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problem just so everyone knows we are live I know we're not ready to open up but we're live can right 7:30 I will call the meeting to order at 7:30 the for stands Nation indivisible Mr Davis Mr here Mrs hel here Mrs Allen here Mrs here M Juliano here Mr Jones here and Mr Golden here we have motion a second to approve the minutes from the action meeting of August 22nd second all those in favor I opposed or obain all right Mr lady Go yep all right hi everyone thanks for coming appreciate it so uh this evening we are doing our student of the month Awards but these are carryover awards from back in June um and so because we don't do them over the summertime so we but we still wanted to make sure we gave the awards out um and this is these awards are for students who are outstanding students uh in their school whether it be JFK or D Eisenhower um so I'll start with JFK when I'm done each school we'll get a picture in front of our brand new backdrop which was donated by uh by peace our awesome parent organization uh all right first we have Felicity Filmore come on up Felicity congratulations can you hang up here with me okay uh nicholet Kala Jolene mhany alesio Ward Gabriella godal Charlotte Wilson Walter Samson Amy Yan benitz great job Morgan Adams congrats Morgan good job and the last one for JFK is Mason fam we are going to go all right ladies you ready we're going to go in front of this nice backdrop over here and get our picture taken you got to hold your certificates up not in front of your face that you can see it right in front of me hold on one more it's GNA look funny isn't it there we go good job guys all right now on to DDA uh first student of the month for the month of June Neil Harding Jefferson Mesa Osorio Cole schaer conratulations Morgan merenberg Madison andrickson come here Samra TAA Christian Hernandez Cruz Mariah Watkins all right guys you ready for your picture all right famous sounds good we don't we don't smell J guys you all are welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting but you don't have to so feel free to to leave and have an amazing night [Laughter] are you ready yeah okay you ready [Music] and we can go right to uh public comment all right perfect can I have a motion and a second to open the meeting to the public for the discussion of agenda items only motion second all those in favor opposed or obain no public hearing no public seeing no public that would like to speak we will go ahead and close the meeting to the public at this point can I have a motion and a second second all those in favor all right goe Mr you are up all right good evening everyone I have a number of items here in uh in my section of the report first we have the Safety and Security um fire drills and safety lockdown drills at both schools they were all four of the drills were uh Flawless um to start the year which is is always good to see that means the teachers are doing an amazing job so kudos to them um item C is monthly reports uploaded for your review uh item D is our harassment intimidation and bullying report we did have one report at DV8 and that um was a confirmed report of bullying I gave you um it's a it's sort of a new format to for you to be able to look at it um so you can read the description um but the highlighted areas also show you what action was taken with the students who were involved and that's we pulled that from our new uh hipster system that we're using this year uh item a is a personnel and so we have a number of personnel we have homean instructors um we're g to strike through the one personal uh um individual correct yes we are Gina just a short period of time ago she um 30 minutes ago she email withdrew her acceptance of the yeah position so Gina Gina is is out of that list um but we we are making progress a couple things to note on there um Meredith Lawrence teacher she is our technology teacher so who will be starting soon so we're very uh fortunate to find someone to fill that position it's always difficult also want to draw your attention to the music the fall semester music instructor I had that in my newsletter for everyone to see we're working towards trying to make sure that we're you know providing a much much more solid music instruction um this in this portion of the year and also in the spring when you say music do you mean singing or both band both yep instrumental and coral okay yep uh second item there is uh with regret we have two resignations we have Miss Tidman and then I knew I was gonna get a I was gonna get a sound and then also um part-time instructional lead Miss M Ali who was only with us for a short period of time um we have approval of two uh mentors for uh two of our newer teachers uh number four there is um to approve a leave of of absence excuse me uh under curriculum and instruction we have uh a guest speaker coming in that's Elizabeth Morse uh then we also have the therapy dog who is going to start coming in um to miss wanko's class which is I saw that happen at over Brook and it really is is amazing um so we're going to we've already started that um uh number two is an update to our curriculum for health grade 8 uh New Jersey changed the standards and now we have to add in a section on Grief and dealing with grief and so that is added into the health curriculum uh item G is uh number one is for some outside organizations to use our facilities they've used our facilities before so nothing new there number two under the discussion items is what I I sent you about prior to the meeting uh our three what we're going to do is approve our three board goals that we already had in place say I think they were from like 2122 um and then we'll discuss what we want to do moving forward uh in executive uh later on but we for for compliance with qack we need to have uh approved board goals at this time we also have two District goals that I created again up for discussion but we need to make sure that we approve them um so that we're in compliance as well number three is just a change to our regulation you had discussed this with uh Dr pretelli when he was here um the regulation for advanced approved volunteers only two changes I made there changed number of years um now if someone fills it out they're good for the entire time um they're a parent in our school district and there's no in-person training requirement um so we just lay everything out for them when they sign up number four um is to acknowledge a school one of the school volunteers so her name is listed there below we already have a field trip we're going to see more of them coming in because they're due to be in me uh before the Christmas holiday and that WPS up my section can I have a motion a second before I ask if there's any questions motion any questions Mr Davis yes Mr Allen yes Mr Jones yes Mrs R yes Mrs Reed yes Mrs Helmont yes Mrs Juliano yes Mr Golden yes thank you can I have a motion and second then to approve business and finance items XA through K I'll go through them second all right um financial report a through E A through D is actually for the month of July um no line item has been over expended um the treasur report and secretary's report are in agreement there are no changes in anticipated Revenue amounts or sources at this time and no uh accounts or funds have been overexpanded in violation of administrative code uh sixday sufficient funds are still available to meet the district's Financial Obligations for the remainder of the year um e is just to approve the bills we did have a small revision I think it was off by just a couple dollars I think it had to do with some shipping cost so we had to um change that from the July meeting um and then batch 52 is um the amount is there I think everybody had a chance to review them and put all the signatures on there f is just the September 2024 listing of substitutes for source for teachers along with the pay rate as well as the bill rate for each um position that we use G is to approve the 2425 cafeteria dispersements for the month of August 2024 in the amount of $2,428 um H is to approve the care dispersements for the month of August 2024 that was um 0 um can and then I is to approve the added District tuition contracts for the 2425 school year we have one for Burlington County Special Services that's a grade 12 special education student $ 59,4 33 and then a non-resident fee of$ 4791 Black Horse Pike Regional School District grade 11 special ed student um tuition charge for esy was 3792 plus $2,644 which was a shared cost of nursing Services they also sent us the um 2425 uh contract as well which is a tuition rate of 32,000 shared nursing charge of $1,480 and a speech related Services charge of $675 uh Gloucester County Special Services School District this is a preschool student um special Edge student tuition charge of 4770 for the esy program we also have a grade8 special Edge student there tuition charge of 4770 also for the esy program they also have that student also has a $3,900 fee for a one toone teacher assistant for the esy so I believe we did not get their school year contracts yet but they're the esy ones and then we have one student for um Burlington County Institute of Technology which is on a similar basis of say um Cy County Technical School and things of that nature so this is a grade 11 gen ed student uh tuition charges $1,559 you have an out of County fee there um which we don't have for the cam County um but that has to be approved as well all of these were in the budget um Jay is to recommend uh travel and professional development for several of our staff members you'll see the costs that are listed on the agenda um quite a few are actually free to the district um which is nice no cost to the district we like that yeah we sure do like that um and then K is to approve the SOP the standard operation procedures manual for the business office it requires annual review this is also one of the qac indicators so um it's Beenie it's been uploaded to the portal for all of you to see and now we're going to go ahead and approve it we approve it annually um so does anybody have any questions all right let me scroll back uh Mr Davis yes Mrs Allen yes Mr Jones I gota EX stand on um okay okay I think it's I I okay let me put you there so yeah but abstain on I you got it Mrs R yes Mrs Reed yes Mrs Helma yes M Juliano yes and Mr Golden yes all right perfect thank you um I don't believe we have any old business uh new business uh committee updates we don't currently have anything for negotiations right Mr Le or Mr Davis we're good to go there um Finance we did have a finance um committee meetings we didn't have too much on there I just want I let everybody know that we're still in the accounting system for July 2024 there's a lot of Grant close out and system close out for this time of year so we're still working through that um we did have to pay some of our ARP grants just to close them out by September 30th some of them were waiting on like a packing slip but those checks were generated um and are ready to go so we can close that out be ready for the final report um for all of our grants actually in October um I do anticipate that as this October meeting I'm always in so many different months I don't know where I am um at the October meeting we should have the August and September reports and be back to approving every single month you know just that month behind as opposed to multiples or being two months behind uh revenue report we shared that with them we don't really have any revenues yet because our tax levy hasn't come in the state hasn't come in so all the revenues that were expected to receive are on the report but we didn't get anything yet so um they did start rolling in in August we don't have any additional special ed placements for out a district at this time no additional mckin vento placements either um grants I just told them that at the point where I'm closing out a lot of the grants from uh last year the period actually goes through September 30th so all of those are being um charged off and paid so we can do those final reports um our 2025 Ida Grant was approved but the esa Grant is still being reviewed uh that one usually takes a little bit longer but once they're both approved I'll start submitting for reimbursements for any costs that are expended along the way um and then for miscellaneous I just said that um most of our buses passed our annual safety inspections by the state of New Jersey we did have a couple buses down for minor issues uh breaks um waiting for one part they were all back two of them were back up and running that day in the afternoon the next one was up and running uh by the morning um and we just have one still out for service uh luckily we have a few spare buses so um we're not down and out there and when we say breaks the breakes were fine yes they were actually don't clarify that not there by their it shouldn't have been it actually shouldn't have been F the gentleman had said um the brakes are good but they won't be for the next round but they were good for now so I was like Chuck was like okay you know you're afraid to ruffle on your feathers so he did speak with the supervisor and the supervisor like yeah we'll we'll take care of it we'll fail it they're fixing it today right now but we might be gone we'll pass it and we'll get you back on the road um correct yes we have quarterly inspections on all of our buses so our buses are all safe to be on the road um given time thank you uh state report season is here so Assa and drts are two big ones um so they'll keep me busy for the next couple months um so that was it for finance committee any questions all right um New Jersey school boards just at the workshops coming up I did send an email it didn't appear that there was any interest I know it's hard to get to those I wanted to say that I'm thinking about going maybe Wednesday or Thursday of that week if anybody wants to tag along I would just need to know have to generate a purchase order like yesterday maybe you want let me know by tomorrow Monday I tomorrow one way or the other if anybody wants to tag along or is thinking about it let me know I'd love to have company there are some good there are some but now with the online mandated training it's like that was the big push for people going yeah they usually do have a really good um so yeah if anybody still decides I'll be there those days you'll be there those days okay tag with me if anybody still uh wants to go or decides to go let me know as soon as possible um and services Michelle's not here um she has back to school night tonight P Hill Board of Education anything so we had our September meeting earlier in the month um we met all the new um staff uh in the district we met the new student Representatives they have two seniors that represent the over basically um on the board with us of course they're not allowed to be in like executive sessions stuff like that but they give us like a um some details of what's going on in the school um so we met them the achiev program received a new lead which achie the achiev program used to is formerly known as Twilight um and it's Alec Nikolai he was a teacher at Overbrook so he's very familiar with the overbrook's um school we they also received they also got a new assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction and that's Michelle MSA she was formerly the humanity Humanities supervisor and the vice principal of Overbrook before she was uh just got this new position uh Sheree Brady the ba retired the well will be retiring I think it's tomorrow technically but um and then so we'll have a new ba as of next month um they also told us about the electronic ticket sales are now going to be sold online for football wrestling and basketball um so if you want to go to one of those games you need to buy your ticket online and the next meeting is October 8th oh and one more thing Overbrook is coming back with their site council meeting and I don't have the date but I want to say it's the end of October and the first one there will be four two will be virtual two will be in person and the first one is in person in the media center I'll get that date for anyone that's interested in this room because we have no people out there but um and that I will tell you from experience I worked with Mr Lee on the site Council when he was at Overbrook and it's very informative you learn a lot about the school and what's going on and the problems they have or the things they want to do to change things or you learn about it kind of before everybody else too because they get your Insight on it which was nice and that's as a parent as necess number the last thing I just put on there was for Camy County School boards Association they are having a hybrid meeting to discuss goal setting it's on um actually next Tuesday so if anybody was interested in either attending virtually or in person uh just let me know and I can go ahead and register you um I think that it's from oh it starts at 6:45 in person starts at 6 I guess because they feed you um virtual starts at 6:45 that must be when all the Talking starts um so if anybody wants to go to that just shoot me an email and I can go ahead and register you anything else for new business all right can I have a motion and a second then to uh open the meeting to the public for the discussion of non-agenda items motion second all those in favor opposed orain none and I have a motion and a second then to close the to the public please motion all those in favor and opposed orain right we do have a small um executive session so at this point I'm GNA have um ja um Jacob shut us down for a brief period of time there will not there may be action may be action taken Okay so I'll take it down I'll take you I'll do it the morning thank you yeah thank you yeah keeps trying to get him to do that he saying no I can't do that no that would work too well as soon as Jacob shuts us down we'll go ahead and open up again ex session we may have action we shouldn't be too long but we'll need you just to stick around to go live once we're done okay and then um just in case we have action e e e you don't get to sleep over down there but Pine Hill does over miles at the 50 mile all right you guys are all set thank you all right so no action needed to be taken after our executive session so at this point we can go ahead and adjourn the meeting can I have a motion and a second motion second and it is 758 meeting ined all those in favor oppos or obain all right we should you know you usually do and then I usually pour you're right I didn't was waiting see that was going down let me see I know where party is Meg what are those exactly again let me check my email because honestly everything's a blur I want to make sure I have the right dates give me one [Music] second is October 21st to the 25th so it go till Friday that's what it says on their website I think that's like an early day though the Friday they usually just have like a morning session at least that's what they used to do just I just thought it was

and tonight we are here to meet our Schoolboard candidates and also learn about a special ballot item that has to do with schools everything you need to know about Maricopa Unified School District before you vote on November 5th we are still waiting for a couple of candidates and we're going to start with a presentation by Dr Tracy lman Superintendent at musd she's going to talk to us about proposition 488 which for everybody who's voting in November is something you will have to decide if you vote Yes or no and without further Ado Dr Lan tell us about prop 488 thank you Elias where should I stand where's a good spot to stand great oh of course this is fine how about right here okay um thank you for joining us this evening um so that you could learn about your board candidates but also learn about prop for 88 um which is the $70 million Bond measure that the Maricopa Unified School District governing board voted to place on the ballot this November as you know Maricopa is growing explosively and that growth in the city of Maricopa means that the enrollment in Maricopa Unified School District is growing just as rapidly and to accommodate that growth the school district will be building schools for elementary students and adding classroom space for the high school level and tonight we'd like to talk with you about some details around those projects and then we have our CFO here as well to speak in a detailed fashion about the $70 million Bond and how it's not a tax rate increase and some other uh details associated with those financials um and we would we would were perfectly happy to answer any questions you might have about prop 488 so as I said it's a $70 million Bond the board intentionally set the bond amount at $70 million so that it would not increase the tax rate there are four projects associated with the $70 million the first two are elementary schools serving students in kindergarten through 8th grade and then the other two uh projects are additional classroom space at the high school level a little bit more detail about those two projects the school district receives State funding to build schools when the enrollment reaches a certain capacity when we're overcrowded the state will fund a new school so we have on the books a school opening in July of 2026 we've selected the land that's the serrento project if you've heard about that and the state has granted us about $31 million to build that school with the bond we would like to supplement that funding to fully equip that school to the tune of about $12.5 million uh the state funding formula is inadequate and so with the additional funding we would be able to fully um build out the teaching stations provide adequate learning space provide a a building that is made of materials that have a longer life than just 25 or 30 years so that's the first project serving students in kindergarten through 8th grade the second project for students in kindergarten through 8th grade opens two years later in July 28 uh that we will be granted a little bit more money from the state uh about um oh pardon me um we will be granted uh about 23 million and then we will we will supplement that with another 20 million uh and with the same the same idea able to that makes us able to fully equip those learning spaces and teaching spaces to close the gap between the state funding formula and what it really cost to build a school today the other two projects uh impact Workforce velopment at our high schools the Maricopa high school project would be fully funded by the bond we're not going to get any funding from the state to add add this space at Maricopa high school and we know that Workforce Development is of dire importance in this city in this state in our country and we know that students involved in Workforce Development programs uh do do so well in their academic programs and they graduate ready to work so we're we're looking forward to that and then we know that our enrollment is going to continue to grow at at the high school level so we anticipate being funded from the state for additional classroom space for students in at the high school level logically most likely that space will be added at Desert Sunrise high school and opening in July of 2028 and we anticipate being granted about $42 million for that space and it would need to be supplemented about another 15 million to uh fully uh equip the school for um The Learning experiences and teaching and teaching practices that um our staff is has come to um expect and and that even goes to the number of outlets that are in a classroom um the technology the capabilities that we can install as we build the school and not do it you know sort of aftermarket um it's that it's that intricate of a of a plan that we want to provide our teachers with that kind of teaching capability and we would need need to do that during the construction phase I'm going to turn it over to Mr Harmon thank you thank you Dr lman um so one of the questions we get often is how how can we go out for a bond without increasing the tax rate so a bond is a tax it's paid back by our local taxpayers um over a 20-year period with principal and insurance payment similar to a home mortgage the way that uh there's no tax rate increase the last time we passed a bond in Maricopa Unified School District was in 2006 so we're in the final years of of paying that Bond down um so the timing of this is perfect um not just that the property value has increased in Maricopa um rapidly and so um the timing of this allows us to go out for as much as $70 million and our governing board wanted to know what level could we go out for a bond without increasing the tax rate above the 79 cents that it is currently and $70 million is that number and we can time our our bond sales to make sure that that happens um we're required by Statute to show how much this impacts a home with a a taxable value of $100,000 and so that's approximately $63 a year we also added the average um homeowner taxable value which is about 154,000 and that's just under $100 a year is that tax that tax burden and that's similar to what's already being being felt currently um because as I said that tax rate will stay relatively flat over the 20-year period it will actually decline the 20-year average is 63 cents but the the tax rate now is about 79 cents and it'll stay 79 cents for for the next several years before property values start increasing and then we'll see we'll start seeing a decrease in that tax rate if you do have any questions about tax rates I don't know if this is the right form but you can always call this school district to get a hold of me I'm happy to sit down with anyone and and look at tax bills and talk taxes and tax rates because they're they're they're not they're very complicated um we uh we're projected to grow if you live here you're aware of this um we're projected to grow uh over 7,400 students in the next uh 10 years which is over 800 students on average and that keeps us on Pace to build a school every couple of years um and that's that's the the pace that we're that we're on currently is this okay so and Dr lman alluded to this a little bit but the funding formula is insufficient not just not only do they they fund schools to uh fund school districts to build schools about years later than we need it um the formula is also insufficient so we're granted about $320 a square foot for this serrento project and the Market's closer to $430 a square foot so that $ 122.5 million that that first project will be supplemented is just to take us from the funding formula to where we need to be so we don't have to make um sacrifices like the quality of of building materials or we're going to build a wood structure a stucco structure that that doesn't have a useful life of a hundred years or can we build a mason structure that that can last Generations um are we going to not have carpet or drywall or what other limitations are we going to have um on the technology spaces and a lot of that has to do with uh with this supplement that's coming so we don't have to make those sacrifices some districts that are dealing with this challenge are making really hard sacrifices to try to build a building that's going to uh service the students that are coming without the the finishes that you might expect if you've ever built a home or or renovated a home it's those finishes that really cost a lot of money so those are some of the some of the challenges um with desert Sunrise High School one of the challenges was we're gonna have outdoor cafeteria space or are we going to build indoor cafeteria space and so that those are some of the the trade-offs that districts have to consider when they're building a school with with just the formula dollars that the state gives the this is I think our last slide just a reminder of the the elections on November 5th ballots will be sent out uh by October 9th and the county recommends that you get those ballots in by oober 29th to ensure that they're they're in on time okay yeah if you have any questions please and I don't know if the live chat can ask questions too yes sir um it's a great question some our secondary schools have different athletic needs that's part of it um yeah it's all and square footage that's correct the the high school project is 125,000 square feet where our elementary projects are under 100,000 square feet um but the the cost per square footage is a little higher at the secondary level but it's that the significant difference is the the number of square feet on these projects I can take a stab at that um so we we ran these projections with today's numbers we we can't uh predict what the future holds the state does uh adjust their formula annually and and tries to keep up with that market it's just it's always behind so the Delta between this current project and the market is the same Delta we kept the commitment though is with the bond supplement that we're attaching to each of these projects we're going to build the best school we can with the state fund and with the bond amount that we're assigning to those projects um and and we'll make that work please uh so the first set of guard rails is we pick the categories that we assign these dollars to and there's a number of Cate categories like administrative spaces Pupil Transportation Renovations and and one one category is New School construction all $70 million is assigned a new school construction so we can't spend any of this on anything other than new school construction so that's going to keep us in in one category as well but we'll also have an oversight committee that'll hold hold us to these four projects to show that we've done exactly what's in our pamphlet and that's the commitment thank you guys for the presentation we'll we'll we'll move right into the next part I want to ask the candidates their opinion on 48 whether they support it or not um but this feels like a good as time a good as time I can't talk as I need to be educated so maybe you could let me into your next public speaking class uh this is as good a time as any to bring up another question I want to ask there's there's some people here U there's a maybe a dozen people here if you're watching online there's a dozen more watching there um prop 48 is something that has CA sparked much debate on social media if you've been on there you've seen it people have very loud opinions about this ballot item that Dr lman and Mr Harmon have just discussed however um when it comes to having an opportunity to learn more about it uh well we can see that the questions are very slim um I want to ask this to to the candidates I have a story that you'll see in the October in Maricopa about voter turnout in the city of Maricopa now I'll give you guys who uh who are here and watching today a a preview of what I found and I was writing that story that you'll read next week Maricopa had the worst voter turnout this year in its primary election of any City in Metro Phoenix I'm not sure how many people here know that in fact it had a worse voter turnout than almost any City in the state it had a worse voter turnout than any city of 50 to 100,000 and it had a worse voter turn out even than cities 20 years old and younger Schoolboard I could only imagine and based on our similar event for city council where 120 people were there uh it's there's there's a not a lot of interest when it comes to voting and learning compared as as it is to complaining it's something I've noticed so I want to ask this to our candidates uh um who are here we are short one um we've got three candidates let me ask you this question uh first and get a get a raw reaction and then and then you can introduce yourselves um starting with uh uh starting um with we've got Mr Ben Owens Mr Nicholas yandi and Miss Carolyn Lopez who is a current School Board member and two hopefuls um let's start um with Miss Lopez and movie down the line and just tell me what can you do if you're elected or for you now to get people to be more engaged in the process of educating themselves about musd and voting or do you not think it's the governing board's responsibility to do that everybody hear me good Christine good um I do think it's part of the board's responsibility um especially when it comes to the bond we're asking to for the community to help us do this right it's a partnership and I think that while you may not be able to change some people's minds most of the time it's that people don't either understand all of the information or they need more information right they want to know and be validated on how that's going to affect them personally um and so yeah I do I do think that that it is part of the board's responsibility to help get the word out um to help people understand what's at stake in these kind of situations and what um what that will look like if it doesn't pass if it does pass um and then there's realistically always going to be people that aren't going to agree no matter what you say but it's just trying I think the best that we can do this yeah before you sign off the other the tail end of the question what would you do to get people who don't have kids in school or maybe who have kids in private school or even homeschooled um people like me I don't have kids how do you get me by what specific means to get engaged with voting and participating so so far I've just talked to people in everyday stuff networking um depending on the groups I attend or the Committees that I sit on I haven't gone door- knocking I'm a pretty busy parent but at any opportunity like I did kids day and walked around and tried to just engage people in it's okay to ask questions it's okay to want more information um I have taken like different calls different I'm constantly bugging Mr Harmon on questions that I get asked to get better Clarity so that I can help answer forther questions whether I'm at the grocery store or Copper Sky Fields like just using any opportunity to help teach educate be open I think the uh responsibility is shared um it is the job of the governing board to be a public servant and so they representative of the people um but it is difficult to be representative of the people if there is no political participation from the people so that responsibility is shared from the public servant and the people themselves um and so I think because of that shared responsibility it's a big part of the uh public servant to initiate those discussions for example this is a great example of that with this event here and we're talking about the bond that is being initiated on the end of the media and the musd20 and that is so that we can have these these discussions with the people of Maricopa on things that matter especially with our children um in terms of trying to engage with people that don't maybe want to have a say in these kind of kinds of things because they don't feel like their needs are being associated with the with the governing board because they don't have children at school I think it's just a matter of again just trying to open that discussion just having basic communication um because political participation goes so much more than just just our schools it goes at the local level the state level so even if you don't feel like you your voice matters within our school district because you don't have children your children don't go here your voice still matters in America's democracy because you can still have an impact on that local level that state level and so it all starts here on this local level and again it starts with our children um and so again I think it's just initiating that discussion and having that form of communication and I think this is a great example of that all right it been a minute can you repeat the question please voter turnout for in Maricopa is among the lowest in the state we can only predict that for Schoolboard engagement would be lower than for the city council where we saw that happen do you think it's the governing board's responsibility to get people engaged including nonparents and parents of children who are not in public schools and if so by what means um the governing board has Direction Over the education it goes on here in marova right um the board um as an individual we have limited or a board member has limited uh influence so to speak right sitting up there there's a lot of power up on this Das there's a lot of experience up on that Das um it is true that and we've seen it in past elections where the school board election is often skipped over on the ballot um it's just just the way it is it's not typically seen as a super important race um what uh what can what can we do well it when it comes to the bond being part of uh like the pack for example that's supporting and trying to get the word out about why the bond is important why 4 488 is important um having individual conversations with people um that kind of thing but um the board and the the district the city all together uh educating people and why it's important I think that's where the where the power really lies now prop 48 and similar propositions we're talking about potentially my tax dollars so of course I'm going to look that way um Mr Owens if you could expound on on this if we're talking about the proposition I could see but for uh for me voting for Schoolboard why should I vote for you or should I should I leave it blank um I think that every race has its own importance right um on a national level obviously there's more there's more people that are impacted than on a city council or a or a uh a school board a governing board um election um but getting people that are interested in this position isn't always easy um it takes a lot of time um so yeah I do think that people should vote for the governing board uh and educate themselves do you want me to go into why you should vote for me personally or are you looking for why you should vote for someone up here for someone but that's a good foray into introducing the I like to start this out with a curveball you know zero prep time I picked on you first because you're already on the board so my apologies um but uh now that my curveball is is over and away let's start with you since you're since you're moving that way and move back this way and have everybody introduce themselves by the way for all the people that are watching at home um you're going to vote vote for three school board members for four open seats um all four candidates other way around sorry other way around sorry of course it's been a long day guys there's there are four candidates for three seats um and there's three candidates here all of the candidates indicated that they would be here but one of them is not maybe Dr lman can tell us about our about your absenteeism policy kidding but uh let's introduce ourselves before the next question and we'll uh work our way back on on this gotcha uh my name is Ben Owens and uh my family and I have been in Maricopa for uh just over 10 years um I've been involved with uh musd um in some fashion for the past eight plus years uh starting with uh site council at Santa Rosa uh four years on the governing board three years as vice president one year as president and the past two years um I have not been on the board but I've still been active um as you can see by my less than professional attire um this afternoon this evening uh I just came from Copper Sky where we uh myself and uh host of other families were just running a swim meet down there um so for example this year we're running seven swim meets in about seven weeks and it's uh it's a lot of time so um if there's any question about my dedication to uh to musd um I'll direct you to some swim coaches down at coer Sky and MHS desert Sunrise um I would just like to first start by saying thank you to M Copa for hosting this event uh special thank you to Dr lman for presenting the uh prop 488 and a very special thank you to everybody being here present for those watching online uh your political participation is very important because at the end of the day we are here for the children uh because they are the Future Leaders of tomorrow's America and that is very important um my name is Nicholas andreski I I just graduated from Maricopa High School back in May I'm born and raised here in Arizona I've been in the Maricopa Unified School District proud member of it uh since I was in preschool um and I've just been doing my best throughout my educational career while I was here amop UniFi to be as active as I could and try to make a difference and impact in my Community uh most notably in marope elementary school I was um I went through the whole leader and me program I was part of the scholars on special assignment and That gave me the opportunity to really see what it can be like to try to make that difference impact and be a student leader um and that has continued throughout my educational career um I was in 24 pintech which is the student repair company at Maricopa high school that is part of the CTE program um and I can say that that being part of that CTE program has definitely made an impact right now in my educational career and can definitely help me in the future um my last two years at Mara High School I ran a podcast in which my colleagues and I we covered important issues on campus to try to create a safe space for students to share their opinions on important issues that are affecting them in their educational career um and so as being part of that I was able to be the voice of the students and now that even though I've graduated from ameropa high school and I'm no longer a student my time here in the community has not stopped and I want to continue to be an active part of that and so I hope I can be your voice hi I am Carolyn Lopez I am a current member of our governing board um I was appointed last December to fill the vacancy that Dr Miller left um and it just so happened that that seat is now up for election I would like a little more time to finish some things that I I am very passionate about my background is in special education helping parents advocate for special needs Services Statewide um and behavior health and I got into this because I was a complainer I was a loud squeaky wheel but I didn't just want to complain I want to fix it I want to help bridge the gaps between our our admin and teachers and amilies and and limit and diminish all of the the miscommunication the emotion behind such sensitive areas of family's lives and I feel like we're doing a really good job I'm really proud of what what we're doing here recently with that I can feel like we're making some changes and and I'm not done so um I also coach I coach for the city I coach basketball I'm always out there I've taken a break this season from soccer and football because it's election time and it makes it a little busier but um I've enjoyed it I've enjoy learning the different perspectives when you're not in it you don't see all the layers but you know that there are layers it is it opens up your world and then you want to sh I want to share that I want to share that knowledge with people with parents with staff with everyone on how it all works and then where can we make things better so hi I'm Jeff Chu the education reporter at in Maricopa and uh the question I have is a pretty obvious one tonight since we've already been uh well introduced informed about uh proposition 488 uh how do you starting back with uh Ben uh how do you see proposition 88 as a benefit to the future of musd um passing prop 488 would be a um a huge Advantage because um we know that we're getting funding in the future for a serral school and I was part of the the land selection committee for that uh um for that site and we looked at uh three other properties as well and having been previously on the board and seeing how the state inadequately funds a school uh to the point where yeah you'd have a wall but there may not be drywall on that wall there probably wouldn't be uh nicely finished floors or decently finished floors um uh a cafeteria and the kitchen equipment there's so many little components that add up to make a school inadequate for what Maricopa unified has said these are our needs um so yeah passing that Bond and setting uh education in the future up and we're not talking just in the next five years in the next 20 years we're talking down the road um is really where passing this Bond now is going to make make the greatest impacts can you restate the question please how do you see proposition 488 as a benefit to the future of MD I see it as a benefit to musd because I think every student deserves a quality education every single student regardless of their background and where they come from doesn't matter what school they go to which teacher they get what part of what stage in their life they are at when they join md20 they should all receive the same quality education and a lot of that unfortunately has to come from the funding that we get and in today's world we're not getting enough of that funding from the state and prop 48 is the solution that does not does not come at a cost to you the people um however it's very important that you guys stay informed um the district has created multiple resources musd20.org Bond um so you can become informed to be a part of these discussions because there's a massive benefit to passing prop 48 because it can make a difference on our children's lives we want to prepare them to the Future Leaders of Tomorrow and so a great example of that is with the high school with the CTE programs um as being a part of that CTE being part of the CTE programs I can tell you it has made a difference in my career my future career and I can only imagine what kind of impact it has made on all my other peers that have just graduated this year and what future students can expect with their careers it shouldn't be oh wait five years ago uh it shouldn't be I I say now my CTE career was successful but then 5 years in the future I look back and I see students who didn't have that same opportunity it should be able to provide every student with that same opportunity if not more going into the future as we get new technologies as you want to prepare students for new Industries and new fields that are created we want to make sure we're on top of that and a lot of that stems from the funding and so I think there's a massive benefit to passing property8 488 okay one more time Jeff sorry I'm listening so intently I'm like what was the question how do you see prop 488 as a benefit to the future of musd so I'm going to kind of piggy back off what Ben said a little bit um I went toured a bunch of other schools and other school districts and were able to see what they are offering when they built their schools and and every community in our state build schools with Bond money not just State money and so as I looked at this and I'm looking at what our education could be in the future right where it needs to be now but also like where are we going to be in five years and the technology behind that and we if we pass this we will have an opportunity to um like Dr lman said and Jacob earlier and like Ben was just saying about the kitchen equipment or things like that just the technology and wiring alone to advance those programs to make what the teachers use for computers or smartboards to be able to teach our kids having the ability to go plug that in in a hallway to use space and get creative versus being stuck just in a classroom or just in this corner it will provide I think in in building a better more useful space and and be able to open that up for whatever our future is in education right we want as many opportunities as we can squeeze in to what we're doing right so that's how I see it the benefits of it is is how many opportunities can we give our kids by doing this we build this building we expand the other buildings how much how much can we get with that in all areas but I'm going to use technology specifically because I think a lot of our education is going to be on that technology type welcome in council member and others who have arrived here we've had a few Jim hi a few more arrivals in the audience and um and more arrivals on the live stream I know there's a couple of dozen people here but I wanted to let know as of right now more than 300 more than 300 people have joined our live stream for for your information so you those are the people you're addressing on the camera there and for the people who join by live stream if you are one of a couple of hundred who have joined um in the last several moments um we've got our candidates here and look we've got a current Schoolboard member a recent musd grad who was very involved and a guy who just came here from a Maricopa High School swim me to make time for this where he administers uh both high schools sports at both both high schools and as a former School Board member so we got the people here they care about schools and I want to remind the people who have joined that uh on November 5th you will be able to vote for three people which is how many are here now but there are four running on to the next question I'm going to change the change the tone here um The Time Magazine last week published an article called how the pandemic broke kids' brains there's a lot of data in the article IQ is down the average fifth grader in the United States is reading and writing at a third grade level is this something Carol U Miss Lopez let me actually start with you and and ask you is this something that you have seen at musd and if so how are you working to make up for what was lost during shutdowns so no I have not personally seen that um I have five kids two are adults I have a tween who does not attend here he attends a different School District um and then we have two Littles and our two Littles attend musd schools but they were born 27 2019 so they weren't quite in school yet for us to see any of this um so no within musd I haven't directly seen that what I have seen is behavior um but I think that musd from being a board member seeing what we do with our parent committees seeing what our principles do seeing what the curriculum is and how active everybody is in addressing any any delay in any area of Education um I'm I'm pretty proud of that I'm proud of how we respond and and it I don't I wouldn't even call it even responding at this point I would say it's it's goals that I think all districts have in how to balance the needs of all their kids at once but I haven't specifically seen you said the reading right all of the above it is it's mainly been behaviors that I have specifically seen uh Mr andreski will go to you you were actually in school when the pandemic started in fact during all of the the shutdowns you lived through that as a student um in your experience did that set education back at all these these Nationwide numbers coming out about the lowest educational attainment in recorded history by Elementary schoolers right now is this something that you've seen is this something that concerns you is this something if elected that you would take steps to address I think it's important to understand that covid-19 isn't the only uh factor of consideration during that period of time um it definitely was an obstacle for everybody's education it was an obstacle that I fortunately was able to overcome and a part of that had to do actually with the education that I received when I was at Mara Wales Middle School I was part of 20 plus1 21st Century Learning and that learning was based around doing work on uh technology using laptops and so when we moved um during lockdown to uh online learning that made no impact to my educational career because I was already prepared to do everything online they use the Google Suite um to do Google meet do uh all kinds of sorts of projects used in the Google Suite that our District employees because I was part of that program um but it not not all not every single student was a part of that program and so I know a lot of students did struggle with covid-19 but it's again it's not wasn't the only factor of consideration um a lot of it also had to do with just the uh social impact that it had on students um I think every student was provided with the same uh at least the district attempted to provide every student with the same level opportunity and the resources that they needed to strive forward um during covid-19 to overcome that obstacle but a lot of it came down to at the home level um with the student needing to make that effort to make that dedication which is why when it comes to these topics of trying to further education especially after we're recovering from events such as covid-19 it is a joint effort that blame does not fall upon any one person it's a joint effort between the students the parents and the U administrators and so I think in terms of covid-19 the administrators did to the best of the ability to again provide those resources and that was part of their responsibility and the rest of the responsibility then fell on to the parents and students to have that discussion to try to further that dedication because when students were left at home there other factors of consideration that took away from education video games social media TV any ways that they could help you know deal with covid-19 because I know that definitely had a mental impact on students and so although they probably had the resources that they needed to strive forward in their education they might not have had the resources needed for their mental health and things like that um and so it's not fair to say that covid-19 is the only Factor consideration I think there was a lot of different influences but at the end of the day it just comes down to that joint effort of the administrators provide those resources needed and then now it is the community to step up and have that conversation between the students and parents to make that level of dedication and to that point Mr Owens I want your opinion on on something a little bit different um obviously there were Nationwide some educational effects of the pandemic but at the same time we're talking about the first generation that grew up with smartphones um the time article as well as many more have explored how the access to technology um and uh cell phone use and internet use um among young children being at an all-time high has also had social and educational impacts this has been a very hot debate in the country recently um you've seen a lot of of lot of headlines in National newspapers about this in in really just the recent days tell me your opinion on where a child's cell phone belongs when they're at school well I'm GNA say I probably got the easiest question out of the three of us all right um that cell phone belongs off or locked up during the school day there are districts I know in in the valley that have have done that and I agree 100% with that that is a major major distraction um if there's an event where I need to get a hold of my daughter who attends desert Sunrise um in an emergency well guess what I can call the school school can then put me on hold and they can ring me you know they can contact the teacher um the students don't need their cell phones right um if there's a teacher that is having um let me let let me just back up a little bit right there are certain applications as uh Mr uh andreski addressed the 20 plus programs those students a lot of times will use their cell phones to do um movies or that kind of thing um in an instance like that yeah absolutely but just having it on having it I know that kids are sneaky right um um it somehow I think should be I I would totally support some kind of a lockup or something like that I know there's been teachers when my daughter was at MHS that you walk in the you walk in the room and you're supposed to put your cell phone in a basket kids lie I get that she saw it teacher saw it I'm I'm sure but I would totally support something like that so definitely any students that are watching my peers you may not be happy with my response um I do feel like there is a time in place for the cell phones um definitely I think there was a time when cell phones were more needed as technology wasn't widely accessible for all students but now that every student is equipped with a laptop um that is fully capable of doing all the required school workk there isn't much of a need for a phone um but I think it's Al although the idea of potenti locking up your phones I think is an interesting idea to kind of mitigate the distraction of cell phones because don't get me wrong cell phones are in fact a distraction um I think a lot of it also has to fall on the responsibility of the student the student needs to learn to be responsible to handle their own devices and their cell phones you as a parent have trusted your children with cell phones now it is part of them growing up to become an adult to follow the rules and take response bill of their own property um and make sure that they aren't using their devices that's distraction to them or their peers um I think it's also this disc that we had with the students uh many students wouldn't be happy with the idea of their property being taken away because it is their personal property um so student privacy is also very important to consider in that regard um but again at the end of the day I think there's a time and place for cell phone usage and I think a lot of it has to do follow on the responsib of the students to take that extra step and realize that um there's a time and place for myself pH I need to focus on my education because the impact that it can have Miss Lopez where do you fall on this I mean on the one hand if there's a rule that cell phones aren't allowed it would follow that that they could be put put somewhere else right but at the same time we're equipping children for every aspect of adult life um do you think they should be able to learn how to resist the temptation in real time so I'm in agreement I say lock them up um I think that it's a huge distraction for the student for the teachers um um and as far as challenging them to take ownership over and learn that responsibility I don't think in our our teachers are trying to teach academics Reading Writing math um problem solving skills I wouldn't want it um to to burden our teachers with more responsibility of well now you you need to now reinforce this other behavior um and then how how do we then enforce any of those rules like that's that's a layered I think that you're just setting people up for failure when you try and do that I think a blanket rule is just a lot better um I think that is more on a parent's responsibility to teach that kind of stuff I think they get some of it right throughout their day throughout the their lives and what they do you but I'm in agreement I think that cell phon should be locked up and um if you learn that you you learn it in other places not in the classroom with your teacher uh Nicholas uh I'd like to ask uh uh does the graduation rate at musd need to improve and if you think it does uh how would you approach that uh so I don't actually have the numbers for what the graduation rate is over the years but what I can say I think there are a lot of instances where there are students who are provided with every resource possible to succeed but they don't take advantage of that and then there are students who aren't provided with every resource to succeed and they want to succeed but they don't have the resources needed to do so um I think again I'm going to keep coming back to this I think it is a joint effort between the community um and having that level of communication between everybody because it's not just falling upon the responsibility of any one person it's not just falling upon the student to make that a lot of what the student does in the educational career is influenced by external factors whether that be administrators teachers staff parents and their peers and so I think it's important to again um provide every single student with equal access to all the resources needed um in order for them to be successful but also raise awareness to these resources there's a lot of stuff that uh your taxpayer money covers for the students that many students aren't even aware of but then there are areas where money is being spent on certain resources that the idea is to make an impact on students lives but aren't necessarily doing that and that money can be redirected elsewhere um and so I think it's I think it's important again I think it's a joint effort between the teachers students and parents to have that conversation and outline those responsibilities and I think a great um resource for that is the plan of a gra the portrait of a graduate that md20 provides I think that's a great example of showing what that path to success is but a lot of students don't know what portrait to a graduate is a lot of students don't know what the Strategic plan is and I think a lot of that falls again on the communication um because a great example of this is high schoolers um high schoolers don't want to be treated like children anymore high schoolers want to be treated like adults they're going into the adult world we might as well prepare them for the adult world and so I think explaining to them here these are our goals this is how you can accomplish those goals that is the first step of initiating that conversation with them and so that they know how they can be successful because if not they're left clueless in the dark trying to figure out what am I supposed to do and although you could argue a lot of that needs to fall on the student to figure that out for themselves they're still growing and developing both physically and mentally and so they need that help through those external influences and so I think a lot of that again falls on that level of communication having those conversations Ben can you repeat the question sure uh does the graduation rate at musd need to improve and how would you approach it there's always room to improve it there's always room for improvement um when I um over the past few years and through the uh through the override um M MHS for example um opened Ram Academy and that in and of itself helped the helped the graduation rate immensely um how do you help increase the graduation rate you help that um with making sure that programs that kids are interested in are available to them for some it might be Bann for some it might be 24 pin um making sure that there's school counselors and um Administration that is keeping and and they are but keeping kids on track a lot of that too comes back on families as well uh in my family where I grew up um and my wife's family education is incredibly important I didn't didn't do so well in school and and I've said this before if I could go back I'd do things a little bit differently in my own education right um um working with Administration and the governing board um understands the importance of graduation what that does that sets students up for the best life that they potentially can have right um and making that known and uh Rel relaying that on to Administration but just making sure that the support structure is there for kids Carolyn I don't have too much to add I mean it's part of our strategic plan I think there's always room for improvement um and like Ben was I think our our Ram Academy's graduation graduation rate was 97% 90 it was high 90s um and so I think I would I I just agree with with what Mr Owen said I I don't see any anything to need to add to that thank you uh so uh since you don't have anything to add I'll give you something to add in the form of a new question this one's just for you and I'll ask you all an individual question different questions these are based on people who are watching right now um the first question is for you miss Lopez because you have been on the board since the spring the question is what is MD's budget is it enough is it not enough is it too much is it just right so I would say um I am more of a person to lean to I don't think there's ever enough money for Education ever um there's always better programs that we can do there's always better curriculum and we pay teachers more and have better facil like I could there's always going to be a need and and I don't think that there would be a sufficient amount of money to be able to make everybody happy in all of that um I think our district from what I've seen since I've been on the board and what I have been told from previous years and and budget issues in in previous Administrations we're we're doing good we have really smart people we have really good people in place to help navigate what we spend how we spend it um so my overall answer is I I think education can always use more money I think it's just about who we have in place to know what to spend that money on as wisely as we can and I think so far musd is doing really good with that I think Mr Harmon would agree with you on all points or or do you think there's too much money just kidding all right uh next question is for Mr Owens um the question is this and it's a two-parter so pay attention um the first question is what was your biggest achievement or favorite moment of when you were on the school board in the past the second part of the question is what do you hope to uh your biggest achievement would be in this term biggest achievement uh while I was on the board uh doesn't have to be yours personally yeah but what's something that the board accomplished then that it benefits to this day um I'm GNA I've got two things two things there for me personally end of the Year celebrations are and again I've said this before the end of the Year celebrations is what carries carried me through a lot of stress through the other 11 months of sitting on the board uh seeing graduates and their excitement um and knowing that uh our district has been part of setting them up to succeed down the road um that's one of the one of the one of the great things about being a board member it really is um I would say in my time on the board with the help of an awesome Administration and incredible people outside of the district and this has been said before to death building a high school in the middle of Co um with sometimes not be being able to meet in person um but seeing that final product um one of I think probably one of my favorite uh pictures that'll show up on on my phone is um is a picture of the completed project at Desert Sunrise uh with myself and Dr L A lot of the decisions that were made that again are carried not just 20 years but 50 years in the future were made during my time as president um and vice president too obviously but um our Administration actually deserves more of the credit on that I think than the board does but those are those are probably the two things there um as far as the future um you know I guess that's something I haven't given a ton of thought to um The Well I'm I've said it before I'll say it again that my goal is to make musd and I know it's the administration's goal the best dist District in Arizona a destination District where we've got some kids that travel up the road up 347 that we're bringing some kids down 347 because we've got the best teachers we've got the best programs we've ' got the best Athletics overall the best District in Arizona that's my goal next question for you Mr andreski I'm GNA preface it quickly or I'll try to be quick I'm not great at it um I went to public school I'm a proud product of public school actually um and when I was in uh when I was in high school when I was 16 I was working at a warehouse hauling 100 PB bags of bird seed um but then uh when I was 20 was the first time I started managing a news company and I've been doing it ever since reason why because one guy had faith in me and the rest is history it seems to me as a society we're ready to give young people a chance to lead in every Arena pretty much except when it comes to elected leadership reason why I only had to get one guy to believe in me you've got to get a majority of people in the city to believe in you so my question is this why should somebody vote for a college freshman to run schools in their city um a wise person once told me um to always know your audience uh those are three simple words that most times this meeting is very simple um there's some moments like here um where that meeting is so much more so to know your audience I'm going to be honest with you guys I don't I may not always know what you want but I can guarantee you one thing I know what you need I've been a proud member of the school district since I was in preschool I've been through the whole process I've seen the ins and outs I've seen the power Dynamic and the level of communication between the administration the teachers the staff and the students I've worked my way up through all three levels of from elementary school middle school high school I've been through a variety of programs or an organization and use variety resources from the district um and of course like I mentioned earlier I created my podcast and a lot of that was focused on trying to talk about important topics on campus um because I've been able to have a lot of these wonderful conversations with several staff and students and I feel like a lot of those perspectives aren't necessarily being heard on a higher level but I've had that experience I've been through that um I've been down the path of change um I faced a lot of struggle and push back with my podcast who trying to get the word out there because a big thing for is communication I think it's very important to remain transparent and to keep everybody informed on everything because that is the most effective way that we can uh write a government is to have communication and so that was a big part of my podcast was trying to not only advocate for freedom of speech and press for students but try to get to the Forefront of these issues that exist and have a conversation about it um but I faced a lot of push back for that and so I went down that path of trying to go up the hierarchy of trying to get board policy changed I've been through all that I've seen the bureaucracy of it all um and there was a lot of obstacles but that didn't stop me um I kept going because I knew I was doing this for not only my peers right now that I was at the time I was in high school with I was doing this for future students because I know that the impact that it can have and the difference that it can make is again we are building the Future Leaders of tomorrow's America and so it is very important that we are focusing on not only the students that we have now but the students that we could potentially have in the future and so I've been through that process I've seen the ins and outs and so as I mentioned earlier I had the wonderful opportunity being The Voice of the students and I want to be the voice of the people of Maricopa I want to be your public servant I want to be here on the board listening to your problems your issues your concerns so I can bring that to the administrator so that we can make sure that there is that level of communication and that flow between all core components of our school district because it doesn't fall upon any one person is again a joint effort between the students the parents the teachers the staff the administrators but the only way we're going to be able to do that is by having that communication by having that discussion and I want to initiate that discussion that is why I'm here tonight that's why I am running for the board so I can be representative and initiate that discussion I'm going to switch it around a little bit uh but talk about hopefully you all can inform us a little more about how you feel about uh uh recent events uh have taken place uh for some reason young students think they can uh threaten or call in bomb threats uh and get away with it uh as if it's lightly so uh I was wondering just how much uh how much see in musd schools and uh how could security improve Carolyn so I know that just this year a couple weeks ago we started the visitor aware um and I think that's huge to be able [Music] to get a um a background on anyone entering our school I think Mar Maricopa unified I think we do a good job so far I think we've done everything that to address safety that we can do I was I sat in on that town the town hall that we had a couple weeks ago um and just listened to parent concerns and Community concerns about what what other things that we can do and I think it's an open conversation um I think we have two more schools to put the the barriers up in the front off offices I I know we have video cameras and faal recognition and all of our staff are trained in all of the different safety measures lockdowns all of that I I believe we do a really good job and we've addressed issues before they arise where I think we could do better is the behaviors that we're seeing in the school so I think so far the focus has really been outside coming in and now immediately it's inside in the classroom and and how do we better help those teachers those staff those schools deal with with what's going on we've done a little bit we've we're bringing in more behavior health professionals to help address some of that but I think I think that there 's some other things that we could be doing partnering um and parent involvement um it can't just be all up to the schools when it comes to that it it we really need that parent participation um when we look at at in inside the classroom Nicholas uh when you were in high school um did you feel safe I feel that in recent years the Administration has done a great job in trying to invest in more security measures but there's always room for improvement and room for improvement doesn't necessarily mean spending more money a lot of that goes with trying to improve upon what we already have so a great example of that was the implementation of metal detectors at Maricopa High School um I can say for me as a student I definitely felt a lot saf on campus knowing that they were metal detectors because it is it acts as a deterrent but I can tell you that there are a lot of students who didn't necessar care about feeling safer they rather saw the metal detectors as an inconvenience and that is because of the way that the proposition of the metal detectors was presented to students because I could I could tell uh speaking on behalf of my peers a lot of students feel security measures as an insurance policy and not necessarily prioritizing their safety that isn't the way that it should be and so a lot of that stems from Raising awareness of what we're implementing so it should so a lot of students when they were told about the metal detectors it was just thrown upon them it was just told you have metal detectors you're going to have to go through that in the morning show your ideal deal with it right it wasn't necessarily A it wasn't necessarily raising awareness of hey we're implementing these metal detectors we're going to go through a trial period um maybe we have resources available to you where if you feel like there's something that you want to improve on you want to comment on we can have those discussions that way as we're slowly implementing this we can further improve it for not only you but other students that wasn't presented to the students in that way and so I feel like a lot of students when they see these security measures they don't see the benefit of that and that is very unfortunate and so I think there are definitely ways into we can improve that communication how we present things things and there's also just a sense of inconsistency when it comes to security measures at our schools um again going back to the metal detectors depending on the day and when I'm carrying in my backpack you could get away with certain things through the metal detector depending on who was Staffing the metal detector that day whether it was just a security officer if the principal was present because there was no common procedure that was established and if there was a common procedure that was established that wasn't being presented and that wasn't being communicated with the students um because students have different types of backpacks to bring different resources to schools and so I think there definitely to be a conversation on that of trying to raise awareness of trying to better discuss what the common procedure is and being consistent another great example of inconsistencies with the student IDs every single year the policy on student IDs is different at amoa high school it has to be visible on your person has to be in your pocket has to be in your backpack it's very different every single year I don't know all the logistical reasoning behind it I'm sure there is good reasoning but that isn't being communicated with the students and that isn't being communicated with the parents and there's the opp but the good news is that there's the opportunity for discussion we have those discussions because the students are the ones that are seeing whether or not their campus are safe you have to talk to the students because the students will tell you where their concerns are the students will tell you where they where they feel like they don't feel like safe if we're talking about issues such as student safety bullying fighting the students will tell you how to handle that the students have great ideas because they're the ones living through that but we're not having those discussions with the students a great example is at Maricopa Wells and Maricopa High School the rampant drug problem that is present you can ask those students and they'll tell you yeah there's a serious drug problem especially usage in the bathrooms and that is affecting my educational career when I'm in class and the classroom smells like weed to the air vents that is an actual concern among students but I feel like that kind of issue isn't being represented on administrative level and it's unfortunate because the students know where those issues are and we have to have those conversations you ask any student every single year students say we should have Vape detectors installed in the bathrooms to my knowledge that there aren't Vape detectors in the bathrooms but I know that something like that would definitely cut down on the drug problem it would help with students education because again when we're thinking about safety of our students we're also considering the impact that it will have on their educational career and so I think a big step going forward is there is always room for improvement again the district is doing a great job right now with current implementation again I myself as a student feel safe but I don't think every single student shares that same belief and I feel like a lot of that has to do with the communication we have to initiate that discussion Carolyn would you agree no um we have Vape detectors backpacks aren't allowed um we have done things and I I don't think that it's necessarily and I'm not trying to exclude our students either but we need the adults in the room and the teachers and the staff to know what to do in emergencies and and they are the guide right and so I I'm not I I'm not if kids aren't comfortable walking through a metal detector oh well go through the metal detector um but I just wanted to clarify that we do we have Vape detectors we have um it backpacks aren't allowed so there is no no concerns with that so we've done we've done everything that we can that we can do to a to a point but that's also why we held the town hall right is to get those ideas what else does our community want what is it that we can do Ben where do you stand on this issue remind me of the the the complete question because it's kind of it's kind of morph just a just a lot lot of bit sure sure I was asking uh uh rmusd School secure uh and uh if if you don't agree with that uh how could they be uh a more secure place for students um again this is I think one of those areas that there's always room for improvement right um I I think that putting the metal detectors in is a huge step in that direction um educating our um the staff they know the areas that there's weaknesses the kids know the areas where there's weaknesses and I agree 100% with uh with Nicholas that having some of those conversations with with kids and they may already be happening I don't know um is is crucial um the aware uh to Simply get into the buildings and some of the uh new security measures um that's huge when we moved here over 10 years ago we came from Minnesota right and in my daughter's Elementary School uh we physically could not get inside the building without presenting our driver's license and we had to stand there for about five minutes before they would even electronically unlocked doors to let us in um was it a pain yes absolutely it was um but I've gone through the aware I've been in to the to the office at at am bigh um my background's good so for me it wasn't an issue getting in um are there room for improvements yeah absolutely part of that partnering with uh the city of Maricopa with the sro's that I think Dr open and the uh Administration have done a fantastic job of building some of those bridges and finding the right officers that can build bonds with students um that help them to feel supported and if there's an issue that those Sr are going to listen the administration um is going to listen there may not anything at this point that can be done there may be I don't know um so much of it comes down to relationships it really does relationships with with our students and teachers um Administration and families being diligent that and and students uh the old um Saye they kind of really came out after 911 you see something you say something that's really kind of where it's at thank you so much for for being here for your time and answering the questions I promise an hour of questions and answers an hour has uh has elapsed and I would like to give you all uh a couple of minutes for a closing statement and a a pitch to the voters Let's uh let's see we let's start with uh Mr Owens and work our way back all right thanks for uh thanks for the invitation um originally um I wasn't going to be able to make it uh this evening um because of the swim meet that uh that we were just a part of but um the uh the team that I work with I kind of told him hey this is kind of important that I kind of need to be to this thing and uh we uh we got things cleaned up really quick so um I'm going to tell you out of the four that are running for the three positions um I've got the most service to Maricopa Unified School District um probably out of the four of us the most unteer hours right um You can look back at my uh some of the things that you know that I mentioned earlier being on site Council um the was it back in 2017 2018 um I worked with M sha franic at Santa Rosa and when I was on site Council and we implemented the watch stocks program and this goes back to that security question specifically in elementaries um getting male role models dads grandpas uncles friends of students to spend a day in the classroom spend a day at school with kids um that's kind of a that's kind of a big a big thing when when parents are involved it matters um when dads or grandpas whatever go to school with their kid I'll tell you what some of those smiles and the pride that those kids have it matters the support that the teachers feel because hey this uh you know a parent gets to see that this isn't just babysitting time right our kids aren't going to school for a babysitter they're going to learn and I've been in third grade class and and I've seen things go a little Haywire um but I've also seen the teachers bring that back in and when um it's an educational experience for for parents so um I've got a daughter in musd like I said at Desert Sunrise she's a freshman involved in a ton of stuff so consequent consequently that means that Dad is involved in a ton of stuff as well right um I've got know people at a lot of the different schools a lot of community uh Partners um and getting their feedback is vital you can ask Dr lopan a lot of times hey Dr lopan when I was on the board previously I I just had this conversation what do you think bringing that back to her and then she funnels that down and she does that for any of the board members um so again my my personal opinion I'm the best qualified candidate to be sitting up on that dis uh for four years starting January 1 Owens thank you um to be fair to Mr yandi I don't think you've had time to log that many service hours um or to be a dad I would hope not um so a lot of people I think are meeting you tonight for the first time you you definitely bring a lot of um unique things to this race um that would be missing without you what what do you want the people who've met you tonight to think about you when they're making that decision in November a big part of why I'm here at this board is to be a role model to the community again I feel like it is very important as the job as a board member to be a public servant for the community and so a big part of that is being that role model that sense of inspiration um one of the most heartfelt things for me at my graduation was that I had students who came up to me um this is the last time I'd be seeing some of these students and they told me Nicholas thank you so much for everything that you did you were an inspiration the fact that you were able to take the initiative to not be afraid to speak what was on your mind and try to create this safe environment for these students in in relation to my podcast that was inspiring that just showed some of the the impact that my work did and unfortunately that was only contained to the level of the high school I want to take that to so much more um I know that some of my views might be different sitting here on this board some of you may not have agreed with what I said tonight but that is okay because I want to have those discussions a big part of me is keeping an open mind and I want to hear from the I want to hear from your guys' opinions to know how we can have that discussion how we can make that Improvement because at the end of the day we're trying to make an impact on our children and so a big part of that again goes back to my role here on the board and being part of that is being a public servant and I want to be your voice and I want to be a part of that journey to overcome those obstacles because I been through that before I've SE again I've been a product of the system I've used a lot of the resources that are still being used today a lot of the experiences I am going that I had gone through a lot of students are going through right now and so a lot of what I have to share from my time at elementary school middle school and high school are still relevant today and I know that a lot of students can resonate with that because I was in their shoes at that point and so I know how they are feeling and now I want to open that up I also know the perspective of the teachers I've had countless conversations with teachers and I want to make sure that the teachers voices are heard I want to make sure the teachers are involved in these conversations just as much as the students are and the parents are because again it is a joint effort on the community um although I might not have as much experience because I haven't been on a board before things like that I do believe I'm the most qualified in terms of topics such as technology I have I've been to the CTE program I worked hard for my certific ifications I represented ameropa High School in The District in several competitions before and so as we are moving forward in discussions such as technology and the importance of it in our school district I do feel like I am the most qualified to speak on those matters um and again that doesn't mean that it is just technology I feel like I want to embrace everything else about the school district because I am a proud member of the school district again even though I just graduated my journey does not end at graduation my journey continues and every other student should feel that same exact way of mar Mara Unified School District made an impact on my life it made a difference in my life that I want to stick around I want to see what it does for other students and that way at some point in the future and somebody asked me hey where did you come from I grew up in Maricopa Arizona I went to Maricopa Unified School District and that's what helped me get to the position that I am at today and every student should feel that exact same way and a lot of that starts with political participation I applaud you guys for being here tonight I want to thank everybody for being here tonight thank everybody for watching online that is a big important part of political participation again as I mentioned earlier that responsibility is on both the public servant and the people you guys have done your job of politically participating and you guys will participate on the elections November 5th and I hope that you guys I can count on your vote on November 5th and that way I can do my part as a board member that way I can be your representative your voice that we can make an impact on the students because again they're the Future Leaders of tomorrow's America thank you guys Mr gasi thank you so much and finally to Ms Lopez you've been on the board since the spring which means most of the time has been in the summer when school is out but I know from reporting news that uh in that time since you've joined you have or musd rather has added needed uh security um apparatus in place um teacher pay is continuing to go up and is is uh very competitive in the state and the nation um even we even since that time that you came on got to see Jacob cow catch his first pass as a as a 49er and watch the desert Sunrise kids uh go into their senior year for the first time so you're the only one who's on the board now um tell everybody why you should stay there I'm not done um I was put on the board well first I I want to say thank you for for doing this um and two we're we're losing to really amazing people from our current board and those seats are that that's a lot I mean that what they bring to the board is an immense amount of knowledge and background and um I'm I am so thankful that I was able to come on board and learn from them they have been great teachers so first I want to say that um I was put on the board specifically to help address special education and I think we have a great start last night was proof we have a new goal specifically for special education and I'm not done with that um although I am a fixer and so it's opened up this whole world of and I love to learn I love to learn the process behind things I love to be part of solutions so I just hope you allow me a little bit more time and I look forward I love I love advocating for our community I love talking with people and getting to know everyone so yeah that's that's won't keep you too much longer this wasn't as bad as I thought I was pretty nervous guys I was I was really nervous this is my first time doing this so it helps when most of the people are not in the room you can pretend they're not here and to those people first of all to the candidates thank you all for your time for your answers for your Civic action and your candidacy um and somebody mentioned it earlier but historically uh the Schoolboard member has has been an unpopular job I mean there's been many of people over the years I'm sure Dr lman can recall people that have run uncontested over the years because there were not enough people who wanted to compete for that spot I think the fact that we have competition is a good sign I want to thank the candidates I want to thank the people that came here I want to thank 568 people who T who have tuned into our live stream and especially I want to thank our keynote speakers Dr Lan and Mr Harmon and musd for being a fantastic partner over the years to in Maricopa for the use of the building and the microphones and everything tonight um and for their commitment to being transparent with us and the press and letting us in and um and trusting us to do everything from report the news in the district to stuff like this so thank you so much to musd if we were here to debate public versus private it would be a conflict of interest but since we're all here for MUSC I'll say as I did earlier I'm a a proud product of public school I believe in public school and we do have a great uh School District here and um Good Luck to everybody who's running and thanks to everyone who's voting thanks again to musd and I think we'll end it right there you all

