our part to make sure that everyone could be safe last week thank you Dr Phillips next on the agenda we have 202 for appropriation Dr bosan Mr berer he's sending you up there all by yourself his name was there too I I am but he's right there okay he's close by good evening um bringing to you the uh additional appropriation request for 2024 uh discussions on this began last year shortly after the collective bargaining agreement was put in place I believe Dr Phillips brought this up that we would need to do an appropriation most likely for 2024 to cover those expenses um and we are bringing those to you today as we discussed uh with the quarter 2 uh financial report uh a little over a month ago we know that our revenues are going to be um enough that we can cover these costs without going into our Reserves at all so while it looks like it's an appropriation into to our reserves it's an appropriation on top of what was approved in the budget during last year's cycle um and these costs in the education fund we've got $3 million uh for salary and benefit increases due to the contract negotiations 300,000 for increased substitute costs 130,000 for literacy coaches and that's within the education fund for a total of 3.58 million there and then in the operations fund a half a million in salary increases and 120,000 for the data analysis contract for a total of 620 within the operations fund all total 4.2 million of additional appropriation again our res um revenues and are high enough this year with lower than anticipated expenditures that we will not have to dig into our reserves in order to cover these costs we do have sufficient funds in place to cover these so miss Welden this is uh the first of two public hearings this evening so if you'd like we could take uh questions from the board first and then the public if need be yes D I have one question that I should know the answer to but I don't so I'm going to ask you um the increase in substitute costs is it because we're paying them more or we're using more subs or both we're using more subs okay we increased the pay a few years ago so this is all usage thank you Dr the uh the data analysis portion um that $120,000 I'm I don't have a I don't have a problem necessarily with it other than the one thing that I think I was concerned with is when I read the document it said something like it was reviewed with administrators but it didn't confirm that it was intereview with teachers so I think we have between now and next time we have a cic meeting I'm just asking that that be I don't I don't know if it is between now and then but I think it's in October or this week is the next cic meeting uh November actually I believe is it November okay so my only concern is before we commit to spending a lot of money that we have that scoped out with teachers too to make make sure that it's going to have what they want as well because it again it just said administrators so I don't know if it's been through the cic and the teachers are all good with it then I'm fine with it but it did go through review at the last cic meeting not there's no formal voting or approving process there but we discussed it with the cic answered a few questions and that was it okay yeah I just want to make sure they've seen it and had the ability to provide feedback if they've had that then I'm good okay okay at this time um anyone from the public who would have a question could step up and and ask ask anything you like on this topic yes sir hello maybe I don't need these glasses hey my name is David tyy Columbus resident and I've got uh four questions here for the board tonight um on the school board School Corporation website I did a search under the policies and under the subfolder called strategic goals that's what's in there so looking in that folder it was empty there's nothing in there um so there's there's two-part question to that so if the information's not posted in the subfolder yet is that's that's my first question is it just there somewhere just not posted that's my first question was there was nothing in there and the second question is how does the existing proposed budget fit in with the school corporation strategic goals especially the financial ones so that's why I'm interested because if we're going to build this budget it should align with our strategic planning spe you know especially financial goals especially with the taxpayers and everybody else kind of paying attention to what we're doing here so I'll pause right there this isn't actually a back and forth conversation but we'd be happy to take your input thank you you can keep going okay my uh next question is how are we trending on the current year actual expenses versus the 2024 budget so I see the budget numbers but I'd like to know um how are we trending with expenses versus budget they again in the documents today wasn't provided where we are in actual expenses okay my third question are there any school board members on the budget committee and if the answer is if not why are school board members not are excluded from from this oversight and then my last question uh on the on the big one there that was on our budget was the utilities and supplies and you know we all saw that that it's up nearly it's it's projected to be up nearly 30% so one of the questions I had related to that is have we considered negotiating long-term contracts with utility companies if that's a possibility I'm not sure if it is or isn't but I know in Private Industry it is a possibility I wasn't sure if that was applicable to the school corporation okay okay thank you thank you for your question Mr Ty I can answer a few of those questions it's it's a public hearing on the on the um on the additional appropriation a look into the goal section of the website um but the so we do a quarterly update to the board on actuals versus budget and so that last one I don't have the data in front of me right now but that would have been in the or one of the August meetings and so if you want to go back and look or we can send you the the update that the board gets every quarter um and we are tracking below um expenditures overall and higher Revenue um for a variety of different reasons some of that being higher rates on investments but mainly um student count being higher than we budgeted for as well as this uh per pupil support from the state being higher than we budgeted for and then last on the utilities and Supply budget line um there was just a one-year dramatic decline in 2024's budget so when we look at 21 22 23 you can see that it tracks along for electricity is somewhere in that 2 and A5 million doll Mark in 24 we had carried forward Appropriations from prior years um so often that we just reduced the budget for that one year to use the cash that had been carried forward from the prior years knowing that the next year in 25 it would go back up and so there's really not that much of a dramatic increase in utilities we see some in water and sewer but um the others have been pretty flat and Dr bosan I know can speak to our agreement on natural gas um that's really where we've invested a lot of time and energy in hedging the market and make sure we do have a long-term um strategy there with prices around natural gas sure ween a uh large group Co-op purchasing for natural gas um with some of the larger school districts across across the state um to where we um we basically uh we meet uh at least twice a year but we go through and we basically we hedge our um purchases out as far as seven years in advance um based on what the Market's doing Etc and we also save um because of just the bulk of of gas that we're purchasing we don't have that opportunity with um our electricity um certainly if we did we'd be all over it um because reaped some some good benefits for us on the natural gas side yeah I get I guess just to answer one other question regarding the committee assignments uh we've had a a list of set committees we had made some alterations to those although of something like a budget we would really want the input of the entire board into that process which is why we have the regular reviews um why we have access to the team um we really want everyone's input not just one board members necessarily and Mr shinner pointed out to me it was the August 19th meeting was the last uh that was Quarter Two update and then in uh October the next meeting we should be doing the uh quarter three financial review thank you appreciate it thank you okay anyone else have any questions comments okay you appreciate it effective way time I actually count my head Chad you were two seconds too quick but that's okay and so um 2025 budget hearing is next right and I think Mr tyy you were referring to this one generally they're technically two different um hearings but we'll take comments anytime so back to me yes back to you all right um this is officially our 2025 budget hearing uh two weeks ago uh Dr Phillips led the uh work session I appreciated him doing that as we are looking at a deficit budget for this year uh and he explained those reasons I do want to tease him a little bit he wanted to save me from having to do that and then had me do an additional Pur Corporation so thank you um again work session two weeks ago today is our public hearing for the budget at next month's regularly scheduled meeting we will bring forth uh the full budget for your approval and then we are told by dgf by January 1 they will provide us with our official budget approval with our official tax rate at that time what is on this slide is the public notice that we put on the state's Gateway website uh we got that in on Friday the 13th meeting the deadline to have it 10 days before today's hearing it has the information on our five tax supported uh funds what our uh budget estimates are for those funds and what the levy appeals we are the current tax levies and the maximum estimated funds that we would be raising from taxes for each of those funds I borrowed from Dr Phillip's presentation here this is the highlights of the 25 budget again there's been significant investment in staff over the last few years um again we are proposing a salary increase for next year uh looking at 3% for classified staff and the teaching and administrative staff is still to be determined um we have 12 full-time equivalent uh positions being added several of those are a part of the Esser Cliff with the Esser funding ending uh uh Monday on September 30th we were then um pulling those positions within our education fund budget um we have significant Capital Investments as part of this budget um with safety in uh infrastructure Dr Phillips again mentioned two weeks ago looking at a $2 million investment in safety equipment uh the initial thought had been to do a $500,000 invest over four years but as we can afford to do it within our budget and keep the tax rate the same looking at the $2 million investment where if um equipment comes on that is technologically advanced where we would want to purchase that now instead of waiting four years we can go ahead and do that now um Regular facility maintenance of about a million and a half dollars co-curricular programs and again as I was stating a little bit earlier no anticipated increase to our tax rate looking at the education fund uh specifically um revenues compared to last year we're see uh anticipating a 3.2% increase in revenues again this is our best guess estimate because as this we will know what our first semester revenues will be from the state but until the state uh meets and sets the budget for the next two-year cycle of the state's budget we won't know what our fall um revenues will be in relation to the education fund so this is our best guess estimate uh again a 3.2% increase looking at our expenditures um 95% of the budget within the education fund is for employee salaries and benefits um huge part of the budget and slight increases from last year to this year um we're looking at Professional Services a slight decrease Communications a little bit of an increase supplies a little bit up uh overall the education fund budget 90 million compared to 84 Million last year is a 65% increase as Dr Phillips explained two two weeks ago um because of the health of our reserves within the education fund we are looking at doing a deficit fund or deficit budget for this year's cycle uh the beginning of 24 we have 6.6 million in there we were trending ahead in revenues lower in expenditures so that that um Reserve level has grown for the first eight months of this year and again even with that additional appropriation we're anticipating ending the year um close to that 6.6 million with the deficit budget uh we anticipate 25 ending with 4.6 million again a very healthy balance for that education fund operations fund uh revenues anticip ating a growth of about 4.4% from 33 million to 34.7 million uh expenditures are growing by about 12% a big part of that again as was pointed out just a little bit ago the utilities is has a growth of 29.8% Dr Phillips went through that reasoning and and thought process the property and Equipment again we looked at if you take away we were anticipating first doing a 500,000 for the security equipment in instead we're doing 2 million because we can afford to do it while keeping our rate the same that would have been a no- growth but with adding that extra 1.5 million that's a 29% increase there in our property and Equipment budgeting and total expenditures of 38.8 million compared to budgeted 34.6 for this year deficit budget spending um looking at an end of balance of 25 of 10 10 million which is still very healthy Debt Service funds um in 24 we've paid off two bonds the uh Central Middle School 2005 Bond as well as the 2022 go Bond those will both be paid off by the end of this year we um will not have a temporary loan for 25 so that payment is gone however uh tomorrow we are will be the sale of our bond uh that you approved a couple weeks ago ago uh we're looking at the first year of principal and interest payments of about 9.9 million um while that's a significant increase again our financial advisers worked with us to make sure we can keep our tax rate the same and that's what we're going to be able to do in 2026 that uh principal and interest payment on the 24 Bond will drop down somewhere in the low 3 million range so that's being built in because we can afford to do that and keep our tax rate this same that's why it's set so high that first year the referendum Bond or better known as the high school debt service fund um it ends in 2029 we have a slight increase in our principal payment next year which of course correlates to a lower interest payment it's a $21,000 increase over this year um very insignificant refere random operating fund we show an increase overall of 99.4% 800,000 uh big portion of that is within the teacher salary and benefit increase of 1.1 million um support staff and benefit increase is stable there's a slight decrease in the safety security and mental health salaries and benefits and a big part of that is within the mental health portion of this this budget um when you look at our actual expenditures for 24 we budgeted more for that for 25 and that's where that decrease comes in and then uh within this the uh pardon me the Professional Services line I apologize $660,000 decrease that is for a therapist that Dr Phillips I ask you to correct me if I'm wrong that has been moved to the education fund is that correct other another fund and another other fund so um but again we have an increase of 800,000 or 9.4 % um Mr major I believe at the last meeting you were asking about our SRO um our SRO cost for 2025 are going up 7.5% we have a 5% increase within this budget uh to cover portion of that increase and the other increas is going within the operations fund budget summary uh the education fund again is a 65% increase operations at 12 12% The Debt Service a 33% increase and again a big portion of that is the first year bump on the 2024 bond that we're selling tomorrow referendum debt fund stays pretty stable and then the referendum operating is up a little over 9% for a total increase of 10% in the overall tax funded budgets looking at our reserves again uh Dr Phillips explained a couple weeks ago our reserves are very very strong um six over 6 million in education in the rainy day fund over 14 million in our operations fund the operating operations referendum fund is over 3 million and the debt funds has over 5 million in reserves so very healthy tax rate history um our advertised rate for this year is a1195 which is slightly lower than the advertised rate for last year we're anticipating our adopted rate to be somewhere near 9985 or a little less um and again we are well below the state average um which is pretty good for all that we're being able to do with this money the next steps in this process again a month from now we'll come back for the formal vote on the budget and then by January 1 we'll have dgf approval on what the official final budget is and our tax rates okay any questions comments from the team on 2025 budget yeah I just I've been thinking about this a lot and uh you know when we look at how how long have we transferred funds from education to operations was 2018 I believe so about six seven years so an amount that we're transferring is about anywhere from seven to n million um my I've heard so much stuff about the referendum in the last month that's not even something that's for grabs today it's a future thing and one thing I was just thinking through is if we're transferring 7 to9 million from education to operation but our referendum is bringing money into education ultim ultimately to education because a large part of it is going to to uh teacher salaries because we're transferring out of op out of Education to operations if we'd have left that money there it seems like we'd had enough money to pay the increase in the teacher pay it seems like operations is where we're either overspending or under taxing and so my my question is you know it's not going to impact the budget of today but it's going to impact the next couple of years our thoughts and strategic Direction on how we approach a future referendum how do we look at not taking money out of the education fund for operations leaving the money there and then then addressing the problem which is in appears to be to me at least in operation side so we can control the expenditure side on the operation side of that budget so if we did exactly what you're suggesting which is don't transfer money from the education fund to the operations fund instead um leave that money there to pay the teacher salary portion of the referendum and then um either increase your revenues or decrease your expenditures on the operation side we have no control over the revenue side of that it's capped by Indiana code so this year the maximum it could increase was was 4% um so we would essentially be looking for 7 to time million in the operations fund to cut from a expenditure side okay so can we is there anything we can do to talk to the state about how that number is managed in the future yes we work with local legislators often you're on you're on the state committee right you're the one that would work with the state legislators right now uh yeah for the next three months for the next three months I know that's not going to help us for two years from now but it might it might my my my big concern is this right you know every person that I've talked to in the last three months has complained about the property taxes going up this year every person I've not had and it doesn't matter if they're blue red purple green it does not matter what color their politics are every person I've talked to has said I'm paying more in property taxes and I don't like it this they understand where the money goes they just don't with everything else that's being the cost of inflation and the cost of living now was just through the roof and so my fear is this doesn't matter what this board decides if you put it on a ballot in the future you're leaving it to the voters to vote Yes or no and there's a lot of risk there so that's why to me if we can talk to the state and we can try and figure out an alternate solution between now and then can we find a way to minimize the impact I mean we're not we're not Chang in the tax rate today but our taxes just our our cost just went up 11% so there's got to be money there it's how is the state allowing us to use it and in this case I think you're able to show pretty good justification as to why you need it I mean you got a 30% increase in utilities can you control that nope are they going to cap are they going to go regulate Duke it's not I mean that's just not we know that's not how it's going to work so I think that's where talking with legislator legislature might help us to bring light to that so that over the next year and a half two years they have an opportunity to think it through and come up with a good solution from a state level so we don't run the risk of putting a referendum out there that might not pass any other questions the this this one this one is tricky too because um if you could go back a couple of slides on the reserves this one's hard that operating referendum is when when that question was asked that question was asked that you know it's can the money we want more money for teacher pay and what was it school safety school buses steam stem and like that those three or four things I I don't know why we have reserves for that I I've struggled with it for the last year and a half as to why we've got three 3.3 if I was a teacher that taught for the last three years and I knew I was supposed to get another $500 a year I would want my $500 a year out of that and so for me I look at it two ways um I don't think that my my opinion you can you guys can try and convince me otherwise I don't think the operating referendum should carry a reserve I think that's money that we said we had very specific needs and use for and sitting collecting interest was not one of them and I think the average person thought that that money was going to go straight to teachers and whatnot so I don't know if that's that was not negotiated well during bargaining I don't know if it's just sitting there to sit there my my thoughts are you got two things you can do with it you can take that money for the last three years and distribute it out to every teacher that worked the last three years or you give it back to taxpayers so we have talked about thank you Mr major we have talked about this one a couple of different times and have worked with the Teachers Association to um ensure that at the end of 2028 calendar year 2028 is the last year we can collect property taxes in this fund under the referendum that was passed in 2020 and so those um but our contract with those teachers for that school year runs from August you know September through August we'll say and so if for some reason as you mentioned um the voters have to decide if we're going to renew this operating referendum or not at some point in the next handful of years um we wanted to make sure we can fulfill the obligations we have to teachers that are contracted for that 20 uh I guess it would be the 28 29 school year and so those teachers that start then in September they get their first paycheck in September if for some reason the voters uh did not pass the renewal there would be enough cash to still pay out those obligations through the end of that contract now of course we would have to negotiate the next year to see what that was going to look like but um both CA leadership and us have agreed to make sure that we build enough of a balance and maintain it so that when we get to the end we can um make sure that everyone gets paid what their contract says they would get paid yeah and I I think that that's one of the points that was brought to me was if you're a teacher teaching today that's taught 22 23 24 25 26 they retire in 27 and don't make it to 28 they would have had five to six years where they view it as though that money was withheld from them so that's that's the that's the tricky part right do you yeah and you could say the same thing on the education and operations side too the cash balances that have grown no no disagreement no disagreement if I can add one thing Mr major some of that uh Reserve cash balance is for um costs that haven't come in yet the buses that were part of that as part of the 24 budget we've not paid for those yet so when those come in that will reduce that Reserve amount yep thank you thank you okay we have another goad sorry I've got I think a two-part question it's slightly less complex than Mr Major's and I I think this is probably most appropriate for you Dr Phillips I I remember a number of Staff positions being added with the erer money um so the two-parter is um one can you maybe refresh my memory of an appro Pro imate number of staff that were added with the Esser funds and then two have the bulk or the the vast majority of those positions have maybe not the people but the positions have they been retained good questions um I'm going to give you rough estimates on numbers we had Targets in the first year of Esser funding that I I want to say the target was 42 additional positions that we thought we could afford in Year One and so that would have been in calendar year 21 I believe um knowing that we would not be able to afford to carry 42 positions onto the education fund you know three years later and so the the first year is around 40 low 40s and Our intention with every one of those positions was to make sure that they were truly additive and so we looked at you know Staffing in a in a first grade classroom where obviously there'd be a lot of support needed for some kids that hadn't been in kindergarten class the year before um and so looked at those and said okay if we would normally be at you know 23 to 27 kids then how can we make sure we lower that particularly in our title schools and so we looked at primary grades title schools special ed and E and then we tried to make all of those additive positions so we staffed normally and said okay here's an additional spot then we also did a core math science English and social studies at both high schools um we went from about 42 position the first year to around 35 and then to 20 and then um last year the last year of funding for that I believe we were somewhere in the neighborhood of 14 um and honestly by the time we got to that point those were not all truly additive and so I believe we ended up retaining about eight of those positions all of them at north of the math science English and social studies North numbers were just so much higher than normal so starting from the the low 40s down to about 15 in the last year and kept around eight thank you you're welcome any other questions from this team okay um it's open again for public comments or questions on the on the budget if there are any yep you can just go on up there if you want just so everybody can hear sorry Cole thank you hey it's Cole Bennett from Columbus I just had a quick question about um classified staff can you explain what that is thank you sure sorry for the educational um jargon um we used to call them CL uh support staff in the district so it was anyone who didn't have a teaching license or an administrative license um and so anything from a bus driver to a custodian to a teaching assistant all non certified positions a couple years ago we changed that to start referring to them as classified staff okay good question any other questions sure thank you hello my name is Christina everol I am a parent um in bcsc uh thanks for having me um I have three children at bcsc one in prek uh one in the special ed uh at Parkside one in sixth grade at Schmidt um yeah love those kids and I know you all do too um I guess I'll go ahead and start off by saying a a society grows best when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit that's a Greek proverb like many parents in the bcsc school district and Across the Nation it is evident that something has gone arai in the educational environment we place our children in today knowing that my children may not come home to me in the same way I sent them to school is traumatic at best our family has already had to transfer our youngest child this school year due to being assaulted physically with little to no communication from staff I was horrified and sad for my child and the other child involved her father and I acted on her behalf that is our duty to protect love and keep each one of our children safe we don't expect utopian ideals when they leave our home but there is a level of conduct that we expect from the people who care for them rest assured the situation was handled beautifully by Administration from child to parent to staff compromise and accountability was made I believe in our Public Schools although I had a private school education however this is not the first or last time we have person experienced violence in the schools or have heard about it firsthand from trusted sources teachers parents and otherwise any threat carried out or not is unnerving it's a sobering feeling when your own Children's School makes the news whether the threats of violence hurt across the community were inflated or not this is a symptom of a larger issue within our school system I won't waste anyone's time giving into the political grandstanding or subduing whatever societal Boogeyman lurks in the minds of certain community members that is a large reason why our children and our Educators remain last on the list of priorities no matter what campaign promises may say what I can see and speak on based on personal experience as a mother and a former student myself is that we are largely failing ing our future if you want to look at the health of any civilization look to the well-being of the children in a not so distant future these will be our hopeful leaders civil servants doctors scientists Frontline workers teachers caregivers lawmakers Visionaries and architects of our society while there is emphasis on the budget and the improvements made to our schools it is truly a vain effort if what is on the out inside is crumbling and qualified instructors who chose education as a vocation are exiting in Mass while our taxes increase significantly year after year our educational brain the teachers AIDS social workers and other school workers clearly do not have the support that they need to give priority to the heart of every school and that is the children so what good would it what good will it do to fix the outside if the inside is clearly broken this is a topown issue ban books some say our children can't even read or use proper penmanship Indiana ranks as one of the least educated states in the nation our literacy and mathematics test scores hover under 50% according to data I can't even begin to understand the logistics pressure and responsibility it takes to run a growing school district of almost 12,000 bright and growing children but I do understand common sense and I know we fail our children when we don't invest in our Educators or let them do their jobs through the ethics of dignity compassionate discipline and a un Ed front from home to classroom as a community parents caregivers and bcsc as a whole we owe it to our future to make lasting changes systemically and structurally from the bottom all the way to the top children need us they are the best they deserve the best I won't pull my children from bcsc but we are the adults in the room room and it's time that we start acting like it I thank every single educator or otherwise who takes the time their own personal money their health their safety and resources to show up for them every day you have my gratitude you have my respect and you have my support I believe as a community parents and the school district we can help our children and we can help our our future thank you for your time thank you Miss everol thank you um are there any other comments um on the the budget public hearing for right now no okay thank you okay next next on the agenda we have transportation update Dr BOS good evening I will um as Mr mcken is making his way up here introduce reintroduce to you AJ mcken as our manager of transportation and uh we have a a couple of our amazing bus drivers here Katherine Cooper whom I think you'll get a chance to hear from and Debbie gray who's also in the audience um AJ may tell you but our buses travel nearly 8,000 miles a today and um our department is in very good standing with a lot of tremendous people who do great things for kids every day so I'll get out of the way and let him give you an update on on U the department good evening so just a little tidbit of what we do every day uh bcsc has 150 employees in the transportation department uh we have 120 school buses haul approximately 8,000 th000 students a day and travel 1.5 million miles a year so we've got busy busy days every day we travel lots of miles and we we take what we do very seriously and getting our kids safely to and from school uh this is my third year in the position uh as a manager uh when I first took over uh we I quickly realized that our routing software that we were using to keep track of all the students was ins suffice for what we do we like most School corporations do not just Hol through 12 kids on one bus to and from school every day we have lots of special programs of bcsc and it takes a uh very complex software to be able to track where those kids go every day and we realized that the software that we had would no longer do that so we in May of 22 we began looking for a new software uh quickly found out that there was no out-of-box software that would work for our transportation department um and after researching with uh my staff office staff and it here at bcsc uh we narrowed it down to two different vendors that would be able to provide the information and the software that we needed uh ultimately the last one that we chose uh was the only one that would allow us to use the tablets that we currently owned uh and put there so software on the tablets so in October of 22 we signed a contract with transfinder transfinder has been in the software business routing students for over 30 years um the one that we walked away from had only been in a in the business a handful of years so we went from somebody who didn't have very much experience and basically was at building their software around what we needed to somebody who' do been doing it for a long time and was old hat to them so in January 23 we began implementation process I have three gentlemen in the routing and planning department and they devoted hours and hours and still devoting hours and hours of their time into making this software and working with getting our kids uh in in the system and so the schools parents and uh the bus drivers can see where where the kids need to go so as you can tell uh initially we uploaded the current routes from ezr which was our uh software before um we communicated with the software company transfinder what was expected and we reviewed changes with that company in August we did a 23 we did a soft start we had some test routes that we ran the bus we ran the tablets on uh we wanted to check out to see how one the uh connectivity with the tablets cellular connectivity was working uh the test driver we wanted their feedback and we also had some test families that um that were out there that we were contacting that were giving us feedback on how things were working out so this is a little picture of what the tablet looks like in the bus now everything that we put on a bus outside of what comes from the factory has to be approved by the Indiana State School Bus committee so up until the past few years the tablets have been able to be on bus but they had to go black when the bus started moving so up in the past I would say up three years ago the state changed it to where the actual screens could stay like basically like your phone is in your car when you're uh following it to get to a destination so it's it it it's within driver's reach as you can tell the driver reaching from the driver's seat and the picture next to it kind of gives you a synopsis of what the driver initially sees before the route stops or starts so it gives turn BYT stop by stop directions audibly and visibly um it also gives student pictures student names and um it will also detour you around if there are traffic issues in the area so it's very very user friendly um a lot of the drivers our concept battle is I drive my route every day why do I need to use the tablet well also our routing and plane Department uses the information from the tablet every day day to update the bus driver's routes if things change so in January of 24 we went live with the entire School Corporation with uh transfinder so this not only allowed uh the schools to be able to enter their new registration registered students um but all the staff had to be trained at the schools to work the new software um also in the shopping process of the new software I want something that was replacing all the different kinds of software we had in the apartment the maintenance software the trip tracking software that did athletic trips um Sports run I mean Sports runs field trips all that stuff I wanted to replace everything so I could have one dashboard that I could look to see what was going on in my entire department instead of going to multiple different pieces of software to be able to see that um so we started in February Trip Finder which is the software that schedules the trips um it also bills the school corporate the school entities uh outside entities that use our buses and it generates trip sheets for the drivers that all the information has for where they need to go their times and they record their uh mileage and all that for the billing purposes uh in March we did started the service finder service finder is what the shop uses uh it tracks all the services for the school buses it Parts in inventory it does everything that we need to do to keep track of the maintenance on the bus the drivers are also on the tablet can submit a work ticket through service finder and it goes straight to the shop so if they have an issue with the bus it it's all done digitally there's no paperwork involved when that happens so in August of this year we went live with the stop finder app uh which is an app that the parents can download on their phones that gives notifications of when the bus is arriving in the area and also allows us to communicate directly with the parents so I believe I have a short video kind of tells you what stop finder does wouldn't it be great if you always knew where the school bus was well thanks to an app called stop binder you'll know your child is safe in real time you can also set up an alert Zone and stop finder will let you know when the bus is getting close with stop finder you'll have direct two-way communication with your School's transportation department you'll know if the bus is running late and you'll be notified of any changes stop wondering go to stop finder.com So currently we have approximately 2500 parents that use stop binder app every day um we do get calls if something happens and the bus isn't there on time cuzz they rely on those notifications so we actually I mean it is it is up and running and it does work so it's it's new um we'll probably send out more notifications probably after Christmas break and see if we can get more parents involved and and want to do wanting to to see what's going on we can also limit what the parents can see as far as I mean we we want to be careful because we don't want people to be chasing the school buses down down so we can actually limit the the Geo field of where they can see the bus when it comes to their house and not the entire bus route so if it if it's within 5 minutes of their house depending on if it's an in town route or an out of town route we can adjust those Geo fenses to make sure that we don't have any people we're not putting students safety at risk of people chasing down a bus or following a bus around um also something a little different um bcsc has always always put safety at the top for our school buses we've purchased since 2009 uh three-point seat belts on our buses and up until 2022 was the first year that every bus in the school corporation was equipped with seat belt seats so that being said uh in October of 23 the Ohio Traffic Safety Office reached out to me and wanted some feedback unfortunately when that stuff happens generally it's because of a tragedy so they had a school bus accident uh resulting in a fatality in August of that year um so immediately the governor of Ohio put together a working group that wanted to address safety features seat belts what what could they do to help prevent a bus fatality um ultimately buses are really and truly the safest vehicles on the road they're designed to uh roll over three times without the roof collapsing on them um the compartmentalization even without seat belts is designed to keep the kids safe um so we traveled to Ohio in November of 23 and met with the the governor's safety group um they kind of had I thought was some some out of work world uh ideas when they originally were talking they they wanted to pass a law to retrofit all the buses in the state of Ohio with with seat belts which is very unrealistic because it you know it kind of sounds easy to put seat belts in a seat but a seat Bel seat is designed totally different than what a regular school bus seat is it's the way it's mounted to the floor it's the way it collapses in an accident it's all it's all designed totally different so they I think once once they met many times they realized that this was an unrealistic uh thing that they were want to do so there is currently one School Ohio school district is doing a is doing a seat belt pilot program um so we do have a uh he's called a citizen representative that's reached out to me several times I've seen him at several conferences that's very proactive in the student safety in Ohio and he's he seems very pleased in what what has happened in in the the governor's group so anyway in November Katherine one of the bus drivers and I traveled to Columbus Ohio um she spoke with the group um there was there's a set group that met uh multiple times a month and when she was there they had brought in several different people that had that dealt with students every day different bus drivers specifically her us that deal with seat belts every day so uh the picture that you see up there is her talking to actually I believe that is the governor um asking questions of what her experiences were with seat bels you anything you want to say Katherine any questions for Katherine and her experience at in Columbus with the Ohio Traffic Safety Committee any questions she sitting down she didn't want question the the only question I had um the there was there's a picture right with the hand reaching for the tablet it I'm assuming that it's like a navigation in a car so once you're moving you're not going to be pushing buttons but if you stop you can say picked up dropped off correct okay yes that's all yeah the goal is we can we can take attendance with that at a bus stop uh we don't push that at this point uh the goal ultimately is to use student IDs scan in scan off that that's the point that hopefully we can get to um which would help immensely uh for student tracking if we got a lost student we just punch it up on the computer hey this this kiddo got on such and such bus so we're moving that direction um but yes yeah we don't we want hands off unless you're stopped at a bus stop and absolutely have to if not please pull off the road and and address any issues with your tablet don't don't try to do it while driving down the road then the software example showed that you have the ability to send push notifications yes uh can you give an example of a time or the set of times where we might do that and if we have any experience with so if if there's a substitute driver on a bus that's running behind we can send out notifications to that parent those parents that are utilizing the app on that spec because it'll just send it specifically to that bus route that hey this bus driver is running behind because I mean we we don't go too specific but yes good the the numbers are always amazing to me the number of miles per day and per year um and I I thank you and I thank the drivers for what they do every day it's just amazing I did want to ask in addition to U this update if you could give us a a brief real quick on bus cameras and our use of cameras I know we've outside the bus as well as inside the bus yes we have what's called a a 360 camera it is on the outside of the bus it's we've had those for five years so the view of those 360 cameras comes up in the big rearview mirror that's the driver looks at to see the students behind him so the way those cameras work if you turn on your left turn signal the left camera lights up right turn signal same way if you put the stop arm out it lights up the entire perimeter of the bus so basically it's giving you the or the driver the view of basically all the danger zones so if if this is the bus side of the bus it's looking straight down the bus which is somewhere where the driver cannot necessarily see so that's same way with the front same way with the back and that's what that 360 camera provides on the inside of the bus um of course we have stop arm cameras now which unbelievably it hasn't slowed anything down if probably it's it's made it's it's an increase and it's only because we've asked the drivers to be very diligent on on reporting that stuff because we're coming after them so we do have that tool we use it every day as a matter of fact I do have one staff member that that's her job every day that's what she does I mean that's I had to hire her specifically to do stop arm violations so um inside cameras uh we're actually transferring to a new company that is all cloud-based it's called radio engineering Incorporated so all we can actually have the capability of dialing live into a bus so if there is an incident going on a bus that needs addressed live uh just just off the wall somebody with a gun or something that we need to Lo log in live we have that capability to see what's going on the bus now it's this is we haven't this will be a process as we get new buses that we we're changing this camera system over but it's if we have to pull video from a bus we can do it at any point in time I mean we can log into the bus and pull video for an incident that happens but the the loging in live is is really nice I mean I'm not there to spy on what the drivers are doing I don't have time to do that but it's there in case of emergency situation I think it'll be be well worth it if if needed thank you just as a reminder Mr Stenner the the stopon violations we do work with CPD and send those directly to the prosecutor in those situations and and Mr mckeen's Right Where the frequency is not decreasing unfortunately Mr mcken or Miss copper is there anything else that you could think of that you would want to retrofit buses or our systems with to improve safety of our kids um to be honest we we are way above the curve I mean we we do everything that most School corporations do not do I mean as far as seat belts uh the camera systems the 360 view we are we are very fortunate that the school board has allowed us to to fit our buses with the equipment that we've got I mean there really isn't safety wise I mean the new buses are coming out with collision avoidance systems I mean uh rollover protection they'll actually if if a bus is it takes a turn too sharp it'll actually disengage the drivetrain I mean this is stuff that's coming from the factory that we're not asking for this is stuff that's that's just rolling out the door so we we're getting we're getting top-of-the-line stuff I don't I don't know there's anything else that I could ask you that to make it what we do any safer okay thank you thank you other questions appreciate the update okay Dr stom good evening thank you we are excited to present an update of bcs's transition to teaching programs Lisa Haynes and Liz or the backbone of the programs and thus they will be providing that information to you and then they will also be facilitating some testimonials from some of our TTT staff members at a high level bcsc has engaged in two different pathway models one pathway model is a parap pathway model and those are for pair professionals pursuing an undergraduate degree so they did not have a previous degree there a 3 to four year program through St Mary of the woods and we currently have seven bcsc par Professionals in that program and Lisa will provide additional information about that program our other model is a t2t pathway model that is for pair professionals with a higher education degree so if you have a bachelor's degree a master's or a PhD in another content area and you'd like to be a teacher this is a pathway model for you it is a 12 to 18month program through Indiana State University with we have currently 13 bcse teachers in that program so with that I will hand it over to Lisa Haynes so our journey started in the summer of where do I hit this one I'm I'm gonna end up shutting down the whole slideshow um our journey started in the summer of 2021 uh we be began the partnership with St Mary's of the woods to create a pathway for our pair of professionals to become certified teachers we put a call out for information uh about the program and an application process and asked building administrators to encourage uh the par Professionals in their buildings to please apply in July of 2021 we received applications we interviewed 26 of those individuals seven of them we selected to be as part of our our first cohort um the seven Prof August of 2021 then uh those seven par PA professionals are enrolled at St Mar's of the woods College uh they're pursuing uh certification in elementary and special education uh the special ed is all grade prek to 12th and our elementary people will be certified to teach in the elementary buildings Elementary curriculum or special a curriculum um and in addition to that uh our program throughout this time we've provided ongoing professional development OPP opportunities for our folks uh we have PD sessions for them we cover and that's all run in-house so we're not pulling in outside people or paying outside people we're using our staff that we have here within bcsc to help with that um so we cover topics like how to manage uh classroom behaviors techniques to keep students engaged professional responsibilities and our evaluation process our next get scheduled session is for October 3rd in which we're going to cover the teacher success rubric with a udl focus and this session is going to be presented by Dr star bong mrol and myself okay and it was this button okay so here you have our first cohort of people uh the seven bcsc teachers and they're going to be Li with licensed to teach by August of 2025 I have a testimony from uh Braden swim Simmons who is at Richard's Elementary and as you can read from his testimony that he has shared with everyone um this is a life-altering experience for him um it's giving him a wonderful opportunity and he's very very thankful for it um it's not a path he would have been able to go on with without this program now I'm going to introduce to you um another amazing individual that we have from our program alansa Chino alansa is at North High School in the special education department and she's going to be student teaching in the spring and she's going to share her experience with the program with you hello everybody um I just want to say that I'm very thankful for this program it has given me great focus and motivation to reach my goal becoming a teacher I've had this dream since I was um I don't know in elementary school so without this program I wouldn't have been able to do that um it has also really improved my knowledge of teaching and the skills I will need to be a successful teacher and because of this program I just look forward to working many more years with bcsc thank you I'd like to introduce the my other partner in crime listro good evening all right so our transition to teaching model was introduced to the pathways program in the summer of 2022 we began with a partnership with St Mary's of the woods college and the original cohort was comprised of 10 individuals who were identified after applications and the interview processes were complete the first 10 participants began coursework in August of 2020 22 after a year of classes eight finished the program they took over their own classes in bcse schools and are currently still serving in those roles successfully as fully certified teachers the next cohort was created in the summer of 2023 unlike the first group they pursued their Co coursework with the district's new University partner Indiana State University this group was derived from an applicant pool SCH of 13 individuals that was later distilled down to six participants from this group five are currently finishing their program and are teaching in their own classrooms they are projected to be fully certified and licensed by December of 2024 similar to the four-year cohort the t2t cohorts received ongoing professional development mentorship while pursuing their teaching license and certification so one of the most appealing aspects of the t2t program is that it fills our need to staff critical positions within our district and we can staff those positions with our currently highly qualified staff members who are within our Corporation our t2t cohorts are actively serving as teachers in five Elementary classrooms one Elementary Spanish Immersion classroom two special special education positions including one life skills two secondary science PHS and also secondary language arts foreign language and social studies so this is a statement from one of our first t2t participants Kimberly Owen Kimberly was recognized as the first Olympian of the week at Columbus East High School this is awarded to teachers who have been nominated by their students and their colleagues for demonstrating excellence in the classroom and reflects the exceptional Talent we are bringing to our Corporation through this program I would now like to introduce Veronica partia Garcia hello my name is B par I work as a legado kindergarten teacher right now to explain what t2t means to me I need to say that I strongly believe that any student can be successful if he has someone who believe in them and someone who teach them how to believe in themselves and that's what d2t meant to me it's a new opportunity to be something else I'm a former chemist in Mexico so one uh once that I come here I didn't know that I could do anything else and it's a new opportunity once at the beginning it was difficult I had I doubt myself but I have really great people they believe in me they they cheer for me and I start to change my mindset and I said maybe I can do it maybe I can as long as I went through the process I start to feel more confident I start to realize that you know what I can do this and now as a teacher I know how hard we work and how much care we put in our kids and um I don't only feel more admiration and um and uh proud I right now feel like we're doing something else something special and in my opinion teachers are changing the world one kid at the time thank you thank you Veronica originally Tracy Le was planned to be a part of our presentation but unfortunately she has a sick child at home um so she could not join us but I will tell you a little bit about Tracy so Tracy did her parah experience in the ed class at Smith and she is currently excelling as an lrc teacher at CSA fodrea which again demonstrates how our t2t program is able to fill positions which perhaps have been traditionally difficult to fill in the past and they're doing an exceptional job in them I'm going to hand this back to Dr stalon thank you thank you very much Veronica and alansa and Liz and Lisa so our Pathway to teaching for classified staff again we have those two different models what we would like to do is propose a cohort 3 for the transition to teaching model only through Indiana State University to begin in the upcoming spring semester utilizing our title two funds and I want to again thank you and celebrate your accomplishments and I think that it deserves a round of applause as they stated teachers are champions for everyone so at this time again we thank you for your support and our open for any questions um I have a question I just want to thank both Miss gin Miss Garcia for being here and your testimonials were just very moving so thank you very much for that um um could could you having both gone through the program could you offer any suggestions or any challenges that you had along the way that maybe we can learn from as we potentially move forward with another cohort suggestion honestly just continued support Liz and Lisa are amazing and then just knowing that you know we always have somebody to um ask questions too I mean we've had like you know some Mis Communications like with some of our teachers and stuff I mean and it's just like little things that they go out of their way on just to be able to be there so just having continued support from both of them it's I feel like it's essential thank you anything Miss Garcia no okay do do we offer mentors um as they as they enter into the classrooms perfect yes and then my other question I'll leave it to my team sorry um is we're moving forward or you're making a recommendation for a cohort on t2t but not for um the per program can you just say a little bit about that decision yes the par program at St Mary of the woods and I'm going to look at Lisa and she's going to nod if I start veering off from the path but uh it is it is no longer available in the design that we once had and so moving to Indiana State University who has that program available for the TT would be the path forward for us and then we need to continue to explore what university Partnerships have the par pathway program available if we'd like to explore another cohort with with that design okay good and I light I have one more question um can you tell me a little bit about the application and selection process how do you choose actually I'm going to kick that over to Liz to answer that question sure um so what we've done in the past and um we plan to do if this is approved WE Post um an announcement publicly asking for applicants and that job is actually posted on the bcsc website um one of the things that's really great about our t2t program is that it allows working adults to pursue their education and that's actually why t2t was designed right we're looking for people who have a skill set from a previous degree or job experience that could possibly be applied in the classroom so we're finding those people and they're able to work for us um and hone their skills within our classrooms so we put out an advertisement and we also ask building level administrators to recruit PA professionals that are currently in their building that they think might be a good fit for the program and encourage them to apply once we get the applications um we select applicants we select from the applicant pool um those individuals who we think best meet the criteria for the people that we think could be successful in the program and then those people are interviewed by a panel of Administrators those administrators then put in a recommendation for who they think um would be they would be good people to pursue for a program yeah thank you sorry team any other questions um well first of all I want to say this in a time when the our schools of Education around the state are not putting out enough teachers I think this is a win-win win for for our district and for these wonderful individuals we heard testimonies from and for our students so I I just commend you for what seems to me like stepping out of the box to solve a problem instead of complaining about it although we complain about it too but still um I I have I think three questions so are there other districts around the state that are doing the the par Pathways um and have you is that part of your search for looking for another vendor for lack of a better word yes there are several districts who had the parap pathway model and the TTT model and they are all in that similar exploration phase that we are with moving forward with the TTT model and then continuing to explore the par pathway model and and so the TT is now partnered with Indiana State so what exactly is their role it sounds like you all are doing a lot here but what is what is Indiana State doing they teach the courses so they so they're online courses that's right they teach the courses and then they oversee the student teaching and then the degree comes from Indiana State University okay and the other my final question I'm curious about and I don't expect you would have this answer off the top of your head but but I'm curious what what percent of our PA professionals already have a four-year degree so that the TTT fits for them don't don't know I don't have the answer on but I I I would think it's a fair number just from my own experience but I would agree with your assumption and I will need to gather additional information to be accurate because the T tot fits for them but if they don't have a fouryear degree then the the pair of pathway is what they would do that's correct any other questions no okay thank you you thank you very much thank you for your presentation nice to meet you okay uh we have school board member reports Mr Bryant do you have anything in the your committees Mr major we we didn't have we haven't had a Health Trust meeting in a while um there was Redevelopment uh there was a meeting last week downtown on the housing study I wasn't able to attend that but they're going to have another another go at that at the October Redevelopment commission so um from what I understand it's basically telling us stuff we already know which is there's not enough houses here so um other than that I don't have anything I I've got two the districting and Facilities committee continues to meet uh and do its work on both districting issues and facility issues uh with Dr Ban's leadership um and that work is kind of divided up now between General work across the district and then a whole subset of work that has to do specifically with the uh new Westside Elementary so that that work continues to go well second committee uh is the business Advisory Group uh and Mr Edwards has used the last couple meetings uh to sort of strategically take a look at the initiative that uh we ought to be focusing on and then getting that input from the community in particular the business Community as to which initiatives make sense to them um what initiatives they would be in support of thank you um I serve on the diversity Council and I sent my apologies to um Mr Edwards I was actually in United Way jail in my plant so it's a dollar a minute and I was in there for three and a half hours and there's no phones or computers um so I miss the meeting and I apologize for that he did give me an update that I will share however uh we did get to add several new members to the team that bring some some New Perspectives so we seem really excited to have them join the group and um a lot of time was spent on thinking through how we use our professional development days this year and educate help people with our diversity Topics in the school system so be looking for those coming up later this year Mr Grimes uh two quick updates from the school Foundation uh the school Foundation is pleased to announce the official hiring of a new executive director deepy agashi V Kumar is in and getting started and working with Administration and uh out making Community connections and also uh furiously starting work on on uh this is probably the third or fourth meeting in a row I've said mark your calendars we're a month and a half away Sunday November 10 the school foundation's largest fundraiser of the year a fun afternoon of basketball Shenanigans with the Wizards at Columbus East High School uh ticket information to be out soon Mr n um the Indiana University Columbus Advisory Board met for their very first meeting ever since the separation from the Purdue part of that um and couple things from that there were quite a few reports but two things I want to share one is um Dr Ryan Brewer who's the head of the business Division and also a Columbus East graduate um he gave a report on the um the status of the business division there which is um if not the largest one of the largest divisions at at this local campus um and Dr Brewer was also an integral part of um bringing the sports program to IU Columbus because he saw the potential that that had not only to help students but to help with their branding and to help with um to bring in more more students and partly because of that the the new sports programs um the enrollment is up slightly and the the number of hours taken is up significantly because in order to participate in those Sports they have to have a certain number of of credit hours um the other another interesting topic that came up um as a result of them no longer being partnered with Purdue they no longer have an engineering degree that they offer locally so they're beginning to look at possibly replacing that with a degree in informatics or um computer science and they're weighing the pros and cons of either of those okay uh cabinet reports yes good evening thank you for the opportunity to present additional information on the idoe employee injury report as has been noted the report from the Indiana Department of Education was generated from the Gathering of data of School Corporation through data exchange and the request was to determine the number of incidents when an employees injury was required to be reported to the public schools workers's compensation carrier the number of incidents when an employees injury caused them to miss all or part of one or more work dayss the number of incidents when an employees injury was required to be reported to the public school pursuant to the public school's reporting policy and the number of incidents in aggregate so that is what is stated in those Indiana codes that you see on the screen bcsc reported each category of our first reports of injury and we are going to go through the disaggregation of those categories today on the bottom of the triangle you will see that we reported 124 informationon first reports of injury so what does information only mean information only means that any time a student and a staff member had an incident that that staff member went to our nurse and our school nurse reported this incident in our Reporting System we have a very comprehensive and inclusive workplace culture where we are wanting to report every incident for safety purposes we send all of these reports to our workers compensation provider and we work with our workers compensation provider to understand the disaggregation of all of these these different types of claims that we send their way so we sent 124 informationon first reports of injury which did not result in a staff member needing a medical needing medical treatment that was a component of those 142 first reports of injury on the Indiana School employee injury report of those 142 first reports of injury we had 18 Medical Only first reports of injury those 18 Medical Only claims did result in a staff member going to the nurse and the staff member or the nurse or both determining that they wanted to seek additional Medical Care at our Occupational Health provider so that would be inclusive of those 18 an Indemnity report is when a staff member would need to miss work days due to an injury and we had a zero Indemnity reports we do know and this information or this slide has the same information just presented in a table we do know that whereas other school corporations in Indiana reported only the medical medical and indemnity claims bcsc reported all three categories of our claims which resulted in those 142 inclusive comprehensive safe workplace culture reports of injury with that stated some of the steps that we take at bcsc to analyze this dat data in a disaggregated way is to engage in quarterly meetings with our workers compensation provider and so we do that to analyze Trends and determine Improvement actions we are going to in integrate employee injury data into our district performance dashboard we do collaborate with the CA and District leadership and we talk about safe work and learning environments we have spoken about this report and then we also are engaging with the Indiana Department of Education to further Define the reporting parameters for this report this is the first time they've asked for this data and thus we are working with them to further operationally Define what to submit in the future so with that are there any questions I've got a couple things Dr stala so I think it was in the second slide perhaps yeah under other school corporations in Indiana reported the medical and indemnity claims only would it also be fair to add to that that other school corporations in Indiana reported nothing yes there were several School corporations in Indiana over 100 that did not report the information okay thank you and I think that speaks to uh collaborating with the Indiana Department of Education on the report and again for to Define what what the request is well and that was going to be I guess my second comment more than a question was that I appreciated that last bullet point there of engaging with the Department of Education because I would say I've been in the business long enough to see plenty of school Education data to paint less than an accurate consistent picture and this obviously um more than fits that category and so engaging with them so everybody's reporting the same things and that all are reporting would would be yes because this is far from comparing Apples to Apples so thank you I appreciate it I appreciate the clarification um and I have to say it's terribly disappointing that the doe would even put out such an incomplete and misleading report um in your I don't know if your conversations have gone far enough with them to know if their intention was for school districts to do what we did or to do what some of the other districts did in terms of just just reporting the the top two tiers of that it that question is still being defined and so the the conversation has went there but that has not been completely defined for us yet okay thanks Mr n Dale the um information that I've heard is that we should expect to see legislation this spring to clear clarify the intent of the legislative action from before and exactly what the ramifications are if districts do not submit their data thank you Aon just to help me um I'm sorry Dr St that wasn't nice can you uh give me maybe an example of a case and it can be made up that you know have a situation that would be in that bottom category and then one that would be in the in the middle category sure so information only um let's say that a staff member opens the door for students and students are going out to the the door to recess and a staff member and the student bump into one another upon exiting the door staff member might bump into the door we would have the staff member go to the nurse and there may be an ice pack that's provided uh maybe there's a Band-Aid that's provided maybe it's just hey I bumped into the door student bumped into me I bumped into the door that would be included in the information only claim that is in um our reporting culture that we would report that and all of that gets aggregated and sent to our provider same scenario in that 18 Medical Only so staff member opens the door student bumps into the staff member maybe the staff member cuts thems on the door I don't know there might be something on the door they Cuts with we talked to Dr Boseman about that of course but the staff member um might then need stitches and so they go to the nurse it's more than a Band-Aid can handle and they need to go to our Occupational Health Center to get stitches that would be in that 18 Medical only first report of injury okay thank you any other questions I guess one one oh go ahead no okay um so I appreciate some of the actions that um are being taken and I and I I'm assuming that we weren't waiting to report to talk about things that we're doing to help with our safety environments um can you can you give a sense for um how those conversations occur are there certain meetings or committees that they take place and when we may be able to get an update on maybe some of the themes that we're seeing or aggregate actions that might make sense across the districts just so we have visibility to those so I think there were several questions there I'll take the uh the last part we our hope is to have um this D board prepared for you sometime in the next quarter so I would like to say October but just depends on how busy things are between now and then but um to have it quarterly then show up in um at the very least in the board information packet and then maybe an annual review at the board level like we're doing tonight in the future okay thank you did that answer all your questions y than good so to that um I talked to Dr Roberts back in early March about the fact that we don't have a school board member on a Safety Committee and we don't regularly get reports and then you know obviously this report comes out a couple weeks back and I think most people were probably shocked that it was like that I knew the reason why I talked to Dr Roberts at the time was and now I don't know what's right and wrong um your zero days these zero incidences with no days at the top of the pyramid um I sat and had a long conversation with the husband of a teacher at one of the schools that was tackled and said that she was on workers comp for weeks so I don't I don't I don't know if if that's true or if this is true um but I think in order for us to show there's there to me there's three things that we as a school corporation need to do we need to safely pick pick up and return a child educate them when we have them and make sure they're well fed right those three things and uh you know with with all the stories that I've heard obviously I don't know what's real or not now my my request of Dr Roberts then and we've had this uh conversation a little bit in the past is how do we get how do we show show the community that safety is number one by putting I think you'd put either if you don't want to have public meetings for every safety meeting you put two or three board members on the Safety Committee how do we get to a point where we have board representation on the Safety Committee to understand what's happening quickly and where the Board needs to provide help yeah I don't think that's a question for Dr SA I think it's a question for the team and as you know we did meet with the Safety Committee as an entire board to get a little more familiar with the work and we have agreed to do that as an entire board again yet this year so that in January when committee appointments are due we can make a good decision when is the next safety committee meeting I don't know that we have it on the calendar yet but we've got more than 48 hours obviously before we would have scheduled that so it was intended for later this year and before we make committee appointments and so the whole board's going to be part of that committee meeting yes just as it was the first time any additional questions thank you go ahead thank you I I do support the second bullet point there um I think accumulating data and looking at it as you're already doing but then also setting a metric this is this is the target we want to hit I support that I'm wondering if you could say a little bit more about how things progress from the middle of the period uh pyramid to the top of the pyramid is that a decis when something's going to be turned into the insurer uh are we kind of we're talking about work comp here when how how is that is that our decision is that the injured person's decision thank you so okay let me take that same scenario so our decision and the injured person's decision is to go to the nurse as their first report of injury and so it is a collective expectation as I stated and I have on the slide we have a very comprehensive reporting structure for any type of injuries and so it would be it's it's a part of the culture it's you got bumped you know in the in the doorway you're going to go to the nurse and so we talked about that information only set with the bump and maybe I have a ice pack and then that same scenario there was a bump I cut my hand I need stitches I went to the medical provider and so that third triangle might be um there was a bump I went to the medical provider and I tore I have a fracture and so that would be the indemnity claim the indemnity claim because then I would need to be out for a surgery and so it would Place me out of work for a number of days in order for my me to have surgery and for for my injury to heal so in that we don't make the decision on if they receive what type of Medical Care they receive they make the decision that they need to go to occupational health and then the doctors at Occupational Health let us know what the course of treatment is so all of this runs through our workers compensation provider even if it's information only they still capture all of that information we still send it to them because these are all first reports of injury and so one information only first report of injury we want to make sure we're Gathering analyzing assessing those Trends yes and we also want want to follow it and make sure that it doesn't become um an issue down the line I don't know if that answers your question yes thank you and then uh the numbers in the pyramid here what what's the time frame associated with 142 one school year so this was the 20 this was the 23 24 school year thank you you know I um in my day job I work with OSHA and um this is very OSHA like first AIDS recordables recordables with the last work days is what that pyramid looks like to me and and um you know there's actually ratios that people try to look for you want the bottom to be healthy because it tells you that you have a good safety culture and and I will say having worked in a manufacturing site for many years getting a good safety culture is like n910 of the battle um so just having people be willing to come and tell you about these little bumps is is a real blessing because it gives you something to fix so um I know we have a lot of work to do any more than one name on the list a count of one is too many I think in all of our opinions but um so we have work to do but it's it's good to see numbers that we can work with and improve upon so thank you I appreciate it thank you okay uh now for public comments um as a reminder of our process so if anyone would ever like to speak at a board meeting there's a blue sheet at the table when you walk in you can sign your name um and you will get three minutes with the team um there is a clock there for reference um I would ask that if um you refrained from using names of individuals or specific titles when the school corporation we just want to make sure that everybody feels comfortable and we're maintaining um appropriate confidentiality where needed um no cheers or deers from the audience I think it's great to support one another but if we can just do that quietly maybe afterwards um again want to create an environment that everybody feels comfortable speaking in um so the name I have on the top of the list is Crystal pump Frey good evening members of the board um my name is Crystal Pumphrey um you spoke at the beginning of the meeting in regards to the threat that was made about 10 days ago um early Saturday morning on the 14th of September scrolling through Facebook I noticed a post in regards to the threat that was made um I was surprised to see the post on Facebook as a notice wasn't sent out to me as a parent especially with a child who attends a school in this Corporation and I understand that my child may not go or attend the school that was threatened but as a parent of a child in the school corporation I feel like overcommunication is better than underc commmunication um I emailed the members of the board and uh advised them of how I felt but I felt like speaking today as well uh the threat required immediate attention and action to prevent terrible things from occurring which thankfully it received that action um I think my biggest issue is the lack of notification I my child is 5 years old and autistic he doesn't have situational awareness he doesn't pick up on Fear and he he has impulse control so in the event does something tragic like this to occur at the school that he attends my child would not react the same way everybody else's would he wouldn't understand the need to be quiet he wouldn't understand the need not to move so I feel as though by not being notified on Friday when the threat occurred other parents in the district don't have the luxury like I do of being a stay-at-home parent they don't have the luxury of if they don't feel safe sending their kid to school they don't have to go to school that day because they're at home there's a lot of parents in this District that work rely on two incomes and don't have the opportunity to find child care with such short notice and I understand that an email or a notification was sent out on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 in the afternoon but that only allowed 18 hours or less for people to find child care if they felt safe or if they didn't feel safe sending their child to school so I guess my only request is that in the event that something like this God forbid happens again in the future overc communicate rather than underc communicate because I feel like parents should be able to protect their children as that is their right thank you thank you Miss Pumphrey um miss miss everel you were on the list but you spoke earlier did you want to speak again you're okay okay all right thank you I think that's all we have for tonight all right thank you Miss Weldon um item number eight on the agenda this evening is a request for approval for old business the minutes of the regular school board meeting from SE September 9th 2024 I move that we approve the minutes of our regular meeting held September 9th second thank you Mr gmes and Mr Bryant um any discussion or questions before we go to vote okay I have a motion a second to approve uh meeting minutes from board meeting of September 9th all those in favor please say I I I all those opposed please say nay motion carries thank you uh under new business we have the regular items of supplemental contracts field trips and professional leave school fundraisers and the claims and payroll September 23rd claims of 820,000 uh the August 2024 pre- runs of just over 6.3 million and then the September 6th payroll run of just over 3.9 million in addition under new business we have the uh contract with with lhp to complete the data uh building our data dashboard title 2 and title four grants the 2024 additional appropriation resolution the final change order for par Parkside Elementary project which is a reduction of that contract and then approval requested for the robots for autism Grant um that I shared last Friday with you all there's no equipment involved in this one it's only professional development I move that we approve all items under new business number nine a through J as presented by Dr Phillips a second thank you Mr Grimes and Mr Nan any questions from the team yeah the only thing I have is um and it won't change the way I vote tonight but will ask I think I've asked for this in the past too um anytime we have like a guaranteed maximum price um or adjustments in an an appro additional appropriation amount can we get like the original cost versus to the new so like if it was going to be 10 million and it comes in at 12 or if it was 10 million and it comes in at eight just so that we have a frame of reference so that we know what it was to what it will be uh yes I think I think that's in your packet tell me if you um we can chat afterwards if you want to see something differently but the existing contract is listed in there with a deduction than the final contract okay maybe I overl that's okay I I'll I'll chat with you but com I've got just one comment um this is in regards to uh supplemental uh contracts this crosses my mind almost every time I look at it but and this is a positive um I always notice that a great many of those are um teachers that are um substituting for other teachers and I guess what I would like to say is a big thank you to those teachers that are willing to do that uh they're certainly not willing or they're certainly uh I would guess the vast majority of them are not doing it for the money uh they are doing it in the best interest of kids and their school and their colleagues and um you know in in arguably today's day and age many of those teachers being willing to give up whatever tiny sliver of their day they have in a chance to catch their breath and um collect their thoughts they are back in the classroom subbing for for another teacher so I would just like to say thank you to th all those teachers um every meeting that are always on that list for that reason thank you okay I have a motion in a second to approve uh all items on new business 9 a through J all those in favor please say I I all those opposed please say nay motion carries thank you Human Resources recommendations the human resources recommendations for this evening consist of one appointment one agreement and one leave of absence I request that you please approve the Personnel recommendations as presented in the board packet I move that we approve all HR recommendations as provided by Dr all bom second thank you Mr Grimson Mr major all those in favor of approving items 10 Human Resources recommendations as presented please say I I I I all those opposed please say nay motion carries thank you there are no additional Personnel recommendations for this evening thank you okay board input and review Miss Janelle would you like to start okay um I would like to thank all the members of the public and some of them have already left that that um spoke tonight uh I know it was particularly hard for Miss Pumphrey to be up there and it's particularly hard to be living in a day and age where we have to worry about things like we had to worry about last week um I happened to be at North High School not because of that but for something else that day and and to see how much that impacted the the learning and the environment of the school was just it it it wasn't just a little thing um in fact when I was leaving um Mr Clark the principal was out in the parking lot telling parents as they drove up in cars that they had heard a false rumor on social media that day and that that the school really was not under a lockdown and school was going on as normal and and the parents said okay thanks and drive on but it it impacted everybody at the school um the other thing I want to say actually I have a couple other comments that I'm going to put them in application to a session I went to at the isba fall conference um the session was called student outcomes don't change until adult behaviors change and the the challenge was um what what we value what we're all about is um improving student outcomes and and so the the challenge was so what percent of your board time do you spend talking about student outcomes um so they talked about inputs and outcomes so tonight we talked about the budget that's always fun and that's definitely an input because we need to do it that's us putting input into um investing in our in our students and our teachers um the transportation report um was an input and I was totally impressed that we are ahead of the curve in safety and the way that we communicate with parents through that whole process um I wish we had that when my kids were going through school oh the bus is only five minutes away um and and that's a great thing I'm thrilled that we're doing that and that's another input that we're putting into the system the report um about transition to teaching was fabulous that's that's an outcome but that's an adult outcome and it's an adult outcome that's going to help our kids um so so the question we were asked was what percent of your last board meeting did you spend on student outcomes I think it was zero this time um so I won't tell you how high they expect it to be but but my Challenge and I hope I hope this isn't one of those things that I'm excited because it was today and then I forget about it but my challenge is going to be how can we increase the time we spend talking about student outcomes I don't want a longer meeting but I think we don't do that enough uh many thanks again to all those uh involved in the transportation and transition to teaching uh updates information very informative lots of good information much appreciated thanks to all the community members who took time out of their evening to be here this evening and the four that spoke either during the uh public hearing or the regular board meeting and then lastly um I would just like to encourage any parents or Guardians who might be out there listening now or might watch this later to consider filling out the bcsc family engagement survey that was in the last newsletter sent out by Mr Bernette dated September 20th I believe and so there is a real opportunity there to uh share your valuable opinion uh in all things regarding bcsc um I'd also like to Echo I appreciate all the participants um today es especially on the cabinet reports I I really enjoy bringing people closer like close to the work so I appreciated Miss copper um Miss Gina Miss Garcia that was really nice to be able to hear directly from them and ask them questions so um more of that going forward if we have an opportunity if it's relevant that was really nice um I and I and I agree with a d on outcomes and and results I think that's also a really critical point I think for the the meeting tonight there was just so much um swirling in the community and on people's minds about safety so I although I agree I felt like the time tonight was um well spent on helping people who are worried are afraid understand all of this information around us because it just gives Clarity on like what do we do what do we do next we really need to understand these problems and understand the real events so that we can do something about it and I felt like I got information tonight that that is a step in that direction um so anyway I appreciated the information and just can't say enough about law enforcement thank you um here in the room and and everyone who has just supported um the community our teachers in our buildings the last few weeks especially um excellent input and review so far I don't think I can add anything thank you yeah so just to go back you're right it was in there I did look it's the HVAC I'll talk to you after um the uh first thing I wanted to say is that uh like Dale mentioned the Indiana School Board Association uh convention is today tomorrow and I sat through effective School Communication in peace time and crisis it's great conversation around basically I wish Crystal was still here I mean I could just say ditto right I mean it was everything she said um you want to be quick you want to be truthful right I mean they give they give you a whole list of things that they tell you to do um and I and I think it was it was timely for me to attend that uh the afternoon session that I attended was on enhancing uh nope hold on where is it that uh great on their it's about a book that uh AJ krael wrote that is uh great on their behalf why school boards fail and how yours can become effective and to Dale's point it was a lot of stuff that I don't think we probably talk about enough um we a year and a half ago year year and a half ago we talked about doing more metrics and and Analysis and understanding reports uh to understand how everybody was performing we did not incorporate that into the agenda so it might be something that uh we can bring back and have a discussion about now a little bit later especially if we have a team working on metrics so that we understand how we're going to report those so all good stuff um you know last week we had a lot of concerns from parents students community members bcsc employees uh thankfully the police department was able to help help bring closure to the situation and everybody was able to take a breath and settle down um there's a lot that we can learn on both sides from a community standpoint from our standpoint as well about you know hopefully we don't ever have to do this again but if we do this again we hopefully have learned from it the first time so that we do a better job in the F in the future I just wanted to uh Echo Dr Phillip's statement law enforcement got it right it's not a situation of us going out there excuse me not us them going out there and finding this situation but getting the situation right so I thank law enforcement back there for being here tonight and take it to your uh City and tell them that we all thank you very much for the job that you do and Mrs Weldon I just want to add I always love seeing our school board members you know we spend a lot of time talking about those folks who work in school directly with kids all day but we continuously see um our school board members show up in the paper as an example for our kids and for our community of strength and Leadership and being good example for others and that was certainly the case on Saturday's article with Mr Grime so thanks for [Applause] that okay uh our next board meeting is on October 28th right here in this building at 6:30 p.m.

of the Green Castle School Board let start off do we have any adjustments to the agenda yep I don't have any adjustments to the agenda this evening okay very good thank you all right moving on to recognitions Mr Gibby y Mr Roberts well good evening um I am here to um recognize Christian Barnett he's a kindergartener at ridpath from Mrs Harvey's classroom and Christian has shown responsibility in multiple ways um throughout each school day he follows directions and goes above and beyond to make great choices in his classroom he's an example to other students reminding them of the expectations for different tasks he helps pick up trash and helps clean around the room he's responsible with his assignments and even brings extra practice from home back to school to show that he's working extra hard in his studies Christian is such a great student and we are lucky to have him at ridpath congratulations [Applause] Christian good job good job buddy good job dad good evening this is Miss Reese good pastor and I am so excited um to celebrate her tonight I've been watching her since she was an itty itty bitty little girl on the the site of a baseball field but I'm going to let our teacher talk about all of the great things um we're looking at responsibility um this month and Miss Reese definitely um is a responsible young lady well come here come here well I wrote something wonderful but now I'm gonna just come up with it as we go because you Rees you have done such a great job in the classroom you are so responsible anytime that we need papers out you have them out you are helpful to all the other kiddos in the class too you know that somebody does have something or it's not where it's supposed to be I don't even have to ask or tell you anything you go straight to putting it away or you go over and H that kiddo and say oh I think he needs this paper instead so I love how responsible you are and how hard you work for me um and everybody in the class will really appreciate [Applause] it good job reys super good at exercising too so our TZ responsibility student of the month is from Mrs Evans fifth grade class this is syus Lesner so syus um I'm going to read a little bit from m say EV couldn't be here tonight so she sent some notes silus is a great student he takes learning seriously and pushes himself to learn more he takes responsibility for his own education if he doesn't know how to do something he uses his resources to figure it out and I get to see this firsthand we um were getting onto our computers um and trying to get everything reset after someone told us to shut them all down and turn them all back on again some things weren't working right as we thought they should um silus was really instrumental in helping us figure out what was wrong with his so I I saw that responsibility firsthand so we want to say congratulations and thanks for [Applause] representing in a so the high school student of the month um Marissa is um new to us uh she came to back to Green Castle from um homeschool um she is involved with Mr Hansen in the choir um department so her shyness kind of threw me for a little bit Mr Hansen said that Marissa's kind and well prepared for class each day she's respectful to her teachers and her fellow students and she works through challenges with good attitude so we have Marissa [Applause] shidy is that all all very good playing soccer in the rain I like it Ju perfect thank you okay moving on to public comments looks like I have Olivia Willis hi Olivia would like to address the board I just remind everyone uh who would like to address the board just please uh be respectful to everyone keep your statements and three minutes and just be respectful of what you have to say we want to hear what you got when we can expect to see them okay we are working hard on that we're working in collaboration with with the mayor's office and some discussions with that now so yeah we have been for many years and it's getting even even harder now yeah there's been a lot of conversations on it so we're we're indeed looking at that stuff and I'm still in the schools every day so yes ma'am thank you all right we have anyone else hello microphone all right I have nobody else on there okay am I missing anyone all right very good all right we'll move on to the approval of the consent agenda uh which consists of meeting minutes for the executive session uh August 26 2024 regular board meeting minutes for August 26 2024 allowance of claims financial report Personnel Parts one and two m r yes hello uh two months out of the year we have um months that have three payrolls a August was one of those months so we're going to look at three payrolls tonight and we're also going to look at One Mini payroll there was someone that was inadvertently left off the first payroll in August so we did a mini payroll for them that payroll was dated um August 1st total payroll of 2571 85 and of course it was a teacher and they did get paid and they got their retirement and we've got payroll taxes on there total of 745 28 good news we caught it and all was well then we had a regular payroll dated August 2nd total payroll 425 57522 and again we always have the retirement and payroll taxes it was 127 94 and then the second regular payroll for August was dated August 16th total payroll 43 5924 99 and payroll and retirement was1 65533 and then the third Andi final payroll regular payroll for August was dated the 30th for a total payroll of $49,988 and then the payroll taxes and retirement on that payroll was 149 78 did anyone have any questions regard the payrolls okay we're going to go ahead and move on to a list of pre prepays for August 2024 as you look through the list did anyone have any questions about anything listed on the prepa did not nope okay then one thing I did want to point out on this you'll see um on to the second to the last page where your signature page would be you'll see that there was a check that I had to issue to the state of Indiana for 8276 511 I want to point this out just like we need to reconcile any deposits that our green cast that are Green Castle schools we also have to reconcile checks that we received that are not Green Castle schools and that happened we received 8276 511 and I knew that wasn't ours because I reconcile our grants every single month and I'm like that's not ours so I called them and they're right you're right that is not yours so we had an issue a check because we need to reconcile with our bank statement so total um prepays for August um was 376 $40.60 and then you've got a list of claims dated today September 23rd as you look through this quite lengthy list this month did anyone have any questions about anything no no okay if we go to the last page then the signature page total claims dated for today September 23rd 2024 is 455,000 $40.55 and we'll move on to the fund report if you're ready we've got the very first line for Education fund balance at the end of August 2024 was 3 million 68523 a couple lines down you'll see fund 300 that the that's the operations fund total an operations fund is 916 for 2752 and then if we go ahead and head to the very last page you're going to see the total in all funds is 9,438 5869975010 show on this report the transfers between Banks and once again we did some transfers from Bank two to bank 10 okay and then also we have our regular education Ops transfer um so our total um transfer for August was 1, 1881 26250 and then finally in your packet you're going to have the expenditures um for Bond 2021 and bond 2022 as you took a look at that list did anyone have any question questions on that no okay no questions I'd like to submit for approval okay any [Music] discussion hearing none can I get a motion motion a motion do I have a second I'll second have a motion and a second all those in favor I I any opposed all right motion is approved all right moving on to reports do I have the gcta here today right in front of me I'm sorry you're thank you m all right moving on to the assistant superintendent Mrs MC yes just a couple of things to share um I want to share that we were awarded a grant through the puam County Community Foundation um in the amount of $52,500 um this grant is going to go toward our preschool expansion um to hopefully add two additional classrooms um the funds from the grant we're going to use to not only furnish the classroom but also um purchase the Early Learning matters curriculum all the resources that go toward it um so that we can future goal where we can accept Child Care vouchers um to ensure high quality early learning for more students um in and around Green Castle so very very excited about that Mrs Cooper and I have a meeting at the end of the week to start all the planning processes on spending all this money and I really appreciate our uh partnership with the Community Foundation so and then I also want to share last week our Middle School Jag students and Mr Brown participated in their initiation and installation ceremony so this is a ceremony they have to do um each year at the beginning of Jag to kind of show their um their partnership with it and their dedication to it we had probably almost a hundred family members show up to watch this ceremony all but three students in the program showed up to participate it was an amazing evening for our students and families Mr Brown had projects set up he had his classroom open where the parents could go in and see all of the work the students are doing and our high school Jag program this Crosby had some students down to help with this as well so it was just a great joint effort um from both the middle school and high school and I'm just really excited about this program and what it's going to do for our kids so I want to very good sounds awesome thank you for your hard work on on both of those matters it's very awesome very cool all right our superintendent report Mr giy yep I have a couple of updates um but the during the first portion of it I'm going to have Mrs good pastor share an update um on progress towards one of our goals in our strategic plan so you'll be hearing from some of the different goals chairs um in the different months moving forward awesome so part of our strategic goal is um number one it's expand and ensure access and participation to organize activities so we've taken that on for the district to look at what do we offer um our students as opportunities for them to get involved um Deer Meadow and rid path start at a very low level obviously with kindergarten first and second graders um they each have an activity that a kid can participate in um we then started looking at what do we offer at the other buildings um how can we continue what they do and expand on it the time we get to high school so um tez has 12 opportunities that students can get involved in um middle school has eight and then at the high school we're fortunate enough that we have 55 activities that a student can get involved in so our goal ultimately is to take and see correlation between student grades and act um activeness in these activities um seeing how our activities can also impact our community and um finding needs within our community because we know if we have kids that are happy um they are willing able to do anything within the school um we also know that we have really good facilities um the kids are feeling very welcome and very active within their school so um we're pretty excited to go further into detail but that's just a quick um area that we've gotten into and um seeing how we can develop leaders and leads for our community these students can then fall back into it do you have numbers on how many you have in the those programs of the kids that we have in of the 55 what's the yeah right now we have um her teacher and we've also that's a great question um because we've also broken it down to seeing how much we pay um the individuals leading those activities seeing how many students they have how many times they meet to see if that ratio matches that makes sense um we're also looking at seeing if um some of our activities overlap does it mean that we maybe eliminate something and add something else um to use our monies effectively um and then also seeing what programs um develop big for students um that can go towards some of our other goals to look at maybe we need to reorganize some of our monies so right now it's a number um I have a spreadsheet that will say each activity how many kids are um involved in that but then we're um drilling it down even more um if of student names so seeing what students are multiple levels um what students are in just an activity and then um at the high school we have um figured out that we have 35 kids not involved in something so we will um with those 35 found out why there may be a reason why um and there may be also something that's lacking and that they wish their school had and then we'll take that on that's great yeah out of 51 it's really good it's pretty solid yeah so when we look at activities for the high school why we have 55 um that's our Sports um that is our academics that is our community service um that is um our academic as far as like AP or our Jag program or ad program or our business program so anything that's beyond just coming to school um we have put on that activity list and then um we have theater so um we have quite a few things that's great so the 35 you're trying to nail down and get feedback from them awesome yes yeah uh we I know one of the 35 um is really interested in e-gaming um and Mr Black is uh just met with some students and had a call out for that so we're hoping that will pull um that kid in and I know another one said that he just works all the time um and the working is going to be important and he doesn't know that he'll ever get to academics um so we'll we'll figure out a way to bridge um that Gap with him too but then there's still 32 of them so we're using our PLC time to have our group that's doing the F list with our group that's doing the ECA list and Coss referencing and um with our other group that's mentoring kids and getting the mentors and figuring out where do they fit in great awesome very nice thank you yeah then I just have just a kind of a few few updates with that and it's on the top of my list it's Mrs Wills uh spoke about it earlier um I reached out to the Sheriff's Department um can't remember if it was last week or or a week ago or it would have been prior to last week um I met with the the mayor last last Monday um so we are organizing U to look at what exactly will take what steps cost um just duties responsibilities the full full package on um bringing the school resources off school resource officers uh to Green Castle so we are working through that um that is something that I will bring uh before the board a recommendation in the upcoming months um so we can with that aome um I also did want to touch on that just on the piece of school safety we did share this out in parents square with their families um the sheriff's office has arranged for a speaker guest speaker actually we're hosting it for the county um on digital empowerment so just parents working with their kids monitoring social media that'll be on October 8 um in Parker a or excuse me in in the hub if we have a large turnout we might have to move it to a larger location but we are working in coordination with Sheriff's Office and all of Hutton County um on that endeavor do you have a time for that what's that do you have a time for that on October 8th I I don't have it uh in front of me U but we Shar that out with uh in parent Square okay and we have a flyer sorry I don't remember that evening though I said what's that is it evening or during it's in the evening yep it's in the evening I think it's like 5 or six o'clock six o'clock um so it'll be after um after Athletics after work so it'll be a good opportunity uh for parents um October 1st is our ADM count day um been monitoring our student count our student numbers and right now we're we're up um significantly from last spring count and we're also up from last fall um about nine kids um so that's that's trending well and that'll also be a nice uh piece during during negotiations um because the more students we have more Revenue that is Center away um so that's very positive um I will share the final count uh with the board um an email that's something I always always do we once we reach that date um our new M Middle School Furniture is going to arrive um over fall break they're going to do an install so I know that we shared previously that if anybody knows of any anyone that would like some of that equipment we have some other external Community organizations that could use some desks or tables we gladly donate um to those groups um rather than um dispose of them some of those items um I know that Mrs Elder is working Mrs Clemens and we're going to recycle on uh not recycle but move some of those items to TZ and to some other buildings if there's a need it makes sense to to re you know reuse them or repurpose them um but it was positive to hear that the new stuff is going to come with fall break so we W disrupt um disrupt the school day October 4th is going to be our first annual staff tailgate so we want to want to have some fun Fellowship um with our entire staff our entire staff and and their families and so we'll have a tailgate here um on the lawn outside of central office we're working with epic Insurance Midwest John fley our agent if they're going to sponsor the spor the meat and help cook burgers and dogs we'll have some sides and some other things as well but that is for our staff and their fam so good friendly so be just a little bit of a nice evening and some fun before for uh going over for the homecoming game and uh cheering on our our tiger cups um so we look to make that an annual Triss just get everyone um together and then the last item uh since we do have some newer board members I just wanted to kind of share with you I put a hand out on your desk um so quarterly I update some some cash flows um just to kind of show you where we are um with regards to our finances um at a later meeting I'll go through it um more in depth um but just kind of like to show you where we are um with revenues and expenditures um at this at this point in the year um just simple little things if you notice that they're under the months they two months that are highlighted in purple those are highlighted in purple because those are PR payroll months and we know that expenditures are usually larger during three payroll months so we just have we just had one so like for instance if you're looking at that top page the education fund month-to day expenditures $ 1.58 million for August whereas in July they 1.92 so you can kind of see it's roughly a roughly a third larger um actual percent of appropriation so if you take 100% divided by 12 months you should your target should be roughly 8.3 or less uh your Appropriations each month um you can see we're at 66 6.3 so we're just we're just under that so it's a good thing we're on Trend um with our spending we're staying within uh staying within budget um and things are trending positively for both the education fund and operations fund um something new that I've added to these cash flow reports um are uh if you look down at the bottom for both of them it says 20% reserve and 25% Reserve so one of our goals in our strategic plan is to have a cash balance uh in excess of 20 to 25% of our expenditures um so at this point in time uh bear in mind that that 20 and 25% um will fluctuate because what I've had to do is I've had to create um an average monthly expenditure based on first eight months of the year I multiply that by 12 and that gave me the annual uh expenditure list and that's what that 20 25% is based off but this is something that we will will track um and we'll talk about uh in some of our board meetings uh in the future dates so I just wanted to share that with you and that's all that I have for this month okay right I see we have no old business new business uh public hearing for the 2025 budget cpf plan and bus replacement plan so we'll go ahead and open the public hearing for public comments for those items at this time have anyone that has any public comments hearing none we'll close that meeting all right I have an approval request for secur school safety Grant project yeah so Mrs good pastor uh uh I forget the exact title as our Corporation safety specialist um puts in uh for uh grant funding um from the state each year um we sought out the maximum so 100,000 uh maximum uh in addition to 100,000 from Green Castle so $200,000 project would require $100,000 in funds from us and we would get $100,000 uh in grant funding um but the state uh the request exceeded the state appropriation and the state budget by roughly n million $9 million and so obviously they weren't able to fund at 100% um but we were awarded 8,868 38 uh from the state and we have a project that we are seeking approval to move forward with um with Del glass um it's a $199,600 86838 would come from our grant funds and the rest would come from Bond 2024 payments and our Focus has been continuing to um replace uh our doors and so this is a door replacement project for the east side of mac and Alley um so you imagine I don't know how many sets of doors there are I think there six double doors over there it's a large large project but we'd like to go ahead and um seek approval to uh move forward with that project um of which we're using some of our funds and uh some Grant dollars as well as we continue to work throughout the district to uh just improve Safety and Security okay do we have any discussion on that questions all right can I get a motion to approve motion do I have a second second motion and the second all those in favor any opposed motion carries all right have an approval request for a required ADM counts for the purpose of State funding and verification of resistency or membership yeah so this is something new and actually you're going to start to see it uh I think it's in July when we bring the teacher appreciation Grant policy before the board this is a policy that's already been approved by the board but we have to annually reapproved um each year and what this is um it just specifies um the required documents families um must submit to us for verification of residency um and this is a result of state law and so so again this is already approved policy it's just something that has to be annually approved and so um we might have recommendation board uh reapproved the policy as presented I see anything changed from last year same thing same exactly okay can I get a motion to approve so second what a motion in a second any discussion all those in favor all I any opposed motion carries all right I have an approval request for Indiana youth tobacco survey for the ihod at Greencastle High School yep so also uh you know a result um of state law before uh we can move towards with uh surveys of students these have to be uh have to be for Approved um and obviously uh there's information sharing with families and parents um and obviously in opt outs and uh the high school this will be administered to high school and it would be my recommendation um the board improve our ability of new boards with the Indiana youth tobacco survey is that that's the Department of Health that does that is that right Indiana Department of Health okay I didn't recognize the ihod I think it's transposed yeah because it's idoh down below we love acronyms so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a new acronym okay all right can I get a motion second I have a motion in a second any discussion all those in favor I any opposed motion carries all right um the next thing is I was contacted from uh contacted by excuse me uh putton County Health Department and so they have a countywide uh initiative um and this is a memorandum of of understanding to where um were some very specific needs um for individual students um they would like to make some funds available uh for green to Green Castle School District roughly 2,000 per School $1,000 in the fall $1,000 in the spring so that way if we have uh have student that for instance needs you know uh a new pair of shoes for for PE class or needs help uh with an article of clothing that we have a very specific purchasing process and procedure to where we can go and purchase those things and with parents permission give those to that student or that family so it's an additional support it's similar to what we do with some of our mckin vento funds um but by having an additional pot of money we're able to spread it a little bit further and so it's a nice partnership with the health department to where we can just make sure all of our kids are taken care of um for all the basic needs and necessities and there shouldn't ever be a time to where you know they can't participate in an activity because they don't have one so it's just a really nice thing um so in order to be able to accept those funds we need the board to proove the memor okay all right can I get a motion motion second a motion in second any discussion I all those in favor I any oppos that motion will carry all right approval request for leas employee agreement between puam County Hospital and dcsc yep so uh we've been obviously been working with futam county hospital um on tellah health and some assistance uh with School nursing uh nursing program and this just uh just extends all of that they're helping to share with some of the additional additional cost and so this this will formalize our agreement with them to where essentially each of our nurses will be leased employees from the hospital we have our new nurse coordinator uh Kathy Chris she replaced Fawn she oversees the red path Clinic um that also uh covers uh each our other school clinics um and at the same time we had a few clinics within the district um that didn't have a 37 and a half hour a week employee and so now we've been able to extend those hours and it just makes it much easier to have um a medical professional in those clinics for the entire School wedding um some of our kids just have a lot of very specific needs this contract says um first day of August through of 2024 is the first day it be yeah it'll it'll go retro back because we've had some of their uh we have uh we already have a few of their staff members um that have been working uh for us and working for us previously so essentially will back up to the start of the school year but it also says it ends in May of 2024 correct it ends at the end of the school year yeah but that's 2025 not 2024 okay well that will be a technical crash this came from the hospital so we'll update the the date with them on that but essentially it's for the school year and then provided everything continues to go well we look to continue to renew it 61 what page was that onite it's 6.1 and thank you page four got it yep 21st we don't want it to expire before it begins so we will make that the last day of school y or the last staff day of school there are some days to where they prepare the clle fall how's that impact with kids over the summer is there any impact we don't we've never had the nurses over gotcha continues with the same number of days that we've had past okay any further discussion hearing none can I get a motion have a second second the motion and the second all those in favor I any oppos motion carries good I see that all right we have an approval request for the 2024 25 Procare therapy contract for SLP Services yep so this is a recommendation from uh Mrs solivan this service that we need to uh to provide to our students um obviously a lot of these individuals are hard to find and so we found one and we'd like to be able to Mo fors and providing those services to our to our families so so request that the board approve this agreement as presented okay you need discussion is this in person or remote remote one that's one we have an SLP Aid so we will have an in person person as well correct for this one okay can I get a motion motion go have a second second a motion in a second all those in favor any opposed motion will carry all right I have an A approval request for athletic corporate sponsors we have pum seed service for $750 Prett straightforward there I have a motion to accept s moved all right have a motion in a second all those in favor I any oppos that motion will carry thank you very much all right we have an approval request for looks like four different donations Green Castle middle school PTO to Castle middle school for $275 we have Mary Allison Children's Home Trust de metal primary for $550 bethl Baptist Church to Deer medal primary for $500 and putam County Community Foundation to Green Castle School Corporation for $52,500 I move to accept second have a motion in a second all those in favor I any opposed motional carry thank you very much we have any other business all right hearing none we will move to ad joural I have a motion motion do I have a second second all right I have a motion in two seconds all those in favor I any opposed we are adjourned thank you ladies and gentlemen for coming have a good night stay dry good Stu

[Music] a I [Music] pap [Music] f [Music] oh [Music] a [Music] a [Music] a [Music] all right welcome to week one of the Isen uh regular season this week today the Blu and cyber Tigers will be facing off against players from 23 other schools toing 67 players throughout Indiana in the game of tetrio in the switch style bracket players will attempt to win a best of five and a One V one match different from years past each player will only compete three rounds each week instead of the entire bracket this means fewer matches between players and less over to overall time waiting between matches each week now our players are already going so let's Jump Right In yes we are big fans of waiting less time each week as you can see we are coming in Live From The Vapor wave Dimension yeah and the weather today calls for two things falling blocks and Good Vibes so let's switch over to our matchups yeah it seems that we do have one matchup going on we currently have Owen versus I believe Opie the famed Opie the legend the legend of our business it's definitely a business business business when we become a business I don't know I watch a lot of WWE and they say things about this business and you know I try to emulate the commentary and talking style whenever I'm commentating yeah I try to imitate like WWE talking Styles that's why I'm shouting so much whenever I'm commentating by the way we have just gotten word Jordan has won his first match of tonight's bracket very good job from Jordan very nice very impressive oh and there goes Owen unfortunate that is going to be Opie picking up the victory well played from both players and I'm not sure if we have any more matches going on at the moment we're probably waiting on some we are we have a special match between Hunter and Clay I believe waiting know about boto cyber Tigers yeah we're just waiting on some other matches so that sounds like we're going to have two matches of swap between within this round one very nice go wait for the cool stuff to begin yes we wait we wait I don't really have anything cool to do at the commentary table I you know there's no birthdays right now in my family so I can't throw confetti confet I can't scream at the top of my lungs how you're the reigning defending not defending Champion yeah because I've already done that actually that didn't show up on stream I just just don't really feel like it oh clay and Hunter are going oh swap to them are they actively going they're actively going yeah good playing here we go we got a should probably remind everyone who is who that is Hunter under the name sugar Lords at the left side of your screen the okay we got cut off for a bit but we're back we are still rolling that is let's see here that is oh and that's a loss for clay first one to Hunter wow oh yeah look at him look at Hunter excited there see that's Clay on the right side of the screen Hunter on the left you get some cool stuff going some nice combos from Hunter let's see here they're just killing each other out there're trying to get some like buildup or some smaller matches going right now oh miss Hunter M drop you can see that invisible frustration there good Z spin though clean that up real quick okay we need we need to stop getting cut off that would be awesome okay there we go technical difficulties we are still going technical difficulties but they've immediately been resolved just like the last technical difficulties from like two seconds ago yeah this seems like a good match anyway we are still going strong yeah this is quite the evenly contested match there's another unfortunate Mis drop from Hunter but he is still on the offensive here no he could work with that yeah spin again goodness Go in all my years I've never seen a maneuver like that that's standard here he goes good feel on that left I'm getting some combos going comos combo to the quad clay can't match that many more pieces he's in a bad position in the board right now see can clean it up you got to look for anything on the zp anything other than dying or I don't know if I can say that can I say that what I don't know there's a lot of like dying there's a lot of random things that we can't saying like we can't say last names all clear maybe was going for the all clear set up into a te- spin anyway that's a te- spin double you want to tell our fans at home what a tees spin double is I do not cuz keep in mind our audience our audience is in fact parents who don't play video games that's a win for Hunter meanwhile that is a win for honter yeah you're gonna hear this term a lot t-pin it's basically so you take the t-shaped block into a t-shaped hole and you spin it while it's inside of it and then it will then once those lines get cleared if you clear two lines especially three lines with that t block that is going to be massive damage coming the opponent's way same as a quad only I'm the win very trip I messed up way too many times getting a victory very good meanwhile we've got EMT don't like that hole so yeah EMT on the left side of your screen I believe he clears it up I believe every round it is going to be your cyber tigers on the left side of the screen keep that in mind unless it's otherwise stated I think the only scenario where it wouldn't be would be like a you know if it's a cyber tiger versus cyber tiger match in that case they're just on both sides of the screen yeah should be on the left at all times yeah this is EMT the Lego Master good combos with the combos ni double as you can see at the top of your screen that it is currently EMT up uh 20 in this matchup good clearing for M good just got to finish this last round and this could be a victory for em oo nice up to his opponent void Walker not going down without a fight getting some good single matches to bring down his side of the board but EMT I believe building up for something big here probably going for that quad on the left side mhm yep he's got enough blocks for it there it is he sends the quad in the direction of void Walker Going build up for another one too I think so void Walker is in some trouble his screen is red so it's time to put him to bed never mind void Walker fighting back oh a back toback quad from EMT that's some damage oh my goodness that's damage she gets stuck that's a game that's a win for EMT that is going to be EMT taking the victory you could see him excited on the bottom of your screen on the Cyber tiger face cam but yeah I believe that's all of our round one matches so I think we should uh get a little recap on who our cyber tigers are so we've got face cams for everyone let me introduce you to your cyber Tigers Tetris team first of all we got EMT that's us that is not Baro the dark ninja this is blue jay and this is minion anyway can we cut two Baro the dark ninja I assume there's a reason tigers with technical difficulties you've never seen that before impossible yes for Professionals for real we are so professional which is why you should sponsor us cuz we're so professional we don't currently have any sponsors for this season but if you would like to you will get your uh business or you know whatev uh listed and Shout out every stream here sponsor us cuz it would be very cool you'll be known as a cool person and you want to be known as a cool person don't you then sponsor the Cyber Tigers the coolest people on Earth clearly absolutely yes I'm so cool all right now then uh we're going to try this again we had some technical difficulties the first time uh but we're going to reintroduce you to your Tetris cyber tiger team of 2024 and 2025 season anyway first off we have EMT the Lego Master that's not that wasn't em try again hold on and he's gone from his chair that was my oh okay well well EMT seems to not be at his chair see we can get anyways anyway oh that right there on your screen is Owen AKA oh sheets and next up on the list we've got varo the dark ninja yeah nice wave next member of the squad we've got Jordan aka stricky that might be how you pronounce his name I don't know I hope it is I I think that's right yeah real dumb the next member of the team the rising star Hunter sugar Lords staring into your soul look at him yes very intimidating and the final member of your cyber tiger Tetris Squad clay [Music] Firestorm and that is your 2024 2025 cyber tiger Tetris Squad I am shouting way too much for this segment brings energy yes I told you WWE contrast they shout for like everything yes anyway my throat we need theme songs yeah we really need theme songs we need like entrances we need pyro yeah we need to like come out of the commons explosions yeah every single match we need to come out of the commons walk out as a team theme song pyro everything a Titantron it would be so cool okay we're probably going to go to bracket right about now yeah I am at see how we're standing yeah oh yes look at that bracket e e e I go Master on your left side of the screen taking on n43 there's probably sounds like a rollup from Star Wars kind of I'm sure there's an easier way to say that but whatever because that's a quad a triple is Nate oh it's Nate you figured it out okay that would be it yes yes Nate's not doing very well we're so intelligent hey keep it positive not doing very well keep it positive we're positive we're all friends here Sam or should I say 139 okay blue J okay Jaden Michael that's my middle name you never said anything about middle names full name Le oh two quads that should end that's a violent there it goes that should end him anyway that is 1 EMT is up the Lego Master taking the win in that first round let's see if you can keep up this momentum but let's see how even a match we are going to have he's setting up he's stacking he's getting that big big stack oh not going to let it Loose yet we're going to see a double clad maybe even a trip oh my God Nate is doing really well we're friends here he's doing positive that's a double quaddle I was looking at Sam because I was lecturing him and he's done yay nice that is EMT going up 20 on track for another Victory here tonight yeah um I believe if he gets this win he's two on the night and in the regular season no for this round he'd be three 0 two because this is round two this match he'd win three 0 yeah but like overall overall he'd win 2 yeah that's what I'm saying we're talking about different thing yeah anyway whatever we got EMT he's signature move rample uh oh he just set it up nicely for me see what you can do about it there's a triple coming through a single more up stacking see here it's a red screen red screen should be sneaky move from Nate could put him away but that quad is going to give him some ground he's got quad perfectly deflect it now one was close that one was very close and a quick onew combo there we are rolling rolling triple into a single see if you can open up some space or maybe another quad he's trying he's trying to get he's trying to get back into his you know comfortable position nice flat oh there we go good quad he sneaks the eye Block in there gets that quad it yep open that left side oh he's thinking thinking taking as much time as he can placement what he had available just goingon to sneak that in there right oh good stuck can we comeb back that is a bit worrying unfortunate rotate still going to find a way to get a single there oh oh look at the two boards that was so close said that in perfect snc all right so that round is going to be two to one that round is ongoing but Meanwhile we're switching over to Kay on the left side of your screen once more getting is that I think he just won against the Raven king that's full victory iory that is Clay getting a victory here tonight in round two meanwhile we go back to the match up it's like when your football game is on commercial break so you go to a different football game and then that football game goes on commercial break so you go back to the other football game yeah I'm relatable I watch sports no I don't cool anyway let's stop acting like we're cool and let's talk about something like Tetris because it's going on on our screen right now I almost said screen bone yep open open for the quad open for the quad three combo ending with a quad and there's a triple and there's a single and there's a single nice combos Nate's screen is red let's see if EMT can get a finish a clean board the quad oh save it oh he's saving it for that Bon nice and there is the Finish coming in from EMT meanwhile that's Baro also with a victory offen very nice cyber Tigers nothing but W's I think oh we do have Jordan going against Doo meanwhile just as I say we're taking nothing but W's that is oh okay we're not watching that match up though Hunter against Brian master hunter on the left side of your screen let's see hero there's a quad coming through there's a single there's a single my placement from Hunter he clears up a stack there's a quad coming through nice ni clean up while this round one is ongoing oh there's a t- spin double good combo countered good combo rotate that in nice with a z spin he spun the Z block that's why it's called a z spin that was newly added get bonus points for that last year Hunter just trying to get into a comfortable position here to dish out big damage right now he's just throwing oh he's going down there's that position that wanted right there meanwhile match update Jordan is going to take an unfortunate loss to the reigning defending dual kind of champion stalo the guy that all clear all clear oh he messes it up let's go it's good for Hunter yeah just so you know stalo is the guy who tied with uh the man sitting right next to me for first place in single a state last year here so like that's pretty cool that was a quick match meanwhile Hunter is potentially on the last round against Brian Master if Hunter can put him away he will get a three up is he taking a Dr break in the middle a water break it's okay he's fast he can build up you know drink your water there's a double quad coming through more brain power there's a fueling he was powering up ran Master throwing some good combinations at Hunter here let's see still going those small matches just trying to get into a position where he can dish out that big damage we saw it last round we're seeing it right now before our very eyes watch him clean up yep te quad there it is another quad there another one hey oh Brian Master's down that is going to be Hunter the sugar Lords the lazy Soul whatever you want to call him it doesn't matter cuz he took the victory tonight [Music] yeah I would we really need theme songs now I really want it we have a sound board can we get an air horn oh yeah something yeah we have a sound and one is match as well yeah the soundboard discussion will be saved for later hopefully something cool will happen regarding that meanwhile Owen did win his match so I believe that's a uh everyone but one cyber tiger taking a victory here in round two very nice very nice so yeah we got our players just taking a look at the bracket looking back at their matches maybe queuing up for some quick play to keep warm back to bracket so you swap to round two here is the bracket we will see you in round three coming up just in a little bit e e e yeah oh yay we're here as you can see we still haven't found a way out of the vapor wave dimension oh hold on I think I might have just found a way out of the vapor wave Dimension no Jaden come back he's gone forever I'm not gone forever there wasn't anything over there we're still trapped in the vapor wave Dimension I think we might have to win the state to escape the vapor wave Dimension whatever that one is that's a j no l favorite piece hold on which way um anyway we're gonna have to come up with more idle banter because we don't have a match going on right now but we do we do have a round three a round three will in fact happen and while we're here we might as well thank our sponsors we're still waiting for our match just like we're still waiting for a match we're still waiting for a sponsor so it could be you you watching this video right now this live stream this video this archive I don't know how you're watching this but you are because he would hear me so yeah uh sponsor us it would be very cool We're very professional definitely as you could tell throughout this entire stream so yeah sponsor us what's the moral of the story Sam huh what's the moral of the story Sam you clearly learned to nothing abely the moral of the story is to sponsor us M yes Mor of the story is give us your money and then we will say your name on stream don't you want your name to be said that would be very cool uh we do have a we do have a Lobby oh Baro yeah it's looking like Baro the dark ninja is going to be going up against EMT the Lego master in a cyber tiger versus cyber tiger clash and that match is getting started right now I don't know if this is a practice warm up we're assume it's the actual mat anyway that ISO on your left side of the screen that is on your right whatever double triple can oh my goodness [Music] coming the boyo that's the nickname I've cast upon him the boy the Baro the boy Baro yes I want to get I want to get nicknames for everyone you know you know that's another WWE thing that I can do give everyone nicknames tpin a triple t spin triple meanwhile as this match up goes on that is Clay going up 10 against creature right now just an update on Clay's current uh matchup that's a t-spin double coming through from Baro that's a t-pin double coming through from Baro just sending those spins that is a round win Maro on the bottom of your screen shaking off the nerves going in to round number three little pa think B immediately getting pein double this is definitely a title Contender that we are watching right here absolutely this is gameplay stacking here he goes with some combos he's throwing strings stacking up perhaps looking for a bunch of quads quad and a triple qu triple we spin there get it in got it where to go coming through with the triple good double just's waiting for our place oh that's emit with the quad the quad and a triple triple combo into a single both players and about even footing on theard clean up big damage coming through fromo got stuck at the top got stuck and that is going to be Baro taking a victory meanwhile Clay on on round three of his match up against creature up 20 currently it's an easy win for play We're supposed to be nice oh maybe another a not the Miss yeah he's gotten himself into quite the rough position right here he's cleaning up pretty well he is cleaning up here he goes there's a quad coming through don't think creature can handle it supposed to be nice stop being so rude Samuel and creature just got destroyed oh pretty high up on the board his screen is right it's time to put him to bed boom and he is going to be able to pull it off that is that is Clay Firestorm night walk getting the victory in round three I don't know if you heard that all right there we go that's why I didn't immediately come into the room during the break I was setting that of course we got Jordan going against a true wall okay we got Jordan he doesn't get the Jonathan Cena theme music he doesn't get the theme music from the guy from fortnite I see that that made you laugh it's good I'm proud of myself I'm a funny man I'm a real haha guy spins spins he doing throat is doing horrible oh didn't do the te I wonder if it's because I'm screaming every five seconds combos he's pretty high up on the screen whoa what happened I don't know but that is going to be Jordan taking a victory I've already taken away the John scena music so I can't I don't want to pull it back up it's Ellen wow look at him yeah fighting rock and roll it's a one-1 matchup that is Owen in the middle of your screen his opponent in that like small little tab right next to him yeah middle of the screen that is your cyber tiger Owen let's see nice Parry keeping low on the screen sure he's gonna set for a double okay double works oh Mis I should mute my phone now that the bit requiring my phone has concluded Owen doing well very nice he has potential they're both playing relatively safe right now I don't think we've seen that many you know like big boy damaging moves like those quads and those t- spins come through yet they're both a fan of singles yeah it's been mostly singles doubles good combos though get some more combos we get more lines maybe a misclick maybe future planning who knows I don't really know that well I casually play this I'm not very good maybe I don't know I don't know what the skill thresh threshold to like be considered good at Tetris is do you know what T spin is yeah can you set up quads yeah can you set up te spin yeah pretty good yay you've heard it here first I am pretty good at Tetris do you know what an all clear is I know what it is I have no clue how to set it up never mind a you're bad you've heard it here first I am dog water at Tetris you heard it here first it's been reported it's in the books official I'm bad at video games Jaden is very good at video games you heard it here first breaking news no way anyway let's stop talking about me even though I'm glorious and amazing and awesome in every way possible don't PE bit of a tricky situation and unfortunate one to two right now still a very close match yes this one is close I would not be surprised if this went to a round five let's see if Owen can stay alive in this matchup there may be a m drop there it's a lot of cheese oh oh hold on do you see that we have breaking news we're gonna have an interview we love interviews we love interviews we love interviews uh it is going to be Hunter coming in for the interview the sugar Lord the lazy soul Hunter the second coming of Noah remember him remember that guy yeah he was pretty cool right anyway before we actually get to that interview you know we got to finish this match that's happening right in front of you on your screen open doing this down doing this yes no rotate stay alive a bit high up on the board put the blue one over there not the greatest position there we go the red down good same as proud same as proud I'd like to see that blue one no high P good how proud is he how proud is he got good game could ba in there see if we get a special spin no he plugged it should open it up yep open open more damage on the right Owen doing a solid job of cleaning up here who's in a precarious situation just moments ago nice oh that's unfortunate that's a big gap he needs to fill not sure how accurate that was there blue oh that's stuck with the O piece the line block long but anyway I believe that does conclude our matches for this evening oh my goodness it's Hunter hello is that could it be with the microphone Hunter the sugar Lord the lazy soul Hunter it could be me it might be him oh oh my God maybe hold on just maybe I think I just saw an exit to the vapor wave Dimension what no way we might be able to make it out of here eventually uh but who knows for now we have more important matters like what this guy's thinking how are you thinking about your performance tonight I think I did pretty good I won every single game um M I did not feel good about um taking my teammates down cuz I had to go against Clay so that didn't feel too good match dominance yeah but um I did pretty good overall and uh there's a few things I could improve but nice want to give an explanation on what you're thinking for training in the future um uh I saw a few M drops I had and I could probably fix that and also um yeah all right just the Shaving around those rough edges am I right yeah all right uh what about your other cyber Tigers your fellow comrades in that room with you uh what do you think about their performances tonight I think they did pretty good but um some people they went against really good people like opai so that's not with Telo yeah yeah so I don't know how much better they could do cuz they're so good but I think we did pretty good all right yeah you love to hear it we did pretty good I mean I trust this guy's opinion more than mine and he thinks we did good so we did good we did do good good night yay let's not go right to good night we got to have some little like exit the good overall night and exit theatric fantastic you can't just go okay leave now we got to we got to have a whole like you know I'm speaking everybody did good tonight I don't know oh back to standings I don't know if we can still be heard I'm going to assume we can still be heard do I go now I don't know it's a great add huh anything else to add I don't think so goodbye good okay goodbye that was Hunter the sugar Lord the lazy Soul uh it would be funny if I was talking to myself I don't know I'm going to assume I'm not talking to myself and I'm talking to a person talking to a real living breathing human being like you Deborah I want I want to make that a thing for my commentary I just call out some random name what we got we got Baro and Hunter in the top all tied for first B are all tied for first very nice whole bunch of others got Lego master in eth I believe uh we got clay down in 13 yeah we do have quite a lot of members uh oh she's also in 13 in that first spot we do have uh same with Jordan yeah that is um Hunter and that is Baro in the first place with a bunch of other names uh big names that you hear a lot here like Opie stalo a lot of returning players FAL opai stalo and custo I don't think I've ever heard of custo is he new I think he is new I remember that from last season well lot of exciting talents and we've got a bunch of other cyber Tigers rounding up some other uh still very good positions like emit the Lego Master coming in with a multiple man tie for eight but yeah we have a lot of high placements uh for members of the team right now it's looking like it could be a very exciting year it's only the first week of competition but we are looking good the future is looking bright just like the sun in this Vapor wave Dimension that we need to escape from I'm going to make that a long running joke at least for now I don't know but anyway U I think that's going to be it thank you all for coming out here tonight taking time out of your precious days breaking the dimension the sky it's there oh my goodness we made it [Music] n [Music] he