all right wild cats it's Friday we're going to have some fun I'm on location today here at Crest Creek Park here in West Chicago during the week you might see dogs getting trained there's a frisbee golf course here but it's also home to our boys and girls cross country team we're going to find out a little bit about their season all the hard training that they're doing the amount of work it takes to be a successful Runner they're going to help me become a better Runner too all right wild cats ran into a couple cross country Runners here who am I here with Judah McQueen and Jessica Balmer Judah and Jessica you guys are both on the cross country team captains of the cross country team correct how's the season going so far pretty good pretty good it was going decent until I entered my quad okay you got a little bit of injury you qualified for State last year did you not yes I did first Wildcat runner in a long time to make it a state so you guys put in a lot of miles each week how many miles a week would you say you run between 20 and 30 a week not not a year a week a week in one week you run 30 miles oh yeah okay could anybody do could I become a runner and just all of a sudden run three miles yeah you could you could definitely do it how far is it to the high school from here about 2 miles about 2 miles think we could run it today me and you Jude is a little dinged up he'll coach us from the truck but you think me and you could uh you and I could run 2 miles definitely all right let's see what we can do maybe we'll run into a couple friends along the way all right so we're going to run 2 miles back to school I think I'm ready single knot or double knot my shoes double knot got a double knot okay I'm going to have to do that in a second do I need to stretch warm up or should I just get going we got some Dynamic stretching to do all right Dynamic stretching I know what that mean that means I'm going to move and stretch at the same time right okay all right let's do it [Music] you tired yet not yet doing okay you doing okay good about halfway up the [Music] speet is I can do is someone tell me where to someone tell [Applause] me we got another member of the cross country team here who am I here with Danny you're on the cross country team yes do you like it yeah why I just love running and you know the team team is like really good team Dynamic I get I get want hang out with people but you love you love running yeah you like other sports like I played football basketball baseball growing up like whenever we got in trouble or messed up the coach made us run it's like a punishment that was my favorite part okay so it's not a punishment to you mm you want to join us on the rest of this run yeah let's go down relax try to it out alive and there's for my [Music] life all right we ran into another friend who am I here with Sophia Garcia are you on the cross country team yep how come I love running you love running yep for fun yeah it's really rewarding and you feel good afterwards what do you do to prep for the race the night before I ate a lot of pasta is that past pasta right there for me yeah pasta for you okay so I should have that to finish the r [Music] yeaha and spaghetti toaa pasta take a look see quick question Mr W uh not to be rude Is that real sweat yeah it's not fake sweat I'll tell you that it's real sweat it's hot out the sun's out I'm sweating I'm working hard this is not AI running I'm really doing it Sophia you want to join us for the rest of yeah I'd love to all right here we [Music] go all right wild cats ran into another friend here got interrupted for a second due to a car accident be safe out there when you're running or driving and I'm here with Romeo Alfaro are you on the cross country yes I am okay I've met a few of your teammates and they all seem to like it are you with them you like cross country I like cross country it does get really tiring sometimes and I don't want to show up to practice but I always do Romeo shows up every day some days he doesn't want to but he still shows up one thing when I'm running I don't know I don't know what to do with my hands I feel very like do I make a fist do I crack my Knuckles should I do like one finger up make a knife what what do I do I mean if you're like sprinting and you're going You're trying to go really fast I'm not trying to do that all right then just just keep your arms relaxed keep your shoulders down that's what I do keep it tight whatever not hunched not hunched definitely not your shoulders get really tired what about my hands though what do I do with my hands I said just I I like to open my hands Open Hands I don't have I don't like having a fist open hands full heart all of it thank you Romeo oh [Music] Romeo I keep I keep all right wild cats found another friend who's this CeCe I'm the cross country yeah do you love running I love it love it what do you love about it just running like with yourself and with your team it just makes everything so much better what do you do we've been running a little ways we're over halfway done I hope what do you do like when the race starts to get tough I always have to tell myself to keep pushing harder even though that's hot even though like you just don't want to you just always have to keep pushing go go to the next person you got this okay so pass the next person in front of me all right uh the rest of you they've been with me for a little while how am I doing so far the guys think I'm doing good I think they're just being nice girls how am I doing I think you need some electrolytes okay I have some Gatorade here that'll help me finish strong can you open this for me it's too hard thank you I'm hoping they're not giving me bad advice but they said I didn't need to drink all of it don't drink all of it I'm getting conflicting reports here some say drink all of it some say just sip we're outside of Gary element and you guys go to Gary oh we got some Gary alums here does it feel good to run by the old elementary school some days after school yeah it brings back memories all right I think we're in in the home stretch you guys ready to get me back to [Music] school all right we're getting closer we almost made it are you guys even breathing hard no no so if you're in Cross Country you'll be in really good shape wean into some more friends here part of our senior cross country team are you okay are you okay Mr Wolf I'm doing okay I'm doing okay I'm here with tell everybody who I'm here with hi I'm Dr D principal Jamie Garcia history teacher Misty I hear that you guys run multiple days a week after school together is that correct yep ones day and Friday yep yep why good question you know what I'm getting close to retirement I want to be able to enjoy my retirement so I want to improve my cardiovascular so you want to live long yes all right Dr DWI if I'm not mistaken you ran cross country in high school you did and cross country in college I did and you still run now I do well into your 40s I do well into my 40 uh why is to be healthy and uh and I enjoy it so outfit's okay shoes Okay the outfit's okay the shoes look a little rough Mr Wolf so you got to take care of yourself how about we get you some hocas all right brand new pair of H brand new pair of H all right I'll I'll finish the race out in the you guys mind to join us on the rest of the run back [Music] tool you can do it Mr Wolf I'm good feel [Music] strong only there's an incline here work the hill work the hill the hill long stries or short stes short I was trying to do long stries short we did that good job Jon Garcia joined us thanks Sophia thanks CeCe thanks for the tips don't let anybody tell you cross country is an easy sport these kids are out here working hard every day representing the wild cats this is real sweat not fake sweat keep up the great work guys have a fun Friday good luck this weekend at your meets so I just finished running what do you what should I do now well that was just a warmup so we got our 7 m long run so I got to run more after I run yeah yeah that was just a warm up okay don't do it don't do it you feel warm we'll see I'm definitely warm I'm warmed up but I I might saay the cool down for another day okay hey Mr Wolf you okay I think so it's okay you did a good job thank you I'll feel better tomorrow was way better than we thought you do you said you guys said that I I'll feel great at the end yeah that's not 100% true I'm sure it'll come some you didn't you you'll maybe need to roll out at night do an ice bath ice ice bath ice bath no he I got it hydrate you ready for tomorrow you got to run again tomorrow yeah yeah every day every day every take a day off come on I keep on you yeah yeah yeah

check check that one should be fine Brendan um so move all for go e e e ch for I the jacket when you cross the stage you don't have to put it on right nowm but you can put it on it's okay oh goodness Lydia you'll just set the trend you'll put it on and then everybody else will start putting it on be the leader girl starts and then it go Pur is your last prob wish Austin look at that Jack em l e e e that e e e I would like to welcome everyone to our 2024 fall letter jacket award program uh my name is Stacy Meyer I'm the athletic director here at the high school I like to thank Mr sellers um this is being live streamed to all of our classrooms uh in the high school so all of our students have an opportunity to watch us today want to thank all the parents for taking time out um to come come enjoy our program I would like to start by congratulating all 54 of our award winners for their dedication and commitment to the activity please give these kids a big round of applause I would also like to thank all of our coaches teachers staff and administrators for their support of all of our extracurricular activities and a big thank you goes out to June rigney who organizes this program and is in charge of ordering all the jackets and patches June thank you very much I want to take a moment to explain how each letter jacket is earned first each student athlete must earn a varsity letter in in their sport or extracurricular activity at on or after after your sophomore year every sport is a little bit different on how you can earn a varsity letter after earning your varsity letter you get size for a jacket in our office and this is at no cost to the student then the fall of your junior or senior year you receive your jacket as these student athletes are doing today we have been very fortunate to have First Federal banks sponsor our letter jackets and pay for them through their generosity our students have the opportunity to proudly wear their jackets with no cost to them or their family please give a big round of applause for First Federal Bank I want to now turn the program over to our sponsor president of First Federal Savings and Loan Jim sailor and I think we have a guest speaker his wife Lyn Lynn today as well thank you guys thank you and good morning I am Jim Jim sailor from the class of 1976 I am the President of First Federal here in Greensburg and I'm here along with my wife Lynn we thank superintendent Tom Hunter principal Mike Myers and athletic director Stacy Meer for letting us sponsor this letter jacket program First Federal is celebrating its 141st year of being in business since 188 8 3 We Are The Last of The Almost 100% owned financial institutions here in Greensburg we are governed by a five member board of directors and four of us are Greensburg High grads director First Federal director Ross Davis Tom hunner and myself are high school classmates we all feel as though we owe a lot of thanks to our coaches teachers family and friends for encouraging us we are all big Believers in the power of an encouraging word for the last 18 years while presenting these jackets I have told stories of my sports participation in the 1970s this time we decided to let my girlfriend and high school classmate give the program instead of me and with that I will turn the microphone over to my wife Lynn hi I'm Lyn spring Meer sailor and the one who has always edited Jim's presentations this time though with the Indiana Fever Caitlyn Clark Euphoria when he handed me his draft of this year's presentation I decided to shred his and write my story to share with you today I also decided I'd allow him to do a little bit of editing for me before the start of my freshman year here in 1972 the federal government had just passed a civil rights law called Title 9 you probably have heard of it in history class in simple terms Title 9 gave all schools the go-ahead to have girls team sports before then hard to imagine we girls had no teams to be part of oh you could be in gymnastics Club here so Greensburg High School formed a volleyball team 40 girls signed up played three games two at North and one at South and a tennis team seven girls four matches total my friends on that first tennis team encouraged me to join them for my sophomore year so I had to learn how to play on summer break there were four tennis courts out here that summer surrounded by Farm Fields I rode my bike to the courts with my wooden Racket and the bo boys tennis coach Mr George grol taught us to play boys and girls Mrs Patty hooer was our coach in this new experience of being a part of a real team we were so thankful she cared about us we learned how to win and we learned how to lose especially facing Columbus North our first meet I loved the game I loved my cool tennis outfits short dress most were Handmade by our mothers and My Adidas blue suede Court shoes with three of my best classmate friends I finished my senior year as a number two singles player and continued playing doubles with friends for many years girls basketball was added my senior year here and again I was encouraged to try it by my buddies found out right away how physical the first practice was out of breath with the running and I couldn't handle it so I became a student manager there was one gy brand new and in the same season boys and girls had to share facilities to practice the girls could only practice two days a week in the new gym often 7even to9 in the evening not after school the other days they practiced at the Armory or German Elementary School German was the school in town for fifth and sixth grade students the building today houses senior apartments and is over 100 years old in the small gym in the basement when the girls practice layups they had to be extra careful to avoid banging into the solid brick walls a few feet from the Baseline there may be a french fry or a piece of spaghetti squished because the court was also the kids lunchroom and the custodians may have missed a few food items Miss Trish Walters an elementary school school teacher was asked to be the coach with no experience she had not played basketball bless her heart she told the girls I'll do the best and we'll learn together at one of the practices my friend Nancy broke her ankle and Coach Walters took her immediately in her Volkswagen to the hospital where she called her parents why coach Walters didn't have access to a telephone in the school everything was locked locked up hard to believe but there were no cell phones in 1976 the first girls game nervousness and excitement against Brookville the Brookville team started the game with a full court press and continued the entire game I remember sitting next to the other manager and Whispering oh my gosh aren't you glad we're managers and not playing the final score was 110 to10 the next day at school humiliated the girls endured the teasing Jim wasn't at the game but he had always heard it was a second half before we got the ball down on our end of the floor to take a shot I don't really know but that may be the worst loss in Indiana high school girls basketball history that first season there were nine games scheduled three with South dear North didn't have a team yet the best score at the last South game was an improvement 38 Greensburg 54 South decar still our team lost every game that season the followup to the first girls basketball team no surprise Greensburg had a new coach high school math teacher Mr Bill winning Mr winning took over to move the program forward bringing his prior experience as the reserve boys basketball coach just two years later there were two seniors who had played in that painful first game Amy and Jan at the Brookville game this time Greensburg was leading at halftime Amy and Jan pulled coach winning aside and pleaded with him to let them press the rest of the game he said okay the final score 60 to 43 Redemption for the good gals my how far we we've come I would play I play pickle balm now mostly at Rebecca Park courts dedicated to the memory of Mr grol he would have been a great pickle ball player had it been popular during his lifetime I credit my down the line shot to Mr G when I'm on the court I have flashbacks to High School tennis I realize how lucky I am to be the first generation to play tennis in high school because of Title 9 I don't take that for granted here I am 52 years later the grandmother of two grandsons playing a high school sport when I have the chance to get them out on the pickle ball court a couple of times a year there's teasing competitiveness and camaraderie as if age doesn't matter we have fun Greensburg high school students guess we need to turn this way Mr sailor and I from the the class of 1976 our wish for you is to enjoy your sports experience with your family and friends I'll turn the thank you Mr sailor and First Federal for your continued support and thank you Mrs sailor for those memories um I know a couple of my sisters 78 and 80 were parts of those starter female squads uh in multiple Sports and when you think about Title 9 you think about the history uh and how many young ladies are sitting back here as well we thank you for trail relazing for gchs at this time we want to acknowledge this year's letter jacket uh winners and our letter jacket winners will be coming in front of the podium to shake hands with our um sponsors here along with Mr Hunter and Mr Meyer and so at this time uh students when I call your name please be moving forward the 2024 letter jacket winners Bryson a plup Brant ACA Austin Adams Damon Ashley Elizabeth balser Colt Beni Zack blet Tyson bover Emma Brown Xavier casses Rees Chapman Maya CER Austin Cruz Chloe dick Jacob dearo Luke dwinger Braden Emery Austin Irwin Kaden FY Maddie ghoul Mary Harmon Nikki harping Maddie havland Joe Hawkins Avery Helms Dylan herpel Lydia hersley Dante hes Luke hoing Emma Hostetler brenley Jameson Carson Kilgore Kesha Kors Emma C Aiden Lang Camden Lowden Logan Meyer Malachi Nicolas Cameron Parkinson anuka polling Lane pal Allison powers Carmen ringer Isabelle s Jacob Schneider Wade shoy Jaden swagar Kate sharing mateline shider George slaven Ethan Smith Jaylen Thorton Chase walsman Tyler Williams Kaylee wolffest congratulation again to all of our letter jacket winners as the students retake their seats there these students continue the long tradition of success determination character and grit at Greensburg Community High School this type of event and acknowledgement is a shining example the great effort and potential our students have here and great job again to all 54 recipients again let's give them another a round of applause also again please one last round of applause and appreciation to First Federal Savings and Loan a big thank you to our staff our coaches our sponsors our parents extended families and all other stakeholders for your dedication to gchs at this time this concludes our ceremony our letter jacket recipients will head to the gymnasium for a group picture and we thank you for being here today

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hello this is Yolanda Greaves we have a quick update from Kelly Grill Kelly welcome to Around the Clock thank you thank you for having me Kelly girl is the executive director for the HCA and she here she is here to chat with us very quickly about an upcoming fundraiser SL amazing concert tell us about it I was so excited we do this once a year this is actually our fourth year of having a celebrity uh series fundraiser so we bring in a national act uh as a fundraising concert and the sherett markone uh who I love and it was high in my bucket list uh he has that song Walking in Memphis he was the uh one of grammy as best new artist in 1991 um and he will be there in a very intimate concert setting uh as our our largest fundraiser of the year so just if someone's not familiar with HAC which I don't know why but they might not be where is it and how can they come participate in this amazing concert it is 98 Hayden row Street which is right um in front of or next to hopkington high school on Route 85 and uh you can go to our website hop artcenter.org to purchase those tickets um it's going to be a wonderful evening uh the ticket includes an open bar and then some light snacks um but really what's exciting about it is um being in that small space with such an amazing person he's an incredible Storyteller um and we're really really looking forward to a very special evening great well just I know we usually talk about Ashlen things but hop the HC is really a regional Art Center which I think is an amazing story yeah um so we'll get to that another time but for this little segment uh Mark Cohen Walking on Memphis great show um what is the most special thing for you about the Hopkinson center of the Arts that for people who have never been there would enjoy as they come to this concert so one of the things that struck me this year more than anything is everybody you know has sort of their leaning most people have their Source leaning of art some people like Ceramics some people like dance some people like music but what I've noticed is the through line is community it's really about being together and socializing with people and feeling a sense of belonging so the art brings us the joy and the community brings us to belonging that's my favorite thing especially in events like this well there are still a few tickets left so hopefully we'll see some of you at Mark Cohen this Saturday the 28th of September at the HDA in hopkington and Kelly thanks for being with us thanks

e e e good evening everyone and welcome to the Ashlin planning board meeting of Thursday September 26 I will call the meeting to order at 7:23 um first on our agenda is the clerk's report Kate thank you madam chair we had one email communication to the planning board since the last meeting and that was responded to by the town planner all right great just to report that issue was taken care of all right great thank you um second thing on the agenda is public comment there's no one online Mark do you have public comment good evening Mark Sony 119 Main Street Ash M I got I got an email notice about the town meeting I'm this wonder if there's anything on the agenda that's going to be in the book for Tom itself I think we plan to have MBTA zoning bylaw at the town meeting Mark okay and I asked before you guys before you guys came [Music] on the zoning is all complete and all set up for that MBTA be in front of the town meeting we are working our tail off to make sure that it's uh it's complete and it it will be in front of town meeting okay that's it thank you thank you all right so next on our agenda are the two um modification letters um I think everyone should have received them these are the two modification level two modification LEL letters memos whatever you want to call them can I speak to yeah for H Chestnut Street so I will let um Peter just review that so just as part of the packet um there was uh there's two modification letters one was for the irrigation which was condition number 22 Kate uh Jers uh planning board member Kate jeric did submit some comments um it is in your packet I printed it out it's kind of with the track changes on it um it should be in there yep right there um so that is in here um the original is in here too just for comparison I'm happy to bring both up on screen and then there were no changes submitted for the uh modification approval I do want to make a note uh Kate did make a note that the who made the motion and who seconded the motion those were corrected in both cases Anna made the Motions in one instance I believe celo mov the motion in for the facade actually for the irrigation and then Trisha moved the motion for the facade yeah but I withdrew my motion and then it an his motion yes correct you did you did withdraw your motion yep yep no I just double checked that today all right and I just want to make sure so uh both should both should read correctly on the voting uh the the only change was with the uh special condition 22 on the irrigation uh from K Jers so um so sorry if we just take the the first one first the first one is for the elevation changes um elevation modifications um so the voting on that one has already been corrected correct that one's already corrected yep um did anyone have any modifications to that deep you did you I was abent on that so I'm not sure oh okay um my name is on all these letters so I'm not sure you edit them your name you're you're there as a but you AB right y you were just absent I just put the a so a was absent and you a is absent and abstain is spelled out to make to be clear just to be clear that's and but the sheet next to that just has a formatted that's just a signature block so obviously you would not sign okay okay and we had already voted on it so we were just yeah we were just seeing that if this represented what we what we said because our votes already there we voted on it before so any changes that would be ready to sign that one okay and then the second one um so the second one is about irrigation it's Crossing out the town water and so Kate your change let's see is just the one in red at the bottom of the the second kind of print yes do you want me to read that record next one I'm sorry oh this one so the so as sent out to the planning board it read it read uh excuse excuse me the last sentence of the page the planning board found the applicant the applicant made a full faith effort to install a well on the site but was unable to capture significant water supply for irrigation purposes in vegetation survival uh with a comment from Kate the um the sentence will now read the following the pl Bo understood the information the applicant presented concerning the efforts to install a well on the site that was unable to capture significant water supply for irrigation purposes in vegetation surviv is the is um the planning board understood the information the applicant presented concerning okay let me start again the planning board understood the information the applicant presented concerning the efforts to install a well on the site is that that needed was the planning board understood I think the word understood is what throws me off a little bit isn't it should it be a that the under the planning board understood that that the information I I think comment is to say like we understood the the information that they gave us but I think we understood that the information confirmed that they were not able to get enough water isn't that kind of missing another word to complete it um let me just when I sent this in why so on the 100 Chestnut irrigation while attached the markup I I did not think that it was the basis of vote that we quote found the applicant made full faith effort we did not actually receive any documentation nor made any efforts to have an expert third party review analysis of that situation documentation for clarity I'm not saying the applicant wasn't believable it's just that for that kind of finding such a draft is written I would want some verification so right that's the like it's I I don't think it meets the bar for me to say we found so are we still questioning this I think that I think the wording just isn't quite right like it's hard to understand I I would what about something like um oh I might have just lost it hold on yeah I think so it sounds like oh you okay um what about um from the applicant's presentation the planning board understood efforts to install a well on the site was was unable to capture sufficient water supply for irrigation purposes and vegetation is that were made efforts were made okay so it would be um from the applicant's present ation is that what I said from the what from the applicant's presentation the planning board understood that what efforts efforts to okay yeah but it was unable to capture there we go how about that so um from the applicant's presentation the planning board understood that efforts were made to install a well on the site but it was unable to capture sufficient water supply for irrigation purposes and vegetation survival does that does that fit with your what Your is that yeah I might just repeat well in that second one like instead of it okay but it's not super necessary but maybe clear do you want me to do it again Peter so I have that from the applicant's presentation yep the planning board excuse me the planning board understood that the efforts to install a well on the site but it was efforts were made oh efforts were made yeah that efforts were made to install o well on the site but but the well but the well okay was unable to capture blah blah blah is the applicants an apostrophe yes yes from the applicant's presentation comma thank you the planning board understood that efforts were made to install a well on the site but the well was unable to capture sufficient water supply for irrigation purposes and vegetation survival good all right okay um and the voting there is good with everybody um my only comment on it is that it has approved it's my fault oh that's a good good catch Y is is the other one um you know what I caught that on the printed one okay we're all set so and do you do um okay that one was for zero because there's only four of us there and we all voted yes the other one should be the was four of us three Z I corrected it after it was put in here oh so so on your thing I'm on mine yeah so I'm sorry I printed I didn't want to go back and print more but are both of them 301 on this so did you catch both of them oh I got to put three1 do we need the one one's four Kain no so I meant both the top and the bottom yeah so the first one is just the first one's just 4 zero and then the second one is three zero one for yes no abstain okay sorry to make you print again no it's okay no the second one oh I'm so confused okay so on the elevations one we'll use that way on the elevations one the vote would be three one no three one 301 someone else do this got I got it I got it all taken care of and then the irrigation one is 4 okay okay I believe you guys okay so those um how many copies are there of each of those it's just three one will go the clerk one will go the applicant and I'll keep one in the planning board off so you'll lay those out afterwards yep okay okay so um so next on our agenda Because unless anyone has any comments and that we'll be moving on the next on our agenda is the a review of the actual bylaw um that reflects what we've been talking about um there are two copies of it in here you might want to take them out and put them side by side because the one with the green the one with the green on the front is the current copy so this went out and I apologized because I hadn't really had a chance to really go through it um and when I went through it I thought there was some things in there that we that we just didn't need right yeah the green is a little hard to read um through that but what the green is saying and making clear and there's two areas of green if you turn the page what the green is making clear is that um is that uh when um that anything not described in here reverts to the underlying zoning which is what we always intended but um but in some cases like uh 10 to 60 Main Street there's there's two underlying zonings right there's industrial and add so it's trying to clarify that the The Zone the underlying zoning we that that we intend is the ones out of section 8.1 of the ashin bylaws which are um overlay districts and Special Districts and so in the other one when we're laying out the subdistricts then we're really clear about that right the underlying zoning is rail Transit District the underlying Zone in Ashland downtown district not industrial right so that's what we wanted to clarify in there um I think that's the only change on the first page obviously you can see I did my little formatting so I think it's easier to read so on that the the green that the sub so why wouldn't it be both underlying I'm I'm confused about that I'm sorry why wouldn't it be like why wouldn't it be like on on Main Street that's it's commercial and then it has an overlay of add so why do we only list one of them because we want I think commercial what is it what is it under um Pleasant Pleasant Street it's industrial yeah so base zoning is going to be industrial for everything really within add right so for Pleasant Street and 10 to 60 M base zoning is industrial then the other overlay District right is ADD which is the mixed use which is the mixed use we're trying to pull what we want to promote we're trying to pull from the mixed use right and not the base zoning right because in add we have uh you know principal you know standards you know the the performance standards how the buildings look the form the form based code formed code is all in add it's not an industrial so understand I so I guess I'm confused about this because me I'm simple mind it says subd districts I would assume you'd List It just I thought it was just a list so it's listing some of it but not all of it and so I I'm on page three of five4 where you say there are five subdistricts y all of which are shown the subdistricts are a Memorial Drive underlying zoning rail Transit that stays y b underlying add and it's I think a which we maybe oh right should say but I don't know if that's important but then I don't understand why it doesn't say the base zoning because we don't we don't want them to refer to the Bas we're saying which one will apply yeah if if you it's just still on definition so I guess that's um because this the the page prior to that for subd distri okay um but okay I just don't I don't understand why it we're directing them to the underlying B to the underlying Zone that we want them to yeah so we're trying to direct down when they do when when they submit a project right if they if someone ever uses the MBTA onlyon bylaw yeah and they submit a project right we saying you from a performance standpoint right from a architectural standpoint how you design your project we want you to mimic the overlay District right which would be for 10 10 to 60 main Andor Pleasant Street would be add so we're pushing people to add and using those standards rather than saying go to the industrial zoning District where really do not have any zoning standards besides setback and height right this is the end of the message the beginning of the message is on applicability where we say what is the intent the green part right and then this basically follows yeah it just follows that so the yes so the green part in the front when it points you to section8 though that's where all those overlay districts and special districts are in the bylaw they're all under Section 8 so once you read this first you you have the rules of the game and this is just describing yeah and I guess it's just because it's an overlay and underlaying and that's confusing and I understand why it's written that way I don't know if there's better underlying then you have two overlay no I understand but you're referring to an overlay as an underlying and I think that does get a little confusing but yeah underlying zoning overlay District yeah it's like you don't I know other words we can use open for suggestions but that's a term of Art in the in the document right an over dist that's how it's described in the bylaw yeah I mean it use it's used here and and most of this verbage which Peter put together is from a um it's from a sample byw it's from a sample bylaw given by the state and if you go look at like Westboro and Northboro it's like everyone's kind of using this sample language I mean I think it's the way that it's laid out is clear that it's saying the underline especially to Marcel's Point like if you're following from the green we're directly saying the underlying zoning that would apply in sub District a is rail Transit districts like so I think it flows in that way I think the question about whether would it be a Miss if we call that as an overlay District in our bylaws are called overlay indor Special Districts you know it's section eight of the bylaws they actually points out as they're actually Special Districts yeah like the um like wild wood is a special district it doesn't overlay anything it that's the that is the underlying zoning in Wildwood and I think rail Transit as well correct the other ones pwn Street um pwn Street downtown it's just pwn stre downtown the two sites those are overlay districts and we're pulling it right from the bylaw So reading the bylaw Section 8 titled overlay and specials excuse me overlay and special District regulations so that's what she's asking so can that Main Street be overlay District instead of underlying in page two or page four whatever that number is I think the reason you want to say underlying zoning is because we're and when you see the green part here we're saying the underlyings what we want you to use of the two options yeah and it won't be in green obviously but yeah that's a title that's used underlying zoning and so it's trying to say connect the which underlying Zion do we want you to use like this is obviously going to be a bylaw that is like meshing into existing bylaws and that's something I see a lot and it's hard to like do it perfectly but I do think like the wording tracks in this instance that but that paragraph is talking about zoning underlying zoning this is talking about subdistricts so I'm not sure if it's going to be the underlying zoning in the subd district true yes so those are two different things right the if I'm understanding the confusion like subdistricts is what MBTA zoning calls this like you can have a district or you can have subdistricts right so that's the proper terminology for these five Parcels we've pulled out each of those five Parcels have an underlying zoning some of it for two of them it's the same underlying zoning though they are a different District right like we have we have Pleasant Street and we have um Main Street right so we have Pleasant Street and 10 to 60 main those are two different districts um but they have the same underlying zoning so all this is doing is saying like per the my for my understanding and my read of it is and I think it's well done is saying if you are using NBTA zoning here are our five districts under the MBTA zoning provision and here is the zoning the underlying zoning in each of those subdistricts that we want you to comply with if you're using the MBTA zoning law and I think that that Stacks clearly and I think the thing about the districts is that I was going to say I mean um the two downtown ones are the same I think in every other aspect they're add but but I think because they're separated you have to call them a different District right like because different Parcels right they're not contiguous so this one has to be five this district has to be five acres and this one has to be five acres you can't say oh together they're five acres right they're that's why they're different districts so um I I think I have that correct right no you are 100 Sor Excuse me yes you're 100% correct because they're different districts are not contiguous you have to you're separating them up and so that's what we're doing from a from a zoning standpoint they are 100% similar in the terms of underlying relationship to add and where they're kind of go from that so do we have on the map because I'm reading the definition right above of subdistrict an area within the mcod so do we have to call the whole like everywhere that hits these sub areas and then the sub areas yeah I mean the whole the overlay district is all of them together it's like the whole bylaw no no no I'm talking about the map because it it's calling a subdistrict an area within the big District yeah I think what you're saying the answer is yes all all of them are one are are one one over District correct they're a one together yeah and different parts there are five different subdistricts within that one so not contiguous so therefore together they are one separate into five separate sub that's the map I guess makes that well that they're going to in the zoning map it will be represented accordingly with the same hatch or whatever designation 100% yeah yep and we have that map I don't was it sent I think was it sent I don't you know what I'll super easy to execute said no I can resend the map I think I thought was the map did you guys see the map was I did not see was it sent I mean it's not in here it's the map of related to the bylaw called see it maybe you can bring it up so it's it's similar to the maps you've been seeing but you know so just to talk about something else while we're doing that one of the things we debated a little bit about we you can you can weigh in here is the name of the zoning District you'll see in the first one it's mcmf O and I'm just like I thought that was a bit long what does that stand for MBA communities multif family overlay district and first I at first I took out the MF completely and it was just mcod and then I realized in the sample that in the sample that the state gave they used MCM o you know and so I just decided to go with that for ease and Clarity like this is what it is it's identifiable so do you need the F no right so I took out the F that's what I did that makes sense okay still five letters but you know little shorter and then the other thing um so while we get to the map on page two if you go through this line of definitions um there was just one of them I think I think it was building coverage that um that we wasn't used in the bylaw again these definitions are from the the um provided draft bylaws and so but age restricted housing we do use and that wasn't in there so we added that in um another thing we changed was um here on on the first version you got it was called a residential dwelling unit but we always just refer to it as a dwelling unit the building code refers to a dwelling unit so I just took off the residential just to call it a dwelling unit um seems pretty uh self-explanatory yeah um I have a question on the one that as of right um um so as of right development May proceed under the zoning in place at the time of application without the need for special permit variance zoning Amendment or other discretionary zoning approval so I realize that that's um actually in the state statute because I was looking it up my concern is I I we don't control if that's what it is but like so now if if a lot would need a variance by state law is that overriding it or is it just like a unfortunately a bad use of the term of Art and it really is a legal term right so like if and is there any way to correct that if right so if you need a variance you go to the zoning board of appeals there's there's very tight conditions by state law yeah then is not as of right at that point but by them saying it's as of right does that overwrite that that's what I'm trying to find out I think it's the use this is all about the use um so I think you have to look at it um I assume if we look at it in context um use is permitted as of right so the following uses are permitted as of right it's not saying anything you want to do is permitted as of right the uses are permitted as a right so there is something but that's not what it says in the definition right but you have to apply the definition to the sentence to what it's modifying where's that okay so you you shouldn't have to ask a variance for your use right because the use is as of right correct and I can say I would say that you know in in many towns the zoning board of appeals are not even allowed to issue a use variance it's Ashen you cannot apply for a use variance it's illegal when you when the when the town adopted chapter 4A section 10 variances towns have the option to either to to to to take with it either the ability to issue use variances Andor dimensional variances town of Ashen as many other towns do only have the right to issue a dimensional variance we do not issue I I have never issued a use variance within the 10 years of me the municipal planner so where's the part that says it's only for use I guess I didn't see that it's just under permitted uses number five where that's that's why that term is there what does ADS of right mean it means you can follow the use is as of right it doesn't say the I don't know um whatever else you might need a variance for okay okay so it but yeah I guessin little sketchy but whatever that definition just when you get to this point if you have a doubt you will revert to the definition but it's relative to permitted uses but why couldn't you just say uses then and be clear because I think it leaves it open but whatever I can't rewrite whatever again this is the states I know it's a sample though I mean didn't say you have to yeah I know but I'm not sure I agree with your interpretation of of that um you know so I read contracts when there's when there's not clear things that doesn't usually work to the town's Advantage so it it's essentially not clear but whatever that's fine I mean I think this is the whole point of 3A is yeah it's removing any hurdle that the locality might put in place to allow multi mul houses so like that the by right or like as a right use is like the that is that is the central right thing so I think not not that I agree with like the everything that comes with it but I I I think you know to your to your point like not every single variance that someone might need to build I think is covered by you have you have a right if you're using the zoning to make multif family dwellings or if you're in District b or c commercial use as Allowed by the zoning but that's the part that you wouldn't need the variance for not like some other random right thing that is there that like that requires a variance like a setback or something like like that yeah like I I agree 100% And I I you know the term variances I think it's thrown around a little bit too easily yeah to tell you the truth um what I have heartburn about but I can't and I think they're few and far between you know I think this comes from the state obviously yes they did throw it in but Appliance section you know section 10 of 4A what a variance is I just think you kind of have to accept what the state's definition is is move forward there there are municipalities where you can apply for right oh yeah there's there there are municipalities this is an umbrella definition of the state is using correct that needs to work for every municipality that's enacting a bylaw so correct when you have a use as a right say use that may proceed under the zoning instead of development and then that then it's clear can you repeat that again so in the definition as a right yep if you said use that may proceed under the zoning in place at the time that's exactly what you all are communicating that is not what the definition says I'm okay with that I mean this is the states yeah I mean I didn't check to see if that exact definition is the exact one like if a word got off I didn't look at that Peter if we it's pretty I did I mean I get it I'm just saying that is a conflict or not clear I should say more have they okayed our whatever we we submitted to the to the AG's office no we have not heard back okay so if like we changed that could that torch them approve it in time for time meeting they don't we wouldn't even submit it I would just you know if we made if we made that change I would I would run it to to council Lisa and I would see her take her take you know obviously her take on it and she obviously work as this has always evolved you know she's been kind of with us yeah step and step you know I mean you know there are communities C that have had that torch their exactly and if something doesn't pass you know and and to tell you the truth when a AG's office you know when they do approve a bylaw or they disapprove a bylaw or I don't I don't want to speak for eohc but for from a from a AG's office perspective they have past obviously they have made changes to wording verbiage right and they just they make the change and so they approve it upon this new language and so if they disapprove they could just strike it and move it back to development and then you say you're approved with that and sorry I don't mean like the typical AG review I mean the review that's going on like for these in particular to make sure like the math works and stuff I don't know if they're looking at all of this like little stuff no okay perfect and that's why it's taking once once hopefully we vote for this at town meeting it's taking four to six months before you even find out if you're good right because they're they're checking everything so but that's review process that happens after there is a review that because they looked at our spring one and said it was good yeah like the number crunching I think the number crunching number crunch yeah they're not looking at your whole bylaws you know that's a much longer process is my understanding okay yes so I'm okay with that because I think I mean number one leas will take a gander at it and if she says oh no way you know then it goes back if it's like yeah fine then we'll send it to this you know we'll leave it as is and if the state's like nope we don't like that word we'll change it and that it is what it is so is everyone good with that sure okay all right so here's the um here's kind of the big one use is permitted as a right and this is highlighted in yellow and this talks about the okay uses permitted as I've right one dwelling multif family yes that's the whole point two this is about the subdistricts for mandator mandatory mixed use determination but this doesn't really work with what we're doing is what we've found out do you want to yeah so I can kind of dig a little bit deeper into it so obviously we have been we did apply you know as asked for the um for the Mixed use of areas excuse me Pawn Street and along Main Street digging deeper um I have come to find that a mixed use District right when it becomes mandatory mixed use the units can count towards your total but the state subtracts that land area from your total mass right and so with that said to do the numbers appropriately is that right now we have 5 six acres all together including Pleasant Street and 10 to 60 Main Street of those is 14 of the the the 56 Acres we can apply I think it's 281 units to our overall total but therefore we have to subtract those 14 acres right and I'm still waiting for C I need to I'll confirm this with the state um from our total which is 56 that puts us under the the needed 50 acres so therefore we're running into a little bit of a a situation right Gap because the commerci because the mandatory mixed use is not a compliant subdistrict that's the terminology that they uses is because they because of the commercial use so they're saying because you have a commercial use it's not solely 15 units per acre residential therefore you cannot count the 14 units to that total yeah so here's the um this is from section 3A the fact sheet above mandatory misuse districts is a mandatory mix mixed use District a 3A compliant District No a mandatory mixed use district is not a 3A compliant districts section 3A of the Massachusetts zoning act requires compliant districts to be to allow multif family housing as of right mixed use development does not qualify as multif family housing because of the non-residential uses so I think even in our bylaws we have multifam as a use and mixed use as a use but they're not the same so the and the the MBTA zoning is only multif family can we separate B and C and get there like how many acres is B is present how many AC no you can't the only way we could do it apparently is to take a little strip off kind of and and and Zone the little strip for mixed use but the thing is I think to me the effort would be for appearances only because the underlying zoning as per 9 to 49 I mean which is addc I think but you can already do mixed use in add in fact it you know encourages it and you can do it as a higher density than then than is allowed by the MBTA so you can do it anyway we don't need this to mandate they don't have they don't have to do it anyway they can you know if they want to do mixed use they they can do it under the underlying zoning they don't need MBTA to do it right so the danger is if someone the danger of everybody wants housing so the only danger is is having less say if it's if it goes the MBTA because it's by right having less say yeah because it's um it doesn't come I mean I I'm sticking up for my colleagues in the planning board I see how hard we work to make projects better right and so it won't have that process because they if if they take the MBTA zoning it's by right meaning they could choose to have a mixed use because the underlying zoning is there but that if they wanted to do 100% residential they can by right and then it's a a different process if we remove this right right that that so I'm not getting it because I can do 100% multif family bu right in under in the underlying zoning as well and put commercial to that right if they I know and you can get a higher density a higher yield yeah so what is it saying so if somebody wanted to um just the the simplest way is perhaps I'm using the MBTA zoning by right that is the whole reason the state made this to make less restrictions so if you take out the commercial now those Parcels that we would like to see commercial we've said that in our in fact they're starting out as commercial zones and the overlay is mixed use we would now be making them all residential allowing to be we are making it a possibility to be all residential is saying that that possibility exess under the underlying zoning as well the underlying zoning do you have your yeah it's right here the underline zoning allows that by right anyway at a yield of two so there's no change there's no change but the density is different it's just that including this screws us on neighor correct sorry for yeah I know you're 100% right multi family dwellings 80 it's included by right including the mixus for C it's a special permit because those are supposed to be less dense but ad days if we lose those is the most dense and you can do you would mixed yes is allowed bring in other words this is our attempt to like guarantee ourselves some commercial on Pleasant Street in Maine but it undercuts our acreage but it undercuts our acreage right 100% however when you look at Pleasant of main you're in add and your yield under add is going to be much higher using add at a at a at a floor area ratio of two right now Alvaro and I did the math today around four o'clock right and using a acre lot right um with 15 units per acre each each I think it was each um um each unit had a had a area of 1500 square feet you had a yield of a f of one right and so with this all said and done you're still going to have a higher yield of a Unico using add right and to to just to clarify anybody using MBTA zoning still has to go through design review still has to go through site plan review right we are not giving up anything within those twoo right we still have to go through those review processes for storm water for Ingress for eass for fire department safety those items are always still there right and so any developer is going to have to meet from a health health life and safety standpoint access in and out of site but then also they have to meet the storm water requirements of the state currently right and so I don't think we're giving up anything um but to meet the qualifications and to compliance you know this the the the mandatory mixed use does create a situation because it drops us down below now this was just learned obviously coming through um and I'm going to follow up to confirm but there is a situation but if you retract the mixed use the the the retract those mixed use we can plug along with the B that we have knowing that anybody that's going to redevelop in that area using add is going to get a higher yield and obviously residential mix res all residential development is allowed by R and for none of the public forums did we ever talk about mixed use we always just presented it as housing because that's the sure thing right that's that has to be there those 50 50 at least 50 acres right so um we never we never talked about the mixed use um I'm sure people be great with mixed use I'm not opposed to that but it's it's already we did talk about it being already in the underlying zoning I think if it keeps things as it is anyway like if this was just sort of like an attempt to have something be even better but it could be all apartments anyway like I my personal stance is that it's not worth losing the acreage I don't think we we in a way we C can't we can't use lose the acreage I mean we can't get below 50 we can lose we can lose the six by maybe kind of like I said taking a strip near the street because that's where mixed use would be and calling that strip mixed use and then having the area behind it residential but it starts to get really messy really quick seems like a futile exercise well that's what I'm wondering is it just like what what are we what are we gaining when someone could just take the underlying Zone instead of splitting their site they would just take the underlying zoning and do mixed use if they wanted or all residential if they wanted so if I'm a developer what is the incentive for me to take the MBTA is just additional density no not in the way we're doing it not in the way so you if I was just looking at my yield yeah I would be better off going with the underlying District anyways which is already an act because you can remember 9 to 49 which we just went through yeah is 0 91 Acres yeah like 29 there's 29 units on it plus commercial space yeah exactly so they did it using that so they did it and if you look at and that f is only no maybe with I think the F was about 9 to it was and this F is it's two it's double what it is that's this is kind of right for zoning changes because I think that's not what people wanted that's not what our zoning says it says miuse and I I mean I I just have heartburn over because you you kind of zone for what you want right and then we're saying all residential so it it's probably can't change at this point but I would like to see that whole thing Revisited because if we have some massive byright housing I haven't heard people say they don't want housing what I've heard people say is they don't want giant apartment buildings they'd like to keep a character of the town that sort of isn't you know totally agree but what I'm saying is that that's a part of our underlying zoning it's already oh no I understand I'm but we're the planning board we can offer suggestions about revisiting we should revisit we and that we we could but that's a double-edged sword too as we have seen mhm because yeah you can you can have your cake and eat it just so long because people if you say people don't want too much housing then you get 40 beats and P here is not worth it to to like blow up because you don't have enough housing enough affordable housing so you cannot want it until you get it well this the thing like I totally agree with the mixed use that's why we that's why we pursued 10 to 60 the way we did for so long and tried to get it right right we we agree with that this just isn't about that nor is it I mean nor are we making it appealing to do that could someone still do it yes but they can do it anyway like without this zoning but and like I said because because it didn't go through for whatever reason now we have now we're dealing with a 40b specific location yeah and frankly if we do 15 units an acre that's a lot less than they can do if they use the underlying zoning so yeah and we did those there's no there's no change really and from design point of view I think a developer would really lose value to a property but not creating that commercial aspect for a multif family housing um I think by default yes the scale of the commercial space may vary but I don't think any of the developers would do that by creating especially like Main Street where you're right off the busy street you would not want to have residential units on that level anyway so um I think the same is true for Pleasant arguably like yeah Pleasant has a little bit of kind of still that depth to that street is a little more wider but I think Main Street is too busy and has lot more walkability it will not be a great unit to be on level one it won't give you that privacy to that unit hard for him to sell so hopefully the same I mean c no one if this is like multif family and you're thinking about like you want families with no age restrictions things like that no occupancy no one wants their door opening out to a train track yeah true so there's already kind of built-in incentive to put put that coffee shop on the bottom floor right or whatever so um yeah so anyway that that's where that's that's that's where we are with that so um so our suggestion would be to just take out that yellow section and do what we have been presenting through the forums which is just talking about multif family and obviously when we get through well don't even have to get through comprehensive plan but start to look at these zones and see what we want to do differently right these bylaws were made I don't know when before our time and just to add to that point you know I think and I think what to Kate's point is if if the town wanted to drop that F from two to to 1.5 I think that would be a conversation to have right yeah be easy um that would be a good conversation to have um and I think that could that could be spurred on from from this obviously compliance of the MBTA and I think obviously that's what we're all striving for is compliance the funny thing is somewhere in the MBTA zoning an F of 2.5 was cons was was considered low like that was the lowest category 2.5 and Below yeah it's nothing right it's nothing yeah so anyway it was just kind of funny when I a Subway in a Subway District you to be 2.5 and so and that makes sense but here where we are we are so okay so the next yellow section um obviously prohibited abuses I the ones in yellow because I it got added at the last minute and it's different than what you received but we should have something about it is prohibitive to have um limits on the size of the unit it's the number of bedrooms the size of the bedrooms and the number of occupants that's um that's from the what's that yeah that's the that's the exact yeah that's where we would like to have control it's to it's to not um have something in there that can prevent you from doing family housing yeah stud you can we just can't say it has to be Studios and one bedrooms we can't limit the number of three bedrooms and right yeah exactly okay dimensional requirements there's a few things on here I don't oh uh okay am I looking at the wrong one hold on a minute no sorry I was looking at the wrong one I was looking at the old one um so um on the dimensional requirements um those are just highlighted from the old one because I have way too many copies of this thing I think on your original one that first 25 was a 20 yep correct um but when we went back and looked looked at the zoning it is it's a 25 foot setback um so Alo tried that in the model to make sure it works out fine it doesn't change our units so we put it back at 25 again just so we're just trying to stay with the underlying zoning scale yeah yeah we're trying not to change anything in here we're trying to just use the underlying zoning the same thing with the two numbers below that 15 and 15 because that other language comes from um the downtown now where sometimes you have you have a a lot with there's no it it's a party wall on each side right in downtown and so you don't really want to require a setback if someone rebuilds there so now you have this weird setback instead of having just buildings with party walls that are currently existing right so that's what that's what that is so anyway but in in in these districts if we think about Pleasant Street and we think about 10 to 60 Maine we don't need a zero side setback that that makes no sense there are no there are no common walls there's no party walls that exist so that's why we just put it at 15 and took out the zero because that's a little strange um the other part of this um which is something we would have to I'd have to have elro check is the minimum front yard 8 ft um in the in the bylaws that's 8T for mixed use which is why we had it 8T here and it's 15 feet for residential um so that's something I would want to change back to 15 if the model can accommodate it and I can speak to that I don't think the model will have an issue with that okay different things you've tried over the with the different things we've tried I think that's a minimal change and I don't think we'll have a kickback okay so we'll so that hopefully we'll go to 15 or as close as we can get it you know 25 to maintain a residential setback of 15 that's what it is for all residential in our bylaw so um the other things come out of they should look familiar to you like the 38 feet we talked about that a lot with 10 to 60 Main Street for the four stories on d and e um they are four stories that's um Chestnut Chestnut Street and 501 Pawn Street correct and so those were four stories um but we didn't really have a maximum feet amount so we just we made it um we looked at the construction drawings yeah we and then made the relative amount I I forget what that was like if you take 38 divided by 3 you get like 11 point something then we took that number and times it by four and so remember these are four stories but also might give room for a roof right a a gabled roof or something above those four stories so um um just going to say something else having to do with what I saw in the state requirements but um but I can't remember what it was but anyway so it made um kind of logical sense I guess and it also we went back and looked at those projects 100 100 Chestnut Street and 501 Pawn straight and generally they have a line about hey our roof Heights our roof height is like 47 or 48 ft but that's showing it at the at the most typical roof line and then there's stuff above it you know but those those those areas don't really have a height restriction so we're kind of putting one on um common open land we put in there I don't remember where that was from if I think that was kind of from our bylaws and not necessarily oh which one because I feel like so if we're giving res zero place fors I think and that would be people right but I think with this um you have to in the spreadsheet you have to allow for enough space to actually construct what you're saying you're going to construct at the density you're allowing so you would have to give a you would have to say how much space are you giving you know you'd have to be I think more specific about it so um but I thought the well I'm not the one doing I'm not sure I know they have when you're build you mean when you're building the model right yeah yeah when you're building the model up and you what I Alvaro is the one that's been doing all the GF where I can build the model up but when you do build the model up it is looking for these very specific things right um this is language but we've seen it I've seen it in a couple different B you know I've seen it here and and reviewing other things I think the word encourage is strong enough that and it and and obviously the other thing is I think when you when someone builds these developments you know they're going to want to make these appealing for rent right and so nobody's going to make an unappealing obviously development and so I think having a insane encouraging for open space I believe is strong strong enough um how it it affects I think you do have to build into the model you know 5% 10% what is that number you know I think you know I can't say we'll look into it because of where we are in in in the creation of this bylaw and in the model but we're we're staying consistent with with the state and in other communities I know encourag doesn't mean anything though I mean there's no teeth to it so it's like it's nice words but you have no way to get yeah remember you just have to remember that all these sites are everything we've set is either the lowest density we can or stuff's already built there so I yeah I'm I'm not saying that statement isn't isn't important or valid I'm just saying it it's just it's not really a worry like at this point like I said all either the either the units are that's so low that it'd be really strange for someone to take that path or there's already something built on the site right those are our districts that that's what we've chosen that was our the thing the whole time right to to control you know to not let this process affect development really that our development will be affected by another process the comprehensive plan it's really just B andc better question marks I mean could could we say the developer should have common open land because should is still is a little stronger than encourage but isn't shall I think for B compromise no I think for BNC you already have height limitations now you're increasing the side set backs as well um you need to make sure remember that these have to be viable from design for point of view otherwise you're going to have no progress with these properties and you're going to see what you're going to see in order to kind of create these boundaries we are losing out on what future prospects the town is opening up to so I think you already have increased the setbacks here side your s setbacks are increased here the percentage of openness is already kind of built into your setback so I don't know if that's really a realistic ask I just don't see how we can start to Define that so specifically when everything that we're doing is trying to direct people down to the underlying zoning I agree you know we're not trying to set up things here we're trying to direct them down to the underlying zoning and then later on we should work to change that underlying zoning so it's more of what we want like Wildwood I think some of these areas do have you know they encourage it there right and that's why we're directing them down to what was already written and established um so then the parking um again the Yellow Part would come out because even for mixed use you can't you can't have an minimal you can't you can't say there's any parking you can't require Park you can't require parking require parking for Mi for mixed space and and we're taking that out so the other thing is about the um like what do we want to establish for parking right now in our model we have one parking space for a studio or one bedroom and one and a half parking spaces for two bedrooms or more that is the requirement that's out of pwn Street um in the [Music] um and and I do uh have maybe one question about this in add they start out the underlying zoning I mean we're spelling this out but in the underlying zoning it starts out as two spaces for unit per unit but immediately goes if you're in add immediately goes down to 75% of that and and then if it's mixed use it goes down another 75% of that so that's the one thing I wasn't sure about here and it might be a question for Lisa that what what wording do we put in if we want this to say this is our our zoning it doesn't get if we want it doesn't get decreased in add now the state would love you to the state really would like you to say to put in maximums instead of saying a minimum um a minimum of one and a half parking spaces per unit they want you to say a maximum of one and a half parking spaces per unit like that's that's the reing they encourage right so to try to to to not so much parking right more open space encourage more bike riding um uh more common open space right that's what they're trying to they're trying to minimize parking a lot of this obviously both Cirrus 160 and Pleasant Street are all in nearby the train station so I I don't know my question is just a question where do we want to set that number I believe Alvaro said that two still works if we change that one and a half to two but do we want it at two would be kind of inconsistent pal Street and I remember the discussion because of course there's a point where people cars to and's where you cannot develop people right and work there it would be kind of inist have more here or maybe not I mean I think the difference there's nowhere else to go on Fant or M like you can't there's no right like what was so if you're talking about two bedrooms my first thought was two spaces for a two bedroom right so if you're thinking the purpose of this like you want they're trying to encourage affordable housing for families I don't I don't know what you do with one and a half parking spaces when that that contemplates having a second car for two bedrooms and above where does when there's inevitably not enough spots where does someone go on Main Street there's no right and there isn't I mean I would you know I know parking the major developers park at that build about 1 Point excuse me 1.3 parking spots per unit I'm sorry where was that I think on average talking about developers you know across Metro Boston You're Building at 1.3 parking spots per right I think in Ashland and I know we had this conversation with 10 chestnuts excuse me 100 chestnuts Street they were building their parking lot with a mixed use development 174 units 10,000 ft of commercial they had a parking area ratio of 1.5 spaces per unit unit right and and this is I'm going off of memory so if my numbers are give and take a little bit but they feel confident that they have enough and speaking with them they believe they overdevelop the parking area for what the demand will be for traffic I also believe strongly that no developer is going to build a project that they don't believe they don't have enough sufficient parking to rent those apartments out right and so I think this F fits the bill what we have we've kind of taken the we stole it from Pawn Street Overland yeah it's been tested it's been tested I and it meets the model and the model works out with this parking ratio I thought I asked um I thought I asked out I thought the either I think 100 Chestnut Street might be two but with no additional spaces for commercial like they're all sh or two bedrooms and above yeah yeah or two spaces per unit cuz I thought it was 174 units times two I thought that's what he and I determined but with no extra spaces for the commercial that they have it's all shared right shared parking so but I do think they thought I do think Peter's right and they thought that they had more spaces than they were going to need you know at two I remember that discussion so I with one and a half I mean at least that's not a guess yeah I mean and I would just I would just say then that uh we should look at how do we put a note in um to make sure if we if we want this that the the parking isn't reduced for isn't reduced by the 75 C by the 75% but wouldn't you be mixing I mean I thought the whole point of this was to try to make this as an overlay clear right but um but uh in the model but in the model you have to put in the the parking right you you know so you have to put in the park to make sure you have enough room for the for the units yeah so to have some things mess with those kind that's why all the dimensions and stuff are listed you can't have things in the underlying zoning that mess with the ability to to build the the units right so that's one of the things that he showed me where he has to put in how many units of parking and I guess you could put in you know you could put in less right or you know but but but I thought you were saying so I know that you can have that parking reduction but that's not this zoning so why do we have to say you can't reduce I don't I don't understand I just it all it all comes into the model okay but I'm just I'm just simple words I don't nobody cares about the model as long as it's used correctly I assume you're asking why do I why do I need to put in language says that says no you need to use a one and a half don't reduce it yeah and and that's a question I have like I don't know it's like okay it's it's in here and I I we work pretty specific about it um you know that it does it does say you know all the provisions of the overlay District unless otherwise specifically noted in section 8.9 which is this which is this whole thing so um so it it seems to make sense that we wouldn't need it it's just something I would like to ask Lisa like what are we saying here that you know I think that's I mean then it's more things probably be spelled out not just the parking though that's the problem then we have to go look at you're saying you they can't take the reduction of add right they're using the if they're using this develop this bylaw right no they're not going to use her right then this is the parking if but for everything else but for per standards and the design of the building we want that to take oh I understand because that's wrapped up in that correct thing so you probably do have to mention but there might be other things too so that's the problem it's interesting because then for consistency with what we discussed before would these be also a way to in people to go to the it would from a par yeah from a parking standpoint yes because you have you would have to provide as much parking yeah was woulding I 1.5 is tested it works um just for the for point of this conversation we have at 100 chest Street there 174 units and we have 300 we're going to have 357 parking spaces that's 2.04 parking spaces per unit two two it's not 1.5 pwn street is 1.5 correct we don't have parking spot we but they requireed we did Issue a special permit right for parking because right now their commercial space their commercial space would require 58 parkings total so we did give them a waiver for parking parking but if we're looking at a specific unit to parking ratio from the approved plans you know and saying for overnight parking when the businesses are closed you have two parking spots per unit right now obviously not everyone's going to be parking there you know especially in front of the buildings all night long right and you're also never going to out of 174 units each occupant probably won't have two cars right so there's going to be that Flex of mixed you space people parking so from that standpoint that's where they kind of said We believe We Built enough parking and so I think that's where it comes back to the point is no developers is not going to build enough parking because parking is is comes down to how you rent your building and I think also in the downtown we have a lot of assets right it's walkable you know we just did a huge downtown project it's connected to the train station and and so if there was an area in town where there was and it made sense to decrease the parking it is in these two Parcels in add that we have done in the past and that the bylaw has historically allowed so um we can come back to it if anyone has any um you struck out cuz I it was clear the ads here but possibly um any required takings for right away improvements including sidewalks or it got moved somewhere maybe it was under it was under common open land yeah I mean those things um I think came out of um these things I don't I don't think these were a part I think those um do you know where these came from I don't think these were a part of the were a part of the uh sample text I'm sorry I can't um I need to I would have to life you I don't know if we meant to take where is that yeah see that's um common open land so the um the common open land and the um required right of way taking um is actually came from um the Pond Street over District yeah and so when I read through that I'm like I don't we probably don't need I don't think we need this I'm just asking no cuz it's missing I know if we mark up can we just it's so much easier to do like strike through and leave it because like I did spend time editing know I just find it really hard to read you know after you know I know but it's just I know just difference just difference of opinion right that's why I that's why I provided the that I wanted the one that you were sent and also the one with kind of more editing so you can go back and forth we just kind of was non applicable yeah and so presumably that next one no storage or permanent displays of goods blah blah same it's from Palm Street right and we don't need it that's fine I just it just it sounded odd make sense to me anyway but okay good yeah um yeah now the renewable energy installation that is is from the state but and it seems like at least from the sample ones I've looked at from other towns it seems like everyone's putting it in I assume because the state's also trying to promote solar so I I don't think I found that table I went to 89.7 is that that's this right here oh that so this is the new one and it's is not is it labeled 89.7 though I just um yeah says it's dimensional requirements okay so it's the okay yeah so 8.9 is I I think what we're thinking the whole bylaw will be correct and then seven is dimensional requirements yeah that's the overall bylaw thank you yeah okay and as you recall renewable energy installation is allowed by right as a under the Dober act in the state y so that has to be allowed I was just looking for the table I that I went I thought it was referencing our current zoning I I'm like I don't think we have that table so we don't have an 8.9 yet it's just the one above so and then all of the affordability um I don't know where that text is is that from the state things or from other things we have used nope that's from Lisa fill that in that's sorry sorry um that is boiler plate affordable housing stuff um we did put in the 12 the 12.5% which is the Pond Street which came through the study that we did the economic analysis study we did in the in the I think you guys got that backwards from the study it on the economic study so I believe Pawn Street had to stay at 10 because it's over the four stories that's allowed so if we we should look at lowering it to three stories so because we want more affordable I I believe um so I think that's completely reversed that pwn Street's over four stories it's four stories four St and so I I probably remember because I asked a question I live near there and I said well why can't it be why can't we say up to three stories you have to make it you can make it economically viable at 12 a half% we paid an economist and they said you can't because the four stories is a different type of construction that's more expensive so I'm I looked it up today on those slides too I believe that's 100% reversed okay okay so I'll double check we can double check that if if so the 12.5% might be applicable to everything but P Street okay I also thought too only one District qualified from okay yeah no I I mean from from that report it was everything but Pond now I mean I don't I didn't maybe we have to Rel details but I remember being disappointed that we couldn't get more than 12.5 but yeah that's an important point I I I understood it this way but I I'm happy to double check no I looked at the slides at lunch too to make sure so yeah no I'm not saying you're not wrong I'm just I just remember being disappointed that only 12.5% versus something more substantial right so no that'd be great that that would be that be yeah better yeah well I can double check that that's not a problem um then the the rest is boiler plate um yeah and then section nine site plan approval review and then the applicability would be section 4.9 4.6 that site plan review and design review and then the findings here come from the state uh from the decision in final permit granting Authority which would be the planning board those are those are those are different right now from our site plan review RW findings because it was found by the Attorney General's office last spring that our fight our site plan review findings are do not work um they were too strict um and so therefore that's why we are supplementing in the decision and the final action with the template that the the three points that the the state put in their template bylaw so and but um just know that from the original version that it it's no longer going to refer to 9.4.2 and 9.4.2 is not going to be changed that if you looked at that separate sheet so yeah there's a different set of conditions for MBTA District which is per the state to not create roadblocks to the housing they're trying to create so oh yeah okay yep aren 9 C1 um I'm I'm not sure what what's the comment but now it says it's by the design standard this section which okay like oh it didn't say about standard I don't it's not okay is this this is the section that you said was boiler plate from the state yes but I can show a point yeah you can say as noted and obviously and I think if we can if if we need to go back up top and and add those performance standards and those design criterias for each specific Sub sub District then that would clarify the answer no but we don't need to add those in here no all we need to do is because it already says applicability site plan review 9.4 9.6 9.6 is design plan review 9.4 is site plan review so um so all we would have to say is the Criterion design standards set forth in this section of the zoning bylaw you know and the corresponding under under Ling zoning yeah or something it's a good ad sorry y yeah oh I'll go get it yeah he'll get things you need to sign and then yeah you can make your Escape Yeah so basically it's approval and then approval with conditions and then disapproval because of the reasons of an incomplete application now I talked to Peter nro about that like what does that mean you know and obviously we were discussing that we assume it means that we' interpret it to mean that an incomplete application if if say there's a thing in the bylaws that you have to um have a the lighting can't shine into buildings right and if you present uh a lighting plan where the light shines into buildings it's incomplete because you didn't it says it's not supposed to shine into the buildings right so it would be an incomplete application because you didn't actually fulfill what we asked you to do so um his implicate incomplete application kind of sounds like you didn't you didn't put an address on or a phone you didn't give a phone number somewhere or whatever right so now I mean similar to the site plan review where we took off the mixed use do we have to take off the mixed use from section 8 a the first line as well yes thank you yep thank you yes we mixed them in we mixed them in and then and then didn't find them all to take them back out again yeah yeah yeah yeah and even this there's no back to all right so we will um go through obviously those changes hopefully tomorrow if Alro has I don't know what's scheduled Al 26 bre no way Al is turning 26 and he's taking the oh wow okay A Car 25 oh well good for Alvaro Alo is uh but I will be here but these are pretty in a way pretty ex except except for going into the model maybe um are very simple so Monday latest text tomorrow um Monday you know double check on the the the number crunching okay um all right but does anyone have and and it's kind of you can still kind of comment on it if something you know we need to wrap it up soon because we'll need to post for the public hearing which we'll need to yeah so just for clarification we will not well because of these changes um we will probably read vertise um and we will uh we can meet on the 10th of October Excuse me yes our next meeting is on 10th of October uh but uh just to make sure that the changes are not rejected be I mean the bylaw is not rejected due to the changes in consistency with the posted bylaw that is out there right now that was in the Metro West uh newspaper this past Wednesday that I will repost the edited bylaw I'll will also have to send this to all abing towns the state and dacd and so then we will open open the public hearing on the 20 excuse me 24th the 24th of October so the first public hearing will be on the 24th of October and that would give us the second one if we want to do it is because we don't need a second one we thought maybe we could do on the 7th of November um usually in November we would meet on the 14th and the 28th but we never meet on the 28th because it's Thanksgiving so we thought maybe we would meet on the 7th we usually switch it so maybe we meet on the 7th instead and that would give us still a twoe break before before town meeting so same thing we just same amount of meetings just switching one up further away from Thanksgiving I guess um we don't have to have a second public hearing the it's really just to get to where we during those public hearings we need to vote on a on a zoning change um so if we do it in one meeting we don't have to have a second one but the second one could be do good obviously just informationally or you know so so the advertisement is for the 10th but now the 24th and then if there's another one we continue it or how is that I'm just I think if so if on the 24th we're like the the planning board you know and Community response and we're like this is good we got this we can we can vote to we can vote on it we can vote to approve or disapprove whatever vote to support vote to support as drafted and then you would all then then we have to go to town meeting then typically the planning board will make a report at town meeting like normal and just say the planning board on such such State voted to support and we could add any other language that we would want to state but if we but if on the 24th we can either not vote and leave the public hearing open to the next date we want to of course make sure we have it where we have enough of us to to vote and make sure we get a chance to do this otherwise we have to call another meeting or we can vote on it but we can still have it as a forum on the next meeting just to allow more explanation more public discourse more talking about it we can't change it at that point anyway we can only decide yes or no right in our kind of in our if we're choosing to support it or not so but uh and then just to adds to another note November and December are always the toughest meetings to post in or meet and so the question is in December do does the plany board want to meet once on the 12th and then take the Hiatus and I don't want to skip over this the MBTA stuff but just from a scheduling standpoint we should think about that um fairly not to we don't have to think about it tonight but for the next meeting we should just iron out what how where we want to meet in November and December okay I jumped the gun I'm sorry no it's okay I just wanted to answer Kate's question okay so that's all I I I don't know rather stupidly was thinking that maybe we wouldn't need a meeting and then I realized that we really really do I don't know what I was thinking um but I would like to keep all the other stuff to a minimum um but I do think Kate maybe had a few comments she wanted to make on the document that she sent out unless not unless it was just for our records Kate I don't know um no I what I've been doing is just as things I hear things I've been adding them like I added tonight I didn't know that our site plan review standards were not approved so that will become 20 on the list I think didn't you say that that our our current site plan review standards were not approved or something by the state no our current site blue excuse me our current site blue site review standards right site plan review standards as held the state when determining if they could be applicable to the MBTA found them to be too okay um I get that so I you know for a lack of better terms there were too um they could be seen and you can kind of come to a consensus that um it's too restrictive they were too restrictive so therefore that's why we were going to were different for that okay they were different and so that's why we're going to apply the states to MBTA to get over that hurdle but we're not going we are not going to change our existing okay that's what I okay um so I just want like I've been collecting like for instance 19 got La after the last meeting that there were projects changed and I think we also we probably should figure out a process for that um so I added that so I I hope to not just keep making a list and I we're not I know we're not doing it tonight but like pick things that we think we want to put attention to I did put um just updating for when we said um town meeting we a couple of them we did say we sort of need to or want to um have to maybe the pl plane but maybe we can pick pick away some so can can you say that again um so like number nine I don't I think that's helpful to the planning department so I think we're targeting spring of 25 the Adu I think we said we want to because if we're going to have some standards around Adu but number nine did you you mean meet with the design Review Committee is that way no I'm sorry I'm I can't read it's late at night okay okay sorry that's why I was confus and then um 18 I think Peter said has prob should be on Spring yeah I was actually on a call about that today yeah okay and so that that's a sample bylaw to tell you the truth our bylaw dates back to 2014 in the F plane overlay District the town of action sits in two different F planes it's in the conquered subber and then it's in the Charles River this time the Charles River um flood boundary is going to be updated but bylaw since the last adoption and so it makes sense to update our waterways ke why don't just throwing this out there why don't after I get this bylaw straightened out with Peter why don't you and I get together like maybe prior to our October 10th meeting um but maybe at the beginning of that week if or over the weekend if maybe you and I can meet and um try to rank these or say 2025 or you know to give some kind of structure to it and then that'll be a takeoff point of discussion for October 10th when we can more dig into these I think we can I think some of them are obvious and we could put put that on it um and uh like I said it would lessen the load people can always disagree but it would lessen the load for the 10th is that is that okay yeah and I think some of them like three or four Anna committed to doing some research and she said fine if the board doesn't support it but it'll it'll Move It Forward by saying maybe yes maybe know what else can we assign to Anna while she's not yeah exactly um well so I think my only ask otherwise I will be happy to keep doing this I Tred not to put something just in my head but maybe at some point I do have one more and I didn't and we're not going to talk about it tonight but there's one thing is there a way to put it on the agenda does anyone have other things they'd like to see and secondly at some point in the agenda like if we're are we just going to keep calling it this or can we pull out things and like make make some time I think we are at the stage doing this but I think hopefully we're going to be like yeah I mean I mean I think some things are going to like meet with water sewer department yep let's put it on the agenda for 2020 early in 2025 and yep you know or even even in December if we have a light meeting you know it'd be a nice relaxing thing to talk about sewer okay cool no that's kind of I I will keep doing it until it's not accomplishing anything but I'm hoping it will accomplish no I think it's a good a good list so um okay um so anything else in that regard back to my agenda so like I said uh we will integrate the corrections and modifications with the byw and send that back out again I would say end of the day Monday latest agreed yeah um so to get elro birthday boys uh spreadsheet stuff in there um so I was not looking to go through any of the reports tonight it do you I don't think anything has really changed if there's anything that's actually that's nope nothing's changed um the biggest thing is I talked about is the November and December so just get in your you know what people's times are they want to meet they don't want to meet um we've had a lot of meetings especially with comp Kate and Anna so if if uh if they want if you guys want to slim down a meeting in December you know for Old St Nick I think it makes sense so for um but for the meetings we'll we'll meet October 24th that'll be the public hearing correct so the 10th is kind of open now um and then we were looking at doing two weeks later because we have an extra Thursday in there and maybe doing November 7th as the second public forum I'm going to be away on 10th and October 10th and November 7th okay I'm traveling okay I'm traveling on 10th but 7th I'm I have another okay and it's usually and it likely will be it may just turn into we can kind of see it may just turn into a a forum in a way so um but we will keep that in mind how many special permits okay I mean we can keep it we can keep it the 14th yeah we can keep it the 14th I was just trying to back up from no the seventh makes sense don't schedu it based on me I I think that that's but that I think I will be at the October 24th meeting still barring a very early entrance um but November so you are out the 10th the 10th October 10th I'm traveling seven I can call in from my event for the voting purpose but so if needed you could call in yes okay we'll have very bad audio around me but I will kept calling by vote by text I can do okay you did how how was it okay okay can I have just a quick thing on the comprehensive plan yeah so um we're meeting yet again next week but um early November and I do not believe we have a date there's going to be um they're calling technical review sessions if you had if your presentation and um we are expecting to want planning board reps so we with the general agreement is like we're representing the planning board and all the boards should have a representative at these but not the people on the comprehensive plan so people will be reaching out for that so hopefully we'll be able to staff that okay and those those will be on various nights not just all at one time is no yeah I think uh yeah I don't oh yeah they would be on various nights uh they would all be via Zoom oh um okay and and yes okay um and then we also I will last thing to say about that we we are looking for recommendations for people to um with the topic Economic Development Transportation housing historic cultural so reaching out broadly to the community um we don't want it to be the same people Etc so if you have recommendations I can add them to the list can you send out the list of those um topics topics so that then I can think about it I can they what we it's so the state statute but you might remember I asked um Jen Goldson to put that those lined up with the five core themes so I can send that yeah I just figur having it a a list on an email or you know something where I can then give it some thought so I can send that to Peter and to the board okay so yeah I I actually I have that I have that I sent that to you have it he made it he was he was our scribe last time yeah I think rry I sent it to Michael rry and Stacy and they had it and they were going to add some things and then they were going to send it out and we're looking for people not necessarily residents but stakeholders ashon stakeholders is that who we're looking for or could be Regional or what it could be Regional if it's an expert on the topic or I probably don't Passover homegrown people I mean both I think we're at the stage where it can be all the above get evaluated by the committee okay um to to make and you know it's it's 20 but we can't just put 20 names because people we don't even have a date to tell them so we have to go over that so I think um okay we're still kind of at the stage putting names but I know your name got put on so um doesn't mean you have to do it but I hope I'm not an expert in planning or or bylaws no I don't think I don't feel like I am so okay thank you sure um all right uh anything else before we just go to the meeting minutes um I I thought the meeting minutes were a little different this time um weren't as uh before they were very detailed these seem much more simple but Peter says it's the same person which is fine just it it was a different kind of meeting I guess um partially um the one thing I think looks like Peter I didint it out in the oh you print it out for for everybody yeah I feel like I just saw it and now I can't find it okay um for the um for my comments starting on line 9 this is where we're talking about the um about uh Kathy Rooney's reappointment I I found my what was written as my statement pretty confusing so Peter I think gave you a print out right gave one um where I was dividing that paragraph it's kind of a big paragraph into two sections one about my statement which was kind of separate and then one um that starts Miss tesinsky which is kind of not all Anna statement but something different so I was just correcting you know my the top part my statement to try try to have it be clear so um I didn't want to have to do it in the meeting because I thought that would be kind of hard so I sent this to him in advance that it'd be easy to see the only other thing I saw Peter was somewhere my name's misspelled I have it I have it on found my copy here oh this yeah that's where the paragraph starts oh here yeah 124 oh yeah that's another one sorry so so I have that change in that paragraph line 124 my name is misspelled and then on line 141 and 142 it's about I was just making clarifications on the MBTA it says um this Kindle created an MBTA zoning chart which members received a copy of Miss Kendall reviewed the chart 61 Waverly is listed as a risky option based on being 17 so it's just very specific so instead I've just put Miss Kendall reviewed the chart including possible risks instead of picking out one fact from the chart to review seemed kind of strange so and clearly we all love Miss Kendall so there's a lot of Miss kendles on that sence too there is that day I apologize um this meeting minutes on August 22nd but your uh cover sheet has 24th not not be the agenda has 24th oh that's a sorry that's a typo which one was right the 22nd was right right 22 that's mine the 2 yeah it was the 22nd yep 24th this is where my bra right now was sday I wish I had your reason you know maybe I don't actually never mind should I make a motion if everyone's ready I think yeah um I make a motion to approve the August 22nd 2024 minutes with the um specific addition that the chair submitted and these small items we addressed this evening is there a second second that and a roll call vote ey Catherine Jersey guy I I don't remember you don't usually vote for that do you Trisha Kendall I so that's three um so those are approved anything before there's a motion to adjourn last chance all right then I will make a motion that we adjourn at 9:15 is there a second second and a roll call vote cther Amanda and Trisha Kendall I thank you everybody e e