I PL aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all we have some superintendent Awards this evening so board if you'll join me Dr Smith on the floor good evening we are proud tonight to start off our meeting with some superintendent Awards and we'd like these Superstars to come forward First Franklin bush [Applause] Mr Franklin bush has received the black excellence in education award from school-based administrator from inop power minority business week the black excellence and education Awards celebrate and honor outstanding achievements cont contributions and excellence in the field of Education by individuals of African descent one part of his educational impact has been his work on focusing on student achievement and providing highquality opportunities for his students he has increased student opportunities with clubs and activities with leadership groups like student council black Heritage Society Club Latino leaders and the athletic Leadership Council this has contributed to the growth of participants and positively increased the pride and culture of the Lauren Central School Community we are honored to present Franklin bush with the superintendence award congrat [Applause] ulations put this on B it on your head bring the and Mr Bush has brought family members with him this evening that we are so glad you're here to join us one two introduce family oh man absolutely my I have my beautiful aunts back there um been huge part of my life uh as you guys know my brother Victor uh VI brother mentor and and my beautiful mother um means everything so thank you guys is here thank you so [Applause] much next we'd like to recognize rose red she has also received the black excellence and education award for support staff from inop power minority business week the black excellence and education Awards celebrates and honors outstanding achievements contributions and Excellence within the field of Education by individuals of African descent Miss red has made a significant impact in various aspects of Mary Castle Elementary School academically she's been strong advocate for Student Success by generously purchasing books for students her commitment to ensuring a conducive learning environment for students is evident in her efforts to support their academic growth cult Miss Red's visibility and helpfulness have made her a beloved figure at that school her warm and welcoming presence has contributed to the positive School culture and has made her well-known and respected member of the community Miss red retired from Lawrence Township last July she'll be greatly missed but we thank you for the impact you've made on so many you and with her is her principal Mr BL for and with her we have her proud principal Mr blle come [Applause] this is my [Applause] son I love it thank you next we'd like to bring up Kevin ker and Franklin Bush to honor Indian Creek Elementary and Lawrence Central High School congratulations to Kevin ker an Indian Creek Elementary School at the 2024 Indiana Department of Education educational excellence awards on September 6 Indian Creek was honored with the Excellence in stem award this award recognizes schools that have expanded access to high quality stem learning opportunities for all students Indian Creek Elementary designated a stem certified school collaborates with the Indianapolis Power and Light Utopia class and New Age Provisions Farms to provide students with real world stem application and experiences they plan to use over $180,000 in Grant award funding to support STEM related educator professional learning and to fund some exciting additions to their maker space for students we're honored to present Kevin ker with the superintendence award thank you for your leadership congratulations and Mr ker would like to recognize his team so I did bring my team that makes this happen I have my uh individual that dreams big and we follow her dreams L Monica Henson I have I have Rebecca Faxon who's my our instructional coach she's the one that takes those big dreams and 24 hours later figures them out how we're going to do it and then we have Suzanne Griffith who keeps us anchored in the science of reading and making sure we're focused on literacy as well and and the one I couldn't do anything without who keeps the building running all day long my assistant principal Valencia [Applause] Williams come on hold on for a second every want bring his team he delayed the board meeting a little bit protocol Come On Now ladies bring your team right you can call them out Kevin they gotta be in the picture with oh that's true okay once you guys come up we'll do two rows you guys on the front AR you you guys here wejust if you can all take one step to your right there we go go see that's much better all right one two three congratulations next up congratulations to Franklin Bush and Lawrence Central High School at the 2024 Indiana Department of Education educational excellence awards on September 6 Lawrence Central High School was honored with the Excellence and student centered support award this award recognizes schools that are expanding access to evidencebased supports in the areas of academic and student well-being with students in mind the Educators at Lawrence Township are using their $250,000 Grant award funding to expand access to high dosage tutoring and continue to support students with mentors through the Lattis system if there's an opportunity to support students in new ways Lawrence Township is tuning in and making it happen for kids we're honored to present Franklin bush with a superintendent award for this great honor thank you [Applause] conat in the middle Mr Bush he brought his Hardware here just make sure put that you got hold it hold that yeah because that that way we'll know which pictures she has to post both of them congratulations one two three all right thank [Applause] you just Kidd next we'd like to congratulate the director of student services Mrs Shawn Bush Mrs Sean b on receipt of the Rising Star Award at the Indiana Association of public school superintendents administrators of color preparing for the future conference this prestigious award recognizes a leader in the field of Education who is demonstrated an unwavering commitment to Excellence and growth this recipient has been recognized by peers mentors and supervisors for their outstanding accomplishments and remarkable potential we're honored to present Sean bush with the superintendent award congratulations [Applause] what you going there look at that all right one two now miss Bush I I know that you have family here but some of our friends may not know that that's all your fam can you let us know who your family is yes so I have my amazing husband Victor Bush here I have my mother-in-law yeah Carmen glass and my aunts Aunt Ruth Aunt Sher and Aunt Lynette and my wonderful brother-in-law Franklin [Applause] okay that brings us past recognitions to information items Mr Smith could you report on the Blue Ribbon update please Madame President Dr Smith members of the board uh a lot of work going on in pool at LC deck work uh over the weekend the bulkheads were installed Legacy wall is going up and should have that completed by dedication multi-purpose room is complete and they hosted Homecoming in there over the weekend Ln New Edition again the site work is nearing completion uh inside work uh continues on and hopefully the end of this week first and next week our new furniture will be going in those rooms again interior classroom part of the media center bser Middle School tennis courts going underway uh we supposed to Asphalt this week but the weather May keep us from that front uh canopy uh continues on steel work has been measured we'll be here in a couple weeks the auditorium is complete turned over to the building I believe they're going to be hosting uh this week uh an activity in their new facility ball Creek Valley art rooms and hallway continue on uh Orchestra room also drywalls going up site work there with the baseball uh softball stadium tennis courts and baseball uh that's a new scoreboard post going up for soft South lot this Building completed turned over to the building uh last week and the next slide shows the South Bridge uh we should have a majority of all the work completed by the end of October for this project new steel uh or the new LCC steel work continues on um and site work uh utility work continues on as well do you have questions for Mr Smith no yes no thank you thank you very much um we will move on Mr Notre please um to 20242 District assessment calendar update thank you Madame President Dr Smith and members of the board uh this evening I bring to you as an information item and update on our district assessment calendar and we'll be discussing two different types of Assessments this evening local Lawrence based assessments that we get to make the decision on and then state required assessments that are decided for us we'll begin with I ready and I think you're familiar with I ready um we have a board goal that's centered around it for reading and math proficiency we also are testing uh for the first time a pilot for I learn and this is a checkpoints pilot that we've opted into we also have two pilots for Spanish proficiency as well as the stamp language proficiency exam our state assessments and unfortunately these are assessments that the timelines are decided for us the grade levels are decided for us and the purpose is decided so the first one is dyslexia so we have dyslexia screener that we give to students in K1 and two we have a dyslexia screener level one for students that identify need some additional diagnostic you're familiar with our waeda assessment this is for students K12 who are English language Learners we have our third grade reading proficiency that's given in the spring to second grade students all students take it in second grade third grade students who didn't pass it in second grade take it and this is in March and this is to measure basic reading proficiency there is a second attempt for I read three for those students who didn't pass it in third grade for the first time they have the opportunity and that's May 15th through June 2 7 and then we round out the year with our I learn summative assessment this is grades 3 through 8 um with window dates April 14th through May 9th and we can choose the dates within that window this measures English language arts and math proficiency for all students in grades 3 through eight um science is an additional test in fourth grade and sixth grade and then social studies is an added test in fifth grade one thing that the state has done for us has really paired back the amount of testing that we now give at the high school level and so the high school state required assessments are the PSAT that's for 10th grade students we also give it to 11th grade students as part of the National Merit program and that's U windows in October for that we are required to give the iearn biology end of course assessment and this is for students at the end of biology one and that's a spring window to measure biology proficiency and it is a a graduation requirement we also are required to give the SAT to all students in their junior year um we have one exact date uh for that test it's March 5th this year and it is a graduation requirement for um all students we be happy to answer any questions or entertain any discussion word do you have a questions I do have a question um I have a question and it's actually from something that we experienced last year with the child that had began taking I learn and then towards the end of I learn she also had I ready with it and so my question was could that and thank you Dr Smith for um my question was can this test be given at different times and so thank you for the answer but just for public knowledge in case anybody else has children that have over over overlapping testing yeah and schools really have to plan in the spring the spring there's lots and lots of state required testing plus we do have I ready um and so the windows for this year just as a an information point for um I learn April 14th through May 9th and we advise our schools to administer I learn in April if at all possible and then maybe do some makeups for students who were absent in May and then I ready the spring in window is April 7th through May 22nd so we advise schools to give I ready in May so I learn in April I ready in May but that requires some careful planning on the school's part to make sure that happens okay I'm just as a point to just clarify so if a parent is seeing that the that the testing is overlapping can the parent ask for that testing to be broken up or does it have to be [Music] administered there's flexibility within those time frames and so the best thing a parent should do is contact their building principal and express that concern thank you I had a question about slide four um can you explain the IM am alternative for special education on the the last line yeah uh Mrs neire would you like to explain I am good evening I am is an alternative test that is a case conference committee decision and it is designed for a very small portion of students um these are students who have more of a moderate to severe profound disability and really less than 1% of our students do take it um it is an academic assessment and the way they do take it it is oneon-one because many times they have to have many different types of accommodations um in order to complete the test thank you for the explanation so not every child that's in special education would be taking that okay no it's not less than 1% that's okay thank you thank you so much for this update on assessments I do have just a couple of quick questions the first being on the third slide with our Lawrence assessments so I um I always appreciate how Lawrence is ahead of the curve and always piloting and trying find the best assessments for our students so I was wondering if you could just uh talk over a little bit about the difference between I station pilots and the stamp Pilots as it pertains to the Spanish language proficiency assessment sure the the I station and mclass are part of our strategic plan and they're more to mirror I ready but for Spanish proficiency and it's for students in grades K through six the stamp assessment is just given one time and it's for the certificate of multilingual proficiency so students begin taking that in sixth grade and can take it all the way through 12th grade in their preferred language okay outstanding and so the mclass is given three times a year yes and we're in Pilot right now as part of the Strategic plan initiative some schools are doing I stations some schools are doing inclass then we'll land on which one will be part of our protocol moving forward that's very helpful thank you and then what are assessments my assumption is but just for clarity that at the high school level it's more of the ecas and and um assessments that are given at a school level basis as opposed to districtwide assessments is that accurate that's accurate we would call those curricular based assessments where individual classroom teachers or grade levels of teachers or subject Area Teachers come together and decide what their assessment is is there alignment between the two high schools on those typically yes thank you and then also there was one other question and this was um the screener what is used what are we using for the dyslexia uh screener Level One MA May Rooney the quick phonic screener okay thank you you're welcome um I think I would ask a question um based on personal experience which goes back over 40 years so it's pretty old old news where I grew up we offered the PSAT to freshman as well as sophore and had a really high level by by the time they were used to taking that test we had several um very high percentage of kids that would get in the National Merit um is there would there be any benefit to offering it or what would be the cost offering it to nth graders who want to take the exam and we have offered it to ninth graders over the years and um based on the input from our schools we've discontinued that because the data wasn't as valuable for going into the SAT is what that sophomore year was and so um they've really put all of their data analysis into the sophomore year okay and um I guess I wasn't I should have been aware and was not aware that our second graders take I read and can pass out a year early that's right um so that that's new this year so last year last year last year this will be the first year that every school in the state of Indiana is required to have second graders take it we opted into that early and so we do have second graders quite a number about 30% of our second graders that passed hre 3 and really good information about those that need did not absolutely okay that good glad to know that thank you so much um if there are no more questions we will move on to our financial update Mr miles thank you madam president Dr Smith members of the board uh tonight we bring as an information item our August 31st uh general fund and transportation fund reports as we do each month uh both funds uh ending balance are very healthy our um general fund balance just a little over 16 million approaching 17 million and our transportation fund balance at 3.3 million um you may you may note on the general fund um our expenses are a little high right at the moment that's basically because of some internal transfers so it says trans transfers out but that's within our own to ourselves so nothing really of concern there um and likewise at the transportation fund um Revenue exceeding actual exceeding the projected and uh again ending balance ahead of projections it's all good news board any questions from Mr miles about the financials okay we will oh I'm sorry kind like it ties to the budget into this um it's another question that I um sent in earlier to Dr Smith and it was concerning um for our budget where does which pot does the professional development come out of um I didn't see it on this tab here but I know you just mentioned that this is for can you explain that because I don't I don't when we go to talk about the budget it seems easier to just bring this up here that abolutely what I was told was that we have about 200 46 um 100,000 that is delegated for PD um but yes what pot does this come out of and where is that at is any of that on this line here or where's that at absolutely Happ to answer that as you know uh within education we have a lot of pots that really equal one big pot and um similarly with our our PD funds um transportation has some funds internally within that but within the education fund that's our primary pot for uh for professional development you are correct it's $246,000 that we budget annually for uh each of across all the schools uh for them to use as they see fit we also use Grant monies and uh there's a significant U number of dollars from our grants that our curriculum department and others are able to utilize in addition to uh those education fund dollars thank you for the extra info so it's just not hey let's just send you here and said we have an actual budget and that budget also um that the grants also cover that as well correct clar thank you you're welcome great thank you Mr miles on board this brings us to our committee chair reports uh Miss Norman Foundation feel free to tag team with me too if I miss anything Miss Lawrence but um yeah Dr Smith I keep forgetting he's on our board too um the foundation this Friday has the uh Bridge Fund Golf Outing it's the 12th an annual at Pebblebrook Golf Club um special guest Adam vinary okay Dr Smith um it's coffee in conversation with the superintendent this Wednesday for some of our donors um here correct in the boardroom that is all great uh M Pucket parks and wck yes I have a few things um one that I went to and it was absolutely wonderful and tasty was barbecue and blues which was at our cultural campus uh about two weeks ago that was pretty pretty awesome so I look forward to that again next year those ribs were really good those ribs were good you guys um we also have DIA Latino de Lawrence this coming Saturday 9:28 from 10: to 2: at the Lawrence cultural campus and I'll also say too to go by and check out our skate park lots of awesome things are happened there as far as artwork and just taking some where things have kind of been vandalized they've turned it into Beauty for Ashes and they have awesome artwork going on there so that's my first update thank you very much Miss dun policy yes get ready is right so we have volume 36 number two revision package on the docket and this release includes revisions to 23 policies seven administrative guidelines and two new forms and the hope is that we will have the first reading the 11th of November and the second reading and hopefully approval of those on November 20th I can't wait policy is so important and we do read them all um they're also a little it's it's not like reading a novel it's yeah it's not something you want to sit out on the porch on a rainy night and you know you just do it grateful to have those policies updated thank you for your work um anything you would like to add to any of that Miss lawence okay we'll move on to our action items and Mr miles the approval of the 20 25 budget please thank you once again Madam president Dr Smith members of the board at this time it's my pleasure to present to you our proposed 2025 School uh calendar year budget as required by the state uh also as required by the state we we held our public hearing for the new budget and the budget adoption on September 9th at that time no uh we opened that up for public comment and none were made no no comment was made also we have shared the budget as required at ltschools.org and at the dgf uh website so tonight we bring this back to you for a vote and for approval also I would like to note included in the budget uh along with the 16 line summary statements that we will look at briefly here um this the budget also encompasses our bus replacement plan and our Capital Improvement plan which have also been shared as required as we look at the budget um we're going to have two sheets that look similar uh on the slides tonight our first is our advertised budget uh which is a summary of what has been shared online and then the second sheet which we'll look a little closer at um is going to be our projected which is more in line with where we believe the final budget to come back in from the state near the end of the calendar year I would highlight um our actual U assessed value increased for the coming year versus last year was a 4.02% increase um across all the property in the district um so we're pleased to see that also as a reminder when we put the budget together we need to protect our cash balance in our taxing funds so um as we advertise that we always take um a very very um conservative approach uh in order to do so meaning our expenses are estimated uh over what we were actually project them to be and our revenues under what we projected to be so that's why we do the two different sheets that we're going to look at uh tonight as far as the advertised versus the projected I also would point out our av increased um across the district uh for the new tax year from $6.8 billion in 2024 to 7.1 billion uh for the upcoming year we would um also point out that there are two debt issues that were occurring this fall if you may recall that's our the next round of our middle school bond issues and our Geo bonds so those numbers we don't have final numbers yet to include in in the budget at the time of proposal so we take a little bit of an estimate from that again a worst case scenario when all those numbers come back in we do expect our our tax rate to be flat and as a reminder once again to the board we have the second lowest tax rate in Maran County against all other of our peers other school districts in the county so we're proud of that um and we look forward to to getting those final numbers back from a Debt Service standpoint and our final um budget back at the end of the year and lastly tonight I would just point out we did um we did have a bond sale that actually took place earlier today um that was approved earlier by the board and it just under underscores the fin cial stability of the of the district at the at the current time that was our $8 million Geo bonds we were able to sell those at 3.11% uh today so a great rate um and we were able to uh the FED reducing interest rates last last week certainly probably played into that and didn't do us uh any harm that certainly helped um so good timing all in all uh when that was issued and the district is in a in a good position for next year so look forward to uh the board approving the budget as proposed do you have further questions about the budget please M Lawrence Mr miles you touched on the question that I was going to ask related to the federal interest rates being reduced recently what other widespread implications will this have for our budgeted for the next fiscal well there's that's a great question certainly future Bond issues uh would be impacted but currently just our day-to-day operating expenses as money becomes a little cheaper a little less expensive out there hopefully our inflation will come down um the more stability there is in the overall economy um it's it's a good thing for the school district or do I have a motion to approve the sorry I had a quick question I'm sorry go ahead going along with the bond question um I know last year our District bond rating is A++ is that still the current Bond rating it is okay yes we've been uh proud to say that we've maintained that excellent rating um with standard and force thank you further questions mine okay um do I have a motion to approve the 2025 budget so second properly moved and seconded there any further questions now would be the time there are no questions all in favor of approving the budget I I opposed the eyes have it we have approved our 2025 budget thank you very much Mr miles uh we will go to the approval of the um 20 2425 and 2526 early enrollment window so Dr Brown Mr kusik President M Dr Smith members of the board you might recall at the September 9th work session Mr kusik shared information concerning application enrollment windows for the 4 25 2526 school year we do recommend that you approve those as submitted so moov second properly moved and seconded if there are any questions would you ask them now there are no questions um all in favor of the approval I I the opposed we have approved the early enrollment windows for the next two season sessions Madam president I'm move we treat action items 4.3 through 4.9 as consent agenda do we have a second second properly moved and seconded um all those in favor of creating an consent agenda I I I any opposed um the I have it I move approval of the consent agenda second properly moved and seconded all those in favor of approving the consent agenda I I I any oppos the eyes happens this does bring us to our administrator and board comments board raise your hand hi who wants to go first I'll shly I was able to go to the ISA conference today and in between sessions I was trying to catch a catnap and I was woken up in a great way by a woman I don't want to say her name Dr Smith she was the commentator for one of the sessions and she had made comment on our Township she's from another Township and she had mentioned on how well that we take care of our students and making sure that they have all the resources that they need and so I thought that was huge to wake somebody up out of their catnap to tell them that um to speak to the Excellence that we continue to have and that how we meet our children regard heartless we have a very diverse Township and that we continue to meet all of our students needs so I thought that was just it made my hearts mouth thank you all lovely to to go along with that um we had the opportunity to listen to Dr Smith and several others present on the community and schools uh partnership and initiative and I learned a lot of new things about what they do for the schools and it's just so powerful to have that support so thank you to everybody involved with that I guess I can go next um I I just wanted to take a moment to commend um the school district and administration for the level of transparency with which we communicated with parents and members of the public the um the threats against our school district and many others it is something that as a parent obviously it hits home for all of us but also as a representative for this school district to be able to communicate factually um is critically important and um and critical for our community to be well informed um so I just wanted to thank the the schools who were impacted um and also acknowledge how stressful and scary that is for members of the community parents and our students I actually had my fabulous board memb say all the things that I was going to say so I thank you guys for your comments this evening uh I will say that um I attended the Chamber of Commerce Commerce state of the schools and I know several people um out out in the um seats in front of me attended as well uh and heard a wonderful and also presented heard a great presentation on the state of our schools um I'm full of Pride for all the things that we accomplished I will not list them now um and it's it's wonderful to be in our community someone came to the um event because she saw it on Facebook and she really just wanted to to shake Dr Smith's hand and you know thank him for for what we do um and it turns up that her nephew is involved I did find out baritone euphonium French horn um and I can't remember the other things because all I remember is the music he's involved in so I did find that out afterward so so thank you all of you uh administrators for the presentations thank you teachers for uh making the administrators and the board's dreams come true for our kids president ltin can I Echo something on that sure I just want to say Dana I shared this with you today but the video that you and your team put together I think you said his name is Josh um Absolutely Fabulous video and the students in their love of our district and just it was it was such a powerful powerful video so thank you for your leadership with that we love Goosebumps Dr altimar we do okay and our next um meeting um our next meeting will be Monday October 14th and this will be 5:30 and a combined meeting um and Dr Smith I'll give you the last word board prior to that meeting board of education and superintendent will be celebrating a great day Sunday October 6 Lawrence Central and Lawrence North dedicate you see Roger Smith smiling over there he's ready for this we'll officially bring those high school projects to an end as we will officially do the ribbon cutting and dedication of those buildings a board we start promptly at 1 :30 at Lawrence Central and then at 2:30 we will arrive on time and dedicate Lawrence North High School so that's a big deal for the Board of Education and superintendent will be the CommunityWide has been invited and I say CommunityWide because we've invited every single Patron in this Township and others and parents and families to join us for this important event that we will have and so I will see their board that's our next big event and Dr Smith if we have friends or family who want to attend with us it's perfectly neighbors it's perfectly fine perfectly fine for them to join us yes the part's big enough for everybody now we do start on time ladies and gentlemen so remember 1:30 for the Bears 2:30 for the Wildcats what thank you so um if there's nothing further board I would welcome a motion to conclude so moved second properly moved in second our meeting is concluded thank you very much for being here I think that's just now how suppos to do

okay so is my voice being picked up by yeah it is I think I can hear good okay but not in the room so you got Tock to the room there's no I know just got talk loud which is why I'm drinking water so I don't lose my voice aha I'm not doing this yet I know no you can leave it just so we're ready uh agendas okay pass the agendas yeah everybody I'm trying to get used to the mic being over my head but um I will uh welcome everybody really good to see many of you that I know and meet some new faces I'm Paul Earl president of bcam uh I've been on the board for 21 years now and boy what do you think of this space yeah yeah it's come a a long long way uh with the help of Comcast of course to a degree but they're helping less we'll get to that later and uh but uh here we are we figure now is the time to stay in a high school for a lot of reasons but also get out so people could know who bcam is is going forward and uh I think we're all very excited about it those of you that are producers or thinking about being producers or whatever I hope you're excited about it given all this wonderful equipment that's everywhere that's right downtown so um again welcome and you have agendas now I'd like to call up uh johnari who will uh run the um election piece of the program in terms of the logistics of it John thank you Paul hello everyone members um part of the uh the agenda for the annual meeting each year is to um consider the election of um member elected candidates to the board of directors now the board of director s for Beth cam is a mix of member elected and board elected uh directors if you will and uh we we were looking to uh sort of cast a net uh most of you all of you uh should have received in early August a notice that um beev Camp sent out over my name thank you Liz um basically asking about whether you you would be interested in joining the board I think it's the first time we've in in my tenure with betham which is I think 12 years on the board 11 years I don't know well you would know that um and uh so we got to we we got a healthy response and I say healthy because that's by definition of the people who do these sorts of things and uh it was like 20 or 21 I think Al together and uh and then I sent out another another uh followup like a week or so later just asking folks who didn't respond first of all thank you for responding and secondly if you haven't already sent a brief bio of uh your background what you do and why are you interested in joining the hoard please do that so we got not everyone did that but few people did so we looked at what we had and um Paul and I we shared the information with all of the board current board members asking for you know comments and recommendations Etc do you know these these folks Etc and F Paul and I kind of reviewed uh the uh the BIOS on the people that did respond and we narrowed it down to six who we thought uh knowing the current board population and our skills and our backgrounds would really be helpful in uh supporting bevcam as it moves into sort of this next phase of its you know development which is significant this is significant um because betham now becomes a really resourcer entity for the community in Beverly you know as you know we've been in the high school for many many years since the Inception I think I'm not sure I joined when you were in the high school and so this is this brings us downtown which we were interested in doing just to have a physical presence in the center of the community which has become so Bri vibrant over the years so we're very excited about this so we we n it down we have so tonight the purpose of of the the election tonight is for all of the members to select two and why two because that represents um getting us better in Balan in terms of how many folks are uh board elected how many folks are member elected as determined by the bylaws of the organization so we have um five names on the ballot I am one of them because I am a board elected I'm sorry a member elected uh member of the board and I decided to throw my hat in the ring again and for our uh there were four others on the ballot so we'll be Distributing a ballot We'll be asking you to select two folks um um before we do that we're going to ask uh those of us who are on the uh up for election or re-election to say a few words about who they are their background very brief and why they want to continue with bevcam I'll start seeing my as I'm already up here and basically um I started with bevcam as a volunteer maybe 12 years ago Walt why I was interested in film photography broadcasting fascinated with how does it work a lot of the behind the scenes stuff so I took courses Etc and I helped out basically I volunteered and I was a goer helping the pros and the the expert volunteers doing doing their shows and I had it blast it was really great uh a few years after that waled asked me if I considered going getting on the board and I did I joined the board I was board elected I was board elected member elected at different times Etc and what I really enjoyed about being uh both working with Beth Cam and working with the board is you know dyn the dynamism of the organization of the board members you know are great team there's a lot of different you know skill set uh my background as public service like 42 years in government as a starting as a social worker become a manager policy developer labor relation you name it I did a lot of everything Workforce Development uh but the reason why I want to stay uh on the board and remain on the board is because at this juncture uh this is a an incredible uh point of transition for uh bevcam and for the community and that's why I refer to it as being resourc what a resource for the community so I I just ask that you consider consider me uh when you vote this evening okay and I think what I'll do is ask um the other candidates to come up PA is that in alphabetical order uh first we have Michael Davis and Mike if you wouldn't mind coming up and saying a few words all right everyone Mike Davis uh I was uh so my first job out of college which I graduated in 2019 from Curry College was Bedford TV and I was a production manager there and from there we had an unbelievable uh low budget in fact there was only two full-time employees it was me and my executive director and a week after I was hired covid hit and we went from uh being this important to this important so covering select boards you know that was all we needed to can you guys cover everything and then we weren't really covering a lot of sports and it was actually me that said to my executive director and to actually the board of directors that all of these parents they can't watch their kid play baseball soccer football I don't know if any of you guys are parents or if any of you guys remember that but it was a very difficult time so I ended up having a army of people with interns and volunteers and I was in charge of about like eight to 10 people and scheduling them to cover games covering different uh you know Zoom meetings for the community and with the budget even us getting a new JBC camera like that was not in the books so we ended up getting something that's called sling Studio and even that was unbelievably difficult and we had to ask for money and raise money for that and we ended up having a lot of different classes and we even did some of them over zoom and some of those I ended up teaching and right now I work for the TV show Phantom gmet I'm a videographer and video editor and I've won two emmies with them and with my expertise and my background with Community media um I think i' would be a great addition thank you next Mike appreciate it um again next in alphabetical order I'd like to introduce you to Miriam pit Miriam good [Applause] sorry have my old fashion I want to make it quick um my name is Miriam Pete an artist and with the passion for creativity and the community engagement um I believe my background has an artist a filmmaker and a journalist can bring um some fresh perspective to to the board I have several idas for project that only show her local talent but also engage and a wider audience and B I am excited about the potential to collaborate and create meaningful initiative that highlight our artistic Community I would love to I will I will love the opportunity to contribute to the board and help Drive new project forward thanks maram uh next up we have uh Dave rigan [Applause] David hi so I'm a uh college professor and I teach I'm an adjunct and I teach at three different schools the largest uh that you would have heard of is UMass l I teach communication I'm also a professional standup comedian for the last three decades I've played the biggest crowd that I've been in front of was 2,300 at the uh music tent down at hyanis and I hate public speaking so I started uh I had a third career which is uh with my first career I was a journalist I started as a sports writer when I was in high school at the Beverly times which means that I'm old and I wrapped it up in 2017 when the Boston Globe uh folded my section I wrote for the globe North section for about 16 years I think most uh some of you probably have heard of Boston Globe the younger members um a newspaper is what we used to use to get our news from year yeah nobody knows okay fine fine anyway I um so I've had journalism I've had a teaching career as a communic as a Communications teacher and I've been a communic Ator and Entertainer I've done a couple of different projects at bevcam and at other uh uh local origination stations over the years uh and some creative ones and some news ones and uh the last one was 2020 we had a creative project and the um Folks at beev cam helped us out and it kind of got derailed by the pandemic so that's that's my last expar is but I've always thought that it's a fantastic uh organization and a fantastic resource and not just bevcam but also the other local origination stations and the other communities and I think it's an underutilized resource so when I when I got the notice I have never served in a board before I thought it sounded kind of interesting I met with John and Paul and they mentioned some of the things they've got an interest in and it sounded interesting to me so I threw my hat in the ring and we'll see what happens and that's it thank you very much [Applause] and lastly Ryan Reed Ryan would you come up please say a few words I'm usually behind cameras so this is weird and thank you for having me follow the professional standup comedian that was a real treat I'm Ryan Reed uh I've lived in Beverly for the last 17 years and uh I work telling stories for science technology engineering and manufacturing companies with video um we've been at it for about 15 years now and basically the conclusion that I've come to and the reason why I'm here tonight is that there aren't enough storytellers in the world there are a lot of really important stories that need to be told they're not being told effectively they're not being communicated well and the world needs more people to tell the right and the best stories effectively I subscribe to bevcam on YouTube and I poke in and I watch a lot of the programming I love seeing the young people that are involved with bevcam I love seeing that you have a presence still down at the high school I love all of the community involvement the educational involvement listen to my daughter's soccer game on bevcam while I was driving here definitely just listened listened thank you for that um but basic basically the reason why I'm here and the reason why bevcam interests me is your mission is the same as my mission and that is breeding another generation of storytellers people who want to tell stories for the community people who want to tell stories to make the world a little bit tiny bit better um so I'd like to offer myself as a resource essentially to to help with the young people that are here to help with the technology the nerd stuff that's here um I've run head first into just about every video related and production related wall that you can possibly run into um that's why my head's so dented um and I guess that's it so that's uh that's why I'm here and it's great to meet you all thank you Ryan it was great thank you all uh for being here and for introducing yourself to the group uh at this point we're actually going to take a vote I'm sorry question yeah does anyone have before we do that does anyone have any questions to any of of the candidates yes wal U what is the maximum number of board members for the bylaws 15 15 15 yeah and how many do we currently have 10 10 10 what the mayor have out to appoint somebody because he has one appoint that's 11 the school is B at the moment filling it again looking for somebody else so we'll be at 12 and 13 well we're voting for two member elected remember the board is comprised of member elected and board elected so there's we're looking at the composition of member elected and board and made the decision that we could use two uh member El elect the is the board going to do that at one of the next meetings I mean are are we stuck with the 13 I guess no no no yeah basically he's saying why can't we just take them all well we can't take them all we can't take it's a good question but we can't take them all tonight tonight we're voting for two uh member elected in other words the membership is do to elect then the board when it meets will consider um the other candid basically uh to meet its future needs yeah we went through a process question yeah it's good it's a good question to go higher than 15 although really huge boards are sometimes not as good I think 15 okay you're welcome um if there are no other questions what I'd like to do is just pass out the ballot anybody need anybody else after C [Music] first we yeah okay Judy thank you J Miller will be tabulating the vote and we'll announce at the end of this meeting uh in the meantime we'll continue with the agenda yep a quick housekeeping I know there are some people can I take chair to people in the back all right you chair okay hello again everybody thank you for John to John for such a good job in uh facilitating the election process uh I want to spend a few minutes and then I'll turn it over to R Rob to go into a bit more detail on all these topics but on um basically what bed pass that cam has accomplished since the last time we had an annual meeting uh and what our plans are going ahead and um recognize people also so with that kind the second slide please there only four okay um well to State the obvious this is here 250,000 plus dollar later but it's a good good investment and uh now we make it pay off uh as you know it includes a podcast Studio editing stations uh tables in the nice area for training sessions equipment sign out and a lot more and they'll figure out more stuff the staff will as they move forward uh Great Windows we've been looking for a space for I don't know three years I think but uh not having the money when we first started looking or barely having it but you know you have to start things early if you know you need to do it and uh finally I think Liz walked by one day to delines and she went back and told and rest took care of itself we said oh we love those windows we know we're going to have to do a ridiculous buildout because we can't just move in but it's worth it so here we are and this will be our main office uh along with the high school which will continue to serve the media classes we have a nice Studio out there I think most of you have seen it and um it's all going to work really well also another another big thing is the staff expanded by one person and Amanda Hurley joined us Mandy you want to stand up all right hi she's doing a uh great job in the uh uh education and Med um manager really for bcam she's extremely good at getting interns uh and uh I guess they just can't say no to you or something I don't know what the deal is but uh but so uh she's a great addition uh comes from some some access uh experience from another town and uh but I think this one's going to be much more exciting as we go forward so welcome um we formed a new sub committee recently we've never really done this before I'm trying to form small subcommittees to attack certain things that need more in-depth discussion that we can't get done in a board meeting but on all of those committees that will form will have a combination of staff and board members and whether it's one in two or two in one or whatever it is uh as a way to also begin to continue to integrate and use one another's talents together to uh to grow to grow bcamp so uh we formed the first one it's looking into basically membership ideas and the mission and uh we don't want to do any new initiatives that they don't fit the mission of bein so you got to put first things first and then we'll do more as we go forward uh new initiatives planning well there's too many opport unities to do it once so you got to prioritize them and then figure out which are the ones that frankly you can monetize sooner than the others since we know our cash cow um and funer the bank we have known as Comcast uh is not funding us as much anymore we'll get to that so there's a lot of challenges there's a lot of risks the biggest challenge in a way is behavior change I mean I've been startups all my life and uh breaking out of the mold of traditional Public Access businesses and doing what we need to do going forward to offset the declining Comcast contributions which is obvious now uh is uh is a real Challenge and it's tough um but we've now positioned ourselves with a new space and an excellent layout position to meet those challenges and reduce that risk you can see the risk at the bottom number one our reserves are very healthy between reserves and re receivables we've got about $680,000 in the bank as of the 20th we don't need to have that much money in the bank we all know that but that's I'm glad we have it um the Comcast payments for the 2011 through 2021 which was the uh last contract with the cont contast before we renewed the average quarterly was 102,000 a month a quarter sorry uh compared to uh 184,000 a quarter on the 2021 4th quarter through 2024 first quarter period that's kind of the good news healthy reserves and a nice check coming in even though it's getting a little smaller and that shows how it's getting a little smaller at the bottom 2022 first quarter was 190,000 plus 2024 second quarters 173,000 now if you take that many quarters and drop it 177,000 each each one you can do it after the meeting if you want it's a little depressing and it also shows that you really need to and it could drop that much it could drop by more I don't think it'll drop by less so it it kind of shows the need for the new things rob you can go next one hey Paul yeah you can stop paying produces well yeah didn't we do that good one uh okay so what's in store for 2025 and positioning ourselves for Beyond um it's very simple you know what Peg is public educ government right okay education and government are in excellent shape uh and they can get better and maybe expand a little bit more as indicated at the bottom but we really don't have to worry about that so much it's like any company that's got a solid product that's very profitable and well received yet they know other things are coming along like other ways to deliver content and all that kind of stuff so you you got to keep the uh core product healthy but you don't necessarily have to invest much in it what we need to do is we need to make the p in Peg come alive which is why we're here uh we decided we couldn't make it come alive if we were just at the high school nobody sees us nobody knows enough about us it's easy easy to come and go in and out this door the high school is not so easy for all the right reasons but still you just can't you can't do it there so we need to make it come alive and some examples is local news reporting and person on the street interview kind of stuff regarding key issues uh podcasts which we're set to go and it's going to start any any day now uh skills development training class classes and on-site curriculum and online content covering different aspects of media production video Etc um we need to expand our services to the community some will generate Revenue some won't uh I think these two both should and profitable Revenue not just Revenue um Production Services there's a lot of small businesses that and now they can walk in here they can do a little corporate film clip uh we can edit it for them for a a fee and uh walk away and to me that seems like lwh hanging fruit could be wrong um in sponsorships which we've honestly tried for a long time I think one of the problems we have is we're not valuing ourselves enough I think if we go up in price on sponsorships and have a really solid value proposition for whoever ever it is uh we can do it so we're going to be fooling around with um alternative approaches there and invest a little money here a little money there see what sticks hopefully we'll be smart enough to figure out what we never should have put a little bit of money in and you stop it and just keep keep keep moving develop some proprietary curriculum offerings and possibly some of these can be Grant supported uh the nice thing about proprietary or unique content I guess you could also say something like that is that and unique content is not just the content but it's how it's chunked up how it's delivered how it's presented and a lot of you folks have have those talents uh and what we could do there is still offer it for free or pennies to the residents of Beverly but we could have screaming Services going everywhere outside of Beverly and monetize those and um it's not going to happen in a year but you probably could get a beta going in a year on some of it so uh and then the education government we talk about so there's just so many things and they're all they're all pretty darn exciting and uh we also have to be smart enough to pick the ones that we want to try first I think well last but not least without contributor years I wouldn't be standing here we wouldn't be doing any of this Rob's put together a really good staff I mean when he took over the whole staff uh turned over got good jobs he wasn't about Rob it wasn't about anything they just wanted something new something fresh and he brought in Chris who had been here before uh Liz who's the uh uh engagement person and she's always going around bcam talk uh Beverly talking about bcam Michelle who's really really good with managing the programming and the content and all that and Amanda who I mentioned before so could all of you just stand up to make sure people know who you [Applause] are okay thank thank you guys and gals uh the board of directors we meet regularly every other month we have a fair number of special meetings we deal with issues as they come up plans for the future and we're beginning to plan more jointly with the with the staff on different different things uh so I want to thank the board members who are here and those that aren't here for uh putting up with me and uh coming to meetings and helping bcamp get into the space by ideas you have and help you fit so could you all stand up please whoever's here board members in the back [Applause] okay and in interesting fact one one member of the staff and two board members attended Beverly High School uh they were involved with bevcam in the media classes and now they're back here helping us move forward that would be Chris Harvey you can't miss him he's pretty tall and uh and then uh a classmate I believe of yours Matt gelano uh and the two of them went to Endicott together I think yeah okay and uh and the other one is Alex salugo who uh a little bit behind you guys I guess I think I'd say a little bit more than a little bit okay yeah yeah yeah he's pretty he's pretty young yeah and he both Matt and Alex uh Matt's on the west coast he he's got the he's in charge of corporate video production and etc for vertex pharmaceutical company and he's in Seattle doing a shoot managing a shoot I should say and uh Alex is in the me media business also and he's got um he's traveling so they couldn't be here uh producers special shout out to the most active and some of the most active have been active for years and years and years and it's good to see George bins Elliot Margolis Bob Butterworth and Walt Kowski the previous executive director which I don't have to say because everybody knows Walt and uh jalina Zoli pardon me if I didn't do it right uh Dominic cop Jean loroco Paul Norman the Rotary Club the mayor Dominic laurenzano and the second Congregational Church that I think has been on the air 32 times or something like that in the past year and uh it's good content I mean it's you know if you hear a lot of sermons and all that kind of stuff in the archives and all that to have content like that up I think is very useful and then the community various leaders and groups who support and express thanks to uh bpan does the mayor's office is a big help Beverly main streets were starting to do more with them um the students and athletes at Beverly schools I don't have to say more Chris your stuff is fantastic and and Michelle both of you as far as all the sports stuff you get out it's unbelievable and that's my Mo most watched part of Beth Camp um and then government comes in second and public comes in third because I want I want it to come in first but right now it it can't uh so enough said again thank you for coming and I'll turn this over to Rob to fill in the blanks thank hey everybody uh I think I've met every all of you if you don't know I am Rob Chapman I am the executive director of bth Cam uh I want to say a couple things before I get into my slides uh first of all I'm uh I'm very pleased with how this place looks today I spent most of my day cleaning it up and getting it ready for the annual meeting and I look at it tonight and I'm like wow it's really kind of sparkles it looks really great so uh thank you all for coming in and also want to thank my uh Paul for all the work that I get to work with Paul he uh often uh as he said bugs me and and calls me out and says we we need to have a meeting recently we've been trying to meet weekly uh it was very fun for a while I was trying to get him in my office but he kept saying no we have to meet down at the anchor so we've been meeting down the anchor which is always fun so thank you Paul for all the work that you've done and the your guidance and your leadership so yeah uh now one of those things is that I I I wrote my notes last week and I haven't looked at them since so I'm going to have to be surprised if you are when when they come up all right current status we spent a lot uh time this last year kind of raising U brand awareness letting people know that who we are uh a lot through the efforts of our community engagement manager Liz uh who has been teaching me all about social media and algorithms and uh all those terms that I never quite understand in Google analytics so it's been really great great to have her she's somebody who will jump up in front of a crowd any crowd she sees she'll jump up in front of it so it's great to have that person I can just say go Liz get in front of them and talk about it so um I think we've done some really great work in brand awareness we're getting some real good people coming in people are starting to see us and know who we are so I think that that's really kind of great um and of course this new location out on that uh we're beginning to look at additional revenue streams as Paul was saying we're starting to see the trend of the cable Revenue start going down and we believe that we have to start acting like a regular nonprofit going out and diversifying our funding sources so we're beginning to look at that we do have some time to do that we're in a very good position to do that as some of the finances that Paul talked about uh have shown but we really want to get in before we get to a position where we're really got a shout out for uh rotary and what rotary has done for be C rotary hint hint all right go ahead shout it out so part of that is in development and going out and uh Liz has taking lead on that as far as finding out some of the grants and stuff that are out there uh and I am pleased to announce that rotary just gave us $6,000 for soundproofing in this new facility here so thank you very much to the RO Arians um than um adding the downtown location obviously is a big part of uh what we expect to do in the future getting people in here some of the workshops that we have the podcasting studio and uh adding the additional staff uh I think Paul mentioned that you know when I came on board a little over two years ago uh I am now the oldest serving uh employee of bevcam except for the some of the part-time people I think Chris doesn't count he did work but he came went away and came back so i' like to say that I am the longest serving be cam employee as of this moment so uh it's great to have the new guys here uh it's they're wonderful to work with um uh some of you know that I I came down here from Vermont um when I go back up in the weekend to see my daughters or something like that I I I see I need to get back to my be Camp staff because they're much more fun to hang with than my daughters so um and obviously increasing our uh the Our Community Partners and awareness identifying people that we can collaborate with uh uh embellish uh support their mission as well as supporting our mission is obviously a part of what we want to do Ball's on it looking ahead uh you know gearing up bevcam downtown is uh one of the things they're really talking about is like what now that we have this incredible facility facility right here on C Street what's going to happen and I've been talking with my staff for quite some time about let's have something happening here every evening let's add additional staff uh Grace is coming on she's going to be working on some evenings with us and some weekend hours so she's augmenting the full-time staff so that we can keep the facilities open longer people can come in I know that when I come here at 8:00 or 8:30 in the morning uh every morning that cab street is very quiet but then when I see it at 7:00 p.m.