okay e for h for okay just another reminder for attention can I have your attention please just a kind reminder for the public that we have uh translation headsets outside they're for only for the adults we have a limited number of equipment and um when they're done with the with the use of the headsets to put them back in the bags and put them back on the table to help us put them away at the end of the night thank you so it's 6:30 right now good evening and welcome everybody to this Thursday September 202 6 2024 special board meeting I will call to order this meeting here and this uh meeting is being recorded Miss marel can you please do roll call today is a special board meeting of September 26 2024 at 6:30 pm members of the board in attendance president Linda Chavez present vice president Andres kto he's not here yet clerk man famam present member M Corda present member Andrea fores Shelton she won't be here today and members of administration interim superintendent Manny Barbara here can you please all stand for the pledge allegiance I pledge Al to the flag of the United States of America to the repic for it stands one nation under God indivisible so moving on to 201 um and consideration approval of alpha the public hearing for Alpha Blanca Alvarado Charter School renewal petition is now open at 6:31 p.m.

to 1 pm um very kind of familyfriendly event um you can vote for a name for some snow Pils which is going to be pretty cool um they the city of an arbor I think we've talked about it in this group officially accepted the the $1 million Grant from American Forest to advance uh tree Equity so expand um additional money to help with the tree canopy um updating the tree canopy assessment um and then um let's see there was a a big update from Tiffany so the city of vanan Arbor in in collaboration with Urban ashes has launched the city's first urban wood recycling program I understand it that's been kind of 17 years in in in the work um so it's meant to ensure that logs coming out of the urban Forest are put to their highest and best use uh and I believe they're working on a press release for that as if it hasn't been um released yet um and then the last update is the National citizen survey is complete um and you can go there's a digital dashboard you can go play around with um but they have overall ratings um National Benchmark and percentiles and and demographic breakdowns you can go kind of explore that's it for me I had a quick question if I may yes thanks uh for Ana Anya do you know if the University of Michigan has any kind of formal or informal uh arrangement with Urban ashes um I met with the head of urban Ashes about two years ago and gave him some contact information at U ofm um I don't know um if that led to anything or not do you are you aware of uh any operative work relationship I I don't know that we've done anything with Urban ashes specifically although I can find out but um we actually are in the middle of a project that I think it's been coordinated by our ground Services team and Joe trumpy so is a a faculty member um to actually get a a mill on on our campus so that if we are if we do have to take down a tree um that has Good Wood still um which we try not to obviously um but to be able to actually like mill that and process it on site and have that turned into Furniture so it's sort of like a collaboration between them and and I think the art school actually interesting it might be interesting just to to involve Urban ashes maybe there's a win-win win uh as opposed to just a win-win uh so maybe that's something you can introduce thanks yeah Rita you have a question just uh just another um comment on the urban ashes kind of thing I saw something recently that used um turned wood um from down to trees that I thought was interesting because I think most of the things I've seen from Urban ashes is straight Lumber um straight S L Lumber and this was an effort to kind of take it into a different an AR artistic Direction um and just a a thought to pass along to all who are working in that area um that it could be bigger um and there could be more things that are kept out of the carbon emission stream that any other comments so I think next are there any future agenda items people would like to request if you come up with some items just let us know whenever our next meeting is on October 24th and now we're on to our second um public commentary comment time um this is opportunity for people to speak for up to three minutes please call 888 78899 inter meeting ID 66543 to raise your hand press 9 to unmute press star six City staff will collect select callers who have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number when speaking please move to a quiet area and state your name and address at the beginning of your comments there may be a delay up to 30 seconds before connection is established Aon do we have any call callers we do not okay is there a motion to adjourn the meeting and there's one a second we have a second okay I guess we're all done see you next month thanks everyone thank you bye

um do we have any public speakers and go ahead all right do I start yes please welcome hello my name is Armani Osco and I'm a sixth grader at Blan Al school last year was my first year at this campus your first day at Blanca is like going into a fairy tale of everyone so caring and helping you along the way friends and teachers both are really here for us teachers show our friends how to help each other with their classes and to help show us down when we're upset funka should stay open because everyone here is nice Fridays are nice they want to prepare you for upcoming challenges like high school and college they want us to be happy and to be determined they also care for our safety deeply how we get our minds about walking instead of running we also do ice breakers like karaoke and W rder which helps us feel mental safety too last RP and drama classes are perfect they are perfect because it's so fun and they include cool doils and activities where this and more we should keep Alpha Blanka open I'm very thankful for this opportunity thank you [Laughter] can I speak now yes hello my name is Brandon Gomez C and I'm a fifth grader Blan verado I'm here to share why our school is amazing Blanca teaches us a bunch of great things and the teachers are very kind for explaining my favorite subject is history because Mr Kelly explains cool facts about how the plague traveled around Europe because rats and Ragin my teachers also really help me when I'm struggling so I'm better on math now and Miss Garcia always checks on me at this missile even when my friends go home this school makes me feel happy because I have made many friends we get to play basketball and soccer and sometimes we just stay in the straight and talk about nice things I love for our school to stay open thank you hello Rock Union School District trustees my name is Mario Lopez I am a seventh grader at alab bank Al school I am speaking to you today because I am concerned about the future of our school I know my school is going through a renewal and I don't want my school to be shut down so I will be giving you some reasons why you should keep my school open reason one is because they do a great job at teaching complicated stuff so we don't get confuse for example if a student is struggling with something they don't and they don't seem to get it we have an assistant teacher who helps them with what they're struggling with second reason is that there is a system to help teachers when some students are misbehaving like accountability points and restoration levels we have Mr Tucker de of students who helps with misbehaving students lastly we have a help we have helpful teachers who pull students out of class to help students that have been struggling with any needs sometimes they are in special programs or sometimes they need emotional support overall I think ala Blanca aado is incredible School as they have taught me many things that I never knew we learned really well here so please keep it open Este steem trustees um we have a young lady who wants to read her part in Spanish she already has it in English but she can't read it inl I'll help her read it in English for the public after she's done in Spanish okay for hello my name is Carla Flores and I am an eighth grader at Blanca Al Alvarado school I first came to Blanca in fifth grade so this is my third year and at my amazing campus be um before Blanca I didn't have a great academic experience I often felt like teachers did not try to understand me and I lacked support my family would come in to talk to them and it never changed the environment did not feel friendly so my attendance was really poor coming here though right away my teachers reached out to my family telling them they wanted me present they spoke to me to make me feel more comfortable and confident they even helped me make friends with this support I have developed strong friendships and all my grades have improved teachers put me in small groups to help me academically they support me with Spanish translation but also make me practice my English this means I have improved a lot while I while also feeling taken care of I feel confident that moving on to high school next year I will be ready because of this I now ask you to please give our school the chance to remain open so that they can continue to help students grow socially and academically like I have thank you hello my name is Genesis Lopez I an eighth grade at Alpha Blanca AV School I've been in Alpha for 3 years now and it's been one of the most interesting experience I had in my whole life for instance we had a water party last year when we reached to stage five for our good behavior as a whole grade level it was fun and really crazy in a really good way we had so many Futures one of them that we had last year was the California acmy of Science in San Francisco I was with my friends most of the time we learned about so many different animals and plants they had really beautiful flowers in there are so many teachers that care about you so much and deeply that will always care about you what you would do in the future and try to get you somewhere in one day whenever you're upset there's going to be a teacher or whenever you want to talk to a teacher there will always be Wonder there are so many opportunities in here especially Sports I played basketball for the past year and I loved it really much and I was really good at it thanks to my coach there are other opportunities like art student government and there's so many more here at ala you can make so many great friends I have had friends since I was in fifth grade you can make really good memories here so please keep Alpha open to continue coming back to the place I love thank you okay thank you I I guess we had enough uh public comment any truste comment sure uh speak um thank you so much well can I motion to approve and then open so a motion to approve this item and then if somebody can second it then do I have a second there's a second a sec okay we have a motion from trusty Corina Lera and a second from BP kto thank you um so I'll move on with my comments so first of all I um want to publicly state that obviously I support you know our alen Rock School District and our Public Schools um and as a parent right um I also support parent choice um and you know I'm happy to hear from the students and um I've been able to do some tours and um meet with parents of alpha uh Alvarado because I also know that a lot of our students in Alam Rock attend that school so as a leader in my community it's important that the children right that I know are doing well are getting the education that they deserve and the services and resources and so um for me it's a part of though to you know publicly state right public schools and also um that parent choice and so uh thank you all for showing up um I did mention earlier you know I I I know I saw a lot of the youth um and students uh it's my favorite to see you know the students come and speak on the mic um you know get that uh support uh practice their speeches uh because eventually you're all going to be in spaces like this or you maybe a superintendent so thank you all for coming um okay so we're getting it translated um so with that I'm I don't want to you know keep us here forever um I will be supporting this item tonight thank you mandra can you please speak on that yeah um good evening um I just wanted to um um say that we've done the analysis of the charter for Al we conducted a physical and facility review um and I wanted to first off thank um our team for doing the work for that um our human resources our instructional services our business services and our um uh facilities um for helping with that review um there are two items that I do want to make note of um while reviewing the um the renewal proposal and the first is um just wanted to point out that there was a typographical error um in the charter I know you're aware of that um legal council was in touch with your legal council and that's going to be corrected so that was one and two is that after review of the dashboard and um the state data we do just want to make note that um the student performance at Alpha is um equivalent to the student performance at um Al School District so um we're waiting to review the data that's coming in the next few months but wanted to make sure that that was um stated publicly um but all that said um staff is recommending renewal of the charter for the time period of July 1st 2025 through June 30th 203 thank you Miss Sandra and so now um I guess we could just vote on it oh I'm sorry I didn't see you go ahead okay um I want to thank uh all of you for coming out this evening I think it's important to always be engaged and so I'm very appreciative whenever we have folks come out and uh lending support to what they feel is important um obviously uh I am on the elen Rock School Board and my commitment and my priority is our alrock schools um we are facing some some series challenges right now uh as has been expressed in the media but uh nevertheless I think there is opportunity for us to work together we've been Partners uh in uh for a long time and um and uh in the time that I've been here uh I can't say that we've had a situation where where Alpha has been uh purposely attempting to do harm or do something wrong and so I I'm very appreciative of the partnership and the the positive working relationship that we've had thus far I'm looking forward for it to continue in the future uh the statement from our staff uh from assistant superintendent uh of student services is exactly what I was looking for um the idea that the school is out there providing um an education that is not at par with what our local school district is providing is something I'm not suppored uh of and so I'm looking forward to you being at far with Al Rock and if not exceeding that and looking forward to seeing that success because I think the kids deserve it and that's I know that's what you're trying to do so looking forward to seeing that success in the future for um thank you all to the alpha parents for uh be coming alongside the children and it looks like you guys are doing a real good job the children look healthy and happy and it looks like they're moving forward and I want to thank the staff and for all the good work that you do we continue and hopefully we can continue another five years um but good job done thank you so we will be be voting now um all in favor of approving the um motion raise your hands so it's three in favor um all opposed one opposed that's uh trusty Min bam is oppos Miss Maribel and one is absent so the vote is 3 to one uh motion carries and I will be closing the public hearing right now at 6:46 uh congratulations thank you here you go well I talk to myself don't go night Mr trii if you're still out there can you please uh give them one more minute to exit and then we'll close the doors thank you e okay moving on to 202 uh this is information action fiscal stabilization plan Mr Manny can you yes speak on that thank you um board member Chavez um we're required because of our uh budget situation to submit a report um to the county addressing how we plan on addressing the budget deficit that we have and um to be brought to the board um I want to mention that the assistant superintendent U Teresa and I and our new superintendent Arman met with the county went through the fiscal stabilization plan and we're pleased to bring this to you um this evening for your approval um with again um as you you'll find out with the potential of amending it in December they're waiting for us to see what we're going to do to make sure that we balance our uh our budget so thank you trace I'll turn it over to you good evening board president travez vice president Cano members of the board members of the community um it's always my luck to follow very talented students like that but thank goodness the live audience is much smaller for my presentation so I'm thrilled um as the interim uh superintendent Mr Barbara said this is a requirement of the County Office of Education um approving our budget for 2425 and the fiscal state stabilization plan it's basically based on the board approved uh consolidation plan that you approved back in May all right the fiscal stabilization plan I'm going to summarize the approved comprehensive budget solution plan which is the closure of the nine School sites which was adopted by the board on May 21st 2024 it also includes savings from vacancies that weren't filled and cost shifting of other positions to other funds we also had lcap savings starting this fiscal year in fiscal 2425 it also incorporates district office staffing reduction starting next year when we have fewer sites we'll need less support staff and we also Incorporated certificated Staffing reduction starting in fiscal 2627 um I will go over all of these in detail in just a minute there's also some Revenue considerations that are not part of the approved budget uh because we don't know what they are but there are things for us to consider and then there's other considerations and next steps and then the timeline for school consolidation process this is a summary of the savings that are in our adopted budget and the multi-year projections the closure of six elementary schools and three middle schools will save us about $10 million starting next year in fiscal 2526 and then the year after TW fiscal 2627 the vacancies that weren't filled and positions that shifted to other funds uh we're going to save $893,000 starting this fiscal year which will continue for the next two years the lcap Staffing and contract savings uh we shifted $1.3 million from our unrestricted general fund to our restricted programs so again those programs did not go away but we were able to move them to restricted funding mostly the elop the Extended Learning opportunities program we incorporated district office staffing reductions of $1.8 million starting next year and the year after and then the certificated Staffing reductions due to declining enrollment we have uh projected a reduction of 10 teachers starting in fiscal 2627 and an additional nine teachers for uh class- siiz loading or class siiz efficiency this is a more detailed slide of the adopted School consolidation the board adopted option seven it was a variation of option one it's the closure of six elementary schools of an average savings of $987,000 for a savings of 5.9 million and the closure of three middle schools at $1.3 million average savings for a total of $4.1 million for a total Savings of $10 million for the nine School sites this is option 7A which is not part of our adopted budget uh the board also left a an option 7A which was to convert one of the middle schools to a dual immersion that would mean only a savings of $8.7 million because we would be keeping one of our Middle School sites open so the savings would only be two Middle School sites these are the positions that would be reduced for an elementary site the average savings adds up to $987,000 it includes all of these sites plus the utilities for the site this slide is the average savings for a middle school which would be 1 million 383,899 when we um close a Middle School site this slide is here for reference we don't have any tk8 sites for closure in our adopted budget um but if the school consolidation committee decides to consider a tk8 the average savings would be $1.3 million with the reduction of these positions and the utilities for that site this is included in our adopted budget these are the vacancies that weren't filled and positions that shifted to other funds we had an operations manager vacancy that we decided not to fill so we had a saving starting last year and then for this year and next year the Director of Human Resources uh Dr Clon left our district and we decided not to replace that position so we have a saving starting this year going into next year as as well we did the same thing with one of the coordinator positions in academic services so when that uh position when that person left Alam Rock we decided not to fill that position so that is a savings for 2425 and 2526 then all these other positions the assistant superintendent of business we moved half of I'm sorry a quarter of my salary to bonds for the payroll manager we moved a quarter of that person's salary to fund 67 same with the benefit specialist a quarter of that person's salary to fund 67 um and then there were two positions in state and federal where we moved A3 FTE coordinator to elop and then a 0.25 admin assistant to elop so we were able to shift uh those few positions to restricted funding so it helps our unrestricted general fund so if you take a look we have a savings for this fiscal year of $893,000 and same with next year the lcap savings starting this year and continuing to next year we had Staffing um I was going to say Staffing reductions we had Staffing that we moved to our restricted programs of $644,000 and then contracts that we mooved to restricted as well of $677,000 for a total Savings in our LC cap of $1.3 million these are Staffing reductions due to the closure of nine schools we have projected to close 15 positions for a total Savings of 1.7 close to $1.8 million in these different areas some of the revenue considerations that we did not include in our adopted budget is the repurposing of excess facilities to generate facilities use or leasing revenue or the sale of excess facilities on September 2 oh tonight actually you will be hopefully approving a real estate contract uh we would love to hire this real estate consultant to evaluate various real estate considerations and revenue options for us starting in August through June of 2025 the County Office of Education assigned a fiscal expert to work with us um and he will be here to help us develop and monitor the progress of our fiscal stabilization plan we will continue to work with him on the plan and take steps towards fiscal solvency from September 6th through October 30th the district created a school consolidation advisory committee composed of Representatives of all schools and stakeholders which will recommend to all of you the Board of Trustees up to nine school closures December 5th the board will take action on the school consolidation advisory committee's recommendation on school closures also on December 5th we will bring an addendum to this fiscal stabilization plan to you to the board based on the school consolidation advisory committee's recommendation on school closures then during this fiscal year we will conduct a comprehensive special education study also this fiscal year we will continue to evaluate each position as vacancies arise next year and the year after we have Incorporated the additional certificated Staffing reductions due to class loading efficiencies and we do hope that we get more efficiencies than what has been projected in our budget we were trying to be very conservative there but we are hoping for a lot more efficiencies this is the timeline for the school consolidation process it is a very quick timeline as all of you know um we've already we have three meetings the next one is next Wednesday on October 2nd to start the criteria development then October 8th and 9th the committee will be very busy October 30th is the committee recommendation November 14th will be the public hearing at a board meeting November 21st is board information at a board meeting and then December 5th is when the board will take action thank you and I will take any questions just start with the public any public no okay moving on to trusty comments uh uh trusty M uh Teresa would you would you refresh the board's memory of what fund 67 is fund 67 is our workers compensation fund okay thank yeah if I can make a motion um and then somebody seconds if an agreement and so and then I'll make my comments so I motion to approve this plan so I have a motion from uh trusta loera and do I have a second yeah or action it's action okay do I have a second I have a second from uh vice president um go ahead thank you board president um so thank you so much staff for really turning every Rock and leaf and you know looking to see how we can um continue to move forward in a strong way you know this plan really uh feels that way and um you know I really feel like we're at like that cusp and you know I've mentioned it before like that caterpillar that's becoming a butterfly like it's tough right now but once we break through it's going to be good um I'm excited to hear about some of the you know ideas and um Staffing um that might come and and guide us on maybe possibilities that we're not even thinking of or looking at um to see what options options we have so just thank you for your hard work I know it was like you know you came in and you know you were maybe behind and you caught up quickly so thank you so much for coming on and really I mean this is your second presentation but I feel like you've been here with us you know for a long time and you have technically but you know at the front of um of this uh leading this this piece so thank you for breaking it down in a way that's you know um that not only we can understand but we could also talk to our public and our um members of the community in a way that they can also understand as we move forward so I appreciate that um and with that I'll be supporting this thank you um justan well you know just out of curiosity so um uh how uh how does the payroll manager benefit specialist get get a quarter of their position moved to the workers compensation fund I mean what was sort of the R now behind that the the benefit yes the they have taken on the workers compensation workload oh yes yes um I just wanted to make sure that um the U the reflects the action that we took and so I know that it says here that we adopted option seven um if we go back and check the minutes and the reporting there FL it wasn't just option s there was some additional verbage on there and so I don't want people to come back your adop fin that said that this is what you adopted I want to be clear that um what we adopted on 5 2124 um is reflected and so if we can make that change or it might not matter because we adopted it should be reflected in that's what we should go back correct absolutely yeah yeah so option seven was actually option one and I I believe it was you vice president Cano who took the tk8 off the table and so it was option one with a with an amendment right and so that's why we called it option seven so when uh Mr changen presented it to you he gave you six options one through six so option seven was our way of saying it was your determination of option one with the amendment I'll send you that so that we make sure that's reflective of what the minutes and the action actually happen reporting what I don't want somebody to say you're should be the action so thank you so much for the report um looking forward to moving forward this a tough time these are not fun times but um this is what we're here to do not I guess is there anywhere that we do have that verbage that it could maybe re be reflected now or should we just wait for okay yeah I just thought might I think it would be reflected in the minutes the other part is we know what we have to do okay it's pretty clear and um we're not going to solve the budget situation by nickel and diing we've got some big issues to deal with and that'll be reflect in this report and I want to also compliment Teresa and just stepping right in um into the position and right away having to deal with all these issues it's been a lot of work so thank you okay so uh I think we'll vote on on it now okay if everybody's ready all in favor raise your hand uh so it's the motion carries for uh or yes and one absent motion passes okay moving on to um 401 reorganization of Staffing for District's Bond facilities program reorganization of Staffing of human resources department discussion only uh Mr tooro is going to speak on that all right good evening board president uh good evening board members good evening inter superintendent Barbara always a pleasure to see you thank you very much everything you've been doing for us so and I want to talk I want to go back to a couple of years and then kind of bring you up to where we are now in the reorg of Human Resources so back in uh the year 2223 and and there's more staff I'm just including the staff that's been affected so certainly our staff is bigger than three people in 2223 but back in 2223 we had a fulltime risk management risk management executive assistant which was a management position we had a Human Resources Director and we had an HR administrator a confidential employee okay approximate salary not counting Health and Welfare and statutory benefits this is just salary was $371,000 that was [Music] 2223 at the end of that year we had the retirement of the full-time risk management executive assistant and we did not fill that position those responsibilities were divided up was partialed out in several ways but Human Resources Director took some I took some the HR administrative confidential position took some and even Mr Cheng took some of those duties so we just kind of looked at the roles and looked at the responsibilities and divided them up to make sure it got done because it is a very critical position risk management is extremely critical uh to the district it covers safety insurance claims just a multitude of things that can't be missed because certainly the the risk of of not having this position and not making sure that we're covering all those items it could cost a lot more if you don't take care of those items so that's what we did in 24 moved to this year we we had uh our director leave the district and we decided not to put that position okay So currently that position is being assumed by me and also the responsibilities of risk management is being assumed by me and the HR administrator the confidential HR admin assistant since Mr Cheng left all those duties have gone to the HR department now we have a new assistant superintendent of business services that is a lot to take on she's got a big earning curve that is a lot to take on that role that Mr Chen was doing while he was here so that is where we are now um for discussion tonight is just to talk about combining the roles of the HR administrative confidential and the risk management into one role and certainly the the salary estimate would be 137 and 4 and 137.5 so that is kind of the progression that's what I want to discuss tonight I wanted to inform you of how we're kind of as we're downsizing the district how are we doing that and how are we making sure that everything is covered because we these are some items that are so critical that we can't miss them so that is that is what we're here to discuss tonight do we have any public comment seeing no public uh do we have any trustee so thank you for the presentation I know that these are difficult times and that's precisely what you're being asked to do and step up so I um I'm appreciative of the ideas that are coming forward um and thank you for the uh comments regarding how it is that you're going to address the you know this big ship that's taking place and still maintaining um uh uring that the district's covered if risk manag is a big deal and you could have somebody Overlook a small sentence in some sort of a insurance policy or something like that and it it could wind up costing you tons in the future and so we definitely need to have uh somebody that's paying attention so it cannot just be something we leave aside so thank you for bringing that forward and um and letting us know how it is that's going to be covered so um yeah it it it looks pretty pretty harsh so um I'll I'll have to take your word for it how how is it that you you it's a lot of a lot of positions that are being cut and all that same stuff still being covered um you explained it to us but it's still difficult to take in um that risk management is pretty pretty heavy load now is this person individ like are they capable of taking this on themselves so the the person that we have is the HR administrator confidential position has a background in Risk Management so very very extensive background so certainly is familiar and certainly has already assumed many of the responsibilities because there's just so much and and it can't be delayed and it has to get done in a timely manner as you know some of the things that need to be reported there's timelines and if they're not followed then it it really inhibits our ability to file a claim in the future or at least be protected in future years because as you know some of these claims take years to kind of play out and and You' don't really know the repercussions until sometimes several years later uh thank you for that explanation it makes it makes me feel a little bit more comfortable in terms of this this large shift so thanks I do have a quick question um is there any education that this person in addition to uh whatever um certificates they already have in in high risk um is there additional education that they'll be needing yeah I think I'm part of the the growth of you know I certainly like like to um grow my my department and the people in it which is evidenced by Dr clyton you know he was with us for two years and he got promoted so certainly with this person um they've been attending the acts of personnel Academy on their own time on the weekends and certainly doing other trainings as needed just to kind of be up to speed in how risk management changes all the time and you need to be up to speed and certainly our new partnership with Kenan for this year has helped a lot because they they certainly um are experts in the field and they have a lot more support than we were getting previously uh so certainly we've we've already received a lot of training just because Keenan is a much bigger organization um than what we previously had so certainly the support and the additional training has been there with our new partnership thank you Mr Manny I worked with Keenan before too it's a good organization I just want to comment both um uh with um Cesar and Teresa and and the reorganization discussion for this and was coming from business they really are taking a lot in given the complexity of the district when we start to downsize and things get smaller it be a little bit more manageable but I do want to um comment on I think Andre you picked up right away the the difficulty that this reorganization does and the people willing they know that cuts have to be um across the board and um I do want to acknowledge that the district the district office uh is is doing their share because this is a lot that they're taking on I acknowledge that so thank you and I do want to say thank you to all the alrock employees that uh when they're asked to do something that they step up and um that's very appreciated and um we don't always see what's happening behind the scenes but um we appreciate it any other further question Miss Corina and I'll just add that you know based on what we've seen but also here outline you uh says that have been taken absorbing as we go through the years so thank you for choosing Elam Rock when you did and coming to us and then you know sticking sticking it out you know with us and then um being a part of this plan uh I think that's what makes me feel good that you were a part of this plan that you know you and Teresa are taking on more but it's not like you're being told just you know here right you actually were part of this plan you were part of the decision making and so that for me feels uh more comfortable um you know in in hearing about this at this point we're not um it's not on for Action tonight but um thank you can I just show the last Lise can you bring back the because it disappeared the last slide kind of shows the position how it absorbs two into one and it's certainly a good if you don't have it in front of you I'd like to just take a minute because it does highlight just okay so certainly this slide shows the the work of the HR admin in confidential position and the risk management and how it will be combined into one position so it's a good visual kind of shows both roles merging into one so I I certainly wanted to make sure that you you're able to see that any further comments none uh thank you Mr too thank you so moving on to 401 reorganization of Staffing for District's Bond facilities program this is a discussion only good evening again members of the board um I am here to give you information on the bonds reorganization that we are proposing currently we have a director of bonds facilities and leases and a bonds manager so we have two full-time management positions in our bonds program in order to complete all of the bonds projects that we have we would need to go out for an RFP for a contractor to complete our program Management Services um we had that a year ago with Cummings and that cost runs about $100,000 per month so when you add those two salaries plus the contracted program Management Services it comes to almost $1.7 million per year 1.68 to okay our proposal is to create a new position of the chief bonds officer uh this person would be taking on a lot more responsibility because we would not be Outsourcing the program management services so that's why we need to create a higher level position we would keep the director of bonds facilities and leases and we would increase our bonds Managers from one position to two positions so we would have a total of four in-house positions for an annual salary estimate of $955,000 this would save the district over $700,000 per year by bringing the bonds program management inhouse and some of the um advantages for doing that I will highlight in the next couple of slides so this is our proposal to keep program management of the bonds program inhouse uh in light of the recent discussions regarding the management of the bonds program this proposal outlines the benefits and rationale for retaining program management in-house by doing so we can enhance efficiency control and alignment with our organizational goals these are some of the benefits of In-House program management it will be cost efficient it would reduce overhead costs associated with external contractors or consultants and allows for better allocation of existing resources number two enhance control and oversight by keeping the program management inhouse we would have direct oversight of program activities which ensures alignment with strategic objectives it also facilitates timely decision- making and responsiveness to emerging issues when we Outsource program management it's a little more difficult to coordinate those types of activities number three the is institutional knowledge that will remain inhouse that means we don't have to reach out to our contractors for that knowledge when when we don't know something um it will uh excuse me it will um the the institutional knowledge will remain within our organization um we have had some issues in the past past where we've had to reach out to previous CMS or PMs and that just takes a little bit more coordination and so it just takes time to get that information if we had it in-house it's readily available uh in-house teams have a deeper understanding of organizational culture priorities and processes as well number four improved collaboration keeping it in-house would Foster stronger communication and collaboration between departments it also encourages teamwork and shared goals leading to a more cohesive project execution number five adaptability and Agility in-house teams can adapt more quickly to changes in Project scope or external conditions there's a lot more greater flexibility in reallocating resources as needed and number six stakeholder engagement in-house management allows for more direct engagement with stakeholders fostering trust and transparent stakeholders are more likely to be invested in a program managed by familiar faces that is our proposal to keep well to change and have program Management Services inhouse instead of Contracting out any comments from the public seeing none any comments from trustees seeing none uh we'll be moving on to 501 I have one quick one if you don't mind okay want to make one quick one I just want to acknowledge um the creativity behind this rearrangement and I want to acknowledge uh mark fratus and um his contribution uh to the bond program uh Teresa is stepping up to her position and Mark uh stepping up to dispos has given us stability in the business department I cannot emphas emphasize how important that is under the current situation so thank you Trac and thank you Mark one more comment thank you both U moving on to 501 approve contracts for Professional Services firms and organizations uh I have a motion from vice president kto I have a second from trustee Min famam um any public comment seeing none any trusty comment um G yes um as part of the package of um Professional Service fund we have Fox development that's being brought forward um I'm glad that we're going to be able to get partners that their Partners Consultants are going to be able to uh help us our assets and um see what the potential is we know what the potential is a lot of potential the sites up up to 27 acres and some of the most coveted land in the planet and so um I as part of this uh action I just wanted to make sure as one board member to express my very and I I've been very public about this is not a secret that I have no interest in selling that I think that it is u in the words of Patty cor who I got to ask this question of a different scar we do not sell assets to pay the bills we do with asset we we we we sell assets to acquire other assets that that needs to happen and so I think that that would be very appropriate in this case uh I think there's opportunities to figure out how do we go out there outside the box generate revenue on goinging revenue for years to come uh with the assets that we do have that I know a lot of people are are salivated after the Acres that ELO and they're probably saying look at that little minority District out there we probably take advantage of and so it's for that reason I'm going to be supportive with this and I want to make sure that we are fully informed and that nobody thinks they can just run shot run rush shot over us out here because it's a small workingclass District that we are fully prepared to engage anybody uh to make sure that we maximize the benefits for our kids uh and we ensure that that Revenue comes in year after year not just for one site I'll give this example there was 13 acres on what is now Regional Medical Center the old Alexian Brothers Hospital where I was born it was a now it is a parking lot it was alen Rock's land and back in the 90s it was sold by a a board that said they were in trouble and they needed to take care of I asked where is that money now it probably went away with raises and all kinds of stuff first thing that will happen is if we get a big chunk of cash we're going to put a Target on ourselves we need to make sure that that money comes in little by little so that it can continue to come in for years to come and fill our coffers and let us provide the services that our kids need um and so I just I I I'm Bel laboring the point but I just want to provide one board member's perspective persective uh with regard to the situation as we begin to Embark in these conversations um and I think it's important that Oxbridge come and provide us opportunities because it's very easy to say sell it all and get get out of your hair there's plenty of people out there want to buy I'm not asking for easy solutions we're paying good money so we can get innovative solutions that can bring in the maximum amount of uh revenue for years to come for kids and H Market thank you um I too will be supporting this I I I'm glad to see that we're going to get some Professional Services and to give their expertise and and weigh in on the information that um they're going to give us and uh I'm thinking leasing you know um not selling but we're in a position now that uh we have to look at everything um so while we thought of the money consequences later on down the road decision the decisions that we make if they're not what's in the best interest of long term so um let's let them let's let them tell us or recommend to us not tell us um what they think that our options could be uh thank you any other trustees truste Kina thank you and um thank you andas for those comments very aligned um and I look forward to seeing what the possibilities are not ready to say what I'm ready to support but you know I'm looking forward to seeing what those options will be and how we'll move forward uh and then also I I know that I asked in our one-on-one but I just want to ask publicly on the um math program the Silicon Valley Education Foundation and if that's going to be for all eighth graders thank you for asking um because I would like the opportunity to mention um when I um leave this position tomorrow I'm going to go back to my civilian role which is the um the gear up Grant and um part of the gearup grant is supporting all the eighth graders in Alam Rock and gearup will actually be reimbursing the district for that cost so this was um one that actually had developed a contract and um while I'm at it let me just explain there's also going to be um tutoring provided to the eighth graders this is going to provide um not only remediation but acceleration help to the students and I might mention on October 17th I hope you will join us at the tech where all the eighth graders and their families have been invited to have the tech all to themselves for three hours as well as um um as well as an opportunity for careers and at some point I would love the opportunity to come back to the board and present the whole Gear Up proposal so you understand the big picture of what we're trying to do it's a terrific opportunity like these eighth graders got the lottery right because it's going to follow them for the next five years with the goal to get them College and Career ready take advantage of the Spartan eai promise and um there's additional also student advisors that are being funded to uh complement the counseling department so yeah thank for asking yeah we'll be reimbursing this sum we should put it on our calendars as soon as possible just let me know okay Mr well I think we got the best deal of the world we got Manny who brought on over a bag of C de lent Excellence Services Chum rockco you've been here man it was great um it it would be just kind of wishful thinking but um you know it's it's it's great that these children were able to get the their their golden ticket you know you have these stories of Zuckerberg's or whoever it is dropping 38 $380 million into Patterson New Jersey exactly right here come on help us out give us the resources we need to get these kids to become your next worker so just yeah a little frustration there yeah well I share that frustration and I'll share an example when I was um when I was working at um so Education Foundation I actually wrote a grant for the East Side um that uh unfortunately coincided with common core um it was not accepted but then when the San Francisco 49ers wanted something for Santa Clara there it was and it emerged into what is now at Cabrio and into s High School the 49er stem initiative they're interested in Santa Clara but it is a frustration I share with you because um those type of programs should be here but I share with you on that but in this case we did get this Grant and um so let's take advantage of it and um again it's a lot of work by the way this grant coordinating and so forth the toughest part is getting the parents and the students to uh realize that this extended time is not punishment it's helping them and um and that hopefully by end of the year hopefully we'll see an uptick in the eighth grade math scores we're specifically by the way um emphasizing math because you may or may not know but Eide has gone back to algebra next year from the integrated one two and three and so the students need to be ready to um to handle alra next next year we can talk Spartan East Side promise College all we want they have to pass that first year math this is not me saying it it's the research saying it if they don't they're behind the eightball most likely they'll never complete the ad requirements so we're putting a lot of emphasis on math this year and then during the summer before they get there and Sandra and I have been talking about adding acceleration classes and and part of the consolidation by the way um you know should you take action with um with the middle schools in the e8th grade you'll have more opportunities to offer accelerated opportunities the right just too small and the numbers are not there so I'm glad you asked that question it's an opportunity to talk about kab so thank you and it's by the way I should mention in case they're watching It's a program that we are coordinating the East Side Education Foundation for San Jose State uh counseling department in case Dolores and Lori are listening uh trusty M before I make my comment you know I wanted to Mark uh you know Mr Barbara this is your last board meeting with us as interim superintendent so I wanted to uh take this opportunity to thank thank you for your generosity and spending your your time and your energy uh with our district thank you in this uh you know um in challenging times uh you know um but I want to make two uh so I am excited our kids are going to have a great opportunity with the gear up Grant and I want to say as a college counselor you know math is the you know gatekeeper it's the gatekeeper right especially uh you know if if the high schoolers can't pass second year algebra that that spells trouble for them going into college so algebra preparedness is key you know he success in the future uh the second part is I'm you know glad that uh you know and I'm supportive of the Oxbridge contract and I'll just say that my you know my preference has always been to uh maintain ownership of the land there's the same you know there no one is making it more land right uh you know the and My Hope was in in in conjunction with uh teacher and staff housing is that it that it's these assets that will generate unrestricted revenue for the district so that you know one day we you know we can get close to or you know maybe if you know if we're fortunate enough uh to sort of break the cycle of boom and bus State budgets right you know to get us away you know to move us from state funded District to community funded district and right and that allows us the flexibility to do you know to do things to augment like the gear up Grant right and to open up more opportunities for these kids but you know the key to it is that you know District ought to remain ownership of the land because it's the it's the single best way to ensure that it produces a su sustainable long-term source of revenues yeah if I can just comment on that you know we've I've mentioned many times we're land Rich cash poor no one's going to take advantage I I'm not but I guarantee you he's not gonna let it happen either so um we've already started uh discussion with this consultant and with other groups um to look at our options you're going to have a lot of options there's transfer there's trading there's so when the time comes you at least to have options um which right now we're kind of limited in that but um no one's going to take advantage of the district so let it happen happen speaking of take advantage um we might be taking advantage of you I know we don't see you in the inter superintendent role uh going forward but I do see you in a role here at Alam Rock and you ain't going to get rid of us that easy I'll still be involved with well I'll say a little bit about the the school consolidation process okay thank you Mr Cano I kind of alluded to it before um making jokes about getting the best bank best deal in the world when we got you superent but I did want to thank you for the time that you've been here uh and uh appreciate the the work that you've done uh how you've been able to integrate yourself into the community right away and the trust that you engendered with everybody that you work with is just amazing and so um thank you for the work that you've done thus far well I appreciate it you working all the way to The Bitter End tomorrow it's like I said I'll be in a different role next week and my role would be to support um um the incoming superintendent you made a terrific choice I can't think of a better choice and I will be uh staying with um as I mentioned to the U consolidation committee we've met three times now um next week I'll be officially the facilitator of the group moving forward and taking it through the very end um it's going to a difficult process we all know that but I think that the committee well the committee is and I want to commend the the people who um are committing their time it's a big time commitment we've already met three times two and a half hours twice this week in a span of uh two weeks normally this process you spread it out over six seven eight months we're trying to do it in two months so um they need to be commended for that as well so as well as the exec team to put together all the reports and um we'll be ready to go by October 30th with our first set of recommendations so we good and uh we can't leave without me saying some words I know I've told you in uh our one-on ones um but you know it's important to publicly also State and um you know I I think of where we were at you know as a district and our board as well and um I've truly learned that uh our superintendent role in our board moving together um has you know a lot to do with how how your leadership your experience how to talk to us different ways right we all think differently need to hear things in a different ways and you've just brought it all that this District needed in order to move us forward together um in this very tough time you know it's the toughest times that our characters tested the most and so um you know I'm proud of us I'm proud of us of where we're at um and you know I'm really excited in the future we're going to go into uh but you know really your leadership your wisdom your uh you know taking the time with each and every one of us to understand where we're at what we need to do in order to move forward together was really needed and I'm glad that you chose us uh to come and help us thank you thank you see no more comments um let's go for the vote so all in favor of of approving the contract for Professional Services raise your hand so it's four uh yes and no Nos and one absent motion passes uh we will now be going into close session um 601 announcement and public comments regarding items to be discussed in close session I'm going to give the board a five minute break right now at 7:40 uh 7:45 we will start close session and we will be there for one hour we'll be back at 8:45 e e e post session there's nothing to report out I'm adjourning before I adjourned our next meeting is for October 10 and uh the meeting is adjourned today at 8:30 p.m.

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e e all right so I just wanted to take a moment to to both introduce this portion and and give some sincere thanks to um Dr dupin and Dr Pomo and their teams because they've spent a lot of time um trying to pull together some information for us and then also to Dr Ramos for being flexible in the sequence in which we do things because one of you know we're on this Learning Journey with the board right and one of the things that we've learned along the way is that um we use a lot of jargon and we have a lot of tool sets and things that we use in education and not only are some of these tool sets brand new to you most of them are fairly new to us and so if we get into doing the progress monitoring work we're going to talk about a lot of the tools we have and that's not going to mean a lot to any body unless we talk about what those tools are why we have them what they do for us and that way we can set the frame of reference and the groundwork for them so so that's a big chunk of of what um the team's going to walk you through right now um but I think the other piece that's been really an important piece of learning for us is that we are trying to shift away from what I think is a natural human predilection and we just did this in our mind mindset work from excuses to no excuses and from a u maybe we can sweep this under the rug not that anyone's in this room has been intentionally sweeping anything under the rug but sometimes it's easier to shy away from the brutal facts than it is to embrace them and make them very evident so one of the things we'll be doing you know as we go through this is we'll also be pointing out a place where we think we made an error at one point and it may be something that we want to correct down the road or we may choose to live with the error and just understand what that what the consequences of doing that are like what the difference it makes so but I just appreciate the board and with Dr Ramos's Guidance the ability for this to be a brave space for us to have those conversations without it being a judgmental space because no one had any intentions to do anything and in fact um the intention is in being open about it is to make certain that we're doing the most we can for our kids and to accomplish these great goals that we've set for ourselves so now I'm looking at my chart in my mind of why am I talking I'm done so I'm going to pass it on to Dr D I think what I'm gonna do is beg the Indulgence of the board for just a minute I think we'd like a table in because we need the mics and stuff and one thing I'm going to take the liberty of pointing out just reminding everybody if you don't know Dr pombo is heart of hearing so she depends on hearing through the mic and reading lips so is really helpful to to to know that and so I'm advocating for her so she we can communicate effectively so give us just a sec to pull up the table um in if sorry um if you guys don't mind while that's being set up I just kind of want to go over why this stud study session is happening in I know some people will probably jump in online eventually or afterwards and I just want to give a little bit of an explanation when we go into this jargon terms and what we're doing so in the fall of 2023 crayon School District adopted a student outcomes F governance framework which is sofg to ensure focus on improving student outcomes this infographic which you can find online is the information about the sofg what is the student outcomes focused governance frame workk is based on the idea that student outcomes don't change until adult behaviors change using sofg the cron School District board aims to create conditions that support improving student outcomes we have vision and goals the vision and goals in an effective s so framework describe the community's vision they distinguish between inputs outputs and outcomes and they are smart goals meaning they are specific measurable attainable result focused and time bound today we on study session we will be reviewing our goals and what interim um goals we have done with those goals and having an understanding of the reports and how we will um start looking at keeping progress of we if we're meeting the goals that we have set for our annual targets and overall what the process looks like to attain our overall five-year goal so I just wanted to give that introduction real quick and then I'll turn it over to Dr dupin and Dr Pomo all right yes thank you so we we believe that the most one of the most critical steps at this time was to ground ourselves in a shared understanding of all the all the data sets that are aligned to our assessment that are aligned to our goals our annual targets um our interim measures and our guard rails so what we're going to provide you today is an opportunity to get some in-depth understanding of each of those tools and to answer so that we can answer any questions that you have about those because we know that they're going to be a topic of conversation throughout our sofg work and we want to make sure that we've done an effective job of communicating what all those are and and fully satisfi the questions that you have so with that we'll get okay get started so we wanted to start with um the school improvement process that we're which is a datawise framework and it comes out of Harvard um research on the school improvement process we started this work last year with our leadership team and then this past summer um our ed services team went to Harvard and and studied for a week how to look at data and school Improvement and part of that embedded in there is equity work like how are we making sure that we're meeting the needs of all of our students so this is just the uh the process it's eight steps um and I'm not going to go in detail I just wanted to give an overview that this is the process that we're using um and the essence of data wise is that so each student thrives and it's really important that that each is highlighted there because sometimes we say every student and each student means that we're paying attention to each student instead of every student kind of gets glossed over and so that's the why how are we doing that and dat wise is really grounded in Educators collaborating and doing this together as a team and building that collaborative team to um meet the needs of our students and then lastly how we're doing this is do the data wise process which is the eight steps and part of the datawise something real quick when we're work what we've what we needed was a way to take our sofg conversations from this team and operationalize them with principles assistant principles teachers and staff so the data wise process is a way a a set of strategies and practices that help us move from conversations at this level to conversations throughout the whole organization so the work can get done yes and interrupt anytime okay okay um and the first step is trying to build that collaborative team and it's similar to what you were doing Dr Ramos we started off with everybody um in our leadership team the principles assistant principles and the coaches sharing their why like why are you here and um education and we took that and with what everybody said we combine that to a common why so this is our shared why that we did on leadership seminar in the summertime which is we do this work so our students thrive in a culture of belonging and opportunity because we want every one of our students be able to do whatever their dreams are and be able to compete and be prepared for whatever they they want to do in life the datawise shared why which we learned this summer which is very similar Educators collaborating so each student thrives so that's their uh why and then also this is our definition of Equitable school where every adult in every role believes in and strives to ensure that each student feels respected and celebrated for who they are we talked about that our personal experiences it was kind of for was it two days two days of our personal experience of being a student we want to make sure every student is respected and celebrated each student is known and spoken to by name each student has access to rigorous learning opportunities and student outcomes are not predictable by demographic data so that's our definition of Equitable school and that's what we're striving for and those are our students if you see that picture so I have just can you go to the last slide please may I have just a little bit what do you mean by student outcomes are not predictable by demographic data so the demographic data shows that the students that are um not meeting the standard or below grade level are usually students of color and we don't want that we want all of our students to be able to um be successful and be at grade level or above it's it's almost exactly what um Dr Ramos stated at the be just a few minutes ago like we don't none of those factors should economics zip code language race um Family circumstances those should not limit what our kids are able to do thank you for ver verbalizing that in I guess in words and making sure that people know that this is what we're working on because it is imperative and it's important to have that same messaging so I appreciate that that was Tak this it's align to the second goal too like about making sure that our black students are proficient um so it aligns to everything that we're doing and it's interesting we're doing the datawise like this aligns a lot to um our student outcome Focus governance work that we've been doing that's a really good point the other piece is that our Equity work over the last three to four years has had um you know it it it has had some impact and it has had some limitations and so this using data wise creating these clear statements of of belief and commitment are a way to transfer the equity work from conceptual and philosophical to practical and tangible and so we want to make sure that that through line is very clear so when we're building strategies to respond to the hurtful comments you know the the experiences that were described from two weeks ago that ties in here that shows up in how we show up for our kids and so that Equity piece the ensuring that each child's needs are met is very much a part of why working with our leaders we're making this um work have that relevance thank you yes um forgive my ignorance but how long has District sofg framework we adopted it officially Sophia when did we adopt sofg yeah November of 20123 and um I have a clarifying question just because we are in the study session Port of where we're talking um I just want to clarify if non-school board members can communicate back and forth is that possible okay good just wanted to make sure that we're not um but yes it was in November of 2023 when we actually adopted it but there was conversations and stuff happening even before then but it officially got adopted of November of 2023 I think it's important to note that while we adopted this in November of 2023 the goals and guard rails that we're operating under were not adopted until June of 2024 and so um I just don't want to create a false expectation that because one of the challenges we had last year was that our we held ourselves accountable to goals that we did not establish until May so that created some additional challenges for us and this year one of the challenges that we'll be working through is that we still have a couple of guardrail inro measures that need to be adopted so as a team we're trying to not again it's a no excuses approach so we're not saying hey you know this came late so we're not held account accountable to this we're still holding ourselves accountable to it but just for clarity of the time sort of the the timeline of when did we start the goal and where are we at with the goal um the goal itself the goals themselves were EST were fully established in May because of all of the community outreach in between November of 23 and may of 24 I just wanted to one another clarify statement yeah and datawise which is a tool we're using separate from sof G but but compliment you know complement it when did we adopt that datawise um we started using it not last the summer before this summer 23 July of yeah and and with the anticipation with the anticipation of the student outcomes Focus governance work and um and I'm sorry I'm gonna I'm gonna hopefully not embarrass you here but um in Dr pbo's finalist interview one of the questions we asked was if you could only do one thing to move student achievement in your first year with us what would it be and she didn't I don't recall if you specified datawise or not but it was Bas basically having a data framework was part of what she shared and there were many reasons that we wanted her on our team but that was without a doubt um a lightning rod for this is the right person to help us lead this work so thank you for that thank you okay it's hard for me to present sitting I'm just going to stand for a second because it's but then the microphone doesn't move right okay um because this one this is a little bit like I'm if I don't explain it right please ask questions okay you can hear me okay are are you sure oh okay let me oh yeah what okay all right um okay so when we're looking at the data we need to look at it in several different ways to get the whole picture and so we have um to make sure that we interpret the data correctly we have to make sure that we collect data at each level there's different levels I'm going to explain real quick um disaggregate quantitative data by race gender social economic status we have to collect CL qualitative data interviews writing work samples of students um and then we have to look for what's working well asset based um perspective so an example would be instead of me I'm hearing and paired I would say have a superpow I can read lips and I can turn off sound whenever I want my turn my hearing aids off so it's always about asset base like what is positive what do we see that's going well and then what would be our next level of work I forgot why we put this right here but one thing that we've been working with um in our I okay I'll just talk about it um one thing we' really been working on is teacher Clarity when we're in our classrooms and I just want to share a little bit about um Hattie's work he's done a a study of what's the most effective strategies in the classroom to get the most growth in the classroom and so if you see the 04 effect size that means it would be one year's growth if that if you used that strategy so the student will would uh grow one year and if you see that teacher Clarity has to do with learning targets and success criteria and that effect size is 084 which if you look at that that would be twice as much as 04 which means it a student would have two years growth if we were implementing teacher Clarity in the classroom and then recently I went to a training on success criteria which is part of that and they said if you have clear success criteria in a lesson it's the effect size is 1.13 which is like about two and a half years of growth and so if a student is in third grade and they're um in first grade level if we have teacher Clarity and success criteria we should be able to grow that student from first grade to third grade in one year if we really focus on your Clarity in our lesson so that's something that we're focusing on in our learning walks did you want to add anything about it so what what we're sharing here in these two slides are you know it's administration's responsibility to make recommendations to the board about what the strategies are what the you know the interim measures are for each of our goals and guard rails and so we really take that responsible responsibility very much to heart so these are the data sources or the like the EV based resources behind the recommendations that we have made and then we're able to further use those those research-based recommendations to work with our administrators and our teachers so when we talk about which later on we'll get into like the learning targets and success criteria the reason why we're so passionate about making sure that those are are recommending those as for the guard rails is because of the significant impact on learning and when we look at our in measure in how far we have to go to reach our annual targets and to reach our overall goals we need to get two years plus of growth and this is a research-based way to to to move us to make that happen and I'm um I apologize for interrupting but um I think the other thing that's really important to note is like we were just talking about um the demographic component right and the um the fact that we don't want to have any excuses around oh well if you look statistically we don't have the luxury of taking soft strategies we need to choose strategies um because we know we have this distance to go we need to choose strategies that have not only This research behind them but have a correlative effect Dr R shared a study with us a couple weeks ago about you know correlation and so this is one of the ways that we're able to kind of get some of that correlation like are we choosing things um that are going to show up that these things are going to not only show up in our outputs but they're also going to show up in our outcomes and that they're going to align the the inputs the outputs and the outcomes that we're using and so um so making that connection I think is is of particular importance and then the the other piece with this is that um and Dr pomba was very eloquent in how she shared you know we're we're pulling this into the system system we're bringing the sofg down to the teacher level in one of in that um really interesting but very long um document that Dr Ramos gave us to look at the um the uh thesis study or or dissertation um one of the things I found very interesting in it is that it talked about how for us as educational administrators we have a ton of tool sets and resources that ground and connect that we can tie into to say well if if we want y input X will have this effect or input s will have this effect and there's not a lot of that for boards which is one of the reasons that we're choosing student outcomes Focus governance because that creates some of that framework for boards so we thought it was really important to not only for the administration down through the teaching level to the students to have their set and now we have for the board the student comes Focus governance set but one of the things that this slide is trying to illustrate is that we're also trying to make the connection between the two so that way there's um I think Dr R calls it a through line right the the ideal we talk about vertical articulation in education like from preschool all the way up through you know post college right and lifelong learning um but we also need a through line all the way from the student and the family up to the board and it needs to loop back around again down from the board all the way down to the student and the family so sorry to take so much time with that I lost my chart about not talking oh no no and just and just to to define a learning Target success criteria just really quickly learning Target is what is the goal by the end of that lesson that we want the students to accomplish and the success criteria is like how are you going to get there so just to give a quick example if the goal is to write a summary in the lesson then the success criteria is something that the kids can check to make sure that they're reaching that goal of writing a summary so it might have what's the J I'm going to make sure that my summary has the gist of the passage that I just read I'm going to use evidence from the text I'm gonna have a topic sentence and three supports and concluding sentence and that's kind of like their checklist of what they need to check to make sure that they met the goal of writing a summary so that's what the success criteria is and it has a huge impact because the kids can monitor what they're doing to reach that goal yes yeah rubric is an example of success criteria M and so the there's different levels of data that we look at there's the satellite data which is kind of like the big overview big picture map is kind of in the middle and then there's a street data so I'm going to give you examples of the different types of data we look at so the satellite data would be something like the state assessment where we see look at how we did on the state assessment and it's getting given at the end of the year and it's how we did overall map data is kind of our formative assessment the DNA assessment that we kind of check along the way which Dr Ramos talks about how we checking along the way and then the street data is how we're um getting down to the students in the classroom so looking at student work student interviews classroom observations that we talked about the learning walks um fastbridge could also be example of the street data because we're looking at each individual students um score to see how we can support them in instruction small group instruction so those are the different levels of data and then the other thing that we do is we look at types of data so types of data could fit in those different levels so in order to get a clear picture of the student and to tell a story so we can address um how to support the student student learning data the purple circle is stuff like the test like DNA the state assessment fast Bridge perception data is survey data that qualitative data where we want to understand um the perception from the student perspective parents perspective teachers perspective student demographic data is like attendance data disciplined data um it also looking at groups of students if we wanted to look at our students that are multilingual that's demographic data and then the last type of data School process is the the red circle which is our learning walk data like examining the school process at the school looking at curriculum that kind of stuff is school process dat so to put all of these together of how we are looking at data for sofg is we have the satellite data on the top the map and the street and you can see that most of the data that we're sharing with you is going to be satellite data because that's kind of like the overall view of the district um and then some of the inter measures under the map data and then the street data we're not sure that's more like specific to students so that's why you don't see Street data as much but to give an example under the student learning column we're going to be sharing um the state assessment math for goal one and two the Aela data for goal three the state assessment Ela for goal four the school process data which is the learning walk data that's for guardrail 2 and four perception data which is our surveys a listen for family survey for guardrail one Panorama survey for part one and three and these haven't all been adopted these are just putting in the categories um and then demographic data we're using um the Vista programs participation for guardrail 3 and we're using examining data by subgroups for uh for goals two and three um and then the map data that's kind of we're checking along the way so you can see we're using DNA map for goal one and two DNA Ela goal for three and four and fastbridge Ela for goal four does that chart make sense do you guys have a question of all the different types of data and levels yes so and I was we were trying to figure out what's the best way to share this because there's the levels and then there's the types and then where do everything fit that we have added to our sofg monitoring progress monitoring we can get copies out to you um the other thing that I wanted to point out about this is we're we're wanting to ensure with staff that they have an active understanding of the different data sets and why they're used you know I've been in kraton a long time time some people have been here a long time and remember different reasons why data were used and sometimes it felt like data was weaponized against teachers weaponized against kids and we know that can happen so our perception based on the intentions of student outcomes focused governance is to ensure this isn't something that's being done to people this is something we're doing in that collaborative sense so the whole first part of data wise is about organizing for collaborative work where we're empowering people to understand people at all levels kids the teachers staff all of us so that they understand the types of data that are available and the reasons why they're relevant in certain circumstances and not others to guide our progress so this is this we anticipate being a really big part of our future conversations with with our community and our staff and our students and when we were proposing that what how to measure the guardrails and the goals we were looking at making sure we had all areas to be able to tell the whole story and triangulate down data and so that's and that's why you see it in all areas especially in the satellite data because that's more a big picture of the district the map and street is like more specific to the school or the classroom or the student or Heather I thought I heard a comment I was just gonna say I think you know what's important about laying it out this I have a teacher Voice come on um what's important about laying it out this way I'm going into my teacher brain and I think you nailed something which is the connections right everything's connected I think also we see a lot of areas where you know this one piece of data is addressing multiple guard rails or multiple goals and I think that's really important because one of the number one things we hear from Educators is this is something else on my plate and so I like how this is laid out to show how everything overlaps how things are connected it's not as overwhelming it's not this giant multi-page list of Assessments and things we're doing it's all woven together and it's manageable right it's approachable I just want to share two things first of all um daty ways I believe was implemented even before s so was and to see the similarities of How It's supporting the sofg framework is outstanding in itself so I'm really proud that our Administration and cabinet team Whoever thought this was the best or the conversations that happened even before we into this already showed me that we're moving in that we were already thinking about this kind of stuff we just needed something where it could be a little bit more framework um what I love about this data wise too is that somebody like me I do not come from an education background I'm not a teacher and I didn't go to you know School I've learned everything through governing board and trainings and professional development and having data wise with this sofg framework really brings out the different types of of Assessments that we have and until I actually learned what you know a formative qualitative quantitive assessment was it wasn't until I started connecting the dots and I believe a lot of the times we don't equip our our our teachers or staff on really refrigerating that so the fact that this data wise is already implementing that I I can already see what it did to me and my understanding on how I effectively ask questions how I'm looking and monitoring so the fact that this is already happening in itself with this with this framework of data wise is it's very inspiring to be honest it's it's making me feel like oh my gosh you know it's not that we've been doing bad or good decisions and it kind of goes back to a book that Dr Ramos has mentioned in the past I I think Paul's or Paul principal or I forget what the name of the book is but the book basically T Peter Principle and it talks about how we put people in sit um in positions but we don't give them the tools to actually get their get a hold of their job and with this it's really understanding and getting it and it's aligned perfectly with s SOG that's going to get us the answers or the questions or the work that we need to get our students to that next level so I'm just really appreciative and thank you for taking so much time on doing this and it's all making sense and that's that's what's important because for me personally it's going to help me be a better um um governing board member when I'm sitting in the dis looking at information so thank you well I feel the same way you feel because whenever we're in audience and you guys are talking like oh my gosh that's align to data wise oh that's align to data wise that we're doing the same thing and I we're Partners in helping this happen for our students um part of the beauty of what's Happening Now is that there's there's a a very tight shared focus at all levels and it's you know there's still work to do to improve Clarity on our end with the team but the clarity is absolutely is is is developing and that's something that excites me as a leader so the next thing we thought on the slide is just to look at the goal and then what we're using to monitor that goal so our you know our first goal I'm not going to read it but basically is to decrease minimum minimally proficient in math for all eighth graders and then the second part of the goal that aligns with that too is increase math proficiency for the black e uh black eth graders and so we're using DNA to monitor throughout the year but then we're using the state assessment at the end like I forgot your football analogy but the end did we win the Super Bowl right um yeah um so this is just a little graphic to explain what the DNA is it stands for data and assessment and what it is it measures the Arizona academic grade level standards and the purpose is to measure student standards proficiency to inform instruction so it just kind of of gives us how they're doing on that standard for that grade level and to predict how they will do on the state assessment um the DNA assessment is it has a pre-test and a post- test the pre and the post- test are exactly the same so it's like the pre- test is what they're supposed to learn by the end of that grade level so if it's sixth grade but with and so we have it two more times throughout the year to see how they're doing on those standards throughout the year so that's why it says August we have a pre-test then October December and May and every time we have new data from the DNA we go through the um our goal is to go through the datawise process those step those um eight steps which is to make an action plan like what are we going to do about the data what we just got um and then it's composed of math third through e8th grade level standards and Ela is uh third through eth grade level standards um and it has optional first and second but we really look at uh third through eth because we use fast bridge too for the younger younger grades yes when you say optional it's optional us as a district or teachers have autonomy right now it's we have it in place and it's turned on at the district we have a couple of schools and I can't remember which off the top of my head that are are are starting to dabble but we're being you know everybody's super mindful about how much testing to put in place with young children in these tests are um the feedback we're receiving they are quite r ous they are harder than aasa so we're really careful about using it with the younger kids but it is available and we do have a couple of schools that are starting to to to go into it so one of the questions we'll have to Grapple with at some point depending on how we're working in our goals three and four is whether we want to dip down into second grade systematically in if we're not seeing the results that we want in our third grader in our third graders which is fourth our goal four I was thinking about yeah the power of the second grade and catching some things before I was also even thinking like maybe there's individual students that we need to gather more inform I'm also about over testing but you know would this be a compliment to fbd if you had a student couple students you needed more now I'm done sorry there's another mic over here too oh yeah okay um and the other the other obviously assessment we're using to measure goal one and two is the Arizona academic standards assessment that's what aasa stands for um it's a Statewide achievement test for Arizona students in grades 3 through eight all Arizona public school students in grades three 3 through eight take the grade level State assessment in English language arts and Mathematics and the purpose of it is to measure student Prof efficiency and growth on the Arizona state standards for Math and English language arts and it's given in April um and the assessment components I only put the eth grade math because that was the goal but in eighth grade math it does function expressions and equations geometry statistics and probability and most of the questions are at do2 which means like just a higher level than just basic um questions and just like uh Dr dupin said the DNA however they do on the DNA assessment is usually um they do better on the state assessment than they do on the DNA assessment so on goal three yes this one or yeah that one um I just have a really quick question so on the assessment which one has the highest percent of questions those are the ones I put the top three but which one is like the highest oh I I can look at up you know is it fluency or have to look it up oh okay I'll bet it's expressions and equation okay geometry is like less than 8% usually it is like I know in like the younger grades it's always number number sense so I was just wondering they give you the blueprint I would assume based on all the lessons I've seen it's probably mostly expression and equations so for for goal three um increase English PR proficiency for our emerging multilinguals we use we're going to be using the DNA uh to monitor throughout the year and aala um is at the is basically in February March time frame so the aella is a standard-based assessment that meets both state and federal requirements to measure students English language proficiency the purpose is to determine if students whose first languages other than English need to be placed or continue in the El program Asel is used for both placement and reassessment purposes um it's given upon enrollment for initial placement and then also annually in in February and March and it assesses reading for K5 foundational reading only writing listening and [Music] speaking there's also a monitoring of fully English proficient students once they reclassify for two years so they actually can take a Zella they actually do take a Zella even for two years once proficiency is achieved because the intent is that they're not losing the proficiency once they've reached that level and we are accountable at the state for proving that or showing that we have continue to monitor those students say that again that's correct yes I thought I thought the FPS didn't have to take ailla anymore you had to show evidence that you're monitoring in some way they we do and and isella is one is the okay so for goal four increase reading proficiency for all third graders we have um fast bridge in the state assessment because we're also looking at our kindergarteners for that we're monitoring our kindergarteners because they'll be third graders when we are at the end of the goal cycle so fastbridge is a screening tool for reading the purpose identify students who need extra support evaluates their progress towards specific skills for reading intervention and instruction so it just really looks like what area or what skill does the students already know and then what are they ready to learn next that we need to address either in whole group or small group or individual instruction it's given in August November and April and these are some of the things that measures by grade level so kindergarten first grade is phological awareness which is like rhyming and syllables phonics which is sounds being able to sound out words and then site words and then you could see first through e8th grade is fluencing accuracy second through e8th grade they have comprehension questions and third through eighth grade is decoding and vocabulary so those are types of things are measuring on fastbridge Dr Pomo real quick I'm gonna check my Integrity Lindsay I'm gonna go back and research what you said because I may have made an assumption about Pro using it to monitor so I'll go back using a Zella to monitor Fe ones and two CU yeah because I know like the the expectations regulations whatever you want to call them around our f P students have flip-flopped a lot like three times in the past like five years um but we were not required in my previous District to give the aella to our Fe students we did however have to submit documentation that showed these are other ways we're monitoring so for example we were giving NWA so we pulled out specific NWA data pieces to show this student is staying on track in the areas of reading and writing but we did not submit our kids who are Fe to have to keep taking the aella because that was an option provided by the state so I'm I'm not saying it's not a monitoring tool but if we're not required by the state and that's causing more anxieties and there's other ways I would like to explore that what I made a giant assumption to in the moment so I'll go back and clarify what our practices are relative to that so that we're not no no no I by all means that's what this is for so we're all you know fully in yeah okay okay for guard world one and these haven't all been adopted so I'm just going through what we had proposed so far um the superintendent will not neglect student social emotional health wellness and development so that's the listen for good survey and the and the Panorama survey so listen for good survey is um a survey customer service feedback for the um Family Center and the purpose is to amplify community voices and utilize families feedback to improve programs outcomes and promote and Equitable practices when the date it's collected in April through May and October through November and it just has survey questions we have examples of what the surveys are later in the in the slid show but that's a listen for good survey I'm not familiar with that but I know yvon is familiar with that and it's basically it has it's it's a requirement of the first things first that funds the Family Resource Center just new for this year so our desire to have a metric around satisfaction and and results for the Family Resource Center aligns well with that Grant timing so it has it's going to have a a range of questions on it but there are five or six that are required which are what is it called Jay net net promoter so it's like um and I think we do have the samples degree of satisfaction that you did you would you recommend this service or this place to anybody who was seeking these Services how well were you treated those kinds of things so we'll be able to report on that and then basically anytime anybody receives engages with the Family Resource Center we'll be able to use the survey to gather input on how that experience was for them and the other survey is the Panorama survey it measure what is it student competency and well-being measures and the purpose is to gauge students feelings in the areas of relationship social awareness self-management positive feelings and culture awareness and action that's given in October November and May and it has some we'll have samples of the survey questions and then anyone On th that for guardwell one okay guardwell two and four we're using the same um well for now I mean this is what we proposed The Learning walk and observation and the rubric so it's the superintendent will not cause or allow conditions practices or procedures that are inequitable or insufficient for students and the superintendent will not allow adult convenience or preference to take priority over the academic progress of students so the learning walk rubric is um what is it's classroom observations conducted by the district datawise team coaches and site leadership the purpose is evaluating and measuring the essential components of high quality in classroom instruction based on the Charlotte Danielson framework for teaching it's once per quarter so once per quarter our team about between five to 10 of us depending on who's available um go to each school and do learning walks and this year we've been able to go to Every classroom that's available when we're we're there so we've been able to do if they have 20 teachers be able to go to all 20 teachers if they have 30 sometimes 28 of them but as many as possible when we're there and then it we have several areas that we're looking at curriculum resources um which is under planning and preparation physical student learning environment um student learning environment which which is the classroom management engagement and rigor and then teacher Clarity the learning targets and success criteria so those are the areas we're looking for when we're in the classroom so that is for both those other any questions on the rubric we're going to show you an example one later but do you have any questions on it um just so this is this the type of information you'll be bringing back like a general overview of what you saw like during the RCs okay and then also for the initial um observations you probably have those going on right now right formal observations we've done how many 16 we've done 165 the learning Ro walks okay um but then the like your um observations for like formal observations like that principles are doing is that a part of this as well no it's separate so this is not part of evaluation process at all this is just monitoring um or not monitoring but kind of getting a snapshot what's happening in our classroom so we can support um the school with what they want to focus on based on the learning walk data so for instance like some we'll show them the data um and at the end we'll see like hey most of your teachers have great classroom management which is awesome like an asset based but then we notice that you know most of them do not have learning targets so what are we going to do about that and so we make up a plan for the next quarter of what we're going to do to address learning targets and like what do the teachers need like professional development do they need coaching what do they need to be able to do that in a learning walks typically 10 to 12 minutes and then we input the data um it's we were looking for those six attributes and then we have a four-point scale for each uh again we'll share this and then so we use it as kind of like that overview data but the it feels really important to keep that separate from teacher evaluation yes because we want them know like this is a learning process we're all learning from each other and trying to get better so it's not part of the evaluation at all and what we'll share with you is a satellite data so we'll show you our district data but with the school leader they have their school data and then the specific teacher data so they can work with the the all the teachers obviously some teachers want to see their specific datas and they work with that teacher but obviously we wouldn't share that we'd only share the overview um I think it is important to keep it separate from evaluation just because there's there's feelings right with when you're being evaluated um so I think it's more likely to give you a truer picture of the dayto day um that being said I also appreciate that the learning walks are based on the Danielson framework and I think we use Danielson to evaluate because we are legally required to evaluate teachers that being said the intent of Danielson is a growth and learning model and so I think this is just really powerful and that we have this happening frequently to help teachers make the connection that yes while this tool is used in a different way for eval th this is good teaching and this is how we get there and what it looks like feels like sounds like um and in a low stakes environment to be able to have those conversations yes we definitely want it to be about growth and that collaborative um culture and partnership and I think it is slowly starting to get that way I'll just give a quick example we did some training on um explicit language instruction for multilingual Learners and I was in there with a group of teachers in the learning walk I happened to go into one of those teachers classrooms and she's like Lissa come in I need you to see because we did I was in the training with her and then afterwards she said uh the principal told me she went to her right after and said how did how did Lura rate me because I want to work on that area that we did in the training so I think it's slowly starting to get that way well that was with a teacher that we went through training together and so that was probably why it did that a teacher doesn't know me probably wouldn't do that but I think it was it's still a growing growing time um so guardrail 3 the superintendent will not allow the district to operate without a system to recruit retain strong teachers by empowering staff through culturally relevant and differentiated professional development and we're using the Visa program participation and Panorama climate survey um I don't think I put anything about the visa on there I just put the Panorama survey which is uh staff leadership relationships and school climate and the purpose is to measure certified and classified desite staff feelings in the areas of Staff leadership relationships and school climate October November and may it's Anonymous survey it's a Liker scale ratings and open uh response questions and I didn't have anything for if you have any questions about the Visa program participation just seeing how many teachers are in that program right that we hire yes I guess just one thing I want to say um for the Visa program participation I think it would be great to see information on um like overall not individual people but how successful that they are being in the classroom um as teachers because I feel like we're not taking a look at that to see um if you know this group of people are being successful and this group of people aren't being successful um and how that's affecting because it's great we have people in the classroom but we also want quality people in the classroom um and having the Visa program is great to have people in the classroom but sometimes um it Al always doesn't lead to Quality instruction um so I would like to see like the correlation between that um as data Maybe moving forward because I know we want to keep people in the classroom but it do we want to keep quality people in the classroom and how are we getting those people that's a good point I agree with Heather Katie oh I was like what Katie out of nowhere from The Ether Heaven thanks Katie she just said that Katie you can continue if if you need to say something oh no I was just saying that I agree with Heather feel better yeah feel I was gonna say we could um take the learning walk data and look and see separate that data and see like so we'll have to yeah modify which is good that's good feedback because this is as we go into Quarter Two we'll make sure we differentiate the form so that we're able to disaggregate it by anything we know we want to look at we were already trying to do that for special education and some other subgroups [Music] okay so the next section is basically just samples of everything that we just um went through so you could see what they look like so this is a link to the sample State assessment and a zalas if you want to see what types of questions um are on there and I can show you how to get on there in a second the other um we I also printed out the DNA uh sample test for third fifth and eighth grade third grade ELA um Fifth and eighth grade math but they are um I don't know how to say protected and so you can look at it and then I got to take them back um because they're the same questions that the students will get so I have to like shred them afterwards to make sure um and then the fastbridge if you click on this link um it has sample questions like the second page on this link has sample questions of what the kids get um on the fast Bridge assessment um and then this is these are links to sample questions from all the surveys so I don't know right now if we want to take time to do this or what do you or at time a possibility would be we um can give you the sample questions that we printed out and kind of use that as part of our working lunch just to skim and scan if that's okay with you and if there's questions then we can discuss and then I know I don't we'll make this slide deck available to you and the links will be live so you'll be able to go through those um and review on your own the learning walk rubric if you open it I just want to explain it real quick when you read it just to um so the learning walk rubric has the areas that we talked about if you know the Danielson framework it's very comprehensive so we just took the main things that we were looking for in our classroom based on our goals and so at the very top where it has the blue that's the success criteria for that um area so if they have a b c and d that would be a four if they have all four of those if they have one or two you can see how it's rated one two three or four um in most of the areas a one means they don't do it at all a two usually means that they attempted to do it a three means they did most of it and the four means they did all of it so when you look at the success criter is at the very top of each section and so if you go to success criteria I don't remember who asked but on there an example says they have a rubric on there here's learning Target and success criteria so right there it says success criteria a checklist a rubric co-constructed with the students uh students compare a strong and weak example a series of guided questions examine the quality of their work so those are just examples of success criteria so you can it gives you what to look for in the classroom in the blue section and the teachers also understand we're only looking for evidence there's no opinion so to give an example would be if I'm in the class an opinion would be the class is out of control they're not good classroom management of an Evidence base would be there's 20 kids in the classroom 10 kids were up and out of their seat or 10 kids were off task or something like that so everything is just what evidence can we find to support the success criteria and that's been an important part of of trying to eliminate Observer Bias so they're not making judgments about what's being seen it's simply capturing evidence of what is being seen in numeric ways direct quotes from kids direct quotes from teachers that support or align to the attributes that we're seeking and part of data wise which is another section of it is all about evidence like make sure you're always looking for evidence or data um not using opinions and then the after the learning walk oh is just it's just the timeline just so you can see when we give everything like if you a picture view of all the assessments we just described so you asked about when we bring forward data one of the things you'll have the opportunity to consider on Tuesday night is our progress monitoring calendar so we've we've built a progress monitoring draft calendar for the remain like till 2028 for the term of our goals and it aligns to this assessment timeline so that once we have data aligned to goals inter goals and guardrails their interims will be able to bring that new data forward and share an update of what the data say and how our what our plan is for response and these are when the learning walks are which every quarter and then the uh Panorama surveys and staff surveys and then that's just the graphic of everything that we just talked about and I think that's it unless you guys anyone have any questions this helpful yes this is super helpful I don't know I don't think I have any see any questions or comments but one connection that I just had is that um in the student outcomes focused governance framework we as governing board members have a framework that we have to follow us well to make sure that we're meeting sen criterias so it's just I I just go back to the parallel processing and the way that I'm seeing at this time is that the institution was pily processing was started that kind of behavior already without us even knowing and the fact that now I'm connecting that dot that now it's now we're as the governing board members are being held to kind of like I guess you want to say a Danielson framework but instead of it for teachers we have it for us so I'm just loving all the synergies and I'm loving how the explanations because now I'm understanding what's happening in the schools with the tools and how you guys have beautifully connected it to the goals that we have and the guard rails so with all that being said and you know the last three years of being on the board this is I feel like we're light years ahead and it fell for a while that we were being stagnant but with this just portion of the study session just tells me how much work has been put in in intentionality to make sure that everything is staying to what the governing board has decided that our main focus is going to be and it's amazing to see how it's embedded even down to the principles the schools and the teachers so thank you so much for that and thank you to the administrators that for these years they've been held to this certain standard and the governing board was not holding themselves to the same standard and I'm glad with this framework we're both now being held accountable to certain you know Frameworks and standards of what we can do to make sure that our students are getting what they need to succeed thank you and you're referencing like the rubric right like you guys have a rubric and I'm referencing the student outcomes Focus governance rubric that we as governing board members have to follow and a lot of the stuff that we do is in this you know governance Bible that I like to call it and it's just a parallel processing now that started within the institution first and now we're as governing board members finally adapting to the same standards that we hold our administrators and employees to so that was just a connection that I made and I'd like to offer gratitude to the board as well because the focus that the board has placed on this work has allowed us to move faster and with greater Clarity than we would likely have otherwise been able to move there is a lot of you know we're a big system we have a lot of personalities and preferences and you know a lot of people know a lot of things and don't know a lot of things and so if we were trying to address address all of those we wouldn't be making any of this progress but because the board is creating this Clarity and focus it allows us to then Infuse Clarity and focus into our practices and that that is extremely helpful I'm really glad that I'm able to be here and and be a part of this and I know some of the concerns that I had had um was about like the stand Ard I testing and how our goals were so heavily focused on that but I like seeing how you know you've put up there how it relates how each thing relates to certain goals and guard rails and now I can see the the feedback I was getting well you know well that's baked into the guard rails the guard RS will will counter some of these concerns and so now I can see how how that's working you know so as a parent and as someone who had the concerns about being standardized testing heavy like like this this really helps like helps me understand it better and recognize how we're going to be able to hopefully not you know yeah go down the I'll just leave it at that thank you do we have any other comments questions yeah yeah just um I appreciated the the comment about all the work that's been happening in the background one of the things we picked up in that October study session with Dr Ramos was kind of what was down the road and um you're pretty lucky because I think these folks are way more competitive than I am so um you know they were like oh we we are so going to be like the model for the country like on this so um and and I'm like well don't kill yourselves people like we got it's it's a long race you know tortoise in the hair but um you know very often one of the challenges in education is to get movement right like we're a very heavy weighty stagnant system and um for the last year plus a little um we've really been a duck and the reason I use duck is my analogy is everything seemed all common placid on the surface to a degree but man those feet were p and a lot of the feet that we paddling were the team that that these two amazing individuals lead um but then also our principles anyone's listening I want to give a shout out to them because um along with their their leadership teams on their campus and their teaching teams they've really been trying to embrace this everyone's in a different place and it's not perfect right but Perfection is not the goal incremental Improvement is the goal to to move towards getting better and us getting better for the purpose of our kids so I'm going to take us back to our chart from earlier in the day the they do I see I do they see that also applies to what we're doing with our instruction the whole concept behind datawise is to stop looking at what other people are doing and start seeing what we're doing and how it impacts those outcomes and um listening to our school teams get into a room and identify a problem of practice based on observations of what's happening and not opinions about well this is just a bad person who doesn't want to help kids move forward or um you know they just don't they don't know this or they don't know that all that's set aside and it's like well what do we actually see what is actually the problem what are things we can put in place to address the problem and so which is very much like the work that we're doing with sofg so again like I said earlier the vertical articulation is going to be where our success is going to come from and I thank both thanks to both of you even me seeing this presentation and this framework versus you know having read through it when you shared it with me like has even opened some new thought processes and clarities for me as well so thank you both I know this was a lot of work and um during a Time window when a lot of things were going wrong so a lot of this work happened during extracurricular hours and so thank you for making that sacrifice for our kids there's a lot of work that people that aren't in this room that have a hand in everything you're seeing um all of our coordinators Tyson has pneumonia he he would have been here today and have been supporting our team of curriculum coordinators um principles as Jay mentioned and then we have this group of teaching and learning coaches and I shared in my reflection before about my thoughts on that change and what I've learned um and the people that have stayed or joined our teaching and learning coaching team and are now fully invested in this work are incredible and we got to see two of them presenting to kids Congress yesterday about math and they're just they're so deeply committed to the success of the teachers to the to the success of the children and community and to the profession as a whole and that you know so we're trying to honor their role in Student Success as well and and offer gratitude for their hand in making this this work yes I Echo that uh Tyson and Marie who's in charge of our our math coordinator and um Sarah Beth who's our literacy they worked a lot on this too so want to thank them and their [Music] time I just want to say from a school board member perspective I think this is like the best professional development for board members than that I've ever seen you know we have broken up with Arizona Schoolboard Association and that's that really I never have seen anything like this there it was for the past 10 years okay let me just pick and choose what sounds interesting to me and every now and then something sounded like it would be great here but for the whole time I've been here um in the past we've had a superintendent who would not Implement anything that that we've discovered at a conference so it's sort of like what was the point of all of that um and spending all of that money um so I think the board has never really had a focus like this before and I I feel like it is making a huge impact um but I I you know everyone needs to be patient I think to see the results that we're trying to get but I think that we're really on a the right the right track and have the right team in place for this right now thank you I don't see any other comments or questions I'm going to turn it over to Dr Ramos okay so what we're going to do is we're going to take a break we're going to go ahead and take a lunch break which is not recorded correct and then we will come back on when it's time to move to agenda item 1.6 which I'm really excited about and it's going to be our governance progress monitoring report so I'm excited to actually look at some data um Katie if you want to step away we will do I was going to make a joke about how I don't get to watch you guys eat that's unless we stay on because we were saying we were GNA work and eat at the same time to make it quicker so I'm just gonna stay on so it's fine we'll just I'm sorry we'll just stay on we're gonna have some discussion probably and then eventually if we move fast enough so we'll eventually move over to our govern in progress monitoring but for now let's enjoy lunch and co-work together well I thought we were working oh yeah so it's 12:35 I I say like 10 minutes to go to the bathroom grab our food and then come back and get ready to eat and work okay so we'll do 10 minutes thank you e e e we've all came to the agreement that we're going to go ahead and eat and work together um the next portion of our agenda is the 1.6 which is the student outcomes Focus governance progress monitoring report that I am so excited to finally get into oh are we going to go over the test first okay my apologies um I'll go ahead and hand it over to Dr dupin and Dr pombo to go over some of the preest that we were talking about when we were going over um the governance data and what tool sets we're using thank you president K so what we propose you have three I apologize do we have Katie Katie are you there I'm getting a thumbs up yes okay thank you sorry I didn't mean to interrupt no problem so we have given you three sample tests these are secure assessments we pulled them out of our item Bank from DNA so they're not like the publicly available practice assessment which is why we have to secure them after our session today but we have a third grade ELA a fifth grade math and an eighth grade math aligned to our goals so what we'd like to do is invite this side this table you guys take the third grade test not take it but like go through it what we're going to ask you to do is just share a notice and a wondering as you look through this assessment and um if you all would take the fifth grade math assessment and we'll give our our professional teachers the eighth grade assessment not planned um but you don't have to take the questions you you could you may choose to do a couple if you want but uh really just a noticing and a wondering will give you about three to five minutes to peruse the the items and then we'll we'll just reflect on what we see e e e so one of the things that I I notice I have the practice a form there's a portion in the multiple choice section that has circles and it says choose one there's other parts in the test that say they turn into squares and it's choose to so even that in itself if proper reading like me sometimes I like to skim things and I and because of the way that my brain operates I I always get ahead of myself and if I'm not actually paying attention to the extractions I can see how either I could do two on each one and invalidate my test because now I just did even the simplest thing of just paying attention between what the circle and the square difference is square means there's two options Circle means one even that minor thing can throw that so it brings a lot of other Awareness on even the simplest things as what the square versus the circle means in a testes I just noticed that some ask to do two some ask for one so that's good that's a good strategy though too and that is a skill that teachers do have to teach I've had to teach that is that you know they have to go home they have to go through and read the questions and even though it's bolded even though it may be Capital like sometimes they still don't answer two if it's asking for two so then they miss it so it's just paying attention to like that detail and so that's something that a teacher may not know maybe even a beginning teacher that that's going to come up right because it might not appear anywhere on any practice test until they get to the asset next is wrong we don't yeah this is wrong there's no half yeah oh let me let me take it over there have all the mics on the table one thing I've noticed with um especially my middle child is he's rushes through his homework he's just always so wants to get it done and get it over with and I could see a kid who's trying to rush through a test get caught up again not not reading that information appropriately or rushing through thinking like Oh I'm a smart kid I'm just going to oh this this answer is right and then not read the rest so I think like Heather was saying like yeah it's important for the teachers to kind of ingrain that in the kids you know read the question carefully slowly don't rush because that's how a lot of mistakes get made um Le with my kid so we also kind of noticed that there might be some vocabulary in the third grade test that won't be accessible to all students uh so then how do you how do you plan for that and I I know that for in students that are language Learners uh or emergent um dual bilingual students some of the vocabulary would be unaccessible and I know that at certain points they're not counted in the scores because of their language acquisition proficiency the number of years they've been in the country Etc um but that also is really just indicative of the maybe some of the biases in the test so knowing for instance the I won't divulge too much but there's a word dabbed that appears in one of the passage and if you've not experienced that vocabulary term in context elsewhere then you're going to lose the meaning of the passage so and I'll just build on that I have um 8th grade math and there's I think one thing I do appreciate is it's not like a whole bunch of texts like the any problems where there's a situation given um it's like a sentence that being said some of these contexts are things that only adults would have like renting a car like like it's just like and and I get like the math is in there but like like I think things like that can trip a kid and that has nothing to do with language Learners or you know like if you're in eighth grader like you could be like what what like you just get tripped up by that because that's an that's an adult task and situation and there's multiple of those in here well just to highlight one example in the passage so for the on the front of the third grade test the directions are read the passage below and answer the questions that follow so the second sentence says setting aside his homework Joe was ready to eat a snack he cut some he got got out some pretzels and a cup for juice he poured himself a drink at the table the cup teetered and Juice spilled onto his math paper oh no yelled Joe so you know the word teetered I don't know that that would necessarily I don't hear it used commonly among um people in my home let alone I I I don't know it's just a common place it's not a common place I wanted to follow up with that just as a teacher perspective um we know that a lot of our students um have a hard time with vocabulary and you can see it on these State tests and the reason why they're filling vocabulary is because we say use context clues and things that they know but when they don't know what the definition even means of that word when you give it to them because they have no relation to that word that's why our kids are fing at vocab because they don't have those experiences to connect it to that word so it's very hard to teach context clues and be like know the context when they don't know what the context is so you can even give them uh you know I can think of something to have them related to because I'm an adult but for them to do that by themselves during the test is not going to happen um I just love the opportunity to look at this stuff because it's really bringing up a lot of the questions of what we can do as a governing board member or when we're asking when I'm asking questions when we get into the progress monitoring it gives me a better understanding of what the teachers are dealing in with the classroom and what kind of support systems I guess I will be wanting to hear from the cabinet to make sure that these gaps that we all know are existing and what steps we're taking towards filling those either if it's common language I don't know what that looks like and I think that's why it's I loved getting all the data sets and what a walking rubric and all that stuff was because now I'm starting to see the connection on how even those walking rubrics can bring up and maybe fill in some of these gaps where we're noticing that this is not happening in the class it's not aligned over here so again I'm seeing all the connections now and it is just really connecting the dots and making sense to me so I appreciate all this time and effort on it and the what we're doing here is an example of the kind of work teachers will do at the end of each assessment cycle so they'll sit and start to develop what we are calling um learning centered problems so it might be something like accessing specific kinds of vocabulary or for knowing how to support an answer with text based evidence I'm better at the ELA examples than the math examples but um then the problem of practice becomes a problem for the teaching team what do we need to do what what do we need to do as teachers to ensure that that learning centered problem is addressed and that's through the datawise process how those conversations uh roll forward on I mean what this does for me is brings me back to when my kids were you know third grade and them and all of their classmates were highly stressed about taking the test and I remember um a teacher telling me my son would just freeze and couldn't get through it so I just want us to be you know really remember that part and we've already heard complaints you know about incentives for testing like that's my only fear with this work that we're doing is um that the stress level is going to rise is for teachers and then you know back to students so um yeah they need the instru clear instructions on you know read the question but I think we just need to be cognizant that that they're easily stressed over these things and so culturally you know as a district we just need to be aware of that and really work hard not to create that culture again well and kind of goes back to something I was saying to you earlier was like I appreciate that this has a slightly higher rigor than the state test because I think then we avoid having kind of false expectations um I'd rather be happily like surprised at the end um even if it you know as we go through the year we're like um they're not scoring well on this but maybe but um that being said I think having the conversation making sure that teachers are having the conversations with students of setting that culture of you might not know everything on this and you might face a question that you don't understand and that's okay um and just really emphasizing that because you know there are concerns about stress but if you're creating that culture where the teachers are very explicit and you can be explicit to a kindergarten about it this is just for me to see what you know and see where I need to help you more and it's okay if you don't you know and and they need to hear that every test every time um and I think that's really important my other wondering I appreciate like on the eighth grade math that there's a mix of kind of more foundational questions and then there's some that are much more application and almost inference in in different context my wondering would be how much I appreciate you saying that the teachers will do this as reflection because I think it's important to look at does how much how often does the curriculum have questions situated in that manner because what we don't want to do is a week before we're like suddenly giving kids these types of practice questions so they're used to that format or presentation like but maybe you know if we find that our curriculum maybe in the providing materials doesn't always you know include kind of multi-step inferences with a math application you know are there pieces we can supplement throughout so that it just becomes part of all of it and not something like let's PR you know practice for the test this way like because I think that can increase anxiety too and I think too in the materials we read um to prepare for this meeting I mean it's very very clear that in sofg work um the data is the data like it's not a judgment it's how how are we going to improve you know and so that's I think you really do have a board that believes in that and um is not going to be judgmental um as we go along you know so I wanted to reiterate what Dr dupin said so part of the data wise process step four is determining that learner sent a problem and so to give an example of what we did with that with these assessments is it tells us on the reports um what standards the students were able to master in this in this assessment so um one example was the standard has like three or four parts and so on it was a seventh grade test um they had the students got most it was like 50% the kids got one part of this one standard but then it has all the other standards and then at the very bottom that same standard was the a part that they did not get so the teachers will investigate like okay here's the whole standard they got part A and B of this standard but they're not getting C and D I wonder why and let's go look at what the type of question it is asking let's look at the standard um you know how it's uh how it's written to see if we're teaching to that standard and so the tests also really help and form instruction and find out what the students know and then what are they ready to learn next based on how they did on the assessment so telling the students like this helps us plan our instruction this helps us pinpoint what we should do next in our in our lessons um so it's not like it's more about this is helping us help you grow in your seventh grade standards or math standards um so that's the step four and then step five is the problem of practice like what can we do look back at ourselves of how we can support the students with whatever challenge are happening and set for like what they're having trouble learning thank you Dr PBO and we were having a side conversation just at lunch so part of our learning just from this morning was around just kind of the comments we had about the gr the grid that shows all the assessments their the purpose and the alignment to our goals and we were wondering how helpful it would be just to have that conversation with all of our teachers like especially with the number of new teachers we have have we really paused to say here why we here's here's what Our intention is here's our why and here's our how through these assessments and then our purpose for using that data and then further wondering is what if we had that conversation with kids so your point about anxiety you know if you know why you're being asked to do something and how that's going to be used to help you in the long run that could help help you feel better about trying even if you're not fully confident that you're going to succeed so those are those are just insights just from today's conversation that we're like oh okay I think we could parents too you know I think that could be a community council type of thing um because um you know parents don't want their kids tested all the time so I mean I think this is very organized way to show them this is the reason why and and we don't want your kids to be stressed so don't let parents add to that stress either because you know um because that that happens as well yeah it comes back to all that common language understanding and if we're doing it at the governing board and we find the importance to teach our administrators and spend all this time then I that it's prudent to spend that much time that our teachers have the same understanding and our students kind of that parallel processing um portion of it and one of the things that I've realized too um in all this is I find the term English language learner very interesting just because I I am an English language learner every single day I feel like I learn a new word every day so for us to think that there's a specified of student group just that I think nobody is born knowing English so maybe that can cause less anxiety like no I'm an English language learner too we're all in this together we're all learning together and sometimes the purpose practive and how we come about things can reduce you know anxiety can reduce and and brings more understanding to to everybody so I love that you guys shared that Epiphany because that's that's great and that's what this work is supposed to do it's Thinking Out of the Box thinking of things that we haven't done before and it's awesome that we can have all these innovative ideas but we know what the goal is and the overall goal is the five you know academic student outcome goals that we have and we can be as Innovative and collaborative thinkers as we want but now we are focused so with that being said um I'm really excited to go to the next thing which is the progress monitoring report because I feel like all these conversations we have been having and the back and forth has actually led to real life almost progress monitoring as if we were doing it because we were asking the correct questions we understood what inputs and what outputs were being used to get us to our overall goal so I'm really excited that we've kind of been doing that without knowing what it really is and I'm glad and um excited to learn a little bit more and go into more in depth to this First Progress monitoring that we will be doing before we or as we transition if sorry as we transition everybody could turn these back into Dr pombo so yes absolutely one two three so so is everyone turning that in thank you for that staff team wonderful wonderful job thank you I've learned a lot here myself today too so um excited to say the least I just wanted to make sure that we're grounded on the same vocabulary that we've gone through before um I have found it to be helpful to go through these again as we're going to talk about progress monitoring um so president G you'll have to wait just a quick little second more before we get into that fun part so I'll ask the same questions we've asked before um let's pretend that you're the owner of a Major League football team what is the outcome that you want Super Bowl yeah Super Bowl want to win we want to win the championship so before the game even starts what do I need to win the game goals players coach players coach equipment St determination Stadium Stadium we need a football we need sponsors we need food we need transportation we need all that fun stuff and so how does this relate to school systems would someone please read what an input is resources and activities invested in a particular program process or strategy usually knowable at the beginning of a cycle great so in school systems what are examples of inputs teachers teachers classrooms books curriculum supplies classrooms books supplies all of that budget support yeah supports very good and all of these are usually knowable at the beginning of the cycle which means board again the leadership team and the superintendent are very likely talking about this year round and especially as they prepare for the for another Academic Year so they live in the world of inputs and then what do we know at halftime how far we are to getting to our not good what's working and what's not what's to do better what's working well uh and how do we know that the score very good and so that's where this is important for us and so someone please read outputs for us theread go ahead outputs the results of a particular set of inputs usually knowable in the midst of a cycle a measure of the implementation of the program process or strategy very good so in other words are all of our inputs working for us and we want to monitor this at least quarterly we don't want to wait till the end of the football game or the end of the game to make changes we want to make changes during the year during the school year and so what are examples of outputs even though we've been talking about them pretty pretty cool conversations what are examples DNA is an example of an output fast Bridge fast bridge look see aella well aella yeah well aella is that an output or an outcome outcome okay so let's go ahead and go there then why do we say that aella is an outcome an annual sumita Sumit say this one at end of the year because they don't T right a summative it's ass summative good so it tells us what they know by then that's right tells us is what they know so would you mind reading that for us the impact of the programmer strategy usually knowable at the end of a cycle a measure of the effect on the intended beneficiary very good so everything we discussed somewhat theoretical when we first did the two-day workshop we talked about inputs and so who typ where do inputs typically live at responsibility the superintendent or the board superintendent why the superintendent because that's who I hired for them to do it the expert why he's the expert he's who you hired he's who you evaluate as well right so he is primarily but doesn't the role have a role in this what is the board's role with inputs to make we're accountable to those inputs to make sure and accountable and the board approves a lot of that's right we make purch questions about them ensure that they are connected to the work we're trying to do that's right all of that is correct so if the board is monitoring its inputs asking questions vetting them and you're approving them along the way um and then you find out that the outputs you want to know if the outputs are being effective or not just as what the staff has been going going over with us today then whose primary responsibility is the outputs between the board and superintendent that's still the superintendent still the superintendent how so why because they bring the data to yes and as we've learned today they've been I love the duck analogy I'm taking that one with me right and in and so sometimes in what what what in in the different types of research sometimes there can be assumptions being made about who's doing what and who's not doing what I think today if there were any of those those have been dispelled because those you you've made a connection to me right and I statement this is where these Alla moments tend to happen for working teams okay so you you are watching the inputs and you are monitoring with your outputs and so yeah you're going to bring that to the board and board as they bring you outputs which actually is part of what's happening right now with the with the guard rails you're vetting them and if you approve them then you're saying that you're you're going to roll with it but you also want to monitor because if they're not working you want to ask questions like what's the plan and not just a small plan but you want to ask for an aggressive plan because time is of the essence so just like in a football game if we're falling behind we need to stop we need to call a timeout we need to figure out what's going on on because adjustments need to be made now not at the end of the quarter so good so then outcomes who's primary responsibility for the outcomes we're all ultimately accountable for them yes and who primarily is responsible for the outcomes governing board student outcomes superintendent and then I heard governing board I'll give you the answer it is primarily the board and here's why because you've been appr proven inputs and outputs and if you're not monitoring them then you're typically waiting for the end of the year to find out if you wion or lost the game and what happens in unhealthy relationship superintendent situations is board members go into the common pretending to say ah superintendent you really let us down this year it's your fault and so that's why you have the average of less than three years of superintendant sitting in those seats versus when you live into your row of monitoring or or asking questions monitoring inputs and outputs what you're saying to your community is I have been vetting and approving and sometimes you may need to vote down sometimes if you're not convinced and maybe that means that just like you said Heather maybe I'm going to go sit down with superintendent help me understand is probably one of the best questions I love to hear from board members superintendent man help me understand I want to support you but I can't just blindly approve things I need to be convinced that this is going to move the needle for children and so that's why it outomes yes absolutely he's the one driving the vehicle right and you're also the one that's approving resources time in and time out fair enough yes so now we can go to what is progress monitoring let me go there so thank you all um if you if you were not able to do some of the pre-work no worries I'm hoping that you get really fired up and excited about what's coming your way next week but I want to make sure we have this definition so that we are clear on what and why progress monitoring is important so here we go about gold monitoring what is gold monitoring it reads too often in public education leaders do not pay attention to what's working and what's not working the result can be a revolving door of initiatives program silver bullets that drain resources frustrate staff and fail students breaking the cycle requires having clearly agreed upon data a predictable Cadence of reviewing the data to see what's working and what's not working and the expectation that this information impacts what happens next this is the purpose of monitoring and so gold monitoring this is I want you to Envision what this is going to look like for you as as early as next week gold monitoring is a conversation between the board and the superintendent that provides the board towards the opportunity to evaluate the alignment between the community's vision to student outcomes which we call goals and current student performance growth which we call the reality while goals and reality may not match perfectly it is only it only becomes problematic when there is no evidence of student growth and even if students aren't yet growing and making progress that's only catastrophic if the superintendent doesn't have sufficiently aggressive strategies in place for helping students make progress does this resonate with you at all so this is a document you have I would highly encourage you to check it over and definitely before your first your next meeting because it has some kind of like things for for the superintendent I'll just read them out to you real quick quick tips we have for the superintendent for Effective superintendent participation we say don't hide the data second thing don't sugarcoat the data third thing align monitoring with managerial election fourth superintendent be prepared and fifth this can be hard sometimes for superintendents but I think superintendent man's pretty good at this don't be defensive and for boards it's do your homework means that as they're going to be working overtime to get you the materials ahead of time do your best to set some time aside to read the packet and come prepared that also is going to help you because I am going to ask you to try to submit one or two questions before your board meeting to the to the superintendent based on what you're going to see in a little bit in the progress monitoring and the reason is it helps with that second of the last one of no gotcha governance what is an unhealthy behavior of boards is when they do gotcha moments and gotcha moments typically it can be for a lot of different reasons but I'll just be honest with you some of them usually begin with I didn't come prepared at the board meeting so I'm going to pretend that I'm overprepared and I'm going to do some gotcha questions um and that's unhealthy what's better is if you send one or two questions about the progress monitoring report ahead of time that way the staff has a time to get you the actual factual information and they can come overprepared to the board meeting you know what happens board when you do that they come less with less anxiety to your board meeting because they're not anticipating having to do a data dump for you to give you hundreds of pages of data that you're probably not going to read or look over but it did take a heck of a lot of time from them to prepare that material so the reason that the progress monitoring report is going to look the way it's going to look right now it's because it's anticipation of preparation from you as a boort and then the last one is hard my friends but trust me it's like building the muscle don't offer advice and what we mean by this is this it's if if you insinuate of about an input or using a certain output um now I think this is a brave space team so I think that there can be some push back from the leadership team to say well you know I I get your perspective on this input um and we appreciate that but that shouldn't mean that they're going to go and implement it just because you recommended it they they are the ones who you are charging and they're the ones he's the one you're going to evaluate so that don't offering advice can be difficult now that doesn't mean that if you hearing something in the community that you don't bring it to them we said this earlier your superintendent wants you to bring issues and concerns to him you also want to be mindful of when you may distract him and P him away from what you're actually waned him to get done so now I think we're ready for Progress monitoring unless you have any major questions no the not giving the not giving advice piece like it like you said it is challenging because we jumped to that right offering Solutions but just being I think what's helpful for me is to be mindful because I think in some ways it's almost harder because I'm an educator and so like I'm like oh yeah like I compare it to like what we did in this District or this district and but it's helpful to me to remind myself that you know there's a lot of solutions out there and a lot of them are kind of generic um and you know common knowledge among Educators but when they're coming to us with their Solutions and proposals it's because they've accounted for a lot of different factors that we may not know and so just reminding myself like I need to assume that they're making this instead of this other thing that I would have thought of and I'm going to make the positive assumption that it's because they've taken into account other factors yeah and one last thing I'll say to that too is that what's helped me is that I'm very good at giving advice um and one of the things that I've worked really hard on being on the board is stepping away from that but what's helped me understand that too is that this is why we hired our superintendent they are 24 hours a day in the in the ouns in the nose of what's going on I only have a certain vision of it maybe seven hours a month so when you put that in perspective it makes it a big difference you know that I'm only hearing and getting a certain amount of information in those eight hours sure I personally put more hours but in retrospect we're up here speaking and having these conversations basically almost eight hours a month versus what my superintendent or his team are a 8 9 10 11 12 hours a day so that's what's helped me put on my hat of more being a strategy and I know we'll talk about that more focused question versus putting my opinion of a a five or maybe two% of what is really going on out there just one thing and um just as an aside to both comments which I thought were really helpful and Powerful but you know I have a joke that I use a lot because very often when there's a perceived problem there's always you know a series of perceived Solutions and one and and if you were to look at my inbox you would see probably on an average day about 40 different vendors trying to sell us some way to solve something right so so my joke because when I see that I'm like wow you know there's this many today my joke that I always tell myself I think I've even maybe um verbalized it to the to the leadership team too is well clearly the problem in education is we suffer from an inadequate number of ideas you know if we just if we just had more ideas then everything would be better and what what I've come to learn in this role in the in the time frame that I've been in it is that to a large extent the the biggest problem we have is too many ideas and too many solutions and so when I talk to our teachers they're just drowning in all these things right and so one of the things our team team is working on right now which will probably get us in some hot water is an initiative inventory and what we've been doing is evaluating everything we're doing because I don't think we will get better by doing more I think we will actually get better by doing less and doing it exceptionally well so what a great transition to the part of what you could probably expect is that as he just stated the inputs and the outputs may get narrowed down and so what we are seeing with districts that are doing sofg is that they they're assessing which outputs are probably no longer needed and so it leads it should lead to probably less assessment and less testing because they're fine-tuning and so it uh one of the videos that I asked you to watch was from doto Texas we just had a workshop the other day where they have really narrow down their outputs and the feedback from the teachers were we we have too much we have too much testing we we don't have enough instructional time so it just it was it was a inheritance of outputs that they've now done a really thorough assessment and there's going to be less but it should be predictive of the outcome and so the narrowing of focus as you just described is ideal and that's what we're going to be pushing towards the last one I'm going to give you is a little cheat sheet of a form that's in your the documents that I sent you which is still on the same one of the pro effective gold monitoring to get off the ground um as Dr dupin and the team are going to walk you through your First Progress monitoring to kind of give you an example if you were able to watch Phoenix elementaries and watch the SOS they started with these questions you'll notice that the first three columns are focused on current performance questions in the first page the document describes that board members typically want to go to the fourth column you want to start talking about future performance what's happening I'm going to caution you and also advise you to really try to live into the three first columns first because you want to understand how did you get here what happened how did we get here if I'm looking at that data what H what's the story attached with that that's why this should be a conversation between you and the superintendent and if you spend about two-thirds or three4 of your time finding out how you got there then you're going to be better prepared to talk ask the questions about future performance um so again it's it's it's a muscle that you'll work on I want you to have fun in progress monitoring um and we'll worry about fine-tuning your muscle into these but you'll already have them ahead of time you do have the documents about smart questions you have the document about technical tactical and strategic the same language here those first three columns are going to be a lot of Technical and tactical and they they're necessary and you need them and then your last quarter would ideally be more strategic so now I think I've held you long enough for your progress monitor report dark dup and I'm going to let this one go and then if you would give it a if you all want to give it a shot of going through progress monitoring report and then board members start thinking of what question you might want to ask or you're going to ask about what you're going to see related to one of your goals thank you for your patience while we get reconnected [Music] while he's pulling it up you'll notice in the progress marit report that there's a guideline of we we say it should be the sixth grade reading level we say that it shouldn't be more than five pages I I suggested to the leadership team to not here to the five pages for the learning opportunities but they'll eventually get to where it'll be fine-tuned the five pages but I think you'll understand why it's a little bit more just we want to make sure being real thorough on the first one all right yeah there's definitely some of the elements you know it's either condense them into one page or make them big enough to read so we were kind of using that as a filter uh with some of our data and we're open to any and all feedback necessary to make this as useful as possible so thanks for your patience with progress monitoring report number one so we begin with a uh reminder of what all four of our student outcomes focused governance goals are and the first goal which is decrease minimal Proficiency in math for all eighth graders is the focus of progress monitoring uh report number one goal two is to increase math proficiency for black eth graders goal three is to increase multi increase English proficiency for emerging multilinguals and goal four is to increase reading proficiency for all third graders so as I said before the first goal is specifically the percent of eighth graders eighth grade students that score minimally proficient on aasa math will decrease from 73% in August 2023 to 48% by August 2028 our annual Target for this year is the percent of 8th grade students that score minimally proficient on ASA math will decrease from 77% in August 2024 to 71% by August 2025 and we've laid out the annual targets for this goal on the graph that you see with the intention of having proportionate decreases in each of the years of the term of our goals so for this year's work we built in a current measure and an interim measure and you'll recall that we when we discussed these upon adoption current measure was based upon looking at at the eighth graders consistently every every year or every assessment period what's happening with our current class of eth graders to get a sense of what's what's happening programmatically at the eth grade level the interim measure is designed to look at our current years's group of students who will be eighth graders in 2028 so this is our Target cohort if you will of students who will eventually be that 2028 group who are part of our terminal objective our our big uh goal and then one of the things about the structure of this report that we've done is to highlight what the data sources are that we're using so you'll notice anything tagged with orange The Orange Box the asasa data are the that is the assessment that is being used as the measure anything tagged with the purple box is uh the data source is coming from the DNA assessment for the interum and I'm happy to pause for questions comments or feedback at any time and I'm just gonna point out one I'm sorry lindsy if I just wanted to point out real quick there's an oddity that you'll notice that we are trying to decrease but there's an increase from 2024 to 2025 that was an adjustment that was made because we did not make our our uh Target for last year sorry that's what I was oh sorry double sorry then and over time with subsequent monitoring reports will play with how to how to either lay onto this graph or in a separate graph the actual progress relative to those annual targets you'll recall we had when we tried our first draft of a progress monitoring report we had all kinds of uh lines on the graph and it was really hard to read and confusing and so we're working on making sure that it's succinct and clear but we'll um provide progress as we reach points when annual Target data have been collected so this is our breakdown by uh student group subgroup and this is the percent of eighth grade students scoring minimally proficient in math across all of our schools and across all of our demographic groups so what we notice some things that Stand Out is that even among our gifted and talented students there are still locations where 100% of the students are scoring at minimal proficiency uh we have two I won't call them bright spots necessarily but brighter spots in that the gifted and talented students at builtmore Preparatory Academy and at Mont Vista and at the kraton Academy are at slightly lower rates of minimal proficiency in math so just so I understand this correctly when I'm reading the builtmore Prep Academy all section where it says 79% that means that only 79% of those students are minimally proficient that is correct the column for all is all the eighth graders who tookest and then all the columns that come after that are the groups of students that are within that all category you are you're 100% correct is there any way you guys could present this so I can see it or oh I'm sorry I thought we were oh no it's okay he's giving us okay I can see it now thank you so our Focus for this current measure is in looking at all our all students are all eth grade group so that's the highlighted column here um one of the challenges for us is that the there's very little range at this time of year in the the percentage of students who are at minimal proficiency so it's not possible at this time but a future qu or a question is going to be or as we evaluate these data we're going to be looking across the schools for places where the percentage of students at minimal proficiency is decreasing at a rate faster than at other schools so we're going to be looking at bright spots and highlights the next interim benchmark the DNA assessment for this goal is actually being taken on Monday and Tuesday so we'll have fresh data very soon that will give us um a comparative because this is based on the assessment that students took in August F my iPads I'm getting it Angry um uh yeah I think having you know it's hard right now to like ask any questions because we don't necessarily have comparison or Trend data at this point um I do want to just point out one thing that I'd like to keep an eye on um for future correlations which is um 79% of El's um at BPA which is a dual language and we're looking at math and so I'd just be curious like keeping an eye on that like and you know that's potentially win for how is our dual language model being effective in math instruction so and that's a great point because most most of our math instruction in the Dual language immersion program is facilitated in Spanish so that's a helpful observation thank you for pointing that out cuz I just noticed the next best score is at the kraton Academy so our two best scores are at our dual language schools so perhaps there's something to that if anyone's listening multilingual brains are brilliant and we're all English Learners right yep what was the word we learned this morning there was a no there was another more heart Tamil catastrophizing yeah see that's a new and my mom knows that word and she still does it to herself she's like I'm catastrophizing again like yes you are yes you are but at least you've named it now and what we anticipate being able to do and and I guess this is feedback we're seeking this table is potentially going to get really long especially as we start adding you know in Benchmark one in Benchmark two but we what we anticipate being able to do is bring you future reports opport where we'll highlight those kinds of examples based on our analysis to help inform your analysis and of course your analysis will inform our actions Eric did you want to address the January 2025 thing while we're still on the slide you know I think I'll do it with this next slide um but this a great segue um this next slide is in intended to show with with an excellent progress monitoring report based on the feedback and the materials provided we want to be able to show the three years worth of data for the reporting for the for the measure and so we go all the way back with our DNA inter and Benchmark data for 8th grade math to the 2022 2023 school year so what's presented here are the percentage of eighth graders that were scoring minimally proficient across each Administration of this assessment and this this in the 2022 2023 school year that's when we started using DNA we moved away from exact path which would had been kind of our hold over from using ATI Galileo a couple of years prior to that so that's the beginning of available data sets and what you'll notice is that this percent proficiency seems to be very consistent for The preest Benchmark one and Benchmark 2 so going from and I think I have little pointer here so I can highlight on the screen we start at 96% minimally proficient then it actually jumped for the interim Benchmark and then came down one and then it's at the end of the year post test that the most dramatic reduction in minimal proficiency is observed and then that so then new school year starts new group of students come in and it goes back up because they're starting with new their eighth grade standards and then it stays relatively it's the same then reduction of a little bit and then another decrease at the end of the school year and then now we're in our current reporting period we just you know this the assessment that was taken in August we're back up to 97% minimal proficiency so what that suggests to us is that students are coming in with they're entering the grade level on that preest with this with a a high level of minimal proficiency and to some extent that is understandable because it is content that the students are seeing for the first time as they enter that grade level um the highlighted the blue number here the 84 that is what's highlighted in our current measure that is actually where the kids who are this year's eighth graders where they finished on the post test as seventh graders so the seventh graders finished at 84% at minimal proficiency last year so we're really trying to get that group of kids to our um to reach this Center measure which is 77% J's excellent point is when putting this together we realize that this current measure is framed as a January measure and so with that in place that's when we will take in our own Benchmark two the thinking at the time was okay well that'll give us time to act and make instructional adjustments prior to them taking the aasa test when in fact this if we look at what we've done over prior years at interim Benchmark to they're still the students are still consistently scoring at in the '90s of minimal proficiency which leads us to conclude that we are not on track to meet this interim this current measure because the time window that we've set up is my word artificial to the to the growth we're actually trying to capture which is a full Year's worth of growth so um the other thing I want to highlight is that the reason that we typically see this we actually do have a reduction in minimal proficiency from the 2022 2023 school year to the 23 24 um these assessments are comprehensive so every time they take them it basically tests a whole year worth of Standards so it's not until the post test where they've actually had the opportunity to learn all of the standards that are on the assessment which creates some challenges when you're trying to extract meaning from the interims but it does account why at least in part for why we're seeing those decreases from the interim Benchmark to to the post assessment a quick question because um I assume we will be I mean obviously in board meetings going to be discussing this but um in the future like will this be shared out like at Community councils as well and things like that I have a response to that and With Us site councils that will we will be putting in in our monitoring calendar it's up to the governing board to go out to the community and have that two-way communication and that's where we will be updating our community on exactly these things that are happening so yes and it is up to us to set those up and go out um so that being said I just think I just want to double down on your point because I think it can be really disheartening when people you know and so just really making sure we're very clear when we're talking to parents and families um and especially when we're providing translation about all of this information to be very clear that this is an assessment that tests all of the standards for the whole year and you're it is absolutely natural to see that progression and then um with all this information I'm going to give I guess a practice question and if I can have some guidance or feedback on what should be changed but giving all this information one of the first questions I would ask is obviously we have this analysis that in 2023 and 2022 it kind of stayed the same rate from what I'm reading they were minimally proficient in 97 97% were minimally proficient and then within the two prior years we stayed in the 90s we're expecting to see almost a 20% decrease by January given all the information that we heard earlier about the new things that we're doing what what do you see that was not working in those previous years that maybe now we're doing that could maybe just give us a different option in your opinion would be something maybe that I would ask like right I think I'll start and then if you want to add anything this year the 2223 school year was our very first year with the hmh into math brand new Adoption brand new set of input and so what you what we what might be occurring is that the first year of implementation is very much a year of learning a year of becoming comfortable with the materials and learning how to make the meaning make the content meaningful for the students so that could account for the Improvement shown between 2223 post and 2023 2024 post which they we actually reduced the minimal proficiency by 4% because in year two now teachers are more comfortable with those materials students are more comfortable with the materials because it's comprehensive covers all grades K to8 and they are uh better able to have meaningful lessons at their instructional level so I think that is one input that that is that is working that we can lean into to expect greater Improvement in the future now my second question is the 2022 2023 post usually what month is that done in where we have the 83 drop it's typically done in May and when is the because we obviously jump high again and we go back to 97 when is the 2324 pre given when school starts again in August okay so um maybe for especially when we're giving proper um Community guidance maybe we can add months into the 2023 post because in 83 they were just the whole year with us right so when we took that test they had been actively in it what when we're giving this feedback it's obvious that from the 22 2023 post to the 23 24 we had summer break so I I think that puts a lot of things in perspective when we do those dips in those highs it's like yes we see that we did really awesome we lowered it by four but then summer happened you know and that's why we were back at 97 so maybe we just add the months so it brings some kind of perspective to okay they they went almost three months without every day you know whatever was going so it just brings a little bit of more clarity when we add the months of when like the pre and the post and the IBM when is taken can I make a point of clarification so the August 97 is a new group of kids oh God so it's not the same student like it's not it's not sopia had an 83% and then in August because of the summer slide had a 97 is that correct um my wondering though to aside from that clarification to the point um of of kind of showing more clearly showing that time I don't know adding months might just add too much I'm wondering if there might be another way with either color coding or maybe just a vertical line after the end of each year some way to visually separate each year without adding too much stuff yeah and then again going back to the messaging making sure that we emphasize cohorts of students versus same student yeah and I think yes I love I think yeah and in addition to the cohort being new the standards are new as well to each of those cohorts because like let's say we weren't looking eighth grade to eth grade even if we were looking seventh grade to eighth grade you might make an assumption that there was learning loss over the summer but what they're being tested on isn't the seventh grade standard now it's the eighth grade standard so it's it's a whole new set so y but but it is a great question because we always worry about learning loss over the summer so I I was just going to go back to your first first question but I don't know if I'm answering it but this is what I was think what I was thinking about when you were asking that question I obviously I don't have experience for the previous I only have for last year but last year we implemented datawise with just the school leaders and so they were learning it last year this year is the first year it's going down to the teacher level but it's not at the teacher level yet like in the this next quarter it will be at the teacher level because um we were teaching the leaders this first quarter like how to implement it with the teachers and so I'm predicting that we're not going to see change until on the assessment until May because they're going to implement action plans this quarter for the first time and then implement it the second or the third quarter and the next assessment we are taking one obviously next week but then the second assessment is in December um when they only done their action plan for a couple months and so then I don't think we're going to see a big change until May so it might look the same well I'm going to say it probably looked the same yeah and that's perfect clarity for what I was asking because you let me know what's being done different and obviously data wise was a major input that I think we just started getting a hold of that's really going to make an impact on this so yes that was perfect that's that's what I was looking for so building on that point we may a recommendation might be to change the timeline on this current measure to make it may because if we do that then we'll be giving ourselves till till the post assessment in May it'll be comparative to when we've given the post tests in Prior years it's also the most comparable or predictive of aasa results for the long term so a recommendation would be to change the timing on that current measure 1.1 so that it matches May 2025 which you'll see we did in the next one um there was another point I wanted to make about this I don't know maybe I'll remember but and if we were in a board meeting and when you had to vote on this you literally just convinced me on why these changes need to be made and I think that's what the beauty of this is that it brings up your guys's reasoning with my understanding and it's like okay I am sold that maybe we should change XY or Z but that's exactly what these conversations do is we can edit they're not set in stone what's working what's not and that brings us into the different um did you have a question um I was I just had another wondering about a different kind of chart to go alongside this one maybe because we are like um following these the fifth grade students um up until this point couldn't another chart be like following the fifth grade students and how they're progressing as well as that cohort so that's what 1.2 is that there's we have another we do have that chart but it's is this the same group of students fifth graders every year this so one current measure 1.1 is about the eighth grade students regard the functionality or the impact of our eth grade program on different groups of students every year so this is three this reflects three different groups of kids yes current or interim measure 1.2 is about our fifth graders so we're following those that core the same but we're following from fifth grade to sixth grade to seventh grade to eth grade in 1 point two is that what's happening three groups of fifth graders that one the way it's graphed is it is still it is still three groups of fifth graders that was the question is as a supplemental might it be helpful to see follow the same cohort of fifth graders in 2022 showed those kids as sixth graders and 2023 showed them as seventh graders and 20 I think we had talked about this before um in one of the other board meetings and we had said because of following C hers I believe it was superintendent J Man or Dr dupin that said that because they changed so often it's hard to cohort it the tests are hard they because the standards each grade level are different it's hard to show a trend across all three of them but we could try it's it would be easy to try and see if it is valuable one thing I do want to point out I remembered what I was thinking about before is that because current measure 1.1 the goal is to decrease minimal proficiency that means that we want to eventually see a trend line going down and when we when we typically are talking about test scores the goal is always to increase so people expect a trend line going up and if they see one going down it feels bad but actually in this example going a trend line going down is what we want to see so to go from 83 at the post in 2223 to 79 and then to this year's in current measure 1.1 which is 77 that would actually be a very good it would be an indicator of the progress that we are intending to achieve so that's one of the benefits of keeping the assessment the same over time as we're showing that our impact is improving relative to the goal over time with kids that age I think it's important like these should be the primary ways to display it just might be interesting to also see if we're seeing that across cohort and it is I think to your point you know it's not something like the NWA app test where it adjusts and you can actually see a trend of performance on a RIT scale so it will still be a little wonky if you follow a cohort and again probably shouldn't be the primary way that we're displaying and sharing the data I just think it would be an interesting supplemental piece well the other thing that we can consider for one point two this is three years worth of fifth grade data but the the inim measure sorry the annual targets for this goal um no sorry I'm getting confused oh I lost my train of thought again um just trying to keep track of the different groups and where they move but um we somewhere we recommended that so next this year we're looking at fifth graders but next year we're going to look at sixth grade and next in the year after that we're going to look at seventh grade and then in 2028 we'll be looking at the eighth grade we will graph that whole process so we actually will see these kid this will we will see this group of kids that's what I thought like I know we it it will be well we can you know we can we can we're gonna we're gonna plaster timeline gra thank you for your patience I just had to connect my I had to catch up with yes these this is three years with a fifth grade data but we're going to continue to follow this year's fifth graders as Sixth and seven that yes so if I could just kind of elevate what's happening right now because of the questions and the way your minds work they're taking notes and the idea here is to mer to close that gap of of understanding or like maybe PPP possibly lack of understanding but also for them on how they were going to present the data and even though it's a progress monitoring report of like no more than five pages as they pick up a pattern of what you're looking for they there's predictability Now versus they're feeling like they have to go run another report later on they can just go ahead and get in front of it because of the way you're asking questions and how you're understanding would be put in front of and one of even the effective questions on here that we did without anybody asking is what did we learn from the last three-point data and we literally just had a conversation of what we learned and what we're going to be doing differently so even within itself an authentic effective goal monitoring conversation happened without anybody even asking so it's obious that we're simultaneously connecting those dots um Katie do you have any questions or anything to add or I don't not at this time okay um any other questions that we have I think we understood um interm measure 1.1 I understand me interim measure 1.2 do we have any other additional questions or for concerns on how inter measur interam measum 1.2 will work a question on how it will work but just looking at the fifth grade data um as I mentioned earlier keeping an eye out you know for the El subgroup and if that multilanguage instruction is having a positive impact um I also just want to highlight that we have at multiple schools um much lower numbers uh in our special ed student subgroup so at BPA at lck at Monto Vista so like just an something what's working there especially because that's a subgroup that is faced with additional learning challenges so yes go ahead um one piece I want us to be uh I just kind of want to urge caution on is um I'm trying to think of what the term is ah now I remember sorry it's going to be a big word it'll be a new word for today also um I and I learned it from Joe Riley um it's exogenous variables right so an exogenous variable is a variable that's not evident in the data set that has an impact so um one of the I think there is an exogenous variable here and I'm going to rely on my experts to like check my my level of understanding here when when we look at fifth grade we need to be cautious not to presume that because we're seeing better results at that grade level that that will necessarily reflect a future Improvement at e8th grade because there is a significant and fairly steep shift in the difficulty and level of rigor of the question sets and and the typ of content as they as they change between Fifth and eth grade and so um earlier you heard Dr Pomo refer to um do2 right with the eighth grade um math um you know the types of assessment questions and what do stands for is depth of knowledge and so um we there's different depths of knowledge that you look at in relation to um some of the difficulty of these questions that students are looking at and basically they own level of understanding and moving to depth of knowledge too is also a significant shift and I don't know for fifth grade if it's also do2 or if it's I suspect it's probably not but um but regardless the question sets themselves are significantly more challenging at that eighth grade level so I just didn't want us to your points are exceptional and and I totally agree with them I mean I think if we were to look back at other years of fifth grade we are are making improvements but I but there won't necessarily be a onetoone correlation of those improvements from fifth grade to eighth grade no I absolutely agree and my question was more just a you know something to keep an eye on when we're seeing subgroups that historically have underperformed and we're seeing and this is not Trend data by any means yet at this point but it's an inlan of if we continue to see um a trend here let's really focus on on what those teachers and what those classrooms are are looking like sounding like and and what's helping um and then an additional question to the do I just want to know flat out like I would assume in fifth grade like if the assessment is intended to be I know there I'm sure there are do level one questions regardless yes at eth grade they are higher level standards with more rigor but um are their do2 and above questions on the fifth grade tests there are I do think that the standards become much more complex and that is reflected in the types of questions that are asked and you know even some of those like we're pointed out where you have to have one that applies in math too like select one if this is true select two one is like which is the right answer and one is explain which sentence best describes why or best justifies why this answer is the best one so even in math sometimes they have to have two responses in order to have the response be considered correct overall and that gets to much higher levels of thinking so one of the things I want to point out about 1.2 before we move on is that we are currently on track to reach our interim measure and I this I found an eror that says 1.1 it's supposed to say 1.2 um and the rationale for that is that the minimal proficiency decreased 33% from the pre-test and to the post test during the 2022 2023 school year that's represented in the first portion of the graph then the following year um we reduced by 24% so starting again at about the same place as in Prior years if we maintain that trend of reduction by you know 20ish percent we are on track to exceed our interim measure for this year now I would like to personally see this graph start to Trend down again because we're looking for a decrease in minimal proficiency which will then to Jay's Point ensure that when these fifth graders move into sixth grade they're going to be more prepared to handle that increased rigor of the standards and the increased rigor that are aligned to those standards yeah I have a question um are is the eighth grade sorry back to eth grade for a second are there algebra questions I mean I know we're te teaching to the standards but we don't really have algebra districtwide or at all I mean is could that be one of the things that's going on there are algebra questions for sure on the assessment can you add anything yeah there I know there's algebra questions on there but we also have algebra this year we have students taking it online that were um that their teacher recommended that they're ready to take out okay so but the ones who are not taking it would they would they be um at a disadvantage on the test if there are it's kind of like the beginning of starting to understand the equations in Algebra that they would have as eighth grade standard okay yeah I say there's a different set of standards for eth grade algebra that are not just the eighth grade math standards and also algebraic thinking is taught as early in kindergarten in the standards so there's standards about around algebra and conceptual understanding the whole way so in terms of our inputs and what we believe at this time are the items that are working is that curriculum use is becoming more evident during learning walks and that's data which we'll present when we're sharing learning walk evidence as part of our guardrail progress report um targeted and differentiated professional development for Math teachers is being provided I mislabeled this we don't call them Affinity groups anymore we call them kraton professional learning so we've redesigned the kraton professional learning sessions to more specifically and explicitly Target the student outcomes focused governance goals with a heavy emphasis on math and reading um so one of the pieces of adult convenience that you might hear about is that there's a little bit less um Choice involved like teachers not necessarily always choosing to the there's still some choice but not like we had had had been offering in years prior this is very much more about like if you're and if you want to elaborate on the content that'd be fine but um you know very much more aligned to what you're teaching here's professional development to support what you're teaching so that your students can Thrive is that would you like to add anything or did I capture it you don't have to no say that's right like in including um to address our the emerging multilinguals is one of the tracks is explicit language instruction like acquisition and so we have a group of teachers doing that too so all the professional development is lyed to our action plan for the goals and I appreciate that um explanation because it gives me a better understanding on when we are hearing wonderings out in the community and having that shared vision of like okay but this is what wasn't working and it's been told To Us by our experts that this may be something new that is going to work so we have to give it time and it gives me as a governing board board member a better understanding of what's Happening that way if other stuff tries to get Whirlwind in we at least know and have that Comm in understanding it's you know that's one of our strategy questions what has not been working before and I know that we didn't get to talk to about it today but that kind of sounds like almost like a theory of action where we're now moving more into a standardized you know cron universa thing because there was too much anonym going on before and goes into like certain theory of actions so I I like that and thank you for that clarification because I know how to better handle these situations when they do come up in the community you know because there I know that there's some resistance with change and it just helps me clarify and solidify why that's being done the initial feedback of the change has actually been pretty positive because our teachers everybody likes to have choice and input and nobody wants to have their time wasted so teachers really appreciate having opportunities to professional development that's going to make them more effective in the feel more effective in the classroom the very next day so this really does align to that um that intention okay thank you and then as Dr pombo pointed out and I just have to give tons of credit to Dr pombo because she as Jay said brought datawise into our conversation and just has been a wonderful champion and we went through a session with leadership on Thursday and I was just doing some reflecting through that session and coming away with just such immense gratitude when you when you bring people into the team it's great to bring people in who help you learn and I am learning so much and just I'm grateful for that so the datawise process has identified a focus this is actually just as of Thursday based on our learning walk data with our leaders we landed on success criteria across all grade levels and content areas but as being um a necessary area of focus so we've identified that as a problem of practice for our um for ourselves as leaders that we need to be more effective at supporting our teachers so that they communicate success criteria effectively to students to provide that Clarity can I also just quickly share some feedback that um Thursday night I spoke to several of our leaders and they were like my brain hurts and I say that like as a good thing it was very clear you know they spoke about their their day and leaders ship and the depth of work that happened so so I'm not an educator um I had never heard I never knew what a rubric was until my kids made it to ASA um so that tells me like that's not a Craton thing so that's what the success criteria is but the teachers have choices is that what we learned earlier a checklist a rubric and there were a couple other things right okay um and then you'll you'll figure out if maybe some of those work better than others like I I I know they like flexibility too so I'm not saying one's better than another but as a parent it certainly helped me help work with my kids you know and I think it helps students to have that that does not surprise me that the success criteria is maybe something um we need to focus on so um I I think what's important is sometimes when we think about autonomy and teacher creativity and flexibility you know we think well um just put them in the room and you know let them do whatever right but that's that actually isn't supporting them either because we're not giving them best practice strategies and it can also be a lot I mean think about if you've ever done creative writing or even non-fiction writing and you start from a blank page it is so much harder than if you if you've built your outline first right so um what what this actually creates for them is there's a a phrase um that gets used a lot what we're loose on and what we're tied on what we're tied on is there needs to be success criteria what we're loose on is there's a couple of different ways you can represent that success criteria and you can be as creative as you want as long as the success criteria is posted and then as Dr pombo talked about earlier you know then we have our Danielson rubric and and in that rubric we we're we're not judging you know what color marker you used or whatever we're you know number one you in order to get two points you have to have something you know posted right and then depending on you know how well what's posted align to the CR to the um what would fundamentally be the rubric for Danielson will determine like how many points you're getting there so um so there really is it allows for autonomy and creativity while at the same time insuring that the things that are going to allow that teacher to be successful with their students are there which is ultimately going to be more fulfilling and less work for the [Music] teacher yeah and after having this if this would have been a board meeting I would have totally made the motion to accept this because For the First Time I feel like I know what inputs we're using I know what is working and what's not working from the last data that we get give the questions and the explanations you gave and also for the first time uh for me personally as a board member I understand the inputs and the outputs that are being used to get us to the goals that we have so um I'm so happy that we did this as a practice run um I'm excited to hear after I hear from my other board members Whoever has something to say what feedback we have on maybe strength the questions or what you saw that could help us build that muscle better as we go into these board meetings because our reality of it is that we only have coaching for S such a long time you know certain amount of time and then we're off on our own so whatever feedback you can also give us to strengthen this would be better so we can start getting in the mode of how to operate um effectively without having a coach all the time sorry something Mr Man said made me think another question um because you were talking about like looking at a blank page um is there a plan since a uh such a heavy focus is on success criteria is there a plan for um building some kind of repository or you know Collective resource where especially for our new emergency certified teachers they can go that's aligned with our Curriculum maps and other documents if they don't know what would be an appropriate and effective success CR or representation of it I love the smiles I feel like we have an answer already oh no well so what we did on Thursday with the leaders is they create an action plan um some of them are doing success criteria some of them are doing learning targets they feel like they need to start with learning targets first because what's the goal they're they're not ready to go to success criteria so um during that time that's what they were working on creating a plan like what support do we need to provide to our teachers to help them um Reach This goal so they might need PD they might need coaching but they're going to take it back to their teachers and ask them what they need because there's going to be new teachers that need brand new training that haven't done this at all and there's ones that have been doing this for a while and they might just need a refresher or they're like no I got this come watch me and Coach me so every teacher is going to need a different level of support so they're going to take that back and create action plans with their with their teachers I love it and part of those action steps will be helping teachers access the fact that the learning targets and success criteria are already written and they are in the unit guides and they're in the hmh materials for math so sometimes it's just they might be labeled a little bit I think I think I forget what they call it in hmh but they're they're labeled a little different and so it's just doing like even with kids Congress yesterday when we were asking them D do you ever see the learning targets and success criteria we had to label some of the other things that the kids might hear that the teachers are calling them like for example some teachers do success looks like and sounds like and it's a list but they don't say success criteria so we had to connect those dots so I think there's some of just dot connecting honestly because they I I mean our curriculum team is I think just stellar and the advancements that have been made over the last couple summers are are huge and they include putting those right in the materials and I didn't even I learned this year through learning walks and our debriefs with the principles that the success criteria are already in there I knew learning targets were but then I learned we had already put the success criteria in as well so it's going to be just catching up with the tools and resources that we have through those action plans and if I could add our principles are thinking about this as well and um Dr dupin and I met with one of our principles yesterday and um we saw in the background behind what she was showing us there's some tool hiding back there in a spreadsheet and um when when she popped it Forward she had actually built a tool for her teachers that as they were building their lesson plans they could actually literally go into this little spreadsheet and drop these little lists down and choose from among some of the different options that were in there so the so the principles are really looking at how they can help their teachers sort of scaffold for some of these things so um you know and when one of the things that that we're looking for as a team um mostly the rest of the team a little bit with me um is where these bright spots are because you heard Dr pombo talk earlier about the asset-based approach what we want to do is find the things that are naturally happening in our schools kind of like what you were trying to point out earlier about well look at the subgroup of students there something happening here let's find that bright spot so that way we can allow our own um teams from other schools to sort of cross-pollinate with with their partners and we actually saw that on Thursday as well one of the things that Dr pombo did which I just loved is um one of our schools Papago was a little bit ahead they were actually your guinea pig I think right yeah so they so they practiced the training for Thursday with one of the schools and so that school was a step ahead of the rest of the schools but it was to refine the practice so that when were with everyone it was even better but then that school was able ble to present on their own plans that they had put together and kind of show an example of someone who had already been through this training um that or that portion of the of the training and the learning you know what what the next steps might be and how they might come together which I just thought was awesome so thank you for that and in the spirit of true competition see seeing one of the schools stand up and they're like we have through lines and action plans for all of our grade levels and here's what they look like and you know these are the last steps the rest of the leaders were like we're I mean and they're all in different places but like it created a it clarified the success criteria honestly of what it means to be successful with implementing um six criteria across your campus that was very positive I know we talked about this yesterday but can you share any of the feedback that the kids provided if we're ready to go so in the spirit of true competition we so we've been looking at the examples that um Dr Ramos has been providing to us from West leco and Phoenix L and Theo um and I have not found any and I could have missed them but I haven't found any examples of student feedback in the progress monitoring reports so yesterday at kids congress with um Amy we were discussing the possibility of maybe and with your permission adding a few elements into the progress monitoring report based on what the kids are telling us so this is that we just got this this morning so I haven't we haven't really had an opportunity to process it but what we did I'm gonna let you explain it because you did such a nice job I'm going to cry right [Laughter] now you want me to talk about what they did like just what the coaches did with okay summize oh okay okay so what the coaches did was they just wanted to get we well as Eric's idea but get get the feedback from them of how their math lessons are going and and what they're seeing in their classroom and so the math coaches went through uh the balance math um framework on how to teach a math lesson and so they did the very beginning um like for instance when you start a math lesson you start with spiral review or Bell work and so they explain that to the students also before you start the new lesson you spark their learning and their background knowledge and get them excited about what they're going to learn so they ask the kids if they've um experienced that and if they have to mark and if not like how would this help you if your teacher did this or um just some questions for them about each section of the math lesson and so that's what Eric has on here is what I mean Dr dupin has on here that um the kids how they responded and we had an opportunity to sit at each table and hear them talk about their math lessons um and their teachers and what they're seeing and how this would be how the parts that are missing would be helpful wow so again this needs a little bit more breakdown but one of the things that we've done so far is just to kind of highlight some of the areas that were kind of low low you know the sh the kids share that they didn't happen all that often or they weren't um experiencing that piece so like you know somebody said two kids said that rarely does their teacher check their understanding and five kids said that some of the time the teacher checks their understanding so you know of the 18 kids that were there over half said yep they check my understanding at the end of the lesson so that gives us useful information as an example about how to help teachers make sure that they close the loop on that learning the other thing that really stood out and I don't know these are the different like tool sets that or structures you might expect in a math class only five of them indicated that there was any use of centers so remember kids Congress are fifth through eighth graders they're older and oftentimes centers are associated with best practice in early childhood classrooms and intermediate grades so that gives us pause to think about how we're how we're structuring the learning in those upper grade math classes um revisit the objective and the success criteria 12 so like a little more like 67% said yep we do um but only five kids said that they ever get to review an anchor chart an anchor chart is another way to have success criteria communicated to the kids so an anchor chart is just a poster that or a and basically it's a can be written on paper ideally they're done in collaboration with students so you know when a teacher is explaining a procedure or how to tackle a piece of complex text that there's there's cognitive strategies that that kids need to use in order to do that fluently and effectively so you write that down or draw pictures and diagrams of it then put it on the wall and then sometimes kids add it to their own notebook so that they can refer back you know every like when I'm building this kind of stuff or the report I'm going flipping back and forth between my work and the feedback notes and the how-to procedures that Dr R provided kids need to be able to function in the same way so that really stood out as like oh we need to probably focus on helping people use anchor charts more effectively to make the thinking more visible to the students we have a lot of beautiful classrooms with a lot of beautiful things on the wall but the question is how much of that beautiful stuff helps the kids deepen their learning add about the anchor charts um that it is a success criteria it's just a model of and they go back to it but since they create it collaboratively in the brain they remember it better and they picture it and I've seen like little kids go up to the anchor chart when they're doing their work to check their work you know and so the anchor chart is so important in you're learning and to have that around there to around the room to remind them instead of a poster that looks looks nice it's it's an anchor right I have a quick question um and it just occurred to me it kind of ties to anchor chart but even like the check for understanding I'm wondering I guess how the students were asked this because I think there's time for check for understanding for example you you can have a very highly effective teacher that the check for understanding is so seamless that the kids wouldn't even know it was happening um and then kind of in that vein like would they might use an anchor chart but they like were you just asking do you have an anchor chart like how are you kind of asking because I just I'm curious if some of the lower responses might be because they aren't recognizing what that is that could in some cases be true what we did do was we gave them a they had a handout to work from and the handout had a visual representation of all of these elements and and a little bit of an explanation not in depth so it is very possible somebody's miss you know just doesn't have the same label um but what was interesting is then they because it's not a huge group so they start asking questions so one of the questions we asked was like well do you ever get a chance to use manipulative most of them were like what's a manipulative so they were asking when they didn't understand what something was so that you know on that particular question eight of them said yes seven of them said no and then three didn't respond so that means about half of them are not are indicating that they're not using manipulatives and we know that our hmh materials come with a pretty robust set of manipulatives that are appropriate for older kids algebra tiles is a really good example that so the kids start to make algebraic thinking visible so that what this suggests right now is that the the lessons have a lot of the components that are real like cognitive but they are lacking some of the more tangible pieces that make math concrete and visible so I mean that's a pretty big inference based on what we saw yesterday with a sample of 18 kids but it also aligns then and we would triangulate it back to what we're seeing our learning walks and we would say that that's true so it's not about blaming teachers for for what is or isn't happening we know that the turnover often is quite High among Middle School Math teachers in particular so it's it's this these are highlevel sophisticated strategies that we're expecting that are necessary for kids to do well um and then we have the burden or the responsibility rather of support to ensure that the teachers do know how to do these things effectively I just going to make a connection from earlier so this is Street data getting it from the student I love I saw that term and I Whoever thought of that I was like yes Street data coming straight from the streets I love it oh I didn't know that there's a picture of a book the book on there should you'll really enjoy it yeah but yeah this is Street data because we're getting from the students their perspective um of the lesson and what their experience in the classroom so I just wanted to tie that to so that's not something we normally would report like but it would just happened yesterday so this is my opinion which I know we're not to give an opinion but just to counter what you're saying about um checking for understanding I think kids do tend to be really shy too and they may not know if they understand something or not in that question you know so I think that's a that's an important one to keep an eye on and there's different way I see a lot of times there are engagement strategies that sometimes get misapplied as checks for understanding for example if you understand give me a thumbs up you bet I do I want to get out of here no idea what the lesson is about I understood the whole board mean yeah right yeah where or take your whiteboard and write down for me you know do an example do this problem tell me one thing you're taking away from the lesson that they can quickly scan that's a more accurate way to check but it you know that again takes support and practice like I was thinking about like a kid might like if a teacher gamifies the kids might not see that as a check for understanding true because it's so engaging and we that's a good qu we could ask about stuff like that we did ask about like Prodigy and waggle waggle is a digital tool inside hmh that can be used for those purposes so you know they like 61% of them indicated that they do use waggle and that's something we've been trying to increase the use of as well so that's a great Point other thing I wanted you'll appreciate this that in the conversation about learning targets and success criteria one of our learning walks we were doing the debrief and we have a relatively new member of the teaching and learning coaching team and just came out of the classroom last year and the great thing about bringing in somebody who's brand new is they bring in all kinds of different perspective and so we're talking about different ways to build those success criteria and stuff and she's like well is this a place where AI might be helpful and but she's like I don't want to be Emar I don't what I'm going to say sounds like it's going to be embarrassing but I'm just going to say it anyway what about Ai and so we started playing with some of our AI tools and very quickly we got some really useful um learning targets and success criteria so that's one of the practical ways where we're trying to utilize those tools in a safe and appropriate professional way that still requires judgment and discretion but also helps to be efficient and leverage some of those cool advancements that are Happ sandwich what human sandwich human in the loop yes so the quality of your input and then evaluating the output um I just I'm really really thankful that the student voice was taking an account for without any board Direction and the fact that we're just thinking that you guys are taking in the step and just doing that it is just it's just so awesome because my Personal Agenda and I do have a Personal Agenda when I come to the board and do this is that these every single student feels empowered and the more that we include them in this and the more that they see how their voice really is affecting their learning and they're connecting the dots that's where the brave space happens and that's where the empowerment of students happens so thank you so much for doing that and I know as more and I feel even now that the kids Congress are a little bit more structured because now we're actually having that two-way communication just like we would with our community now we're having that two-way communication with our students and giving them a place where they can voice their opinion on stuff that we're doing that imp directly impacts them we always talk about speaking to the directly impacted individuals and in our school system it is our students everything that we do and spend on is ultimately for their benefit so thank you so much for taking that and I absolutely love that idea and I appreciate you being there um yesterday so thank you Dr Ramos oh yeah just a quick question about the kids Congress is that like student council kids or how who makes up the kids we can discuss that afterwards because that there's a whole process but we can go into kids Congress after um the study session but thank you for asking yeah I just one quick clarifying question so something I did I neglected to think about so the normal process for this and and uh president Cel of course always one step ahead of me said um oh and then if this was so good that I would have said let's vote to approve it but we're in a study session so we don't have any action items so what would your recommendation be Dr Ras do we bring goal one back to our October 15th board meeting do we um I know we're we're still we could still Monday add an item to this Tuesday's October 1st meeting and just have a vote since we've already done the review what would your recommendation be yeah if you'll look at the effective gold monitoring document it'll tell you underneath ineffective questions it says after gold monitoring to accept the monitoring report or not okay and so board it's important for you to be mindful of this piece I'll just read it to you to make sure we're all on the same page once the board has completed the monitoring conversation it must choose whether to accept or not accept the report based on three questions and it's on your agenda by the way for today does reality match division number one number two is there growth toward Division and three is strategy and plan sufficient to cause growth toward Division and so if the answer to all three is yes then the board can accept the monitoring report confident that the data is accurate and the superintendent is performing two if the answer to only one or two of these questions is yes the board May opt to table the matter and it says go see keeping the conversation going above and then the last one is if the answer to all three is no the board should consider voting to not accept the report board note this vote informs the superintendent that they have failed to meet the expectations of monitoring and on the first page you'll also see under superintendent evaluation it's how is gold monitoring beneficial this is super important for us the board um yes you're going to evaluate your superintendent and here it says superintendent evaluation with each monitoring report the board is conducting a micro assessment of the superintendent performance which creates an opportunity for the superintendent to make adjustments as a continuous Improvement strategy providing this regularly recurring feedback loop is a superior approach to the outdated concept of merely conducting annual performance evaluations so you notice we've gone easily over an hour having a conversation about student achievement progress monitoring and you've included student voice and teacher perspectives right so what what you just did right now is ideally what you're going to do at your board meetings moving forward and you all said it earlier I'm exhausted I'm tired right because doing this is hard work you have to be fully present you want to be prepared and so I think because I don't think you've gotten all your questions probably answered and you haven't had enough time to digest the report completely I would say still move along and and add the voting item okay as an action um for for your next meeting board members in the meantime um should you be able to choose to make the time to ask one or two questions to send to the superintendent that would be great because then they can actually prepare also I know you we're down to a couple of days but we also knew that our you know backs would be against the wall a little bit on this one but there's been such good thorough dialogue that that is the purpose of what we're doing here is that fair enough yeah that sounds great because then that would allow us to to complete that on Tuesday and then um we'll be bringing go two to the o October 15th meeting um and I feel like we have pretty good feedback on you know how that will come forward to the board um and simultaneously we want to make sure that we get the goal two monitoring report to the board with the board update on October 8th so that way we give you a full week with that data set to be able to submit those questions in advance of the board meeting that's awesome so would it be appropriate first because we did this kind of with today to just like on Tuesday you know if more questions come up obviously answer them but maybe just reference and say on Saturday we spent two plus hours you know really having this conversation just for transparency sure absolutely folks who maybe didn't tune in today so they don't think we're just yeah zooming through it on Tuesday but like we also don't need to spend an hour doing a recap of today you know find the balance unless you find that you have more questions and want to have more understanding absolutely I think all of that is appropriate and it is am I correct that you're going to do your first sport self EV Val when not yet we need to discuss that okay so I do recommend that you all you all are more than ready to conduct your your board self EV Val when you choose for that to happen I would highly recommend it happens sometime in October but it depends on what's on your monitoring calendar for proposal okay and the reason I say is because you'll notice as the sofg manuals up on the screen everything that you all seem to be really passionate about which is about students and teachers and Community it's embedded in the framework and so the first time that you did this you got zero points across the way because it starts with the board has to have adopted goals the board consistently demonstrates the ability to distinguish between inputs outputs and outcomes you I I ask you to have Grace with yourselves because this was a new framework to you and at the end of the day you're not even technically supposed to have been H been able to have access to it because you're not part of the Council of the great City Schools although we welcome you now as you know as friends to the council so with that as you now do have those things you're going to move through each pillar and I'll work with President Kio but I'll say this to you to not take any more time do not move from one column to the next unless you check every single item and it's this is called an Integrity instrument so it's to say you may catch yourself saying oh well we kind of did that well if you kind of then I'm going to say as a coach then don't move forward go ahead and pause there but then also determine where might you be in three months so here on the right side you'll see it says the board used a process that included students parents staff and community members uh in a way that leads them to express ownership of the adopted board goals and so that's the reason why you invested that time in the community and and that's the reason you're going to continue the two-way communication cuz you're going to notice here that this isn't a one-time thing I'm going to go down to the last one of continuous Improvement you makes a little bit bigger you mention in students is so is music to my ears as well because by the way look to you get to this meeting student outcomes Focus the board has hosted and the board members have led or co-led at least one training session on student acoms Focus governance during the previous 12 months this means that I want to work with you all to be be so ready that you can do a little bit of mindset with Community stakeholders you could do a little bit of mindset with students you could do a little bit of mindset and then really what they end up needing is inputs outputs and outcomes and mindset you do those two things they'll begin to connect the dots as to why you're focusing so much time and energy on what you're doing so you do that and then look at this over here on the right side the board included students as presenters in at least one of the sofg training sessions during the previous 12 months so you all the reason I'm grinning and getting excited over here because you already by the way we didn't discuss this so I'm I'm super hyped for y'all that you're already setting the foundation for when your students have complete understanding as much understanding as they can for sure on why this is important and why they matter that's all the feedback I got because I we are going to I do want you to have fun asking questions I want I would definitely encourage you to read the documents I sent you and watch some of those board meetings if you haven't already because you'll see how it can be a struggle actually when you started your question I was like oh president card is going to go straight to Future oriented and she didn't she asked the question about how did we get there and what are we doing right now that's really kind of the part that you'll catch yourselves wrestling with because you're going to be so anxious to get to the solutions but I'm serious a big part of it is to figure out how did you get there it's being in the now it's being in the now being presid how do we get here yes absolutely that's all I got that's all I have too um could um um somebody send me that packet so I have time to submit a question if I need since I don't have it yes of course the only thing I was going to say that I've been thinking about I mean I really enjoyed that reading that we did and um and I'm not I think this is a little bit different than being in the now but I know we're going to get there with the policy stuff but reading that doing the reading and just being in my head sometimes I just I would hate to do all this work and for it to fly out the window due to politics so I just can't wait till we start working on Poli um like policy stuff that kind of puts this in concrete because I know everybody loves or everybody's dealt with revolving doors with boards in the past and people that work for the district and administration and teachers it's all on the of whoever is making these decisions and so I can't wait till this becomes like a part of our like the actual governance becomes a part of our governance in paper so anyway that's all yeah you know that that reminds me I haven't said one of the most important pieces that I had intended to say today now once you have once you approve the the interim guard rails and you approve your progress monitoring calendar the clock has officially started meaning for the board it was as you may recall I said that when you ask questions and you do progress monitoring but it's not directly connecting inputs outputs to outcomes then we would say you're probably just practicing and so when I would play basketball at the recreation center when I was practicing you know I was having fun throwing up a you know shot here and there if I made it didn't really matter but I definitely operated differently when the game was on and when when we're officially keeping score like that's the reason why the framework has a point system it's not just about the points and it's definitely not about checking boxes but I think the reason why we've invested this time is so that we can make connections as to why we're doing what we're doing and so the first part that I have learned as a coach is that a lot of board members do tend to struggle with going to this effective asking model because there's a journey in you asking questions around this kind of a report so I do want you to have fun in asking questions and also coaching yourselves and then I'll support you because we'll do one-on-one progress monitoring conversations but that you also read those documents and begin to understand and connect the reasons why uh We've developed the question models and I'll use an nice statement when I was a board member um I like to show up unprepared and I like to shoot from the hips so to speak uh and i' like to pretend that I looked really really smart when I actually honestly didn't understand 90 plus percent of what was being put in front of me and I I I spent my first years pretending a great deal I didn't know any better and so we what we've done is we've created a process for those that may need that support by way of those documents so it's really powerful and thank you for uplifting that do we have any other questions or comments yes Miss MC cheffrey um board members if you haven't read um chapter 2 in the dissertation it's really good and um like spoton so I thought it was great thank you for that Miss MC cheffrey and I did and it helps give a little bit more of a understanding why we're in the situation that we're in so I suggest everybody to read it and if anybody else wants it we can definitely share it because it gives really good insights on why we're doing what we're doing um any other question yes I'm glad to see everybody here including um I see Nicole there and I saw Tristan earlier but I was like wanting to say I hope that anybody who's a candidate can take a chance to read that chapter too that'd be great perfect and well was see a way that they get it oh yeah they got it yeah they the candidates got it too thank you for that any other questions comments all right I appreciate everybody's time I I officially we're jining the study sessiones thank you guys you guys have a great day thanks y for accommodating me e e