[Music] come in good evening everyone i' like to call this meeting of the Dartmouth school committee to OT for Monday September 23rd 2024 would you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America the repu for which it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all please be seated well good evening everyone like to welcome you all to our uh school committee meeting for the 23rd of September just a reminder that this meeting is being videotaped by Dartmouth High School media as well as Dartmouth Community television and it will be a rebroadcast uh on Wednesday and Thursday at 5:00 P p.m. Friday at 6:00 a.m. Saturday at 8:00 a.m. and Sunday at 2: p.m.

followed by our regular business meeting on October 21st again at 6:30 p.m. at the ASC uh next item is um I need a motion for the Board of Education to go into Clos session to discuss the collective negotiating matters between the district and its employees or their representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees employees so moved Charelle moves Charelle yes Chris second thank you cherelle Fuller hi Chris rasposa hi Jenny hagstrom hi Terry pavich hi Cara Caston hi Ken Dawson hi and Don rer hi motion carries and as a reminder to the public the only action the board will be taking when it comes out of closed session is to adjourn we are in Clos session thank you take a few minutes to turn the room over we'll be back in here look

three but what we've really been focusing on with our staff is making sure that the students are getting a complete meal making sure they're getting all of the different components that they can take are they taking multiple fruits and vegetables rather than just taking an entree and a milk that's not going to qualify nor will it qualify for reimbursements for the district so we're really trying to make sure that they're well-rounded and getting a whole full meal with that um next slide what we're doing to um our strategy for increasing participation for the school year um at the end of last year um isby um set forth they had a grant that was available and we worked with the district um to apply for that Grant and at the beginning of this school year uh we uh were one of the school districts that did receive the expansion BR grant for um breakfast and there's 10 locations where that is going to um Target and it's based on the participation of breakfast versus lunch like how many students are taking lunch versus what we're getting the participation rate at breakfast so the targeted um schools for those are Boulder Hill uh Fox Chase Hunt Club Lakewood Creek Long Beach Old Post plank the wheatlands Thompson and East viiew Academy so um the process is starting right now at the end of September and we're starting with um surveys with the students as to what their current level um and participation is on the current breakfast program and kind of getting the metric and ideas of what the students are wanting um we're to submit those every month and come up with a new um menu plan starting in February and March um where the grant is actually going to start so what it's going to be doing is we're going to be focusing on different healthier um options since uh the USDA is going to be lowering the added sugar requirements next school year so we're already working towards increasing we have um added uh smoothies twice a month to our breakfast menus um blender smoothies at all levels that students are really liking pairing with like a grain option and some healthier um sandwich and hot breakfast options so increasing the protein decreasing the sugars and things like that um we're trying to work with the different School locations um to increase participation for our most vulnerable students we have um the free and reduced populations at each location we want to make sure that we are feeding those students so that they are um able to focus in class make sure that they give the teachers the attention um so that they can take get the best out of their education each day so what we're doing right now is we're trying to establish some principal meetings um with all of the buildings to kind of touch base and see what we can do in each location um to kind of tailor a program and see what we can do to help drive that participation um we've been working with um Miss meritz over at Churchill Elementary currently and we're going to be piloting um a second chance breakfast program starting October 1st um so students that come in sometimes they're rushed coming in parents are getting you know dropping them off right at the Bell um high school students might be coming in it's really early in the morning you guys are like getting out of bed and you're just like oh God just let me get to first period um you don't have time to stop for a breakfast so we're trying to Target and see what we can do about getting a specific time to do like a second chance breakfast where we would have students who may have eaten at home and if you're a free or reduced kid maybe you still need a snack or something for the rest of the day you're entitled to get that and so we'd like to put out a breakfast cart give you the option to come out and allow them to have a healthy nutritious complete meal rather than oh no going to the nurse and saying I'm hungry just because they didn't have a breakfast with them or a snack um can I can I sure comment um so I I've seen issues with our free reduced and with our students that are coming from outside of their boundaries to go to special programs um where the bus is always late correct and they're on free and reduced correct and they're not getting breakfast correct [Music] so push this I don't know how else to say it and ab that's the that's the you you laid out two examples that's the those the example that I just gave that's the ones those are the ones that I'm concerned about the most absolutely so we do have in of the um School locations we've been talking with the offices as far as when students are late arrival send them down to the um cafeteria let them know they need a breakfast we're more than happy to give them a breakfast all the leads know that um if a nurse we've been trying uh we've been working with health services to let the nurses know if kids are coming down because they're hungry please bring them down for um a breakfast they don't need to just get a cracker for them if they need the food yeah and and and and and that kind of want everybody to know the students to know not have to say that I'm hungry correct um right that's a great you know so um I don't know it's just something that I've always absolutely cared about perfect and that's what we want to do we want to get them fed okay um so I'm sorry was there a question H oh yeah thanks do introduce myself again yeah you you that on oh my name is uh you said it for your second chance I think that's what you called it um when parents drop off students late however my question would be is how would this interview interfere with a schedule uh say you know I know Juniors and seniors have an opportunity to arrive late to school uh so they would have that opportunity to maybe stay and eat for that first um period however students who do have a full schedule um how would they be able to get that time to sit down and eat or would it be that they would go to class with the food that they would get at the second chance so they could take the food with them depending upon when they arrive so um most of it at the elementary levels we're trying to work out a plan and we're going to P like we said pilot it at Church Hill and kind of see what works best so we're working out the logistics this week with Miss meritz and um figure out is it going to be like a bag where you have like some of the cold components that you can take and you can take it to class with you and you'll be allowed to eat there or if you're going to stay in the cafeteria and eat eat and then just go back to your class so logistically we're going to just see how that works and um hopefully it works well with Churchill and then we can lay out the plan for the other schools as well will it work into the high school yes okay yeah yep yeah that's good I'll just elaborate actually most of the time that we do a second chance breakfast is typically more at a high school middle school level it's actually not seen or as in common as in an elementary level so um we definitely will be working with the building principls and the administration to kind of go that Avenue as well and then what does the communication around that look like so we're for the pilot one that we're doing we're going to be doing a family letter to go out to the families at Churchill so that they're aware of what's going on and how their child can participate and if they need that and what we're going to be doing with that um if that works well we want to expand that to all of the other locations and then we can we'll be sending out like Peach jar notifications um we've started with um the Communications Department a little snippet called did you know so we did our first um social media post about our limited time offers that we do monthly and it was kind of sent out to the community like did you know we um offered this limited time offer special at the junior highs and high school and we can do the same thing with like pertinent information there so we're really going to try to utilize more of the communication pieces and partner with the district more to get that message out to families especially at the high school level find a way to communicate directly to the students so that they know their parents might not tell them so there's an opportunity there What's the timing around once you figure out like how long is it going to be at Churchill and then how will it roll out to the other so we'd like to do it for a month at Churchill and see how that works and then um the beginning of November try to expand that and move that out to the other other schools and they get the feedback from her staff and you know kind of touch base with her on a weekly basis and see what's going on there so um the other thing we're doing is like like I said the social media post um also working with um sending out Peach darar flyers and trying to be more communicative that way with menus the specials information on Free and reduced applications things that um they need to know around Food Services um the other items that we're doing in order to increase participation is kind of let students know what we're offering by having display plates at all locations we used to do that more so at high school and Junior High but at the elementary level that really wasn't um done this year all of the levels are doing it and it's really made an impact especially at the elementary so they could see what the food item is and see what the offerings are and how they can make their meal so I think they've really been liking that they've been coming up and they've been pointing to it saying how great it looks and really been excited about the looks of the food um the other thing that we're going to be doing is continuing last at the end of the last school year in April and May we did a lot of student tasting um taste testing in the district um we did a lot of that with our some of our new products we're going to be continuing that starting in October and November and we're also going to be partnering with some of our vendors to come out and do student samplings and tastings as well for like items that they have um we want to talk about maybe some allart items at the junior high and High School so working with like student groups to kind of do some taste testings to see are there different items that we can expand the options to that you guys want to see and just kind of get the direct feedback that way so we can tailor the program a little bit more to what you're wanting to see can I ask a quick question yes so most of the participation uh that the increase that you have seen in participation is prior to many of the initiatives that you're launching do you know root cause or the reason why the particip is uptake thus far so historically August everybody's kind of like Tippy toeing into seeing what it is we're still trying to train staff and get them accustomed to it I think as now they're seeing more items the staff is having a little bit more time to engage with the students and talk to them um they're able to bring out the different items and kind of show them what we're offering so I think just word of mouth and just seeing the food that's coming across is helping the partip participation that way and then we're really going to start driving you know communicating it more to families um we want to um we've been invited to participate at the Fall Fest at Church Hill um in November um the end of last school year Boulder Hill invited us to their Spring Fair we were there to do some samplings the chefs and I we were there um so we can sample to the parents about all of the different items that we have in the program that they might not be aware of so that they can taste it themselves so we want to bring that um to everyone okay you guys have any other questions regarding that well okay yes I I was G to have the same but I was actually gonna ask um our administrators if they're here is does that sound oh what are you saying I'm sorry I didn't hear you the reason for the increase you know you gave us some reasons I'm wondering if we're hearing kind of the same thing from the building level you know from nothing yet that's fine and more to come we're actually going to talk about some things that we have are that we're doing this year versus prior year and I think some of that will be a piece of why we' seeing this increase in participation as well I mean anol we're hearing about better offering uh M selection uh uh renew excitement for the offerings that we have those are some of the I fig it would be anecdotal but at this point yeah we don't have much to measure it by okay we'll continue to focus and get you guys results so we can compare year-over-year as well thank you um so our next piece of this is our communication strategy so part of all the things that we're doing within your District it doesn't do any of us any good if we don't share the things that we're doing and talk about it um so part of our student nutrition 360 that we talked about during our whole bid process was a part of engaging with your students and your community and your families and so um a couple weeks ago our aark team met with Michelle early and we got some great feedback on um who we can collaborate with to understand the student advisory groups that we can connect with the parent groups in the community that we can connect with we would love to connect with the student ambassadors yes um we we want to get that direct feedback from your community so then the next time that we're up here presenting we can tell you what we heard and we can tell you the actions that we put into place based off of that that feedback um we are part of the parent University catering so not only are we catering the food during those events quarterly um we're opening our kitchens we're inviting people in to see what the lines look like what the setup looks like if they have any questions we're there to answer any questions and engage with the families um we are Patty mentioned it a little bit but we're working with the communication department and we're trying to you know start the did you know social media post and it can be highlighting as she said our our limited time offer it could be highlighting hey there's a fun holiday coming up here's a fun and healthy recipe that you can try with your kids at home um maybe a recipe that we have data that we can pull and say your kids love this in this community here's your recipe and you can make it at home too with your families so um we're just doing some fun little social media posts and then the next step to elevate that piece is our um executive chef Natalya here is going to be working with Jessica and we are actually going to do some videos um the videos will stem from having our full line set up and Chef Natalia walking through and say Here's what we're offering within your community here's what makes a reimbursable meal it might be something um as easy as it's summer here's how you properly cut a watermelon um it just ways to highlight the resources that you have within your community to connect with your community um and then the other part that we are working on is by monthly we're holding meetings to with our health services department um it's imperative that we understand the dietary needs and the allergies of this of this District so um the aark team has been working closely with them to keep that open line of communication and develop a good strategy that we can ensure that as your nurses get the information it's passed down to our staff and we can keep all of your kids safe based off of the needs that they need um so overall we just want to expand and make sure that we're connecting on all levels um Patty did mention we are focusing on doing a principal meeting monthly um again just ways of opening that line of communication if there is an issue um we can address it and have that that communication or it's just a matter of hey we want to do something really fun in your building Chef Natalia is going to come to an action station and we're going to sauté for your elementary kids those are the things that we're going to see down the road this year so I will hand that off um next to Chef Natalia to review some of the things that we're doing versus prior year perfect um good evening everybody yes now is the fun stuff right um so comparing from um last year to this year so we do serve at all levels um all white chicken mitt uh that's a product that it's in the chicken patty chicken tenders boneless chicken wings and uh when I say that think about Chick-fil-A at all levels right so I think that's the great and and that has been going great like when we sample last year it went really good and kids were just excited to have it and now I think this is the um the most uh the favorite item on the grill station um so also we've uh focused a lot on the on how do we present how do we customize um the menu offerings for all levels so at Junior High and high schools um you would like this year we'd have multiple um selection from fruits and vegetables and those would be like the fresh watermelons fresh grapes um red peppers cucumber zucchini grape tomatoes so the selection is so much wider um if last year we would like you know preop everything or bagged everything this year is like for junior high and high school is it's like a cold bar where they can see the rainbow and it's so much more appealing versus seeing a piece of plastic and that your food is wrapped in right um also for I think the great hit is that at the junior high school we did open that section of the cold bar where we have the toppings of the fresh lettuce uh pickles uh fresh tomatoes and onions and it's been going crazy speci special pickles I think like pickles goes with everything for them which is is great um as far as sauces is another thing like we would have last year the prepacked packages of you know standard ketchup Mayo wrench and things like that this year we Implement having the made from scratch sauces that are rotating on weekly basis such as sriracha sauce Atomic sauce or boom boom sauce like it's just crazy names that they are like what is that but they when they try it it's just like you literally they'll come with a little cup and just squeeze as much as they can in it but again this is just gives them a little bit of the customizable item and they coming back again and again and they're like you know and share with friends and that's I think mouth to mouth that word is going out and kids are coming more to have lunch with us um so the we we also expanded the main options because we've heard a lot uh last year with the vegetarian options being something that we need to have and um I think that's what we focused this year with Elementary level Junior High in high schools where we have um for the hot lunches we have every day a vegetarian option available at elementary level Junior High we have multiple as we do have grab and go items and we have several salads and Bento boxes and sandwiches that are rotated on a weekly basis um on our cycle which is five weeks and then the of course the the high school is my favorite because they like we can play with multiple recipes and we have multiple versions of um vegan uh vegetarian and um Regular um option gluten-free so we can actually enh any um dietary needs uh for students so I I said that this this year is really like um labor involving for all of us but this is also great opportunity for for us to show kids that you know there is multiple choices for you to to choose from yes just wanted to add on the vegetarian and vegan options I know that the students were having a hard time kind of seeing all of the different options that we had and I'm sure you guys can attest to it so if you walk into the cafeteria and on the menus now we've highlighted the vegetarian and vegan options in green and also done the menu identifiers in green so and the labels on the Bento boxes and things like that so kids can easily identify that when they walk in um and they can ask the servers and everything at the station identifiers as well for if they need something else where else can they access this information is there an app can you do do we have it on our apps or we have a neutr slice app and it is directly linked to the school menu and it's customized by school so you can go to neutral slice.com and it's on the school district's uh website there's a hyperlink on there and it takes you to the um menu page you just type the name of your school um because as we know vendors sometimes depending upon when the delivery came in they might have substituted an item so each School while the menu might be the same they might have been substituted let's say a friend toast bite versus a french toast stick so they'll go in and they'll update that information so it's accurate for the nurse for their location um parents and students are able to actually go ahead and sort um and if they are vegetarian or vegan they can sort by that if they're allergic to Soy they can SL um take that out so it um will tell them all of the menu options that are available to them to eat okay so let me ask my student amb our student members board members do you would you want to see the um items for the day or for the week or for the month and if you do is neutral slice a place or an app that you would use or you would go to or where would you want what's where would be the most convenient place for you to access this information do you even look at it do you want to look at it help me I to introduce myself still I'm sorry hi okay hi I'm C Parell um for me I don't really find the need for me to see what the menu is I feel like it's more fun just walking to the lunchroom and see like okay what's the menu for today but I feel for people who are vegetarian who are vegan who like non gluten and stuff I feel like it'll be a great opport opportunity to see what's coming up next week and what they can do to either pack a lunch different customizable things that they can use absolutely we can use that for like the Dig you NOS like what's coming this week know if were we can use that as the post to kind of get that message out there so great Fe thank you um for me I would say I use a lot of emails so sending out emails I feel like would be a little bit more uh profound way to gather students to see the menu for the week um an app might be a little bit tedious only because um say a student doesn't download the app or doesn't know how to work an app versus seeing something on an email which is just a click and you see a chart or implementing a chart in the as you walk into the lunchroom could also be a really good idea to pull students in but I do like the app idea it's just like students being able to work an app especially like depending on because I know I know students that don't have phones it's kind of crazy but I know students who like don't have phones so um I like the idea that would be my only like regard like the little offset to it but emails would be like perfect I think for students so you would rather have it going to your student emails versus your parent yeah of i as a high school for high school I say cuz sometimes our parents forget look at this I'm sahana I speak louder sorry I'm sahana I go to OE one recommendation I have is I don't know how it is at OHS but we have weekly student announcements that we as club like as board members we can slides to that display in the comments on the TV is right down there so I think it would be really cool if you guys could put out the menus for lunch there because they just play every single day on repeat on a weekly yeah on a weekly basis so it's perfect love that idea yeah I I know that there's a lot of new options this year it's a little bit intimidating when you walk in there which is all good things but I think it' be really great if kid students could see before they enter the L that's [Laughter] they don't need us one other one other question um for the for the neutral slice app is is there is it advertised in the cafeteria and is there a QR code for them just to download okay per right on the um menu and it's also on the menu board as they walk in there's a giant QR code there as well that's great and would it be in the OR suggestion is to also put it on the slide that will be in the hallway proba perfect we can do that so here you guys have a built-in focus group yes and that's amazing BR samples next time one of the things I would strongly suggest and urge is that um these four also have a backup of like a entire committee absolutely and I would urge you to like um Dr Waller email Dr Waller and see if you can get on an agenda and have them you know give have opportunities for feedback and I would also maybe encourage you to talk to them about looking at our demographic breakdown and I think it could be very positive and um um as someone who formerly worked for Google food we really believed that food is community and using um maybe an ethnic breakdown of our students and being able to feature food that students wouldn't normally see in the their food District or in their school district that could also make them feel like they see themselves in the food and then to um the holidays and and stuff two of the holidays that were the biggest deal for us at Google food were Star Wars day we did like all menus around Star Wars day and um then Believe It or Not Martin Luther King day they did we did menus around Martin Luther King and those are like our two most popular holidays for Google food that they we really dove in and built um really great experiences around the food so and then one last thing is that um just giving you a little feedback from the seventh graders um that the e in last period their sandwiches are soggy and I promised I would let you know that all right so um just couple pictures as we we talked about uh what we've done differently this year versus last year so um that how would look our chicken sandwich right last year versus this year the breakfast pizzas we do the made from scratch real uh slice of pizza versus pre-made one uh sandwich is not is wrong with biscuit but I think everybody kind of like get tired of that so now you have a breakfast sandwich on a cross sand B so that has been a part of our um um of our sampling during the beat and we said like I think this is a heat and it has to go through all of the kids and this is how like our cold bar would look for uh junior high school and you see the sauces there and the toppings and I think that's uh that's a big hit right there um yes and here's just several display places p mentioned earlier about elementary schools um so you see the first three pictures would be from our uh last two weeks Elementary uh display plates with a refried Bri rice and a veget uh vegetable and chicken dumplings uh we had a turkey bacon uh cheeseburger there we have a um old-fashioned patty melt and um the other one is just a chicken uh cayi Bowl that's the uh new recipe for this this year for the junior high school and it went really really good some of the items you already been seeing but I also wanted to highlight the grab and go items the wraps and the Bento boxes that has been a huge head for uh junior high and high schools as sometimes it's just like as everybody knows they're rushing into the cafeteria grabbing a meal and they are ready to go and most of the time those wraps and the banto boxes already complete reimbursable meal um another thing I wanted really to highlight and um I think that's a great uh Test Kitchen version of um all the can eat at different uh dietary needs because we can have their are vegan you can have their are vegetarian option you can have a gluten-free option so it was just um well last year we just start this test kitchen it's a grain Bowl right so instead of like you know just rice you have rice quinoa lentils in there and um last year when we started was just the end of um school year and kids didn't really care about it but this year as we put a lot of other toppings so I guess the Toppings is the secret for any dish it became so popular so it's really really um nice think and I really want to have that as a picture there so you guys can see it's a healthy trendy grain Bowl so thank you thank you all right I'll just wrap it up I think one thing that we can all agree on is the state of Illinois finally did something right and they made us so we were no longer a low bit State and what that does is that allows us to do these items for you um versus kind of what you've seen in the past for the race to the bottom in our contracts um so I'm thankful that you guys gave us the opportunity to talk about our participation a little bit our our goals for communication and really kind of the some some of the changes that we've made within your community and within your district and we look forward to um engaging with the students and focus groups and and getting the feedback thank you thank you thank you very much see you all next quarter okay so you guys I'm going to ask if we could um move 10.1 which is the approval of 10.1 is it wait 10.1 the action item for the district administrator contracts if we could move that up we have Ashley Richardson here today and she has her family and there's a little baby and we want to get them home and so we're gonna if if you guys do I need to make a motion or I make a motion to move um action item .1 to um 1.5 what 6 point 6.2 two second all in favor oh that's not good job go on Miss samon hi Miss venm hi Mr oer hi Dr Mario hi M Johnson hi mrone hi Mr Gatewood hi so okay we got we got vote on it good evening board we vote first vote well don't we we moved it now we got to get a motion vote first and then you speak we're just going to make the Motions we got make a motion for make the motion for I did no that was to move it that was to move it you want me to make the motion now to yes okay to approve it make a motion to approve the district administrator contract as discussed and presented second Mr Gatewood hi Dr Mario hi Miss Johnson hi Mr Cerone hi Miss similon hi Mr ploger hi Miss vend hi motion passes 70 I want to invite Dr Paul with uh introducing uh Mr Richardson we're so excited that Ashley has said yes to being our College and Career Readiness coordinator uh Ashley is currently a site director and educational consultant for amplify Ashley began her career as an English and reading instructor at Thorton Township District in Dolton Illinois through the interview process Ashley strings became readily apparent for the College and Career Readiness coordinator including her ability to collaboratively problem solve and make data informed decisions that positively impact students and staff her experience in educational leadership working with with diverse stakeholder groups and Student Center decision making will be a great asset to the learning Innovation team welcome Ashley thank you okay next we want to Mr Obi we have a presentation from PMA Securities we want to welcome Bob Lewis uh thank you for joining us this evening Mr Lewis comes to us with PMA and um Mr Lewis actually presented to the the uh finance and facility committee uh last month and actually it's this month just earlier this month and the topic of Mr Lewis presentation is the refunding of outstanding uh uh go Bond General oblation Bond we have an opportunity to refund and to save the taxpayers some money and uh Mr Ls I'm going to hand it over to you thank you very much for having me here tonight so just uh to summarize currently the district has eight Bond issues outstanding which is you know the lowest number you've had in a long time because the district's done a lot to uh pay down its debt uh this principal page you see at the bottom used to be two pages to cover it all so so this is a celebration this is yeah this is good news yeah getting close good good close not yet okay okay uh so you have uh two bond series that are callable in the next uh couple years here the one that's callable uh in the not too distant future that we talked about the fin finance committee meeting was is the 2015 bonds which have a 4% interest rate on them currently there's about 11.8 million that are callable um just as a reminder municipal bonds you can't refinance them anytime you want like a home mortgage you have to wait to get to the call date and then the so the call date on this bond issue is February 1st of 25 which you can close on any financing to re to refund it as early as November 1st so that's why we're talking here now is because uh that's in the present and this the 16 bonds would callable one year later so hopefully at this time next year we'll be talking about 16 bonds as a potential refunding opportunity It's a larger financing with a higher interest rate so I anticipate that that one will be a viable candidate a year from now so this is the updated savings analysis uh this is better than what the finance committee saw because interest rates have come down a bit here recently uh the estimated save savings are in the far right column the total reduction in tax levies would be about $360,000 I believe the finance committee when they met uh determined that it would like to see a minimum of $300,000 of savings in order to proceed so when I was at the finance committee meeting we were below that on the estimate and now we're uh a bit above it at the bottom are two more yellow lines one of that is the present value of that savings because it is over a period of time it's not all upfront so the present value is over 300,000 to at 307,000 So currently this is not locked in this is the estimate based off uh the recent market and this Matrix is just a sensitivity Matrix it shows you how the savings can fluctuate as interest rates change so the current market is the 360,000 if interest rates were to increase by a quarter per that would fall to 192 and conversely if interest rates were to fall another quarter per it could increase up to 528,000 so the only thing I'd ask here is do you do you is it pretty much is the next uh rate cut pretty much baked in yeah so the rate cuts are baked in and the expectation of actually every rate cut after that baked in par another one December yeah yeah um I think they meet next in no November November November nov and then again in December yeah and the Market's already factored in rate cuts of a quarter per each of those meetings and additionally the next meeting but remember when the Federal Reserve Cuts rates they're cutting the short-term rates the medium long-term rates are sort of baked in that those cuts were already going to happen so in fact even at since the FED actually cut uh the short-term rate 50 basis points last week medium long-term rates have actually ticked up a little bit so you know medium long-term rates don't necessarily follow current fed action so this would be the the time timeline of events um if the board decides to proceed so we're presenting tonight to the full board October 7th is when the board would have the opportunity to consider resolution and the the main parameter of that resolution would be to set a minimum Savings of $300,000 and then the earliest then we could sell after that would be approximately October 21st that's what we set up for the timeline and then if if the market is favorable at that time to lock in 300,000 or more and the bonds would be sold lock and the rate would be locked in then and then they would close on November 4th in that window of time that they can be refinanced so that's the uh presentation anything else to add yeah just a couple of things just to be clear the district doesn't realize personally any savings there's no proceed to the district from this refunded the benefit is strictly to the taxpayer so this amount of interest rate that we will have paid uh 3 close to 370 we will pay this in interest payment to the bond holders from taxpayers um uh contribution this will result in a savings to them so I think that's important to point out thank you very important yeah one other point I would make that I made at the finance committee it's oftentimes a question that's asked is is there any change in the repayment term you know you know sometimes people will get a reduction in their mortgage payment well they did it because because they extended the payment and that's not the case here the the bonds are currently scheduled to mature in 2030 the refunding bonds would also mature in 2030 any other questions okay well thank you very much for your time tonight so are we basically giving direction that if if there's a $300,000 savings then we will proceed so what we essentially asking the board is to uh to give us the go ahead to follow the proposed schedule by P May to do this particular refunding because we believe it's in the best interest of taxpayers of this community yeah we agree is it going to be an action item next meeting yes next uh next uh aard meeting yes okay okay thank you Mr Lewis thank you thank you thank you I I want to thank uh the finance committee and Mr Bei and his team for tracking this carefully we know timing matters in this bu business and so we know you'll continue to watch that uh judiciously I know last year we we gain we realized some additional savings by pausing when we did so I'm sure you'll continue that um and bring that update to the board if needed so um next we W to next are we doing the um oh 6.2 we want to invite um we have 6.3 now 6.3 now thank you for the correction uh we have our Master facility presentation um part of the charge in last week we had the the we were invited to join the village uh trustees uh with an open session presentation um to discuss our strategic plan more importantly really to talk about a lot of the developments happening in our area and so board during that presentation one of the things that I highlighted was the importance of a master facility plan anytime we start to think about Student Assignment planning um this has been a priority I want to thank um Mr befi um Mr Queen Amanda satar uh Dr Kade um Andre and uh the team for really organizing this and tonight we have uh the the presentation and Mr will open for us then welcome G thank you Dr kadi as part of what we know should be a school district uh way of of doing businesses periodically we have a master facility plan that looks at the state of our Master facility which would be the assessment and then we have conversation with our community members our students our Educators and board members to dream about what we anticipate I need will be be like 5 10 20 years from now and come up with a design frame for that and once we finish that part of it then we have to think about how much is it going to cost us for those things to happen and once we get that part of it then the final part would be where we get the money to pay for and this is something the school district should do periodically I will I will I I'll venture to say probably every 10 years to do a master facility plan and as far as we know we've never done this before so this is an attempt for us to do what we believe is absolutely necessary for us to do so as part of the process we did uh request for proposal from qualified firms who have the ability the experience to be able to do this work we had some wonderful submission and uh from those submission we invited the top rated based on the rubric that we use five firms to come in and actually present to us in person and we asked them questions and uh from that list of five we ask the three finalist to then come back again and answer some more questions and provid us some more information from that uh from that assessment process where recommending uh White and Company to be approved by the board to do the master facility planning as part of the uh the process with asked our white and McKenry do a presentation and also uh allow the board the opportunity to ask questions and to provide answers to the board I'm going to hand it over to uh Brad pson from White and Company sitting next to him is store and next to him is Tim yeah thank you very much uh again my name is Brad Paulson with whiten company I am the uh K12 education practice leader senior vice president with the company I've been doing education uh school facilities my entire career going going back a few years just leave it at that Stuart Brodsky you want to introduce yourself sure steuart Brodsky I'm I'm an architect and also been doing educational facility design and planning for longer than I want to admit and decades in in fact and excited to be here one of my favorite parts of the process is Master planning and I think dreaming is a is a great way to put it that we look forward to the opportunity to work with you on that and I'm Tim McAvoy I'm an engineer with mckinstry we are supporting uh Whit and Company on the facility assessment portion and I'm very passionate I have three young children as well in the school age so very passionate about helping the K through2 uh environment oh sure uh yeah so McKenry uh we are a national uh engineering and consulting firm uh we have Midwest uh offices in Chicago Madison Minneapolis uh we do a lot of things but uh most specific for today is H strategic facility planning uh energy optimization uh Renewables uh we also help with uh you know smart and connected buildings building controls as well as funding and and uh Grant solutions to help to pay for some of those projects and a little bit about white and Company um we are based in Darian Illinois so not too far from here uh actually just celebrated our 85th Anniversary over the weekend um third generation ownership still going strong it's actually a little bit of a homecoming for our firm I we were going through this process and we actually did a lot of work for District 308 back as as long far back as the 80s and early '90s so we have some good familiarity and some information on some of your older buildings um one of the things that is on the screen there is we've done some pretty major facility Master plans and building improvements for similar District as you large unit district elur school district 205 been working with them for about 25 years and just finishing uh a six-year building uh program at following the implementation of a facility master plan naville School District 203 we've worked with as well and just most recently completed Indian Prairie School District 204 right next door a facility master plan for those for that District as well and we're excited to be partnered with mckinstry we've done some work together uh uh recently for some other building assessments and planning efforts so we think we have a good proposal a good team together when we start this process we always like to start with the end what's what are we going to get in the end what is a long range facility master plan supposed to do what is it going to give you and really what it is is a comprehensive road map for your District that touches on a lot of different issues it touches on the impact on students it touches on it provides a uh a fac an actionable facility plan using data to make annual facility investments in the infrastructure and the conditions You're Building most importantly it's aligned with your strategic plan your vision your goals it it has individual building Sol Solutions but also Al a overarching solution for the entire district and then of course it gets into what are the funding needs and what's the best strategy to implement those so that entire package comes together and all school districts want to know how those impacts and how those costs get broken out so there's a lot of different categories that can be created to kind of articulate your story and and kind of plan your individual Investments over a period of time the process we use to do that in a very simple uh simple diagram uh it doesn't look simple but it actually is um and we'll go through this in detail for you but essentially at the beginning we want to assemble all the information assess your buildings figure out what the needs are talk to teams talk to uh the individual schools engage students engage staff along the way using that information we want to begin developing facility plans laying out road maps engage the community through that process to evaluate that all all the while through going engaging with a steering committee which would be designed and selected and and kind of navigating through this whole process and in the end the board would have a and the district would have a long range facility master plan which would enable you to figure out and a begin to answer a lot of questions what what action do you want to take with it how are you going to deliver it how would you go ahead and pay for it and in the end hopefully youve built a lot of Engagement and trust with your community and with your staff to have everybody on board with uh the direction you want to head over anywhere from who knows 15 to 20 years so that's kind of a big picture I'm going to turn it over to Stuart now who we're going to and Stuart and Tim we're going to get into some of the details about what's in our proposal I know our proposal is actually attached to your board memo so yeah and we'll try we'll try to keep this at an overview level even though you see a lot of detail on the slides but I think the main point of this slide is that your um request for letter of interest had six primary objectives so the point here is that our proposal includes all of them if I were to look at any successful master plan they include all six of these ingredients or objectives the first three are really going to happen in the first half of the process we'll talk about the schedule in a moment and then um the next three although I would say engagement of some type happens throughout the the next three uh really happen at the back half of it say um you know in from the summer onward and again we'll we'll hit the schedule in a moment so on the next slide thank you um we believe in tailoring every master plan to meet the district's needs and um the unique needs of the facilities so we've studied uh your facilities the 22 uh buildings 3.3 million square fet and I think there's there's two um good news pieces or unique opportunities here uh one of which is you have some protype buildings and they come into groups so there's an opportunity for us to um I would say streamline but Focus the master planning process on the quality of the solutions without having to uh cover so many unique buildings a lot of prototypes we can really organize ourselves it creates an opportunity to really focus on Equity as a result of the master plan and then finally um your you're going to see in your schedule your your strategic planning process is happening at the same time as we are going to be developing the master plan particularly the first two phases and that will provide an opportunity to coordinate so the master plan really results out of your your goals and your vision educationally and operationally and the next phase we've been uh yes we have the first two phases are really the needs assessment uh phase one is the facility conditions assessment Tim we'll talk about that in much more detail but in some Simplicity that's where we're really looking at materials and systems and um your facilities team uh under bills leadership need this information it's critical for their operation whereas phase two is really educational alignment that's where we're going to look at modern learning environments we're going to help build some programming and we'll call it a rubric or an assessment methodology we'll go in we'll look at your buildings and and evaluate them based on that and identify the needs these this aspect is critical for your students and your teachers and your administrators it's what they experience daily and then finally in phase three is really where we develop and evaluate options that come out of the master plan it's where it all comes together we establish a long range plan and it becomes the integrated plan for the future with all the aspects so um we really believe in the the old adage uh start with end in mind um so the first thing the first series of things we're going to be doing is about setting in place a process that's going to be successful and enduring throughout so it means we're going to work closely with you to confirm the schedule Who's participating in the process to make sure it's full fully engaged involves both um within the district and your community um whereas phases one and two I talked about will be a little bit more focused of involvement with the district and and selective community and whereas phase three that's where we're really going to engage in Earnest more broadly with the community uh we need to dig in hard and make sure we have really good floor plan accurate floor plan documents to do the study efforts so we're going to be doing that and then we're going to um be aligning it with your the schedule of your strategic plan I've explained a lot of this in the schedule already but let's flip to the schedule slide so that green bar at the top represents the timeline of your strategic planning process it's started it concludes in the spring and if you'll notice uh phase one which is the conditions assessment really operates underneath that and the truth is phase two even though it's a phase two there are many simultaneous activities phase one starts as soon as you approve our um our proposal and we'll go through February of 25 where we will produce the initial initial report and then we'll continue and refine it and complete that by the end of the school year phase two overlaps with that it's a staggered start we'll kick into that in November um we're going to need to make sure the majority of that happens while everybody is still in school because we need to engage with you on that quite a bit and that will complete in lock step with phase one at the end of the school year what that'll allow us to do is have all the needs assessment ready um and it's important that we do that first then we'll start planning over the summer we can take a step back create planning Solutions and options uh develop them and then come present ideas to you in the fall we'll start developing conceptual costing so you'll begin to understand the magnitude of that but that's really when the community engagement more broadly will begin where we'll engage um and we're going to organize that um Community engagement effort more broadly with two communities that feed into each high school so we can make it um relevant to the needs of those neighborhoods and those schools in a unique way so we're going to um focus in a little bit more detailed on the phases Tim's going to talk about one I'll talk about phase two and three in more detail as um particularly as time allows um and I'll allow Tim to talk all right thank you uh yeah so phase one is the phase that we'll be leading it is the facility conditions assessment phase uh otherwise known as FCA uh it is uh the FCA is a process of uh categor cataloging all the assets and systems that are in your school facilities uh so anything from the interior floor to the roofs to the uh windows to the heating and cooling equipment uh we want to see what kind of condition that're they're in and then we want to assign a estimated cost of replacement and with those uh two pieces of information you can start to make uh investment uh smart investment decisions for next year as well as uh the long range facility uh master plan so it's a four-step process uh we start with the planning phase where we take all the existing information like the life safety reports uh all the information that the facilities team that are there in the building every day uh can can uh give to us and then we ourselves go out there and assess uh collect the uh data the asset uh data and then we Analyze That data and then we reveal and show uh the asset workbook in a easy uh cap capital planning dashboard so yeah thanks just want to highlight a couple differences in the traditional or typical FCA approach and our FCA approach uh so on the left uh you'll see it's a 400 plus uh static written building system report um it's uh not you know real easy to digest uh whereas our approach we're we're actually adding more information and more data but we can do that because we have an easily digestible uh dashboard um to work through that data so uh you can see uh in that heat map there with the red orange and yellow you know red is is bad it's more critical uh yellow is less critical you can click into those boxes and it's got all the additional information it's it's quite small here but uh it's got a lot of information when you do click into those boxes we're not just giving each asset one score we're giving it multiple scores and that allows us a lot more ability uh through the planning process so uh we're not just giving you the condition but we're also how critical is that asset if it does fail how much of the school you know will go down uh if there's Energy savings involved and if there's Energy savings that's operational savings that's greenhouse gas reductions that also opens up nikore and comad utility incentives inflation reduction act possibly uh money uh State grant money um we'll also look at uh the observe remaining life so not just the book value um not just saying your rooftop unit is 15 years old it should be replaced because ashray who's the expert says 15 years but the operating conditions that really impacts how long something does last um how many hours does it run a year how well has it been maintained we want to capture that information and not just tell you how old uh something is um and once we do that uh we you know we don't just assign a year that it's going to be replaced uh Capital plan this this planning process is going to be very Dynamic there's going to be a lot of different ways to fund these capital projects and we want to have a tool that can easily uh analyze all of those different solutions so that we can create the best pathway forward for you okay as we uh launch into phase two we're really looking at the learning environment um the site and Safety and Security those are kind of the well really the four things also the occupancy and the capacity of a building which really has a lot to do with how you use it educationally and one of the things we like about the facility conditions assessment being in an indexing format is that we're going to be looking at different types of categories of improvements that are going to be needed in different places and we want to make sure they overlap in the right way and are coordinated with the facility conditions improvements so that we aren't um putting a master plan in place that requires you to do anything more than once over the life of a building so those are there's a unique opportunity there um but phase two is really as Architects and educational planners where our heart lies because um this is where you really get to we We're translating your uh strategic educational needs into a program or an evaluation process we can then look at the facilities and come up eventually uh with Solutions or at least identify the needs then Solutions so that's all brought together along with facility conditions assessment in phase three and this is where we be we begin to develop um Solutions uh we look at them um area by area school by School uh type of building by type of building uh we haven't mentioned this uh yet but we will be developing with you both a steering committee and academic advisory committees that we will meet with periodically through both phase two and three and that we will then come back to in phase phase I'm sorry one and two and then in phase three we'll come back and really engage around the solutions um we'll be honing the schedule we'll be developing conceptual cost estimating so you'll understand the order magnitude costs associated with improvements and this is where we really launch community engagement I already mentioned the fact that we found the most successful way to do that is um have separate meetings for each of the feeder patterns for each High School school that involves all the schools where um your students families have sort of lived it for um all 12 years of their academic career with you and by bringing them together we can hear collectively hear the needs of the challenges of both of those communities uh we'll bring that process together work through Solutions hear the feedback and then um by the end of the year in 25 we will uh have a master plan that then can be uh ready for adoption by the board so that after that you can begin looking at opportunities to fund different ways to do that and how the project breaks down into um buckets of cost and and types and schedules and all those details so that concludes our presentation do you want to say anything Brad so we will we're here to entertain any questions you have and be happy to answer that now now I I have a question but it's actually for you Mr Queen how does this plant this new plan how does that fall in with the uh master plan that you've been working on I mean is it is yours more immediate or yes this is more detailed more in depth with with the information that we are documenting yeah okay so yours is more um dayto day at this point in time dayto day the best that I could do with with my team this is on a rander scale got it by far thank you it's been stated but I just wanted to the steering committee I think is a wonderful idea and I know that you said that the team will be created with us um but I just want to make sure that students are part of that team we I I think we envision making sure that our students our staff and community members that we've talked to some of them actually volunteer will be doing Outreach to make this is uh a process for the community for everyone who has an a stake in the school district they should have a voice to be able to make a determination the next 5 10 15 years our resources are allocated for the upkeep and the maintenance of the facility this is their facility they paid for it and they should have a voice in it I I also liked it was a unique perspective when you said the uh talk to the high school the where the families that have been a part of the high school I think the families that have been there all 12 years will have a unique perspective including inclusive not just different perspective because they've been through it and as well as the students and the families that are currently in it I think that it would just add value for those who already went through it too so I I I like that you said that part of the unique opportunity that in engaging in this process that is we'll be very strategic about ensuring that we get all voices not just the squeaky wheel um I think that can be a mistake um in let's say in traditional development or planning you you try to just go out there and say okay here's a flyer who's coming and and you you just count on who shows up um we're going to be really intentional and so I appreciate the comments um overall EV every part of this and so one of the things that was important when we looked at the white group's experience in kind of organizing that was definitely a prominent feature in their ability to engage community and um have some experience in doing that so maybe you want to speak to that a little bit about how you've engaged Community stakeholders in some of your recent projects well I would say every every school district every Community has a different path so I I can talk about Indian Prairie School District 204 maybe because that's most recent maybe the most relevant too um we went through a similar process um we had uh Community open houses organized by each of their three high schools uh a lot of direct engagement engagement with them we had it was activity based it wasn't just Architects and Engineers or School administrators presenting to the group we had specific targeted questions and activities that we proposed at times we've actually followed that up with a broader survey an electronic survey that's another valuable tool the reality is as much as you would love to have the community open houses and and have people come and engage with you the way we are the way things are in communities right now it's not as you can't rely upon that so you need to touch and and reach out to people to get as much information you can in multi multiple ways great much probably like you're going to go through with your strategic planning process so that's why these two process could really be like 1 plus 1 equals 3 you're going to be able to create a lot of value and engagement through the two processes I I'll add that as part of the superintendent Advisory Group that we launched last year there's a lot of interest um both around the Strategic um planning that we're going to be doing and that we have been doing through our strategic road map and now moving to our strategic plan number one number two that I would say energy of folks who were part of that are really excited to participate and also get rallied support for the other work and so both through engaging our departments like learning Innovation and um diverse learners but also in terms of getting support there are a number of folks said you know I didn't participate in The superint advis Advisory Group but I really want to participate in the master facility planning so you you definitely have quite a few people I've already spoken with lots of people who said well please sign me up for that and in some cases we're saying we need you in that and actually at the Village meeting last week we talked and we invited members of the village board to come and join us as well in that process yeah one one thing I'll add that in addition to the work that white and Company's done I'm actually work I I'm a school board member on another Luda District that's been through this process so I've been in all of your seat before navigated through all these issues we talked about so whatever little lens I can bring and add to the mix for consideration I I'm excited about that I love helping school districts and I get to see it from two sides thank you I'd like to ask question sure uh just a quick clarification um I'm I I think you're saying that the master facility plan also includes outdoor space of the facilities as well including Does it include the athletic spaces at the high school that are Outdoors or is that something that's separate from the work that you will do that would be included okay thank you I have a question and then just well voice a concern but I think that you've already kind of addressed you brought in our diverse Learners so that's that's the part that I want to make sure that we get consistency and um um that they're able to follow their peers into the next grade level and things along those lines so our special education Community our communities things like that so um but then the question I had was we're looking at potential capacity limitations relatively soon I see that the phases bring us to December of next year is that going to be enough time to kind of make some adjustments um or we going to have to kind of go forward before we get that I guess the part that we didn't mention exclusively is that with the master facility planning there's going to be some connection with with our demographer yes so they will inevitably have to work with a demographer Irish speak Mak and the demographic figure will figure into the uh the education designed that'll be part of the phase two and phase three so that that will make sure that uh where our facility is right now where faciliity is going to be in the future is going to take into consideration where population going yeah I just want to make sure that we're not looking at any over capacity you know issues Dr K while we going through this process do you want to speak a little bit to kind of what we brought up last week around the capacity issues and how we may in the short term think about some of those versus long term I think those were very relevant and important yep so we had the opportunity last week to uh speak at the Village of us we go meeting um in conjunction with RSP who conducted our enrollment analysis um right now we're looking at um with the growth along uh wolf crossing um in terms of subdivision additions um some capacity issues for uh southberry and then potentially Long Beach in terms of where we would have to potentially look at some Student Assignment um changes so along with that um we're also um very committed to our dual language and SEI programs and our special ed programming so under the direction of Dr dubio we've been doing some analysis about the location of our programs um within the district um also in conjunction with our transportation department um with Mr Oba so those are just some of the things on our Horizons as we look forward um into this winter um re-engaging some additional conversations along those lines thank you go ahead um other questions joh go ahead please I insist um I have a couple of different questions for different uh people um what what Raphael do you see the benefit of the $100,000 more that this vendor brings um and and how do we justify spending that kind of money so that's an excellent question when it comes to this type of work we take cost into consideration but I think a bigger uh consideration is the expertise that it bring now if we look at the uh the facility assessment software that McKenry bring is is industry breaking you see people what they do when they do a facility assessment they walk around your building they measure how many square footage you are they measure how many classrooms they have and that's the extent of the uh the facility assessment what they offer to do is much more detail layer detail of information that we will use into the future as it stands right now for example when we determine what we fix what we don't fix in a district we don't have a a good true system that we use to determine it their system provides us that as uh Tim mentioned earlier the opportunities for us to be able to look at funding sources for example when it comes to uh uh electricity lowering the cost of electricity lowering the heting cost they have the ability provide us the the tools and the data that we can use to do that where your regular facility assessment doesn't provide you that so those are the value ad that we're looking at we just don't look at uh we don't look at just the dollar we look at the the uh the unique experience and the core competency that they bring to to the engagement and when it comes to that they head over shoulder above anybody else this was something we spend a lot of time deliberating on we have two rounds of interview and after each interview they came out better than everybody else so over the roughly 12 months that that we spend with this um or however many months it is um the total that we will see is $380,000 we will not incur any other fees for what they're bringing to the table not for the master facility planning okay and then how often will we will the board how how does reporting back to the board work like how do we know what's happening when it's happening so forth what you ordinarily do is you have it in phases after phase one is complete there'll be a report that will be presented to the board just like this we'll provide it ahead of time before this meeting you have an opportunity to look at it and then we'll have them come in and do a presentation just like uh they're doing tonight you have an opportunity to ask them questions about it then we'll move on to phase two same thing and then phase three same thing and then the other part that we're now talking about here which we didn't ask for in the RP but which we believe is an important part is the support that we need to then say we have all this cost all these things that we need to do how do we pay for and that is something that this group when we talk to everybody else they actually have done better than everyone else they're currently providing support with 204 Indian Prairie doing exactly that right now and none of the submission that we received had that component as part of because at the end of the day if we did all this and we don't have the money to pay for or ideas of how we get the resources to make the changes that we need it's just an exercise in fut I mean there's no doubt I think in anyone's mind that we need this I mean I don't think that's the question where my concern comes in is making this decision is really going to mostly affect a new board and so ask and obviously a few of our current members but asking I mean do we make this decision and and this is something that they are then you know in charge of and stewarding is just something that's in the back of my head who takes on in our district like the workload of of this like who is like really working with these guys dayt day and um day to day will be a facil bill and him and I'll be providing support to him the way I always do and so then what does he do what about his day job like no so that's I mean that's part of the investment is that you actually have a project manager I mean I think we have a individual in the back you want to come up and speak to your role in this which I think part of the investment is really recognizing that this is not a a task that's uh a small task and the amount of work it requires is pretty significant that responsibility does not fall on Bill the he's the liaison but really the the firm is who we're really hiring to take the lead I'm guess I'm getting at is you know how are there going to be disruptions to the um academic setting are we going to be asking principles to answer stuff are we going to add I guess I'm looking at what the load is on our current you know employees and what that looks like also knowing that at least for 1 2 3 four roughly four or five months they are all working towards a strategic plan all these folks have a role in building a strategic plan and so I just want to make sure that we're considering workloads and uh balancing that yeah that is very that is also the reason why we've first of all the timeline can be expanded right so there are there is flexibility in that this is a proposed one if we see that one requires a little bit more time our commitment is to get strategic plan by February does that mean we can equally do the same amount of work around the master facility plan engagement that may be after right so there is there is flexibility in that that we will be paying attention to and that's really important to know um we want to do this well we don't want to do this rushed right and I don't want so there is no there's no goal for that so I want to invite you to speak to the project management a little bit work that you've described in the um I'm n sha I'm the project manager at White company so I will be um kind of working with you day-to-day organizing scheduling be the main client contact kind of making sure we're moving forward in the way you guys want to and you know a lot of that you know that work falls on our end to make sure we're getting the information we need from you and we're moving forward you know we're we're not looking to do any cumbersome work for you guys we're really here to do that for you to make sure you're getting this plan and getting all the information we need um but yeah and I can just say based on experience I've had I've done a number of this in order to district is never been something that added work to other folks uh job it's supposed to be a blueprint that help us uh determine how we manage our facility I don't really I can Envision how a district our size can operate with uh facility management maintenance without a master facility plan I I don't disag I mean I the fact that we have never really engaged in this is kind kind of surprising and also shocking and also why we find our self in some of the situations we do I'm just going to go back to the calendar like I just have a concern about like space programming and needs assessment going on at the same time that our strategic planning is going on when that is where we are going to learn from the community what they are what they want and so I just I I want to make I just I don't know it just feels like a lot right now and um not that we don't need it not that I don't think we've picked the right part partner I just feel like it's a lot on top of each other absolutely and we will that that feedback is really helpful and something that we want to make sure we're always paying attention to so we'll definitely take that under review and as we begin to build our project plan make sure that all parties are really understanding the load one of the things that um acvr consultant often reminds us even at as District leadership team is that at the end of the day our Educators and our school leaders face multiple competing demands and we do not want to put more on them to take them away and our students from the most important work which is supporting our students so definitely your your instincts are important and we'll be paying attention to that so thank you for that um mine's more geared towards you I I I'm always cognizant of some of the narratives that we've battled in the past and when I hear them I'm quick to say oh well I am l listening and I will absolutely bring this and and we we know like we know um I think going into this some of our trouble spots and anybody who's walked out on our football fields we we understand like the challenge um but to demonstrate that I am listening and listening doesn't necessarily mean always that you're going to hear what you want to hear but um of course there's The Narrative of well if we spend money from the Personnel side on the facility side and I I asking you to again you know clarify to people we're talking about two very different sets of of buckets and if if um it's not that simple right and you'll explain that better than me absolutely for for example we have funds that we Levy off of and those funds can exclusively be used for those functions for example we have a n fund which is fund 10 we Levy from that we have uh um omm operations and maintenance fund 20 those funds when we receive those Levy can only be used for the facility maintenance we can't use it for anything else and even with our ebf that we get from the state there allocations of those funds some of those funds are actually designated for us to use for operations and maintenance we have to use those funds for our facilities and to maybe connect what you just said with what board member um Johnson is saying part of the problem has having sat here through massive Cuts part of the problem is we went into complete reactive mode in which we had no plan and we just started uh and I said at the time like we're in this for the sake of saving money we're costing ourselves money right and so without those Personnel available to have these kind of plans long term um we'll find ourselves in the same boat so it might not be a football field it might be you know an haac system or whatever the case may be um and so I know it's hard for people to hear that because their kid is where their kid is right now but um in order to get where we need to right we have to be able to have those long-term planning pieces and so absolutely absolutely and most of our buildings were build around the same time a chunk of them now and around the 20e Mark is when things start fall in aart and if we don't have a plan for it then all we're doing is doing the waca mhm when you do that over time you spend more money you impacct in the health and safety of our students and our staff and it's not really a good way for an organization an institution decides to operate we're not a mom and pops operation we are $300 million a year entity in any any version of the story we're a large business M and a large business will not operate without a plan to his facility yeah Mr speaking of State oh one quick question speaking of safety do you want to add to that Mr Bill um the only I would say is through this process of firms and things um whing company was one of the only ones that requested to speak to us in particular and the student services department around Safety and Security um I think that speaks to them trying to be as comprehensive as possible um and so we welcom that conversation in reference to kind of the work that you talked about it's just necessary work we there things that we may have to consider what we prioritize through this process um but the Safety and Security is significantly impacted by facilities the Aging facilities the infrastructure in our facilities and so um I don't know how we'll do it or when we'll do it but we'll do it because we have we have to yeah um and I think that's going to be critical in helping to develop those uh strategic planning pieces um and so we need some of this data um and this information quickly in order to be able to kind continue to respond to the needs that exist um and the things that we're we're seeing coming at least from the Safety and Security side yeah we understand that um we've been asking for something like this for like three years so we get the importance of it more importantly when our community comes to us and they ask us for turf fields or they ask us for parking lots and the question was always well where is this on our list of priorities and so I'm looking forward to the opportunity to see reports where we can gauge how important is this where is it in our list of priorities and we don't have you know we don't have to guess about it we can say to our community this is where this is on our list of priorities because of we got to put boilers and chillers and all these other things Windows yes um in our building so I'm I'm looking forward to um this type of data so that we can make really good decisions I really appreciate you saying that I think the other component to that is is that we have often um you know I don't know if the word subjectivity is the right word here but depending on who you're talking to they prior prioritize things differently and I think it is important to have someone outside telling us that because we did a facilities plan but it was done internally and I think that we need someone from the outside saying here's really what your priorities are so that we don't create the friction in our community that was created before so again I'm just reiterating I'm not saying we don't need this I just want to make sure the timing is the best for our our staff so thank you very much for coming tonight thank you thank you so much thank you thank you so I'm very cognizant that we have students in the house and I'm going to let you guys go in just a minute I want you to participate in something um so we're going to move on to 8.1 our superintendent report but before 71 I'm sorry 8.1 yeah I would do that oh I'm sorry Y is any is there any public comment oh okay's 7.1 we're moving on no public comment okay so before Dr katti gives his superintendent report um I would just like to have us pause and take a few moments to honor the profound loss our community has faced recently as We Gather here today our hearts are heavy with sorrow three lives still with so much ahead of them were taken too soon each of these individuals brought light and with so much I'm sorry brought light and joy to those around them and their absence leaves a profound void that we all feel deeply in times like these it is important that we come together as a community supporting one another and honoring the memories of those we've lost let us take a moment to reflect on their lives and the impact they had on our school and our hearts so tonight the board and the district honor remember as Wego High School senior sha fader as Wego East East High School alum Javon McGee and Murphy teacher and Coach Mr Aaron Dudley so please join me in a moment of silence thank you we know that as a district we unite we lift up and we carry on but forever we will remember these three who were part of our SD 308 family okay you are I appreciate that but can I can I I listen I hope we never have to do this again but just a request we had like a lot of people here earlier and I just think like if we can do it earlier next time that would just be a little bit more impactful nobody did anything wrong just just observation and hopefully we never have to worry about doing that again and I know a lot of people were affected yeah thank you um we can we put that statement on on our website or something so that our so those who weren't here today can see that all right thank you so much today to all of our student board members you guys have um contributed greatly to our discussion today and we really appreciate it and that's what you're here for so thank you so much um have a good night have a good night thank you thank you thanks thank you again uh thank you president samilton for sharing those words and also uh Mr ploger for highlighting uh the timing but I would underscore that um we the timing is now there is always this is the time and so it was important for us to make make that time right now and and uh I want to invite our community as well to uh Hudson Park Crossing this coming Wednesday evening um we've been not notified that there will be an Interfaith Gathering um to honor the lives that we've lost of sha Javon and Aaron and uh this Interfaith Gathering will be a a powerful there will be a service as a symbol of our community's unity and grief but also in strength and we appreciate the faith community leaders who came to together to offer this unique this Interfaith Gathering to offer this unique opportunity for our community I also want to really given a special appreciation to our district uh crisis team um under the leadership of Mr Bell and Dr KC who really rallied in a time when uh what people need is support not figuring out who's going to give the support and often um it is it is the on song Heroes behind a lot of the planning and organization that can make it more palatable for our friends in our community even um our dear colleague and coach for life Mr Dudley I know that in the weeks prior the the team were were thinking about how can we prepare to support that family and the school U because he and the and the district because ultimately Mr Deli did have an impact throughout our district and has really been a beacon um so again um want to thank your team and thank your teams and all our schools and staff and everybody um everywhere has really rallied to support these families so thank you all over the past week we've had um along U many school districts board um I was on actually on a call with superintendent and the superintendent from out west near De Mo Iowa actually said if it hasn't come to you prepare for a huge uh struggle around threats um in social media and so there was about 40 superintends on the call and he kind of and only two or three raised his hand and that was only two weeks ago and sure enough um our community has uh really had to struggle the last couple last week or so especially about threats through social media in many cases these messages originate from outside of our district but through social media channels they end up in our community while we take every single report very seriously and is investigated uh we want to acknowledge that this type of behavior reposting information like this is very disruptive and frightening and costly both in times and resources I want to take a moment again to last week we sent out a message board to the whole Community reminding everybody about the social media and we are continuing a campaign to really remind folks about this um I want to thank students parents staff community members for their vigilance in reporting anything concerning using the see something say something adage as a reminder it's not a funny joke it's not funny to joke about school violence and it's not okay to spread rumors photos videos or content that suggest such violence in any way the safety of our students and our staff is always our highest priority and we will take such matters very seriously I want to thank our police Partners who have invested their time in assistance and partnering with us to really um make sure that every investigation is followed up when we receive these reports I'm going to shift gears now uh September 15th marked the start of Hispanic Heritage Month uh it was a great celebration got to join BAC uh for their their launch of uh Hispanic Heritage Month and I want to this is Hispanic Heritage Month is a time where throughout there is a are latinx communities um their communities have left an indelible Mark of art music literature science politics and education and countless other domains their enduring Legacy is not only a source of Pride for those who share this Heritage but also a source of inspiration for all of us who recognize the power of diversion in acknowledgement and celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month we are grateful for and encourage learning and celebrations across the district and I want to thank all our partners um next year I'll be ready to say this in Spanish so gracias and and just remember all of the bees wanted to were at events because they wanted to be part of bpack yes they wanted to be part as we were told by a student yes uh I want to now invite board Partners uh board members to share any additional celebrations or news of coming up from the Z coming sure I'll start us off I sgo High School won the the T-Mobile Friday night 5G lights 5K sweep sticks say that fast three times with your help this is the this is only the beginning future winnings could include outdoor lighting sound system upgrades and even Turf help us reach our next Milestone at the as a top 16 finalist by sharing on Instagram and using at TMobile # FN 5gl # sweepstakes and Ohs 308 and at ohos Athletics thank you for all for being a part of this journey this month nominations are also open for Long Beach Old Post Boulder Hill and broa schools to recognize their amazing teachers and employees through the district's Pride program the winning individuals will be recognized at the October 21st board meeting the Board of Education meeting please visit the Board of Education page on the district's website and nominate a teacher or a staff member to be considered for this prestigious award the nomination period will close on Thursday September 26th thank you moving on we are excited to invite all families to attend the second session of sd308 parent University to learn ower Advocate and find Community as parents in our district enjoy learning about topics parents choose and participate in and support your students educational Journey join us on Saturday October 26th from 9:00 a.m.

1474 million um if you take out that 1.3 million for the TRS adjustment it went up $168,700 um so it looks big but you taking that out um on andm fund was a reclass and then um increase for gas and heat electricity um our projections were were lower than what we had anticipated and then a couple reassesment so those adjustments were made there so there's 311 million 311,000 there and then Transportation fund only had um our salaries were adjusted a little bit and then the medical insurance we were projecting so we didn't know how many people would jump on um now we know the um deadline is over so I adjusted that down to more actual so on the total for those three funds change it's $339,000 increase so um and then if I flip over to the PowerPoint real fast so nothing changed um on any of these slides next nothing on these slides so I'm just going to skip through them from last month um those percentages stayed the same on this slide it went just a smidge um change so I um like 70 the Ed andm Transportation changed like half a percent nothing big there notes so these are the true new numbers that were adjusted after the fact so you have your the different salary buckets there that were adjusted and then your total Ed one salaries um went up a little bit this Slide the only the total education expenditures changed and none of the other three areas had changed on M the salaries and the the salaries amount changed a little bit and then the total transportation salaries um and the others did not change this slide there were no changes to any of these funds then here's our fund summary so you see the projected revenues and expenditures and then the difference so slight difference from the tenative and the Ed fund um went the difference went a little bit down from the last one and then you can see that we're still deficit spending in four of those funds and and then the that difference column will feed into this slide that shows you our beginning fund balance from our unaudited fund balance since we still don't have our audit yet you have those changes from the slide before in the middle and then you'll see our projected fund balances at the end of the year and that's all of the changes that we have any questions thank you thanks D you're welcome thank you for this meeting motion second toj second Hulk yes H yes Nolan yes papis yes Bui yes Gorman yes motion secured y we go seven notes e e e Co aif ful presid henel here noan here papis here FY here Gorman here need a motion second to approve tonight's agenda so moved second ful yes Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes vuli yes Gorman yes motion is carried please join us in citing the Pledge of Allegiance United States stand and justice for all I like to thank everyone for coming out tonight everybody here and then those viewing at home also yeah it's great to see all of our athletes out here and our coaches thank you guys for coming out for us to celebrate you we appreciate it as well as um everybody out here in the audience and the people that are viewing at home so thank you guys for joining us athletic director jusy is here to recognize girl soccer team he's not here slly smaller version of [Laughter] him he apologizes he couldn't be here tonight it's a kid but um he did send me in his place and I'm proud to be here to announce our girls soccer team from last spring who June 1st went down to North Central College and took fourth in state so we have Coach arneson coach King coach King and all of our players here um coach vassel and Coach netley could not be here tonight but I'm just gonna announce all their names have them stand up and be recognized and we are very excited about recognizing them here tonight as well as we get a little like warmup for this at the football game two weeks ago so let the party never stop see what we do this spring can't wait so like to honor and recognize lilan batani Sydney Bots Grace Brown Riley Butler Briana dumeny Ellie Elders Alissa Ferrera Emerson fry Kendall and Greg Ripley Hamill Mia cerr Annie Megan Ally kwall McKenzie lowski Lauren Meyer Katherine Panzer Jane petkovich McKenzie Rogers Eva Ian Mia schy Ashley waslo and Carmela Winlock thank you congratulations ladies and we're looking forward to see what happens this spring as well how many seniors did you lose a good question fori we've got some we've got some commits already too that know where they're going excellent nice very good congratulations congratulations wonderful good job ladies luck with your next season J L play hard that's awesome it's awesome all right principal borski will come back up and recognize the students who earned College Board National recognition award now I get back to my height okay um very excited again to honor some students so we are pleased announced just like last year that we have the College Board has recognized 15 of our students for various factors including their PSAT scores and a GPA of 3.3 or higher um these awards are three different categories they are for our national Hispanic recognition award our national rural or small town award or first generation award so all these awards are based on where we are or our type of kids and the new one this year is the first generation award which goes towards uh kids with a limited income or a background familywise that is not traditionally College Bound or have a history of going to child College within the family so this year very proud to announce all of these students and in the memo we will see you can see which ones that qualified for some of them for one like just the rural others are Rural and first gen and that's denoted in the memo so it's Carolina ASO Elliot Campbell tan Cathcart aner danan Mia Estrada Alex G Marian pain Del Al Arian Patel Gian rosta Kunal Shaw sh Shaw Marissa tacel m w and Jackson whipper forth so we're very excited about that as our first recognition and I foresee in the next month to month and a half we should be able to get our Illinois State Scholars will be processed and be doing another memo for that as well so proud to celebrate those students and their [Applause] achievements move on to public comment uh first up Steve jurer good evening um have a few questions I hope that the board could address regarding the referendum and a few comments that I think the taxpayer should be aware of um wasn't able to make the design dive but um and I didn't see anything that kind of addressed these issues so maybe uh we could get some clarity uh the September 6th Friday facts did show that on a $400,000 assessed house you would be the tax increase would be $116 a year uh which is true but a little misleading that it only covers the increase on the bond and interest payment it doesn't cover any of the other funds that goes to support the budget and the school operations such as uh the operations of Maintenance transportation and Staffing so those other funds will increase more than $116 that uh is being reported uh by that fact uh also it does say that to reduce it to 116 we stretched out the bond term from 20 to 30 years that's true but also by stretching it out in additional 10 years the additional interest on that $225 million Bond debt is7 $5 million that's no trivial amount the cost the total cost for this debt will be $410 million so over 30 years we're going to pay quite a bit in interest in addition the annual repayment amount for the bond and interest will be approximately $1 13.6 million a year today it's 50% less than that about 9 million so it's going to increase 50% % to 13.6 million which might be 20% or more of your budget the other item I was looking at on the central referendum website um under the RSP analysis section it said that there were 853 new homes from 2020 to present uh I think that's a fact that the board should check out and see how accurate that is when I go back and look at the county eav reports okay and you look at District 301 the partial count for 2020 was for the residential partial count paral count was 8533 if you look at 2023 eav report it's 86688 that's only a difference of Parcels you need to go back to 2010 to get a difference of 800 uh 25 homes so in 2010 the partial count for residential was 7,863 so you have to go back that far to find where we've added 825 uh parcels and finally as the debt for this new referendum the proposed referendum is being paid off over 30 years for $410 million what other referendums will the district come back and ask the taxpayers to pay for capital projects and outlays for uh improving buildings and so on so thank [Applause] you all right next up we have Dave Chapman all right good evening uh there's a packet going around for you to review um I'm going to start with with page one but I'll let you all get that okay um as you recall last may we discussed how we have the worst teacher to student ratio meaning our class sizes um are the worst in the area due to a lack of hiring teachers CA decided to do a bit of a a data analysis using you our ISB data we wanted to figure out you know how much Total Staffing we actually should have um so that we are resembling surrounding districts you know districts like kin St Charles Geneva and bavia in front of you you'll see the data which uh we'll share out to the community later as you can see we learned we should have the equivalent of 90 more full-time teachers in this District if we want to support our students and staff the way other districts do 90 so my statement to the board is the ISB data presented by cea at the May Board of Education meeting and this ISB data clearly shows we have much higher class sizes larger teacher workloads and really an aversion to hiring more staff members we might budget seven to 10 new staff each school year but if we were actually hiring people we wouldn't be in this situation where we're at such a deficit last May CA simply asked for five more FTE and special ed and elll and we were rejected we aren't asking you to add 90 more additional staff right now or even next school year but we are what we are asking to is to increase Staffing um it's pretty clear that we need that we're asking once again that you post those five teaching positions we requested last May right now on top of that as you know we have the worst reten rate of Staff in the area to combat this the state gave us a teacher vacancy Grant if you look at page two of your packet you will see our district receives a little over $100,000 annually from the state to specifically focus on attracting and retaining staff in your board packet and on page three of this packet you will see our district returned almost $42,000 of the teacher vacancy Grant back to the state so about 42% of it this unused money could have been spent to better support our staff attract staff and retain them examples of ways to use this grant are on page four that's also provided by the isbe I've also reached out to them and hoping to talk with them tomorrow more um examples could be things like bringing in Specialists from from the outside to help our staff you know maybe special ed in elll um it could be providing more tailored PD providing mentoring to part-time staff something that we don't do and even using money um for more signing bonuses if you recall we allowed you in the contract to give $5,000 signing bonuses to new staff especially and hard to find positions we ask the district repeatedly to start advertising on job postings that we offer a signing bonus and you know what that answer was no your District leaders refused to this money could and should have been used for this we still have spe we still had special education openings when the school year began and I'm confident if our district would have been fully utilizing this grant we wouldn't have been in that position additionally we had to hire a special ed teacher from an outside agency and again I think that wouldn't have happened if we would have been doing everything we could have in short we gave back money that could have been used to keep staff here and turn our climate and culture around we have no problem spending $40,000 of taxpayer dollars on an outside PR Agency for a referendum even though we have a PR person hired and at the same time we're fine giving back over $40,000 of free state money that could have helped our teachers what are we doing I don't understand my question to the board is what additional data is needed to show you we are not doing enough in this District to provide the best possible education for our students we literally don't know what else you need we share survey results with you many of which go on answered but in those survey results include important data numbers and staff comments that our staff take the time to share with you because they want you to read it you have reliable and validated State data you have this example of the teacher vacancy Grant amongst other things we honestly don't know what else you need I know perhaps president gourman you could let me know what more you guys need um I would really love to hear that and I'll wrap up with this lastly if you feel we are doing everything we can to support our students and staff and that that's truly alarming this means you aren't speaking with staff and seeking the opportunities to understand what your staff do on a day-to-day basis it tells us you don't understand what a classroom looks like in 2024 and in all honesty it leads us to the conclusion that are we just intentionally ignoring the problems in the district I hope we're not this data and these patterns are not only a disservice to our staff but negatively impacts the educational opportunities and success of our students We are failing our students with the decisions or lack thereof being made so please start looking at the data in front of you start speaking with staff start visiting the schools during the school day and I think most importantly start asking more questions thank [Applause] you thanks D next up G Meyer hi Jean Meyer Christian resident I'm smiling at all you guys in the front there you're not my enemies and you don't treat me like that the eight crickets in case each of you want to eat W are not to make fun of you but to make all of us think do we want to indoctrinate the children to current political fake false science views I bet you all had no clue this is being taught Schoolboard stop indoctrination of any kind this community wants our scores in Reading Writing and arithmetic to excel educate not indoctrinate so see page two two and three for the uh September assignment for a fourth grade Howard B Thomas student in Burlington uh first off the article says insects are really good for you they're packed with protein by weight crickets and termites have more protein than beef second raising insects cost less and is better for the Earth than raising cows and other livestock insects take up much less space and need much less food and water than cows also you can eat more parts of an insect than other their animals insects also reach their adult size quickly it does not take much time to raise insects to eat third insects tastes good many types of insects taste a little nutty some kinds of bugs taste like bacon while Others May taste like fish or even fruit some insects such as mealor worms don't have much of a taste at all they pick up the flavors of whatever they're cooked with so what are you waiting for why not try a beetle today or or a cricket I want to talk about a food company that has closed called bitty Foods it seems to be the state of factories and making uh raising insects for food and also um laboratory grown meat they don't seem to be doing as well as they think they should but bitty Foods makes delicious healthy snacks with Cricut flour their mission is to help alleviate stress on the global food system by populating ating edible insects as a sustainable protein source that conserves natural resources and can feed billions of people according to the UN if edible insects become a part of the mainstream Global diet greenhouse gases can be reduced by 18% and the average cost of food lowered by 33% stabilizing the global food supply using sustainably raised crickets bidy Foods Mills them into fine flour that becomes the basis of its line of high protein based goods and baking mixes biddy has received accolades in the New York Times Fast Company and Vogue and was named one of the entrepreneurs Magazine's 100 brilliant companies and again this company went out of business um Americans are not ready for this kind of food and with given time and indoctrination of the children and if we make food shortages of meat and we raise prices people probably will eat crickets thank you thanks J all our last public comment is Virginia Romo hi thank you for letting me talk um I'm a little speechless about all this hearing about what kids are being taught um the taxes um it it just seems the more layers of the onion that gets peeled back the more is revealed and it it's just astounding to me um I just hope that you guys just don't decide to throw another tax levy at us um I don't know if anybody's aware but um this election cycle not only is our $225 million High School referendum on the ballot but so is the Hampshire library wants $30 million from us for two libraries um of which really Burlington isn't going to benefit all that much it'll be too far away for us to go to um the forest preserve is increasing their um their uh whatever portion um my opinion I do go to a lot of the board meetings with the county and stuff like that and I'm just seeing a lot of overspending there um what else um yeah it's just kind of nuts County wants more money um in April 1 uh um the next election they want um to create a new sales tax for the county of 75% so um it's kind of interesting everybody wants money from us but none of our incomes are really going up and our property taxes maybe the value is going up I'm not real sure about that I haven't really looked into it that much but um I don't think our property values are increasing like um all these taxing bodies want the increases so I that's just me um I think a lot of other people are uh have the same feeling I do I just seem to have the louder voice um but I know there's a lot of other people um that feel the same way so um that's about all I have to say thank you very much than move on to action items motion and second are required to discuss and improve the consent agenda second um included in your board packet are your revenue and expenditure reports revenues are currently at 6.13% compared to 6.44 a year ago expenditures are at 1633 compared to 12.35 a year ago um this last month we received impact fees for $165,600 6 for 22 new home starts and then we did get a little transition fees for $2,095 um also included is the bills payable for both Northern cane and Central um very typical for the month of September everything over the summer gets caught up this month so it's usually our biggest payout um and then Northern Cane's report includes their final fy2 24 grants so will be done for last year's expenditures and then included in centrals is a shes magn construction for 700,000 any questions all right right Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes fuli yes Gorman yes motion is carried next a motion in second to discuss and approve the budget for the central 301 for the 2024 to 2025 school year so second so just before this meeting we had our budget hearing um and we reported out the re revisions that we had um mostly just roue routine adjustments for personnel changes grants rec classes um so tonight I'm just this part of the meeting we just formally adopt the budget that we reviewed earlier Mel yes Nolan yes papis yes FY yes ful yes Gorman yes motion is carried we need a motion in second to discuss and approve the cross country trip to the Poria first to the Finish event September 13th to 14th 2024 or that happened moved second all right JY is out six so this good Nolan yes papis yes yes fuli yes Fulk yes heno yes Gorman yes motion is carried a motion second requiring discuss and approve the FFA overnight trip to the National FFA convention in Indianapolis Indiana October 23rd to 26th of this year some of second annually FFA does this in Indiapolis to huge convention for while received by both students and the faculty so it is a recommendation obviously for the approval pepus yes buy yes Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes Gorman yes the motion is carried next the motion second require to discuss and approve a trip to the Illinois High School theater Festival All State production of the prom at the University of Illinois champagne AB banaana January 5th to the 11th of 2025 second you more to add there Patrick I'm not familiar with what we do speak it's the four year in a row weif that's something they try out for nominated by their our strike or whoever would do that okay okay vby yes buul yes Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes Gorman yes the motion is carried next we any motion second to discuss and approve the veterinary affiliation agreements as presented so second so sorry uh in your board packet you'll see the the memo that lists the five different uh locations remembering that four of them are renewals for past sites that we've used so continual use and and we do have one new one Randall Road Animal House Hospital of South Elgen uh we're always continuing to search to find different avenues that they were approached before they have a different veterinarian that is now running that practice that was excited uh reached out and of course Amber does a great job and the rest of our egg team to make sure we're able to find enough locations for all of our externships so these are just five of them if you have any questions specific to them okay thanks Hulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes buy yes Gorman yes motion is carried next Motion in second to discuss An approved mou between central 301 and the alignment collaborative for Education move second so this is the ml that I brought last month for review the adjustments are so this is something we did in the past we're expanding upon our agreement to take five more students uh remembering that we took even though we had 10 approved last year 23 of our students were selected so um we're getting more than what we're kind of financially committing to but they're promising another additional Vibe for sure um we have high confidence again we're going to to exceed that 15 number it also lists out the different uh things like the senior job fair uh participating in the teacher pipeline our students go to uh a couple of events for that including one that's coming up at Northern uh and then we are represented on the board uh and then we continue to we'll continue with our resume writing and then uh the goal would be not during this calendar year but this year we will plan an expo that will happen inhouse for our students to be able to participate to get things kind of going and match up with career selections as students want to move forward it's just it takes that much time ahead of time to put on that type of event for the number of vendors and things that you're coordinating with that's why it is listed as a 2026 school year scenario just for your clarification I didn't want you to be confused like why are we working on it it's just how much communication has to happen UPF front to make that type of jump for a large event questions St thank you the only thing if we're going to increase the overall money that would there's some sort of you know what are we G talk about next year and was it used appropriately and yeah so the 30 as opposed to 20 following year and we take uh some of this out of grant money funding that we get out of our you know from ISB uh and down some comes out of our vocational funds that we use annually to support our high school so it's it's not even 100% per say tax money that we're we're going we use Grand funds all the time to support CTE uh not only with the in-classroom stuff that's happening but also these types of Ventures to get kids kind of connected with real life experiences you know so this is just one of many factors that those funds go it's also a way for our students to be participating in the externships and inter without it we can't have the partnership to get those advantag for usk thank you Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes fby yes Gorman yes motion is carried BR Motion in second to discuss and approve the contract with code to the Future so moved second I brought this up uh last month you'll see in the memo there the breakdown of the cost structure and and what would be occurring over the next uh five years did reach out to our building Administration and we have two selected uh buildings that will participate five staff at least in each of the buildings so Prairie View and ly Lake will begin this this year we have a planning meeting later this week on the books and then hope is to get that started at the end of October any questions all right wonderful thank you H yes Nolan yes papus yes fuli yes Fulk yes Gorman yes motion is carried a motion in second and require discuss and approve the reciprocal reporting agreement with city of Elgen for the reporting of student offenses so moved second so were able to uh ascertain a contract inter governmental agreement with Kane County for um inter kind of reporting reciprocal reporting for issues relevant to our students uh so we can share information should there be some kind of legal element that we have our students involved so that is part of the board packet that you receiv received with the contract and intermental agreement with them it does go through 2026 so was an update from where we had had previously to get us through 2026 it's generally an annual process but we extend it for a couple years this time is that two-way reporting two-way reporting yeah who makes the decision on the county side Elgen or otherwise who says this is a student in 301 we're concerned about whatever said offense was who makes the decision about whether we find out about that officer usually works with us Works directly with the city of Elgen just because he's got connections there and then we work through him is it just the city of Elgen this we already we already have one for Kane County this is same version version for that jurisdiction correct do we need to have it any other this is the only two we've ever had it withy Nolan yes pis yes fuli yes Fulk yes Hil yes Gorman yes motion is here move on to information items facilities director Poway is here to give us an update good evening um kind of wrapping up uh things some of our summer project work um the first one is our generator project we still haven't completely 100% wrapped that up hbt we're still working through some equipment issues um with Coler and replacing some equipment there we're hoping to get that done this week um Lily Lake and prair viiew are both on line and up and running so those projects are getting wrapped up we're wrapping up permits with the Roe um on those jobs um the addition uh we're currently working on uh the final um hookups for the train ahus all that equipment that was drastically delayed um so our vendor CMI and and our uh uh building Automation and Tech is working to get that stuff hooked up and that stuff up and going um so we're just kind of working through that um and then we're also we've also contracted with a a landscape contractor to complete the um top soil and the over seating and stuff of the grounds so we're working through those we were working with our engineer we have to do a bio Swale in the area between the parking lot and the drive so we were working with our engineer on what that looks like and kind of mediating some of those costs our original quote for that bio Swale is like $70,000 um so we worked with our engineer to kind of modify that scope to something that was more reasonable and we worked with Kane County need to get that done um we completed some seal coating that was tied into the project so we got Stadium Drive in the upper lot reeal coed to cover up all the markings and stuff we did for our temporary drive so that's all been communicated through Athletics and you know through various means that that's a one-way exit again um back to what it was originally um then we have the front staff lot scheduled for seal coating we do that on our first day off probably mid- October get that seal Cod it and that'll kind of wrap up the whole exterior of the project and kind of clean up all that stuff any questions about with the equipment issues is it just it came to us damaged or from train Dr drastic delays from them from what they originally told us we're supposed to have equipment in May and it was drastically delayed so yep no nothing to do with our contractors all our contractors as soon as the stuff came they were right on it was from the supplier any other questions um I also have a update um that's the next item on there is to update so we're Dana and I work to put together stuff for our gas so we use a a vendor to to try to for our um gas and electric service can be quite challenging to kind of budget for and kind of moderate with those fluctuations of costs so we got gas done so we're bringing to the board some information we're going to look at doing the reverse auction again this year like we did the last time I think that was three years ago that we did that one um so what we're asking today is for information we're going to bring to you that next month we're going to present a range of fees from numerous vendors so we've contracted with with uh um NAIA energy um to help us with that reverse auction so she's going to put out um some feelers and get some quotes and stuff from some different vendors that then we can bring to the board and then we'll ask like we did with gas for your approval for a range of fees because those things fluctuate daily so then when we actually do the reverse auction it'll be a couple days after the next board meeting and then we'll have the range of what we know it'll be and if it comes in within that range then we would ask for that approval so we'll be bringing that information back with what those costs she did tell us there's probably going to be some significant increase in our electric costs from what they were in the past but I think this reverse auction from what Dana and I have learned about it that this is probably the best most cost effective way to go about getting the best price for electricity any questions about that thanks Dan thank you move on to the 301 design dive meeting update so many of the board members were there a few were not so we held two design Dives both Wednesday September 11th and Thursday September 12th two different locations within the district one on over by Central High School and one on the east side by paral SCH school um obviously we sent out a lot of communication trying to get some information we did have 83 people that were registered to attend um unfortunately 42 of those did not attend so roughly 50% um we did have 41 that did attend 16 that attended without registration so a total of 57 attendees um during that design day we basically reviewed U what Central High School would look like as a middle school what would need to be done there what P Middle School would look like as an elementary school so the work that would need to be done there what Central Middle School look like as An Early Childhood Center and what that work would look like as well as the new high school um participants rotated through groups uh work group to group had questions wrote notes talked through and answered questions had questions for them and then we came back together as a whole group to answer any additional questions they might have um some key conversations surrounding busing for Early Childhood kids um at Central Middle School interesting we asked Pam to do this a little while ago it looks like we're about somewhere under 30 minutes for an early child student on the playground locations at prol they wanted to see where that was located um one of the questions that came up that we hadn't considered was the science labs we were looking to take out the science labs but was there a way to take the materials from the sence LA and move them to the other Elementary buildings to allow for esteemed activities so have stem labs in each of the elementary buildings I thought was a a really good suggestion and then um what would happen if the referend didn't pass which I will present yet tonight any questions on the I can reserve them until the next part they all tie together thank you we'll go on to uh your pres next presentation so one of the things that commune members have asking for is what would happen if the referendum fails and what are some thoughts that we have um regarding that but I first want to walk you through just a few things about our district enrollment even though we've seen those um this graphic represents kind of the additions and the new schools that we have erected over the course of time so looking back between 1980 to 2025 what's happened in our district how we managed the growth as we've looked at this growth in our district consistent for many many decades um so the initial Edition was at L Lake Grade School in 1980 and there was another one at ploh Center which we've dropped at this point in 1986 and then Central High School was actually uh built in 1991 um so they built the new high school which is where the high school sits today in 1996 Howard B Thomas was built um and then in 2000 we turned around and we built prayview grade school additions at Central Middle School Central High School at Central Middle School and that Lily Lake Grade School so we put editions on there Library some of those other pieces some additional classrooms um obviously Central Middle School as a brand new Wing that was put on at that time um in 2006 we had additions ort on the harby Thomas and to per view grade school um and then in 2007 is when both Country Trails and per NOS Middle School open um with an additional addition being done at the high school so another addition was done there at that time um I think in 2017 another Edition was done to Central High School 2018 another Edition was done to Central High School um and 2022 editions at Pano middle school and Country TRS Elementary School those were cafeteria spaces for additional lunching space and the large areas and then at this point in time the 20 class Edition that we're doing at the high school so when you look at this you can see somewhere between six to nine years every six to9 years something is necessary um to occur to be able to manage the growth that we see in our district um we've absorbed all the growth from prol and Country TRS at this point the absorption rate is pretty high we could do an addition like we've talked about at Country trials the infrastructure there doesn't really have the place for any additional traffic um and Pros middle schreen you can do an addition for classrooms this the problem is going to be your elective spaces and having classrooms for your elective of coursework for your students so key points that I think we need to consider is that the obviously the enrollment facility capacity challenges are forecasted by RSP and Associates in August 2024 um I believe he was pretty conservative but it's still where he's at elementary is 249 students um added in here is what he's guessing uh Middle School 162 additional students and high school another 331 students as he projected out for 10 years he's projecting approximately 5,000 new housing units projected um or 60% increase in housing units um which obviously any additional student we see is going to put a continued drain on the buildings that we currently have um so they projected 742 students out of the 4,964 new units or 15 students per 100 units um the district grew by 1,651 units between 2014 and 24 and by 1,233 students over the same time period equaling basically 74 students per 100 so his his recommendation is 15 we've seen 74 per 100 U refle approximate 60% increase the total of housing un is forecasted for the district um obviously we want to look at this on an anner byner basis to see where we're at look at the yield rates one of the other things he did a yield rate for elementary but no yield rate for our middle school or high school students this our growth pattern you can see from 2006 to 2025 when we've almost doubled we had a 95.5% growth rate between 2006 to today uh with 5,070 students and then projected out so that's where our challenge becomes is how do you manage what's projected in the future and where we going to put those students as we've absorbed almost everything we got in every building the development existing versus potential and there's many developments out there that when I talked to algen in December of last year they weren't even on the docket to be breaking ground currently they have broke ground we're seeing the dir moving we're seeing everything being put in for the infrastructure um so in this I'm not sure spoke with where he's got this but he's making his development off I'm assuming El where I talk as well so currently we still have 422 homes um Dana is talking about the number of homes those are the permits that have not been pulled yet that are still current that could be pulled um just from our current construction we have um we have 83 homes that five years out there's still 83 homes on those lots that um have not started construction too much yet and potential for 2,712 additional homes in five years and then his next extension was we have four homes for what he's projecting in 10 years or 1,830 for a total of 1,955 um existing units or potential units would be 4,964 just adding up those three components so trying to look at units building growth and enrollment he's saying 15 students per 100 but I still wanted to provide what we've seen in the last 10 years is 74 students per 100 if we projected 4 students per run somewhere in the middle uh you can see it could be additionally 2,234 or 74 students be 3673 I believe he's conservative could be wrong U but I think somewhere in that range is where we're going to fall as we're looking at potential growth for our district one of the things RSP had was this kind of um gasoline tank looking kind of metric meter um that he looked at for elementary facilities capacity remember that he believes you should be somewhere between 85 and 95% at 95 he believes there's still enough flexibility um that you should be able to maneuver things it might be just a few minor things but you can see every one of our elementary buildings are currently there and plan to exceed the one that's a little bit scary is Harvey Thomas and that's the one we'll focus on for the most part because we're going to have to shift some boundaries um The Challenge there will be where to shift them to and as you look at Shifting the boundaries um how much do you imp the other buildings and so if we're going to put up local units or we're going to increase class sizes or whatever we're going to do those kinds of elements will be managed to try to U Get Harvey Thomas into a more reasonable level obviously in 28 29 the projected be at 111% of of their facility um but by 33 should be 34 but that's just cut from his presentation is 140% um all of these things as you are well aware cause major infrastructure challenges when I talk about infrastructure I'm talking about elective spaces when you build a new a new school and when they talk about adding classrooms they don't consider adding classrooms for the music the Arts physical education that has to be added just a classroom the classroom is great for a classroom teacher but it doesn't manage the enrollment of some of the elective spaces or some of those specials that we want those students to have as well as it doesn't take into account parking structure some of the traffic flow uh parents coming in and out drop off with those types of things so all of that is challenges that we're facing today and we will continue to face should the referend have not pass the secondary facility capacity um is at a critical level as well um Central Middle School obviously is a small building for um just it was a middle school one of the reasons historically we closed or we moved Central Middle School to an eighth grade Center was all the population was happening over by prie nes Middle School were was happening is teachers were being forced to shift every year to kind of just for the enrollment challenges and was causing a lot of stress and angst because they didn't know where they're going to be teaching and so when we redesigned inside six7 and eighth grade Center the challenge with that is a Athletics are located too far away we need to pass them to Pano middle school because our other athletic facilities are becoming problematic uh being you have to do part-time staff which makes it very difficult for some of the CCH at our elective classes we're trying to do uh just because never uh see our foreign language our department usually comes down and helps us instruct some of the courses or sections for foreign language like German's very hard having one section of German at an eighth grade Center probably is not going to happen there are some laws coming down the pipeline for two years of foreign language that will impact some of these things and we'll have to kind of watch how that unfolds but those are some challenges I think that we have in terms of do you open up Central Middle School smart P's Middle School bigger I don't know two middle schools and that will be a little bit later to look at that but bound shifts are absolutely necessary it's just what might they look like um to manage that especially if we're going to use both of those as a middle school to try to alleviate some of the stressors one of the questions was what is the average class per period for high school um so we did an analysis for this semester semester one of this school year and the average class is about 23 students um you can look from period one to period seven these are the average class sizes that are calculated for each of those periods so 22 kids per class 23 kids per class 26 kids per class so that's our average class size in each of the periods um that are happening at the high school that does not include I took out special populations which is our students with special needs who are in very small classrooms they not early classrooms you can use for geniz population we have a program called aot which is our Alternative Learning opportunity program for students that are struggling to get through High School uh we have some colg of career prep for kids that might need credit recovery or some of the other cred Rec mream and C classrooms full siiz class and correct so RSP had done this nice little graphic here and I laid in if we took the new addition and we said we had 24 class 24 students per classroom we would have a capacity of 1,774 students he's putting it at 1,914 because he's saying 30 kids can go in every one of those classrooms that's not reasonable we just that's not how high school functions that's not the way that it works and so I'm saying based on what I read or what I did was about 24 students per classroom that being said based on that we would be at 95% in school year 3031 even with this addition and this addition is not managing some of the elective spaces we have obviously we have parking challenges many other challenges that we're facing this is not a long-term solution these 20 classrooms so at that point we're going to have to make a decision on how to manage this should the referend or not pass um so these will be some challenges that we're facing he guys's at 94% capacity um I'm saying we're going to be less than that so we'll hit 95% I believe in that 3031 um to have to manage that and we'll probably have to compromise some of our learning opportunities and expansions one of the things I wanted to show you so you can see when we talk about 30 kids per classroom we have a policy that has been a longstanding policy long before I was here in the district it was turned down to me um for any general ucation classroom we run it at 18 or higher so if it's less than 18 we primarily cut that class at sectioning time and we do sectioning time around November December we kind of look at kids choices if they don't hit 18 we generally cut that class and then feed the kids into other elective courses and primarily this is for elective courses they have to have three years of math four years of um english four years of PE so those are elective classes the other ones and then we generally will not run an honors class below 15 however there challenges that we always try to weigh based on what a student needs or where a students at so when you look at some of these courses um we have an inter introduction at for us at 15 I will tell you that was Ran So we didn't lose our Music Teacher he's a quality music teacher we could not keep him full time if we did not break a section so we broke a section to keep him hired um so that one we knew was going to run just to keep him on staff the tech theater and tech one and two are running together those green colors are where teachers are selecting to run them together so they can at least run the course so tech one and two run together tech one has 17 kids and Tech 2 has two kids for a total of 19 which just brings them above that General number we need photography is running at 14 um it's very close to the you know 18 we had kids that were interested we don't want to decimate our art program and you can see our art program here is the one that's going to be the most challenged there's where our numbers are in terms of um courses below minimum um you can see they're running 2D Studio Art and 3D Studio Art together just to get to 18 so it's 13 and four I'm sorry 13 and five coming together at 18 and then they're running AP Studio Art 2D AP Studio art drawing and AP Studio Art 3D all together they're doing all the AP classes together um to come up with we got 25 students to be able to run those but the teacher is teaching those simultaneously uh because it's all portfolio based and then German 3 we ran at 11 primarily because you can't really skip German 3 and then be able to take it their senior year we'll see how many of these students holded on for German 4 um our teacher for German generally will run a German 4 and AP together as well as some dual credits she combines them to keep those courses running um so German 3 is one of those challenges and we decided to go ahead and run it even though it didn't hit the the market because those kids could not get that opportunity somewhere else to be able to finish that program that just boggles my mind that 1500 kids and we have 11 kids there are more than that in those classes when there were 550 kids in this high school it's very challenging well Spanish is seems to be the choice the language of you know the choice for the language so many many Rec kids take Spanish they just not going to German um courses meeting or exceeding minimum so this one was interesting so you can see these are a lot of AP classes uh AP Cal ab and AP Cal BC are both running right at the minimum 15 students uh human bodies a new program for us so running at 19 is pretty good for a brand new program in Career Tech education a English and language comp is at 18 AP stats is at 17 and AP Computer Science is at 18 so you can see it's our AP honors classes that are running very very close uh to those limitations as we continue to run them and so that's Dr what you're seeing dropping dropping down those class sizes and then threshold challenges are the other elements that we have um when I say threshold challenges when we look at video production running at 32 it's really to over what we generally run in class we can run it for more but we try Toop because of the work that they have to do in video production we have two sections one running at 8 and one running at 24 it's primarily because of where the fits in the student schedule so we have one that's running really really small vet science same thing we have 35 kids we have one section running at 10 kids and one section running at 25 environmental science we have 36 kids two sections one at 13 and one at 23 um AP site was split right down the center two sections I don't think they could do that again if they tried 17 and 17 and then Eon is 33 which is two sections at 15 and 18 so the choices the board can make is a we can move class sizes it is uh in the contract there is a guideline and there is opportunity that you could shift class sizes we could cut programs um to look to make more space those are options too and looking at these you can see what would probably likely end up in that um that situation U but it does give you kind of a handle of where we're at in terms of enrollment so the potential impact for growth of the growth is uh obviously we have to do B shifts at the elementary school Lev um we won't be able to remove mobile units we will continue to have those but it will be how do we want to manage our mobile units do we want to try to equalize mobile units in every building do we want one building have more mobile units than the other we want to equalize the B shifts to ensure that everybody has an equitable number of mobile units um the other issue is it takes up parking spots um so every mobile unit is or 19 parking spots I believe um we did a measurements when you do the four classrooms of mobile units it's roughly 18 or 19 parking spots it takes up and there really isn't room to do additional parking spots at the elementary school level um but that's kind of where we're at there um increased class sizes which I taught again you could run classes on a cart through music art and health this year Country Trails had to break an extra section and we don't have another music classroom so the music teacher that's going for one period fromo there is actually teaching in the cafeteria um for that one period at this point in time we could do a hybrid schedule similar what we had done before you could choose to have electives done at home online and then choose to do the core face to face which we did kind of in Co so some kind of a hybrid schedule um but obviously there's going to be continued strain on transportation and parking middle school and high school um obviously there'll be limited academic and music programming you could see some of the challenges um that we currently see with our our elec forces so you may see some of those challenge a little bit more um PR middle school is going to be um in some trouble for space here shortly so we could add mobile units to panal Middle School um we could decrease the extracurricular activities currently we have 70% of students participating in at least one um so maybe don't run clubs but Run Athletics or reduce Athletics and run some of the clubs I don't know which way you go there I reduce access to student parking spots um so we already have the reduced access as it continues to grow we'll have additional reduced access increased class sizes again do a hybrid or split schedule at the middle school and high school um there's going to be increased challenges for a drop off at pkms and CHS obviously um an increase challenges in the large common spaces that we have uh with the exception of PK who has room in ceter but they don't have room for their elective fores or their specialist classes to expand is that hybrid schedule what they did like years ago where they oh split split where certain kids started from seven and then the second wave came in that was that was 1991 okay that was when kids were at school for four hours a day four hours 7 to 11 or 11 to three and we kind of did that during Co when we kept the doors open where every other school closed U we basically brought the alphabet in in the morning and then the second part of the alphabet in the afternoon um kind of that split schedule could happen so alternative Solutions uh could do mobile units um obviously advantages is quick and cost effective it's temporary fix uh for overcrowding it's flexible can be installed um the challenges are obviously those dollars you can't get back those mobile years do not sell well you take a pretty good loss they're $425,900 per four classroom units that's what we have in each of the buildings is kind of clustered together um Country Trails you have to add an additional 8,495 um and approximately 70,000 site work so they have some pad work they have to do just because where they're located they're located on the dirt they're not on the parking lot um they have they're adjacent to the to the playground um they're very tight in terms of their space if you go over there at this point in time the the houses are right up against our property fenes are there it's a very very tight space and not a lot of extra infrastructure to work with um it's a temporary solution not addressing the long-term growth it's just a bandaid kind of situation definitely strand infrastructure bath spes um cafeteria um and then of course we have our weather challenges we know last year they froze um we were able to to shut down froze and try to get learning at a different place um and waste management maintenance is an additional cost as well because you have to pump and dump the sewage we could do an early childh at EC and sixth grade to Central Middle School and eighth grade of perol why might we do that that would provide us the opportunity to get seventh and eighth grade together together we have athletic um programs over there we have the track over there we have the stuff that we can do we're currently busing some of our students over to Pros for some of the athletic events but that puts seventh and eighth grade together um the challenge is you're still going to be at a space at perano middle school for your M side class sites are pretty much the same so your space issues are still going to be there so you still have to go to mobile units at some point in time to absorb those costs um sixth grade could go as a standalone at Central Middle School um along with Early Childhood you could have some programming for reading some of those types of things with those students um it provides them access to kind of get a different op know feel but they don't automatically get Athletics so we would drop across country and some those athletic programs they're in and just say no for sixth grade but put them house them separately to minimize the shifting what would be the benefit of just pulling Early Childhood first so we're not reshuffling so many of them teachers especially well I think that the challenges the Athletics who are currently busing back and forth and so trying to get bus at the end of the day to get cental school to parel um just to allate we can always go in we can always go in sections um to do it there also we need time to be able to do what you need to do for Central Middle School because you need to get outdo or outside exterior doors for Early Childhood kids so you need to do that over the summer but it could be done and that's what I mean so instead of you move sixth eighth and early childhood as opposed to just Early Childhood even if that's a one or two year fix open up a couple classrooms in three of our buildings or whatever that is which again is grand scheme of things what that does two two classrooms might help for again a year or two right very tempor and Harvey Thomas it would not help much but yeah um decrease elected choices we said we already said there for sixth grade you would have to do that um and you going to have the part-time issues we still already have so I don't really to get away from that and the challenge here was the foreign languages CTE we do share staff with Central High School for eighth grade that will create a larger problem because they got to trans they got to travel from CHS to um so it just creates some problems for challenges there can move EC and kindergarten um to Central Middle School there is enough space there one through sixth grades in elementary and eighth grade at panas um and that would allow you to um have first through sixth grade together you've emptied out both kindergarten EC so the classrooms would work in terms of numbers um you would have an early childhood kind of approach to education where you'd have the K peers with the Early Childhood peers um still gets eighth grade over there for the a it would require time to retrofit before moving you could add mobile units for overflow um you could obviously temporary solution to address the long-term growth that we're having um we would um decrease a lck of choices because we put sixth grade off of a middle school and into an elementary schedule so licensing we' be looking for sixth grade teachers that have the licensure for elementary not lcer for high school and so they be selected based on ler sh eligability versus U maybe choice that could be another negative increased class sizes plus five over current guidelines at all levels and programs so you could increase for every classroom additional five students for um every single grade level based on what we currently have contractually um you can reduce the elective choices due to required class sizes to run um you could change the 15 to 20 and the 18 to 20 um three so those are choices we could make as well definitely would reduce Staffing and increase would increase turn around likelihood because you're going to lose more staff um interesting enough in the Illinois State Board of Education our staffing patterns are P are based on teachers that move to other buildings so we look at um you know some of the challenges of where our numbers are at is because somebody goes from for example a couple few people go from Pros to the high school that comes against us for retention because they move to a different building they have to stay in the building they're in in order for it not to count against you for Staffing patterns so this would definitely show up as a a reduction in holding staff um within our district decrease elective in special courses at all levels um obviously it adds immediate capacity for buildings provides space for increased enrollment it does diminish the experience for college and crew exposure it diminishes the overall educational programming experiences reduces student engagement without preferred course work in art music CT we know a huge benefit in learning for kids to have music and art there direct correlation between music and success in schools um so losing those types of things definitely could be problematic you could reduce the high school graduation credits to impact the C care options so currently our graduation credits are higher than the State Board uh we could reduce those all the way down to the state board and then limit the number of classes kids have to take and go with just the bare minimum um and so those those are options for decreasing elective and special courses at all levels as well as well and then other considerations is boundary changes you know redrawing District boundaries to balance uh student populations acost existing schools uh could be short-term relief um mobs at the elementary will still be required uh you could use Central Middle School as a second 68 B School challenge there would be you'll be consistently doing boundary shifts probably every two years because of where our population sit but we could try to monitor as close as we could but consistently just keep them as a 68 building much smaller 6 building PR with a larger and then do boundary shifts consistently to ensure that you can keep Staffing it as well as maintain the elective forces that you have staggered shifts or alternative scheduling so implementing shifts or alternative scheduling for middle and high school students could delay major construction but may negatively impact student life and extracurriculars obviously if they have to come in certain times it could impact them and what they're doing for their after school programm but you could definitely we've done it before do stagger shifts uh do it by alphabet alterate whatever we think hybrid scheduling any of those are are options um probably better for middle and high school than for Elementary uh but definitely uh challenging no no matter when you do it um utilization of the Route 47 property we do have um buildings on rout 47 property that we could utilize for CTE programs um we' have to retrofit some of the interior pieces to get them in there in the larg spaces you could bring in a Woods program motor program some of those things there it would just take up for the kids similar to what they do now with the CT but that's definitely an opportunity that we could take to to to do that um and then no matter what we do a referendum will be do there's there is no way out of this for the district uh at some point you will need a referendum to be able to manage the girls at every single level this is not one level challenge this is an every single level challenge that we're facing any questions that you have I have a question um because I think it it's brought up and I think it's important to touch on it as far as the retention issue could you you go into how the state views that because there's a lot of items out there in the public that nobody really understands about our retention and how that's calculated so could you dive into that yes so I went back and looked on the state board so retention even back in 20 2018 2019 our retention answer is pretty similar with they today uh retention inside of our district state board retention is based on if a district or teacher stays in the same building so we move our instructional coaches they count against us for retention when we have a teacher they're still in the district even though they're in the district we have teachers who want to go to another building that cons against us for retention um we shift somebody to another building that consen us for retention um so those all impact the retention rates that we have because we are a growing district and because we consistently move St every year you know we look at elementary we may have to put somewhere on the sideline instead of doing a reduction in force the board has not chosen to do a reduction in force in many many years which means we would just reduce anybody doesn't have a job in their building instead we put them to the side we keep them and then we move them where we need them so that they can keep their job but that all calls their gu just in terms of retention other questions I have a list but sorry I don't expect them to answer tonight how do we just have one do we have four classrooms as one mobile unit right is that currently what's at each building yes well except like lake has two L lake has two two of the four class no two total two two class okay in the high school how many more do we need for next year let's just go next year because I know we're going to me need more eventually how many more are going in next year it depends on how we section that's not an easy answer so we we section based on class siiz guidelines right depending what the board decides to do it would make a determination on what we want to do this year we chose to have fewer kids in the fifth grade mobile units because the size of them is challenging for a class of 27 kids yeah um so we are not putting 27 kids in those mobile units um we're trying to keep it a more reasonable number if we have to go there we can yeah it's very very tight but those classrooms are not the same size as our general classrooms inside of our our buildings but it really depends on each class in the number of sections each class breaks down to based on the guidelines that we follow whatever those guidelines are is adding five get more if it's less than that whatever we decide then you can you get fewer so it really is just a matter of those right and then do you have dollar figures where we're going to have to pay for like if there's remediation that has to happen every year is that factored in is that with mold or pipes freezing or is that just coming out of it just comes out of our operation budget um I don't think we have mold but um no I didn't oh got didn't mean that we Sorry clean clean the our M units is something that's maintained by billing maintenance as well as others as part of their operational budget okay so they take care of that in their operational budget okay um I hit a list sorry um I'm all over the place for the design dive I was one of those people that was double booked I couldn't be there can you are you sharing any of that out with like comments things that you heard can you sh okay um where probably putting on the side the maps along with kind of a break what was discussed okay and then I you Jennifer with that design dive I know we kind of went through the number of people that were there do we think that any of that attributed to I it sounds like there were other activities going on like I think one day it was at CHS there was something going on at pams like do we think that any of that played into it that there were some conflicts and schedules we looked at the calendars and again we decided of those days we looked at everybody's calendar those dates were open some people didn't have their calendars updated so we unfortunately got stuff done um that being said there's always something going on in our district to try to find a night that nothing's going on I it would be very hard pressed to to be able to find those kinds of evenings there's always something happening so then as far I mean because it was low participation I would say it was low participation it was standard oh you feel it was standard okay based on just other things that we've done standard for us it's standard which is I yeah when I went to the high school library we I don't think we had 30 community members there I got to break down by building I think I do well a lot of people with kids they have I mean you know we're gone Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday I don't have it my building and add in the other hours in the day that don't exist so it's like I don't know if more I don't even know what the answer is or to get more involved vement but obviously if their kids are involved and everything they're driving them to that even though I know a lot of people wanted to be there but couldn't but I don't know how much more would be but I mean the only other answer I can think to that is doing something virtually yeah we talked about you can sit in the car while they're at football or whatever sport that's kind a big conversation for us the problem is how do you make it interact with the maps because the maps are that was the whole point of that it's so to have it that small to be able to see everything and able to maneuver on a phone or would be very chall whole point of this was interactive right like you're four different stations so like you just you could have I guess theoretically observed but then there wasn't one stage it was people walking around in different yeah we we've talked a lot about it we had somebody else from our community that said that to me which we we've definitely looked at it the challenge is you can't get the interaction and the maps you'd have to pinch them and try to figure out where you're at and have the conversation it could be facilitated just one way but I'm not sure that's the approach that would get us what we' want um definitely could be managed in one way opportunity do we get any feedback from the community just like maybe emails to you of questions that they had around it or did we or was it kind of quiet after you did them or no I had a couple community members reach out where I got some great feedback it's one of the only places that the mobile unit steam stuff came from where I've addressed them and responded back to them we also are trying to put something out for them that will show all the maps they'll be look them up and pull them off the website so I can take a peek at them hopefully on the computer going to very challenging Ty a at it I know recently you sent out a question here did you get a lot of feedback from that or did okay and like you said I'm just trying to figure out how we can get more engagement because obviously we want to hear from the community so how can we get that we sent out four emails via parents gr PR to VI a social media put on a newsletter and put on a website so we did have it out there and obviously whatever emails we had from other community members aren't attached to active students sorry Jennifer Oh no you're good keep going another okay my thoughts are all over the place I got a million of them that's all right they can be all over we are not GNA stay here all night promise um other questions and it kind of pertains to the design dive is I know this is probably a really strange question but with Central Middle School it's old right is there a lot that can be done to that building and that may have been answered in that design dive because you know when you start cracking into Old buildings even if we have to move things there what can be done to that building and that might be answered in the design dive and you can send it out to me and be like take a look that is not answered there Dan but that that building can be done we we did HVAC work there there's not asbest we keep hearing asbest stuff there could be some that we would have to be yeah um when he gets into there but Dan I don't know if you want to address that a little bit more than I can address because that's kind of your yeah we've done quite a fews over the years's not a lot ofwe okay um anybody I think with with that question though I think there's a certain amount that we can not have to go out for referendum and is there anything that we can use you know I don't I don't know what is like all of the retrofits would be done with District dollars and they' be done have our operational budget so it's not going on for referendum so the retrofits are somewhere right around seven and a quarter million that would be coming out of District operational dollars we're not looking to do an additional referendum for that that was my that was a good question for so if we did let's say if we diild the high school that is the referendum has nothing to do with what we're doing at CMS pkms all that correct okay okay sorry that's fine I'm pausing so so doing the 10-c pause so someone else can ask a question if they have one I think the the graphic of the construction history is pretty striking that after you know in 1991 I was actually at me's house yesterday and he was on the vice president on the board when it failed three times passed the fourth time and they opened in 1991 um and kind of talking about that process with him um and just you think about referendums but there's all these other additions that were not done by referendums and so so just the amount of construction that has happened with the growth that we've seen um and even if it's a fraction the curve spend slightly yeah there's just not an option as you said at the very end we we need a referendum um and so you know it's gonna the time is just going to be how long it's going to take to get it and what does that look like and what's the added cost as we continue as yeah I mean I I agree I got another one um okay the high school class size by period without AA with AA that's advisory right the AA we we did we kept it with AA only because those are the numbers okay I just I wasn't sure what AA was I had it's academic advisory so it's a required for us for our teacher our teachers teach five sections yep five core Plus AA right now so it's part of their schedule so it's included the number supervisory is it's a it's a actually an academic class that they instruct and work with students so the uh was it here no it was here keep going this is with AA because it's part it's different because I took away so was confusing um because it really is the academic advisory is part of their core okay part of what they teach okay and my next question is um as far as the I love the breakout of I know how many students are taking electives how how many students do we have sitting in a standard class that's required integrated one two three for math in case anybody don't know what integrated is English 9 10 11 what are those class sizes because as these as kids keep coming in what what are teachers like seeing if we're talking about expanding or larger groups coming up how many kids are sitting in that standard level class that they must pass most mandatory courses like integrative one two three or English one we take them as close to 30 as possible okay those are probably our largest class sizes right the other courses aren't because they aren't mandatory so you have a lot more choice right you know there's 400 kids coming and you divide that out it's easy that section and it's much easier to section kids too because it happens every period those those are a little bit so with those we we go all the way up to theine I'm more concerned about the classes they have to pass that kids struggling that's my biggest concern okay and as we have the larger classes coming up what do we do in those standard classes if they're close to 30 now they're just are they going to just have to get bigger that's a decision you guys have to make yep I think you can go up it's all contractual language exactly exactly it's that's just one of the things I wanted to make note of with the the classes they they struggle with and they have to pass I think you mentioned that the only way that we can actually reduce the class size is like you said you have less of the electives and less of the I guess AP classes in order to maybe reduce instead of having it close to be3 closer to 25 and have more of the core that way but but obviously that's going the wrong direction you need more rooms right the challenge is you have to have the rooms to put the teachers in right and so you have to give something something has to go away if they have the space I think just in you saying that because I am concerned about like you said the retention and you know do we need more teachers but I guess do we have the room for more teachers do we have that we need right now I don't know what percent is Patrick probably could answer we have a lot of teachers on cards going to room to room so many of our high school teachers go from toart different rooms to different rooms take their stuff with them inside the hallways one of the advantages of the 20 class Edition when we can finally open it which will be second semester those teachers that are on cards are walking home space very they do have office spes and are we GNA are we finding that that's going to be the the same situation at the elementary like if we continue to go this way then we're just going to have more teachers on cart just trying to well you can only put so many people on a c right exactly you can do music and art not well but you can do them on a cart right you can do a car we already have related Services sharing so already sharing spes there's only so many rooms right there's only so many rooms I think to your point the I mean you know looking at that graph of how many referendums it took and all the you know I think personally I mean we're in the education business so offering less products is not appealing to anybody so we can you know decide to patch things up but ultimately it's it's not about a high school it's about right sizing our district and putting all the buildings in proper status yeah so I I I don't I mean we're here to educate people so that's that's the concern I have offering L product is not an answer I think my other question too is like if we talk about special education I mean we're what's happening with that because this is exploding the way it is I I can't think that those particular students that probably benefit from a smaller class size I mean that has to be obviously changing for them too like how does that impact them well we have so we have Co talk classrooms where you put special kids in a general classroom goes in the larger classrooms that could be you know close to the tip because they the math English class that they have science when it comes to a self-contained so a student that has more more deficiencies and needs additional support generally speaking we have smaller classrooms that we're putting them in because their class sizes are maybe six to eight kids and so we have smaller classes that wouldn't serve as a general education classroom but it serves the purpose of being able to educate a smaller group of specialized students who might need that support um and so it's really managing the spaces that we have one of the challenges that we hear about is the testing and finding space to do those accommodations that is very difficult when special education students who have different needs that they have for testing as well as people who miss school of attendance and need makeup tests so finding those kinds of spaces is a challenge as well but they do a good job they use every space theyve got whether it's a conference room or other elements the the administration teachers are very very good at figuring it out you say something answered it just the space for you know the different interventions and different tools that they need and being able to have that and how much is that population kind of growing for us too generally speaking right we say somewhere between 20% of your population is needs some kind of intervention whether it be special education or what we call tier two which is generalate students who have other supports they might need might be social emotional elements it can be non workers lot a multitude of things work on a for um so that as your population grows that grows because it's about 20% of your population and we're pretty consistent with that um in terms of where we sit we stay right around that 20% marker which is what you'd expect from what they call an mtss triangle so but as population goes that goes it's all czy and those spaces and for all our Specialists our spend teachers our psychologists or social workers where are are do where is where are they where is their space are they with everything that's going on with a like having to possibly ditch art on a card and things where are they going to they in office they're in an office right now where they're trying to put three or four kids in office space of sharing a classroom sometimes two or three teachers sharing a space um splitting it up with some partitions to kind of them to be able to instruct during that time um so it's really utilizing space in a different way um for them for the moment and what's the quality of it makes it real difficult when you it's always difficult but yeah but they're great at being able to do magic with they've learned like you said for how long bet you're just going to around SP that's the bottom line you know um other questions I'm good for the moment can't help myself thanks for putting that together y you're welcome probably hopefully not but you know couple months will say all right pH flug is going to review the Public Act 97256 so annually before October 1st school districts have to report this out onto um state to the State Board of Education um we use our employment information system report which is our Eis report um it's got all the benefits of health insurance retirement vacation days six days all those that kind of information on the report um so included in the board packet um we will post this on the website um you have your the school year 2024 report which is our most current report we have all right public act 97- 0609 so this is um annually school districts have to also post this information we have to post it within six business days after the final budget is approved which is tonight um so we have six days to get this up onto our website um and this is more for the imrf employees that exceed over $75,000 a year in their total compensation package package so included in your board packet is all the people that meet that that qualification excellent all right the enrollment report is there for us to look at too so any questions on that change the format but I think it's easier yeah all right we'll move on to foyers Micheline Waltz takes the win this month for the most foyers with six and so I don't know if you want to run through those yep so freom of information for this month we have Genesis one received request for information regarding District printer leases print management software and toner uh we were able to comply with that request Miss Curts we receiv received a request for results of all surveys or feedback forms received by any board member or the superintendent between January 1st 2024 and June 30th 2024 as well as emails related to these surveys or feedback forms uh this request was denied as it was deemed unduly Veron but we invited Miss CTS to reduce the scope for request which she has done uh so we later received a revised request from her um Miss Welch we received a request for the chart of accounts used by Central 301 for accounting purposes and related descriptions we able to reply um and comply to that request Miss Welch we received a request for any email communication between myself Dr mgin and shine Corporation between January 1st through August 27 2024 as well as any email communication to or from myself Dr mang related to Pingu Creek we able to comply with this request but redacted some information pursuant to for rules and regulations Miss carabis we received a request for the total number of students in each section of each class including lunch periods at Central High School for the current school year we were able to comply with that request Miss Welch we received a request for all meeting minutes from Board of Education meeting from July 2006 through June of uh 2008 we were able to comply with this request Miss Welch we received a request for Ericson engineering report and slide presentation from the October 12th 2023 Board of Education meeting we able to comply with this request however there wasn't a board of ed meeting on October 12th so there was no information to provide Miss W we received a request for the traffic study performed by Ericson engineering for the future High School were able to comply with this request however the traffic study was not finalized so we did not have that report to provide Miss Welch received a request for all information all emails text messages and other written correspondents in our phone notes between myself and Robert Schwarz or anyone else from RSP and Associates were able to comply with this request but redacted some information pursuing to foyer rules and regulations so a very busy for month and getting to the point where we may have to talk about trying to some support because of the hours that's taking us to do the foil so do you think there's any of these foils are taking more than eight hours to complete um well it takes uh it's not just the foil officer we have to pull everything so it's our Tech total time toal we have to read every email I would say that some of them are getting close to depending on what they're asking for because you got to read every single email and every go through all everything so eight hours or that could possibly be possibly do we have the ability to charge for them we could charge for them if we would like to add that to our board policy we do have the opportunity to charge I think we need to discuss that yeah it would be a discussion because even like looking at the cost of time right now yeah well I mean if we're considering needing the help then yeah that means it's it needs to be paid for that's something this board sets as policy correct I could bring the board policy for you but yeah let's that okay yeah thank you all right that wraps up tonight we need a motion and second to uh adjourn Open Session and move to close session so moved second pepus yes buy yes a sorry Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes Gorman yes the motion is carried thanks everyone for coming out e