[Music] w e e e [Music] everyone have whomever they are expecting or need to be able to call their Town meetings for are we ready to go we need another minute everybody ready to go nobody saying no okay so I will call the regional school committee order at5 um pum do you have any meetings you need to no pum Cate finance committee EXC finance committee Town Council our finance commit is part excellent well okay so we're now all in order uh thank you all very much for coming I know this is a much earlier time then we usually start having our four towns meetings um but given H and we wanted to be able to have more conversation and find the best way we can support all of our students so thank you all very much for coming um and Dr is going present um our preliminary uh budgets and ideas and our part how we words are gone anyway so and then we can um after the presentation we can break into our towns have some stocks and conversations come back together and you know have our conversation together and then make some plans for our next so this is [Applause] our is enough all right um I'm gonna step to the side good morning everyone I wanted to start off by introducing myself because everyone's heard about me um and whatever you read about me but I need to tell you about me and why I am who I am and what drives me and that's children and education and putting them first so the person that you have in front of you is an individual who loves crossb puzzles sometimes who couldn't get soku well um but I've also really had a love of math and science and so problem solving perseverance critical thinking are all the things that I apply to everything that I do and I say that because when faced with a problem most times individuals step back and think of the obvious but I have to in my realm of thinking always go to the far farthest point that we could go to and so what you're seeing today is the early stage of a conversation around how do we provide the children that come to the regional schools with at least the basic education requirements and so we're going to walk through the numbers and I want to remind everyone that it is very very early in the process very early but because from the time I've stepped in heard of the budget as equally as much as I've heard of cracker Farm's fire alarm and cracker Farm's fire alarm has been fixed so now let's work on the budget and so um we are our goal with the district team and I want to stop and thank my team members who are here today who came to show support and to help with this process um we our goal is to have a draft budget completed by at least early late November early December and so so let's walk through today with me we're going to there's going to be a lot of questions right them now um and then I I was told as you go off into your your smaller town groups I will me and the team will be around to answer questions and then we'll come back together so where are we um last year April earlier this year April 2020 during 2024 um this was presented and these were the scenarios of what it would have meant to have a FTE reduction versus restoring the positions and the significant gaps and the long story short in this slide is because this isn't new to you is the fact that to me a bandaid was placed upon a problem and it just moved the problem down the road and so now we're facing a much larger problem currently and I want to get into that so this year our processes have changed a bit where the budget team is working and what we're working on is what does it cost to run the region so this is our fy2 projected cost well not FY 25 actual cost right CH okay thank you so to run the middle school you'll see that they takes about $5 million in salaries this is the staff and then about 752 th000 in operating costs right and this is where we have their supplies and and the things that they use to make sure that those wonderful lab lessons go well and the books that they need and everything that happens within within a school the same thing for the high school you notice that the high school is approximately $12 million in salaries and then we're looking at about $2 million in operating [Music] supplies in terms of the central office and the district office we have the smaller salary because we have the smaller individuals we do have some teachers that float through the district and this is so we're at about $3 million and the majority of the central office cost sit in operating this is where transportation is paid maintenance is paid this is where the bulk of the supplies in terms of curricular research and things that move around this is where it sits in the region and so as you can see through this bar chart majority of spending the district office is like about 20% Staffing 80% operational cost to run the region at the high school this is where the majority of the Staffing and and is as well as the middle school and it's about the flip and so we started to to have some assumptions in what we're doing of course we think about the fact like what's happening with Chapter 70 um we're thinking about our towns assessing their annual 2.5% we're looking at what are our expenses for example um we know that there are Transportation costs and this year we're about to send back Transportation RFP we know that we're entering in apaa negotiations this year um and so what we recently also found out this week as we were prepping was that our health insurance when we originally presented and I want to the number that I presented to the regional committee um I believe it was at 2.6 since that meeting on Tuesday we met um with the IAC and we were asked to project out at at least 13 % for health insurance for this year so that has raised our numbers in terms of the projections on what you're going to see including what the the committee is going to see because that happened after a committee meeting and that's why one of the key things again I want to repeat is this is a living document for us because as we go through this process we are gaining additional things that we assumed originally because we originally had assumption at 6% % for health insurance now we're at a 7% increase over what we've assumed and so again this is early uh we will be having more meetings and conversations but we're looking at that so we're going to present today six scenarios I'm going to present six scenarios um that ranges and you're we're going to walk through them together and have conversations so what should we what are we projecting to spend for FY 26 38,4 75,6 that's what we're projecting in terms of salar Staff um our projected Transportation this is within our current model this is with the Staffing this is with the expenses this is with everything that we currently have we would have to have 38,4 75,6 to run the region the monies that we expect to receive when we add up Chapter 70 our reimbursements um if we look at how we have our I'm going to say Net Zero in terms of circuit breaker and everything we're looking at $1,160 so 12 12,160 589 is what we would receive outside of what the towns would be putting in to the region going good CH good all right so again I'm recapping for fy2 we needed 35 million about 36 million to run the region and this year I already said we need about 39 so that's about a $3 million difference what our current model has in place um to run the Regional Schools so here are the scenarios that we are posing today and we're walking through scenario one what happens if the towns keep 6% within the base with 4% increase for FY 26 we would be at a deficit of 2.2 million 2,1 195,000 allow kept the 6% within the base of fy2 and we use with an additional 4% for FY [Music] 26 so just recapping what that number is what Happ back see it [Music] again what happens in scenario 2 this is scenario two what happens in the towns keeps 6% within the base with a 2.5% increase for FY 26 we would operate at a 2 Milli 543,000 deficit this is if all four towns kept the 6% and only increased by the [Music] 2.5% good scenario three what happens did the towns reduce FY 25 back to the 4% base and increased by two by 4% so technically that what you would do is take back um 05% would be around here you understand it we we're good okay so we would be at a [Music] 2,650,000 reverted back to 4% in the base and only increased this year by [Music] 4% scenario four what happens if the if the towns reduce FY 25 to a 4% base and increase only by 3% now we're I just want you to see how we're working all of the possibilities and scenarios and we want to present all of the possibilities and scenarios to you so that as we talk and go through this process you're aware of where we are um and I'm going to say something at the end we scenario six so if this happens if all towns reduced to four and only increased 3% this year we would be at a 2,877 deficit scenario five what happens if the towns removed 2% from the base so again we revert back to the 4% and only increase from to 2.5% we would be at a 2,991 91,4 towns only provide 2.5 in the base and increase by 2.5 for FY 26 we would be at a 3,328 th4 deficit so these are our six scenarios that we're posing today um and we began to plan because the one thing again I started off by saying the type of person that I am is that when faced with a situation I look at all of the facts and the data and it is evident that regardless of what we do we are going to be oper operating at a deficit it is for us to to determine how can we best operate where regardless whatever the scenario is we are at a FIS severe fiscal deficit so I'm very evident and research based and I I don't feel like I have to read this quote to everyone but I might read it for those who are online and it says to address the current funding crisis we must move away from the outdated level service and light line item budgeting practices performance-based budgeting allows us to align Financial Resources with educational outcomes creating a clear pathway for restructuring the system and ensuring that every dollar is used effectively to support student achievement this is from Eric scorsone um a doctor in Eon in Economist and Public Finance expert and I need to say this because what was being done in terms of level services in my opinion humble as it is was not the method being done correctly and what we need to have happen and what we are trying and attempting to do now is shift to a line item budgeting process however we are in transition and still it's you can see where the gaps are essentially as a school system we need to be performance using a performance based budgeting model however it's going to take some shifts and Steps step one we need to move from Level services to line item budgeting transitioning so that's what we are working on this year Shannon Kate the budget office has been working with that to make sure that we are shifting out of overlooking inefficiencies in the current budgeting model and addressing the Ever Changing needs of students by now coming into the fact in looking at the categories but line item is not where we have to stay because it doesn't work for an educational system so we then need to shift to performance-based budgeting and tie our financial decisions to student outcomes we need to make sure that we are clear on what our attendance rates are going to be our graduation rates intend to be what are the outcomes we want for students that go to school within the region and we have to make sure that we create a clear pathway for restructuring the region so that we can meet our financial gaps as well as we can meet the needs of students putting students first and essentially we need to shift to get out of our funding crisis because based on the states equations and the numbers that we get from the state really the hus and burden ends up resting with the [Music] towns and as hard as you work to ensure that you are funding we are ever clearly consistently in a gap and crisis so I understand I sat through my first PCG meeting this week and so I understand that there's a lot of weight that rests with the towns and I read a book I saw a movie where it says you know basically Superman isn't coming there isn't no white night really to create the educational system and rest within this room for us to determine what's the best possible way to move forward and so my team and I have created these scenarios as a realistic starting point to our discussion of where the region will need to go for us to at least provide a basic educational system and structure for our students so how can we restructure on Tuesday evening um the regional committee asked me to create the hypotheticals talk about what it could be and what is it going to look like um as we started to shift numbers I pulled a small coure team together and the reality of it was it's not 1.8 it's 2.1 so where we thought we could just shift certain costs we can so if we look at our old model we'll start off with a consolidation of the central office re reduction of staff at least three with a $250,000 savings as well as looking at and other District savings and then the reduction of Staff will also increase our reduction at the central office because we would now have less health insurance being paid in so we're looking up around 300,000 and the the fact that we would also go in very hard at the central office working within our negotiations one looking at our transportation I RFP to ensure that we're within a certain range and budget so we're going to look at reduction of transport ation costs as well as looking at our scheduling of Staff members in terms of reduction of overtime and so we're looking at starting in the central office first to create Cuts there we would shift the amoris regional ideally to a 712 model in one building um and have to consolidate building leadership and remember these are just scenario that we're posing however I need you to understand at the end you'll see at the end why we're posing it this way if we consolidate building leadership in a new model we would have five building leaders it will be a regional reduction of about one building leader estimating around 100,000 in that reduction we would have to consolidate our professional staff we have 15 at the region right now we will reduce by three professional staff members estimated savings are around $230,000 approximately at the region we would consolidate our 15 clerical staff we would have to go down to nine clerical positions there will be a reduction of about six clerical looking at a savings of 316,000 we will consolidate from 14 maintenance and custodial staff down to eight um because we will be functioning out of one really the schools will be functioning out of one building um it will be 1712 Regional School fol and so that would be a savings of around [Music] $267,000 we would say um we would have a reduction in additional pay stiens over time we're looking at how do we shift the model to have that will we shift into one um so that would be a reduction of about $26,000 we will consolidate our general and special education staff um and so that would be a reduction of 12 professional positions six support staff position that in itself is $1.1 million the total potential savings that we have come up with in reducing in consolidating into a 712 model operating out of the Regional Schools would be a total potential Savings of 2.3 I'm going to just round up and say 2.4 million we've also flushed out um alternative cost ideas if we fur all staff for one day that could that could equate about $80,000 if we look at our HMO premium and we shift it from an 80% to a 7525 model that's approximately $140,000 that we would save and like I said we also have to take into account our apaa negotiations which we have to account for what that Co at a cost of living increase would be um and then our trans portation RFP as well for the upcoming years so again we go back to our scenarios and what we did is we placed our potential savings within the scenarios to see which would be the best possible scenario that we could operate from um I believe my team has this so when you are ready to to to meet out they will leave this to you so you can see so scenario one you'll see that we would actually that was the scenario where if the towns kept the 6% with a 4% increase with our potential Savings of the consolidation into a 712 we would actually have a surplus of [Music] $178,400 um scenario two if all towns kept the base at 6% with a 2.5% increase for FY 26 even with our potential savings we would still have a deficit of 69,4 201630 um scenario 3 with 4% in the base for fy2 4% increase for FY 26 we with our potential savings we would still have a deficit of 276,000 $277,000 and I can go through this but you're going to have it so as you can see we've also ran the scenarios with the potential savings so it's it was evident to me and it's evident to everyone and I've committed to transparency and honesty this is the reality of the scenarios we're facing regardless of what it is cuts are going to have to be made that that is the reality and as you can see we started from the top and we're going straight like it's not just student facing it is all positions all areas are going to have to experience C within the region it's all about what is the best versus the worst [Music] scenario so for us scenario one is the best possible scenario because there is a surplus that is there that we can probably have some wiggle room to restore a couple positions we have some wiggle room to make sure Transportation costs are there as you know we have to maintain certain buildings there are things that have to be done the question that that resonated with the team was okay if we consolidate into a CER what are we doing with the the Middle School building right and and we flushed out some ideas but we can't finalize some ideas at this point because one of the things that we saw and and when we talk about this there are two critical things that affect our budget one school choice the students that we Choice out and we lose two special education special education in this district is $2.5 million over budget children that we receive even children a choice in because we have great special education services we receive $5,000 but we expend in special education services about1 to $200,000 per student so we're also looking at whether or not we're going to be having choice this year maybe we have to pause Choice programmatically remember if we are on a if we shift a performance-based budgeting model we're looking at student outcomes and that's so we have to kind of take the progression and move across so we're also looking at student so then the conversation shifted to school [Music] choice okay give me the correct number but this $2.2 million deficit we spent about $2.3 million school choicing students out of the thank you to Charter thank you King so we spent about 2.2 2.5 or so sending students who would have been in the region to charter schools that is our deficit so it is time for us to look at how do we create programming to retain our students within the region and to bring students in the region so the team has started having conversations again as we were working the past few days um around this it's really been like what's out there what's offered so for example Desi offers schools the opportunity to file to be an innovation [Music] school right or okay you can convert you can create a new one we've been researching what are the what are the reasons why students leave they leave because of V Tech they leave because we don't have certain programs that they want we don't have the digital and gaming so we really need to start but again this is early in a conversation I haven't even had the conversation with the regional committee as yet to present but we really need to start looking so consolidating to 712 in one building provides us the space to create an Innovative school that could be 712 in another building and return students to the region but this building needs work so even as it is right now there is work that needs to be done in terms of the Deferred maintenance but we'll get there when we talk capital and I'm not ready to talk Capital to so my team our team will continue to move forward with planning for the future of the region our children deserve the best but can we at least agree today to give them basic and so I know you may have questions but I think at this time we transition to our smaller groups and then we come back together may I suggest that because we go to smaller groups all these other questions people going to be asking won't know can we take at least 10 15 minutes to have general questions from the audience before we break into smaller groups are are there clarifying questions [Music] so what we can do is while the team hands out the folders um we'll take questions and then I'm sure everyone may want to go back and and write down all right start over here and just go this way yes please first of my uh is it reasonable to move the Middle School to the high school this year number second have you had any discussions with the charter school to determine whether they they could use the middle school and do some joint programming with us bringing Innovation to our town and then there's many more questions but I'm going to ask if others so can I have opportunity to that as you transition over um and I'm hoping that my team is right I know they're handing out but somebody's writing the questions so one then like I said this isn't fully flushed out um and so we started this week we started with the scenarios for the budgeting of what it's going to look like um we have to plan more and so I'm hoping that by November December we can have a clearer plan of what that transition will take um what it's going to look like I would prefer not to have a conversation with the charter school um I would prefer us to survey the students survey them in the community see what they would want to do um I would firmly believe that versus renting the building using our building and creating our own programming adds to our marketing of who we are and what we are able to offer our children so I I the second question is I'm not going to um at all I I I have a very strong team but the first question everything is brand new is conversation that we had and we wanted to be realistic in what are we going to do to offer at least the basic with the cuts that we facing hi um Mandy Johan the Town Council in amoris um on your scenarios you say on five or on all six of them with a 4% increase or a 2% increase or a 3% increase is that across the board without regard to the assessment method and the split up of assessment method um so that every town would face that same increase or are you looking at the various distributions based on 100% statutory method so that some might be higher than four but some might be lower say I'm picking four here um and some might hit four so the overall is for so if you remember in previous years um there was a um in previous years there was a spreadsheet that we had with two blue columns and we kind of started on one side and it went in a u shape um when I plugged in what our current expenses are in that sheet everybody hits the guard rail so this planning was not uh to it we there was no point to adjust anymore there we had to present it this way because everybody's facing that ill so with our scenarios we came up scenarios for equal amount per town we can certainly discuss further and adjust and this was just very preliminary thank you I I want to say first of all thank you for this presentation including going back to thinking let's look can you please introduce yourself pardon ince oh who am I I'm Kathy Shane I'm I'm here on the Town Council I'm also on the finance committee of the town so I when you use the word charter the other question I have about Charter is we're sending a huge amount out to the Charter compared to school choice the public and um I'd be willing to work with you to start to put more pressure on the state with an analysis of that because that's one of the drains and I know we have the State Rep here so so that's one issue on how much we send out for student uh to the Charter versus what they spend and who they take so the second is um our sixth grade is scheduled to move up and um and I saw in the paper that maybe moving up sooner rather than later um was being discussed because of space issues at Fort River but in thinking about the Middle School building of having the sixth grade in the middle school was what had been foreseen and one of the potentials at least I thought one of the potentials is many of the sixth graders might be ready for language classes might be ready for some higher level math classes so some of what is being taught to seventh graders could be also have sixth graders enroll rather than having be completely separate so are you thinking through what that education program might be for the sixth grade yes so in the in our discussion this week and again um we didn't get to work out of the numbers what we did see is that with a sixth grade move even if we move the sixth grade this year there would be potential savings on the region but not not as impactful um and so what we would do is that we would look at current Fort River look at the ratio within the classes um we have to have that discussion to walk it through and again this is why we're this is conversation one so we're going to continue through um look at the current ratios but and then determine if the sixth grade can stay because that's a real concern for me for the um in terms of moving them here it would still allow for the sixth grp to move in on time for FY 26 um it would also allow us the opportunity to lay out the building so that it flows clearly and then in terms of curriculum we do think that it can create the opportunity where they have a sixth grade academy and kind of benefit from the same content teachers that would be here at the region however that benefit would not have yielded us a cost savings enough to hit our deficits for this upcoming year n from Le at finance committee I uh thank you for all this um early thinking and and sketching all of this out it's um very helpful um I also had a question about the sixth grade I'm a little confused about where they would go I mean I I support them staying in an elementary school but if you know if there's not room there's not room so uh and also is there enough room in the high school for all of a sudden the middle school team program so um question number one um again ear so um we are going where they were going in here I know there was an intended plan for where they would go in this building sixth grade however with the new model or those shifting towards the new model we can actually create how we can create like a sixth grade segregated Academy Wing where they are actually by themselves um but we haven't laid that out as yet the second conversation in terms of the space at the high school based on Massachusetts line or occupancy the high school can occupy 3,000 which means that 3,000 individuals can exit um safely however we looked at our projected numbers um and we compared our projection from it to nesda um so we are projecting in FY school year 25 um that we would have approximately 1172 students at the region um in terms of middle school and high school and so we are saying that we can hold the student population in the building um we would just have to work to lay it out it is again early we're just looking at early numbers we haven't flushed everything out in terms of placing like we haven't done that this has been a me and my team from Tuesday night after school committee to today um up till last night really hashing and moving things around thank you're welcome hi am Bethany Seager also part of the leverate finance committee I'm also sat in that one point in time over the years um just to note too that when we talk about sixth graders we're not talking about Leverett and shry sixth graders no I know no I know you know just sorry thank you um my question is more just just understanding when you when you say terms like 72 these different models you turn out I don't understand what those mean so we bring those up clarify okay so um in terms of 712 is creating is having seventh grade through 12th grade in one school so it would be kind of like Hampshire Regional Frontier Regional it'll be ammer Regional School Jeremy May I'm the school committee I'm just curious about two things one is what the Furlow model would look like how that would work contractually and like how that would how you implement that uh and secondly just a little bit about your thinking of why we might be able to save on Transportation if we're having to go through the contract again this year considering things are not trending cheaper um you know is there a reason why you might think there might be some savings there so um in terms of the transportation a couple things that we were going to look at is how can we shift one of the higher costs that we pay in transportation is outside special education transportation and so looking at can we now do that in-house versus Contracting that out what that cost would be we're also looking at the fact that it will be less mileage because they everyone is going to one building um and then also reconsidering how much door Todo stops we have um some houses it's is like within a mile like what's within a mile range between the staff some areas we can't um do it because the homes are a mile apart but then there's some where we where we can uh we can reduce the number of door-to-door stops so we're looking at those different aspects in terms of the conversation again it's real early so those are that's the idea of of it we're reducing the steps right now our middle schoolers and high schoolers ride the same bus so they would just be going to one stop pick up from One Stop um we're also looking at how can we stagger our schedule to reduce the amount of time and overtime that we pay because of how our schedule's running now we pay overtime to our drivers because of the pickup time so there's a lot of nuances that we would have to walk through to see what our real savings would be with transportation and because things are not going down we're like the cost and everything economically is rising we're trying to see if we kind of reduce just enough if we can stay within the range of where we're at and not hit that projected 10% that we're projecting it to be um and then your first question was furl um that's you how would it look for like how would that look like what would is it you're talking about like how does it work contractually like how you we would have to negotiate with all unions um and get them to agree um committee AC it would really be um for me to say hey guys we're taking one day I think I think the conversation of consensus is not work one day versus not having a job is is really something that we could have in terms of Community Action but in terms of whether or not unionized employees that's why it's a kind of an additional that's we didn't build it into our overarching savings because we know that we would have to go back and negotiate and get all of the unions to agree to that oh so Jen Committee Action are I'm going to say exempt but that's not going to help Committee Action are all non-un positions in the district so at the will of the superintendent and school committee yes Mr Right yes mrning how do you plan to determine student outcomes oh well I'm data driven one so the intent is first we look at what the SE requires what's this what what are we supposed to move in terms of proficiency um and then we gear towards for some students and and for me long term is the interest where do they want to be and how and where do they see themselves um and so there's various things we know that there's a base there's a base for attendance we if a student is absent 18 days out of the school year um um research says one thing but the law is that that's the most number of absences a student can have and so we want to make sure that our absences are less than 10 we want to make sure that we're looking at um where each child needs to be again what are the standards what are our proficiency our cut scores and that's how we're going to determine basic student outcomes in terms of long-term student outcomes I prefer to work with students to build on their goals that helps us to direct them through a pathway so that they can feel like this is for them um our children today are gen Z and gen Alpha are microwave students I say there students who want it now want it fast and they want it to be relevant they want their voices to be heard and so I would like to say outside of what we say is a proficient score and we're saying we're doing well I would like to say hearing them say that my goal is to be an engineer my goal is to be a mechanic my goal is to you know be an agricultural s and develop a new strain then we our goal is to make sure that that student takes a path that's going to get them to where they need to be so okay are you talking about mcast scores so I can talk about State scores mcast scores that's one thing that's that's the that's what Desi requires that's what the state requires but I also want us to think about the fact that the only way that we get mcast scores or we get students to engage in learning is when it's relevant to them and we put them on a pathway that they are now engaging in learning that is relevant to what they see themselves or who they see themselves being in the future it's going to translate into increased mcast scores it's going to translate into proficient students students who write well but we have to make sure that the primary outcome is meeting their needs you can transition y so thank you all very very much can all bre into our to for a little bit and [Music] then great [Music] oh that's right that's right [Music] hello sorry I can take it hell I know I think there twoie think e e e

welcome USD 264 stakeholders family friends parents students and anyone watching on uh YouTube Welcome to Clear Water Clarity volume number 13 for October of 2024 I hope as we get started with this Clarity I hope we're enjoying the cooler weather uh a little bit more moisture and just overall changing uh Seasons into the fall uh and building towards uh getting into a Groove some of the things we're again we're going to continue to review a little bit of all of the things that we do really starts with why wanted to make sure that we explain why are we doing this or why are we asking this to be done and then more specifically what are we doing and then again how are we going to actually achieve this uh so this month when we start looking at this we're going to look at um job skills that are needed uh according to the indeed career guide that was published in the May of 2024 so only about five months old and really start talking about some of our strategic plan within goal number two is about how we can Implement uh students centered whole child programming and some of that if we look at it a little bit deeper actually starts talking about some of the post-secondary skills uh that they need to be College Andor career ready so in looking at this these are not necessarily just the top five like in order but these are five of the most important skills um that the indeed career guide said that students would need or just people in general will need as they start looking at that next generation of work and some of those was strong work ethic communication skills teamwork skills interpersonal skills and self-management skills so I think a lot of times we get taken back when we start thinking about what are we having to do in schools not only are we having to educate students um and provide them with the content knowledge in math writing science and the like uh but we're also having to develop some of these skills so that when they leave clear water in USD 264 um they're able to be very self-sufficient not only if they're going to college but entering the workforce or at a tech school or even the military and so what are those uh skill sets so a strong work ethic what we are kind of defining that as in helping us look at our post-secondary stuff a strong work e ethic is just showing up every day and putting in a dollars uh a dollar's worth of work for a dollar's worth of pay and that's an old saying I think I I know it's been around for a long time it was one I remember my grandpa saying a lot to me is if you show up and you're going to get paid a dollar put in a dollar's worth of work and so part of that is making sure we show up every day so that's why attendance uh is one of our goals at the board has set for us this year and reducing our chronic absenteeism the second one is communication skills and I know as a society we see the lack of face-to-face communication as well as um the ability to just communicate effectively uh with people because communication is a two-way street it's not only the person sending the message but it's the person receiving the message as well again this is why we put together a cell phone committee and so we've got three staff members three parents and three students um that will be participating and providing the school administration with some guidelines and some components of what a good cell phone policy is and really the idea of having a cell phone policy is to just give the opportunity to increase communication skills give students the opportunity to communicate with each other on a higher level the next one is teamwork skills and so I think of teamwork skills is when we're really working on that opportunity uh to increase our student engagement provide more Hands-On learning and and it's hard to do just doing that by yourself you have to work with someone else and so understanding that opportunity of what strengths and skills do you have what strengths and skills do I have and how are we going to be able to come together and make that work our next one is interpersonal skills and those are some of those just embedded skills uh within us and how we are uh communicating and treating other people are we having empathy uh are we understanding other people's uh situations and providing that and then last self-management skills how do we handle things when we are upset how do we handle adversity how do we respond from uh to things that maybe don't always go our way and at the same time how do we handle things when things are going well uh we're doing a really big work this year with our staff uh about called the 20-mile March meaning on good days only March 20 miles and on bad days make sure you march at least 20 miles because in days when it's good sometimes it's real easy to just keep going and keep going and keep going and we and we kind of um slow ourselves down some days on tough days we just don't even want to get out of bed or don't even want to get started and that's part of what we want to teach is not only the ability to regulate ourselves when we're up set but regulate ourselves when things are going well as as well uh how how are we going to do some of this so here's some of the things that we've put together to think these are some things we can work on as a partnership not only from the school district standpoint and what we're going to do hopefully in our buildings but also uh some things that we can work on at home so when we're talking about creating a partnership we're talking about the community as a whole um having this opportunity to share and help with some of these skills that we are also going to be able to work on at school so some of it is also modeling um our kids's greatest teacher is what they see uh at home what they see from their role models and so if we were showing up for work they're going to show up for school if we're engaging with our peers when we're out in the public and having good conversations with them looking them in the ey shaking hands with them um being engaged then they're going to do that if we as adults are using appropriate social media and email adequate with each other uh when we're sending things or posting things kids are going going to because they're going to just copy and mimic uh what we do if we're able to show empathy for other people's perspectives students are going to be able to do that and if we can show how to regulate our motions in high stress and high tense situations students are going to be able to so how are we going to put some of this together it's a partnership so I'm asking for uh help from the community is as you think about being out in the community and being in front of students whether you're at a basketball game whether you're at a football game a volleyball match a wrestling match uh coming to parent parent teacher conferences or just being in the community around some of our students think about some of these skills we're asking them to be able to do and how can you help us by modeling that by showing up to work engaging with peers appropriate social media use empathy for other perspectives and regulating our emotions in high tense situations and then when are we going to do this we're going to really focus this on every day kids coming to school we want to be able to practice these skills within the classroom or within the school day doesn't always have to be in every class but we giv kids the opportunity to practice these skills then we want to make sure that one of our board goals is to increase our handon uh learn Hands-On learning and engagement in the classroom so we're going to start building more of those uh opportunities we're going to be starting uh an individual plan of study in the middle school as part of our compliance with ksde and accreditation and students need to start exploring uh the jobs that they are going to want to maybe need some post-secondary training in and in doing that then we can start talking about the skills like showing up to work having empathy for others uh perspectives and being able to um regulate some of those uh tensions when they are facing a hard um discussion or hard opportunity and then we want to make sure that we start providing more exploration of those skills needed for their future endeavors and part of that is increasing our internships and externships at the high school so currently we have a work-based learning uh class where students can go into it and they will actually get a a class credit for going out and working and learning some of those skills that they may not be able to do within the uh Traditional High School setting so we're always looking for more Partners uh so if you own a business or run a manage a business and would like to uh see some high school kids come and learn from from you or your business uh please reach out to us we are always looking for more of those external Partnerships and engaging with our stakeholders again as we finish and continue to work on for this year we're asking to be one degree more and some of that is also that partnership that we have within the community of how can we model some of these skills we want our students to have and so going to encourage each and one of you every day to think about that opportunity to show up to work to engage with your peers uh have great communication and appropriate social media and email adequate and at the same times how do we uh show empathy for each other and how do we regulate our emotions in high tense situations because we are the ones that are going to be able to continue teaching and again here at the school we're going to work on those each and every day we're going to provide students the opportunity to be in those situations and learn how to grow from them and we're just hoping that we can create a partnership within the community um to match those skills again if you want to ever reach out or set up a visit with me here's my contact information again you can reach me by email or you can call the office and set up an opportunity to visit and again if you are a business owner or manage a business and would be able to like to be part of our work-based learning please reach out to me or you can reach out to the high school principal and we'll get things set up again thanks for a great opportunity and we'll talk to you guys next month

e e e welcome everybody to Al to the flag United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible here pres Pres present present presid due to thank pres evening everyone we are live streaming here so the people at home the uh the city of Garfield our first Live Hope do any more of these events the idea is to get our tech department and our students involved and you live streaming um student events games meetings whatever it is so I we're a little that but uh but you know little bab said so so welcome if anyone's watching live uh this just shows this board transparency the board speaking with them over the past month so I'm going to speak a little bit little bit lengthy because I want to tell you how incredible my month has been here my few months has been here but my first month in September uh in Barfield so I I think uh if you canol with a few minutes um just about the incred things that are really happening in these buildings and around the city uh I'm not just saying that because up here it's uh it really is an incredible place I was sharing with the principals and some of the uh the other administrators that day walking around the buildings our students are behaved our students are engaged uh students talking me I went to what Walgreens and our students were on a half day all talking it was it really was a great feeling so are incredible I'm I'm so impressed I'm very excited to be here um our teachers our support staff our administrators are just doing incredible things uh I haven't had the ability to get everywhere i' I've done everything I can we're trying to you know make some immediate necessary changes if we see them especially with facilities up and uh you we've done PR great job central office Leo and his team um just kind of trying to get things together and I think one of the testing that is you know uh from our first football game to our our um dedication ceremony we had a light lighting issue right so uh we fixed that right away so I think it's just a great uh great sense of communication happening and uh just I always say the word progress and I hope you're all on St P that night but I have this is a great place to be those you been here few maybe two decades no one's talking about that's why people are saying why there's there's really little turnover here so just a stuff we have uh some pures to to go over um you know hopefully over those the next 5 to 6 months I was just talking to the board a little bit about some of those some of those reports that are coming and there's going to be some difficult decisions that have to be made but I think we make those decisions with with our our kids and their families in mind first and of course our extended town which our our faculty and sta I think everything here is just going to just sort and continue to sort we have some great FKS time to see hear from our students we're going to you know honor our student in the month we're also going to see our score score report um because I think it's important to do as early as you can because I'm very excited about some of the growth that's occurred here at some schools that made tremendous amount of growth uh and uh you know this won't do justice but we post yourself but I told get so this board can celebrate some of it um you know speak of the board leadership over the past um few months uh Mr Ramos and Mr Taylor uh you know just an incredible Vision moving forward to see on the agenda tonight there are some programs that are in place because this entire board when they met with me the first time said we to our families more programs we need to you know stop going everyone's pocket that's what you're seeing here with a couple of the programs that are on here for music the music program um you know we also you know obviously working with other things you know security was around talking about security giving you guys a security Report with him probably next month um we did get an audit and we contining to certain audits with regards to special education technology uh a few other things position control Finance all these things are important as a new superintend comes in also because it's been a while at at our house um and we're just going to keep it and get it in order so we can continue to great things for the the future of mareld fut Royal makers uh moving forward so uh again there's just some incredible stuff on this agenda um and some things that we also need to to highlight um and talk about first I want to thank the board office and Central officea for helping in my transition over the past few months they done an incredible job um um you know uh just putting the agenda together learning each other and learning the sport what their needs are um you also some of your rece the lead Water Report I want anyone nervous there's no issue with lead in the water um I know we probably got you know there's there's compliance issue that of Education have to follow in certain outlet outlet know certains um you know read a little high you have to be notified fortunately so and we sent that out so I'm also happy to tell you that we're do another round of water testing we're going next month by code we're also going to try to get brand new drinking fountains ones that have the bottle um the Bott sensors for in all the schools we're working on that to working on that trying some grants Etc uh I'm extremely excited that this board has supported Mr Al the athletic department GRE girls Cooperative here uh in the spring I don't if you're familiar with the cross it's the fastest game on two feet uh and you know our girls are very intense here right here so I can't see them out there uh just another incredible thing to bring to a city like Barfield that some people say oh this only happen in you know the more fluent districts District AFF it it's not sure it's not sure anymore specially with me here um our kids deserve more than the other kids have on the district so very excited support that tonight on um so you know really really looking forward to that uh we also have our field dedication ceremony few weeks ago thank you all for coming I want to thank High School administration Mr Alo everyone for together um just again incredible night what attestment what this board has done to that field um putting that together for the entire community of and City here in Barfield um really is I got to stand on it I was excited that I got to be part of very most point for me uh so just so thank you all again for coming um we're also now actually working on speaking board on trying to get the rest of field complete we have some lighting on the other side so that might be a little bit of a process but we're going to start that process um and possibly for see moving forward some concession funding out there the's going to have to get some policies for that approvals M forward we got that because you know ask people the TA a lot of people that weing outside there as well very active with that and we talking about that out there we have AR record working on you know maybe design out there chair chair M chair which is just an incredible thing for veterans not mil the respect for any man who sacrif sacrif so our kids our students can see that remember that every time support think we get more veterans involved in and I appreciate that as well uh School five or former School five I guess call the future School five whatever we want to call it that the demolition is almost complete there um and it looks like the bid openings are set for October 30th prob going um but that's an incredible for this town community um to see that you know we're going to be starting on that on that uh that project so we're really excited about that also wanted to mention that our next our December meeting is going to be on the 16th instead of the 23r mind we move to 23rd and I realiz that we're not open on the 23rd uh which is great I gu but we really can't be here for open um moving back to 16 for that I appreciate your support as well um two one more thing on here is an RTI position um that's on here uh that's a response to intervention this board has dedicated and has utilized a lot of monies with regards that when I first got here we were talking about Renaissance part of programed a whole bunch of different things moving towards some powerol systems and um working on some new curriculum modules working with that RTI and unfortunately um no one here has really been the absolute coordinator of that which has caused us to take a setep back a little bit um there have been some individuals chipping in since July and I appreciate that but that's really not how it works when people after school uh you know during the day working on some stuff as well so that's why that position is in there that position control position uh which for right now is just going to compensate that individual for moving forward the individual that is up for approval is highly qualified for that position it's the it's the it's the person that has been working with us now doing it uh and that's my recommendation I just want to let everybody know how important it is to to the district that this position goes through tonight um because we Tak steps money this Bo spent uh if you don't continue to to expand that role so I appreciate that support for that recommendation tonight as well uh and then finally we have um you know Matos is here what I asked them to do is do a brief uh you know presentation of what your sons and daughters eat on a daily basis and then this is their farm table program over here which I think you're going to be able to take some vegetables home with you right y um this is what the kids saw for the last month this is farm table month or what's it called Farmers Farmer Market Farmers Market month I'm sorry should proba known that um so again this is what your children our students are seeing in the elementary school so please take advantage of that and then after the meeting tonight uh you can on the way out I don't know if it's going be open rights over here you can actually go and M is going the future with a normal middle school lunch would be if you want to try it so take some home have a burger or something like that um so please I mean I appreciate uh Frank M was here thank you very much sir for your support uh I think it's important that you see if your kids are eating because there's a lot of rumors out there you know and we want to hear about that so we can dispel some of that but everything is in compliance um with the you know Department of Agriculture um you know things do not have the first level of sugar and it's never the first ingredients not allow products are weat that's why when your kids come home and say this macaroni cheese wasn't great it's not your macaroni cheese right it's weat macaroni cheese it's not your macaroni cheese right so course it's not the macaroni cheese when we were in school and the lunch people put a whole bunch of water in there it's not like that anymore so we just wanted to celebrate that as well so um so all those great things are happening uh that's 4.1 so I'd like to call up I guess for soon month that I'm sorry don't know how present okay so we have a present just moment so I'd like to um first call up Nicole balala she is our September student of the month Nicole is one of the most responsible reliable and dedicated students that I have encountered in my teaching career she's an incredible human being that shows compassion for her fellow students Nicole is a natural leader and true role model to her peers she is mature far beyond her years and her work ethic is unparalleled she puts forth a tremendous amount of effort in all that she does never want to settle for less than Perfection Nicole would seek feedback on her already outstanding essays Nicole works well independently and is able to follow through to ensure that any job gets done she accomplishes these tasks with initiative and a very positive attitude her intellectual curiosity and desire to acquire new knowledge continuously have led her to perform very well in my class class furthermore she has a fantastic sense of humor and always knows how to brighten your day with a joke it has been a pleasure to see her grow up over the past three years and I wish her the best in her future [Applause] endeavors thank you so much I'm very honored to receive this award and be recognized as September student of the month I would like to extend my thanks to miss tup who has always supported me and given me all her encouragement the past four years I would also like to say thank you to all the other teachers and administr administrators at Garfield High School for recognizing outstanding students each month and encouraging them to do their best because their hard work does not go unnoticed thank [Applause] you so I'd like to present you with this this is uh our challenge Point uh you're going to be the first recient of it from here on out our students of the month we something from the board you know for your dedication and as a gratitude for us on what you represent for our students congratulations thank you [Applause] congratulations M what's your higher uh education aspirations what do you hope to do what's your higher education aspirations I to after graduating from Garfield High School I plan to attend a four-year college and I'll continue my education um hopefully pursuing Finance Finance great and I'm looking into a ripo ripo awesome congratulations thank you [Applause] congratulations again um I'm excited to have one of our Wizards here tonight to do uh to say hello if you want to kind of get up so this is a new program um chess Wizards that is is uh available for no cost to our our elementary schools we'll try to get to Middle High School May at some point maybe have you guys out but um basically it's a s based chess learning program so the whole idea is to you learn some of those those modules of St while we create this in incredible chest team so we go to all these other fs and and all these competitions so uh we have a a video you want to talk first then a video go ahead thank you um uh superintendent TOMCO thank you for the board I'm representing chess Wizards my name is Ryan Williams and I am a fellow chess wizard if you guys haven't noticed um big on chess not on public speaking however you know I'm very excited about having chess in your guy you know the district with you and um we've been I've been working here for about 10 years and teaching chess and teaching for about 15 years and this has been one of my most exciting experiences so um I'm glad to be here and I hope that we can bring a very exciting nature to chess you know um not a lot of kids are searching for Bobby Fisher anymore so hopefully we can help with that and it's going to help with their their patience you know it helps with their thinking skills 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staff and professionals handles all educational aspects of our programs chess Wizards after school programs prove that child is more than simply placing kids at table at the of school students interact with each other in a fun and educational group dynamic parents ask there's a safe after hour rtion you will have the answer want to CH contact us today to start a chess Wizards program your thank you again so my hope is that only by our elementary we were doing in every school I me you know and when I first got here I said it's very important to be Equitable so hopefully all of our students take advantage some point please spread the word uh it's an incredible program at least try it right maybe chess isn't for everybody but you don't know if it's for want you try it and uh so please spr word thank you again for your time tonight and uh we for to partnership uh let me just segue into another thing that's on the agenda tonight which we work on over the weekend really about something called Music Makers um it's going to be a um composition type program that's going down to the third grades we're trying to boost the music program a little bit and have those students pick uh you know pick some instruments uh compose some music so again I appreciate the board um you know supporting that program as well pushing me towards the music area uh as part of my background as well my my familiar background um it's very important uh I know that we want to build that program here um and uh I I the board for kind of making that one of our priorities when you hired me uh so tonight is the first starl so we welcome that program as well also title money um also title money so uh I also want to recognize uh the middle school over the summer got something called the purple star designation uh which I did um I think we're probably going to have to uh expand on this a little bit one of the following months because I read an article today I was about this I must have missed it and guess our our media specialist in the middle school has been a big part of this and it's been around for a very long time so it's a little bit more in depth than than this little certificate that we have so I'd really like to spot this Mr President maybe next month or the month after the incredible work that we're doing here for our military families um you know purple star is a state sponsor program uh for military connected students and their families basically helping students transition to school developing programs that recognize the value of military service help connect students overcome some challenges as you know moving and different things making friends right and providing resources for the students so our Middle School was the only school I believe in northern New Jersey to get recognized so uh you I don't see Mr here tonight but congratulations just want recognize Middle School well for the hard work and we we'll make up for it next month congratulations a round of applause now we have government here so I'm very excited to hear you guys have you have a brief presentation as well right should be up there so I don't think you put does that you guys have that good evening everyone and good evening to everyone watching at home I'm Dara I'm Frank and we are the student government of Garin high school student government co-presidents um just to introduce ourselves we were elected last year in May the last Academic Year um and we started we started working on our presidency as soon as we were elected um we just wanted to sum up uh the the things we' had accomplished thus far um as September is ending and we just wanted to explain um how we got these things done especially especially with our advisor Mr Burns oh so I'll start the presentation take you take that out it's easier for just pull it thank you uh so we so we got start our presentation uh so one of the first things we did this year was our spirit me it was the first period week of the year uh so for Monday with the pajama day Tuesday with the color war on Wednesday we a villain versus superhero tshir day and on Thursday with the throwback Thursday where I can where our should dress up as their favorite day and then on Friday we had our uh first football game which It theme was purple Cloud so also our spirit week of Friday day was purple out and uh on the next line we have some pictures our students um those are pictures from different days so we have the col of War pictures we have the PJ day uh pictures we have the decades day pictures um I think the decades day is definitely a hit I think a lot of people participated that day there are many students that also made videos which got tons of views which was we think was great because our main focus is to bring the spirit of our students up and make them more involved in the school yeah and to add to that uh L of our students are social media right and all students from different schools they post uh videos on on Tik Tok uh like for from their base and so we wanted to do something uh that would be on the level comparable to schools okay I think that this is our main focus this year although we accomplished many things our main focus was being days cuz um many people we had in several years back in high school and we brought it back and I think it was it it was amazing we got we Soo almost um over 200 tickets um it was amazing the game was under the stars and I think the loved it it was great took a lot of planning and it took a lot of help from our team and a lot of hours to start playing this summer I just think it was amazing it turned out like even better than we expected yeah it was quite amazing uh we got a lot of positive Ops from the staff members and from the students body um it was really fun uh especially that was our first one coming so we kind of had to you know figure stuff out but I think we did a good job on their own and for our next slide we have a pet rally uh which was I believe it was first pet R outside on our new athletic complex which is very exciting um people head was very good uh we this job U we have pictures of our student body we have our L uh Athletics teams uh we have our some of our Administration members in the corner uh and we also have done a t between different RS that's the make I really think this event brought the school together this this was during our fourth block so we did um a lot of SPS to come out during the fourth block and um it was great music playing all these teams were coming out to the song we selected and it was just a great experience overall and also the was um the pep rally was right after our beautiful ribbon cutting um we did have the honor of doing the pledge there as well I honestly think it was an amazing experience and here's few pictures of the yeah was was I'm very thankful for this opportunity that me and had to be there for this initi of conf so for our next step we are holding election here soon there are three questionman representative left one sophore representive spot and one senior representive our goal is to although quality over quantity we do want to fill our team complet so we we have as much support as we need um we are planning future events um the gold which is engaging fense Foria students raising wareness of the W of student government and collaborating connecting with other student governments of other schools so yeah and the idea again is to have St government that is comparable to Student Government at different schools because you know wefi we the state of champion and we government that is pretty much changing right that's we want to give a huge thank you to wrap up our presentation to Dr TOMCO Miss Yano and Mr Taran and all the GS Administration Mr Alonso Mr Jeffrey and ghs coaches Mr Z and his security staff members Mr and other D staff and especially our students uh who have participated in our our our conf we're very thankful them and for electing us and believeing us thank you so much really you guys are group when I can't wa to we going to start to have some meetings but I'm very impressed with you uh I W Mr I think it was going the color uh color warwards day and just the spirit and the excitement was really was really cool be part of so so congratulations you know you're excellent job let's keep it up and let's keep moving the district forward thank you thank you we're also looking very forward to working with you yes thank you class with these new events and this new complex that you guys are now I think the the class very excited I think for the past years they've been really waiting um the homecoming and all uh events that we did and I think we got a lot of positive feedback hope we guys some constuctive feedback will definitely improve with time yeah I agree with FR um we did we I think that many of the upper class feel that we know they're kind of leaving when all stuff is happening but we just want to make make a better best experience for the last year and also for the freshman and we want to be amazing leaders so that our future have freshman our Student Government team so that they can take our positions when we [Applause] leave and now call Binger for our score report you made good evening everyone it's my pleasure to stand up here and speak to you about this spring 2024 newe student learning assessment results this is something we are required to do annually for qack and when we go through our qack review uh next year they will actually be reviewing this report with us in the district now Dr Tomo mentioned before that the presentation will be able to be viewed in full uh on the uh Go website it will be up there tomorrow I'm just going to highlight a handful of the slid for you there is about 35 total but you're only going to have to about so the New Jersey student learning assessment uh presentation covers three major subjects students are tested in science in math and Ela so I'm going to start with Ela and this is showing us race three four and five and what I like about this slide is unlike the ones previously where you have about 10 columns showing comparisons we can see here the percent of our students that have grown over the course of the uh of the year of testing levels one and two would be the neediest levels three are always where we're approaching proficiency but we want our students to be at a level four and a level five because that means needing proficiency or a five would be Advanced proficient and if you look at our grades from three through five uh through 9 third grade we are higher than the state as far as growth goes fourth grade we have grown more than the state fifth grade grade we have significantly grown more than the state as far as Ela goes sixth grade look at that we are at 17.6 where the state only had a growth rate of 5.6 8th grade 5.6 to 1.5 and Ninth Grade which we always know is a challenge with our freshman kind of going from that 8ighth grade to to the ninth grade to stay through 9.1 but I'm so happy to say that we went up 1% and an increase is an increase that's something to be celebrated so if we were to move ahead to math which would go from grades 3 through 8 and Algebra 1 which is taken by our eth grade honor students as well as our nth grade if your following the group with the presentation in front of you so again we want to really focus on the fours and the fives and you can see Garfield went up a little bit higher for cares of State for third grade we did well for fourth grade fifth grade we're about even sixth grade tremendous tremendous ad 10.5 versus 4.9 7th grade we had 7.5 proficiency with state only had 3.5 the eighth grade we went up 11 where the state only went up four we did go down a little bit in algebra but that's something that we're really focusing and we're working on overall as you can see we are outperforming State and we are showing tremendous growth and it's something to be celebrated I know the schools are aware of these tards and actually have been having some little many celebration going on in their buildings so then the science is a little different science only goes up to a level four so levels one and two would be your lower three and four would be your proficient and your Advanced proficient and science only tests grades 5 8 and 11 that's is it so our fifth grade we're at a 9.6 showing percent of growth with state is only a 1.9 we're at a 1.3 and eth grade based at 3.2 and we actually went up 1.3 for 11th grade with st app went down so just so you could see where we're at we're required to make sure we have at least 95% of our eligible students taking the standardized test our Ela we reached 96.4% available students so we met the compliance you over the 95% you can kind of see the difference from 23 to 24 which grades went up which grades went down um we had a big increase in our third grade we had a pretty big drop in fourth grade pretty big increase in in fifth grade drop in 8th grade drop in nth grade so overall we're down about 13 eligible students from grades 3 through 9 for the ELA portion of the standardized test and then the same thing for the math we need to have 95% on my slide 14 if following so we did have exactly 95% of eligible students taking the test and as you can see the the population it's just about uh 21 higher in third grade you definitely dropped about 30 in fourth grade kind of up and down all along the grade levels for a total of minus 33 less students taking the test so minor minor changes with population and the same thing with science overall our elementary seems to be grown a little bit and then the eth and the nth uh the eth and the 11th gr excuse me dropped for a difference of 53 students taking the test but as you can see I can go through all this data but it will be on on the website tomorrow for your reading pleasure but I I would rather talk about celebrations than keep reading numbers to you because you could read numbers on your own so I am very very proud of the work that we have put in the past couple years in this District I know Dr tle mentioned RTI before we're getting programs like the chest now for steam because steam is embedded in what happens in the New Jersey student learning assessment so really it's more important about the celebration and if we look at what we're doing in ela and math our our level ones for the ELA decreased in average of 7% across the district with state only decreased 1% that that's a nice thing to see our level four and FES went up 9% whereas State as the only went up 3% so we are making jumps compared to what the state is doing with standardized test R 4 through 7 show a growth of 10% or higher for levels four and five over the 3 years of data that we've been tracking 10% something to celebrate and our students with disabilities and our economically disadvantaged students have increased an average of 5% in 2022 to on today's standardized testing for ELA and we have things to celebrate with the math as well levels one and two decreased in average of 8% across the district where the state only decreased 3% levels four and five increase an average of 6% compared to the state's 4% six and 8 show growth of 10% or higher from levels 45 from 22 to 24 and our students with disabilities and our English language students have gone up and out 4% in the past 3 years so I I would hope you'd agree with me that they may not be drying changes some of them are but definitely something to be celebrated we're doing something right we're going in the right direction and that is something that is a collective effort from it comes from the top down we have amazing Administration here who support our teachers our teachers are working with our students and giving them what they need to achieve I know my supervisors are in the classroom with those students it is a colletive effort everything that's happening here and everybody deserves to be celebrated for these notable achievements now you might be wondering like what are some of the things that we're doing and there's some new things but there things that we' we've done in the past and maybe you're now focusing on a more deeper dive with data we're measuring our lifetile and independent reading levels of our students and providing targeted instruction at the reading level so not everybody's being taught at one level we're teaching the students according to the levels that which they are starting as a baseline with the hopes that they will grow uh Dr Tom per menion before Renaissance Learning we're excited we have that kiing off for us here to help support math in laa we have albert.io which is a program we used at the high school U mainly with ap but we also use it um in other classes as well we have Discovery Education which we're using that embeds that science and that social studies and we also know that we all have those onetoone devices which completely benefit the learning environment that our students enter every day we've been embeding Math Science and Ela PD for our staff our supervisors uh we're starting something new this year they're conducting informal walkthroughs to ensure there's consistency among the Departments and the grade level with how the curriculum is being implemented and how te teachers are preparing students for standardized testing we've continued to create common assessments for all subjects across all grade levels and that's every subject even art and us it I know Dr T has used it before you treat everything equally we have extended day tutoring and enrichment as well as mentoring for our students response to intervention better known as RTI I can only imagine how much better that's going to get now that we'll have somebody there that's really going to help focus and pull it together and we continue to analyze our data not only from our state assessments but also our local assessments too to make sure we we are giving our students assessments that we've created that me or what they need to know for standardized testing and to monitor their growth now I would really like to take the opportunity to thank the Board of Education as well as District administration for all your support I know over the years we've put in a lot of new programs and sometimes you don't see both right away but baby steps as you can see there's a lot of good data here we have a lot of decreases in our in our lower levels and a lot of increases in our higher levels we are shining the state we are outpouring date which is definitely something to be celebrated am I out of time that's it thank you so we will continue to make sure we have professional development workshops for all our teachers throughout the year not just on professional development days we hold them during their grade levels and their department meetings we'll continue to implement digital and print materials from our students my department is constantly working with teachers to review curriculum we're actually going to a whole new curriculum and instruction program this year I'm very very excited about what that's going to do for our teachers um we've had a lot of opportunities in District as far as scheduling those for grade levels and departments to work together with Administration or even with our teacher leaders and I'm really excited to see about where the response to intervention program goes because that's what really gives our students everything that they need on their level so if anybody has any questions I'd be happy to answer them and I'm very very proud to presented this Workshop to you tonight thank you for listening excellent job thank you thank you add something Mr President I want to thank you uh Mr Taylor the board leadership and the rest of the board for supporting some of the stuff we've put in here since July first that's you know half day profession development days some of these Pro they change the calendar for um some of these programs uh our administrative team is joined an organization that's loaded professional development um we're collaborating more you know it's it's I know it's tough you you all are one nth of the population to you speak for the people in the city but um just that commitment you know for this vision is is uh is really important so I I appreciate it I mean I'm the new guy the but I think uh you know coming in with a little different set of eyes that support is is going to go very far here even some of these programs are RTI that we're putting in I know there's a lot of stuff on the agenda you all spend many many hours you know asking any questions and you know our meetings and everything going through Mr gber and all those other things but at the end of the day what we saw tonight the with the presentation with student government that's what this is about that's why you're all here right that's why you wanted to be elected uh and it all culminates these incredible scores some of these scores if you look at the treat and those individuals on on at home uh please look at the stat in just going to post probably tomorrow some there's there's there are grade levels that are in the 8S I mean incredible stuff incredible growth um you know if you Google anything with me you see I've always been with opponent and I'll say to the Commissioners that I've known in the past ones that they're standing right here we have to stop talking about aggregate scores you know we keep we keep talking about the whole you know fourth grade fifth grade it's impossible students in cities students in townships students in the same the same houses have different needs and different hurdles we have to stop as a society looking at aggregate scorts we have to talk about growth right I have four children myself I've said it before one of them is the best reader in the house and one of them is just not the best reader in the house right they were they were born up by the same parents they have the same ability to to succeed and some just Str a little more some don't it's the same thing with our kids any kid that shows growth is a success story for us so that that's the that's what I'm trying to change the culture not just here but but Nationwide that's the more important thing and if co co taught us anything we all know that that um you know life is precious and short we never know what's going to happen so when we look at scores like this we look at the growth and we concentrate and grow that's the important thing because our kids here have different hurdles in different towns in Bur County in Somerset County all the way down in Ocean County right so I I just think it's important it's the first time we're doing scores here and I know that a lot of people use that as rhetoric out the score the algebra scor algebra is a whole different animal you know kids take algebra 8th grade now so I mean you know it's you can't blame high school for from some of those scores it's just uh just different things so so I appreciate what your team has done and everybody forward to just moving the needle even more uh as we as we move on so so absolute progress Mr Bonnie I apologize I see you here now for for the Middle School award but thank you to you part of that as well so thank you for all your stuff there I know it's all but thank you very much um and just GL I talk so much tonight but I'm really my my first full meeting here with the students so just indulge me for two more minutes please um and I'm want home but you know give my 100 day entry plan we're we're a few days out uh we're almost at 90 days now I think for 90 something days so I've been here almost 100 days I plan having a meeting um I was going to have it next week or two weeks and I appreciate every putting together I just realiz it's a conflict we can't have it I will let the board know that is I all I'll try to make sure it's a night I think it's important what it's going to do it's going to lay out what I've learned about this Su place and where I think move forward and your support and you speak for the community so I don't to do anything on everyone's uh you know hearing what I I think we can do to move forward so U thank you again for letting me talk uh progress sorry good evening I'd like to give a brief overview of all of the facility projects that we have started since our last meeting a couple very exciting ones at our high school the agback in the child study team is in process um we also uh if you notice on the board resolution our verot cameras for the field we have them on order we have done everything from repairing lights outside um to getting Lights under the bleachers for safety at the high school we're doing a FL hole restoration uh at the middle school we have another HB repair in process um we were on the list and there was a 12 week wait we are getting to the top of the list so we're hopeful that that's going to jump to the top of the list we've also been working on a very important uh feature for the Fire supression Control and the jockey pump were on order and that is for the middle school project um School number four very exciting new gym floor installed it looks beautiful a new exterior sign uh for our Blue Ribbon school is on order we also repaired the trailer deck at that building and each um a few of the buildings we're going to be doing a new fencing area around the waste um system the garbage areas shed is also being ordered and the very exciting part is the rest of the schools that I will be naming are getting new cafeteria tables so districtwide all of the cafeteria tables will be new so that is very exciting number six again we did fencing uh new floor one of the trailers Auditorium stage drapery being ordered new shed FL hole restoration the cafeteria tables um I'll shorten it up seven same we school out we tried to do what we could in each school with the fund that we have cing area in for Waste storage shed flag restoration the cafeteria tables same thing at eight number nine doored the cafeteria the EC we did a major project of replacing the domestic hot water system so that was a a project that was really needed there Head Start didn't have a flag pole every building is supposed to have one head start now has a new flag pole and then distri just a small things that we were doing we ordered uh a lot of um things that the cafeteria would be uh they call them small which would be small appliances uh some new dishwashers and some other kitchen supplies and basically um the last thing was is I met with the architect which is friend from Solutions which Dro had mentioned and the four boiler projects that we had decided we are starting to work on so I will update you on the meeting of when that's getting started so that's it and I'm very excited that the schools are safe safer they have been painted they're clean and the children are excited and ready to Lear and I think it has started thank you great job staff uh M staff building great was great and appreciation presid right thank you um at this time um are there any comme Mee since the last Mee anyone no okay so then I'll move forward uh we did table the minutes 3.1 so uh motion go into Personnel 6.1 to by second by questions Mr Derek Mr keis yes Dr P hi Mr Meo yes Mr F Mr Gaba 6 Mr T 6.23 of the ref Mr Ramos motion to finance 81 .31 any questions any comments ice the bill it was not put up for payment so I don't have a bill in hand the last bill I had was from believe the last time did I contact I don't know that would be Dr question as direct Mr gerek hi Mr KES hi I Mr Malo I Mr bino I I'm sorry yes Mr Mr Taylor I Mr Ramos hi okay motion to go to education 10124 any questions Mr Garr Mr K hi hi Mr Meo hi Mr Cino hi Mr Gaba hi Mr K numb 20 and 29 Mr Ramos okay facility 12.1 12.6 motion any questions and concerns not loc Mr Garett Mr kis hi Dr hi Mr Malo hi Mr toino hi Mr daa hi Mr tayor hi Mr Ramos hi okay athletic 14.1 14.3 second BYO any questions please Mr Derek hi MREs hi Dr P hi Mr Malo hi Mr Vino hi Mr G hi Mr K hi Mr Ray hi lastly policy 16.1 motion all right any questions wasy two left in the year and I di all year one and I was on it last year and at this point to me it just looks like a politicaly several committies for this month and it's not very fair there's notic G oh I don't understand stop reading something that it's not just stay you're alluding to something that it's not something Mr dere no Mr kis yes Dr hi Mr M mrin Mr hi Mr J hi Mr Ros hi uh really quickly before we open uh the floor for public comment um just something I would like for our board attorney to read it for you public comment 19.1 carfield Board of Education recognizes the value of public comment on the educational issues and the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on school matters and Communications please be advised that the following guidelin shall apply members of the public who would like to address the board must state your name and address each member of the public will be limited to cering of no more than 5 minutes on the public comment no participant shall speak more than once um and as this is a public for public comments may not in any way be disrespectful vulgar or threatening toward any member of any of Board District faculty Administration or staff if any public comments violate these guidelines of speed will be asked to refrain from offering any further public comment regardless of whether they have time and name in addition the speaker may be interrupted and his or her privilege to comment termina if the speaker's comments are disruptive or otherwise violate these guidelines on G off Board of Education thank you and advance for your anticipating cooperation in this matter all right so at this time um I would like to open up the mic for a public comment um for your functional procedure uh state your name and your address and proceed with whever it is you discuss okay thank you for your time I'm Justin I live on 35 Lanta um I would just like to raise some some questions first I don't yes sorry can you get me now okay thank you so I'm Justin thank you for your time I live on 35 Atlanta I just like to raise concerns my first question is I don't know if I'm mistaken however it was very difficult to find out the location of this meeting I checked the g website and it is not posted all I saw was the link to the live stream and I had to find out through the go parents Facebook group I don't know if I was looking in the wrong place I was just like to um raise that raise that yeah cuz yeah no where where the meeting so what will address that with you we'll show you exactly where to look to get the exact meeting location design as posted is there additional yeah um my concerns regard the uh dress code uh for the high school um I understand the importance of the dress code and I do agree with it for the most part my only concern is the not allowing of the Garfield um branded t-shirts or the academic shirts um such as this uh life academic shirt as you can see here um my my concern regards the comfort of the official Darko shirts the uh material itself it is very it makes it very stuffy make it makes it very uncomfort it makes it very warm to wear in the classroom of 20 uh students um sitting next to each other uh I know last week the classrooms were getting up to 80° and wearing that polyester shirt it was very uncomfortable and so I was just uh wondering why students are not allowed to wear these wonderful um academic shirts or other shirts to show off other achievements or the graph Pride or the the know the sports shirts are allowed on the days the teams have gain but I was just wondering um why extend it towards the academic sh for example and my some of the other um compl uh concerns were the price of these shs um for one student the the shirts are around like $ 4ish and mo more most households in the district have multiple siblings and you have to get at least a couple shirts for the week so that's a couple hundred simply on the shirts and then for them to also not be of the best quality I don't I'm not asking for the best however the the polyester it is very uncomfortable and it is it makes it makes me not want to wear it um I I still do however and I know there are there are going to be patches that are going to be sold to iron on to a more comfortable material purple shirt that you have and I was just um thinking that those patches instead of being sold I feel like because we're already you know paying for this the package I feel should at least be given to some to students you show your ID you that you go to school for the package you should be able to iron on you should be able to have them however that is not the biggest um concern just go f else no thank you if you have any respons to that yeah we'll respond to it at the end all right thank you very much thank you for your time thank you for your time [Applause] next any good evening St Marcel 66 trory Barfield New Jersey louder I can speak you can hear me now yeah so I'm just going to give a little update on the um collaborating parents committee so that committee began if you remember I came a few months ago um with a proposition that we should have some sort of a districtwide ability to have the parents get feedback get feedback from you all and bring it kind of to close in some of the open loots that have been created and so myself uh Kathy and Nancy have at this point gone to all of the home um I'm sorry to the bachor school nights for all of the schools in the district we've spoken with all of the principles at each school and um we'll give you more information next month but we have had an outstanding uh showing the parents who are interested I think one of the key takeaways is that they see us as fears rather than intimidating and so they've been more than willing to collaborate to volunteer our email inbox we created emails we flooded with people in the first 24 hours of us posting it so there is some hope that parents are willing to parti and engag we also um hosted the booth one of the nights at the carnival and we'll give an update on the proceeds that we raed from our participation there so more to come next month um but just a little taste of the parent involvement out there in the community is Alive and Well thank [Applause] you anyone else um at this time I'd like to open up the for board comments wait yes very proud of getting up here our students get up it's very important that's why we're here that's why we're here as a board and administration um I hear your concerns uh we going to speak with our Administration I'll bring it back to our board committee and the patch thing is something I wasn't aware of it's something that you spark interest to me you know patch very uh and uh I I think the dress code you know I hate bringing the co postco dress code has been issu many districts um we trying to get back to some kind of normaly but maybe something that we need you know uh you know since we're all kind of new year or Le um maybe another committee to sit students student conference Administration and board and just kind of go over all that again and uh you know see where we're at our our policy versus you know some of the things that a little more comparable to What's happen report thank you very coms I just want to say [Music] happy to be part of his really uh to see something that has engag Community students Administration but the nice about people young kids future students of Barfield and they were excited to be able to walk there and see the newness not so contest like that and for appreciate and were fantastic um I know John was involved in that have that per Ro there and I forward to seeing a lot of activties both from graduation academic as well as and was very wellend and foring I sorry super understand and we Cate together uh and make sure we can continue that and I'm glad that the superintendent have met with you and Kathy and and Nancy a variety of different numbers of parents some 15 20 some others 10 so total I'm assuming probably somewhere about 35 40% this is awesome I'm so happy that the guys are getting involved is important that you guys are get involved that you tell us what we want what we like to see and what we can do for you it's it's your want continue to represent you guys it's my honor to be here but it's also you guys communicate your vision what you want to see at the high school and I thank you for your involvement it's a lot of work it is but Allah you make difference you make difference so thank you um I also want to take this opportunity to uh I see the uh the Improvement is is awesome great it's get there and it's Dr Tom Co we have to continue to move forward and that's the that's the mission we're going we're going forward Not Looking Back making sure that whatever we can fix we can continue to fix it as we go we can promise you the world but we can promise you that as we go forward we can continue to fix the issues that we are encountering uh thank you very much for your time also to say I forgot to mention Mr Alfonso he was also involved with the uh Athletic Complex as far as the inauguration of it great job and on a different note I see some fantastic food here uh I was at school 4 last week and the same setup was then at school 4 uh Mr mosio thank you very much for taking a real serious look at providing the Quality Foods that's going to to be not only nutritional but also instrumental in helping the development of our youth in this community and helping to educate them in order to see what the right foods are to eat because there's such a problem in this world today with food and processed foods and that you're going at another Step Beyond that and hopefully the students will take advantage of this and not go back to their old ways and eating a lot of processed foods and of course Miss Binger thank you very much for that very positive report um just really quick just wanted to touch on the um the chess Wizards and the Music Makers I think those are two very important things that are coming into the district um I don't I know that you know the Athletics get celebrated more often than not and understandably so you know that's what drives crowds but to find other avenues to success and to flourish and to tap into different areas of your mind and and what'll make you succeed or give you different ways of looking at things I think those are amazing I'm really really proud of that I have two things that are kind of on a sad note um I do want to recognize the district lost someone who was a a 26- year employee here Mrs Rodeo Debbie Rodeo um she was you know anytime somebody loses a wife a mom a grandma a friend you know someone who who mattered a colleague it it should be recognized she was a a very important part of this district from teacher all the way up to supervisor and uh does need to be acknowledged and I believe the services are tomorrow from 3:00 to 7: if anybody can go and pay their respects I'm sure plenty from this district will because she meant a lot to so many um a family in Garfield they don't attend the Garfield schools their their children go to the um why am I drwing a blank on this Charter Char the charter school my my apologies uh but both parents and on both sides mom's sister and uh dad's brother are all ghs graduates they have a a young son Greg one of three who needs a uh bone marrow transplant there's been a GoFundMe that's been put on several of the parent pages and stuff if you could seek that out if you can give anything obviously it'd be greatly appreciated mom actually quit her job and uh dad's early on in his career in this stage of his career with uh you know where he's gone with things um if you can't give anything just share it for other people that possibly can but they are you know Garfield High School graduates and Garfield School System um attendees so that to bring to bring some attention to that he's I I know the family not incredibly well but I know them well enough and he's uh he's absolutely a light of anyone who meets him so he's uh he's taking over the nurses at the hospital and uh anybody who sees him at parties they they love him so I just wanted to bring some attention to those too because they I felt they needed it thank you for your time can we get you better by the microphone we also run an Instagram page and we do have we have followers are increasing we can also post board com um I'd like to thank everybody for coming out tonight um I'd like to that like to thank the student government I'd like to congratulate our the month I'd like to thank our our that would um parents Comm um thank you everybody for coming out thank for everything that you uh put into the night everything that you all the POS things that you do District hopefully we can find something that you know some little ground for you understanding so you know uncomfortable Cod big guys doesn't work out well um as for that um I'd like to make a motion to I make a motion oh just a reminder um our farm farm table please take some of that we also have the uh the event where you can uh go and you can sample the food the same way your childhood and I guess Mr SLS and everything that is over here for everybody to take a look fil friends onl still have that okay Mr President I make that motion and wish everybody a happy colum this day pleas Inc