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at 8:00 p.m. it's an active vibrant place to be and we want to be a part of that so people can coming in so we're setting up workshops we're setting up clubs we're setting up things that we can do here if you have any ideas let my staff know we're we're absolutely trying to think about what can we do with this amazing facility Chris play the guitar Chris will you play the guitar uh for a price yeah I talked touched a little bit on the fundraising in initiatives we're looking at development uh foundations grants uh monetizing some of the programs that we do here how do we begin to to be able to augment uh the loss and revenue that we're seeing from the cable Revenue uh obviously we want to meet uh uh consumers where we are uh Amanda and I had a conversation with the principal at the High high school and I talked about how in the old days they would do like a news program they'd come and do a studio set I'm not sure that that's what they're getting now and what how they're consuming their uh content so how do we reach them how do we identify where they are how do we meet them where they're consuming you know as the younger folks are coming up how do we engage them you know uh the typical talk show maybe not that to do that's not the place to do it let's do maybe short form content let's do two or 3 minutes that's pumped out on social media so that's obviously something that always talking about and in general improving the bevcam content we want to make sure that the games look good that the announcers are heard uh let's add some graphics let's add some faaz what can we do to improve always on the content so that's constant conversation with staff what can we do opportunities challenges um you know some opportunities are you know as we know that there's a decrease in local news is there a place that we can fill in with with that and we provide information to the people uh how can how do we do that for a little money you know it's I know many access centers who have tried to do news programs and it's a large resource draw so how do we can we do that I mean I know some people that have devoted half their staff to the news programs and I know people who have worked in news programs it's a lot of work to get that 30 minutes up uh every night you know and they're on deadlines and stuff like that but is there a place that we can fill to help augment and become relevant and important to our communities as an information source and as a new source um tapping into the vibrant video industry that's already here in the North Shore as I mentioned I'm from up in Vermont there's not a lot happening up there in Vermont I did a couple movies up there but when I come here and see all the people even some of the people who are board candidates tonight I'm like wow there is a really vibrant uh video industry that's taking place in the NorthShore um even watching some of my favorite movies and finding out that they're shot around here I know it's like wow that's a location I know where that is so that's I think is just really a very vibrant place we could tap into the the knowledge perspective and the people that are involved in the industry around here so shifting to meet content you know we touched I already touched on this uh people and uh younger folks where are they getting their information where they get their content from uh I am now addicted to Tik Tok so I'm one of those people who sits there and my TV in my living room I don't watch anymore I'm actually on my iPad on my devices and streaming my content and my ability to watch a commercial is just gone I cannot you know I flip as soon as I something comes on for an ad and that's distressing now that I'm seeing it more on HBO paid Services I good at commercials now I'm like wait a minute HBO is not supposed to have commercials it it does even on my PPS stream I'm like wow uh so looking and identifying those consumption Trends and meeting people where they are so that we can be a part and vibrant and relevant into the future and of course funding funding and more funding where do we find the funding sources how do we uh augment our funding um that's a challenge I uh tell people that I have been the executive director of a nonprofit I'm on my fourth decade now and I have been very lucky and then I don't have to go out and raise my operating every year or every I get a big check from the cable company that I have to figure out how to spend that's not that's very unique for a nonprofit director typically they're out there trying to find ways to make sure that they have money to pay their staff and I'm trying to learn those skills going out in fundraising so that's not something that I typically had to do but together with my staff and with the board of directors and with the community we're working and finding ways to be able to augment that money so funding funding funding I think that may be my last slide that's it so thank you everybody uh and I'll turn back to [Applause] you oh we're doing staff yeah you want me to do that do what I supp to introduce the staff oh yeah yeah yeah sorry that I'm still on have on the agenda presentations from my as I said wonderful staff and I believe First up we have Liz D she's a bit shy so encourage her to come up come on she's a bit shy CR to jump in front of hi I'm Liz if we haven't met yet I don't think that's the case I think I've met everybody I am your community engagement manager um it's been an absolute honor been here for a year and a half and it's been just an adventure every day um this space is incredible and to kind of like touch on some of the funding stuff that was talked about earlier we had our first ever fundraiser this year in the entire history of the company and we also raised some of our first ever corporate sponsorships and and achieved some of our first ever grants so a lot of that was in due part to all of you guys being incredibly supportive and coming out of the woodwork and not only spreading the message and telling everybody about why we're so great but uh sometimes just seeing our signs and deciding to join and supporting us that way um or you know uh some of you gave a lot to The Campaign which was incredibly influential so real quick I'd love everyone to give yourselves a round of applause if you would please thank you so much uh social media over the past year has been bumping um we've uh we're up to 1,400 uh followers on Instagram and Facebook and around 14,000 subscribers across our four YouTube channels which has been awesome um we've had an incredible uh amount of uh enthusiasm at all of the festivals throughout Beverly big thank you to our staff and our board members who have been helping out at those events um and uh all of that has been for the purpose of making sure that people know know what it is that ban does for the community in all the different ways right because there's this is a huge uh the organization is small but we do a lot of different things and most people only know what we do via like oh I watch the sports so that's what you guys do um so to really be able to show everyone that we do all these different things um uh the the social media and being out there at the festivals and everything has gone a really long way we've we've been getting kids coming up to our booth like Harbor Fest and saying I was on bcam kids and my friend was on it and I want to get my other friend on it or parents coming up and saying that they saw their kid on there so it's just been really really great to see that kind of Engagement um so I won't take up too much more of your time but I do want to give a quick shout out to especially uh the uh corporate sponsors that we had this year who really helped us raise um a few thousand dolls for our private editing Suites um and the new windows that were uh our Sound Treatment and the microphones and everything so um please hold your applause to the end because it's a little bit of a list um but first I really want to give a big shout out to uh Beverly uh greater Beverly Rotary Club and then the creative Collective Beverly 400 so all Pete and Joan Johnson early Harvest Diner the castle Board Game Cafe Judy Chapman alumin Financial Group and Salem 5 Bank thank you [Applause] Liz how did my mom get in there she but she did it saying that she did not I'm not she's at the corporate sponsorship I know but she made me promise that you don't get to throw a water balloon at me on with her name on it oh anyway uh the other thing that Liz has done uh shout out to Liz for the food she was the one who with deline picked it what was out there so thanks so much for the work on [Applause] the seconds and third next up is our content manager uh who I affectionately refer to as our shortest staff member uh hello everybody my name is Michelle I'm the content manager here at bevcam I've been here for about a year and a half um and the last year has been great I've learned a lot um just a quick backstory I came from another um Public Access Channel um so I was there for 5 years and I was able to bring some of my skills that I've learned there to here um I won't take up too much of your time uh but I just wanted to say uh since my last update with all of you from last year's annual meeting uh we were just getting started on our HD ch channel uh Channel 1073 I'm happy to announce that it is fully running it's been running for just over under a year October last year um so we've been putting on Sports and government meetings school committee meetings um those are our top shows that I like to put on there because I want people to see the important stuff um for Beverly so they can learn the news um in HD cuz if you're watching something in standard definition I feel like people aren't going to realize what we have to offer here they think that we're still working in standard DEA when all of our cameras are high definition um so I think that's a great resource that we have to show the community we're working with high-tech equipment here so come on in and uh make a show um so I just wanted to quickly share all of our numbers from the past year with new programming um since I'm the content manager um I made up a list of all the shows from January 2023 to December 23 and quickly our education channel channel 22 uh we covered and aired 85 new um BR High School sporting events and 13 other events including concerts and graduations um those are all up on our YouTube channel and we're also streaming them on channel 22 um Channel 8 our public Channel um it's seen the most new programming with a total of 158 new episodes across all of our producers um who are still active and returning producers and new producers um so we've gotten a lot of new shows within the last past year and I'm very excited about that and Channel 6 the government Channel um we've had 30 new Council meetings and 19 new school committee meetings as well as six special meetings which would include um board meetings and the Varian public hearing meetings um stuff like that and within so for the next year um I really hope to see new programming and I know that we will because we've gotten a ton new more producers and I'm happy to see what everybody has in store for next year so thank you thank you Michelle it's amazing to me that we have so much going on we completely forgot about the HD channel that we started this year oh yeah we did that this year too wow um next up I believe is our production manager who is behind the camera and we will now step out in front of the camera and give us a little bit about uh what Chris does for us as production [Applause] manager are great when you take them I just got back from vacation so so uh Bob's making a joke but I was dipping in in and out as needed which was nice didn't have it was a station yeah I was fine I I entertain my brother-in-law which was cool I showed him here actually you probably saw on the camera this guy walking in probably who the heck was that it was us I know I saw yeah yeah I saw so anyway um so as uh I was introduced I'm the production manager we have uh a lot of things uh going on in the past year uh a lot of sports um as uh Paul mentioned uh it's a it's a big draw for us everybody loves our Sports um Robert did an outstanding job job um building that up over his tenure here he was here what 15 15 years something like that and he lived it and he did a great job so coming into that was difficult but um I think we I think we really stepped it up and and uh excited to see what we can do more of we've built um a great team of part-timers couple of them are here tonight they came straight from a soccer game so thank you guys for all your hard work that's Tim and John right there um outside of that we've been doing a lot of concerts um as Michelle said a lot of meetings um we've been ramping up the studio production um we've started to get some new producers in I'm seeing some familiar faces here Sean has just started a podcast a couple weeks ago so um we're excited to continue to grow that both at the bever Beverly High School space and especially here um I'm very excited to see all of this stuff finally here um um we're going to have some new curtains coming in for that Grant thank you rotary um as you can hear this room needs a little work on the treatment it's a little echoey but we're going to take care of that as well so really excited to see what we can do at this space with podcasting um you know other community events maybe some art shows maybe some live performance um we can't beat this spot for downtown trick or treat block party artsfest all of that stuff um we have it all here now so everything's going to be a lot easier to cover I mean the parade we don't have to you know bring it all yeah I know it was crazy set up like a pile of stuff in City Hall foyer and just like make it all happen so I'm very excited about this space um in addition to that we're excited to see what they are doing over at the High school at the field with the lights and stands um it looks like end of October we might be doing some football some Friday Night Lights so uh working on the infrastructure over there to get some connections out at the field um currently we do everything wirelessly like straight back to the studio which is it's impressive that it works so well but having uh having some uh some Hardline connections will be really really exciting new office oh it's spacious it's spacious and I I I graciously thank you rob yeah thank you Rob I'm just filling it up with with equipment and boxes so um I think that's all I have for this evening but want to thank you guys all for your constant support of bevcam and and you know everything you guys do to get us out there in the community so keep up the good words thanks [Applause] Bob last but not least Amanda W Amanda is uh our newest hire she came on board at the beginning of the year um she is a recent transplant to Beverly uh bought a house and actually has twin girls twin girls so we had to wait a little bit before we could get her on board but as of uh the beginning of this year we were so excited to have her join the team and do we have some tech that we have to run I I have a video montage I just thought you know yeah it's on the um yeah I'll queue it up you want to talk um yeah so I I just wanted to share a little bit about some of the vibrant youth activity we've been having uh interns new programming um so I put a video together to share um but I'm the education and media manager here so I've been sort of adding new workshops taking an interns um doing some workshops with kids and adults we have workshops coming up it's going to show on the video but we have couple people are doing workshops coming up um we have three seminars in October uh 321 create uh which is really like how how to represent your brand um through video content um we have oh we got it going we've got a um the art of movie making which is for kids and it's all behind the scenes art of mural making model making um creating stop motion puppets um and what else we have and then we have um a photography Workshop as well for adults and businesses so all of the Flyers are on the window so as you're walking by grab those QR codes and sign up all right so I don't know why I made a video montage I feel like it just gives you like the the feels it gives you the Vibes for like what we're going for here go will it open oh sure okay um so yeah started some new programming since I um started here so I led with that four seconds ahead up you day I not that at 77 I could be this I feel like that's like the hardest part about being a good student we're starting a podcast really soon called on air we talk about movies we are doing our part of the Chamber of Commerce welcome to nor lious yach club yach club that that was a video I did for the um fundraising campaign L humors me lets me make little silly videos oh my go this opening at the end of May I heard we got it from back here defitely interns um so we had interns from monat that taught animation and character design workshops over the summer it was really fun and those are the little like uh animations that they worked on for one of the classes so working on cab Street I love the community cab Street brings to the town [Music] potatoes these were this is one of our Landmark uh School interns so we have college interns and high school interns that coming in out and these are the workshops I mentioned so please sign up they're free for members the adult workshops so that's incentive for you right there that's it that it [Applause] all right okay now now we go again we back to fall um do you have the results I do I want to [Applause] congratulate a lot of work we had a tie really oh boy put both on so we need to give you all ballots again and do not for already in put them both on um we're going to go you can vote from the four remain Cates decision that's fine I like when you make decisions just V for one yeah all right and vote for the one of the two Who tie or vote for any of the other four any of the other four vote for one okay any of them not just not John just not John you cross them out on the ballot we didn't cross them out you know what we didn't have time is that okay do not V for job any questions nice job so so we'll pass out the ballots and and I'll be back around I have three pens when I had probably 20 no we don't have that anybody need aot oh yeah I do I lost my where's my any else for the Cofe [Music] [Applause] can't it's funny found [Music] help yourselves to more food we should have the ballots counted within five minutes what is [Music] to for true [Applause] St [Music] I [Music] don't go anywhere everybody on the but the um next board member will be David all [Applause] right thank thank you Judy very much and uh let's see I think good Bo well almost uh anybody here want to say anything about uh uh the lovely thing or you know why do we hire Rob or I don't know pick pick the topic uh you a question up here yeah say go forward hey there Hi um I just moved to B I'm really excited to be joining the community here um Rob I had a question for you which is that U I think that a lot of the work that we can be doing um on behalf of the organization is to be spreading brand awareness um over the next year what is the one the one initiative that gets you really excited that might reflect the direction of um of the organization I think the training is is the big thing you know actually be able to teach people how to content creators uhing the tools letting them know that we're here that really does exit most just yeah we have the space we can do training here every evening so tapping into the industry that's already here having them train people um that's really just where I'm very excited to have add to that no yes ever since we open this SP the spot we've had so many people from around the community the greater North Shore come to us and start uh conversations about expanding digital Equity within the the area um so even though we we don't know anything we can announce right now um just like the amount of people who've been wanting to expand everyone's access to to technology and want to partner with us to do it it's been overwheling amazing good awesome thank you very much yeah other questions comments well there's still plenty of food uh thank you delines yeah we're not stay and enjoy the food and shock I know some of my staff wants to get home to their family I'll be here so keep the lights open to the last one of you Le she got no to go yeah make sure you turn the light up because all right thanks for [Applause] coming so you got

and as always we thank Our Community Partners could we have a roll call please Kathleen Amal here John Nunes yeah best Coughlin here Chris Oliver here Mary Beck here thank you everyone um and for those of you uh in the audience and those of you at home you might notice that we have a uh a new uh face up here uh at the table and we'd like to welcome our student representative um I believe her name is Audra Audrey Audrey and I didn't get your last name uh Audrey ker well would you like to tell us a little bit about yourself oh sure um I'm am a senior here at Dartmouth High School um I'm part of the theater company student council and our show choir group along with uh winter and spring track yeah well welcome it sounds like you're going to have quite the busy year oh yeah at this time we have allotted 10 minutes for anyone wishing to speak on any of tonight's agenda items if you'd like to approach the microphone we'd ask you to state your name and keep your comments to three minutes please thank you very much I take that as no one uh will be coming up this evening uh next up we have the approval of the regular session minutes of September 9th 2024 so move second motion by Mr n second by Mrs ameral on the motion any further discussion chair hearing none all in favor I I oppos motion carries unanimously thank you very much at this time chair will'll entertain a motion to approve the executive session minutes of SE setember 9th 2024 so move Mr chairman with the stipulation that they be held until the matter for which they were intended is complete second have a motion on the floor by Mr Nunes a second by Mrs Amaral on the motion any further discussion chair hearing none all in favor I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously thank you uh next up let's see we have our student representative report so we'll turn it over um so I'm just going to be touching on a couple of things that have been going on at the high school recently um the first thing is that our theater production our theater company has just started our rehearsals for our production of Elf which will be um happening on December 6th and 7th and we are very excited about that um also our Sports have started they've done a couple weeks they all of our teams have been doing very well um I just want to to give a shout out to football who currently has a 3 and0 record um which is very impressive we're very proud um and also the school spirit has really been shining through at the football games uh in the student section uh this Wednesday the 25th we're having our um college fair um for juniors and seniors and it's really good especially for the seniors who are just starting our college application process so that's something that we're really looking forward to um we also have Club Expo coming up um which is on Tuesday October 1st uh next Tuesday um and we're really focusing on getting uh freshman involved in the school um through different clubs um so that's very exciting we're looking forward to that um also student council we had our first meeting last week um which is very exciting we got to establish our um student council subcommittees um which will be working um in different areas of the school throughout the year here um we've really started one main fundraiser uh which is our trunk oret treat which we are planning um to happen in late October we don't have um specific plans on it yet but we are um we're getting very excited about it um and we would like to get have everyone in the community to start getting excited about it it's going to be a really fun night um and also I'd like to give um a special thanks to Andrew Moniz who is a junior at Dartmouth um and he took time out of his own day um a couple weeks ago to refurbish the 911 memorial that we have outside of the high school um so I would like to extend a thanks to him for putting that time in thank you that was wonderful thank you very much questions or comments from any of the committee members going on yeah big surprise well we certainly invite you and welcome you to stay with us uh for the duration of the meeting but if you do have to leave at any point we certainly understand okay thank you thank you next up we have a looks like a consent agenda item Dr Saba McGuire um excuse me yes you have a request from the Dello uh kushman PTO for fundraising for 20242 it's my understanding that you will be receiving um more requests from this PTO and that what you have now is just a snapshot and they needed to get it approved so that they could get going on their fundraising efforts and so you'll be getting more information from the Dello kushman PTO uh as we move through the year perfect thank you very much what comments questions regarding this request motion of approve second motion by Mr noon second by Mrs Amaral on the motion any other comments discussion J hearing none all in favor I I opposed motion carries unanimously great next up under old business preliminary FY 26 standing agenda item to update the committee on uh any updates regarding our budget discussion great before before I hand it over to Mr Kylie I just want to say that again we're talking we have this as a standing agenda item we believe that's important and at the same time we have to understand that in tandem with developing the um multiple budgets we're also uh we're also presenting and hopefully the school committee will be approving a strategic plan and so keeping that in mind as we're developing a budget I think is really critical because there are going to be some items that are embedded within the district strategic plan that will require us to look at the way that we funded certain areas um over the course of the past uh probably many budget Cycles so with that Mr Kylie I know you have a few updates sure so um thank you Dr s Maguire so we're working on the budget uh working on preparing the FY 26 Budget on our end as Dr sa McGuire mentioned mentioned uh the the Strategic plan as it should be is a very critical component of of uh preparation of the budgets moving forward and in light of that um we had originally scheduled a budget subcommittee meeting for September 30th um I would ask that the school committee um certainly subcommittee members budget subcommittee members consider delaying that meeting deferring it until U the Strategic plan has become a public document and that the school committee has had an opportunity to consider it um to really do it justice the way it should be um we need to make sure that the preliminary budget preparation reflects that um and I wouldn't want to take things out of order um by by doing it otherwise so I'd encourage uh that course of action I don't have any concern uh with that I'll turn it over to my colleague who's here on the budget subcommittee right with me you you okay with that I'm absolutely I think it makes perfect sense to do things in order and definitely take into account the Strategic plan so happy to uh maybe at the next meeting we can look to schedule schedule another date and time for a budget subcommittee meeting but I think that certainly that certainly makes sense I guess along those lines um and if if I'm out of order I'm the chair I guess um will we be having like almost like a policy a first a first look through a read on the Strategic plan and voting on it at the next meeting or would you like would you be interested in having us vote on it that night we have a date that we will be providing you with the district strategic plan in detail before the October 7th meeting so you will have had it you will have had time to certainly um review it yep and uh and if we are able to move forward with the vote on October 7th that's what we would prefer if you feel that as a committee you're ready to go ahead and and take that vote but we will have it in your hands I think up to to a week we have a date set September 30th right we'll have it to a week before because we have our final meeting tomorrow am I correct yeah so you'll you're you will actually have a preview of what the detailed report will look like tomorrow yeah that sounds good so I think uh as long as we get it ahead of time um you know I certainly see the the need to try to vote on it as soon as possible so thank you you're welcome no and I am certainly looking forward to it I actually had an opportunity to uh speak to Gary and Pam earlier ear uh actually La last week um at one of the our sessions and uh they couldn't say enough about their time in Dartmouth yes they've been wonderful to work with and we look forward to actually having at least one of them come to the committee meeting that night to just introduce them to all of you yep perfect anything else under the budget no from my colleagues anything in that's the budget hurry up and wait I certainly appreciate it keeping it front and center for sure all right next up under new business uh superintendent update yes so I have to remind myself that it really is only September 23rd and we really are only a few weeks into the school year um because the way it feel feels right now and this is in a positive way it's like as if we never left and we know school years are cyclical and there are certain things that you go through every year and for me I feel like time has like a little bit condensed for me here in Dartmouth and we're already up and running with so many different things and listening to our student rep talk about the football game and that student section um again seeing that that is consistent in the Dartmouth schools for me that that is something that I'm learning that there's a consistency here to what the school Community is committed to uh so I just wanted to mention that again it's September 23rd we really are only going into we're still in the first month of school um but under teaching and learning I want to invite u m Dr TBO and Mrs PVE up they are going to give you some updates on the work that they're leading uh throughout the district at the ele elementary middle and high school prek elementary um middle and high school around the curriculum initiatives that we are invested in good evening want to go sequentially I guess sure all right we'll start with a little guys and move our way up uh thank you for the opportunity tonight to highlight some of the things that are happening in the office of teaching and learning I'm just going to take a quick minute and update you on H what's happening with some of our Pilots um at the elementary level our literacy pilot is happening in grades K through five and all of our pilot teachers have launched their modules in El education uh as we've done a deeper dive of this program there are consistent threads that we've seen across grade levels uh noce noticeably a focus on learning targets strong vocabulary development um and some real conversational classroom protocols for students to discuss their learning this week and next pilot teachers will have an opportunity to meet with um folks from E during during three different office hours it gives them an opportunity to ask some questions and get some support on the work that they're doing and while we're working really hard on that pilot we're simultaneously gearing up to begin um looking at another program and so on October 10th the folks from amplify will be here to deliver some professional development to our pilot teachers on the units that they'll be trying out from that uh publisher and that pilot will run for eight weeks and then at that point our team will do a final analysis of kind of all the data that they've gathered throughout the pilot programs and um they'll make a recommendation for a program going forward for the fall of 25 for a full implementation K to 5 and while we have many folks who are working really hard on our literacy pilot we also have a small But Mighty team of third and fourth grade teachers who uh graciously volunteer to engage in the department of Ed's social studies pilot that's happening in grades three and four um up until now Massachusetts history and social science teachers have really not had easy access to a comprehensive authentic inquiry based curriculum uh that's fully aligned to the 2018 standards and so desie uh to address this need developed in collaboration with teachers and history Scholars an accurate culturally responsive and inclusive curriculum uh units in this investigating history curriculum are fully developed and published grades 5 through through seven and they're in the pilot phase in grades three and four so we are um certainly glad that we have some teachers who are committed to that work and working with the state to refine um to refine those units and um best of all they are free of cost so it is a totally free curriculum and comes with lots of really great resources we have a couple of teachers who are working on the fifth grade even though they're not the units are not in Pilot they're trying them out and working with their colleagues their grade level colleagues and really have nothing but great things to say about the resource um the primary sources that go along with it and it's really rooted in inquiry it's a shift of me just sort of giving you historical facts to regurgitate back to an inquiry based model of really diving into some of the um things that our kids are learning about and the why and the understanding of sort of a lot of the really great things that go along with that thank you Katie so at the secondary level we have uh two different um Pilots going on one is in math uh up at the high school uh and that is in Algebra 1 Algebra 2 and geometry and really it encompasses every one of our Math teachers in the department um except for one and that's only because that particular teacher teaches uh stats which is not part of of the pilot in addition to that two of our special educators are part of that pilot as well because they're co-teaching in the math department and so they have access to all of the same professional development and the resources that our our math folks have um we actually just finished our second um implementation training day uh Carnegie um with Carnegie Learning they came out to support our Math teachers on September 11th for a full day um of professional learning and they will be back uh actually on September 30th um Patty who is the coach from Carnegie will be spending the day to provide on-site support um visiting classrooms working directly with our Math teachers and um with Miss chavier uh and myself to support that work um and then they come back on October 8th 9th and 10th so it's really I emphasize that because it's a high level of professional support that Carnegie offers um during the pilot um phase and uh I can say from looking at Maia which is one of the um online AI based platforms that comes with Carnegie can see the progress in real time of students working through um through the different uh modules and so that has been um they've gotten off to quite a strong start and I I think it will only get better as the year goes on and they continue to get support directly from Carnegie so we're excited about that do want to acknowledge it's a lot of work as well though right for and we're very appreciative of our math uh teachers um who are really putting in the work and learning an entire new curriculum and for some for some Math teachers we should recognize that they have multiple preps so for some of them that means you know two subjects you know maybe Algebra 1 and geometry or geometry and Algebra 2 so we appreciate their hard work and and we really um you know uh are excited about the outcomes for students and and for our teachers in addition to that pilot we also have a World Language pilot going on um and again uh it's only for Spanish uh for the world language but our teachers worked with our Middle School teachers in the spring last year to to select the curriculum to vet the curriculums and and to select the one they wanted to Pilot and so they're working through um those resources with any curricular resources there's always so much more than can than they can actually possibly use in a given time so that's really what they're working through and we're looking forward to um supporting uh Mrs Souza or language teacher who's coordinating that work um so those are the two pilots the two main Pilots we have a science pilot as well at the middle school open sad which really is piloting a unit this first year there'll be grant opportunities later in the year that we're hoping that U Mrs Deus and the middle school and and myself are are hoping to pursue to to offset any of the costs associated with with open sad I wanted to give a shout out and uh recognize Mr Higgins up at the high school we just finished our summer reading um we had we had uh summer reading discussions last week I guess it was and um you know the Dartmouth High School uh Dartmouth Public School summer reading program it's really unique in many ways we offer a great a vast amount of choice to our students we had 37 different titles at the high school level that were sponsored by faculty members and students alike we also Empower our high school students to lead book conversations you know uh with the support of A Faculty uh member but that really to me is a Hallmark of our our summer reading program and really a strength that's worth celebrating it takes a tremendous amount of work by Mr Higgins but also by The Faculty members who sponsor a book and all of the faculty members who sit in on the summer reading committee and vet the titles to make sure that they're um you know developmentally appropriate you know uh for the for the high school level so huge shout out to to Mr Higgins and to all the faculty members who were part of that and then finally the final piece of my update um The Playbook initiative application uh opened on September 15th it closes on October 1st uh you probably remember last year was our first year doing the Playbook initiative which um you know is an anti-hate anti-bias um curriculum that seeks to have high school students train middle school students to be upstanders and not bystanders so we're looking to build on last year's um success we'll be applying again to be part of that program and to really expand um that work and I met recently with Mr Rossy and uh guidance counselors down at the middle school I met with Miss Chamberlain here at the high school and so we're looking forward to putting in that application and hopefully being selected again and and strengthening and growing that program that's it no great to escape great presentations what do they do during the day right and so um I just want to mention a couple things one I Dr ton mentioned but I you know we can't thank our teachers enough for being willing to take on the pilots because these Pilots are quite a bit of work for our Educators and what we've seen um even today we U Miss Pavo and I were out visiting schools and teachers are excited to talk to us about the work that they're doing and at the same time you can we have to acknowledge that this is brand new to them and therefore it's almost in some cases like starting over and really having to dive into a new resource that requires um quite a bit of more of of additional preparation time and that's happening at all levels of the school district right now and what I hope that will what we make this connection is when we do introduce the district strategic plan um formally you'll see that that's a major area of focus and that came out through the surveys the focus groups um through the conversations that we had with Educators across the district so we're excited to see that that work is moving and I think it's moving at a pace that um is quite impressive so I also wanted to um next invite Mrs redlon and Mrs denisio up they are going to give you some updates about things that are happening in the office of student support services so to add to the list of new hard things we're doing this school year um desie Department of educ Elementary and secondary education has rolled out a new individualized education plan form a new IEP form this is a big deal because this has been 10 years in the making they've been trying to get this out um and it it's finally ready so districts um have until Thanksgiving to start implementing this form so we have begun as soon as the school year started um the current form well the previous form we were using we were using it for over 20 years so this is a huge change in practice for a lot of our special Educators and we are learning new things um really the this the spirit of the new form is to be a more strength based picture of student learning and provide access to accommodations throughout the school day so the intent behind it is lovely but the practice of changing what you've been doing for so long is challenging um for students um I'm sorry for teachers but I would say for parents as well so in light of that we are holding uh parent information night um to introduce parents to the new IEP this Thursday which is um September 26 thank you at 6 pm here in the library um a zoom link is also available for those who can't join us in person but still want to hear about the changes a flyer is in the parent backpack but also a parent Square notice went home um and there is a QR code you can scan in there if you would like to join us via Zoom so hopefully we'll have a good audience and really just start to do some of that proactive work and discussing the changes they can expect to see at their students IEP meetings this school year all right and then one more save the date that we have is October 15th at 6 o'clock at the Quinn school and that will be this year's first CPAC meeting where the special ed parents advisory Council in partnership with Dartmouth Public Schools will review the parent and guardian rights as well as you can learn how CPAC can be a bridge for supports and resources for you and also if you're looking to join and be an advocate for your child and those the other children in Dartmouth you can come and learn how to do that as well thank you thank you to you both thank you excellent okay I also um want to just take actually this moment to thank District leadership obviously in partnership with school-based leadership and our Educators because um you can hear that there is a lot of work that's going on and we are really grateful to have the leadership that we have to be able to support the number of pilots and just new initiatives and that all requires planning and work with teachers and has to be uh really thoughtfully uh planned for and implemented so I want to thank the team here um for coming up and updating you and that will be again something that we do on a regular basis at our school committee meeting I also thought now would be a good time to let you know that mcast results will be released publicly tomorrow so we won't be able to talk about them this evening uh but at certainly at at an early date will be presenting our mcast results to our school committee formally and at the same time we'll be looking forward to sharing the mcast results now in um with with the thought of how are we using these results as part of how we think about the initiatives that are connected to our district strategic plan and because I can't say too much I do want to say that we do have some highlights that we'll be excited to share with you and we'll be able to do that starting tomorrow so we look forward to having more discussion about that so that's just what that's called a cliffhanger um so I also want to give you an update about where we are with Personnel again something that I like to do with all of you on a regular basis to let you know where we stand um we for the past uh couple of weeks at school committee I've said that we're looking for a bcba we are um optimistic cautiously optimistic that we have um one who will be a really good fit here again um as with the World Language teacher once they're on board we'll be inviting them here to meet with you uh so we will let you know about that we're still working on a 0.5 pe/ healthwellness teacher so again again we say that both for the Committees um certainly to share this information with the committee but also to have the opportunity to talk about it publicly and if people are are may know somebody that may be interested in the position please encourage them to apply um those are we we're still in need of a maintenance worker Mr Kylie am I correct about that yes and so we're working on that and so all of those positions the positions that aren't filled AR position that were just shrugging our shoulders and saying oh well um we're out there and we are actively seeking applicants for those unfilled position positions including the one at the high school shared with the middle school which is an El English language teacher very difficult positions to fill not just here in Dartmouth but across the state and I would be willing to say probably at the national level so we're still working on that we're still working on at the um my computer isn't my laptop isn't uh agreeing with me or cooperating with me so we're still looking for three esps at the high school at the middle school I mentioned the El teacher we still need food services support and now for a certified staff we are also looking for a special educator at Dartmouth Middle School at the Quinn we are still in need of an ESP and a full-time custodian although I um understand that we've had a couple of interviews and of we have them scheduled we've conducted a few and we may be close to identifying someone for the position uh at the potter we are still looking for uh part-time custodian no we're not did you see me looking at Kate because I see it says we're on boarding somebody um so we're not so that's exciting and Food Services kushman fully staffed so we're really in good shape there happy to say that uh so as always a plug form monitors substitute teachers esps uh Food Service workers again Dr TBO Miss poo I see that they are constantly interviewing especially for those substitute positions and so that's always going to be on a rolling BAS basis so people should know that just because the school year started and you may not have applied for a substitute position doesn't mean that there aren't opportunities that are still available so with that I'm going to move on to climate and culture um as I mentioned at every meeting that we're confident that our schools as we walk through them there's a lot of really good good positive energy in our buildings and one of the things that we do when we visit schools is we make sure that we ask our Educators have you had a good start to the year and we're hearing yes in fact they have U so we were at the kushman and the Dello today and able to talk with teachers and to interact with students and there's so much positive energy and just good work going on out in the district uh we also talked at our last school committee about uh safety precautions and the things that we're doing here in Dartmouth to ensure that our students and our staff are safe very well ver the staff here is very well versed in safety processes and procedures and one thing that that we did this past Friday uh Mr Kylie myself Mr gashaw joined us we met at the police station with the police chief with our three Fire Chiefs we met with EMS we met with our Lieutenant here who works with our SRO and some other folks just to be at the same table and to talk about ways in which we can that we have great relationships with all those folks they're really wonderful to work with and at the same time what we recognize is this opportunity for us to strengthen those relationships and one of one of um the steps that we're going to take in order to do that is to establish a districtwide um crisis team and although again as I say our schools have things in place we're looking to look at our processes and our structures in a way to just strengthen them and just to make them more routine in terms of what we're doing across the school district so I really thank all of our Public Safety folks for being willing to engage in that conversation and that we have some next steps that came out of that opportunity to meet with them uh really and it's really about our Co us having a coordinated response to any type of emergency that that could go on not only in the schools but in the town because often times schools are supporting Town needs during emergencies whether it be weather or other types of of crises that may occur uh so I also met with the folks from the Council on Aging um and I have to say love working with the the team over there they have followed up with our athletic department and we're looking forward to welcoming our seniors to our our October 18th uh home game and there will be an opportunity for our cheerleaders and hopefully Mr noon to recognize that our seniors are there with us that evening they loved it last year and they're excited about having this opportunity again into making it a regular part of what we do in partnership with the Council on enging on an ongoing basis uh the other the other uh opportunities we talked about was you know we did have a group come to the a basketball game um and so making that not not that it's by accident but that we just build it into the regular work that we do in partnership with Council on Aging the for the second year our cheerleaders are going to be joining um our traveling to the senior center and they'll be partic participating in line dancing with our seniors again they loved it last year and they learned a few new dances and when they came back from that experience they immediate I'm talking about the cheerleaders they immediately talked about wanting to continue that relationship we I also talked to um Mr Petri Mr Peto about the Valentine's dance which is a big deal uh we didn't have it last year but we're looking to rein itute that for this year because that was something that again between the school and the seniors that everybody enjoyed so much so we're looking forward to continuing that or restarting that uh for this year uh it's so nice to have to have our student rep here because she did quite a bit of the sports and uh but I do have a couple other updates that I added in and I stole it I just want to say from from Mr Christa fo's Monday minute it's super helpful to me uh because yes the football team is doing great and other teams are doing really wonderful as well girls soccer uh had a couple of big wins that's been exciting field hockey as you know they're doing quite well they had an undefeated week and apparently beating the cross town Rivals a big deal right so that is exciting for for the girls soccer team uh a special shout out this is from Mr chrisa foly but but I I just wanted to State it publicly as well uh DCTV director Mr Peter Chase he installed our indoor cameras this past week at the Lynch activity center and so we're close to being able to stream the indoor events as well as the outdoor events which is exciting for our students and our families to be able to see some of those athletic events uh on a regular basis and also a special shout out to Kathy Thornton who was selected uh who was selected as the she's our athletic trainer by the way um so she was selected as the 2024 District 8 nominee as athletic trainer of the year and I can say I've seen her in action out on the field I see the way that she she has a Hawkeye I see her if a student I wouldn't have caught what was going on with the student but she's clear across the field and I can see her getting her golf cart and she's right over there and so she is uh a great asset to the sports community in making sure that our students are safe so I think that that is it for me for for tonight EXC well that was just so short I know that was you only touched upon a couple of topics I was expecting a little bit more I could add some if in all in all honesty I I certainly appreciate uh not only your report Dr saber Maguire but as all the um your department reports as well um from teaching and learning to special education I would just ask that uh me being a a techie that I would like to hear from the tech director maybe at one of the at one of the next meetings as well because I'm sure there's well he has sure there's some projects there as you know Mr Oliver Mr gallashaw is not shy of a microphone so I've heard hasn't found hasn't found one he doesn't like yet I'm still hearing some Chuckles about opening day yeah but in all honesty thank you of course and we will have Mr gallashaw at a at a a meeting I for one appreciate the community engagement that's been taking place under your tenure so um I see that you're doing a lot of work and any of my colleagues have any comments or questions from any of the superintendent report no I mean just with Dr sa Maguire was talking about the uh cheerleaders being at the Council on Aging and it was taped by DCTV and when you sit down you know and I've caught it a few times finally probably pieced it all together and that and I'm not quite sure who was having more fun the our cheerleaders or the seniors type of deal probably you know it was the same but they were having a great time with with the dancers so it's awesome that they do that they do love it I was able to be there last year and there was so much enthusiasm and laughter in the space and so the fact that they want to go back and do it again I think is and and they there are some new students new cheerleaders so and I can't thank that the cheerleading coach enough because obviously she has been the conduit to making sure that this happens that's great all right report of the chair so a couple of things I just want to thank the committee uh for our Workshop session that we had uh last week I thought it was very helpful um one of the things that I'd like to do at an upcoming meeting is maybe I just go over and just reiterate to the public what our goals are um out of that uh that policy that we have um I think we came to the conclusion that we're overall we're doing a fairly good job um and we should all give ourselves a pat on the back and um just looking at the goals that were there that um you know we're we're pretty much we're pretty much already doing them so I think it's worthwhile though to just kind of memorialize it in a meeting uh so that we share with those of uh at home as well as uh everyone here in the audience as to um what we're doing as as far as our hitting our goals go uh so in addition to that uh some of you or all of you should have received an email from masc regarding the uh division 3 virtual resolutions Clinic um it's happening tomorrow at 6 p.m.