good morning Wildcats if we haven't met my name is Kurt Johansson and I'm the proud Superintendent at West Chicago Community High School I'm excited to announce to you today that the board of education has approved the creation and development of a comprehensive strategic plan for district 994 the goal of our plan is a simple one to build a stronger future for each of our students developing and implementing a strategic plan will provide our district with a clear focus and actionable direction for years to come we want to chart a course for we go that preserves the history traditions and values that already make Community High School District 94 such a special place to learn lead and live we also want to plan for the future by ensuring we provide all of our students with meaningful opportunities to discover their passion and experience success both within our walls and Beyond finally we want our stakeholders our parents teachers administrators staff students and Community residents to help shape this vision for the future please continue to watch our social media channels and look for email notifications containing our strategic plans new slogan weo 2030 to learn more about the opportunities for involvement and to monitor our progress we are incredibly excited about this next chapter of learning living and leading at West Chicago Community High School and cannot wait to partner with you to create it I look forward to working with you to build a stronger future for our students thank you and go wild cats

a [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh this is interesting hello everyone we in the void we escaped The Vapor wave Dimension at the end of the last stream but now we found ourselves somewhere new that's great we're still going to commentate though but at least we're together yes at least at least we're together anyway I'm not we're back okay we're back yeah there we go anyway uh You intro okay welcome to week two of the Isen regular season I am Sam Holloway wow you immediately doxs yourself H whatever Sam H will say Sam H is with us and Jaden j sself s period tiger as you can see yeah and my name is Mr M or Cole M as you see it on the screen and glad to be here today yes very nice to have you yeah this is uh this is exciting so um Mr Morgan be the coach of the Cyber Tigers one of the coaches I believe uh he approached me a while back and said Mr Meyer would you like to help commentate uh the Cyber tigers and I I said I I think I'll give it a try I don't know a lot about tetrio is what we'll see tonight I don't know a lot about a lot of the games that they're playing but uh I do support the Cyber Tigers a bunch and I'm really proud to be here what a what a setup what a setup what a group of people amazing people amazing coaches and great success here at bluin so anyways I'm a school counselor bluin Elementary School and so I do know some of these students when they were younger uh but more or less I'm here because I think this is fantastic and I want to help contribute so anyways thanks guys for having me be along on the broadcast today it's it's exciting and fun it is our pleasure see this guy supports the Cyber tigers and he's very cool and you could do that too because we don't have any sponsors right now so you could support the Cyber tigers with a sponsorship get name announced every stream and be as cool as this guy oh man wow that's a a high praise thanks appreciate that yeah appreciate that very nice very nice Jaden okay um you know the drill we got Swiss style bracket 67 players five rounds one V one matches is it five rounds yeah it is uh it's it's more like three rounds with a first to three correct yeah yeah mhm and our cyber tigers are playing with the players from across the Indiana League of single a and now I think we are going to introduce you to those players can't wait to meet them can't wait to meet them yes we're going to cut away two face cams of each of them introducing first EMT AKA Lego Master ah the Lego Master look at him yes yes he yes lovely faces next up Owen AKA oh sheets all right Owen good luck tonight my man we were going to have a newcomer but he's not here right now how sad but you know what's not sad this guy I don't know that was a bad transition but whatever no that was good that was really good introducing Baro AKA X dark ninja all right X dark ninja hope it goes good tonight for you tonight got a nice wave from B yeah yeah introducing next on your cyber tiger roster Jordan aka stricky X1 nice oh I like the shades that's for the next guy oh okay no sorry see I'm I'm a newcomer yeah all right Jordan good luck tonight hope it goes great yeah hope it goes great yes speaking of Shades that's what this next guy is wearing Hunter AKA lazy soul there's the shades there they are yep yep Hunter good luck hope it goes great from Hunter his classic his classic stare into your soul he palpable you can just take you can just tell he's so focused yes look at him yes yes and to round out the roster clay AKA Firestorm hey all right clay good to see you good luck hope it goes great Firestorm 97 seven yes 977 very good I like that name very very solid very solid name right okay good and so let's see here yep we do have a confirmed uh first match it is going to be Baro I believe he goes under the tag X dark ninja as I just shouted yes um he's going to be going up against stalo oh but that's not a match that we've got on right now we currently have the Lego Master going up against rock and roll so let the games begin now they're playing a see when I was your age we had Tetris and this is a game very similar to that and so the as as EMT uh Lego master I he starts to clear rows then that goes on to rock and roll is that correct is that kind of builds goes up in a way okay all right yeah depending on how many uh rows you take out that sends garbage blocks those gray blocks that you can see okay uh to the opponent and the goal is to fill up your opponent's board uh by the way uh in these matches your cyber tiger team uh the member representing us is going to be on the left side of your screen that is that is em the Lego Master on the left side who at the moment appears to be doing well yeah yeah he's doing good yeah now I was told during the pregame uh that you can never never count out the opponent because things can change rapidly in tetrio is that true I mean things can change fast yeah you know with the garbage blocks piling up it obviously you know if you get that opening you can send those garbage blocks right back and the tides can turn yeah Rock and rolls D that right now he's got some good opening I yeah he's he's doing a good job but EMT is still fighting uh he's he's trying hard I I appreciate what he's doing here now I've heard of this tea spin oh right you okay yeah so I just learned about this the other day oh okay so rock and roll takes the first win yes I I know what te- spins are but I bet you Sam could explain them better tell us about the te- spins I think the people out there would love to hear about it it's pretty simple moveie you make a little tea opening in your stack he dropped a tea piece down there give it a lovely spin at the last second though yes is what I was told and maybe we'll see one here from Lego Master if you do see one shout one out I'd like to for the audience to see that uh so this this is game number two and as we mentioned earlier they're playing to first to five is that right oh I'm sorry first to three first to three wins for some reason when I was online with this game I got a random first to five game and ranked and then the rest were first to three oh did you get like S no I don't think oh once you get like a certain like level online it starts putting you in like first of first to five or first to seven oh okay well I just played a random first to five match I don't know I've never been I've never been above like A+ so I don't know why I got that if you were unranked it might have put you higher apparent yeah I think I was unranked that was my first uh placement match so game tier two here looks fairly even uh as I as I watch the screens again Lego Master is the Cyber tiger on the left hand side oh he wins okay so EMT with the uh the win so one to one yeah pretty exciting match so far he wrapped it up with a nice quad I wonder what Lego Master's favorite piece is do do you think Tetris tetrio players have favorite pieces they probably do if you asked if you asked that question to a lot of like higher level players they would probably immediately say to you no hesitation okay uh am I right Sam you're a pretty high level player you are have you heard of The Amazing o spin o spin you can what I have not heard of that it's possible apparently now in uh since the last update interesting you know I was younger the the piece there the straight one with the four the light green color does it have a name I piece yeah the eyepiece was like the coveted piece because you could always get the tetris with it you know yeah um still holds up today still holds up to okay still true today yeah it's a very good strategy actually I love that piece yeah yep is there a piece that you think the guys would rather not have you know not show up on their screen oh I I hate o the O I hate I hate the yellow just Square it's got little personality you you can't do much with it you spin it it just stays the same yeah it's fun I feel like a lot of the lower players will probably say the s or Z piece which is the green and red ones okay yeah just because it's kind of awkward little awkward to use yeah y yeah they're essential for stacking but like they can be weird definitely so this game is is a little longer I mean TimeWise we're already in the minute almost the minute 30 um must mean they're a little more evenly matched in this particular game look like rock and roll is is giving EMT the test here he's sticking with it though dangerous situation oh okay all right all right that was a great game though really great game MH you have a chance for a comeback for sure so one game to two meanwhile we cut to uh our boy Clay on the left side of your screen taking on Aqua okay it's 9 Z stacking oh miss cck 9 zero stacking okay explain that to a guy like me who has no idea what that just meant you build up your Tower and you leave like the the hole on the far side oh okay yeah for that nice Tetris ah yes mhm uh yeah as you can see at the top of the screen currently um this match has not been going on on screen but while it's been off screen Klay seems to have seem like a very impressive move yeah Klay is up 20 against his opponent and I have just gotten word that Jordan has won his first match off screen congratulations to him oh nice good job Jordan that's some good combos yeah wow wow fine performance there by Clay and that's him taking away a win there is okay three three 0 so he has won his match yes yeah okay he has VI here in round very nice good job to Clay we have um Owen oh yeah Owen currently playing a match I don't know what makes this happen but sometimes your cyber Tigers will be right in the middle of the screen and their opponent will be in that like far off little corner okay Owen with the win there an option you can pick defeating DNA pickle it's kind of a fun fun name do you call that your username do you call that your handle what do you call that the uh like o sheets uh whatever you say he's got what is his name yeah o sheets o sheets yeah what is that called your your player some people profile yeah some people call it username some people call it gamertag oh okay gotta I usually like to go with gamertag well meanwhile we've just gotten word this is going to be a nice match hunter is going up against Opie uh never mind scratch that we're staying here with Owen then and uh things are going going well all right we love misinformation it's up one to zero at the moment we have other matches going on is that right Em still he's now two to two looks like you don't see that on camera but um his match is tied up at the moment yes that match with the rock and roll still ongoing they have been just slugging it out for quite some time but right now we should look at this match up we got o sheets oh okay okay so that match up against op uh op versus Hunter is still happening it was just a there going Tech issue okay oh now we're cutting right here it is okay now iin oh thank you yeah thank you for for remembering to point that out I think our viewers will appreciate when that is no another one I think I just saw another one is that right yep by La Soul s wow now I saw him warming up earlier and I I couldn't believe how fast he was yeah this is insane I could barely watch fast enough I mean the processing speed is amazing I asked him what he looked at he said look at the at the the bottom but then also look at the side my peripheral he said look what the pieces coming up that was pretty fascinating amazing the processing speed okay so oai took the win right on that first game yeah and these are two of the best in Indiana am I right these are two of the best tetrio players in the state of Indiana yeah two of the greates two of the oh I like that two wow with one of them okay yes which is amazing yeah good good call on that J very good oh my just amazing how fast the tables can turn but to his credit lazy Soul s sticking with it he's fighting back and C the way they can wow move the pieces so quickly shot for shot the t- spin double again W again yeah this is worth a noting uh depending on how many rows your te- spin clears uh it will send that certain amount of garbage like a single I don't think it does anything a double does as much as a quad line clear AKA a Tetris and a triple is like massive oh wow because triples are so rare okay two to zero now feel like a triple sends like six or something wow so these games they are going a little quicker um with Hunter and opai oh so he had nothing on his board they call it all clear cleared the board I think that's what you want right I mean you want to see that if you're he's crazy spins wow from opai he oppai is going to get the victory over Hunter he's still putting on the shade yeah he's still he's still the coolest I mean he is still still doing great as he said yeah so now back with EMT know there still there are three minutes into final round do we want to cut to Baro stala oh yeah Baro is currently facing off against stala okay here we go oh sto taking a game one game number one goes to stalo again stalo another high ranking tetrio player yes tied with Sam last uh season for first place are we going to see a t spin triple wow T spin triple oh wow into the double pretty amazing combination I would assume yeah while this match is going we have gotten word that EMT has unfortunately taken the loss in a game five situation to rock and roll that was a very closely contested match absolutely I asked them earlier before the uh the match started they get nervous before their tetrio game and uh Owen said yeah a little bit Emma said not really I I think myself I think I would get kind of nervous because it's like any other competition where you're going up against someone from another school and you you want to do your best and so um yeah yeah I I know uh before my OverWatch games and my Smash games particularly when they're you know against other schools in competition I get crazy nervous like you can see me in the background of like the face cams in the smash matches I'm just like jumping around trying to get the nerves going shaking everything off yeah the adrenaline's kind of pumping you're trying to get that nervous energy out yeah okay so game three here looks like with Baro and stalo triple setup you got oh nice big combo wow deflected by stal though even a novice like me could tell that was a big move sometimes you can just tell yeah yeah you called the gray what' you call the gray again it was garbage something garbage blocks okay yeah Mis click maybe I believe that was oh but that still looks like an opportunity [Music] ohu sitation oh wow oh he's though that's amazing look at that oh wow great try Baro really good try good job by sto to to get the win cutting back to Owen yes formidable effort from Baro there absolutely and now we have uh Owen in a rough situation he is in though yeah not round based rough that's true yep yeah he is currently up two rounds to one he is on match point he's got to put his opponent away here in one of these next two rounds hopefully one so from again someone who hasn't played tetrio before is there a button that shoots the piece to the bottom when it's at the top and then it shoots to the bottom yeah otherwise it'll slowly trickle down if you let it but who would do that right this is all about being fast yeah okay so you have a button on your keyboard that you press and it immediately goes to the bottom yeah I believe the term is hard drop ah hard drop okay okay yeah thank you for pointing that out now earlier someone said soft a soft drop is that also something as well what would that look like just makes it drop like faster yeah I believe I believe soft drops are you hold down on your keyboard and it just drops like kind of fast oh okay okay a little more control maybe that way if you're at a complex situation that that's what people do for actually Landing those uh te- spins oh they do the soft drop just to give them a little extra time what saying to make it actually possible because hard drops like instantly make it oh land in place okay instantaneous yeah in order to have time to do the spin you need to soft drop it some holes in stack so I see that our players are wearing headsets what are they listening to generally would you say are they listening to us I believe they listen to their own music oh okay okay I don't know that's probably better than listening to us I mean I probably I did once I did once hear coach refer to it as their edgy music oh their edgy music okay I don't know what kind of music I listen to I can't imagine listening to like crazy hard rock while playing with blocks but like that's just me you know to each their own perhaps uh there are some out there who would appreciate that yeah yeah I think I saw Owen with that on his playlist okay so okay better FL your boat that's exactly right M I'm award place there in the red yeah yep kind of unfortunate wasn't it he still does have this round to lose but it would obviously be preferable if he could put his opponent away as fast as possible yeah let's let's keep rooting on and hopeing he can he can get that oh that was another tough one but see if he can recover at the top he's he's trying oh nice wow impressive he's fighting out of it he's fighting out of it again oh man oh boy great try though really great try we're going to a game five this is for all the marbles as I tell my kids at home also for all the marbles MH every last one of the marbles yes indeed so how many hours do you guys practice your games of choice now you guys don't play tetrio but you play Super Smash Brothers is that right how many hours do you practice throughout the week um it's tough to say throughout the week it's a minimum of h a minimum of three okay because each practice is an hour 30 minutes long and then that's not including the times of the matches on Wednesdays for Smash Bros oh okay so you guys practice at like like any other sporting event really I mean you're practicing very much and U I think it shows I think it definitely shows that uh you put a lot of time into that yeah people can sometimes take orts for granted and I mean yeah it's not exactly comparable to football where we're pressing buttons and they're getting like tackled in a field but like I got like what 960 is hours on Smash Bros ultimate no way and you know amazing the skill that you get from that doesn't kind of just pop out of the blue you can't just press buttons and do the things that I do no doubt about that no doubt about it it still takes so much effort you know yeah yeah commendable for sure and I love the team environment I love how we root each other on uh as Owen is really he's doing great but this is this is the final game right like this is again all the marbles Yeah final match of the round because this is the uh last uh match of the round we're gonna take a break after this one okay he's throwing strings he's getting a good combo going this is great this is really doing good it pays to never give up does it you know whether it's tetrio or Super Smash Brothers you keep playing to The Bitter End you never know what's going to happen yeah one thing is consistent in every just thing this can probably be applied to everything that as long as you're still breathing as long as you're still fighting there's still a chance yes as long as there's breath There's Hope I've heard that saying before so true so true I'm just really enjoying watching this match you can just feel the pressure you know both sides you got o sheets and I forget what who he's playing rock and roll rock and roll yeah oh no no that was that was em like dark pickle or something yeah did you say oh yeah DNA pickle I think is what it was DNA pickle here we are now two and a half minutes in this is really intense crazy match up crazy match up I mean Owen's got some good potential he could get yeah i' I'd love to see him do some te- spins nerve-racking one DNA pickles in a rough spot oh he is yeah good good job on the right hand side of the screen oh all right oh pulls out the win really nice job yeah way to stick with that yeah we can hear the Applause through the wall we are right next to the Cyber Den love the team spirit I mean you guys seem like not only are your teammates seem like you're probably friends and practicing hours you know throughout the week and it's really cool for me to come here and see all that happening so I commend you guys for doing that and cheering each other on and um so we take a a break here but we're still alive I bet yeah we're still alive but we're going to take a break so there's going to be nothing happening it'll be about like 15 to 20ish minutes so so roughly 5:30 would you say maybe I mean perhaps yeah something along those lines so hang tight we will be back with you with round two of three in a short moment [Music] a [Music] just a long match oh I'm definitely going to bring up how this guy shares my name Jaden it's you no [Music] way I guess we're ready to go I got the Chug faster ch faster okay so what we've pulled up the bracket so you can kind of describe you even read it maybe see good day swap to schedule one what I'll do is I'll have them highlight all the the U bhmsd players so they all go gra here see if that actually works B how will we know we're back on again same thing when our faces appear on the program box got it yeah the program box is what uh the people at home are seeing Goa gotcha so like if they are still in front of their computer or phone they're they're seeing this happen right now they're not hearing us they're just seeing this yeah this should be what they see okay great I hope they're not hearing us they're not going to highlight it no they're chopping up a bit to get going so okay okay I think Jordan's actually playing his match yeah all right okay all right well we'll go back on all right nany you guys what great I am a junior we are also back oh we're back live hey welcome back hello we're still here oh it's to Jordan okay cutting right to Jordan yes so okay so tell me what we're seeing here uh where are we at in the match oh you're seeing gaming uh Jordan Jordan currently up 1 we are currently in round two okay yeah Jordan on the left side of the screen again okay and just look won his second or second game good job good job pointing out the side yeah yeah I forgot about that and as we look at the screen I can see okay two Z at the top Jordan is represented with the blue color blue Highlight I guess behind all right yeah sorry about that uh sorry about saying 15 to 20ish minutes we didn't know that it was not going to be 15 to 20ish minutes it became almost 15 seconds really before they announced round number two so yeah no but we're glad to be back on and glad to see round two happening here Jordan up two to zero and but got some garbage blocks I see setting up T spin there's the te- hole oh nice got the big col oh he opened it oh yeah okay so he's got a an i what they called again the eye eyepiece eyepiece coming in soon there it is oh yeah there there we go the damage oh yeah hey well timed well placed everything went just as planned and he wins he wins his match right yes that is going to be Jordan with a 3-0 Victory meanwhile we got EMT the Lego Master going against aquamarine all right let's see if EMT could uh come back here with a win after having a tough close loss round number one he is down one right now he's currently down one round but he is getting some good offense here against Aqua Marine he's doing well and let's see he's not exactly in a situation to get some big massive finish him off damage he's getting singles right now looks like aquamarine is setting up for a couple of big eye pieces if he can get them or if she can get them not sure who who that would be but okay it looks like it turned red there y okay tell me about that uh when the screen turns red that's time to put him to bed ah means like danger zone for Rock Marine Okay so and uh Lego Master comes up with the win so we should be looking for the red that means like danger zone really yeah red player red is you're high up on the screen oh no oh no oh no Panic okay time to scramble as fast as possible when you see the red okay yes then like there's an exclamation point I think when you're like about to be destroyed destroyed yeah game the game isn't exactly right 100% of the time on this but when you see an exclamation mark that probably means the next attack is going to result in the end of the round tells you to Parry it or you're done okay yeah and when you say period explain to me what you mean by that if if you send if someone sends you garbage and you send them garbage back it cancels out I see yeah if you if you send it before uh the garbage actually gets sent because so if you see that uh red if you see that black bar next to the player boards when it goes red yeah like that that you just saw going over to emit that means the next time he drops a block garbage will come on to the bottom of his board okay so I didn't actually see that when it happens again point that out I'd like to see that in real time where there's an indication that the next oh right yeah it is rather easy to miss and also the how far the ball fills up depends on how much uh how many lines you actually cleared and how much how many lines are going to be on the bottom of your board like that one little square just means one layer okay cuz aquam Marine is throwing a lot hits yep which is allowing em but the chance there we go to make a few few really good moves there with the uh ipce yeah two quads big damage set here we go set for another one he needs there we go damage this is uh this is a back and forth battle it's what you like to see I think and meanwhile we got some match updates uh for matches that were happening off screen clay has won his matchup all right and offc Screen we do have Hunter the lazy soul up two okay in his matchup great appreciate that update I our viewers obviously you can only see one round at a time one game at a time it's nice to update how the other guys are doing and other teammates M you know how Sports have that like little update spot at the bottom that like Scrolls across like scores we should do that that' be cool cool that' be cool hey all right Lego Master Lego Master his dad behind him there clapping good to have Dad support MH two to one match point and we are going to cut over to Hunter the lazy Soul he's very close to putting his opponent away yeah anano o just the just the the speed of his gameplay is really impressive and that's an example of someone who practices a lot right you can't get that good without practicing yeah you 300 hours or something Wow Wow in Tetris yes okay em and here he's battling he's he's got the red behind him meaning he's getting close okay there we go he opened it up yeah yeah he's he's in better shape Now isn't he some very nice very nice Definitely in better shape there here we go here's 10 oh W what a comeback win that's impressive quite the victory there for EMT the Lego Master very impressive yeah he must be excited cuz that makes me excited alone just watching him do that oh look I won just kidding that's not me that's someone else he must be pretty cool cuz his name is me so looks like we have a little break here tell me okay how does one become a part of cyber Tigers is there a tryy out is there a a call out meeting how does that how does that happen uh well rule number one consistently show up okay be consistent I like that show up to the practices show up to the meetings show up to whatever practice practice yep MH okay yeah there is no uh requirement for what you like have to be to join the squad you're either good enough to be on Varsity good enough to be on a club or good enough to be a suffer Club okay nice as long as you show up consistently you can be a cyber tiger I like that consistency is really important and showing up right being being there for practices for the matches and um is it open to all grade levels in high school and what about what about Middle School age kids can they get into this somehow uh Middle School's got their own division oh wow I think they just started up doing Mario Kart at our school or our Middle School ah it's really neat I can remember now I used to work at Blu and high school you guys but me didn't realize but I can remember probably 10 years ago when uh they said we're going to have an Esports team and I thought what is Esports what does that even mean uh and it was a Brand New Concept to so many of us on staff and and now fast forward 10 years here we are we've got an excellent group of people you're successful good positivity it's just really really cool for us to see I mean not that I'm representing bhmsd but I kind of am on screen tonight just wow great job to both of you and to your whole team I think it's really fantastic what's going on here thank you you're very welcome yeah I don't think I even knew what Esports was until like maybe like my eighth grade or going into high school when I heard it on the announcements I didn't even come up with my gamertag blue jay until I was like okay we need to get a like a name on the back of your jersey what's your name uh uh blue J you looked out the window cuz it's a bird first thing first thing you saw yeah I looked out the window and I was like oh look a blue J blue jay all right yeah and uh and so do you still go by that name yeah still do that is your name oh it's on the back of the Jersey there he is blue J all right don't look at the last name for confidentiality reason right um and so that's how you got yours and now how about yours oh I've had mine for eight years or so oh wow how did you come up yeah minion one one classic nice nice yeah I think it's interesting how people develop and pick their own uh player names um yeah Mr Morgan asked me what mine should be I said Mr M about the most generic thing I probably could have thought of but Mr M is what I was going to pick for tonight if I were to play but uh anyways I'm not I'm I'm way too old to play I don't think they'll let someone old like me to to be in this game plus I'd be no good at it I'm sure I mean not in a high school league but you're never too old to play video games I like that that's a good thought it's a very good thought really really good so um okay here we are back to action looks like oh are we oh wait no we're just spectating spectate yeah we're just spectating match up of Opie versus stalo yeah two big names yeah two really really impressive players from the little I've seen oh my God so how could you see okay you mentioned doubles and triples how do you see that so fast I mean you're talking about how many rows they clear I just have too many hours in this game but when you say whoa double double you mean they cleared two rows with that te- spin I I say double as in te- spin double okay okay that's what you're referring to for that probably probably worth not probably worth mentioning by the way Baro did get a buy this round that's why you didn't see his matchup because he didn't have one okay okay on the screen now we'll get back to your doubles and triples in a second what are we looking at on the screen here looking at the current standings current standings of the entire state of Indiana yeah the entirety of this division okay okay and bluon is a member of One Division of maybe two or three divisions in the state is that how that works yes it's a through AA a a through Tria a and we are in what division are we regular a is this is this regular a I know Smash Bros is double A this year oh okay because we went a whole nine students above the threshold okay we are in where tetrao is all A's okay oh oh it's only a single a Division I think so okay combined oh okay guess I guess a combin yeah that makes sense compared with the size of caramel okay us oh really okay wow so these are the standings in our division and we saw opai we saw stalo playing um and we see Firestorm 977 that's one of our guys that's one of our players Wonder him tied for number two dark ninja that's Baro oh dark ninja I apologize I didn't see he didn't have the bhmsd in front of it but that's that's B and Below Firestorm that's Trixie that's Jordan W and Below him that's sugar Le that's Hunter oh man so I am truly sitting amongst greatness here so wow we have one two three four of the top six spots is that what you're telling me for tetrio seems so yeah wow four in the top six wow and actually tie for second with stalo and dark ninja yeah and we still got some real estate on this screen as you can see here tied for 12th that's EMT Lego Master oh that's right that's right very good that's interesting to see that and so wow opai is 12 and0 on the SE I assume that's what that means DPO 9 and0 that is game wins I believe they're referring to that as like just the individual rounds matches okay yes because the First Column would be wins I assume that means matches so 4-0 match wise 12 and0 with game so he's not lost a single game yes yet all season that's impressive one of the Titans yeah so this of course is Teta would they have rankings like this for Super Smash Brothers I assume that they do is that right yes okay okay very good and currently are you guys featured somewhere on the top 20 in the state in our division well our division is 10 teams and we've only had one match and we won that okay so yeah at tied for first at least yeah yeah because of because every other uh esport that we offer here at bluon isn't individual um you won't see standings as deep as this you'll just see okay uh this squad is is tied for first this squad is tied for last okay this squad is a part of that tie this other Squad is a part of that other tie so maybe that's worth mentioning so tonight we're watching tetrio you guys play Super Smash Brothers is there another game or two that cyber Tigers competes in there is OverWatch 2 OverWatch 2 which is what kind of game is that that is a first person shooter Team game okay strategy involved uh teammates play with each other set up strategy to defeat the enemy enemy I should say the opponent right from the other schools yeah got okay over Overwatch 2 is uh every Tuesday so check in tomorrow oh yeah tomorrow's OverWatch 2 and what time does that start uh five I believe five then check in tomorrow's tomorrow's for Super Smash Bros also at five very nice very nice I believe the JB plays at four though so also support them do that too early start for JB I believe they do start with JB at least at least last week they did okay okay interesting yeah so this is really really neat um to be a part of tonight and um so now okay no now we've got the background screen we've got the vapor wave Dimension plus the T tetrio blocks coming down so I like that maybe that was there before but I didn't notice it before but uh who's who's behind the scenes doing the graphics who is that um I believe today that would be Cen cullin okay Colin great he's doing a great job and um I just love the amount of investment that's been made for our our cyber tigers den is that what you call it that little layer over there all the action the den the Cyber Den it's impressive and I really appreciate bluon schools investing that kind of of um resources into that I mean I've heard you've got excellent computers that are more than just your standard PC and you've got things like this giant TV that's in front of us and a way to broadcast I think is fantastic um yeah a lot of money poured into this one thing that you'll learn about uh Esports as a franchise is it's just sinking a Dagger of money into the ocean okay okay yeah it and you need to have those resources to have a good Esports team I would imagine and um the the other schools you have mentioned I'm sure have invested similarly into their into their cyber or not I should say cyber tigers into their Esports programs that's it's a it's a neat thing but now here okay tell me this okay because you said you're a senior okay you're a junior and so is it possible to continue playing After High School I know you can play sports when you're 40 like me but can you still play sports on a team in college does that exist yeah we do have some colleges looking at us I believe so really I believe there are college leagues whoa okay so tell me how that works I think last year I think like the whole OverWatch team got like a scholarship a scholarship offered by a college to play Esports that's cool that is incredible it's incredible that colleges are seeing this as an investment too in the players so so colleges are watching you guys M yes I wish you the very best of luck a great way to further your education and perhaps get it paid for okay here we go back to action round three final round of the night we have Hunter starting off going up 10 against custo Great still wearing those Shades he is yeah it doesn't seem to be bothering him at all while playing taking a sip of water a drink and I love the smile you know he's he's enjoying but now but just watch the Speed just appreciate the speed at he plays fast quad there oh my look at him as he goes just you just sense the just his skill is really on a different level it seems like yeah I used to have no clue how to commentate this I remember uh my family was very obsessed with this one line that I had while I was on commentary last year for Tetris when two people were going very fast I dropped the beautiful Line This is uncomment [Laughter] you know but I get what you're saying you know here I am watching this and for one how do you say it fast enough I mean the pieces are coming down so rapidly but I I think it would be cool if I could get into commentary because I like to think that I'm pretty good at it let me stroke my own ego a bit more I like to think I'm pretty good at it but I'd like to know how some people at like the higher levels keep that energy for that long and you know actually process in their brains what to say that fast yeah it's it's it's a gift for sure that it takes some time to develop but you guys both do a great job I mean clearly you're supportive of your teammates you're very positive um you point out good moves by both you know the left side the Cyber Tigers but also the right side the opposing School uh I think it's great that you can show support to both but um yeah you do a wonderful job back wow wow that was impressive very impressive that is going to be hun getting a victory in the last round nice way for him to round off his day meanwhile we have Jordan up 1 against Kyle the rep currently t-pin yes te- spin you see the set up for the te- spin yes yes okay thank you for pointing that out it's that little hole they create that looks kind of like a tea in a way and uh they couldn't do that in Tetris of old when I was your age that wasn't possible this is a new a new feature but I think it's great it uh because it's hard to do isn't it I mean it takes practice Yeah but to be able to see it and a plan for it is takes some Talent get that te and then to make it happen crazy how they made upgrades to Tetris right exactly yeah I'm I'm Blown Away um by how neat this is to see Tetris being in the same format but still a little bit different but then to see the amazing quality of our bluon students who are doing so well it's just really NE you know neat for me to see this it is crazy how they do it yeah so this is Jordan again yes Jord on your left side of the screen okay very good looks like he's trying to get a te spin I can see the opening there right above he can get it and then clear the space for the the eye the eyepiece would be great oh he's oh yes he's got the opening yep very nice done bang the quad coming through so the junk uh blocks they don't go immediately you said and and earlier you were describing that to me there was a way to tell when that was going to happen yeah and and I see this shooting laser going from one side to the other does that indicate that the junk has been placed in the opponent's space yeah that indicates that it's being sent from one place to another okay yeah the way that you can tell that garbage is going to come through is that uh Red Line okay so yeah I see it now right next to the time of the match the duration of the match you'll see that it kind of flashes it becomes red that indicates how soon junk garbage will be delivered yes okay got it meanwhile while this matchup is going uh Jordan is currently up 20 meanwhile uh going in a matchup one to one is Owen right now okay you know I'll call the ref able to take a around Jordan still has a round to play with see if he does anything fancy at the start that looks fancy to the trained eye it looked fancy I for me I wasn't sure how it was a intentional or not really you see the t-pin set I I I don't see it at the moment but is that what those two empty spaces are there for on the left hand side it looks like it's gone oh there now I see it yeah now I see it there didn't quite get it yeah didn't quite get it meanwhile while this matchup is going we talk a lot about Opie he Opie is currently facing off against our Baro oh and play against Alo couple big matchups couple big matchups happening off off camera now we're still sticking with Jordan at the moment who's almost to a what' you call it when there were no pieces there clear C all clear he's he's was close to that there for a second meanwhile his opponent is is getting close to the red I can just sense it oh the game is over there we go big t- spin double going to give Jordan a round out Victory here in round three meanwhile there's that bolo versus op match up that we were talking about earlier okay both very very good players high ranking wow it's very speed yes very fast so fast yes speed yes now okay they receive the same pieces is that right yes okay so simultaneously in the same sequence I should say uh it's probably good to point out that it's not like one has an advantage over the other a double and a triple coming through and the back to back oh there's a quad wow looking to come back a quad oh wow this is uh this is great Mar started off very hot in this round but now he's on the defensive oh wow what a good try though quite the match Opie is going to take that victory has he has Opie fought a cyber tiger every single round tonight it's I think he seen a lot we seen him yeah we sure have very popular yeah that's good it means our cyber tigers are in the top yeah for sure is it like a skill-based matchmaking sort of thing is it not completely random yep okay that's interesting I think it's a good idea yeah overall to play similarly capable players against each other yeah cuz like if you just roll a dice and accidentally put the best player in the league against the worst player and then round two the exact same thing happens kind of kind of makes your league look bad sure y I mean last year it was like the first round was like completely random and the second one was more skill So speaking of skill here's two people with some great skill on your screen right now we got clay currently down down one round to nothing against stpo another one of those Titans of this league that we were talking about he's holding his own he he really is I was just thinking the same thing if he could just get rid of some of those garbage blocks would that be helpful oh boy tough one tough one Ste going up uh meanwhile we do have some other match updates uh Owen is in the middle of a round four he is currently down one round to two in his matchup and emit is currently down 0 to two in his matchup it's a lot of teas wow wow all clear at the end that's tough that's tough hand it to Clay though he he gave it his best I mean yeah holding his own against one of the greats absolutely I I just tend to think that's going to make him better really when you play someone of that caliber it's going to make you better m yeah you don't really get anywhere by just running it against the same person that's why we at Smash Bros you know go online and uh during our practices we play new people that we have never played before it's a good idea get a little Variety in your opponents and variety of skill levels and you might want know learn new strategies like stack you learn new play Styles you don't really learn a lot other than you know how to fight your own teammates when you fight your own teammates one he won that wow incredible he was on the ropes and pulled out the win at the last second that was impressive I love how I fought right to the end there and won it that was amazing you were saying you don't maybe learn new strategies per se but you yeah you learn different styles maybe or I don't know just compete with people who are strong it makes you better I think that have that can kind of be applied to other sports and things like that yes you got to welcome a challenge I like that because that's how you become the Challenger or something I don't know I couldn't think of anything looks like EMT unfortunately lost his match but I'm sure he played well tried his best y off screen that is going to be an unfortunate loss meanwhile this is a game five situation that Owen has gotten himself into tight match very so at the end of the day is there an overall winner tonight or is it just an individual based competition it's it's individual based our cyber tigers are on you know the same team in quotations yeah but in the end there can only be one winner unless they they're tied Sam you know okay I'm I'm saying that because you tied for first against oh you tied for first yeah you're the raing not defending disputed because it was a tie Champion yeah got him with a technicality yeah I'm sure that was a thrilling match though I'm sure it was but they would never maybe they would would they ever place a cyber tiger against another cyber tiger oh yeah yeah that's okay so that do happen okay yeah honestly kind of surprised that we didn't see it tonight it's not that rare of An Occurrence okay it's not a very rare thing especially if our cyber TI is being in the top whatever 10 mhh this match here going into almost 2 minutes in length this is oh this is for all the marbles right I mean this is two to2 yeah this is a this is game five last round all right this is a big matchup meanwhile on the right goad that is the funny creature I believe that's uh Owen's opponent's name they're both kind of in rough positions they're both very high up on their board just trying to stay alive this is really close this is a close one oh come on uhoh oh wow that was really close match really close five that could not have been closer wow the funny creature going to squeak that one out good matchup really good matchup yeah so you mentioned last season there was a tie you had Sam and uh this is what year approximately do is this for the Cyber Tigers this our third year our fourth year fifth year um we've been doing it for four years this is teto's third year okay teto's third year but fourth year of the Cyber tigers and uh been here all four that's great and and you yeah you've been here all four right that's that's really [Laughter] NE um yeah but I believe that is I believe that was our last match of the night okay so yeah I think we do uh bring the standings onto the screen uh currently in first place that is Opie in second place rather exciting that is Hunter nice Our member sugar Lords third that's strix that's Jordan fourth one of the Titans stalo fifth that is Firestorm that is our member that is I believe clay yes um also tied for fifth Brian Master Seventh Place Baro dark ninja and that's all of our players that uh have ended this got em 14 tied with rock and roll oh nice yeah there he is yeah and there is O sheets right there yeah very good very good top 20 seven in the state lots of our names featured up there on that leaderboard that's wonderful yes a very exciting uh top 10 for the Cyber Tigers absolutely um very exciting night really for a guy like me who has not ever been to an event like this this has been fantastic um just really appreciate you guys and and seriously job well done uh talking about the game teaching me things I didn't even know before tonight and just supporting your your teammates and classmates what a cool thing to be part of so thank you both for letting me join you tonight it was really great yes thank you so much it was our pleasure uh feel free to come back again I think I don't know that's probably for the coaches to say the coach maybe there'll be another guest commentator coming soon I think that's probably the idea I appreciate that appreciate you'll be back tomorrow night it looks like yeah good tomorrow night we got OverWatch 2 check in to see me heal the people who are going to be on screen very good very good 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[Music] at Gillette Stadium Ashan is the Super Bowl champion of division 6 and the winner of the aganis trophy [Music] hello ladies and gentlemen we're here at Walker field uh no I'm sorry not Walker field that's at the middle school this is the cunis athletic complex at Ashlin high school it's uh September 11 uh the opponent here for the ashon field hockey team is Holliston the Holliston Panthers um we're close to starting I think uh if the cameras are on it down there right now we're having the captains and coaches meet with the official to go over the uh basic rules that have uh that have changed this year uh there isn't anything really unusual really significant uh just some clarifications and uh on the uh penalty Corners when the penalty Corners are taken um when everything when the defense and the offense are ready the official will blow a whistle for the injector to take the U uh the initial pass back on the on the free on the uh penalty Corner that's the only real difference uh goalies uh goalies have to have numbers on front and back now when it used to just be on the back so I don't see the Ashlin goalie with a shirt on that has a number on the front hopefully she'll put that on in time so I'll be able to tell you who that is um I have a number d0o Carly Larson who's a senior who's likely to be their starting golender uh the rest of the uh roster for Ashland uh number two is Maddie Reynolds she's a senior number three is pton trip a sophomore number four is Alyssa Brown also a sophomore number five is uh Ellen child a Senor number six is Nico ostaris a freshman number nine is Ashley forer uh she's one of the captains um she's a a junior number 10 is Haley Katz also a sophomore uh number 11 is Abby Lombardo a senior number 12 is Hannah Roberts a junior number 16 is Aon hickey a SC I'm sorry a sophomore number 20 is Raina quit a sophomore number 21 is Ali hickey also one of the captains co- captains uh she's a senior number 22 is Brooke Nathanson uh a junior and number 26 is Ruby hedan uh or a sophomore and I have a suspicion that hedan is also a the uh hollison Panthers are led by coaches Healey and uh hickey assistant coach Healey's the head coach um the Holliston players are sideways to us here so I can't see any numbers to tell you who their captains are um their players their Roster number four Anderson Hastings number five Ellie culvin number six Bridget malvie number eight Anna bar number nine Isabella Olivera number 13 is Kayla fredman number two is Sarah Schillings number 18 is Ava Lombardi number 19 is Abigail Lanigan number 20 is Charlotte dagno number 21 is Anna gsky number 15 I don't know what that came out of order here uh is Amelia Lanigan number 99 is Julia galipo number 27 is Margaret free freeer I guess Freer F fer uh number 12 is Olivia Leo and number 20 is Caroline way weas okay the uh the meeting with the officials has ended um final instructions being given by the coaches it looks like a number 60 uh for the Holliston goalkeeper and I don't have a number 60 listed here um we'll try to fill you in on all the uh players uh that are on the field starting as they come out if uh you can see colors there it's a little hard with the reflection but um uh ignore all the white football lines um we play yellow yellow on the sideline of course the 50 is white but that's really not uh a relevant um uh line for field hockey that worry about it's yellow on the end line the circle line is yellow ignore the big right yellow circle around the uh the big a that doesn't refer to us I think that's soccer uh for the clockers I see number 10 number 11 forwards number 16 10 and 11 Ash has the ball to start by the way um they must have won the coin Flip or or U uh or hollon deferred one or the other um uh the clockers will have the ball will start the first and second quarters hollon we'll have the ball start quarters three and four we play four 15minute quarters on the whistle we will start and there's the whistle that's number 16 Aon hickey taking the hit the initial hit the ball goes into uh hallon territory and it's controlled back and forth by red and white and eventually the clockers taken inside the 25 yard line I will refer to the football lines for reference purposes but they don't have anything to do with us uh that last touch was off of uh red up wrong line oh she's using black so yellow is soccer okay so we're using black that's what we're using for the sideline so there must be a black line in there or a blue line for the circle so yellow is not our line that's soccer okay the free hit on the sideline the side H was taken by Ashlin and it works its way back down into hollon territory it's controlled by Ash hollon on the far side there's a whistle fou by ashin it'll be a free hit for red free hit hollon pass goes inside the 20 and back out the 25 is relevant to our sport now when we have a situation there I'll explain that to you and that's a push on 15 hollon it's an Ashlin free hit it'll have to come back about five yards before she takes it yeah the official Bob dwire on the far side and on the near side on our side is Michelle connley okay the free hit goes over to the far side again with the sun glare I'm having a little bit of trouble picking up those numbers on the far side but anyhow comes on to this side uh the wings on this side of 10 and 11 again uh KY hilly cats and Abby Lombardo uh controlled by controlled by Catz taken away by Holliston and uh the ball is dribbled up but a nice defensive play by Ali hickey there to stop the uh Advance by Holliston and at about at about the 35 she controls it passes it to Catz uh again there was a red stick in there red player who intercepted the pass and sent it up to about the 50 stopped again by the uh clocker Defense number five is down there Ellen child uh number 20 Raina quit number five Ellen child okay we have a free hit on the far side it looked like it was a side in went out of bounds off of Ashlin so uh hson takes the ball passes it back and then in towards goal ashin intercepts but that pass if it goes out is out of bounds it'll be a red side in that's number four taking the side in for uh Holliston Hastings she passes it back again to a teammate and they work the ball into inside the 20 we're looking to get inside ins that Circle any uh any shot any goal has only counts if it's taken from inside the circle so that's important and any free hit inside the 25 has to travel five yards or be touched by another player before it goes into the circle anyhow the ball is inside the Ashlin Circle hollon controls there's a um a foot advancing it's called against Holliston Ashlin has the ball out to the pass by Ellen child over to the near side didn't catch the number she passed it to and anyhow there's a violation by Ashlin and again Holliston had the free hit but Ashlin controls the Ashlin uh clock of defense is keeping hollon on the heels Whenever there is a violation and a free hit for uh for Holliston the clock is a take charge there's a foot red foot no didn't get called when I say foot I'm referring to the ball hitting the foot of the defensive uh or the offensive player and that's a violation and it would go to the other team up that ball now that was sent out by Red yep good call that hit the Ashlin foot out out of bounds again it's red with the ball ashin controls it 10 and 11 the players on this oh that was number four that was for Ashlin that was Alyssa Brown trying to get the pass over to helcatz is intercepted by Holliston again Ashlin controls sent up to Abby Lombardo Lombardo's got a bit of a breakaway she passes it to her teammate which is uh Ashley Forester forer passes it to the wing on the far side didn't catch a number there again she passes it ball's in the circle and needs to get shot by an Ashlin player Toon's a goal no control there and the ball goes out of bounds off of ashon so it'll be a 16 yard hit for the hollison Panthers and 16 yard hit means the ball comes out from the goal line from the Baseline 16 yards that's more like 21 there but anyhow uh again Holliston is unable to get the ball moving very smoothly little little bits and pieces as it moves up five yards three yards at a time and they finally get it over the 50 inside the 30 uh number 12 over there on the far side controlling the ball that's Leo she's intercepted again controlled by Ashlin there's an opening there if she can no unable to get it through but she still controls it that's uh that's Ellen child over there she's the apparently the uh the wing on the offensive wing on the far side on the right side look like Alyssa Brown passing it up inside the 20 controlled by Holliston attempted a pass again it's intercepted by the ashin defense ashlin's doing a good job controlling the ball they haven't been able to get it into the circle for very long uh that attempted a pass by the Ashlin defensive play at number 21 Ashley hickey goes out of bounds so it'll be a side in way down deep at about the 10 yd line for Holliston so it' be a good chance here for Ashlin to keep the ball down there and keep the offensive play going uh again intercepted looked like it was off a white stick yep it's a red side in pass goes inside and up and again intercepted by Ashlin but not controlled it's uh Olivera controlled it for Holliston foul on Ashlin free hit Holliston again Ashlin defense is strong won't allow hollison to get anything going inside that 20 or 25 yd line ball goes over to The Far Side for Ashlin nice pass over there on that Wing oh nice dribble around that Haron player and that's number three pton trip she controls it still has control finally there's a violation a whistle against Holliston free hit trip takes it ball bounces inside the 20 nearly controlled there by uh Al Ali Lombardo but it stays in child passes it comes back out Ashlin defense against strong Raina quit passes that ball up to Hy Catz Kat's unable to control it but it's again it stays down nice stop by uh Katz on that pass from Brown fought for in there by uh by a red and a white Ashley forcer the uh offensive player it's a side in for Ashlin she gets it through deflected forward again it's going the right way Alysa Brown fou foul against Holliston no see what's he pointing to yeah it is ashin baller F at hson he was pointing up this way to tell the player where to take the hit it's on the 25 which means now the ball will have to be passed or uh travel five yards and touched by another player before it go into the circle that's why you'll see them pass the ball backwards uh if it's on the 25 they can go forward but sometimes going back gives you more forward progress than going forward in any case ashlin's unable to get the ball into the circle the ball travels over to the far Sid L controlled by hollon and that player gets it down inside the 20 passes it to the center of the field again broken up by Ashlen Clark is are playing strong defense right now nice now the third party in there no I guess not must have been an Ashlin foot so it's a free hit at the 20 he's taking it from the oh it's out yeah it's right on the 25 okay so it needs a it needs a 5 yard travel the control is there it's travel 5 yards it can go into the circle now pass across net wow that was a that was a good opportunity but the Ashlin defensive player I think Brook Nathanson was there to break it up it went off of her stick no it went off the hollon stick so it's a 16 yard hit for the clockers at that blue circle line looks like a lighter blue than the dark blue that's on the sideline again pass into the circle control by the clockers out of bounds I thought that was out of bounds anyhow um it is coming out at the 16 for the clockers free hit at the 16 straight out from there yep it was out she did call it out hard pass it's stopped by the clockers looked like uh look like it hit the Ashen foot R to quit uh as long as if there's a foul like that but there's no loss of possession by Holliston the whistle is held and not blown and the play continues so that's what happened if you did see that foot quits foot uh impact the ball it's a hold whistle for the ref it's Advantage disadvantage again the clockers break up any kind of offensive play the uh Panthers might have had going uh esteras is the one that passed it over to the far it's inside the circle now not controlled by the clockers but they have the numbers three to one uh Panther defense has come back down in now to take control and not allow the clockers to get a corner we have about 315 to go here in the first quarter no score there hasn't been a corner for either side there hasn't been uh I don't think the clock has have taken a shot and the Panthers just within the last minute took a shot but it wasn't on goal went out of bounds the defenses are ruling right now especially the clocker defense the defense will win your games but you got to put it in the net as well it's a nice pass to the center of the field by Holliston number two she passes it in front of the goal but the the player down in goal unable to control it and there is a violation probably a u probably a foot oh oh oh it was an Ashlin foot so we finally have a corner as I was talking about not having a corner so here we have um we have six defensive players for the clockers at the 5050 four in the net including the goalie and on the whistle that player with the ball will inject the ball to one of her teammates up at the top of the circle the ball has to leave the circle come back in and a shot taken would a lot would be a goal if the shot were to be taken from outside the the circle it wouldn't count and the clockers would get the ball that was ruled of dangerous H it was high and not in control so it's a 16 yd hit for the clockers that's uh ran a quit taking the free hit at the top of the circle kind of a topped ball that wasn't considered dangerous because it was sort of sort of arked up okay it was controlled on the far side I think that was uh Payton trip she lifted the ball it did hit a Holliston player and uh it wasn't ruled dangerous so the clock has got the free hit and now again again they've come down oh nice pass across net but there's nobody there Abby Lombardo senior Abby Lombardo hoping somebody was there but they couldn't recover quick enough to uh get that pass and take a shot on that we're down to about a minute and five to go in the first quarter no scores still no shots on net by either team okay we have a free hit at the uh 40 yd line by the Panthers intercepted again again the clockers have a ball inside the 40 inside the 30 pass to the wing it's controlled over there stays inbounds pass back and forth between the two teams it finally hits an ash and leg I guess it was a stick thought it was a leg any help Panthers control dribble down number 12 for the Panthers makes a nice play to get it downfield that's Leo inside the circle [Music] briefly kicked out not by foot but by stick by the clockers and there's the horn end of the first quarter so we have no score here at U the cunis athletic comp Lex 0 after one quarter we've had uh no shots no Saves by either goalie I'd like to identify the Ashlin goalie and it is double zero and that's Karly Larson I see the number on on the back I couldn't see the one on the front so the ashin goalie is Carly Larson a senior no saves yet there was one shot that was uh that went out of bounds to her right we have a two-minute intermission between the first and second quarter i' like to identify the U Ashlin coaches of course I didn't get a chance to do it at the beginning of the game the head coach is uh Molly Foley Molly Bennett Foley and her assistants are Katie uh blissy and Melissa misspell I believe this is at least Co Foley's fourth season on the sidelines for the clockers by my calculation it's about four could be five and I think both assistants have been here around the same time Katie uh blazy is also the JV coach and Melissa misspell is the um Varsity assistant both Molly Foley and Melissa missbell played here here at Ashlin High School Foley played in college at uh Bridgewater I think Bridgewater State and there's the horn to end the uh two-minute between periods break there's the Whistle by the officials and the clock the uh Team should be breaking right now and heading back out to the field I remind you again it'll be clocker ball to start the second quarter is well hollon will have it for the start of quarters three and four okay that's uh 18 again oh we don't have 18 must be 16 must be Aaron hickey taking that uh pass back or whatever they want to call it doesn't have to be passed back it could be driven into the offensive end and she needs to be she can be on the the other side of the 50 that's not offside she's putting the ball in play and there's an aerial dribble by attempted an aerial dribble by uh Ashley Forster it must have been ruled dangerous or maybe hit her in the in the chest and that was why hollison got the ball an aerial dribble is a legal move um instead of moving the ball on the ground uh a player can lift the ball up and run walk or run downfield or whichever way she wants to go dribbling that ball off of her stick it's a very difficult and learn skill but executed properly it can um uh give the team a 10 15 20 yards down field without having it hit the hit the ground anyhow again the ashin defense is strong balls off a red stick so it'll be a side in for white and that'll be taken by Catz right right in front of us here on the near side Payton trip is intercepted uh but again the clocker defense is strong Ali hickey controls it sends it to the center of the field hickey's there again it makes its way through picked up by uh number 20 for the Panthers that's uh w w Waris hon again controls it's sent in into the circle shot on that that's a save for Larson and sent out of bounds uh by the clockers so it'll be a side in red she sends it down the near sance it's a nice way to get the ball 15 20 yards down field but it was deflected off of the her teammate stick and went out of bounds so the clockers have a side in deep in their own territory uh they get it up center of the field again nice attempt at a pass by 16 that's hickey it finally gets through almost makes it to Maddie Reynolds she would have had a breakaway if she could have gotten it okay right in front of us we have Randa quit taking the side in at the 45 yd line now she doesn't have to drive that ball as she comes out she can just uh dribble it out and that's off a red stick she can just dribble it out she doesn't have to drive it the defense has to be on all free hits the defense has to be at least five yards away from the from the player taking the hit that's out of bounds off white so it'll be a a side in for Holliston number nine Isabella Ola taking it stop nice defensive play that's a stick tackle there by uh by Catz fou by Ashlen free hit taken by Hastings Hastings pass downfield is intercepted by the clockers again the clocker defense is just not allowing the Holliston to get that ball down inside very easily they've been down there they've gotten a shot they've had a corner the clock is have not had a corner yet okay we have a free hit but I can't y it's red but the official wants it back where the foul took place which is 20 yards further from where the player thought she could take it from it's down it's down at the 30 yard line fought for there Ali hickey controls it gets it to the sideline that' be a five y she controlled it that was a hold whistle that was pton trip balls inside the circle now driven out violation on Holliston it's ashlin's getting their first corner with 1040 to go in the first half second quarter the clockers have their first offensive corner I'm trying to get the numbers there the injector on the near side looks appears to be Haley Katz on whistle she can drive it out to one of her teammates the ball has to leave the circle come back in shot has to be taken from inside the the circle to be called a goal whistle blows Catz passes it out it's outside it's back in we're looking for a shot now shots taken looks like it hit a hollon player see what the call is it's out of bounds what is it it's a 16 it went off of Ash apparently didn't touch anybody on that shot and so it'll be a free hit at the 16 for the Panthers straight out from where it went out of bounds again hollon unable to get it out of their own territory Ash Ali hickey again controls it gets it into the circle it's driven out to the side I'm assuming that was off of red I didn't see the call no I must been a cing pass by the clock as then it went out of bounds so it'll be a free hit usually if the defense is trying to get the ball out of the circle it'll drive it to the sidelines again controlled by the clock is nice pass inside the circle that's number oh shot on goal as a save that was pton trip taking the shot I believe Haley cats made a nice play to get it to her controlled Again by the clockers in the offensive zone Raina quit inside to trip trip somebody tripped I oh no he's calling a corner he's calling a corner the hollon gorilla went down but there's a corner called by official on the uh on that end Bob DWI so the clockers right away get their second corner again we have haey Catz the injector she's taken that injection on this side there she can take it from either side and it's 10 yards away from the that end that side of the goal so on whistle and whistle blows injections taken the ball's outside the circle controlled it's inside shot and it misses so it'll be a 16 yard hit for the Panthers cats and hickey are involved in the uh the pass receiving and shooting on the play the clockers have going now there an Ashlin foot Ali hickey uh not Ali hickey Arena quit on that one so it'll be a free hit for uh the Panthers from their own 35 again the clock is taken away pass from trip to Reynolds Reynolds gets it into the circle goal clockers Ashley Forster so that was trip and assist forer gets the goal trip got an assist and I can't remember who the initial uh pass was from before trip in any case with a 712 to go in the second quarter here the clockers have taken a one-goal lead on a goal by Ashley forer Captain Ashley forer a junior okay the pass back free hit at the 50 after the goal is taken by the uh by number 12 Leo for the Panthers the do gets it back she's inside the 20 in the circle but she's being marked down there by Ellie hickey and hickey raised her arm to say hey it went out of bounds and she was right of course and clockers will have a 16 yard hit that was a nice defensive Mark Mark job by uh by hickey stayed right with her didn't fallou nice spin move by uh by hickey on that play too and it gets free on the far side oh tough play there by Clark inside the circle Matty Reynolds is there waiting for him trying to get that pass it did go out of bounds I believe off of Holliston where do we have the ball I don't see it where is it and I can't there was no signal I'm sure telling him what to do I think it's a 25 no it's a 16 it's off off of Ashlin a little unclear on that signal or if there was one I didn't see it anyhow again the clock has control it they will not the defense and the forwards will not allow hollison to get anything going and that's the way to win a game keep the ball in the offensive zone and don't let the other team uh move for very long into their own shooting area again free hit clockers it's a side in inside the 25 it's actually on the 18 so that means it has to go five yards and that it didn't but it was touched by another player so that if it gone in the circle would have been okay M hit there by Forster and I think they might have called the high stick on her but again it's intercepted by the uh the two Wings on this side Reynolds in trip stays in it's almost out of bounds stays in would have been off of hollon hollon controls it that's fredman fredman to um number two I don't have a uh a number for her unless it's 12 yeah seeing some numbers for hollon that I don't have down on my my roster here in any case again the clock has keep the ball out of the uh offensive zone the hallon offensive zone their own defensive end ball goes out of bounds 16 yd hit for the clockers 413 to go in the second quarter clockers with a one-goal lead little bit of a loop free hit taken there little Collision clock it down save that wasn't a save by the goalie that was a save by one of her defensive players I think that was number 20 making that save r a quit yes it was quit it wasn't a very hot shot uh but still she was there that would have been the tiangle number 13 Lombardi taking the uh free hit for the U hon seems to me that guy went into the circle without being touched but I don't know it wasn't called and and a Corner's called again if it had gone directly into the circle off of her free hit uh without her controlling the ball for five yards it would have been a violation would have come out instead uh there's a violation in the circle by the clockers it's uh hollison taking their second corner injections taken the six Ashen players at the 50 are hustling down to try to get in and help on defense nice deflection excellent save and it's out of bounds that was a ball that was deflected high and L Larson made a wonderful save with her uh with her glove hand and she directed it down it went out of bounds off Ashen so it's a 25 yd hit for um the Panthers again that ball has to travel five yards or be dribbled or controlled by the somebody on the red side for it to be allowed to go into the circle oh right in front shot it was saved by the defensive player again lson didn't make the [Music] save looks like it hit it no it didn't open Play going on still it's back and forth clockers are playing a very tight defense they marking every person get oh that was an ashen foot there yeah she saw it wasn't intentional of course it'll be a free hit at about the 30 for the Panthers we have a minute and 40 to go here in the second quarter and it sent that's a violation oh that was at the 30 I'm sorry my mistake she sent it in because the ball was uh the free hit was taken at the 30 has to be taken at 25 or or further in to go five yards uh or controlled five [Music] yards and it's out of bounds off of white I believe side in red 113 to go she self starts she tries to get it into the circle it does travel five yards out of bounds off of Ashlin should be a 25 yard hit from what I could see here yeah it's a 25 yard hit which means the ball goes out to the 25 for the the offensive team she dribbles it five yards she controls it so that's legal and she can go into the circle now with that that's why she went backwards but it doesn't make it in the clocker defense is Stout again and it looked like uh Aly hickey trying to pass that ball to the wing on the near side nobody gets it nobody touches it it's out of bounds off the clock is it's a it's a side in for Holliston 30 seconds to go long way yet to get in there and get a goal so hopefully the clockers can maintain the lead here through the first half 20 seconds it's a free hit a little un disorganized uh the hits finally taken intercepted by Reynolds Reynolds sends it up looks like it's going to end here now with the one-goal lead for the clockers 5 Seconds for three two one it's out of bounds and that's it there's the horn and the clockers after one half here on um Wednesday September 11 against the Panthers to have a one-goal lead one nothing Ashlin over Holliston we have a fivem minute halftime now welcome back ladies and gentlemen for the second half of the ashin field hockey game with hollon the Holliston Panthers here at the cunis complex the score after one this is Bob toosan Coach T as a lot of the kids used to call me when I coached here at the at ashin high school the score is 1 Z in favor of our clockers uh the Panthers will have the ball to start the third and fourth quarters as you can see Center setting to our left so the panther goalie will have the sun in her in her eyes which I think is probably if the clockers won the toss they decided to uh have them be shooting towards uh towards to towards the end to our right which was a smart move anyhow the the Panthers control they get it down inside the 20 inside the 15 inside the tennis inside the circle um there was a clock of player that went down I don't think she was fouled necessarily uh the official is calling it Panther ball I can't tell where the violation it's definitely going to be inside the 25 you know which makes a difference as far as passing control goes before it goes into the circle um oh he's standing on the spot he wants him to take the free hit at the numbers at the 10 yd Mark that wasn't five yards and she passed right into the circle anyhow there's a shot on goal Larson made the save there's another shot wide and I'm guessing it was off of hon it was so it'll be a 16 yd hit for um the clockers yeah I don't think uh I don't think she traveled five yards or controlled it five yards before it went into the circle but it's hard to tell from here nice pass by the clock is up field Wild stick but there's nobody close by so that wasn't call that was uh Brown on the initial pass and uh forcer on the uh the wild swing that would have been called dangerous if anybody had been close by uh it wasn't intentional of course he just missed the ball but it would be called a a foul and considered dangerous that's off red if it goes out stays in in the circle clockers control forcer again shot passed out by the hollison defense it's outside the circle but stays inbounds uh fought for there by Forster violation is called against her hollon will have the ball free hit at the 10 11 again the clockers are 5 yards away it's intercepted controlled by the clockers again early in this third quarter the clockers are still maintaining control and not allowing the U uh the Panthers to get out of their defensive end forced to the free hit she tries to make it does get through that was a poor attempt at a stop by the Holliston player again controlled despite the ball being passed out to the 30 controlled by the clockers that's number 12 and called her number uh yet Hannah Roberts Roberts gets it in it's over to Forster on the right wing forer takes a shot which misses goal goes out of bounds 16 yd hit for the Panthers and early on as I said the uh the the clockers are picking up where they left off controlling the ball not necessarily getting a lot of shots or a lot challenging the but they're certainly keeping it out of the offensive the hson offensive end as I say that there there's a pass across net a long dribble downfield on the far side hollon [Music] controls it is saved by Larson there's a repeat shot I didn't see who stopped that one that was a high one 16 it was about waist or chest high on the on the ash player which probably would have been considered dangerous in any case he allowed it to go out of bounds and and the clockers have a 16 yd hit pass goes out not touched by anybody until a hollon player picks it up on the far side number 11 it looked like or 12 possibly uh do whistle blows violation on the clockers free hit for Holliston look like uh Lanigan taking it there that was inside the 25 she did dribble it five it did go into the circle uh ref is signaling a foot on the clockers fre it was outside the circle comes back out sent back in oh no save there by Larson but it does go wide picked up by the by the Panthers oh out of bounds off of forer so it'll be a side in number 16 taking it malvie for the Panthers that there's no control that went into the circle I don't know why that wasn't called that was inside the 25 and she sent it directly into the circle Ashlin foot on the far side controll by the clockers she dribbles in on the near on that far side inside the 30 inside the 25 inside the 20 chases it down takes a shot or a pass across net on goal it's stopped by the Ashlen defense sent back out comes back in control by the clockers oh intercepted by uh Holliston again there's attempted a shot on goal it hits an Ashlin foot and there's a corner call this is the first corner of the second half for either team 915 to go in quarter number three the ashin defense is has set up with Larson and goal and her four defensive player [Music] whistle blows injection comes in it's outside the circle it is back in number four takes a shot and it's in I don't know if that was deflected off of a white stick or not it doesn't matter it was a legal shot on goal and it did go in and I thought I said no number four Hastings took that shot as she takes the shot and it deflects in goal off of a white stick it's a goal so hollison has tied it up with 838 to go in the third quarter several Subs come in Ashen will take the uh the start at the 50 again she doesn't have to go back with it she can go forward you can dribble or drive it just a short dribble and passes it to the wing on this side which I think is Forster forer dribbles controls just kept it just in bounds it's a weak a weak drive inside the 10 it makes it into the circle briefly passed out of bounds off a red stick it'll be a 25 yard hit for the clockers so that'll come straight out from where it went out of bounds Forster picks up the ball and passes it out to um to a trip and she takes it puts it on the 25 she takes a free hit she passes it that's five yards that count that's fine it's inside the circle well that was a foot on trip free hit hon intercepted by trip and G dribbles down claras are still controlling the ball despite that goal oh deflection save by the Hollis and goalie again I'd like to give her credit for that she's got number 60 on and I don't have a 60 down here 99 is galipo that might be her I don't know and there's a corner called so the clockers have their first cor corner of the second half the injector is injector is Catz I believe whistle blows pass comes out top of the circle outside it's intercepted back in taken back yes by trip trip tries to get a shot off it's deflected to the side and controlled by Holliston almost goes out of bounds again H ashin does a good job of keeping it in but this second half they're not keeping it in for the long periods that they had it in the first half so holl's doing a better job of keeping that ball in the offensive end but it is up and down the field nobody's really dominating one way or the other oh nice play nice play there by Aaron hickey she passes it to the wing on the far side which is and a shot inside the C shot taken to blocked by Holliston I think that was Kat's taking the shot not sure though ball stays inbounds saved by the clockers trip dribbles in gets open shot deflected by the Holliston defense fought for inside the circle it's sent out by Holliston but uh taken possession Again by the clockers passes it back into the circle he's free she's free in front of the oh M hits shot again what do you got I thought she called Corner she did excellent it must have hit that weak shot that the ashin player took must have hit um hit the foot of a hollison defensive player yeah she was a little off balanc I I couldn't tell who that was but she didn't get the mustard on that shot that I'm sure she would have wanted anyhow cats the injection it comes out it's outside the circle it's back in shots taken deflected off a hollison player again oh oh it's in [Music] yes that looked like it was number 10 the shot was taken it was saved I think by the hollison goalie and trying to get a better look at the number of the player no that was 16 16 that was Aaron hickey that scored the goal so very quickly the CAU has respond and taken the lead back at two to one and there's a timeout called on the field I don't know who took it but I'm guessing it's Holliston there's 509 to go in the third quarter the clockers have taken a lead taken the lead back that is two to one each team is allowed one timeout per game so if Holliston did take this timeout that's their only opportunity to stop the clock and regroup after that goal by the clockers which helped them take retake the lead beautiful day here at the cunis field Sun is setting to our left still high in the sky uh we have around a 7:00 7:05 sunset today and on the 11th of September the clock has opened up last week they played two tough teams in the tvl they played Norwood and um who they lost to and I'm trying to remember who the other team was that they played no would D him maybe I'm not sure but they lost both games so I think this would be if they could maintain the lead maybe score an insurance goal here it would be their first win of the [Music] Season okay on the whistle Holliston will take the uh a free hit to start restart the game after the goal again that doesn't have to go back it goes back 10 12 yards controlled ashlin's on it nice control on The Far Side by that hollison player who's number I can't identify right now but it's finally stopped by the clockers before she gets into the circle stick Edge Dr drive by the uh Ashlin defense down there I think it might have been Ali hickey or Brooke Nathanson I can't tell for sure free hit clockers from their own 25 pass makes it through several players nice that's Maddie Reynolds and she controls it and passes it to a teammate who's inside the circle trying to get another shot on goal here shot on a goal no it's unable to get a shot off but they control the ball and it stays inside the 25 caul is trying to get it back into the circle hollon drives it out intercepted by the clockers again on that far side that Wing is doing a great job over there want to get a number for her and give her credit she gets it into the circle it's nearly controlled it's a weak shot on goal stopped by the hollon defense sent out another shot on goal again stopped by the hollon defense looked like it was hit her body but that wasn't called a cross net by the clockers uh nobody there to pick it up and take a shot it's controlled on The Far Side by Holliston and she finally dribbles it out of bounds it'll be a free hit for uh Ashlin side in [Music] again controlled nice passing by the clockers too this is killing time and maintaining an opportunity to score another goal here the shot on goal was stopped by the defense didn't get through to the goalie and we have a corner call penalty Corner called for the clockers 249 to go here in quarter number three I'm sure coach Foley and coach spell are hoping for a an insurance goal here two goal lead going into the fourth quarter be uh really nice fake shot shot on goal driven out by uh didn't make it through to the goalie driven out by the hallon defense and again she dribbles it out of bounds uh yeah I don't know why she picked it up clearly she B dribbl let of Bounds at side in for the clockers it does make it through the defense and gets into the circle briefly intercepted there by hariston Alyssa Brown the control on the far side she apparently in 21 she passes it up to Alli hickey hickey tries to pass it back but it goes out of bounds it's a side in for hollon again twice twice Haron drove it into the Ashlin player again those to hold whistles they were fouls but official can rule that those were intentional and give it to Ashlin on the play but he didn't see it that way pass again as looks like it's going out of bounds off of Ashlin it stays in oh he called it out off of off of red white side in pass up she's open and instead of dribbling past the defense she tries to pass it through it hits uh Haron stick and stays out of the circle again she's got another chance there it's in nope not in the circle yet still bouncing around just outside the circle and it's driven out of bounds on the far side looks like it probably was Haron that drove it out there yep it's a side in side in clockers pass legal and it's out of bounds out of bounds yep out of bounds off red that was a legal pass the uh ashin player that was Matty Reynolds who was standing just outside the circle uh got possession of the ball and took it or tried to get it into the circle where it went out of bounds off of red again red is trying to get it down into their offensive then unable to side in white M hit intercepted by hollison foot by Ashen it'll be a free hit by the CL he's pointing the other way yeah it is it is clock I mean it is the hollon ball I'm sorry lost track of the time that's the end of the third quarter horn went off clockers take a 2-1 lead into the third into the fourth quarter here at cunis field I'm sure they can taste the win right now 15 more minutes the clockers can uh if they can shut the Panthers out and maybe score another goal an insurance goal or two it's perfect day to be outside today there's no wind the sun is nice and warm temperature is in the I think high 70s and we are back here at CIS field at the start of the uh for the start of the fourth quarter in the game between the clockers and the Panthers this is Bob toosan here at Walker field at the I keep saying Walker field that's the old place CIS field I apologize to uh Grump Walker and to bill cunis on the whistle hollon will have the ball whistle blows pass goes back about 12 yards again controlled by the Panthers and they get it over the 50 but it's intercepted there by the clockers nice play by by hickey pass up to forer forer controls he dribbles down in passes it in the circle it's controlled by the clockers oh but saved by the goalie that was a shot on goal by Ashlin for passed it across to the wing on that Far Side whose number I didn't get and she took the shot on goal which was saved again it wasn't a very challenging save by the hollison goalie but the P the ball goes back up field the do the control there by uh hollon but there's a violation it's a free hit Ashlin from their own 35 and that's a nice pass makes it oh too big bad yeah that was a nice pass traveled about 40 yards up field clar has had the numbers at the 30 but it hit forc his foot again taken away by Ashlin nice possession pass across unable to get a shot off Ball's inside the circle controll there by oh oh almost that was a nice centering pass by trip uh I think that was Forster who was unable to get it it did go out of bounds off of red off of white so it'll be uh 16 yard hit for the Panthers in it and it's uncontrolled out of bounds side in White and the ball is on the 25 so this has to move five yards it'll be passed before it goes into this Circle it's not touched by Forster and it's out of bounds so it'll be a 16 yd hit I'm trying to help you with that you know if it's inside the 25 that there's a reason why uh the ball doesn't immediately go into the circle because they're trying to pass it or control it five yards before it goes in again forer forer intercepts that pass by Holliston slows the play down the clock is it just out hustling Halls at every turn at this point with 1225 to go in the game um the clockers deserved to win this game they have to keep it up for another minutes keep hollon off the scoreboard there's a a long pass to the sideline by the hollon defense from inside the circle so it'll be a side in for the clockers pass again is sent to the wing down deep she's able ble to control it doesn't get it into the circle but ball ashin maintains possession it's in the circle now and no touch no touch there by Red it goes out of bounds off white so it's a 16 again a 16 yd hit that circle is 16 yards away from the net so that's why we call it a 16 yard hit a semicircle Around the Net okay again a 16g Forster is there marking fight unable to stop the ball but it is picked up by the Ashlin defense it's number 22 Brook Nathanson Nathan does a good job of sending up the fors that's an obstruction on red it'll be a white ball and again she sends it up that's a trip to Forster in the circle shot on net doesn't make it through stop sop by the defense another shot misses wide and that will go out of bounds off of Ashlin so it'll and it went out of bounds on the sideline so it'll be a side in down deep for red I don't know why she's moving that forward oh it was touched by Holliston so it's ashin ball side in controlled five yard V five yard uh requirement was met but the pass receiver was unable to control it and get it into the circle and hollon makes a nice move down field about 40 yards 50 yards over the 50 down to the 40 the 30 the 20 controlling it on that Far Side nicely she's being marked up in slowed down by by the hollon by the Ashen defensive player I think that's quit over there free hit is taken again it's in the circle and I don't know why it was not [Music] called okay it's out of bounds and I don't know what to call I think it's a 25 for red yeah it is it went off of Ashlin so hollon will have the free hit from the 25 she passes it back it meets the requirement of being dribbled or controlled five yards and now hollon tries to get into the again it's stopped oh excellent pass we can make a lot of progress on this open field open field is that Forster yes that's Forster dribbles all the way downfield control it yeah control it don't try to get it in y control there you go nice play into the circle deflection shot by the player in front of the net it looked like it might have been Brown comes back out picked up by Holliston Wide Open Play Now Wide Open Play and she almost dribbled it out of bounds it's taken away by hickey Alli hickey forer not forer that was a trip trip to Forster Forster has it now foot Ash uh hollon foot oh she didn't call it yep she did okay bad pass nice play by the hollon player to take it away from the ashin player but again the ashin defense slows it down hickey passes it forward it's deflected high off a red stick but it's not dangerous it's not called controlled there by brown brown gets it into this is she in the circle almost she in now intercepted by hollison pass back out a little bit of bumping going on there official sees it in h favor of the clockers it's a free hit clockers from the 30 intercepted by Holliston look like an Ashlin foot over there no yeah Ashlin foot you see she raised her foot and it still hit her free hit Holliston out of bounds side in nope he wants it on the field the only real strategic difference from a side end to a ball on the field is it if it is on the field it opens up the passing Lanes a little bit more um there's no no it's that close to the sideline there's no real big difference anyhow that was that pass was attempted by Red uh to a teammate and not not touched so it's a 16 yd hit for the clockers there's 650 to go in the game clock is clinging to a one-goal lead two to one those was a red foot controlled by ashle that's why the whistle wasn't blown keep keep the play moving yep there was a kick there yep he said on the line I could hear him from here so was a side in again Holliston is trying to tie this game up but fortunately the Clara's defense is standing strong and they're making these type of drives into the offensive end Again by Forster a pass across nobody there to pick it up but I thought it hit a foot she did slow it down for again into the circle attempted a deflection by uh esteras I wouldn't call it a shot on goal she was trying to deflect it it was stopped by the uh Panther defense we're down to 540 to go forer again sends it down it's out of bounds off red side in white no need to rush clock's on your side clock's your friend timeout called he seemed to point at the red side so that first timeout in the first half must have been called by Ashlin and this one's called by Holliston so both teams have used their one timeout there allowed during the game so the clock will run now unless somebody scores a goal or if there's an injury at this point coaching strategy if Holliston called it I think she probably wants to give her play as a rest make one last push these last five minutes to try to tie the game up there is no time in the regular no overtime in the regular season uh in field hockey so it would end as a tie let's hope the clock is can maintain the uh the oneg goal lead the timeout time apparently is being kept by the official on the far sideline uh often times there's a a function on the scoreboard that and there is actually and nobody turned it on so we don't know how much time is left scoreboard would count down the uh the two minutes I'm guessing they're probably with this hot I call it hot considering all the weather we came through this this past summer but uh the warm sun beating down officials are giving them an extra few seconds to recover okay uh Forester is going to the ball which is on the near sideline it's a free hit side in for the clock as Forester is going to take it on the whistle five minutes to kill here or a goal to get a two-goal lead would be pretty difficult for and that's okay somebody touched it so it's legal went into the circle I think it was touched by Holliston anyhow hollon controls it brings it out of the circle I would say that violation is again Ashlin yep she got in the way she was uh blocking her progress so it's a free hit um free hit Hall takes it through goes by the first Defender it's out of bounds off of Ashlin or maybe a maybe a foot there foot call on Ashlin hon has the ball nice interception that was excellent again that's going to kill 30 seconds to 45 seconds even if it kicks back out but there's a violation on Holliston ashlin's got the free hit just outside the Circle she needs five yards passive dribble before she can go in she's back she's oh she should have probably should have L 21 take it got it you got it yeah hickey uh would have a better let hickey get the pass okay that was a very short forway into the offensive end for the clockers down to four minutes a lot of clock watching going on now with a 2-1 Game whistle y we're going Ashlin nice makes it through yes in she's in oh foot controls it no whistle no I guess she official felt she didn't get a chance to properly control so it's a free hit just outside the uh the circle there you go there's your five yards it can go in now and it does and it's off of no signal I guess it was off of U hollon so it's a 25 yard hit there was no signal there nice pass back out attempt to send it into the circle is Miss hit uh by Ali hickey get up we come to the near side get that's Ola who controls the ball all the way into the circle [Music] before before that's a nice play by quit to break up the possible shot on goal and she was tripped by uh Ola so it'll be clocker ball at the 16 for a free hit we're down to 230 I don't think that Halls the player was five yards away on that free hit if you're not five yards away you can't be the first one to touch that ball now that's red off of red white side in again take your time take your time don't rush the clock is your friend we're down to 2 minutes clock is still running we're down to 2 minutes to [Music] go fo y now they'll be on the field rather than a side in makes it through but it's off white I believe yep it is I don't think it touched the red player so but they're going the wrong way I guess it did touch a red player side in white we've just killed about a half a minute with all this back and forth inbounds out of bounds which is fine Clark is clicking uh clinging to a 2-1 lead controlled in Midfield there by quit I mean sorry by trip and brown one [Music] minute nice almost almost made it into the circle run run fought hard there fought hard nice defense forcer again playing good defense as well that's a hollon foot not called oh boy get in there get that sticky there okay Lissa Brown on the far side trying to get it into the circle she's unsuccessful but we're down to 20 seconds to go in the game one more stop one more stop and the clockers can rack up a a two to1 victory over the Panthers there you go that should do it we're down to 10 seconds and we're down with one and zero and there's the whistle and the clockers have taken a two to1 win here at cunis field against the Holliston Panthers thank you for joining us here and we look forward to broadcasting telecasting another game uh the one on the schedule that we're that we're slated to do is uh is on October 4th a Friday against Bellingham 3:30 start and uh we'll look forward to talking to you then this is Bob toosan signing off from beautiful cunis field here with a 2-1 victory for the Ashlin clockers e e

[Music] good evening everyone and welcome to Ashland high school as waca proudly presents tonight's Tri Valley League girls volleyball matchup between the visiting 5 and five Millis Mohawks and your 7 and3 Ashlin clockers along with Brian s I'm Josh Abrams and Brian the clockers come in tonight on a two game winning streak including an impressive straight sets win over the venerable Midway Mustangs on Friday what should we look for tonight well it's senior night tonight so I'm expecting a good match up between Millis and Ashland and for those listening watch out for number five on Millis uh we were watching her during warm-ups Merit BS so uh power hitter over there but expecting a good competitive game and a somewhat sold out Ashen high school right now it's loud and proud it helps when they don't charge admission to these games it's great yeah really boosts attendance but the Snack Shack I think is open so candy treats no pizza a little late start because of the positivities for as for senior day but Josh excited for third and maybe finale for volleyball for w for uh this year but we'll see but look who starting off to serving my favorite neighbor Ali Pica senior number four here we [Music] go strong serve dug out nicely Ms has it in play deep hit right at the net oh middle mistake there by Ally as she tried to do a quick hit over the net without going three results in the turnover Ms up one- nothing here in the first set we have a all senior Ashlen team with the exception [Music] [Applause] of by Siri nice save by politica a little bit of a scramble the line or over the line little by little I'm still building the rules kind of not sure about the hand position it took me about then is to learn about baseball basketball learning more about Vol every day it was Macy s serving for Millis and back line can handle that one another quick Point here for Millis they're up three nothing so this a this a Mills team stacked with seniors Brian seven out of nine or seven out of 10 on the roster are all seniors and again led to that delayed long delay here with uh senior night celebrations for both teams TI to the net diving play by Vina up ahead there to Elia yeah play continues the longest volley of the night so far when gets the lead La just gets that one over a little bit of a double hit there not called play continues another dig there by Seri not a good pass up to the front line unable to handle it and uh Millis jumping out here to a quick 4 nothing lead both of these teams we'll get into this a little later Brian both teams highly ranked in their respective divisions in the MIAA Power Rankings just came out earlier this week and you can see whyis is coming back coming up strong it's four straight points M on SE Ashley attends to the nope I'm sorry number four Mas good altica Emily blocked and recovered there by number nine Isabella bionis play continues here miscommunication there between I and Ilia IIA excuse me Millis now up 6 nothing coach Le on his feet now shouting encouragement I will surprised not we are not getting a timeout because I mean for the most part these are pretty quick points it's a very quick jump to 6 nothing and lockers again look a little discombobulated another incredible play again that murde of gats is just playing at a whole other level compared to the rest of the team smart play there by allly yeah great job by Alli po first point for Ashley the entire midis team it seems had just all moved up to the front of the court and Alex smartly hit it deep into the corner they couldn't play it and now clocker up their second serve of the night I don't know exactly what Elliot put on that one but it could not be returned but it work so you know that play by Ally before at the point was a one arm great defensive play he turned into offense 6-2 game there's the ace again you're going to be hearing Meredith gatz's name a lot tonight we saw her in Wars she was you pretty impressive hitting from both sides just like that last point you saw so ball gets turned over it's Millis now Addison lower another senior here on this team serving for the [Applause] Mohawks Elliot digs this one out to Ally big hit by Siri play continues I don't know how that wasn't a carry but it wasn't called play continues blocked at the net right on the line tipped over and just past the outstretch reach of Eliza fiak yeah I could see this keeps on going a quick timeout by uh by ashon just to kind of regroup just I'm not sure how big that deficit needs to get before Le calls the timeout yeah okay to Cruz a nice set by politica too Deepa finally got that first big hit of the night yep had too much mustard on it missed that good for hot dogs good for hot dogs I still like ketchup I know I'm the only person no I'm okay with ketchup on a hot [Applause] dog deep hit here Quinn up to Siri quick hit over Millis able to read it play it big hit blocked at the net oh Siri Bina get getting her team rocked on that one so I think sir and number five I think both girls know each other they both kind of greeted during the senior event they kind of gave each other a look this is look at this they're going to go forth I love it good nature it's all good I love it good sportsmanship good sportsmanship I think they both recognized they must play club together or something I think Siri got a finger or two on that one but uh out of not out of bounds it was point for Millis so n 10 to three now Emily Collins steps off and looks like Abby van be checks in here she's on the front line closest to us here near Court dug out over to Alli here's Siri from Deep nice oh good good defense mhm oh a touch nicely played there play will continue oh another mental mistake as the Cruz serves into the net hits into the net excuse me so 11 to3 now here in the first set so I'm not going lie this was not what I was expecting I was expecting a good competitive game I wasn't expecting 113 in the set first set right now yeah make it 12 yep clockers continue to struggle with uh returning the serves basically you know lot of uh tough digs there from the back line passes are not coming up to the net in a way that can be handled by the front line yep the good news with volleyball is you got to win three out of five other that Gabby V get defense by Millis let's see a nice Spike over here there we go oh got to call that one out yep just missed so we've seen this time and again with the games that we we've called here this year BR and just another team that just is very well coached they're always in the right position they don't panic and they're executing right now they are yeah they are really executing thought we had a net hit there by uh Meredith gats no call Point does go to the clockers so they do get the ball back at the seres 13 to4 now in the first set as uh Lily vidy makes her first appearance of the night checking in as Ali politica sits down and Eliza fi serving here for the clockers coming in for Alli nice jump serve Leber handles it probably a m hit there by Millis and S Siri makes her Siri okay you know we we're standing it's kind of tough to see right in the middle I have a slightly better angle little a little bit I have a bet on Millis you have a bet on Ashland sure so I've been waiting to call the vidy V be kind of uh set Spike so I'm expecting some of this the double v we got to come up something we do okay Millis setting to The Far Side blocked at the net nothing Eliza could do on that one makes the dive comes up empty it looked like the ball like skimmed over the net and kind of just went over their hands so little unlucky all right now let's see this Gat yep y nice easy serve oh no too easy yeah so that's her weakness I guess right don't let her serve don't let her serve but everything else Siri Vina serving now for the clockers 14 to6 is the deficit it's a deep serve almost caught a player napping Tracked Down nicely by the labero that's Ashley Aton free ball over the net Eliza back set to vidy Oh beautiful crosscourt hit by viddy gets the point clocker is now down 14 to7 might be sensing a run here Brian you know vid's normally the the setter this time she was the attacker a nice back set back set to vid didn't see who said it from my angle but it was impressive 14-7 Siri with the serve beautiful serve she had something on it like again it like it it kind of dipped as soon as it went over the net made it really tough to play I don't know if that's Back Spin or what she's putting on the ball but it's watching a pitcher with like these sliders where it's hard split finger yeah it's hard to see it there it is I almost knuckled across Millis handled it big crosscourt hit that too deep yep okay clockers riding the hot hand of Siri Bina they've cut the deficit down to 14 [Music] to9 nice TI the net but still playable quick hit over nice recovery by De Cruz to Eliza that was syi at the hit over going to be a tough one right at the net free ball instead vidy here we go to Eliza tracking it down big hit a that was ellia I think with a nice Spike yeah she got away with one there the labero played it it probably would have sailed out of bounds yeah so clocker is catching all the breaks at the moment it's 14-1 now Millis in the lead but Siri Vina continues to serve for the clockers great Serve All right a little bit of confusion there okay Lily to Eliza quick hit Ben be get stuffed at the net another set here for Eliza over to the Cruz play continues we've got a net by El for it's 1411 uh it's it's funny the runs we're having right now hanging around hanging around in a packed Ashlin High School another great serve could be a free ball over the net Siri up front to Eliza quick hit Gabby plays it yep Millis can't handle another point for the clockers the Millis lead down to two down to too so what s's doing she's getting these really deep serves so the Millis team is having a hard time getting a good set and here we go first timeout well so as expected interesting interesting a lot of interesting play there like Millis came out so hot and it wasn't really until Siri Bina went back there to the back line start serving the clockers have almost entirely erased that early deficit great game so far all right first first announcements coming or sure so you let's talk about you we you talk about the the power rankings right so we talked about Ashlin in division three they are currently number eight in the Mi division 3 power rankings they uh five seniors five Juniors on this roster again big senior night celebration here tonight and uh clockers will head to actually that's out of date we'll go back to that crry Wednesday shuberry on Wednesday thank you very much okay meanwhile Millis five and five but they've lost for their last five so again we were really surprised about how strong they came out here in the first Set uh but they are somehow number four in the MIAA division 5 power ranking so again clockers are in division three Mills Mohawks division 5 they have seven seniors on their roster again a very small roster nine players were back in play here as we note that Millis will be hosting Norwood on Wednesday so see if this timeout works out for Millis TI to the line it does they're finally able to break series sered though through no fall a course of her own of course and of course my tracking of data was not very effective I forgot to start counting but it was six seven points I think great run oh at least but a very good timely timeout by Millis wow great jump serve that is number three Madison Adams one of the senior captains for the Mills Mohawks yeah Millis has four co- captains on a nine person roster it's like I feel bad for the kids that aren't Co Captain kind of like I felt sorry for the two sophomores on this team that weren't acknowledged or celebrated during senior night festivities early on here so Millis now on its own little run there they had been 1412 now suddenly it's 1712 Mohawks they continue to serve Line Drive serve handled by De Cruz give and go blocked at the net Millis point so this number three over here Madison Adams that's three great serves lot of velocity see what happen to number four to Quinn not going to make it nope that's what they call a fourth hit unfortunately Works in our league like whenever you and I play which isn't very often right it's kind of like you know if Blackjack if the game was to 22 I'd be a millionaire okay no and you said I can't sing so of course I have that 5 a million doar a nice dig good block good recovery free ball going over by De Cruz Millis setting up for the big hit there it is Dugout line drive into the stands so that went from Siri to Siri's mom in the stands over here so it's nice again kind of a you know reward return here on senior night celebrating got a Timeout on the flooor this time called by the clockers by the clockers as milis on a six-point run here they've taken lead 20 to 12 here in the first set so Brian you know the best way to keep up with clocker sports is the ashon Athletics Instagram account run by of course athletic director Kevin Anderson you you you following him on the insta I I of course I am how do you think I know what's going on that's how I found out we had CED night tonight right excellent excellent yeah they do he does a great job you every week he's posting graphic with the schedule for the week he certainly helps us out with uh sending us the rosters in advance so we can do a little bit of research and be somewhat prepared when we do these games uh again the only fault we can find with Kevin Anderson is that he roots for the Dallas Cowboys you know it's and there's nothing we can do about that no no can't change it it's too late it's okay okay in December we can make fun of them but for right now he's actually doing a fantastic job on all of the sports all the the logistics next time out we'll check in with fall Athletics for the clockers as Millis steals a point there that got a lot of net but uh not too much just dribbled over the over the top Point again for Millis 2112 now they got to find a way to break the Madison Adams serve here dug out by to Cruz to Eliza here's Lily the big Cross Court hit go Ace great hit there by Lily good Court Vision yeah you know in our first game we did against West Westwood Westwood yeah she was more just with setting and setting and now she's clearly becoming a little bit more of the attacker M got Gabby V way too hard yeah a little too much adrenaline there for Gabby so 2213 meliss as they were gain the serve know sometimes when you're defending the serve you know do you play it or not I think everyone knew that one was going a little bit long mhm Tessa molinary just stepped out for the Mohawks serving now is the labero Ashley Aton number two just step right up to the line and fire long way to go for Eliza heads up play there by De Cruz play continues big hit a Quinn got a hand on it to Eliza from the almost from the back line Ser the nice hit soft over the top hits the line tough break for the clockers Millis gets the point make it 2313 you know it's fine even though that wi I think I probably would have let that one go as well it just it just hit the line so unlucky for ashin Lucky plays for for Millis so we have Point nope 2313 I thought that was point maybe not good deep serve Quinn to Eliza Lily blocked at the net play continues Quin quin's having a tough time there judging those that one yeah that one did it did caught the line at least caught the line in the corner so this is for games for the match for the set if you will the set Quinn digs it out Eliza to Cruz too deep and that'll do it for the for the first set 2513 mooh Hawks I mean listen Mohawks played great that was a great great set number five is very impressive but their serves on Millis ashon just had a hard time kind of uh defending that so absolutely so listen Brian we're going to take a quick break here we're between sets we will uh pay some bills here and uh hear from a couple of our sponsors you're watching ashin girls volleyball on waca e w let and welcome back to ashin girls volleyball coverage on waca I'm Josh Abrams joined once again by Brian s good to have you with us here on a on a what are we on to a Monday night here last day of September yeah kind of BL together I know so if you're just joining us uh where you been well I just got back from Delaware so you're neck of the woods with all these Philly fans s had brunch on Sunday with an eagles guy and just gave him a look and I I had the last laugh cuz we know you're Eagles yes well let's not talk about the Eagles So Fly Like an Eagle anyhow if you're just joining us and again we had a delay start tonight with thanks to senior night celebration um milis takes the first set 253 uh scor is a little bit deceptive Millis I I mean they did control most of this game but it was a just a a game of runs as Brian you mentioned earlier in the broadcast so Millis went out to an early lead clocker cut it way down they got within two and then it was really just Millis the rest of the way again 2513 your final in the first set yeah again I think Millis had a couple great runs some really good serves um last time we were here Isabella and allly had those great runs this time um game one went to Siri so we got number four okay Macy is uh starting off set two Siri digs this one out Elisa gets third hit one off the end of her end of her hand she has that sheepish grin gets pick up from her teammates Millis takes first point here much like they did in the first Set uh again uh Millis this time defending to your right on your screen clockers on the left deep ball to nobody another tough play there again this is what we were seeing early in the first set Brian where that first dig that dig from the back line results in a pass that just can't be handled by the front line leads to an easy Millis Point yeah the same thing it's almost like Deja Vu they started 4 nothing and Carol with a nice little deep dig over there blocked at the net Millis reacts nicely play continues another block at the net Point goes to the clockers so that's what Gabby B is known for that middle blocker always dangerous so we're going to get ally my favorite neighbor over here MH so Marissa steps out allly gets to the back line to serve taking first serve of the clockers again as she did in the first set she wound up on that one big hit tipped at the net but nothing Quinn could do on that one again this is their big hitter for Millis uh the Meredith gats number five yeah she's uh she's impressive like um I know on our side we have uh you know series one of the allstars uh to watch for I'm assuming the same thing with yep Meredith on the Miller side okay that one doesn't reach the net Point goes to the clockers nice break there it's a three two game as Gabby V heads to the back line to serve Rose Berliner is checked in by the way I don't know if you caught that the Freshman I did not okay as one of our DS's mhm Gabby tips the net nothing the uh nothing Ashley the Lao for Millis could do on that one so set one Gabby went deep set two she goes for the uh for the ace yep another deep set two Aces deep serve I should say she splits the back line nicely played so 43 clockers I think with their first lead of the night Brian first lead baby set number two maybe it's the our left side over here that's uh got the wind or something uh o got away with one there got Millis on their heels right now so again you we talked about in that first set where I think Quinn had a little bit of trouble you know she was just not judging the ball quite right and couple fell in [Music] for same deal I W she is just schooling that labero right now with these serves it's just funny she only had one shot in the first set and it went way deep yeah she's now four for four she's finding her groove finding her groove another good one yep Millis handles this one though and there's that big hitter tipped at the line at the net and bounces harmlessly aside so Millis gets the point finally able to break Abby sir she did a great job and her her uh gift her priz is go back and sit on the bench sit on the bench well well stand on the bench we always stand volleyball we have like eight chairs that no one sits on except the coaches is Lael laiona serving for Millis Rose is the one who gets to it first over to Siri big hit blocked at the net played free ball off the net and allies had a tough break there that ball could have gone either way it bounced right off the top of the net and unfortunately fell on the clocker side nobody there to play it it did if we had someone kind on our side that would have been a nice um potential kill but unfortunately still lead 65 Ashland Rose digs it out yep Lily over to Siri big hit a little too deep little too de she knows it she knows it so we got a tie game here [Applause] 66 biona serving again here for Millis Rose digs it out Lily Emily little I thought that got tipped at the net they going to call it that way though it sails out of bounds so Millis point they regain the lead now s to six again game of runs I think we got to come up with a different term than that we do we do lies at the big hit oh great dig by by the Mohawks free ball coming over Rose Diggs up to Lily over to Siri still good recovery there by Quinn Eliza with the big hit play continues one-handed hit free ball coming over Rose lost her footing yeah she's looking up at Quinn I don't know if there was a miscommunication there or what there a really good volley on both sides I was going to say you have to you know recognize a great defensive play I I can't remember who it was who saved the ball it looked like it was going out of bounds one by the coaches onehanded yep keep on playing until the ball's dead so a good you see that one knuckle that it's a great serve mhm back in our days you you can do that right jump serve a little little dipping over there I had kind of a a uh Happy Gilmore approach to the uh to the shot just kind of walk up and run up yeah run up and hit it hard oh you're talking about your party talking about your drives talking about the drives so we got a Timeout on the floor Ashlin calls timeout down 10 to six here in the second set again Millis won the first one 2513 uh take a quick look around fall Sports here in ashin boys soccer will start with they are now 52 and one after losing to do Sherborne on Thursday breaking up a four-game winning streak boys are ranked number four in the MIAA division 3 power rankings their next game is at Midway tomorrow afternoon girl soccer 3 and six ranked number 40 in the MIAA division 2 power ranking so they wouldn't make the playoffs as the season started today but they still have almost half a season left to improve their standing starting with hosting Midway tomorrow and Brian yeah I was going to say I think they've won more games right now than they have last year last year I mean they had a young team so again don't quote me I think they might have had two wins so the fact that they're three and six absolutely it's all about Improvement and then they sure look great in that five 5 nil game that we called a couple weekends ago fun absolutely fun in the sun we'll check in with girls field hockey boys golf boys cross country and the football team dur our next timeout clocker trying to break the serve Quinn quick pass up ahead to Lily nobody expecting that pass there so Point Falls there Millis up 11 to six now this is nine Captain Isabella that is having a great run over here for the for the Mohawks caught the net right bounced right in front of Rose nothing she was ready to play that one but it caught net dropped in all the breaks now going ms's way yeah you know I saw some coaching almost giving her some insights on where to how serve this yeah this one's deeper Rose plays it up to Lily over to Siri blocked with the net and Millis couldn't play it a great effort there by the Mohawks but the clockers finally break that serve and now Isabella La checks in here for the clockers Eliza get a rest yeah I think the first time I don't think we saw Isabella this is our first time tonight I believe but certainly first time serving yep great great Kill by by uh Siri though mhm cross crosscourt left-handed serve fielded by Millis set big hit crosscourt way out of bounds so we've been talking a lot of nice things with number five but that was the first time that she went a little deep yeah it was a bad serve and uh and a bad Spike there so good for the clockers now down 12 to8 in the second set Isabelle serving again running up the Lefty different spot this time B deep there we go right think the clockers have found something here Brian yeah Isabella make it 129 now for the clockers down 129 to Millis again I'm a Greg Maddox fan I feel watching her serve as like Greg Maddox she just it's not about veloc velocity position and oh great dig by Isabella what's the call there wow did they call a net violation on the clockers yeah it must have been I saw get tipped at the net I realized that she also caught the net so 13 to9 Millis they reg gain sered this is number five Meredith gats serving for the Mohawks Quinn Isel to track that one down free ball going over Emily sent it deep quick shot here play continues Quick Serve quick Spike there Lily served into the net so 14 to9 Millis number five Meredith Tor strain is serving as probably her most average kind of part of uh volleyball here we go nice Collins fights through a block and gets the point for the clockers it's a great set by Isabella a nice little Kill from Emy Emma Emma Emily okay Marissa Carrol comes in Rose Berliner steps out serving is Siri Bina who had such a great run for the clockers in the first set soft touch here Lily back passing to Siri up front now free ball by Marissa setting up big hit across Siri digs it out Isabelle Marissa the big hit sneaks it by the labero for the point yeah great job great set though cross crosscourt set absolutely want to give a quick shout out to uh fellow waca announcer Rob silver watching on the live stream tonight Rob thanks good to have you with us again another Cowboy fan we'll try not to hold it against you we will not and that's the last time you mentioned the Cowboys we got Anderson and Rob going deep deep Y no touch there at the net so good break for the clockers they get the point they're back within two again this is a lot like the first set Brian they're riding Siri B's hot hand that ball definitely has some English on it that serve soft over the net beautifully played by Millis and dropped it right in front of the diving Quinn hder yeah Macy actually looked like she was going for a normal kill and just kind of laid up a little bit and caught Ashton a little bit out of position but but again Siri got it to 15 to 12 keeping Ashlin in the game in the second set over here okay so Madison Adams going to serve here for Millis that one's deep deep yep Quinn twins jumping up a dad happy she finally got one right she did she did some unlucky kind of uh sooner or later like you know they you know so got Emily Collins Senior surfing for Ashlin nice deep surf [Applause] number six Addison lare yeah Millis executed that so well I mean got the Dig sent it perfectly up to the front line for a beautiful set and then the kill okay so this is Ashley the labero serving for the Mohawks out yep okay Quinn's on a roll now's on a roll she's got her GPS working you know I'm like the George C stand I would have just done the opposite right it's going in headit it out I got Lily VI I think this is Lily's first time serving I Rec call her serving in the first set nice serve deep to the left that's trouble yeah good job Mr viy clocker within one down 1615 here in the second set [Applause] Ser right back after Eliza couldn't play that one off the net cleanly it dropped down so little unlucky LLY serve is cut short clocker down 1715 and this is mey serving for the Mohawks I believe she had a really good run in the first set right she did here's Siri back to Carol got that one over the net play continues good set good K by Quinn dug that one out Marissa Carroll trying to go after the LA Barrow on the back line just passed a diving Siri Bina and snuck it inside the line for the point that one looked close again I don't know how these refs see the ball that like that well when you're at the college level you at least have folks on the back line that was close but that was a great great Kill by number five no inant replay at the high school level Millis holding a three-point lead here in the second set they won the first one 23 clocker looking to tie things up Siri digs this one out Lily over to Eliza again thought it thought it tipped at the net but I guess not Point goes to Millis yeah I think it just grazed over the top of the net and just kept on going [Music] [Applause] yeah that one's deep and out of bounds close close I'll tell you what every one of those that she gets right huge smiling on Quinn's face I love watching it so that's one thing about volb boy I love they're so intense as the points going on but points over lot of smiles they got their own handshakes but I agree Quinn Roselle I got my favorite neighbor Ally serving it up nice serve little trouble with the net going to call the carry on that one that's a carry been waiting for that one all night Brian so that's the symbol we got it we have the kind of yeah rise up all right okay 17 excuse me 1917 Millis with the lead politica continuing to Ser another line drive going up to labero they play it nicely blocked at the net point for the clockers all right so I think Gabby was the one who got it but she was joined at the net by Eliza fiak it's a one-point lead for Millis now politica getting some uh notes from the assistant coach there let's see where she goes with this one oh right into the Nets so she had a couple great serves there absolutely she had that line drive working took a you know arm angles a little bit off on that last hit she'll head to the bench have a chat with that assistant coach who was showing his uh clipboard to her so Millis up 20 to 18 here getting late in the second set Quinn digs out here we go yeah oh tell me that wasn't for what a bummer I know Eliza oh too much momentum much she had her she had all of her she had every whole motion was going forward and she couldn't adjust on the hit yeah you know a great defensive play by the Mohawks absolutely just impressive had them on the ropes and they somehow survived deep serve Quinn Lily that's viddy to Van Beek finally I've been waiting to call that all night all right Gabby we're going to go the dup of B the double v right into the net and Gabby heads off okay so Quinn's back in now they're down clocker down 2219 serve goes to Isabella bionis who had a huge run here at the start of this set second set for the Mohawks Rose tough dig there but playable Siri free ball over Millis recovers set soft hit Siri digs it out Lily back passing Eliza into the net you know plays like that you just want to you know get it over the net it it was a little too low for a spike but uh good competitive game going on got 2319 Millis Rose backs up gets the Dig Lily crosscourt to Siri big hit too deep so we are at set point Millis up 2419 it's all about the serves right now say [Applause] absolutely Sarah the big hit a nice hit that one find the find did not find the line so we're going to end the second set there Point goes to Millis and the clockers are dumbfounded so 2519 Millis up now two sets to none as the team switch sides and we will head back to our check around Ashlin fall sport we talked we had left off with girls soccer I believe so we'll move on to girls field hockey they dropped a four- six on the season after being Shut Out 3 Nothing by maror on Friday they're currently ranked 21 in the MIAA division 3 power rankings they played at Midway earlier today we don't have a final on that one boys golf team sits at 500 I feel like every time I check on the golf team they're at 500 uh but they're back to 500 after beating deim and norn on backtack days last week and we want to give a special shout out to Jor Rebecca krigsman who scored a School record for underpar 29 in the win over Norwood and that contributed to the team setting a School record for a combined team score of 224 their next match is at Norton on Wednesday wow so Brian I know you recently scored an eagle I did so give us some insight into what must be going through Rebecca's mind right now so I've known Rebecca since since she was younger um which is always why I wonder why they call it boys golf because it's really it's it's golf so but Rebecca has always been this incredible golfer speaking with her dad a couple years ago her short game so chipping putting is is her is her Niche it's her specialty so um I'll be curious where she goes with golf if she decides to kind of take it to the next level but four under par I mean that's pretty impressive at at any level absolutely if I get a four and any hole I'm pretty I'm I'm excited I don't think I can get 400 par in mini golf no it's definitely not mini golf okay so again congratulations to Rebecca and the golf team on a terrific outing there against Norwood their next match is at Norton on Wednesday which I hear is a beautiful course by the way so they're playing TPC yeah there you go boys cross country off to a hot 2 and0 start to their season they race against hopkington tomorrow girls cross country opposite direction they are 0 and2 they also race against Hopkins tomorrow and finally the football team 2 and2 after an exciting win over appit I will never pronounce that name right a appit I'm never going to get it on Friday night 2619 trailed most of the game but took over in the fourth quarter they rode three touchdowns by Kevin oal lomba football team is now ranked number 23 in the division 3 power rankings that means at the moment they are outside looking in on the playoffs but again they still have a few games left on the season this last game was non- League it doesn't count toward their power ranking got it but we'll keep an eye on that and uh they seem to be uh getting like a byee or something their next game isn't until Thursday October 10th at Norwood at 6 p.m.