to 1:00 p.m. at plank Junior High and child care will be provided um and just as an aside I did go to the first parent University I think that if anyone has the least bit of Interest which you all should it is definitely well worth attending so um we do hope to see lots of parents there on the uh on October 26th OS Jr Emily chette is one of 38 poets honored at the eth annual gendin Brooks youth poetry Awards Emily was named as an honorable mention in her grade group for her poem X over 988 entries were received congratulations to Emily on this special recognition of your creativity and talents y yay congratulations to Stephanie San Roman rohs band director She was recently attended the award ceremony in Nashville and received an award as music teacher of Excellence presented by the CMA Foundation thank you Stephanie for your hard work and dedication to students this award is welld deserved Y and they keep giving me these that are like so apropo for me um the asigo East I'm very thankful very thankful for this one the asigo East High School social studies department is partnering with Disabled American Veterans feeli the flags uh from now until October 25th anyone in our community can donate and for every $250 raise the school will receive 24 Flags to be placed along the school's main entrance and Wolf's crossing the week of Veterans Day uh visit the oeh Facebook page for the link to read more and donate and it's definitely a personal piece at this point um you know my own uh father-in-law he's looking at six weeks of radiation now um and the doctors are very confident this is left over from agent orange he's a Vietnam vet and um unfortunately um he lost U his ability to talk um they had to take take that out um very large cancerous tumor and so um for those of us who have loved ones who are still um giving back if you will to our country uh things like this are appreciated so thank you to the social studies Department yes very ate yeah the 11th annual food drive the 11th annual food drive begins on October 15th and will culminate at the cross town game on Friday October 25th at asgo East High School we look forward to this time of year as our district collaborates to work towards such an incredible cause our district continues to be the largest donation the kendle County Community Food Pantry receives stay tuned for more information coming soon thank you board and as you hear there is just so much uh uh good news even in these difficult difficult times that we have to take a moment to be grateful for each other and for our shared uh commitment to our students so uh to those listening uh please share any good news you think should we need to highlight in these monthly reports so uh again send them in uh what you do matters to all of us thank you Dr kale Gotti All Right Moving to 8.2 board member comments any board member comments I do I do okay okay I just would like to give a h special shout out and thank you on behalf of community cares to senior celebration 24 um those would be the students that just graduated this past spring uh senior celebration presented us with the check for $1,000 um which will be used toward um uh toward personal items that we have um in conjunction with the um food pantry at Old Trower um we have had this past food pantry was visit well let me see let me say this in English the most people visited our portion of the food pantry than had ever in the past um which is good news bad news it's good to it's good that we have um the ability to provide for all these people it's you know not necessarily such um a wonderful thing that there are so many people in need um but regardless we are happy and proud to be able to provide so again senior celebration 24 thank you yes thank you Dr you have any um I prepared my comment so not to um kind of go astray over the past week or so um I've spent a lot of time in conversations with students parents educ Educators and community members discussing the safety and well-being of our students we are facing a pressing concern that weighs heavily both on our hearts and our minds and that's the threat of school violence on the sidelines of my son's football game yesterday I had families tell me that their children are facing anxiety and worry about going to school and feeling safe that they are not okay these recent events in our district highlight the vulnerabilities of our students our Educators and our families the fear of violence overshadows the joy of learning and we know our students must feel safe and supported in their educational environments to explore create and grow so last night when I was sitting thinking about my comments I had to really reframe what's been going on and here's the good news we can and we will address threats of school threats and school violence together with everyone doing their part we will not tolerate anyone who wants to breach the emotional physical or psychological safety of our staff and students like Dr Gatti said parents and teachers please continue to reinforce see something say something and I think it's also really important to remind our students that they don't have to evaluate the threat to determine whether it's real or not or worry about letting someone think that they turned it in it will remain confidential they just need to say something to their teacher safe adult student services or principal I personally saw it work last week I watched our administrators take very seriously every threat brought to their attention and keep our students sa safe to the adults in our communities who want answers real time I beg you please allow our Administration the opportunity to safely work through the Safety and Security protocols that keep our students and staff safe I know they will communicate with with us as soon as possible when it's safe and feasible to do so I'm so proud of our OE students who heard something and said something I heard from the Fox Chase Administration that the staff worked together to keep students and staff safe when facing an intruder I said my heartfelt gratitude to Stephanie passarelli Kim adorjan Amy battle and Karen kala for your strength and calm in the face of the unknown as we move forward let's remember that the strength of our community lies in our Unity by standing together we create an environment where every student feels secure we will turn our fears into proactive measures and show everyone that you cannot mess with as Wego together we will be safe and we will ensure that our schools remain places of learning growth and joy thank you thank you just just real quick I wanted to thank um the village of asigo um talk about a different tone walking in there um obviously president simult and um board members Sone were there as well um I wasn't there alone um but uh it was it was great to see a constructive tone um I think there's a way for us to model speaking kind of to your point how did some of these things happen and some of the discussions I've had with students is like there's not a sense of belonging all the time and I think sometimes as adults we forget that we model that and we model um the strength of the community so I I Echo your words and and uh I applaud uh the village for uh asking good questions right that that should happen absolutely um and and challenging challenging each other we'll challenge each other um uh but it was it was great to see that kind of tone yes it was so and look how much we've accomplished working together since you've come Dr katti it's it's been um remarkable that we've moved some things forward that we needed to do when we've worked together and I also want to give a shout out to our police chief who was also on site last week with Mr Bell um really working again once together with our intergovernmental Partners um we're in we're in good hands so yeah thank you and also we we were at Beek so thanks thanks to them I know that was mentioned uh thank you for inviting us they sent me home with a lot of food and it's a good thing because if I did not come home with uh Lily Lil tamali I don't know that my family would let me back in the house so um thank to thank you to them got dozens out a time did we talk about how we're gonna think we're gonna look into oh did we talk about um just how we're going to uh have a presentation on our safety can you just speak to that yeah great uh question Madam president uh on October 8th is that correct 7th um we're going to invite Mr Bell to join us for our saf annual safety presentation um during our time we will in addition to just some important uh foundational practices and protocols that we follow um we'll have an opportunity to hear about some after Action Report Reflections do you want to add to that Mr Bell just I know your team's been working very hard already um we take every speak to a little bit of what you do with every incident and what we do in terms of process uh one of the things we we've incorporated into our practice um is that after Action Report um and it's kind of looking at um what are the things that we feel like when well what are the things that we feel like we maybe uh had some gaps um what are those things in which we can better the system as we go forward and then what are those action steps that are coming out of that whether it's by a department or something specific I want to highlight some of the things that we had a really rough week last week um it's putting it lightly um you know might department is kind of uh we have we we span a spectrum of of services and supports to the district but we're typically the ones that get called on the bad days um and so our department with the help of Dr concade was able to uh endure quite a bit of of trauma of tragedy and support for all of our buildings for our kids for our families for our staff for our administrators um there's a number of us sitting around these tables that all contributed to that uh it wasn't it wasn't student services alone but I can also tell you that some of the things that we've been working so hard to put in place were effective um we had some really good successes that I don't know are highlighted with all of the the the information that's out there is that we stopped an intruder from getting access to our kids in a building we endured supporting crises in three different locations at the same time um those aren't things that I'm confident we could have done 18 months ago in the way in which we did them this last week I hope as Jared said we never have to do this again ever um but I want to highlight the there is there is a celebration there even in in the face of tragedy is that our buildings did what they were supposed to do how they were supposed to do it um and it wasn't n just a a district level response it was our building level response um that kept our kids safe we just came in on the back end um and and helped to support kind of the process procedures um and practices as we go um but it's been it's been a a lot of work to get to that place we're not done um we're going to learn some things we have learned some things we're going to report out at that October 7th annual safety kind of update as well as Identify some of those things that we're continuing to work on and some of those recommendations that we have um going forward um in order to continue to make this a place where we keep all kids safe we are committed to continuously learning boards and I want to say that I want to thank what you just echoed and spoke to is exactly that is that commitment and that that in every moment so there is no bad feedback is what I would say um any feedback uh to the community who may be listening please share that with your principles with us um it can only help us be stronger for our students thank you thank you thank you ad one thing to Mr Bell like I I last week you really were the face of kind of Safety and Security in this district and you did a phenomenal job of keeping calm and moving things along I also want to just give a little shout out to Administration I'm not going to say who because I want to keep the privacy and confidentiality of the part of their reflection is asking the students how they felt and what works and doesn't work that's very crit to see that live and to see that happen is really critical to know that they also is what the adults chose to do and how they handled it did it make you feel safe and secure was just really powerful to see real time so thank you to your team and everything that that that happened yes thank you yes yes thank you it has not gone unnoticed and we appreciate it very much okay we're moving on to 9.1 our consent agenda can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda please make a motion to approve all items under consent including 9.1 minutes from the Board of Education meeting on September 9th 2024 9.2 to acknowledge a foyer request received by the district 9.3 to approve the field trips for overnight and or more than 200 miles and 9.4 to acknowledge the administrator and teacher salary and benefit report for fiscal year 24 second are there any questions on the consent agenda Mr Gatewood I Dr Mario hi Miss Johnson hi Mr Cerone hi Miss Simon hi Mr hi Miss vmou I motion passes 70 action item 10.1 district oh wait we did that one already 10.2 action item Personnel report can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the Personnel report report as discussed and presented second Mr Gatewood hi Miss Johnson hi Dr Mario hi Miss Simon hi Mr hi Mr hi missen I passes [Applause] okay good evening board um Mr obafemi we have a financial statements investment schedule right so we've uh shared the financial statement and investment schedule for the uh the month of uh August in there now the financial statement as you will see there when this is generated we had uh $ 78.2 million in Investments on and at uh on September uh 4th when this was created any uh any questions and we just to we also are working on the uh end of the year Financial uh audit with vtil audit firm and we are committed to making sure that's concluded in November and we should have a presentation to un for the first time can you repeat that because I think you you say it was on schedule that on schedule for the first time in 10 years by Statute to be complet by December and we will have that done this will be the first time in at least 10 years okay thank you okay thank you thank you okay uh next uh 11.2 we have a update on the RFP and I want to thank the building and the business office and finance and buildings and grounds office for really engaging in this RFP process around a number of items so this is just one of the that are coming forward that are really thinking about how we coordinate our services our purchasing services and across the system this is a first for the first time in a long time um and speaking with oea I have to give this context um oea has been asking for this kind of coordination of purchasing support um our our Union Partners recognize the opportunity there um not just from OA from all of our unions the opportunity for coordination of our purchase and our how we think about our contracts and our service I want to thank your departments for that Mr Queen so this is part of if you look at our strategic uh goals that was presented to the board back in March yeah one of uh uh uh number eight goal was to uh to try to to achieve operational efficiency and one of the ways that we do that is to coordinate our we spend money as a as a Luda District a l unit district we spend a lot of money key things and one of those those key things that we spend money on our custodial Supply and the way we currently do it now is it's kind of like we we buy retail whatever is convenient whatever is easier instead of uh coordinating so this is an attempt to coordinate that and I'm going to end it over to uh Mr Quinn to uh kind of talk to The Bu a bit so I believe there was 117 items ranging anywhere from paper towels all the way down to wax for the custodial floors um and just a ditto off of katti and Dr katti and Raphael this this is how we justify how we spend the community's money properly right we want to get the best deal but we also want to get the best product possible um so we were working with uh four of these vendors already the other F four or five were are new that we are working with um are there any questions regarding the scope of work that we displayed for you guys before go Miss satar did you want to add this is nothing new we've done this for a while um I think the process of my predecessor before me had went out to RFP we utilize the um co-ops but when we bought the trucks we realized that the co-op wasn't always the best deal so this is our due diligence to uh get that best guaranteed price and I and I see you smiling over there Jen and if you check back on that board dock I was surprised as well so the co-ops not always the best option this is this is just us doing our work and homework and making sure we were spending that dollar correctly and and at the best price you thank you okay thank you baring any other questions um next I want to invite Dr can uh really just to give the board a a quick update on our strategic road map y so um I just wanted to provide a brief update of some of the work that the team has been conducting regarding our strategic road map um we are moving into that Precision phase of our strategic plan so we're looking at both monitoring implementation and then seeking feedback so in terms of monitoring implementation we're monitoring across um all of our Departments of our eight priorities what we've done is we've integrated our success Matrix so that we can look collaboratively as our departments are working together um through our teams so we have um really look to assist in the transition could you just bring close my close thank you so we are um working on that transition between our strategic road map and our strategic plan so our school Improvement plans are underway at our buildings um focused on our three foundational practices that we've discussed previously with our equity and rightful presence our effective systems and teams and our highquality instruction um as we move into our feedback phases uh which we'll focus in our in the late fall and winter um we're relaunching the superintendent Advisory Group um we will also then in conjunction with um ANS come and bogans work with our staff students and Community to seek feedback um we are drawing Upon Our organizational and curriculum audit and then really just the progress of our strategic Road mapap um so as Dr katti has previously mentioned our intended completion date of the Strategic plan to bring um to all of you is March 17th so well happy St pck it must be in green print it must be in green print was a from R Jo I will make sure that that happens excent Dr King can you speak to a little bit about some of the metrics we'll be sharing with the board um and some of the updates that we'll be bringing to the board around how we are measuring our progress and what the board is asked for in terms of some specifics absolutely so um our first update will come later this week um so we have included um updates in all three of those foundational practices so we will um include information from our human resources department about our current uh vacancies um through the um priority um for five thank you uh Dr Zumi um and addition um we will be including uh metrics around our uh student achievement data our um athletic participation um around the pathways chosen both um in high quality instruction and equity and rifle presence um from our school Improvement plans in conjunction with both um Dr Paul and Dr Waller um so we're trying to include both information directly related to our buildings um so you can see the connection between our strategic plan and our school Improvement plans um but then also uh data focus on our students um so you will receive um some of the suspension data from um August and then also our staff data from Dr zumy so we're trying to give a cross-sectional uh representation over all three areas of um our plan will the August data give a comparison to last year so um we are currently working on that um we will do our our best so right now um we're trying to recreate some of the um charts and graphs um so it will include not only overall but then also um different subgroups data so you can see um that across uh the month also thank you absolutely okay okay good Madam pres all right action thank you Dr K thank you action item 12.1 make motion oh sorry go ahead updated e-learning plan you want me I make a motion to sorry I make a motion no it's my fault I make a motion to approve the updated e-learning plan as presented second Miss mm hi Dr Maria hi M hi s iate i i Mr I motion passes 70 action item 12.2 approval of four new bus leases can I have a motion please motion to approve a three-year lease through Midwest Transit equipment Inc with an annual payment of $89,300 for four buses second Dr Maria hi Miss Johnson hi Mr ploger hi Mr I Mr Gatewood i i i motion passes 70 action item 12.3 approval of policies can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the following board policies section 4 colon operation Services 4 colon 704 colon 80 Section 5 General Personnel 5 col 1305 col 2000 section 6 instruction 6 col 140 second Miss menm hi Dr Mario hi Mr Cerone hi Miss Simon hi Mr Gatewood I I Mr I motion passes 70 13.1 can I have a motion to adjourn make a motion to adjourn second all in favor I I I any opposed

there's still a chance to register and that is just around and if you I know we we do get a lot of correspondents from masc to our home addresses so if you haven't had an opportunity one of them uh is the flyer which has all the uh the resolutions that they'll be voting on at the uh at the fall annual meeting um so if you hadn't had a chance go ahead and register at the very least take a look one of the things we should be doing is we should be I believe electing someone to serve as our delegate um at the at the conference um to uh vote on how Dartmouth uh essentially represent the Dartmouth Public Schools the Dartmouth school committee to the rest of masc and all the other school committees um so I'm going to get a little more information about that but I think it may be worthwhile that we start doing that and sending um to the delegate assembly um you know a representative from the dman school committee yeah that sounds sounds fun M next up uh I had an opportunity to after our after our Workshop meeting um Dr sa M and I spoke about uh a timeline and some more details around the superintendent evaluation process now that we've all received some more materials as well um Dr Sab muire uh came up with some indicators uh that she felt would um you know touch upon uh her goals so I will turn it over to you no I I hope I I had included that in the Friday update I included a document that basically took the mass uh desie doc superintendent evaluation document and with Mr Galas Shaw's help um we we did uh sort of clip it so that where we only sent what we sent to you on Friday was only the part where you would actually interact with inter that would be the interface with the actual document um the other thing that we thought when Mr Oliver and I spoke we thought that it would be uh easier and more focused if and I think Mr actually when I think about it I I think Mr coocha brought this up too uh when we met last week at our Workshop is that you don't want to be trying to comment or evaluate all of the indicators I'm not even sure of the exact number number but you can see that there are quite a few and so what what I tried to do again in partnership with Mr Oliver is pick out the ones that in each one of the standards the indicators that I thought were most relevant to the work that we did together last year and so selected two per section in addition to the goals so the goals are their Standalone goals and then the four indicators there were I selected two again per standard for a total of eight plus the three goals so that really gives you hopefully enough um to look at and to evaluate the evidence that you that I I had shared with you earlier in the year I certainly think so yes I hope so any concerns around that should be so the idea is and I wanted to get feedback from our evaluation committee uh that's us no that's that's all of us but then it's you and I to be the yes so it's the two of you that are putting them together so we have a school committee meeting well we have the seventh which is that's pretty much going to cover the Strategic plan what I'd love to see this uh be presented at the October 21st school committee meeting so okay do you think that's doable do you think that's a reasonable time frame for us for everyone to uh submit their valuations and then give you folks some time to compile them and turn them around for the 21st okay when that would meet we meet the seven so I'm thinking sorry no how many weeks do you would you need to well let's see the 14th correct me if somebody the 14th is Columbus Day that's a holiday agreed yes and the 15th is town meeting is that our town meeting yes yes y all right what have I got don't mind me oh jeez you could certainly push it back to November but no I no no I I got what you I got what you're saying here well what's your so on the 7th we meet yeah right then we meet the 21st and so we sub if if they submit to us right if they got if they got everything To Us by the 9th 9th by the 9th yeah October or 10th yeah if we got them the 9th or the 10th and then you and I well you um oh you work at home you work from home on Wednesdays yeah so if we get together the 16th or 17th would that work yeah and then we could have it ready for and then we' have it ready for that'll give us 21st they work yep okay so did I hear the ninth yeah if you get nth if you get them if you get the information to either Miss Amaral or myself uh between the 9th and 10th type of deal the ninth well I'll say the ninth yeah okay the ninth then the 10th we can go yeah and then you know the 16th her and I will sit down MH does that work for you do appreciate that thank you you know once we put it all together we sit down with you to uh to put it together and and go over it with you great okay all right okay okay all right let me plug that into my calendar now perfect that'll be great I thank you both for uh working together on that and if anyone has any questions about the evaluation process you could certainly reach out to me or you can also reach out to our superintendent so if we could just make sure we have that on the uh agender for uh the 21st 21st and just as dumb as it sounds just put a brief reminder on the 7th so that it doesn't slip anybody's mind on the agenda on the sth just as a can do that brief update that's all perfect sounds good all right thank you everyone beautiful and that is all I have uh anything from for the good of the otter from my colleagues I just got I just got two quick things number one it it was interesting that our student rep was talking about elf and you know she's in ad and they started rehearsals they were starting rehearsals tonight so you know here we go type of deal but uh the band had their first competition uh Saturday night up in Bellingham hosted by by Blackstone and the drizzle and rain and everything else type of deal and they really did an awesome job uh they ended up with an 819 uh that was the top score for the evening and they took all the captions in their class so here we go and this Saturday we uh head out to uh UMass Amhurst for a competition out there nice so that's all I have Mr chair thank you very much Mr n anyone else we'll see everybody Friday night at the football game all right with that next regularly scheduled meeting of the dartman school committee is Monday October 7th 2024 same time and place at this time chair will entertain a motion to ajour so moved second motion by Mr noon second by Mr Amal on the motion any further discussion all in favor I I opposed motion carries unanimously good night everyone good night for

good evening like to welcome everybody to tonight's regular board meeting uh today is Tuesday September 24th and we're going to call this meeting to order and uh we are going to have uh a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by Miss Ronda page and uh we would encourage encourage everyone during the moment of silence to remember uh our board president that passed away two weeks ago uh thank you let's proceed with a moment of silence pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America to The Republic which it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all thank you Miss Paige uh we'll now have roll call Miss Wilson Mr Chad Thompson here Miss Lori wood here miss Jill Humphries here miss Ronda page here Mr Thompson you have a quorum thank you very much moving on to agenda item 2.01 approval of the agenda is there a motion so moved second hi hi any opposed thank you that passes four to zero and we will move on to agenda item 3.01 superintendent recognition Awards turn the time over to Dr Shane McCord thank you Mr Thompson governing board members if you join me in front of the Das for tonight's recognitions good evening good evening thank you guys for being here tonight I I truly appreciate it this is always the best part of our board meetings and so we'll kick it off if I could have the team from vnet come on up Hi how are you guys so you're good right there you stand in front so everybody can look I'll keep moving the podium um last month our annual volunteer network vnet event to support our school ptso and PTO in their role as volunteers on our campuses held another kickoff this year and they were phenomenal v-net does an amazing job making sure our volunteers know everything they need to know and feel supported thank you to all the volunteers who make a positive impact on our schools every single day and thank you to our v-net team for organizing this volunteer training and for every everything you do for GPS and right now I'd like to introduce to you the president Trina and if you'd introduce your guest and everybody else that's on the board that's not here say a few words okay um hi my name is Trina Jonas and the president of vet this is Jamie Butler and she's our vice president um we also have help me with the names because I don't can't think Ashley Lewis is our secretary yep Chris lyd's our treasur and then we have just board members um so yeah Katie her last I know like anyway so we have a board and um I think one of the um special things about Gilbert Public Schools is the involvement of our parent groups many of you know that we have amazing boosters and clubs and all these parents that support so many kids in our school district and so we love getting to volunteer with v-net because we basically get to help and train all of the different parent groups be successful and share ideas and share contacts and resources and we love getting to that and we also appreciate um Gilbert Public Schools we have really great leadership and support that help us and support us and really help and promote um parent involvement in our schools and in our kids lives and we really appreciate that and we um hope that will always be that way and we think that's a really um wonderful attribute of gber public schools that other places don't have so we are really grateful to be here and grateful to volunteer I remember I don't remember the date but I remember back in like 2010 11 somewhere in there v-net was started and we held the very first kickoff I believe at might have been mosquite high in one of the smaller cafeterias and uh it has just grown from there and as a school district we rely on them and they have become experts in what is fundraising and accounting as it relates to what the rules are what's really nice is that our boosters our ptso our pto's call on them for advice and if there's things that need some restructuring they go help out with all of our our campuses and they do it for absolutely nothing because they truly care about kids they truly care about their organizations that are out there and they put forth maximum effort so I just want to give them one more hand and say thank you thank you yes usually our photographers here this is just what we do we just stand here and wait for people to take pictures one more time thank you [Applause] guys next could I have Stephanie Campbell band director from Desert Ridge High and her band members [Applause] so the Arizona band and orchestra's director Association has awarded Desert Ridge High School Band program Stephanie Campbell director the high distinction of the William E Richardson program of distinct award the William E Richardson award recognizes High School band and Orchestra programs in Arizona that have a high level of achievement in all areas for a given school year this is an annual Award presented at the school Rec recognizing the schools program for their achievement during the previous year to qualify for this prestigious award a program must achieve a superior rating in at least one Ensemble participate in the Arizona State marching band semifinals and the am EA solo Ensemble competition and the Arizona Allstate band these folks have put forth a ton of effort for this recognition they put it forth every single year and we're just very proud of them Stephanie would you like to introduce who you have with us tonight and or they can introduce themselves we love it when we make kids yeah here's what say your name what you play and what grade you're in well into the microphone there you go Wilbur Lopez what up senior I play OBO uh I'm Stratton I play trumpet and I'm a senior I'm Jayden Garza I play saxophone and I'm a junior I'm Austin pretzman I play baritone saxophone and I'm a sophomore my name is Matthew Daniels I am a junior and I play clarinet I'm just really PR proud of these kiddos um they work really hard it's it's a really hard thing to get only three bands in the entire State got this award this year so this is a huge deal so I'm super proud of them they I couldn't have done it with them not without them sorry I couldn't have done it with them in spite of them sorry you know what I meant so I'm very proud of them congratulations desid high band marching band if you guys would shake hands with the board and then we'll take a picture congratulations conat come on in here in the middle you guys just kind of form a line here and we'll we'll get around you [Applause] next can I have the camp O verie Orchestra director Crystal Payne and her students that are with her [Applause] tonight the Arizona band and Orchestra Directors Association has awarded the camp overie High School Orchestra program Crystal Payne who is the director the high distinction of the rich William E Richardson program distinction award this award recognizes outstanding programs that excel in all areas and to qualify for this prestigious award a program must uh one have a superior rating by at least one Ensemble from the school and it must be achieved in each area fall Orchestra Festival area concert Festival State concert Festival the program must have participated in the amaa solo and Ensemble competition ition and the program must have participated in the Arizona All State Orchestra ladies and gentlemen Camp of ver Orchestra Crystal I'll let you guys you guys know the drill from Desert Ridge High here we go I'll start off with them um I'm Ivy Thompson um I'm a sophomore and I play the violin in the harp my name is Mia young I play the violin and I'm a senior my name's Danielle baton I play the violin and I'm a senior my name's Maddie Rogers I'm a sophomore and I play the violin my name is Olivia Brandenburg I play the viola and the harp and I'm a sophomore my name's Taylor tronti I play the violin and I'm a sophomore my name is Donovan baton I play the violin and I'm a sophomore I'm Brenan schaer I play the bass and I'm a sophomore [Applause] Crystal would you like to say a few words about these kids um just like Miss Campbell said um I'm just incredibly proud of them it takes a lot of hours of hard work uh this is the highest distinction that any Orchestra can get in the state of Arizona so I'm just incredibly proud of you guys um and uh yeah excited for another great year so thank you guys congratulations you guys would shake hands and we'll take a picture while they're doing that I I just need everybody to know the work that goes in to what the band and Orchestra do is extremely time consuming and they're these are high school kids they don't have a lot of time in their lives and I'm just very very proud of what they do come on over here in the middle guys and we'll uh crowd around you [Applause] next can I have up here Jenny feeder feedler agular so Jenny is an art teacher at Gilbert Elementary but she's much much more than that um outside the classroom she puts together clubs that uh basically promote kindness throughout not their school but just the town of Gilbert and they do it extremely well and no one makes her do this she does this out of the goodness of her heart she's an accomplished author and do you sing and dance too no definitely not we were going to have a little bit of that tonight sorry uh but one of the reasons why Jenny's here is that she was a finalist for the Arizona Teacher of the Year by the Arizona Education Foundation and that is a huge honor uh from all the teachers in the in the state of Arizona she was one of the top 10 and we just want to recognize her for all the great things that she does and not just as a teacher but she's just a really really good person and we need more of those and we got one in you and I couldn't find anybody else better to represent Gilbert Public Schools than you so thank you would you like to say a couple words probably not but you're gonna thank you um so one of the things that I do is I lead with kindness and I want to give a shout out to uh the lady with the camera right there that's my co-sponsor him Figaroa um she and I started the kindness and service Club three years ago with 30 students and this year we just kicked it off with 82 students we had to really uh just expand um the club because we had so many kids who wanted to show kindness and show and help others through service so this is something we really want to spread through our community because we have Gilbert kindness that's something that's been in Gilbert for a long time and we think that should start in elementary and it should go all the way through adulthood so if if you guys can help us to spread kindness throughout our community um that's our that's our goal that's our mission thank you thank you Jenny we appreciate you you shake hands and we'll take the picture thank [Applause] you and last but definitely not least could our director of Athletics Mr Steve Dal please come [Applause] up hi Steve Steve said to me yesterday I saw him do I have to wear a suit yes yes you look good by the way Steve what year did you graduate Gilbert High not to 84 and you grew up here in Gilbert and have you worked anywhere else besides Gilbert Public Schools I got a colle not since he got a college degree so this is Gilbert born and bred and the reason why Steve is here is Steve is being inducted or has been inducted to the aiaa the Arizona interner Scholastic athletic administrators Association Hall of Fame the AIA AAA Hall of Fame is organized as a means of recognizing inter Scholastic athletic administrators promoting the vocation of athletic Administration and preserving the heritage of the profession this honor is the highest an athletic administrator can receive from the AIA AAA for his or her contributions and accomplishments at the local and state level further this award sets a standard for athletic administrators across the State of Arizona and um I've known Steve for a minute and um we worked together at Gilbert High I first met him in 1999 when I was an AP there and I think you were teaching psychology right um Steve as an athlete himself holds many awards well I don't know if they're still there they've probably been broken at Gilbert High it's okay it's part of getting old brother I I appreciate it but Steve has set has set the bar for what athletic directors he's conscientious he cares he thinks through he doesn't make snap decisions and he's extremely intelligent and he looks into bylaws he tries to help all of our District athletic directors make sure they're doing the right thing and they call upon Steve on a daily basis not just at the high schools but the junior highs as well and so Steve um Steve left this in the car he didn't want to bring it in cuz that's how humble he is he this is not his cup of tea and this is why I enjoy it so much he's just a little bit uncomfortable but Steve on behalf of Gilbert Public Schools the AIA and everybody that you've touched this is such a huge honor and we're extremely proud of you so thank you for everything you do appreciate you [Applause] governing board members that concludes my recognitions for this evening thank you thank you everybody for being here you don't have to stay it won't you're all right I know some of you are like it's ice cream time all right thank you everybody moving on to agenda item four uh superintendent's report again Dr Shane McCord thank you Mr Thompson governor board members first I'd like to recognize one of our um Educators who's in our Aspire program aspiring to be administrator uh also um well Mark please stand up Mark leil he uh works at Superstition Springs Elementary uh music teacher does a phenomenal job he's also in my master's class for educational leadership through NAU so welcome thank you for being here thanks to everybody who was here tonight and um and also to those that are online I'd like to recognize some National Merit semifinalists uh over 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools enter the 2025 National Merit Scholarship program by taking the 22 2023 preliminary SAT National Merit Scholarship qualifying test the Nationwide pool of semi-finalist representing less than 1% of the US High School seniors includes the highest scoring entrance in entrance in each state this year Gilbert public schools has 16 of those uh and for those if I if I mess up your name I can I truly apologize uh from Camp overie Quincy Bailey and Evelyn Frost from GCA bah bavani AR Arvid uh Kendall an ateno Jennifer Chen Connor danishka Emily Gibson pronova kodali Terry Lynn Jackson Peterson rod tadas and Marissa wongo from Gilbert High Aaron E Anna gr grandle and Parker Sorge and from Highland High Kayla Spencer so congratulations to all those semi-finalists we're extremely proud of you and as you can see tonight um we've left this space open uh for uh governing board president Sheil UG jetti and we've had some flowers there thank you Marcy Taylor for uh arranging that for us um we're doing this in her honor she passed away two Sundays ago and um she not only leaves a spot here on the board open but a huge hole in our hearts um the things that she's contributed to Gilbert Public Schools to education in the state of Arizona and she was also superintendent in Douglas at one point in time uh longtime Gilbert Elementary principal um we are just going to miss her dearly uh just a few words Sheila was born in Douglas Arizona on January 10th 1949 and uh left us on September 15th she went to Loretto Elementary and graduated from Douglas High in 196 67 she moved to temp to attend Arizona State University with a degree and um she got a degree in special education she started her educational career in Gilbert Public Schools as a junior high specialed teacher she taught at Patterson Elementary Houston Elementary and was an interim HR Director be before becoming the principal Gilbert L where she stayed for over 20 years a wonderful caretaker she had the opportunity to return to Douglas to be superintendent of schools there and take care of her Aunt Teresa and 858 uh students for seven years returning home to Gilbert she served on the school board in several capacities for GPS uh she survived by her husband Dave and her son Patrick and her daughter Carrie and Grandson Cameron her sister Judy and many many more family members and friends um services for for her will be held this Friday September 27th at 10:00 a.m.

e e e yeah you all right thank you Pastor Fields I'll go ahead is absent Mr mclelan is absent Mr Melcher here Mr Roth here Mr Jer here Mr Roth we have two uh for you this evening I'm requesting that we remove um item D1 Financial finance reports for August 2024 and then then uh number the second uh item for consideration is add to consent agenda item E5 uh Personnel report for the administrative resignation of Valerie Moore uh Chief Financial Officer effective 10124 all right would anyone like to make a motion regarding the proposed revisions of the agenda I'll make a motion that we revise the agenda as presented is there a second second any questions comments or discussion all right hearing none we'll vote on the motion to revise the agenda oh sorry motion passes 5- Z I was looking at this screen not that screen um so the agenda is revised as requested um item B1 items from visitors this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board uh there was a signup sheet in the back no one signed it if anyone would like to address the board this evening if You' please go to the microphone and Podium over here uh so that it can be picked up on the live stream that would be great and looks like no one having come forward we will then move on to item C1 uh request permission to furnish meals tonight we have the uh director of food service Alex Burgess with us and Alex is going to talk to us just briefly about the CDI Head Start program for the 2425 school year thank you Alex for being here thank you and good evening um what I have for you tonight is a request to continue our relationship with the local CDI Head Start program located at Faith Community Church here in town we de provided meals for their students last year they're part of their program uh last year operationally it was a bit of a struggle and financially it was more of a break even this year they've increased their participation by 50% and I've been able to renegotiate the contract terms of the price of meals and and which allows us an extra about three hours a day of Labor specifically just for this program uh which makes it much more feasible to do it's not a strain on our program it still allows us to provide the students of htcc uh breakfast and lunch as we normally do uh without skipping a beat um the details are in the contract but basically we're charging $3 for each breakfast $4.75 for lunch and $150 for a snack each day for the 30 students um the terms of uh the calendar are the contract as well they don't exactly follow ours but we do our best to help provide them with shelf stable items so that they can still provide their students with meals when we're on full Christmas and Spring Break um so that's what I have for you tonight uh for your consideration all right thank you uh would anyone like to make a motion regarding the proposed agreement and the addendum uh with Head Start make a motion that we approve the contract of furnished meals for CDI Head Start program for school year 2024 2025 as presented is there a second second any questions comments or discussion say thank you Alex for working with them to continue this program it's a good thing it's it's good to kind of be able to reach out to the community outside of our walls and help others that don't have the kind of services that we offer y all right hearing nothing further we will vote on the motion to approve the agreement with Head Start start for 2024 2025 motion passes 5 Z so we'll move on to and thank you Alex appreciate your time um move on to D2 the 2025 budget public hearings yes so what you'll have to do Mr Roth is close this meeting first I'm gonna do a little presentation presentation first okay sorry I was ahead of you by one step okay my instructions here good sorry Mrs Smith my fault that's okay I'd like to um do a little overview before we actually go into the hearings to um remind the public of what we did for the last board meeting with our um our budget Workshop that we did so um the budgetary process uh consists of three major steps and those steps are first we have a a public uh workshop and ask for permission to advertise that evening then we advertise uh on our website and also on the Gateway public transparency website and then the second is to hold a public hearing and then the third is an adoption so this evening is the Second Step where we hold the public hearings and then um after all these steps are completed then it goes back to the Department of local government finance and they work all the district's budgets and issue uh a final budget order by the end of this calendar year for the beginning of 2025 so just to um remind you uh what was advertised and that was our 2025 budgets our capital projects plan a three-year plan plan and also um a 5-year bus replacement plan and just running through what our major funds are that we budget for through this process is our education fund our major source of Revenue is uh directly from our state tuition our basic Grant and that is from our um average daily membership counts and um it goes through the state's funding formula and that gives us our main um source of revenue for our education fund and then for our ADM for 242 our official count is October 1st so it's next week and right now we're looking to remain stable um from this year compared to last year which is is very good and then what is in the education fund what kind of expenses are there just what the name implies it's directly aimed toward education cost so this is everything at the building level the teachers the instructional assistance wages and benefits uh special services uh Summer Schools also through that school um nurses guidance instruction related materials um all that that above athletic coaches are also in there and then our operations fund is our other major uh Revenue I mean major fund that we budget for our Revenue comes from property taxes and there is a Formula that the state does uh for us that has a maximum Levy so a levy is your property taxes and there's a maximum amount that um that they calculate each year and for 2025 it's a little over 11.6 million for for us here at honey and just a reminder that there is a circuit breaker impact that's those property tax caps that they uh they was effective several years ago and that reduces the amount that taxpayers have to pay but then it also reduces the the information and the property tax collections that we receive here for revenue and here it's um the estimate is approximately $2.4 million for Huntington and then also when all these new funds were established in 2019 the education fund and the operations fund it used to be a general fund and then um a capital projects Transportation operating and bus replacement when they dissolved the general fund it had four buckets two of those buckets stayed and made the new education fund and two of the other buckets went into this operations fund so uh when that happened the revenue that the general fund used to get was also from the tuition support but now that some of those categories have moved in the operations fund they did not split up that revenue for us we still get it where it goes into our education fund but we're allowed by um Indiana code to transfer up to 15% from our education fund into our operations fund to cover those other buckets that that got transferred over to the educ from the education fund into the operation fund so then we have our um capital projects plan our three-year plan that lists our Capital expenditures our equipment that exceeds $10,000 this gives us the right to um purchase those things out of our uh out of our operations fund and also small projects that we uh may may or may not do in the future to be able to list those and take those also out of our operations fund so our capital projects plan is a three-year plan we're held to the first year but the other years are for informational purposes for our uh for the board and for our community bus replacement plan Five-Year Plan and this is uh replacing buses that are at least 12 years old there are um exceptions to that 12y old rule for instance if you have a lemon if it has too many miles there's other um extending circumstances that allows you to to replace those earlier instead we're right on target with that we're anticipating um replacing approximately 8 to n buses in 2025 and continue that trend for the next five years Debt Service fund is uh is exactly what it en entitles uh tends to be for our debt our debt that we collect and um sell bonds we're talking about that a little bit later um this evening and these are General obligation bonds and lease payments where we do um small projects with those we may purchase equipment and do uh several different things throughout the district that our operations fund remember I said that had a maximum Levy a maximum amount that we can raise and this is another fund that we utilize and um plan to keep the tax rate stable moving forward we showed that on a graph last uh board meeting where um in the past our our tax rate has um roller coaster I would call it um back and forth so our goal is to keep that stable so as one comes off then we have tons of projects around Huntington here that a lot of needs we have at all of our schools and we will start um supplementing some of that with these General obligation bonds that that we plan to do in the future and then of course we still have our rainy day fund it's just like it's intended for um a rainy day so we do not have anything um budgeted in our 2025 budget for the rainy day fund if you recall we had some in 2024 for our um main office um renovation but nothing for 2025 and this was just talking about where our advertisements are um listed on our website it's under departments business services and 2025 budget you'll actually find the complete budget Workshop presentation that was done at last board meeting you'll see that attached there along with our form three our notice to taxpayers our capital projects plan and our bus replacement plan and then just a the top portion of the notice to taxpayers uh letting the public know that we were holding this public hearing this evening and the adoption that's scheduled for October 14th and then it also lists the estimates the budget estimates and the estimated uh tax to raise in the future capital projects plan same thing has a notice to taxpayers where it indicates that we were holding a public hearing this evening and where and it has a copy of the capital projects plan it shows the capital projects in in nature and then also the capital Acquisitions of any kind of equipment also that we have planned out of the operation fund and there's our bus replacement plan it mimics the same um criteria as our capital projects plan and it has the notice to taxpayers with with today's date and um time of holding our public hearings and it shows our fiveyear bus replacement plan of what we're anticipating to replace each of the the five years and that's the second page of it with the totals of um approximately nine per year and then our next step we're like I indicated we're in our step two this evening and our next step our last step for our budget required process is our adoption on October 14th that's it for um the review for this and then I would ask the board um if you have any questions i' would be happy to answer any of those if not we are required to hold three hearings this evening one is for the 2025 budgets the other is for the capital projects plan and the last one is for the bus replacement plan and I'll turn it over to the board any questions anyone all right thank you Mrs Smith at this time I will go ahead and suspend the regular meeting of the board and I will open first the questions about the proposed budget for 2025 doesn't look like anyone's come forward for that so I will close that meeting and open the hearing on the capital projects fund and again if you have any comments if you please come to the microphone so that it can be picked up on the live stream and no one having come forward I will close that hearing and the third hearing I'll now open is the bus replacement hearing and again if anyone would like to come forward and ask questions about the bus replacement plan now is your opportunity no one having come forward I will close the bus replacement hearing and I will reopen the regular meeting of the board and we'll move to item D3 well before I do that thank you Mrs Smith for all the information I I we have uh great presentations and they're accessible online so if anyone's listening online and wants to to look at them uh there's still an opportunity to ask questions about it um the information is out there for for members of the public to look at so please do so um so item D3 ever wise cash management agreement yes we're fortunate enough this evening to have Randy limr with us today from ever wise uh board this is a reminder to you that um we entered into an agreement with ever wise back in 2019 and so Randy's going to remind you of some of those details and why we're here this evening to make this decision so Randy thank you for coming absolutely thank you for the opportunity um as Mr trout mentioned uh we are coming to the end of the of the five-year cash management agreement that was signed in 2019 uh that's due to the end of this month September 30th uh we have presented uh two option two five two five-year option amendments to you um that'll get us closer also to the end of the uh 10year naming rights agreement that we had signed a few years back as well um so a lot of the um rate the rates really based on the effective fed funds rate I present had presented in your packeted chart to you showing the effective uh fed funds how that's trended over the last uh you know plus years um after it Peaks it does have a tendency to Trend down as we've we've seen recently uh that Trend seems to already already kind of start to be happening here um so with that uh we have presented two options for you one would be a variable rate option um that would be effective fed funds um with a cap of 5.5% and a floor of 0.5% besides the very wor option amendment that was presented to you and then the uh uh other option would be a fixed rate amend uh amendment that would be a fixed rate of 4% uh for the five-year amendment that would that would end five years now starting October 1st right so initially Bor you W uh you worked into a 10e agreement with ever y so I just want to repeat that for the public and we had a five-year renewal in the middle of it and here we are um already with that um Randy and I have met two different times on this issue it's my recommendation for you this evening uh for the next five years as you'll see in bullet point number two there is to go with the fixed rate 4% for the next five years um this is pure speculation I know and Randy has done a great job of giving me the trend data um I've tried to study it a lot of other places too I've conferred with Mr Smith Becky um if you want to make a couple comments or not but I know you would agree with me with this I think our safest bet with the recent interest rate cut is to take the 4% for the five years for uh this and so that's my recommendation to you this evening all right thank you Mr trout would anyone like to make a motion regarding the proposed cash management agreement with ever wise I'll make a motion that we approve the fixed agreement with ever wise bank is there a second second questions comments or discussion I know we had talked about it when you presented this to us at one point but I just wanted to to reiterate this does not lock Us in of you being the only person so if we wanted to go out and get CD from another bank we could shop those around but this is just for our main cash account and cash that we currently hold on that but you we are not being locked in as your sole sole source provider for us is that correct that's absolutely correct thank you any other questions or comments uh I appreciate the information you provided Randy and that you did give us two options um I I agree with Mr trout uh that I think the best option is the fixed option uh we just simply don't know where rates are going to go and I appreciate you giving us uh something to choose from um so I'm I'm in favor of that and if anyone else has any comments Now's the Time to to make those yeah I would just rate what Matt says I think that's good I also think it was nice that they didn't lock Us in so if we did have the opportunity to shop some around and and diversify our funds we could do that as well um but having that fixed rate for the next four years I think is going to be a valuable uh thing for this board and future boards so all right here nothing further we'll vote on the motion to approve the cash management agreement with ever ever wise Credit Union all right motion passes 5 Z and thank you Randy thank you all right thank you for the opportunity and we appreciate the relationship thank you same here all right all right we'll move on to item D4 Bond Council Services agreement uh we've reached the point where it's time for us to renew our relationship with um ice Miller um they have been with us for seven for several years here within that the terms of that are included in your board packet um for the public this is the legal firm that we use as Bond counsel to the to us as a school corpor ation for a variety of reasons which also includes leases and bonds for facility improvements and other legal related legal services so I'm just requesting your approval of our agreement with ice Miller right thank you Mr trout would anyone like to make a motion regarding the proposed agreement with Bond Services Council make a motion that we approve the bond Council of service agreement between hccs hccsc and Ice Miller as presented is there a second second any questions comments or discussion is this just a one-year agreement I I'm trying to read through there and I was trying to just see where it was or what the link yes um by review we we do this annually okay um um for State Board of accounts purposes quite frankly um and I'm just recommending our continued relationship with them sounds good thank you any other question questions or comments all right hearing none we'll vote on the motion to approve all right motion passes five to zero we'll now move to D5 goo Bond presentation restroom renovation Terry you've been setting so patiently uh there this evening uh board what we're going to do now over the next uh few agenda items is share some details with you as it relates to an upcoming uh geobond um uh presentation and timelines we're going to start with uh Mr thornsbury who um from Vian vidian archit seexual firm who is going to um give you uh the details of what we would do with these funds and then Becky is going to follow up with other Financial details so Terry thank you glad to see you this evening and we'll turn it over to you all right thank you Mr trout I appreciate appreciate the opportunity to be here Bor um we're going to focus on restroom Renovations for Huntington North High School this building um just to let you know i' met with administrators we talked about restrooms throughout the building and then we prioritized those in so this presentation is based on that PR prioritization of the restrooms and in what order we plan to focus as far as design um so first slide here is of um the ladies restrooms one of four there are four main restrooms for students throughout the building um if you go outside this Hall and head in either direction you'll end up at one of them total there's total of eight restrooms uh ladies and men's and most of the restrooms original what we're going to recommend is new fixtures throughout uh with lower flow or lower water usage uh to help with some uh sanitary piping size issues from the original design of the building uh obviously create Ada accessibility and uh new finishes uh new lighting new ceilings and uh liven up the spaces as best we can next slide this is from the the boys or the men's restroom um and as I'm told these never get used and I can understand why um based on the design of these from 1970 1969 uh there's no privacy you have to stand far back and um uh so these don't get used and instead just the Stalls get used so um I'll show you the style of of of urinal we will change to we will add urinal screens in between um for some privacy make the restrooms durable as possible for longevity and reduced maintenance um and then we're also talking about adding signage to the rest restrooms to help um try to minimize maintenance and some issues with um uh students in in the restrooms to let them be aware of uh the fact that the new security system that's just outside the door will know who they are and right and I think when I want the public to understand there's just as much security um uh um processes with this are there are upgrades with the restrooms themselves so I don't want that uh piece to be missed in this because we could so focus on the renovation of the restrooms but know that there's significant security related issues too here we're also trying to to take care of so yeah great thank you yeah thank you uh next is um this is actually Janitor's Closet that is in all four of those restrooms in between uh the ladies and the men's restroom um need updated this is how we access the plumbing wall the wet wall in between um the restrooms and um the projects would update all the piping as it comes out of the floor uh entirely for the restroom so we can get to everything that we can um and uh make these much much better much more usable next slide this is actually from the original blueprints the design of the building it's hard to see but that is uh the layout of the restrooms and the janitor's closets there kind of in the middle um these were not designed for Ada accessibility it didn't exist back then um so in this case these restroom rooms we actually have to move some walls to make them accessible just to get in them to make them accessible so it's pretty significant renovation for these restrooms uh we would phase them so You' only take down one section at a time and um and work through that with the one closest to the commons over here being done during the summer um next year so um we're going to focus on on those restrooms primarily and then uh next in line would be adding single-use restrooms to two sets of the restrooms so they're located if you go by door number Door 9 and 35 which would be the restroom down here at door n and then 35 is the other Corner in that direction the two restrooms up here on this end um don't work well for adding these single use restrooms so these single use restrooms will be accessible from inside the building we're going to have to relocate the exterior doors to make this work um but um we do think it's feasible and that's that's how we're we going to address these um to particular restrooms in in play off of um the access to sanitarian water from the adjacent restrooms next on the list would be uh five separate um staff restrooms that are kind of sprinkled uh through the building um main office then over by door one uh and counseling as well as you can see from the pictures again it's the same original fixtures from the building uh when it was built for the most most part and we want to get everything updated make these Just As Nice um and make them accessible as best we can next in line would be the auditorium and Arena um restrooms so this is the men's restroom down there and you can see the design of these urals are a little different um but again no Ural screens they actually they packed them in here um and the one that looks Ada is not Ada that's that's not today's code standard for ad so um all of those would come off we would reposition those as far as layout crate Ada accessibility and add Ural screens as well um those restrooms actually have tazzo flooring uh partially so they're pretty nice um and Beth uh Clark had informed me earlier today she goes that was our covid project and we already refreshed them and I said well we're going to refresh them just a little bit more and put new fixtures in because most of these fixtures use three gallons of water for every flush so uh Rich hurdles informed me for now a few years of working here that when those restrooms the Fieldhouse restrooms the locker room restrooms everything down on that end of the building are used during big events they have water backup issues because the sanitary piping that comes through comes down that main hallway from Athletics and was never size to take on the uh Fieldhouse Edition as well as everything else so by reducing the um fixture flow and water usage down to most likely one gallon per flush that should help eliminate that issue with that that pipe and um and and take that off the list of a future project because hopefully it won't be needed because that pipe runs where under the floor of the main hallway down to the arena so if you remember when we did some of those facility studies one of those pieces that we were talking about is placing that pipe the full length of of the building literally down the yeah we were going to we would find it in the hallway have to cut out some ter the size so by doing the I I want to be clear to you as a board because this is a change from that facility update the facility audit we did that this should take care of that problem and in turn take that off this list for renovation here at the high school then that's the Hope um we're going to as part of this project um we'll have that pipe scoped again and probably jetted just to clean it out make sure that we're good and um hope that you don't ever see that issue again moving forward um these are the Stalls in uh those restrooms um at the at the arena and the auditorium um again they packed them in there they're they're really tight um much like the main four restrooms in this restroom they took a um they took a toilet fixture out and made it Ada by just eliminating one and made a wider stall um but still not technically Ada uh it's it's close but we're going to truly um start from scratch and and and lay everything out so that it fits the way that it needs to for Ada accessibility and update everything these restrooms won't get nearly the renovation work that um the four main ones will because um we don't need to do this much work um you can already get into the space and there's if you've ever been in there they're huge there's a lot of room in there um so it's just going to be mainly finishes and part of the ceiling and lighting project um is already going to address the ceilings and lights in there anyway so so those are all the restrooms that we're going to focus on um we're not going to focus on locker rooms because that's a whole different animal when you get into locker rooms and showers and that and um that alone could take all the budget so we're going to focus on the restrooms that are used mainly by student staff and then last on the list would be the the ones down by the arena um timeline we're going to start uh field verifying on Thursday this week we're probably going to be here most of the day get all the uh restrooms um measured because um people say well the four main restrooms are all the same I measured two of them and they're not the same so uh I did that a couple years ago so we're going to measure all four of them measure everything uh get drawing started ASAP Our Hope will be to get drawings out um by the end of the year or at least in January at the latest depending on timing in the holidays and the Public Notices and everything and then start construction as soon as we can um in January 25 and then try to get it done by the end of 25 that's that's the goal and have a contractor in here that they could be here the whole year and just phase and work their way through it um um is is the hope so um otherwise that covers most everything questions anyone so I I think I heard you say this but on the timeline you're going to try to get the restroom that is probably used during lunch period done during the summer but the other ones will probably be done during school year so they'll be down one or two we will phase it out and work it out with Pat to make sure the principal to make sure that it's going to work but that's initial discussions were would it be okay with shutting down because right now for instance the two down here have been off limits to students and it's mainly for staff and contractors okay so apparently kind of working already then a little bit Yeah it so it so the scenario works now contractors aren't going anywhere but we can get portalets for them if we need to and uh and deal with that so because there will be a portion of time this coming summer where the water is going to be off to this building so that's a whole different story makes it easier to replace restrooms if uh water's turned off anyway so I believe Chuck already filled Us in on that so yeah yeah all right any further questions Terry Terry I just want to say again publicly thank you you do an amazing job um you know you look in this room you look in the science rooms you look at the things that you guys are doing in this building you're efficient it's effective you help us stretch every penny we have and I just wanted to tell you again publicly thank you for your work it's it's been outstanding and I have no reason to believe it won't be again but I do mean that thank you I'm grateful for you thank you I do appreciate appreciate all of you for giving me the opportunity over the years so thank you all right all right now we will move on to item D6 2024 General obligation Bond presentation and timetable great thank you uh now we're all excited about you know renovating restrooms now we're going to talk about the money portion of it so sometimes that's not as exciting it is for me because that's what I love to do but but um what we have is our um financial adviser Baker Tilly put together um an illustrative for this financing of this General obligation Bond so here you'll see on this screen our existing Debt Service and Lease rental payments so you can see how that bar goes um across and you'll see when it starts to go down that's what I was talking about earlier when I talked about a roller coaster of a tax rate of when that bounces down back up down back up um so that's what we're trying to alleviate here and be able to cover all of our needs that we know that we've needed um here at Huntington for years the next one is the formula that they do uh according to legislative law of what are capacity is so you'll see on that it says that um our net bonding capacity is over $10 million so we have plenty of room to um issue these General obligation bonds and next you'll see this the financing information it is approximately 1.75 um 1.7 million and um just to remind the board um we've talked a little bit about this we talked about it through our um budget proc process in The Debt Service and originally we were saying approximately $1 million well then we talked to our financial adviser and found that we um customarily over the last several years have had more than the minimum amount in cash balance in debt service so that is why we are able to do a little bit more um Bond so we can utilize some of that cash balance and get down um to where we're supposed to be regulation wise so we didn't want to do a lesser out and then all of a sudden them say okay you can't use use that you need to um do something different and have our tax rate drop after we said that we wanted to make sure that um we're stabilizing or have it go up either way so Becky if I can yep stop stop you right here sure you and I are really accustomed to this we get this yep you know and we and I get that I think it's important for our public to understand if you could just kind of pull apart the repayment timeline sure which is complet completely different than what normally happens here and then just the interest we would pay on the 1 1.7 I mean I think it's really important for everybody to understand so I'm going to go back to screens here that's what I mean that's what I'm trying to say here and um you'll see here where I was talking about in 24 and 25 you see that amount so that's our um existing General obligation bonds and leases that we have to date then you see the one in Gray there from 2023 that um was a 2.2 um year payback so as soon as that one is paid back then our tax rate would take a significant drop and then the next time that we wanted to do anything with a G General obligation Bond or lease it would Skyrocket again so in this case so this is existing I'm going to go forward like Mr trout was talking about and go into um what it would look like uh stable izing that rate along with the new uh proposed General obligation bond that we're talking right now the new proposed would be a 1.

we invite both veterans and current military personnel to please stand we thank you for your service to our country we now invite everyone to stand at the honor America with the playing of the national anthem [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and then yell up you ready buddy ready okay we're we're ready whenever you are welcome everybody for tonight's mat up against e met spans versus The Long Meadow Lancers go ahead last time we played them we ended up uh winning was it three to2 scored two goals in the last two minutes from mie Jordan to uh seal the Victory and hopefully Esa meow can do that again tonight we could certainly uh certainly use the victory a tough tough week for your Spartans last week two contests on the road uh both losses um one closer than the other very tough game in Northampton uh and then a hardfought match uh in lllo so be good to get back in the win column tonight and uh Spartan's no better team to do it against here than the Lancers from Long Meadow it's always a good time to uh beat Long Meadow when they come in you everybody knows I'm not a big fan of Lawn Meadow unfortunately uh it's not these girls problems their parents decided to buy a house in La Meadow but hopefully East LA Meadow can uh get a w on the board tonight so good luck to all the girls of course you've done your due diligence as a multigenerational East longw Meadow Family that's very good that's very good so good good work looks like both teams are just about Set uh the Lancers is about to break their huddle in the back and we'll go through and see how things go uh under the lights the 7 o'clock start looks like we'll be just about on time this evening a couple minutes behind perhaps and hopefully we're good to uh good to go I saw this play the other night if long meow runs the same play this Ball's going to go deep to the right hand Corner this is what they ran against minog and they'll try to send two Gunners on NFL kickoff style down towards that back and see if they can overwhelm her that's what it looks like well didn't get as deep as they wanted it controlled by Bella white outside to Grace Moore who build from there looks to Sabina mne nice move well done amusa back to mne goes to the midfield for Anna Roman looks Marino looks to open the field out to petto Lost there Long Meadow looks to counter quickly ball slotted through Marino steps looks to clear Susa has it and it misplayed at Midfield by long meow mck to apply some pressure ball goes through Long Meadow looks to reset at the outside back position on the far side of the field and goes from there nice step by Roman forcing long met to play the ball back they regroup at Midfield out of bounds off the Spartans for a Long Meadow throw controlled at Midfield by your Spartans winning it mne looks to switch a good Ball moving to space Roman has space serves it long ball through to petto and it'll Long Meadow lets it run for a throwi in balls up in the air one out of the air by Canam Marino out of bounds a lot of back and forth in the first minute or so here je yeah I mean what I like to see so far is we having two quick passes and switching the sides of the field so that should open up some more space for us rather than just you know typical kick and run style so we keep working on that be nice get some switches then you can get the through ball up top to Addy Jordan or M whitward and we're in good long throw from Kenna if you can force those long medal or Defenders to play with their backs to the action and face that goalkeeper that's a good situation for East Long medal tonight you want to be able to turn those Defenders if you can do that they've got um if you force that long meow goalkeeper to make some plays I think that's going to be in the Spartans best interest tonight nice ball to the outside mne gives Chase and it'll be a East Long meow throw little bit bit of a different offensive setup for laow it seems tonight it seems they have Cam GRE Greenman playing defense last time she was playing Striker for him and uh Gracie D Stefano looks like she's playing up top two where as last time she was in the Midfield a very astute observation Jeff that's the same setup they went with on Friday night against minog and we said the same thing coach pantuso has clearly made some shifts in her lineup or at least her positioning since the first time we met for the season opener now this is the second time around for us playing them and all the rest to the teams in the league so you kind of know what everybody has and oh player down is that Grace Moore Grace Moore momentary stop in the action both teams grouping their huddles while Grace Moore is attended to on the far sideline [Music] Happ that [Applause] so looks like Grace gingerly gets up on her feet to get on the cart um we hope that that is just a minor tweak in that Grace is ready to go soon okay to reset the action for you we're just about three minutes into the game no score uh between your VIs visiting Lancers from Long Meadow and the Spartans of East Long Meadow get an East Long B throwing here Kylie Marino in for Grace ball fought for on the far sideline another East Long Meadow throwing emusa to throw it in off Long Meadow again fought for in the corner another East metal throw in slowly but Shirley advancing the ball into the corner and deep into the offensive third there balls one served in Mack with a Chance double teamed almost immediately that Long Meadow defense closes nicely and we'll have another East B throw ball is thrown in looking to switch one more maybe Susu with the ball that's struck and out of bounds for a Long Meadow goal kick I was told it's Sosa oh Sosa okay I'll have to thank you I'll fix that up thank you constantly in suit of perfection here in the booth us wait maybe I'm wrong now I'm second guessing myself what what it was supposed to be well we'll we'll make sure we clear it half time ball goes deep into the East Long Meadow end turned and played out there for a long metal throw in on the far side of the field Ball's played into graci to Stephano looks to operate there gets the ball through to okay and that's going to be a tough ball nice step by defended kenada to step up they had a bunch of Runners out if that got through that would have been trouble for us so momentarily out of danger though Corner kicks have been something of a difficulty for the Spartans to defend obviously set pieces are always tough Corners are always challenging see the ball win the ball clear it reset go from there so hopefully we'll see some action going toward the ball Long Meadow sets hand is dropped and the ball's about to be served in it's a good ball to the middle of the net one byow good job Bop ball served in one by Ken Marino turned up field by Addie Jordan Center back Jill Stevens plays the ball out so that ISO can regroup start again their defensive third [Music] throw in goes to Marino plays it nicely off of a Long Meadow attacker to win the throw in for East Long Meadow another nice throw for Kylie sorry the other my fault yep another good ball that's a great throw can of good work almost one by petto there and it's a high foot not sure what the infraction was there out of bounds throw in Oh I thought we were okay very good Shadow pokes the ball through M whitward will give Chase this could be problematic petto looks to close that out Cameron Greenman turns the ball nicely out for Longo in the back East Longo looks to continue to apply pressure as longal Ready's to throw the ball in this is where we need to lock it in get a switch of the field to Stefano wins the ball and it's a foul call just short of [Music] Midfield looks like we're going to get a Long Meadow kick from there perhaps a push on Anna Roman 32 minutes remaining no score Long Meadow versus East Long Meadow nice step by Anna Roman and good Ball's played back Whitmer looks to apply [Music] pressure oops the shadow got a touch but then it looked like long meow may have gotten oh nope I thought it was touched again by long meow before it went out not the case balls up in the air one by Emma Bella white with a foot on it send it through oh looked like a good time to push that ball through by Gracie Toano getting chased down by the marinos and the younger Marino gets in there and kicks it out of bounds oh good terrific closing speed that's a great way to win that ball Kylie comes from the other side of the field to help out her sister Kenna and stops a breakaway good work by Mia petto oh and balls out throwing slow met yeah Kylie covered a lot of grounds to come over and get that uh to force that ball out that was well done nicely played this keeps we seems like we just keep doing it we don't possess the ball we get the ball and we just kick it they get the ball and it just keeps coming right back it seems like it happens over and over I'd like to see the girls get a little bit more possession of the ball make low chase after us and instead of us doing all the chasing all the time ball goes into Bella white Kenna with there looks to keep switching here over to Roman oh Emma with a nice ball good Bella operates at Midfield looks back to Kenna they got a space Lily dun and Emma Susa in Pursuit oh and it'll be another East Low throwing see Low's patient when we have the ball they're waiting for us to make that pass and they just try to time their our runs and try to intercept it well played by MC witor that's wins the corner well done well done now this is a place you need to be very dangerous if you can make that Long Meadow keeper play this ball that's what you're looking for it's place that there there's a the potential vulnerability you've got to put that in try to get her off that line and see if you can make her come out and then maybe just punch one right in here I agree let's look for Jill Stevens on the headball nice serve Ball's coming in it is a head ball but it's Emma and not Jill Emma does win the header better first to the ball W it played through good work Bella white in position wins the ball to play it back in Emma looks to close out there little nudge from behind Ball's dropped into Kenna's Corner tough ball with two people in Pursuit plays it out nicely to Lily dun Lily turns nice pass through give that back to her yep it's a lot of things we don't do that I like to see a lot more with that give and go the ball Lily made a run down the field and we try to cut back go back to the defense give that give and go and you're off down the lines ball goes to the middle Kylie Marino steps looks to go outside to Ari Goldman Ari uses her body to Shield the ball to maintain the throwin for East SL medal Kyle will get ready Kylie will get ready to put the ball back in play and she does with a nice throw there looks to win Jordan and sus it together there good room to operate one more send it Corner yes that's a great ball right to LLY dun tries to cut her back maybe one touch to M good job there you go fres it's a great through ball like you're saying that's what we need to see those through balls there that was a good good example of one there when the through ball when the through balls are on the ground it's a lot easier for our girls to be able to control rather than that up over the top bouncing around and keep it on the ground put it through one touch and get a shot La metal girl closed in on really quick on Lily Susa pushed from behind Okay that was a little that's going to be an aggressive match up with those two in the in the Midfield Gracie to Stephano in the games I've seen her she's very talented and physical girl out there yeah she's in my my game notes when I was getting ready she is somebody that is an opposing coach or player Gracie this defo has the potential to be an absolute game wrecker terrifically skilled and a really physically strong player as well change in the action as East Low sends on actually both teams send on a number of substitutions here Eve Butler and Sabina mne in for Emma Sosa Susa Susa Susa I got the confirmation it is Susa and go good work we make goalkeeper Emerson vho off the line Looks to reverse Fields there's a roll out with a lot of room ahead of her for Kylie Marino serves the ball up what a good ball yep Addie Jordan nicely done Ball's played to DFO in the Middle with room to maneuver she drops the ball back outside play ahead for a long ball long met was looking for that they did not have em kasperowski tried to play that ball ahead and just missed connecting with Harper ring Bloom up top tough to see in front of the bench but the ball was played out by East Long Meadow Long restarts with a throwi in throw in from there and it's a East L throw in from deep in the corner looked like maybe long meow got away with a push nope the referee saw it did call it going down well done nicely done Jill Stevens ready is to put the ball back in play nice ball to whitler Good Touch by looks to turn Jill plays it out for a reset uh to reestablish their shape and defensive positioning for East Long Meadow still no score just under 25 minutes z0 here in the first half ball is played a crazy bouncing ball up and over Marino plays it over the sideline to regroup for another opportunity for the Spartans to defend a throwi in from the Lancers Kylie Marina wins that ball Bella white plays it out Addy checks back for pressure it's a very high line for long meow right now if he long medow were able to win this ball pop one over the top could be Off to the Races here another Troublesome ball in played out by Jill Stevens well done and looked like perhaps an offside but difficult for the referee to see that on that In-N-Out action and the ball runs long for a go for a East Low goal kick Yeah Anna Roman and Gabby DIC in for Ari Goldman and Eve Butler say I like to see the girls contain a little bit and let La meow got to win got to win that ball you got to win that ball you cannot let longm win that ball at the 30 and go in like that that's a very dangerous ball it was a ball that was one in that area that was the the deciding goal in the lllo game very difficult to let somebody get that ball and settle with a good look from 25 or yards good work by Gabby discy to get the ball out of the corner let's look to see if we can switch this ball yep the idea was there one more looks now we got numbers and out runner from Li D sus stays right on it and play back long now we can get possession and work our way up quickly ball goes all the way back to keeper Emerson Vino she looks to change it and out Marino B white with the win now look to change and the ball will be played we'll run long as Kenna gets ready to for the quick restart long throw to Addie who got pushed no such call unlucky Kenna can't quite run it down before it bounces away long meow with the ball at Midfield one by Jill Stevens LLY done with a nice poke to the middle Emma gives Chase Anna Roman wins it but it gets blocked through Kylie Marino plays the ball out long chance for East Long meow to regroup here win this ball and Counterattack from deep in their own defensive third nobody settling the ball the last few minutes with the ball just ping ponging around that looked like it was off Long Meadow goal kick free long meow Ball's played Short to Ken Marino goes by the first yep tripped up as she goes chance for another restart here K of looks to go quickly serves the ball down the line chance for Bella white on the header Stefano wins it there Roman tries to possess can't quite keep it [Music] in or Spartan substitutions Bella white and Addy Jordan coming off o nice layoff like a they might have gotten Jill for a push there now again this is the kind of place where you've got to set piece letting them have a strike from about on the football field it would be the 30 there it's a little bit deeper but this is a Troublesome place to have to defend a so 40 40 yard shot the ball's likely going to go up and over that line right on to the PK area yep goalkeeper sets her wall ball goes off to the outside good work by petow yep Ken Marino saves it and got space kid I know I know coaches like those plays Jee I on a ball like that F Long Meadow I want a dangerous ball in the Box I much better chance of it bouncing around and I guess you're looking for a a one-on-one that that maybe you get that match up and then Tia uh tiao for yeah she's she's a she's a pretty good player she just came in I don't think she I didn't see her out there in the beginning of the game but every time the ball's down in his left- hand side it seems like it just stays there for three or four minutes before it can actually switch Fields switch it move it it's two another two more times it'll finally get into the middle ball is served up one nicely out of the air by Jill Stevens well done oh ma with the touch all right open the field up here a little good ball gab distribution nicely Stepped On by long meow that was a good look e long meow looks to regroup long meow has a runner is tieno on or off no s the flag or the keep her out there don't die don't dive at it just contain contain from there contain looks to clear that's that ball bouncing around everywhere M hit by the Stefano good for us oh yeah that's one of the things when you get somebody one-on-one in the corner just contain them you dive at it they can now now that can make in trouble they can go in on this end line have a nice little cross to the middle and could be trouble but it wasn't so we got away with it so Saina mne Lily Don Gabby decol out Bella white I miss I miss I was not I am that is a I'm going to have to in my when I do my announcers training school in the offseason I'm going to have to get better about watching those substitutions e SL M looks oh that looked like a well I guess High foot but there was also a low that was bending low on that head so maybe not nicely controlled there by Jordan looks Tango looks to distribute oh terrific possession at M that's just very good skills just don't dive at her ball goes in awkwardly and it's harmlessly out of bounds for an e slow goal kick just over 17 minutes to left in the first half Spartans zero Lancers zero it's nicely served out of the back that's a good ball o to stepan on the ball she seems like wherever that ball is in the Midfield she's always there the first game think she must have had like 35 head balls it's funny how it works that way with good players oh ball is served Bella white wins it still up in the air out of the air nice foot on that by Bella white I [Music] think yep looking to control this ball and win it rather than just play Survival Mode here oh can kind of thought that was going to be an EO throw referee did not see it that way white throw going to be a long BS up in the air goes over difficultly done there mango has a chance to turn on that ball and serve it again gets it back on her strong foot GNA be misplayed for a nope gets the Emerson that's one see that just the girl's got she she's got Good Foot Skills she's quick with the ball so keep her outside and go just keep kicking the ball got got it we at some point we have to just have possession last 10 minutes like you said just survival mode we kick it and they just keep coming right back down and that's a dangerous way to try to operate because that only works for so long we got to try to keep this ball a little bit and put some pressure on Long Meadow and make them React to what we're doing rather than vice versa petto fights for possession ball is knocked around played long and out be a Long Meadow throwing it's going be a long 55 minutes if we keep going like this yeah we got to establish some establish some control and possession if we're if we're just looking for a a mishap on one of their Defenders for us to get a breakway and that's our way of scoring a goal we're going to be in trouble y we did that against North northamp and they pass the ball and in a 10-minute stretch we possess the ball and we put them on the Panic here just little bit of controlled passing here swi the switch y lot jammed up and bottled up here it does seem to be getting a little bit Frozen on this left side as you had pointed out Jee the idea of just sort of maybe if that is not working you play it back and try to switch Fields if you can change that point of attack and give the defense something new to contend with high ball played out of bounds here to the Long Meadow sideline that'll be out for an East Long Meadow throw good long throw up and over to petto hands on her back now this is a place where we want to serve a good dangerous ball from about the demarcation of the 20 for the football markings be a good chance for Anna Roman to serve ball and again I'd like to see this ball dropped about eight 10 yards from goal let people run onto it create some chaos make sure somebody crashes the net we haven't been doing that in much this year either I think only Ari Goldman crashed in that in the beginning of the year and that's one of our few goals that we got from uh crash in the net we least got to get a body on this Roman looks like she's ready East Long Meadow ready to go Long Meadow goalkeeper sets her wall the action starts to go through beautifully served ball o and Jill Stevens right hon her nicely served little bit wide but nicely served from there and Jill with very good pressure all the way up from the back and noticing on that the keeper didn't even come off her line that's only three yards off so we can get that ball out a little bit get her off the line and uh poke one right through that's it nevertheless still not a shot on that still not yet I was hopeful that maybe with an inexperienced keeper I thought maybe she'd help us out and put a hand on that one as it was going out this how was last game we didn't neither team had very many shots on that right I don't believe right certainly not in the first half that it turned into kind of a flurry in the second half a showdown yes and E might well ready for the corner that I was looking for before looks like is that Kylie Marino coming all the way down for that oh maybe not sorry throwing I thought wishful thinking on my part Marino sets for the throwin deep in Long Meadow territory so perhaps good throw in good chance to turn this into a dangerous offensive weapon here flipped up and over by Jordan that's saved on the saved on the endline from going out that was well played I couldn't tell which long met Defender that was but that was well played might have been green saving that um or actually ring Bloom maybe his number four back there nicely nicely done to save the save the corner kick if your long metal we got Ari Goldman in for Mia petto and Lily done in for Addy Jordan yep we got that one ball comes back Jill Stevens plays it back in pressure those Defenders good job Mac and we're looking this is where we want to shut down passing Lanes make them just kick and run make them keep it in their defensive third that's where you want to keep them they do not want to live there they want to play it's probably a break for East Long Meadow that was a ball with some Pace going through off the official's face possibly chest off of his chest so we'll have a restart drop ball here didn't phas him he was ready he a tough cookie I don't think we've seen this officiating crew before Jeff this looks like a new this looks like a crew that I am not familiar with no I think all the parents that don't know anything about soccer Chase all the officials out we are looking at a nationwide referee shortage that is in fact correct you know I've told you before that's gonna be my future job you've often spoken of that being one of your one of your retirement side hustles right there yeah I can't wait till I coach I uh officiate one of abad's games he might he might get tossed good reaction here in the booth nicely won by emusa to turn the ball back and it's loose here settled by Roman settle it looks for an option no one open and Ken step by Kenna yep played through Goldman drops off Long Meadow nope no touch oh y you can see that yeah little bit of push in the back there we'll have to reset [Music] this one where you have to watch got to watch that ball that goes across the field that service that through service be mindful of that ball going across and looking for a runner down the middle gra Manning taking a kick another person who changed a lot in the position they had her in last time she's been moved around as well she's normally a Defender I saw her earlier on at Midfield yeah I know if they wanted to go with some of the uh bigger girls out there with the height in the Midfield Jill Stevens with another win kasperowski wins it momentarily e lto looks to go quick restart from Goldman into Bella white looks to switch maybe nope ball comes right back down that same side Center back Jill Stevens up to the task but not won by isow at Midfield shoulder-to-shoulder play there good job L LLY done to get the throw in for E long meow eight minutes and 40 seconds remaining in the first half here between in a scoreless tie between long meow and East Long meow Addie Jordan in for Bella white and sorry that's Kim groski is out for oh that was good look at you yeah it's gonna be a well-oiled machine by the time we get to the end of the season like I said I need to have a bigger font in that uh on that landine that roster yeah okay a maybe like 25 long whistled for a foul at Midfield Jill looking to play a ball again this might be a place for one of those up and over balls to put some pressure on that goalkeeper make those Defenders turn their backs and Chase Jo's been good out of the air today flick through send send Ari yep Mo nice step one more yep now one more one more n that was one more through like you said one more to continue that action one more through take a quick look up Matt whitward was making a run and you had Sabo mne on the other side like Goldman may have been nudged or pushed there no such call kasperowski looks to get the ball back in for Long Meadow fought for there nice move by Veno there tries to push the ball to the middle long meow with some numbers coming forward slots it in doing not cleared by the Spartans now one out of the back by Kylie Marino coming out with a headful of steam this could be a good place nice ball well done well struck to M whitward SS's got it can send it long to Goldman long to Gold there's the ball very good got Addy Jordan back one touch there and cut that ball back well the buildup was good the buildup was good that's good couple passes got us out man you can nice nice take by Kylie Marino bringing the ball to space certainly was that's what happened your Defender turns around comes out of the back field instead of just kicking and running it she wins it takes the ball to space has possession and three passes and we're close in Bella white back in for Lily Dunn like I said I don't want to sound like a broken record but it think I it exposes where long meow wants to play that game they want to play that game in the middle that Midfield middle third they don't want to play in their own defensive ends no they play a high line Y well Bad Touch bre yeah nicely run down by by Marino don't have her number on it it out this was from the beginning of the season when I printed it out maybe another addition so no worries kaspari looks to throw the ball in here it's a deep throw in for Long Meadow plays it through to Greenman one by white M whitward with a Chance places gives Chase plays with the Mis touch Roman with a chance to see the field oops tries to slot that ball through does not quite get through red idea up Stephano uses her body to shield and win that ball container oops careful with thano there goes wide far post that's the third time we've had uh she's had the ball one-on-one and gone by the defender at some point I hope they just uh lock her down and just keep her out there that girl she's fun to watch she is fun to watch try to try try to turn her outside if you can if you're G to get beat try to have her beat you outside rather than inside ball goes to Bella white looks to maybe we looking to switch nice turn back C there luckily well done yep one more one more too much in the bowling alley here we got to switch it over widen that field out too thin too wide ni step by Kylie one more good job SAA numbers yep that's well done that back and forth give and go well done that's what we're talking about yes back again nice rip played by the go by cor kick no goal kick H I don't know what's worse my eyesight or my homerism hoping for the hoping for the corner kick on that one I'm not sure w once again nice five six passes in and out of everybody that looked better and it's funny how on those possessions we end up getting good offensive chances good things happen when you keep the ball and pass like that once again Bella Bella white brings the ball up from the back field rather than us just kicking it get that ball into that open space make them turn their back three and a half minutes remaining in the first half and a scoreless tie between Long Meadow and East Long Meadow Jill Stevens plays the ball out of the back controlled by Manning she comes forward looks like she has room to operate at Midfield they hold that line off that line out for line takes it makes the save well done good job by Emerson last five minutes of each half right that's what you want to close out strong nicely played there go get it Emma and it's on with a chance to go by or oh nicely shouldered off by I think was that nice step by Kylie Marino Saina mck the ball nice distribution to Eve Butler looks to play the ball nice layoff by Mac Wht Well Done by Bella white looks to see what she has plays the ball back calmly to Kylie Marino serves that ball outside Addie Jordan nice turn oops okay he's SL throw looks like Jordan will have it for the restart looks at what she has Addie plays a short throw into Susa who turns and looks to operate from there no such luck ball Runs Out f e slow meow throw in Kylie Marino gets it back in back to mne room to operate nice distribution to to Susa there just into too much traffic goes back and wins the ball back herself good mne looks for somebody wide no one there so she versus serves the outside again there nicely done looks to Jordan Jordan tries to give to the corner let's go very good eve Butler through gold nice step get out wide for play it Square that's the ball we need to run on to that's the ball we need to run on to that's the one forcing a misplay there in that box that's that's the ball that nice step by Ari good work by Ari Goldman gets throw inside the last two minutes this time will be kept on the field by the officials what's that out of bounds I did not see what that might have been a throw in Anna Roman in for Eve Butler and Gallagher in for I have to wait till that number gets bigger is that 15 maybe in for for Kate moio machio oh no that's a fair challenge that was a nicely won ball that's an unlucky call for the Spartans right there Sabina mck Sabina mne wisely steps in front Jill and Kenna got to make sure they get on the same page there gotta make sure we get numbers back here you don't want to get anything foolish here in the back two Defenders on that ball I hope there's someone in the middle nicely won let her freeze it yep well done it's out of bounds good work by Ken Marino expertly played Kenna with the long throw oops and that ball is ripped by Gracie to Stefano somewhere into the construction zone Marina with another nice long throw misplayed by long metal there we go and go go yep a and that's the half a lot of action in the Midfield but no score to show for it after one half here at East Long Meadow it's the Long Meadow ler zero your East long metal Spartans zero e e e back for the second half of easta medal versus LA medal uh score is z z see what changes uh coach Tim Gary has for the girls while meow is out there you saw meow in their huddle still in the Huddle looking to looking to try to find a way to unlock something in the back and hopefully I said I think if you just continue we were talking a little bit at halftime about we're able to contain or when we're able to develop sustained pressure possess the ball um switch Fields attack some of those backs attack that goalkeeper good things happen so we'll see how much of the possession that we get to maintain here in the second half lot of uh parents from East Met's last year's team lacrosse team here tonight come support the East metal girls I think that's probably because the uh W metal coach after losing the East laow rumor has it I don't know if it's true or not but I heard he quit because Esa meow beat him in Lacrosse I that's what the internet said so they don't lie well there I mean this and we're off Cub reporter Jeff mne with the inside scoop here Susa looks to go Shields are off nicely looks to Ari Goldman Ari goes to slot the ball back through Susa can get there on the inside run nicely done well turned good work by Emma goal kick but that's good right out of the shoot I like that off the I like that that off the um the opening kickoff let's see if we can lock it in now and maintain some pressure down here in this this end Long Meadow looks to play it out for the goal kick ball goes out left side one by Ari Goldman battled for there two or three slow me players look to win it Anna Roman does comes out of the scrum with it yeah that's going to be a out saw that one coming get as you mentioned earlier Roman and dno that's two that's Clash of the Titans there two physical players yeah they've been going at it today a little bit uh every time they get near it afterwards it seems like there's an elbow shoulder shoulder not elbow elbow shoulder shoulder two hard physical players good place dangerous ball here you get that ball to The Far Side maybe get a cross Runner coming through nicely sered finish it yes finish oh Jill Stevens almost with the putback on a good work by Ma whitward crashing the net on it that's the kind of go that's the kind of pressure you put on that keeper that's what we're looking for more balls just like that oh got Emma out wide good serves are there oh cut back by m nice ball now in the Box yes there we go good work by the box or is he going to call it right outside where is the whistle GNA be I think it was just outside I think bodies went in yeah and he'll play it a favorite of referees on any any fouls anywhere near that box funny how they get moved about a yard or so out In fairness that one may have been just outside the box but this is again a really dangerous ball you just had an opportunity like this about a minute ago a good chance to win one here this is one you had a little Chip Shot want a little chipper hang it right up and over yep there it is Chip who's there oh finish it finish it oh he Ball's bouncing around in the Box nobody gets a foot on it good Ball by Anna Roman though yeah nice serving exactly what you needed there that like you said that chip kind of up and over settle it go out wide go out wide yep yep bring it back this way Roman looks to the corner for Goldman quite get there the idea was right good work by Emma Ball's one for n SLO throwing oops talk it up there you don't want to give that ball back at Midfield make sure those touches and make sure we know what the plan is another switch operate this is numbers could be no Jill runs it down nicely done played back to Emerson Vino in the goal plays the ball up and out gota watch out for Tano and not play it to her oh nicely served by that's the kind of ball we need right through from mcky to whitler Well Done nice service Jordan holds her run nicely defended man that's nice ball that Saven served to the corner Bella white and Ferrari Goldman she's getting taped up at halftime good work by Ari Goldman out there for few minutes putting the pressure on the ball first four minutes of the second half 36 minutes left in the game still a scoreless tie here between long meow and East longto ball rolling wideo there the Marino girls together played nope Paul's played harmlessly out a deflected by an East metal player either the keeper or or one of them that'll be a corner kick for Long Meadow this is where we look to win this ball and clear it D's got a mark up Stephano yeah Mark her up you want to make sure they're gonna be looking for her try to put it on her got to win this ball and clear it nicely served and it goes all the way through h criminal from a coaching point of view you hate to see a ball if you're you like to see somebody wide to try to pick that ball up if you're on offense you don't like to see that ball run all the way through drives coaches crazy Jordan fights forward to Midfield Addie continues to play through applies good pressure that ball may run wide and it does let's look to counter quickly let's look to counter ball back in [Music] teeno operates in Midfield slots the ball through the stuff this is dangerous somebody needs to step on that ball nice step by Jill Stevens good work can't allow them room to operate in that sort of section of Midfield back got space mne takes her space serves the ball through just broken up nicely contained and Kino plays it out reset the defensive alignment for the Spartans Bango with another nice turn and the ball goes through Vino out looks to switch Fields looking for Mack witler maybe ball goes through to the middle and bounces twice before anybody gets it nice step by Kylie Marino in and the ball Runs Out For A Long Meadow throw that's that's a tough little Midfield they have right now with Stefano and yeah out there that's that's a lot of it's a lot of skilled skilled possession and skilled touch there again you want to look and contain her here yep [Music] Susa could run all the way through this one make her play it yep make her play it yep very good mney looks to make her play it out bengo wins it on the sideline ball goes through nicely run down by Jill Stevens to contain the contain the run there good work by Kylie Kylie's having a solid game back there she certainly is step out here ball gets through and G I know you want to win that ball always un forunate try to give up the corner but Ken does the smart thing to win the ball reset it here let's try to clear this and go voo waves a couple of big bodies back into the goal a couple of our taller players bringing Susa back to help defend on the corner Long Meadow sets for the corner and the ball is in nicely served well done nice good work by great job excellent punch out what a great play by Emerson to come out and knock that out [Music] of way to come out and get a get a good hand on that kid good work gotta try to win you don't want to live this is living dangerously you want you don't want to give up too many of these let's win it let's win it and clear it and go from there they put the ball right that's thing the third time they put it right on that back post that's a danger ball it's another good one punched out again another good job good job we're off Bella white down the line go let's go get rid of it beat her at okay I've seen enough in the Spartans end for a while I would like some possession in Midfield and going down to the Lancer end of the field it's three two more before we get the ball into the middle of the field that's a hand ball oh dangerous place to give it up oh again I don't know how many set pieces you can give up it's just the well is only so deep they play it short watch back on the 18 looks to go back and serve it across exactly as mentioned Jill Stevens now let's get up and out okay with just over 30 minutes remaining the Spartans look to regroup move out of their own defensive end and try to mount an offensive surge against the visiting Lancers that's one it's G be three more before it actually gets into play every time you might well you might be right Jeff good step by petto there is that who that is gold can't tell I it's Ari step on that ball there can't let her get a clean look can't let her distribute this is problematic too many chances too many chances no that was MIA another Corner this is not the kind of Groundhog Day that I enjoy better off down at the other I yes if we're if we're going to have an homage to Bill Murray I would rather do it at the other end of the field low ball served in somehow came out with it I'm not sure what happened good hand she got it from her mother yes every along with all of her other good qualities and attributes good unfortunate there that's all right win it back nice step by Amma yep good good yep get back TOA let's go out way yep good there you go One Touch in finish [Applause] [Music] [Applause] it if Addie had had a half a step I think on that she could have popped it up and over her but that was a good Counterattack out of the back good work that's what we need to see more of putting more of that pressure on that that back line and that goalkeeper and make make them make those plays for long meow you have Ari Goldman Billy dun or in for Addy Jordan and Emma Sosa Susa Susa good another throw in Kylie Marino is out Bella white Bella's in E did Eve Butler go back on was she on earlier Eve oh maybe Eve went in yeah Eve and in they moved Bella back to uh okay we've reset the a lot of moving Parts on this throw in looks to go up and over who's there let it run another East Long meow throwing let's try to apply some pressure here make this hurt ball goes nicely to Bella white one more across yep that change change that point of attack there you go Kenna player player crash all right that's all right that's good that's good change that point of attack change up that point of attack that's what you're looking for talk about it kind of an awkward yeah look like a little they're calling that earlier on like body but lto could use a couple of more people back in numbers G to get that recovery now ball goes through an across o o well [Music] done anytime ball bounces in the uh 18 you don't like that happening nope Kye Marino back in Addie Jordan back in Mack whitler Eve and Sabina mcky get a break Kylie looks to throw the ball back in for the restart gets the ball in Ari Goldman plays it back to her Runs Out of Bounds Spartans look to make sure things are buttoned up here in the back Marino wins it plays it up to Susa who looks for the header off of Long Meadow let's go ladies let's turn and go here see what we can turn and get going moving forward o possibility for white nicely done plays the ball up to Jordan make her play it back make her play it back exactly put the pressure on lock it in don't let him out of the box very good once you've got him in there do not let him out of that box put him in a box and do not let them out done plays the ball back the ball goes nicely into the middle yeah that's the place you want it that's the place you want it those balls misplayed by the backs out of the air good let's change the point of attack again push it through nicely one here change of momentum for Long Meadow wait for numbers hold that run good work by Jill Stevens y Jill did a great job containing her all right have a feeling this is going to be the next 25 minutes this is going to be a real chippy game going going forward uh the referee has a similar feeling has told both teams let's try to play Within the laws of the game Jill Stevens looks to distribute here plays a nice ball up and over one by long meow Ari Goldman there on the second touch move y goes through to Susa oh almost thought she could touch it by her there it's nice ball out of the back is that is that Manning yeah R Manning with a super ball out of the back Stevens in a foot race to the back plays it out looks to regroup for the throw in there long medal plays it in on the throw Susa comes back checks back nicely to win the ball on looks to distribute down the line changes the field there well done Jordan gives Chase one M touch maker play it back Jordan comes oh keep her off our line there's a lot of indecision in that back be wonderful if we could make them pay for it ball goes all the way to the other side of the field where it runs long just over 24 minutes remaining still no score here in this matchup of cross town Rivals slow meow and Long Meadow being a mne in for Mia petto and Ma whw and for Lily done I think that ball was played after the whistle these officials have done a good job in today they've been I would agree they've done a nice job it's a nice throw in long met winning a lot of those balls right now though not a great sign get out wide switch the field spread it out Kylie cuts it back looks to the other side gives it to more goes to mne mne goes back to Roman Roman looks again this is better possession yeah make them chase us around let them make a mistake and cut back by Kylie Marino get out of her way good Bella white this is good operation here one more through one more through and I have it yep get down get down oh but that's I mean that must have been what 10 12 passes that was lovely lovely lovely lovely get the ball they're making some good runs after they make you know that's one of the things I like what they're doing they're getting the ball and they're not just standing still they're making a nice little run taking a Defender with them creating some passing lanes for us to move forward simple right correct ball goes back Jill looks to play it all the way back to Emerson has an attacker coming needs to play it out to Kylie Marino she does good ball good ball down the line corner yep or you could send Ari Goldman going all the way through go on that touch hand ball finisher finisher oh she got held m were held in the middle of the field with no call held with both hands it's a tough call to Miss at the 18 see you're getting that long metal feeling thing [Music] huh irrespective of the opponent that was a foul either as was that but it is a little bit of add intention yes it does get a little bit once again it's not the girl's fault that they were born into La Meadow I blame their parents East lombo with a dead ball restart from just inside of Midfield Jill Stevens will look to serve it in or maybe Kylie Marina will look to serve it in Kylie having a great game back this do this does two things it gives Kylie the chance to and it gives Jill another one of our taller players who's been really good out of the air a chance to win that ball it's a hand ball no such call Jill Ste Works to recover all the way back she does on that first touch see there you go good job Addie good win nice turn down the [Music] line Addie coming up hobbling after that one too ball goes through Emerson off for line got to play it out good work girls but back to Kylie Marino today she's doing a really good job in the back a lot a lot of our offensive uh opportunities have happened with her in the ball in the back field bringing the ball up and then terrific distribution pass getting the ball to the midfielders who are Distributing oh that's a tough place to give up a corner okay unlucky gotta regroup and defend the corner here look perhaps to counter quickly after a win of this ball on the count on the Corner short played through and out good work by Ma whitler y offensive players coming all the way back to defend nicely done well has a couple of real threats that ball going Manning the step and all they you know they're they're good on the corners finish Emerson comes out bounces around oh jeez just wide wow now the other corner I cannot take any more Corner [Music] kicks oh wait all right the news from the box must have made it down there very good announcer is unable to take another corner kick at this point or so we'll go with the goal kick okay let's let's let's get one here and make some breathing room and 19 minutes to go no score Anna Martin in for Bella white and Gabby D scy in for Ari Goldman Ken Marino looks for the throwin Kylie oh it is Kylie on this side sorry my fault ball is back in M whitler gives Chase good work by Kylie yeah gives it to mcky who looks to get out of trouble and she does gets it back to uh Gabby [Music] disi red throw some unrest in the crowd begins about some of the style of play good now it's got a switch Addie a super fast player yes that's good make them give Chase in the back make them play the ball back far side of the field the long bow throw big throw from Kenna for that one nicely done one there by ISO in control Jordan while coming across gives the ball back to Kye give chance to operate nice distribution to ma Whit Mac looks to turn sends her Corner maybe no gab run for one more you got emo Kylie looks got get that ball M off your line good job play it out good Ball by [Music] Emerson good touch yep there we go let's win it here good job Sabina holds up two offensive players excellent com comes out with it Well Done by mcky to win that ball send Jordan through there you go drive one more finish it yes There He Go by great a terrific finish great job with Gabby and I'm not just saying this because I'm up in the booth with you Saina held off two long or two uh two Long Meadow attackers to win that ball and play it through that goal started Midfield she did hit the weight bench did we have the uh I should have looked I don't [Music] know the officials to turn around no Kim's coming up so thank you 17 minutes remaining Emma suu with the goal well done 10 from seven and it looks like we'll get a timeout uh perhaps call by Long Meadow to regroup well done a great finish there well done well done seven I don't go ahead I think I don't know scor by number 10 Emma Susa [Music] 17 flat BR he say 17 flat yeah 17 10 seconds from uh 10 17 1 I guess is what he wants I think he said 17 and then goal from 10 okay that was oh that was the 10 that was the 10 that's where the 10 was from yes okay now this is a place as happy as you are with the goal you want to make sure that you dig in and double down here always most vulnerable right after you score you want to make sure there's no let down everything gets amped up everything gets cranked up put a second one in I think good things happen when we get the ball to our midfielders and our midfielders are sliding the ball through making those nice passes that's how it's supposed to look yeah doing a great job at time been doing a great job first 15 minutes of the game was real shaky and now they've once they start possessing the ball it's really good once I think a lot of it starting from Kylie Marino back here she really has she really has had a good game's had a very good game back the whole back has had a good a good game but they're not she doesn't being a Freshman she doesn't panic when these you know older girls are putting the pressure on her very disciplined very poised she's gonna have a good uh three years three more years of her and Lily Dunn another two more years from Ari Goldman good work som's future is going to look [Music] good and as good as the future looks all eyes on the present right now as we look to have a one- nothing goal one- nothing Score East l in the lead thanks to Em's goal 17 minutes remaining this is where you look to get one more goal and lock this down ball goes deep to Ken Marina who tries to Shield it out and she will and it's a goal kick [Music] is this our first goal kick of the quarter half I think it is I think we've had don't we've had 10 10 Corner kicks and uh one goal kick we'll have to have our stat guy I think we had one other because that was the one where I said I was goingon to die if it was a corner kick or something this might be our second but balls up in the air stefanno wins it with a shoulder ball out of the air turns the corner not quite is not able to turn the corner without the ball running wide N Low in no hurry at this point looks to get a good throw in and get the ball back in fine to play a little bit slower a little bit more methodical but you don't want to get complacent that's all you want to make sure you continue to apply pressure and make that that's a ball where I think we need to press on that make those Backs play it because that's it second goal would be a be a Difference Maker here slow meow tracks back shut down the passing Lanes see on that they have good touch Good Touch by the girl yep good step by Mack keeps it in still in Susa wins it plays it back in very well done Gabby skoli looks to press applies pressure Susa wins it balls there goes to Anna Roman nicely won outside by is that Anna Martin y it's Anna Martin Ball's played through the middle hell there and now it'll go in oh o other way I thought it's all right dropping Mark dropping Mark dropping Mark Ball's back in quickly for Long Meadow they look to use some Advantage there to send a through Runner here try to see if they've got her and the ball is Mis or sorry it's dispossessed there one by witler who is able to get another foot on it and Susa sends it out see this is I think a good ball for us to play pressure on is not sure she doesn't know if she wants to Comm in or go out good work yep and she's pushed out of that's a little bit of a push I get the shielding but when you go shoulder toosh shoulder and can Shield but you can't push good pressure from Jordan and you could see the the long metal goalkeeper do I stay do I go and I'm sure she's a terrific athlete I think she's an inexperienced goalkeeper and just isn't sure about those nuanced plays about how to play those so you need to try to exploit that and play lock this in nice stop does a nice job oh we want it though we want it they did a nice job coming out of the back Ball's played long comes out waits for it to come all the way back and she's gonna hold it for this she'll not pick it up anytime soon but she better now so her father doesn't get any kind of heart attack okay very good well done pun played yep right through those right through it Gabby yep make her play it well done there we go good so Subs we have Mia petto Bella white Ari Goldman Lily Dunn for on it looks like uh coming off Anna Martin ma whitward Gabby and Addie this will be a red throw in here good pressure from petto long B throwing ball was out [Music] [Applause] High foot look like it might have been nice again surefooted and reliable Jill Stevens plays the ball out of trouble 13 minutes remaining East m one long me zero well done got to win that ball that's off of Long Meadow that's our throw very good well done nicely played [Music] just under 13 minutes left in the game this could be dangerous nice step by Jill Jill's just playing a super game in the back Roman and white with the chance there to Stephano with a dangerous ball serves it through good job by Mia to knock it out by Mia let's regroup win it and go back down at their end oops balls played toward the middle one there clear out by Bella white white y cleared out gives us a little Breathing Room Long Meadow looks to throw it back in quickly they do Manning tries to win it trip petto trip there ball coming out Stevens looks to make sure the ball is exactly where the referee let would like it surveys the field looks at what she has nice up and over ball very good fought for by petto ball goes through controlled there by Bella white nice ball to through it yep in the air let's get the ball back on the ground sua good goes through it Well Done plays through it well done good work by Amma yep right back over the top make those Backs play it again good distribution coming this way Roman looks to go back plays back there back to mck Good Work by B that was held my breath a little on that ball send it back in getting caught a little bit too high yep possess and then try to play those balls a little bit deeper that's all [Music] Lily Dunn and Ari Goldman off and McKenna witler and Addie Jordan back in misplayed by Long Meadow it goes back they wi it out of the back afterwards Bella white plays the ball back in Well Done play those Defenders play it pressure that first touch that's a bad one oops go through good almost has a chance to disrupt the action she does good work by Mia padow way to recover good motor you can always count on that out of petto 110 miles an hour all the time hold for the Long Meadow substitution that looked like an illegal thr good work by Mia y tripped and our goes our way good work by Mia no need to rush this no need to rush this no need Rush this set it up no need to rush it over have a settle have one Mac there you go get out Corner a throw in throw let's just no need to be in any hurry just just under nine minutes remaining in a one- nothing game East Long B leading throw by kenno whw yep readjust their for or something thereabouts readjust their formation sorry I stepped on your no comment there Emma with a head Emma's doing a good job today white nice slide take well done nice step by white textbook slide tackle take beautiful that same exact Play Almost Is that's how we won the game the first first time against umbella coming back defensively made a stop turn around trapped it kicked the ball up to Addie Jordan we scored make her play it back make her play it back yep that's where you want the pressure on them make them very disorganized in the back that's where you want them to have to play it oops runs long and Ken there plays the ball out chance to regroup reset things and see what's what it's a high foot well done nice turn by clear it clear it clear it clear it and of course a corner because what else would it [Music] be athletic director McGee may need to look at redoing the turf in these Corner areas they've gotten so much use this end of the field tonight this got to be like the 12th corner kick this half on side it's unbelievable I think they're more dangerous on this side too I agree seven minutes remaining as longm looks to serve the corner win it Win It win it Win It win it good ball ni same thing good play by Emerson yep pop up pop up she won the ball pop right up pop right up that's twice Emerson's came out great great job punching the ball out good work what a great save by Emerson coming out knocking out not only just knocking it out like a little bit she's she's clearing that ball it's she's knocking it 15 20 yards out great play oh nice Center yep a this is good two Runners one more one more ma push [Music] thought we were gonna have something there yeah you called for the push I called for the trip I think between the two of them one of them was there official did not see it again we're happy to provide V Services here from the booth but we have yet to have an official take us up on that she got to stop the B stop the ball stop the ball foot on it the keep her out there stop the ball good work by P that's great good double team by Kylie and Mia working together on that one well oh Mia wins another ball and you could have called that for low so it's getting a little chippy as you as you predicted Jeff send her through make a run make a run where's the runners send her outside pressure her that first touch yeah and no hurry for the get the ball back in just about five minutes remaining heast long mow One Long Meadow zero and timeout called [Applause] this is how the last game came down to a last five minutes is back and forth action going both ways Furious action looks like we're have another barn burner for for this one as well let's hope to keep the burning of that Barn down at this end of the field that would be good for us rather that as well these last five minutes this is where the strategy comes in you look to try to say possess the ball carries to the corners hold for as long as you can take your throw in see if you can burn 30 seconds here 30 seconds there you can do that four or five times shorten this game [Music] up I think that's also one of isa's benefits we coach Gary uses the entire bench throughout the game so our girls get a lot of lot of breaks out there whereas a lot of other teams they only go two three girls deep onto a bench it's helped us out so far this year as far as you know how keeping those fresh legs out there certainly has see what we can do for the last five minutes of the game you know L medow is going to give everything that they have and this could open some things up this is one of those if they start to push a little bit more and they look to try to go forward this could give you a seam to try to exploit to try to put in to put in the putaway goal at two to nothing yeah we've already had what two or three breaks y okay the ball's in we hit the five minute Mark and go from there ball will come in for East L metto Emerson looks to get it she's kindly enough to let the Long Meadow player get the ball it's the kind of hospitality we provide yeah that's that's it's a very after after after you of course ball served by Jill Stevens into Emma sua petto and Roman good talk on that one rather sorry take it to the corner corner yep there you go Emma who's there and tripped in the Box nothing wow an unfortunate place not to get that call and and another one no push there either there's Spartans down all over the field and no calling that was head to-head on that one come on call that the [Music] game hey see invariably this is the problem When Things become too physical there's the missing of one then you miss a makeup and then you get one like this and it that's causes unrest if you call it tightly and you call it on both sides and you call those files especially in the last five minutes puts a lid on all the unrest it's up to officials to make sure they maintain control of the game this one here I don't know I don't get this one that that was shoulder shoulder to shoulder and Jill got the headball so how they end up with it that I don't that I don't know I mean it's harmless it's outside than the 35 but regardless Jill wins the headball in what you know Jee I think it's an example sometimes of I mean Jill is a strong player and got the better of that challenge and the other girl got knocked for a loop yeah I mean they went head on in a completely legal Challenge and missusa back up gingerly walking to the sideline okay we look to defend here it's good to see the low girl got up that looked like it was Jill Jill's head into the other girl's back of her head okay the action is reset with four minutes and S seconds left for a one to nothing e SL met a lead goalkeeper has emerso has set her wall it's a long 10 yards isn't it yes it is ball is served long wide one byto win it again Win It Again Win It Again win it and clear it win it and clear it Shield that ball out and it's throw good work by Ken Marino just under four minutes to go in the game this is where you really want to start looking at carrying that ball all the way to the corner flag seeing if you can get an offensive run trying to carry the ball all the way into the flag beautifully done by Jill step out again step on the ball step on the ballar okay and yep there'll be no rush to get this ball back in play [Music] Sabina mne plays it up and out one by long meow there looks to go back in oops nicely slotted Jill and Emerson have to get on the same page they do and that's a throw oh a corner no oh it's okay I I'm just I'm sorry I'm having nightmares that's all got to step in front o what a great great shot by Tia [Music] fago can't let her get a clean look beautifully struck okay well that's going to make the last two minutes and 39 seconds awfully interesting Tia Vago number three I think [Music] you can see that one coming as she took a touch Dove at the ball got just enough space to see it [Applause] [Music] yeah wow fans yelling at the 16-year-old girls [Music] T I think it's tiao yeah the n g Co play it [Applause] [Music] through ball bounces at Midfield Kylie Marino how is there's no different from that Jill Stevens one last two minutes will be kept on the [Music] field emo with the ball Kylie Marino passes the ball back switches over to Jill Stevens Ray Manning with a head on it Ma whitler chasing through it looks to distribute back played forward is it still going to stay in will it run we've still got it Wht were looked like she might have been fouled there yes this could be a run for Ken Marino somebody needs to cover her back yep somebody needs to drop and cover Kenna for that run B white was over there okay very good [Applause] [Music] got to stop the ball got to stop the ball got to stop the ball this is trouble that ball can go right through K of plays it out over to the side this ball will be played up and over Kenna on it wins the ball there and Roman looks to play it up looked like she might have been fouled after the play I've got less than a minute remaining of course my time is not official don't let her through Jill Stevens turns and wins another ball ball served back in no service try to keep that service out there step on it Jill well done nicely played o stays in played in the Box don't give her space good job by Saina and Kylie Marino clear it and that's the game well would have like to have gotten away with a victory in it settle for the Spartans left to settled for the one-1 tie good game all around and on next game we got minich in mini so we'll be on the road we'll see you again next week take care everyone why